Mises Daily by Thorsten Polleit | Posted on 6/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
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In an attempt to fight the international credit market turmoil and its effects on economic activity and overall prices, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) keeps increasing the supply of base money — which is cash in circulation and commercial banks’ money balances held with the Fed.
From August 2008 to May 2009, the monetary base in the United States more than doubled. The bulk of the expansion reflects an unprecedented rise in banks’ excess reserves — that is, banks’ base money which is available for additional credit and money creation.

Fair Play, economist Steven Landsburg states this eloquently in a passage on the importance of rights, tolerance, and pluralism (p. 92):

You and I disapprove of bigotry. But the private virtue of tolerance and the public virtue of pluralism require us to countenance things we do not approve. Tolerance means accepting the fact that other people’s values might be very different than your own. Pluralism means eschewing the use of political power as a means for ‘correcting’ those values.

The idea of tolerating intolerance sounds suspiciously paradoxical, but so do a lot of other good ideas—like freedom of speech for advocates of censorship. In fact, freedom of speech has a lot in common with tolerance: Neither of them means a thing unless it applies equally to those we applaud and those who offend us most viscerally.

Tolerance is ennobling, which is why we should teach it to our children. Pluralism is insurance against tyranny, which is why we should demand it of our government. To speak up for even the most despised minorities is both morally right and politically prudent.

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Proof Barack Obama is not made in the USA?

It is interesting how things hit my email at just the right time.

First I get an email from WND telling about the guy who is selling Barack Obama’s legitimate Kenyan Birth certificate on E-Bay. Before I could get in to verify (site was down because there was to much traffic) the sale was scrubbed from the server.

Not much of a surprise there. I figured after paying hundreds of thousands to keep all of the Obama records hidden from the public this would not fly for long.

The sale emerged again after ebay claimed the sale had been removed because they THOUGHT someone was playing a joke on the seller and had hijacked his site. The second time the sale was removed because now ebay decided the birth certificate was not allowed because it exposed personal information of a public official.

It was then posted a 3rd time but now is gone again … not sure what the latest excuse is for the removal.

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Next I got the email below. Apparently a situation that is a product of our simply not paying attention to what is going on around us.

John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock MADE IN JAPAN for 6 am. While his coffeepot MADE IN CHINA was perking, he shaved with his electric razor MADE IN HONG KONG. He put on a dress shirt MADE IN SRI LANKA, designer jeans MADE IN SINGAPORE and tennis shoes MADE IN KOREA.

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet MADE IN INDIA he sat down with his calculator MADE IN MEXICO to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch MADE IN TAIWAN to the radio MADE IN INDIA he got in his car MADE IN GERMANY filled it with GAS from Saudi Arabia and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB . At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer MADE IN MALAYSIA, John decided to relax for a while.

He put on his sandals MADE IN BRAZIL, poured himself a glass of wine MADE IN FRANCE and turned on his TV MADE IN INDONESIA, and then wondered why he can’t find a good paying job in AMERICA .

AND NOW HE’S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM A PRESIDENT MADE IN KENYA.

An estimated 3,500,000 jobs will be lost due to this new energy tax. Any manufacturing advantage we had with cheap energy is now going to be lost. To make matters worse the bill has hidden tariffs that are triggered if our trading partners don’t follow our legislation. This means a possible trading war with China and India.

Carbon-intensive imports would be subject to penalties at the border unless the country of origin requires emission reduction measures at least 80 percent as costly as ours. So a poor country like Mexico cannot possibly hope to meet this requirement. This trade war will be the equivalent of Smoot-Hawley passed in 1931 when unemployment was 10% and by 1933 unemployment was 25%. According to the House Ways and Means Committee the president would now be forced to impose the carbon tariffs — and could only opt out of doing so with permission from both chambers of Congress.

Clearly this president is going for the FDR record unemployment of 25%. This was a huge tax increase if 60% to 80% on energy will be brutally compounded with this trade war legislation written into it. What is this president going after?

Total dictatorship like FDR enjoyed in the 1930’s.

Presidency for life like Hugo Chavez enjoys and FDR lived.

Peasant class for 95% of Americans. To a liberal all you really need is some fruit and nuts to survive. Unless you’re Ted Kennedy.

Subjection of the white race in Europe and America to Arabs, Jews, Negros and Latinas.

The time for action is this 4th of July. TEA parties are scheduled all over America. Find out where one is in your area and attend.

I got this in an email yesterday … I checked snopes and they are checking to see if it is authentic.

I do not know how reliable snopes is when it comes to Obama we will see.

When Obama hit the scene I was so disenchanted with the Republican party I had decided to vote for him. The moment the Rev. got kicked into the limelight that ended. It does not take rocket science to understand if Obama sat through Sundays with the Rev. he was part of the flock. You know the old birds of a feather adage.

We all know as time went on the situation grew worse. In the end the truth of the matter is Obama was shoved over the top by those who hated Bush so much Obama was the only choice.

Interesting psychology from my perspective because it means they would rather sacrifice their freedom for someone who is fast selling our nation down the river.

What a pity!

Anyway the story below does not surprise me a bit. It is clear to anyone who pays attention to the behavior of people that Obama and his wife are shallow people. That too is a pity.

For those who do not know Dave Borden, he is a former Black & Decker employee who lives in Hanover . His son Dave Jr was serving in Iraq and was badly injured from a bomb explosion. Dave Jr has had over 38 surgeries to date. The email below is from Dave about a recent visit with President Obama, —-the email speaks for its self.

Since Dave Jr. has been injured he has met and been overwhelmed by many, many political and military “celebs”. The list includes Bob Gates, Sec. of Defense, who came into his room and told him 3 or 4 times that if Dave Jr. had any issues to call his cell phone number. It includes Gen. Petereus who sat and talked with Dave Jr. for almost 45 minutes. The General recalled vividly all of the circumstances around the events that led to fighting that Dave was involved in. It includes Sen. McCain who arrived late on a Saturday afternoon during a thunder storm, unannounced, and talked to Dave Jr. about how similar their experiences with fate. It includes George Bush when Dave Jr. was invited to attend the very last Christmas party at the White House for the White House Staff. President Bush and his wife entered the ballroom and immediately went to Dave Jr.. President Bush knew Dave Jr.’s name as well as when and how he was injured. Dave Jr. had a picture taken with Laura and the President that he has framed and ill cherish forever. The list goes on and on of people coming in to meet Dave Jr. and the other wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda .

Yesterday Dave Jr. was ordered to be at the National Naval Hospital with another 12 soldiers and Marines to meet with Obama. Obama was supposed to arrive at 11:30 AM. He finally got there at 3:00 PM. He entered the room with the wounded warriors and quickly shook each of their hands. He never asked their names, where they were from, or how they were injured. Then he left.

Dave Jr. has met the people who really care about the military. All he remembers from Obama is a weak handshake. The others in the room, younger and less exposed to the people that Dave Jr. has met, were so disappointed. Word about Obama’s “insensitive” visit has spread to the MATC (the rehab facility) at Walter Reed and throughout Bethesda . The military sees through his phoniness.

All I can say is that it is such a disappointment that this man is Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces. He is an embarrassment to our Nation.

Regards,
Dave

For years, decades the fascist on the left have used lawyers to intimidate and bully their way to power. Sarah Palin’s $500,000 legal bill defending her and her administration against bogus ethics charges being the latest example. Well it’s time to turn the tables.

When the states succeed from the union they will need to pass state laws that will of course be challenged by the federal government. Here are some laws that will need to be passed by state legislatures. When the laws are challenged and overturned no sweat pass some more laws with different wording and repeat as necessary.

1. Pass a law prohibiting companies from withholding workers taxes. Make the workers write the checks to the federal government. Why just a guess but if citizens realized how much they were taxed they would not be too pleased about it.

2. Pass NRA gun laws. An armed citizenry is a good thing. Look at the killing in Venezuela and Iran by government organizations. Having a few well trained citizens with a few 30-06 would have a very discouraging affect on would be assassins from ACORN and AmeriCorps. Make no mistake about it ACORN and AmeriCorps are the brown shirts of 2009.

3. Pass laws allowing protest in front of all federal building all the time.

4. Pass laws allowing citizens, counties, cities and companies to start contributing to their own private social security accounts. All federal government programs, with the exception of the military, are a rip off. Revolt.

5. Pass a state bank law and print a local currency based on the gold standard. Get the necessary gold reserves to back the currency. The Federal Reserve is blowing up the federal currency and there is a strong possibility the currency will at the very least be devalued to the point of being useless. If states want to avoid the barter system then learn money and banking real quick.

6. Pass laws restricting government service to 12 years for all government employees excluding military. Pretty self explanatory. Get the slugs out into the private sector.

Pass these and other laws. Let the federal lawyers fight them in court. Have the laws overturned. Then pass the same law worded differentially and repeat as necessary. Time to turn the tables on the fascist.

The former USSR died because it did not have any money of value. The same pattern is playing out in Washington. Every bail out dollar spent is another dollar in dept and another fraction of a point in the inflation rate. The “rich” need to starve the federalist and so do the states. Let the fascist drown and die an agonizing death whimpering for more money.

‘We don’t do infomercials’

That according to Diane Sawyer about the upcoming special which airs on Wednesday is a town hall format in which Barack Obama will answer “tough” questions from the audience as picked by ABC News.

Debate: To engage in argument by discussing opposing points.

Since any viable opposition has been rejected by ABC News the “SPECIAL” does not meet the DEBATE criteria nor the “tough” questions from the audience.

Does any of this have an echo of pre-election debate style con?

Unfortunately history in the USA is no longer taught from the perspective of accuracy … it it is taught at all.

Posted: June 21, 2009
6:37 pm Eastern © 2009

Editor’s note: Roger Hedgecock’s show streams live on WND from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern and then again in the following three hours on tape
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The U.S. Senate voted unanimously last week to adopt a resolution apologizing for slavery.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, lead sponsor of the resolution, said, “You wonder why we didn’t do it 100 years ago. It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice.”

Only after decades of public education ignoring and distorting U.S. history can such a huge lie be said with a straight face.

Senator, you didn’t do it 100 years ago because 100 years ago you Democrats were enforcing Jim Crow segregation laws, poll taxes
to keep blacks from voting, and riding around in sheets and pointy hats just in case blacks didn’t get the message.

You say “It’s important to have a collective response” because you want to bury the origins, purposes, and historical practices of your own party.

The worst part is, Republicans in the Senate let you get away with it.

Principled Republicans knowing their history would have authored a resolution reciting the facts that the Republican Party was formed, among other reasons, to oppose slavery and that the Republican Party and its first President Abraham Lincoln responded to Southern, Democrat-led secession with a successful war that preserved the union and freed the slaves.

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Pretty much the same motivation as social security. Create a program that is vital to survival for some people and then rip them off. Social security has always been a cash cow for the Washington politicians. It never mattered that someday it will be broke. Much sooner than they would like. The program will go upside down in 2018. Forget about the IOU’s that will keep social security solvent until 2043. The politicians have no plan or intent on honoring those IOU’s. So all that money will go down the toilet and seniors in the future will have to fend for themselves.

And so it is with socialized medicine. Currently health care is 18% of the GDP. In Canada its 8% but with a much healthier and homogeneous population. Not too many crack babies in Canada. So the idea is to reduce the percent of health care as a percent of the GDP to say 16%, 14% whatever. Then you brag that you “saved” 4% of the GDP in health care expenses for the nation. But while your doing that you ration, cut real wages, destroy private initiatives and so forth till you get the real cost down to 8% of the GDP like Canada has done. The spread between what people will be paying for the rationed crap and what the true cost is will be a HUGE cash cow for the government. 14% charged in taxes minus 8% real cost means a 6% profit for the government or a cool $859,800 million profit! Is it any wonder the politicians are so gun ho on nationalizing our health care?

Of course the politicians will have about 10% of the health care industry private so when Ted Kennedy gets sick he can get the best treatment in the world. So much like Animal Farm where the pigs in control told the other animals “Some animals are more equal than other animals.” The chosen rich and politicians like the old soviet politburo members will not be burdened with the crudities of rationed care and waiting list.

I watched the clip of Barack Obama sniveling about Fox News and its big megaphone badmouthing him.
“Boo Hoo”.
Is this the first adversity this man has encountered in his life?
This is typical narcissistic behavior “what the world does not love me as much as I love myself? Snivel, whine how can that be?
This man is SO TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH!

This says it all about the Gangsta in the Whitehouse.

What a SHOCK?
Who has NOT seen this coming?
ABC in the Obama TANK?
How does this ominous tide get turned? BOYCOTT of course … not of ABC itself but its sponsors.
What do these companies ALL UNDERSTAND? Cut in bottom line PROFIT!

From Matt Drudge on June 16, 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The Director of Communications at the White House Office of Health Reform is Linda Douglass, who worked as a reporter for ABC News from 1998-2006.

Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC’s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party’s views to those of the President’s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party’s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

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ABCNEWS Senior Vice President Kerry Smith on Tuesday responded to the RNC complaint, saying it contained ‘false premises’:

“ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers — of all political persuasions — even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.

“ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.”

As I watched the Iranian election protest unfold and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad run off to Russia to swap spit with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin this relationship struck me as quite odd. In fact it reminded me of a relationship long ago in a place far away called Michigan.

We had a new kid move into the neighborhood and he quickly commenced to brag to all the girls how tough and worthy he was. He had this snarl and wicked demeanor that was a warning to all males to back off or else. His curly wild hair and scraggly facial hair only added to the image he was so careful to cultivate. He never bothered me so I gave the guy a pass. Something always bothered me though, the guy was skinny and although somewhat athletic in a street fight quickness, endurance and strength rule the day. He was so skinny almost to the point of being frail. I thought to myself no way if this dude ever gets into a fight will he win. I just ignored him and he ignored me.

But unfortunately for him he didn’t ignore everyone else. He began confronting weaker students in a typical bulling pattern. Soon he befriended some of the students. I knew these guys he was “friends” with better than he did. Mostly very nice somewhat stupid teenage young men. And with all teenage guys they like a good fight. So the guys treated Russ like a prize fighter. Fawning attention on him, going to parties with him, but never really accepting him. To them, several IQ points higher than Russ, he was the flavor of the month and if they could get a good fight out of him at parties once in awhile it would all be worth the hassle of having the belligerent asshole around. And that opportunity came.

Ron was a peaceful sort of guy. Big, strong with a very mild mannered disposition. A very nice and well respected young man. The perfect sort of guy that a bully would want to take advantage of and show his fellow classmates what a stud he was plunking the big guy.

And so the stage was set. Russ and his “friends” arrive at the party looking to get drunk, fight and possibly score. Russ feeling full of himself looks over Ron and decides to show all his classmates what a tough guy he is. He provokes Ron who ignores him. More provocation and still Ron ignores him. Finally Russ crosses the line and shoves Ron then swings at him missing wildly. Bad decision. Ron stands there unmoved looking at Russ. Left, right, left and then the blows soon connect. The slender Russ falls on his back. Not content to let it end there Ron easily holds Russ down and pummels his face black and blue in front of all the other “A” list students. It was a huge ass whipping and after it was over no one wanted to be seen with Russ. His face was a mess for a month.

Russ’s friends distanced themselves and laugh about it for months. They got their entertainment and moved on to bigger and better things. Russ never recovered from his humiliation and completed high school with a whimper. His friends went on to become very successful in all walks of life. It pays to have superior IQ and stupid friends who will do your dirty work.

And so it is this relationship between Iran and Russia. Russia sells Iran arms and technology, encourages them to attack Israel, all the while keeping their distance. Russia knows Israel will destroy Iran. So why keep encouraging the idiots to pursue a policy of national suicide?

Iran is like pathetic Russ frail, looking to be the local bully, willing to pay money to be with Russia. Iran buys arms and weapons, incites hatred, scares weaker countries, and still they are nothing but a frail weak pathetic kid just looking for an ass whipping. And if they keep looking there are going to find that ass whipping along with a few of their neighbors in the Middle East.

Now with Israelis history, with the Jews history, with 80 or more nuclear bombs fueled, in hardened underground silos ready to go what do you think will happen if Iran nukes Israel? Iran might get off one but Israel will get off 10? 20? All of them? Will Russia throw in a few for free? Every city of any note in Iran will be destroyed. It will make Hiroshima seem like a warm up. And in the aftermath Israel will be vulnerable to attacf from its neighbors. A few more nukes in Syria, southern Lebanon, Saudi Arabia? Israel or what remains of it will be more determined than ever before to survive. No one who is a enemy of Israel will be spared. No quarter.

And where would a Iranian ass whipping leave Russia? In a better position to exploit gas and oil reserves. Without Iran the price of oil goes up. Russia is a huge winner. And like Russ losing everything and his friends going on to prosper so Russia hopes it is with its relationship with Iran.

The people of Iran seem to understand their leadership is on a path to destruction. May god be with them in their efforts to change their leadership.

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Ian Kelly State Department spokesman said the United States was “deeply troubled” by the reports of violence and arrests in Iran brought on by their recent election BUT the U.S. knows too little about the conduct of the election to say for sure whether there was fraud.

What? Apparently the State Department does not want to cast the first stone since here in the US … ACORN (and how many more we have yet to discover) appears to be up to its eyeballs in voter fraud?

We the people are not STUPID!
Both sides of the isle are starting to say STOP THE DAMN TRAIN! … we are not getting off WE ARE GOING TO toss those in Washington off if they do not choose to listen and do their JOB. A job incidentally they are far to highly paid to do … that job is GOVERN BY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

Nancy Armstrong is a disenfranchised Democrat.
Like many of us she has said WAIT A DAMN MINUTE … who is in charge here? She has joined the blogging community and is letting her VOICE BE HEARD.
You can visit her blog at:
http://msplaceddemocrat.com/
BRAVO!

Nancy is a Navy veteran of 13 years, a loyal PATRIOT and a “Domestic Terrorist” … so deemed by the left and right wingnuts who think they control the government.

Here is the key folks … WE THE PEOPLE are not defined by these seemingly brainless dolts. THEY WILL join us or THEY WILL be pushed off the bandwagon FACE DOWN IN THE MUCK AND MIRE OF THEIR OWN MAKING.

Right now the Republicans HAVE NO LEADER.
Why? Because EVERYONE with political aspirations are GUTLESS … they are putting their own personal agenda over the good of this country. The Democrats? … they escape nothing … they have been morally and ethically bankrupt for YEARS. Starting with Ted Kennedy who drove a young woman to her death and ran from the scene. What a poor excuse piece of humanity he is and this morally bankrupt person has been a prominent person in our governmental system for years.
HOW UTTERLY STUPID IS THAT?

As the previous foutainheadzero post points out most secessionists of “reputable” note including Wall Street Journal writer Paul Starobin and former KGB operative Igor Panarin predict a regional break up of the United States. But in the real world looking at national secession movements throughout history including the most recent break up of the USSR this makes no sense what so ever. When people split apart the first thing they look for in their new country are people like them. That would be Homogeneous people who share the same beliefs and values not more of the same political strife and division under the old regime.

Looking at the WSJ map by Mr. Starobin the Michigan, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and Minnesota are all grouped together. I grew up there and still visit whenever I can. That isn’t going to happen. People outside of Flint, Detroit, Pontiac and Benton Harbor despise the thugs in those parts of the state. Year after year unions and city politics divide the state. No way in hell will the people of Michigan or Wisconsin, Minnesota or the Upper Peninsula want anything to do with Detroit. Period. The whole idea of prosperity for generations of Michiganders has been to make enough money to get away from Detroit, Flint, East Lansing and other areas of third world conditions. To break up and then have a repeat of the old political divisions makes NO SENSE at all. To put it bluntly the 70’s bussing movement and integration efforts were a colossal failure in Michigan and it had the opposite affect on the people. The rest of Michigan will pay Canada to take over Detroit before they allow them to be a part of a new country.

Another thing Mr. Starobin and Mr. Panarin conveniently forget is the federal government has the best military in the world. To put it bluntly they have all the guns. And how do we dissolve that military? Split it up according to regional governments? I don’t think so. Anyone who is a student of Roman history knows the history is full of civil war between competing armies with split allegiances. Julius César leading the most notable and famous upsurge. Dividing the country up into small somewhat equal parts would be an invite to war between the parts looking to establish dominance. The Romans suffered years of civil war and destruction. The United States needs to avoid that fate.

The military budget is $515 billion. Any secession movement needs to form a country big enough to pay that bill. Soon Washington will be broke. As Frederic II said “an army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.” Texas can’t pay the bill alone. The military is priority one for the new government and paying for it will require millions of our most productive citizens. Citizens from Texas to California. From California to North Carolina.

The most logical dissolution of the United States is one based on common homogeneous ideas of freedom and liberty with traditional values. The most logical dissolution of the United States is based on red counties. That is the true split between Americans. The fly over states are being dominated in elections by big cities. It’s that simple. Look at the election map by counties. The sane majority is now the minority. Negros vote 95% democrat. Hispanics 65% democrat. Asians 62% democrat. Jews 78% democrat as well as contributing massive amounts of money towards the goal of highly centralized governments. All groups highly represented in high density urban areas. Let these people have their own government and set the remainder of the United States citizens be free under a constitution that reflect the original constitution of our founding fathers.

Texas is the natural leader for the right to have the new capital in Crawford, Texas. After all Bush set up Obama for this colossal failure so why not honor the guy. That $700 billion bail out was the impetus for this new revolution. Don’t know if the guy was smart enough to see the consequences of his actions but everyone else paying attention sure did.

Texas needs to print a currency based on the gold standard of old. Provide a constitution with the Fair Tax, limited government, and limited taxation at the federal level, no interference in education or private markets at the federal level. Texas needs to create the freest most libertarian constitution ever created or add amendments to our original constitution and let the states decide. Let the counties decide. Any neighboring county to the new union should be allowed to join with open arms. Hopeful the new union will look like the red county election map. The deposits can have their areas to for dictatorships isolated and alone. Or they can accept the principals of limited taxation, freedom and liberty. Their choice.

The America’s Independence Day Tea Party Movement is a nationwide protest forum for any and all groups and individuals dissatisfied with the current governance of the United States, regardless of ideology, partisan identity, or political affiliation.

While we may disagree on the solution, on July 4th, 2009 we will come together as Americans to peacefully express our dissent from the current political status quo. We are individuals of all ages, sexual orientation, creed, color, rank and file with a common message: We are sick and tired of our out of control government and we don’t trust the major parties in Washington DC to bring real changes. We are demanding that our representatives uphold their oath to defend and protect the supreme law of the land, the Constitution.

More than anyone in the world, the American people understand our inalienable rights:
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
On July 4th, 2009, let’s Re-Declare them!

As I reported months ago and Arthur Laffer just recently in the Wall Street Journal our monetary base has exploded to unprecedented proportions. What does this mean? What it means is the dogs of inflation will plague the United States in the very near future. How much inflation depends on the Federal Reserve.

How bad can inflation get? Inflation brought down Rome. Inflation propelled Hitler into power. Inflation made Jimmy Carter a one term president. Inflation can bring down the United States.

How? People like to get paid in “real” money not monopoly money. When someone works 40 hours a week they want to be assured at the end of the week a gallon of gas will be $2.50 not $3.00. And so it goes for the other items. If the worker doesn’t get paid correctly the worker will demand higher wages. And we get cost push inflation of the 70’s.

And what of hyper inflation? If we get hyper inflation of 50% or more per year it will be devastation to our economy and personal lives. Looking at the monetary base increase over 110% is hyper inflation possible? Damn right it’s possible. Will it happen? Can somebody shove a boot up Obama’s ass? If Obama health care, cap and trade and other asinine programs are passed yea we will be unemployed and our money worthless. Can the adults take control of Washington? Highly doubtful since both partie s support this dictatorship.

Where does that leave the succession movement? If Texas can create a currency backed by gold or some other instrument in defiance of the Imperial Federal Government and gain acceptance for the currency in its home state Texas the Texas economy will expand exponentially while the rest of the nation suffers under the ravages of a politically motivated Federal Reserve. And that is the first step to a successful succession from the fascist in Washington. A viable home currency while the rest of the nation flounders in unemployment and inflation would create a beacon of hope and prosperity for the rest of America.

A look at the first civil war shows this relationship perfectly. As the confederacy began losing battles their currency declined, foreign countries failed to back them, and it was all over financially. The same principals apply except economically. If the Federal Reserve isn’t going to render its citizens a viable currency then secession minded states like Texas need to fill that void. And secession becomes viable.

Texas needs to plan this move, get layers in place to blow off the law suits and ligation, then do it and never look back. Other states will join Texas. When the states that don’t want to be a part of the fascist inflationary number 30 or 40 Texas can dictate to Washington the terms of surrender. And praise be to god never a shot fired. Change.

A Review of the book:

United In Hate — The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror is a book that examines the seamy underbelly of the radical Left which considers Western society and its values an anathema. Dr. Jamie Glazov, the Managing Editor of FrontPage Magazine, methodically details the causational factors that have lead modern Leftists to adhere to the death and destruction mantra of tyrannical Islamic Jihadists.

The Twin Towers are destroyed, 2973 people die in the attack and the radical Left cheers; the war in Iraq is won and the Left expels a disgusted sigh; totalitarian thugs kill innocent millions that the Left justifies as a “cleansing” required to forge a utopian society; suicidal Jihadists shred shoppers in malls with nail bombs and are excused by the Left as door-matted victims striking back at their oppressors; women are vilified, stoned, mutilated and killed by radical Muslims as Leftist feminists remain silent, save here in America where they rail mightily against a country club that’s denied membership to a female executive.

What draws Leftists moth-like toward the annihilating fires of unbridled totalitarianism, or drives them to slavishly worship at the feet of dictators that kick them to the curb when they are considered no longer useful? Why does the Left cleave to a radical Islamic terrorism that vows to destroy all non-believers, including them? Dr. Glazov answers these and other “head scratching” questions in a court-ready presentation of the Left’s mindset that will make forensic psychologists proud.

The Left’s hatred and rejection of Western civilization, its freedoms and values, begins with an acute sense of alienation from it, and unable to “fit in” the Left believes radical societal change, regardless of the consequences, is necessary. After all it’s the West’s fault that the Left has no sense of purpose or direction. Although the Left vehemently argues against this premise, its words and actions prove Dr. Glazov’s case.

The ideological descendents of the communist/progressive Left that spent its capital hoping the West would lose the Cold War to the Soviet Union are today’s leftist core. Based on their hatred for the United States, the Left has forged a symbiotic relationship with radical Islam, whose hatred for America equals theirs. Both make it clear that they consider Western civilization evil and unworthy of preservation. Violent revolution is the Left’s path to change; the Jihadists’ follow the path of war and annilation.

Some might think Dr. Glazov has taken a wrong turn in his analysis of the radical Left’s agenda and beliefs. If so, they should read the scurrilous quotes of Michael Moore extolling the virtues of the “Iraqi freedom fighters,” or Ward Churchill’s and Jeremiah Wright’s crowing after 9/11 that “America’s chickens have come home to roost.” Or, they should examine the genuflexing before the world’s tyrants by the likes of Jimmy Carter, Sean Penn and Tom Hayden. Dr. Glazov’s take on the radical Left is correct and as sharp as a tightly focused laser.

Should the book cause even one radical Leftist to re-examine his or her contorted beliefs and return from the “dark side,” Dr. Glazov’s efforts will be a resounding success. A great thought provoking read!

Ben R. Furman
Former FBI Counterterrorism Chief
www.blackhawkpress.com
www.blackhawkpress.com/blog
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United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror

The unprecedented expansion of the money supply could make the ’70s look benign.
By ARTHUR B. LAFFER

Rahm Emanuel was only giving voice to widespread political wisdom when he said that a crisis should never be “wasted.” Crises enable vastly accelerated political agendas and initiatives scarcely conceivable under calmer circumstances. So it goes now.

Here we stand more than a year into a grave economic crisis with a projected budget deficit of 13% of GDP. That’s more than twice the size of the next largest deficit since World War II. And this projected deficit is the culmination of a year when the federal government, at taxpayers’ expense, acquired enormous stakes in the banking, auto, mortgage, health-care and insurance industries.

With the crisis, the ill-conceived government reactions, and the ensuing economic downturn, the unfunded liabilities of federal programs — such as Social Security, civil-service and military pensions, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, Medicare and Medicaid — are over the $100 trillion mark. With U.S. GDP and federal tax receipts at about $14 trillion and $2.4 trillion respectively, such a debt all but guarantees higher interest rates, massive tax increases, and partial default on government promises.

But as bad as the fiscal picture is, panic-driven monetary policies portend to have even more dire consequences. We can expect rapidly rising prices and much, much higher interest rates over the next four or five years, and a concomitant deleterious impact on output and employment not unlike the late 1970s.

About eight months ago, starting in early September 2008, the Bernanke Fed did an abrupt about-face and radically increased the monetary base — which is comprised of currency in circulation, member bank reserves held at the Fed, and vault cash — by a little less than $1 trillion. The Fed controls the monetary base 100% and does so by purchasing and selling assets in the open market. By such a radical move, the Fed signaled a 180-degree shift in its focus from an anti-inflation position to an anti-deflation position.

The percentage increase in the monetary base is the largest increase in the past 50 years by a factor of 10 (see chart nearby). It is so far outside the realm of our prior experiential base that historical comparisons are rendered difficult if not meaningless. The currency-in-circulation component of the monetary base — which prior to the expansion had comprised 95% of the monetary base — has risen by a little less than 10%, while bank reserves have increased almost 20-fold. Now the currency-in-circulation component of the monetary base is a smidgen less than 50% of the monetary base. Yikes!

Bank reserves are crucially important because they are the foundation upon which banks are able to expand their liabilities and thereby increase the quantity of money.

Banks are required to hold a certain fraction of their liabilities — demand deposits and other checkable deposits — in reserves held at the Fed or in vault cash. Prior to the huge increase in bank reserves, banks had been constrained from expanding loans by their reserve positions. They weren’t able to inject liquidity into the economy, which had been so desperately needed in response to the liquidity crisis that began in 2007 and continued into 2008. But since last September, all of that has changed. Banks now have huge amounts of excess reserves, enabling them to make lots of net new loans.

The way a bank or the banking system makes new loans is conceptually pretty simple. Banks find an entity that they believe to be credit-worthy that also wants a loan, and in exchange for the new company’s IOU (i.e., loan) the bank opens up a checking account for the customer. For the bank’s sake, the hope is that the interest paid by the borrower more than makes up for the cost and risk of the loan. The recently ballyhooed “stress tests” on banks are nothing more than checking how well a bank can weather differing levels of default risk.

What’s important for the overall economy, however, is how fast these loans are made and how rapidly the quantity of money increases. For our purposes, money is the sum total of all currency in circulation, bank demand deposits, other checkable deposits, and travelers checks (economists call this M1). When reserve constraints on banks are removed, it does take the banks time to make new loans. But given sufficient time, they will make enough new loans until they are once again reserve constrained. The expansion of money, given an increase in the monetary base, is inevitable, and will ultimately result in higher inflation and interest rates. In shorter time frames, the expansion of money can also result in higher stock prices, a weaker currency, and increases in commodity prices such as oil and gold.

At present, banks are doing just what we would expect them to do. They are making new loans and increasing overall bank liabilities (i.e., money). The 12-month growth rate of M1 is now in the 15% range, and close to its highest level in the past half century.

With an increased trust in the overall banking system, the panic demand for money has begun to and should continue to recede. The dramatic drop in output and employment in the U.S. economy will also reduce the demand for money. Reduced demand for money combined with rapid growth in money is a surefire recipe for inflation and higher interest rates. The higher interest rates themselves will also further reduce the demand for money, thereby exacerbating inflationary pressures. It’s a catch-22.

It’s difficult to estimate the magnitude of the inflationary and interest-rate consequences of the Fed’s actions because, frankly, we haven’t ever seen anything like this in the U.S. To date what’s happened is potentially far more inflationary than were the monetary policies of the 1970s, when the prime interest rate peaked at 21.5% and inflation peaked in the low double digits. Gold prices went from $35 per ounce to $850 per ounce, and the dollar collapsed on the foreign exchanges. It wasn’t a pretty picture.

Now the Fed can, and I believe should, do what it must to mitigate the inevitable consequences of its unwarranted increase in the monetary base. It should contract the monetary base back to where it otherwise would have been, plus a slight increase geared toward economic expansion. Absent this major contraction in the monetary base, the Fed should increase reserve requirements on member banks to absorb the excess reserves. Given that banks are now paid interest on their reserves and short-term rates are very low, raising reserve requirements should not exact too much of a penalty on the banking system, and the long-term gains of the lessened inflation would many times over warrant whatever short-term costs there might be.

Alas, I doubt very much that the Fed will do what is necessary to guard against future inflation and higher interest rates. If the Fed were to reduce the monetary base by $1 trillion, it would need to sell a net $1 trillion in bonds. This would put the Fed in direct competition with Treasury’s planned issuance of about $2 trillion worth of bonds over the coming 12 months. Failed auctions would become the norm and bond prices would tumble, reflecting a massive oversupply of government bonds.

In addition, a rapid contraction of the monetary base as I propose would cause a contraction in bank lending, or at best limited expansion. This is exactly what happened in 2000 and 2001 when the Fed contracted the monetary base the last time. The economy quickly dipped into recession. While the short-term pain of a deepened recession is quite sharp, the long-term consequences of double-digit inflation are devastating. For Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke it’s a Hobson’s choice. For me the issue is how to protect assets for my grandchildren.

Mr. Laffer is the chairman of Laffer Associates and co-author of “The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy — If We Let It Happen” (Threshold, 2008).

Please add your comments to the Opinion Journal forum.

1. Freeze federal spending.
2. Freeze new legislation.
3. Cut corporate taxes to 25%.
4. Cut payroll taxes 50% for 1 year.
5. Cut capital gains taxes to 10%.
6. Fire David Axelrod and Rod Emanuel.
7. Tell China to support a coup in North Korea.
8. Support the removal of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
9. Support the removal of Harry Reid as Senate leader.
10. Resign and go back to college and take some economic classes.

I got this in the mail today … loved it!
It certainly expresses what most people who have “common sense” and at least 3 brain cells firing at one time think.

It is refreshing to see everyone in Chicago IS NOT A CROOK or THINKS LIKE A CORRUPT POLITICIAN.

Some of the latest creative signage of the Chicago revolt.

OH WAIT! Did I notice any of this being displayed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, or MSNBC? … WHAT WAS THAT A 10 DECIBEL NO?

Yeah it was!

Well folks our communist educated half Negro president has his Rules of Radicals book by Saul D. Alinsky and in that spirit I would like to put forth the opposite rules into effect immediately, the Rules of secession from the union.

First we all have to recognize some common characteristics of the radicals on the left. As much as they try to hide it all radicals, communist, socialist and like our current president fascist are two things, lazy and egotistical. Look at the clowns on the left, and yes for government school educated idiots fascism is on the left, and you see a bunch of emotionally handicapped lazy slugs.
Has Obama ever held a job where actual work or production was involved? Nancy Pelosi? Does changing diapers count? Timothy Geithner? Brian Dees? None that I know of has ever engaged in activities that would produce a product resulting in employment for others and a pay check from the privet sector. All feel entitled and above the people. Why work when you can spread ideological BS everywhere and get paid for it?

Our president infamously bummed a lot of cash for his college degrees from Rahid Khalidi and his PLO buddies. Nancy married a rich guy and when the kids grew up used the old man’s cash to win a congressional seat. The punk Dees never worked a day in this life but he does have a political science degree. Geithner has been and will always be a financial bureaucrat who never produced anything more than a fish taco for his girlfriend.

All slugs who don’t have a clue what’s its like to work for a living. And if you could get into these morons heads what would be their worse fear? Working for a living. McDonalds, Chrysler, Home Depot, Save a Lot, you name it. The thought of dirtying themselves with the heathens of the world terrifies these elitist psycho lazy pigs.

What did Obama do when he was young? Run around bitching to capitalist and government for handouts. Why didn’t he become a contractor and do something about the living conditions? Why didn’t he use his own physical labor to make a difference? Because like most leftist he’s lazy and incompetent. The dude probably couldn’t chance his own oil. And it’s this basic fact that most leftist are emotionally handicapped combined with laziness and incompetence that sets the premise for the rules of secession.

First the decent folks who are not afraid of work need to understand that all these federal, state and local government programs are designed to do one thing, part you from your cash and the fruits of your labor. The leftist give every excuse in the book to justify this thievery, children, school, roads, military, fairness, and the list is never ending. Only two of these are legitimate at the federal level. The military and interstate commerce regulation. All other programs are a waste of money that could be done better and more efficiently at the state or local level. The lazy parasites cannot live without your labor. You need to recognize this and deny all levels of government all forms of taxation down to the local level.

This means never voting for a politician that supports any new form of taxation or program beyond the military. Currently there are only 100 congress people and 15 senators that fit the criteria. The ONLY exception should be at the local level.
Second the purpose of secession is to get away from people you don’t like. Czechoslovakia ring a bell? Two groups of different people thrown together by history and brute force. When the brute force was removed these two people peacefully got together, split the bills, and formed the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. These two groups of people recognized they didn’t like each other a whole lot and went about separating in an adult peaceful manner. And so should the people of the United States.

The incarceration rate for whites is 4.4%, Latinas 16.7% and blacks 28.6%. Anyone ever do the math? 28.6%/4.4% = 6.5. Blacks are 6.5 times more likely to commit crimes than white folks. Pretty obvious that there are two different sets of values here. Why not let cities like Detroit for their own country? Despite the propaganda the only thing history tells us about diversity is it leads to the break up of countries. Why fight it?

The average IQ for whites is 100, Latinas 93 and Negroes 85. Why do we put these groups together in the same learning environment? Schools can be private if government is free of the corrupting influence of unions and minority special interest groups. Why do we hold back the best and brightest for the dumb and lazy? Why are F students in the same math class as A and B students? It’s suicidal behavior that has led to generations of dumping down our educational system.

We have little in common with these other people of color. Let’s acknowledge it and move our separate ways.
Secession would allow like minded people to form cities and states of similar like minded people. Homogeneous communities with people like yourself who share your beliefs and values. These are they types of communities where people are the happiest. Why deny yourself this?

This would do more to improve your life and separate youfrom the lazy parasites that want to live of the fruits of your labor. Why should you be taxed to support some crack head? Let the parasites go hungry. They will either shape up or die. So be it.
Let the Negros have Detroit. Let the Latinas have Miami. Knock yourself out. White people don’t need you. Take a walk and don’t come back. Be free and go away!

If white people don’t seriously start thinking of secession that guy in the White House has the wheels churning to take your freedom and liberty from you and make you a slave to the people of color. Obama like 95% of Negros is a racist. All Obama and almost all other Negros think about is race. They hate white people and will do ANYTHING to destroy your life.
What is all this printing of cash about with the Federal Reserve? The Obots want there to be a lot of inflation with their people in power so they can create more dictatorship. Destroy the old and create the new. What it means to white people and all productive members of society is your ability to raise your family in comfort will be gone. The government will tell you what house, car, groceries and where you can live. Your children will be sent to war for some stupid reason and the 4,500 KIA’s in Iraq will be a fond memory. A real war with China or Russia would produce 10 or 20 times that many casualties. A war would consume up to 37% of the GDP like it did in WWII. So that 3% of GDP spent on the military everyone bitches about would be a fond memory of when we had freedom and liberty.

The stakes for you and your family could not be higher. Secession is the answer or a complete 180 at the federal level needs to happen.

Anyone wonder what would have happened to Canada back in the 1970’s when Quebec wanted to form its own French speaking country? The English Canadians fought the French with every ounce of strength they had. And what happened? Socialized medicine, gun control, anti free speech laws, government schools indoctrinating children, stagnant economic growth. All because the English Canadians were so fixated on keeping the French as part of Canada. So in essence the English Canadians sacrificed their very essence of freedom and liberty for a bunch of lazy smelly French leaches. Next time the French want their own country let them have it and sign a free trade agreement with them. Go back to your English roots of free speech and liberty. Why all the stupid sacrifice of your core values? Be free and prosper.

And so it is with America. White people are 66% of the population but Obama can change that in the blink of an eye. All he has to do is open the boarders and white America is gone forever. These third world peoples have low education levels, low IQ’s, high crime rates and totally different cultures based on draconian 7th century ideas and beliefs will rule. We will be economic slaves.

What is the solution? Texas and South Carolina need to get serious about secession especially Texas. Texas needs to file a law suit using their old treaty with the United States as an excuse to secede from the union. Yes the law suit will get throw out. But it will show the other states Texas is serious about standing up to the bully in Washington.
Just like in the school yard there is a bully loose tormenting the other students. No one wants to stand up to the bully and if no one does the bully will terrorize and rob the other students for the rest of their school days. All the students hate the bully but they profess love and admiration for the bully so as not to be singled out for punishment. And so it is with our president, GM, Citibank, Chrysler and we the people. Someone needs to stand up to this lazy stupid punk and knock him on his ass. I nominate Texas.

And if it gets more serious after that so be it. Our founding fathers told us the republic would not last forever and of course they were right. So be it. Live free or die.

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“There are two things that can destroy this country.

Narrow minded uninformed people who misuse information to spread their ignorance and those who accept it without question.”

OBAMA, who likes to compare himself to President LINCOLN, apparently cannot read.

Since all of this crash started at the end of last year my 401K has crashed over 50%. (NOTE: that is 47 years of work and saving down the GREED, CORRUPTION, POLITICAL tube) THAT IS NOT GOING TO RECOVER BEFORE I DROP DEAD!
My Bank of American bonds STINK!
I can not get my money that apparently are like loans back when they were suppose to be paid off by Bank of America a couple of months ago.
That is when I discovered B of A can hang on to my money until they TOTALLY GO BELLY UP and the FEDS say OH WELL TO BAD!

I take solace in knowing I am in GOOD COMPANYY along with millions of other people who did their best to save for their GOLDEN YEARS.

Do we choose to forget this started LONG AGO?
It started to surface with GW BUSH … the Democrats pointing at the Bush administration as the total culprits DO NOT WANT all of us to remember they WERE ALSO IN POWER AND SHARE EQUAL OR MORE BLAME.

For those Democrats who do not want to look at that expect your money to also further go up in smoke.

That leads us all to today.
Is your budget covering what it did yesterday?
Mine is not.
How do I cope?
Cut out other things. A fixed income does not get bigger to accommodate the rise of food, housing cost and gasoline.
What is the remedy?
I cut my GOING about 75%

Am I going to buy a new more fuel efficient car? NOT ON YOUR LIFE! I am going to keep the one I have and us it a lot less.
Am I going to roll over my 401K money into further CORPORATE MADNESS … NOT ON YOUR LIFE! I WANT TANGIBLE GOODS LIKE GOLD IN MY HOT LITTLE HANDS.

I was in a class a few weeks ago when someone piped up with a comment that sort of went like this: “ahhh we ought to give OBAMA a chance he and the Democrats inherited this from the Republicans” … when I recovered my jaw from the top of the table my thought went to “are you really THAT STUPID or do you just like to LOOK THAT WAY?”

My brother said it well the other day … “there are those out there to stupid to recognize stupid”.
I am beginning to truly understand the concept of a dumbed down society.

Wake up folks.
You better gear your life to taking care of yourself and those you love because its clear the brown shirts are coming to take your guns, money, freedom. Its already clear that is the agenda of our governmental system on (BOTH SIDES)

I have watched Glen Beck off and on since he hit fox news.
He apprears to be sincere and forthright when my cousin pointed me to the ambush on “THE VIEW” … I was a bit surprised at the whole 7 minutes of “YOU ARE A LIAR” the women foisted onto the view audience.

I was left with a WHY?
I made comment back then.

Well here is where the truth finally shakes out. Appaently I was not the only person troubled by the situation on a number of levels. I did not think Beck lied because I figured he was to smart to do that in front of millions when his motto is “say what you mean and mean what you say”.

So here is what finally tumbled out of the dirty “THE VIEW” laundry basket under scrutiny. Amtrac wanted the whole issue to be swept under the carpet, ABC who indeed asked for SPECIAL TREATMENT of Walters and Goldberg and GOT IT!

The outcome?
Walters is either a journalist who DOES NOT CHECK HER FACTS or is hopelessly out of touch with how ordinary people ride Amtrac.

Woopie? … I don’t know … I have always given her credit for being pretty even keeled. In this instance she was totally whacked. So why I ask?

The women OWE BECK A HUGE APOLOGY!

Will they give it?
If there is a chance I suspect it would come from at Goldbergs urging. I will not hold my breath.

You can watch the saga played out by a real journalist (Scott Baker of Breitbart TV and The B-Cast)

You be the judge.

I find it tiring that someone who is touted as extremely smart and eloquent continues to make statements that NO ONE CAN TRUST.

The outcome? Like the little boy who continued to “cry wolf” was finally ignored. Ignored in a time of crisis.

I have decided to make a list of Presidential comments starting TODAY:

I will add to this when I run across them.

1. The number of Muslims in the U.S. would make America “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,” (claimed President Obama in an interview released last night by French television network Canal Plus)

Fact:
As the Weekly Standard points out, Obama’s claim American Muslims could make the U.S. one of the largest Islamic countries is not demographically true. The most generous estimates put America’s Muslim population at about 8 million, which would barely place the U.S. in the top 42 Muslim countries.

I was sent this today … I LOVED IT.

Take away all of the conditioning we get through life and this is perfection.

One more fraudulent promise from the Whitehouse. Apparently the world still clings to HOPE from this administration. Day by day the flicker of HOPE Obama offered is dwindling. Apparently is is only left in the eyes of those wearing rose colored glasses, the ignorant or those with a hand out.

Mean while the world that is left with an ounce of common sense and that passed 4th grade math UNDERSTAND THE MATH DOES NOT ADD UP.

So what are we left with?
You decide.

It is laughable to watch Robert Gibbs and the President of the USA when they speak.

The latest issue is White House website on “open government dialogue”.
Apparently the moderators are busy scrubbing comments that they do not see suitable. ESPECIALLY COMMENT ON “THE PRESIDENTS BIRTH CERTIFICATE”.

So much for transparency and “free speech”.

I have yet to hear ANYTHING Obama has said that ANYONE can believe.

It is an interesting time to live and watch what is going on in our Government. I should have been paying closer attention long ago.

I hope it is not to late to start now.