Be concerned folks. The Obama administration has plans to cut tax deductions for charitable giving. Now please don't trot out the argument that it only affects the top 2% of taxpayers..... If deductions for charitable giving are cut, the donations to non-profit entities will see a dramatic decrease in funding...... The void in charitable giving means that more dollars will be flowing into the US Treasury. Dollars in the US Treasury can then be doled out to fill the vacuum in individual giving. When this happend, the federal government will have begun the process of 'nationalizing' non-profit businesses as well.
1% of the populaton earns 20% of the income in this country. that same 1% of the population PAYS approximatley 40% of all the tax revenue generated in the USA. Under these circumstances, it hardly seems right to raise taxes on people who are already paying for others.
Call your representatives and tell them to vote against this garbage!!!!
25 March 2009
Equality in Gainesville: If You're NOT Conservative
I'm wondering if we would get arrested for dumping tea in the retention pool by fire station #4?
24 March 2009
NEWS FLASH from Capitol Hill
The Secretary of the Treasury, (Tax Cheat) Timothy Geitner just told Representatives on Capitol Hill that there wouldn't be the types of problems we're seeing at AIG, with bonus payments and corporate waste, if the government could have seized control rather than just providing 'bailout money'.......
Be AFRAID! Fight for liberty!
Be AFRAID! Fight for liberty!
Welfare of the Children????
I will not mention ANY names, so don't even ask. I promise that what I am relating is true and I'm certain that I don't even have all of the details.
Public schools have changed through the decades. You have to frame the discussion properly without resorting to emotion and hyperbole. When I say that the schools have changed, I am basing that statement upon my own observations as a student and now as a parent. I am also basing my thoughts on the empirical observations of my mother who was a classroom elementary teacher whose career spanned five decades (then she tutored privately for another few years making a six decade span in education). She could describe changes that would make you cry (if you cared)....
Framing the Debate:
Given; if you send your child to a private Hebrew school, they will be taught that the principles of Judaism are the best and should be adhered to.
If you send your child to a Catholic or a Baptist school, they will be taught that the principles of those religions are the best for governing their life.
Therefore it should be accepted as a statement of fact that if you send your children to Government schools, they will be taught that government is the solution to all the ills of society and that the tenants of big government are to be adhered to faithfully. (Like a religion...)
Note the allegory: Substitute government for religion and you have the same effect.
Schools that used to teach now indoctrinate. Schools that used to encourage free thinking now seek to pigeonhole and categorize. Schools that used to provide broad educational opportunities now turn out automatons who are capable of little more than parroting back what they've been shown. Do your kids learn anything or do they simply pass whatever standardized test your state administers?
Revisionist history is running rampant through the education system today. The very systems that were put in place to ensure the greatness of this nation, the systems that provided opportunity for people to rise and fall based on their merit not their birth title, those systems are being called perverted and biased in the name of 'equality'. In his 1906 novel "The Virginian" by Owen Wister, the author puts forth the theory from the founding documents of this very nation that 'all men are created equal....' however he goes on to define that process as one of creation only. Once we've been given a start, the rest is up to us and is a result of our choices and our actions. Equality is a myth of the liberal mindset and nothing to be chased. Achievement is earned and should not be 'given' by the government......
All of that preamble is to prepare you for the following short (true) story......
There is a school system in Florida that allows students (Jr. High age) to take out 'restraining orders' against other students for little or no reason. These same 'restraining orders' are then used to threaten suspension if they are violated. These orders are given without parental notification and when pressed for answers, parents are told that they are not entitled to info because it would violate the other student's privacy...... WHAT??
What would have been a simple squabble between students twenty five years ago is now a freaking federal case in the eyes of school administrators..... This story reminds me of the 'ZERO TOLERANCE' policies that presume guilt before innocence. IF you have something as benign as Tylenol or Midol in your possession, you are in possession of a controlled substance. Heaven forbid you give another student said Tylenol or Midol because now you are 'distributing a controlled substance' and there is no defense and no explanation accepted.
In other words, there is no due process of law. Do you want your children growing up in an environment where they are cowed by the state into submission and where the rule of law is absolute and not to be questioned?
There are good people working within the system. Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost admiration for those quality, caring teachers who want nothing but the best for their students. I fear that they are few and far between though. They are fighting back the tide with the proverbial teaspoon..... God bless people like my sister (High School teacher, extraordinaire) who still give a damn about individual children in her class. However, a pox upon administrators who care more for 'process' than progress.
To my way of thinking, parents have two choices; Get involved and demand change from the school system. Either be an agent for change or stop your complaining. Your other choice is to 'vote with your feet' and pull your student's out of the public schools. Either home-school them or enroll them in private schools. Vote for candidates who support vouchers if you can't afford private school, but do something.
Public schools have changed through the decades. You have to frame the discussion properly without resorting to emotion and hyperbole. When I say that the schools have changed, I am basing that statement upon my own observations as a student and now as a parent. I am also basing my thoughts on the empirical observations of my mother who was a classroom elementary teacher whose career spanned five decades (then she tutored privately for another few years making a six decade span in education). She could describe changes that would make you cry (if you cared)....
Framing the Debate:
Given; if you send your child to a private Hebrew school, they will be taught that the principles of Judaism are the best and should be adhered to.
If you send your child to a Catholic or a Baptist school, they will be taught that the principles of those religions are the best for governing their life.
Therefore it should be accepted as a statement of fact that if you send your children to Government schools, they will be taught that government is the solution to all the ills of society and that the tenants of big government are to be adhered to faithfully. (Like a religion...)
Note the allegory: Substitute government for religion and you have the same effect.
Schools that used to teach now indoctrinate. Schools that used to encourage free thinking now seek to pigeonhole and categorize. Schools that used to provide broad educational opportunities now turn out automatons who are capable of little more than parroting back what they've been shown. Do your kids learn anything or do they simply pass whatever standardized test your state administers?
Revisionist history is running rampant through the education system today. The very systems that were put in place to ensure the greatness of this nation, the systems that provided opportunity for people to rise and fall based on their merit not their birth title, those systems are being called perverted and biased in the name of 'equality'. In his 1906 novel "The Virginian" by Owen Wister, the author puts forth the theory from the founding documents of this very nation that 'all men are created equal....' however he goes on to define that process as one of creation only. Once we've been given a start, the rest is up to us and is a result of our choices and our actions. Equality is a myth of the liberal mindset and nothing to be chased. Achievement is earned and should not be 'given' by the government......
All of that preamble is to prepare you for the following short (true) story......
There is a school system in Florida that allows students (Jr. High age) to take out 'restraining orders' against other students for little or no reason. These same 'restraining orders' are then used to threaten suspension if they are violated. These orders are given without parental notification and when pressed for answers, parents are told that they are not entitled to info because it would violate the other student's privacy...... WHAT??
What would have been a simple squabble between students twenty five years ago is now a freaking federal case in the eyes of school administrators..... This story reminds me of the 'ZERO TOLERANCE' policies that presume guilt before innocence. IF you have something as benign as Tylenol or Midol in your possession, you are in possession of a controlled substance. Heaven forbid you give another student said Tylenol or Midol because now you are 'distributing a controlled substance' and there is no defense and no explanation accepted.
In other words, there is no due process of law. Do you want your children growing up in an environment where they are cowed by the state into submission and where the rule of law is absolute and not to be questioned?
There are good people working within the system. Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost admiration for those quality, caring teachers who want nothing but the best for their students. I fear that they are few and far between though. They are fighting back the tide with the proverbial teaspoon..... God bless people like my sister (High School teacher, extraordinaire) who still give a damn about individual children in her class. However, a pox upon administrators who care more for 'process' than progress.
To my way of thinking, parents have two choices; Get involved and demand change from the school system. Either be an agent for change or stop your complaining. Your other choice is to 'vote with your feet' and pull your student's out of the public schools. Either home-school them or enroll them in private schools. Vote for candidates who support vouchers if you can't afford private school, but do something.
Death & Taxes
Something to think about:
Obviously, if the government thinks it can tax AIG executives to the tune of 90% (in order to recover the payments of bonus money that Congress itself authored and authorized....) just what do you think they'll do to you?
'Oh, I'm too small for them to worry about' : Wrong! You're too small to be able to defend yourself adequately.
'I don't make enough money for them to bother with me' : Wrong! The liberal mindset says you can't manage you own affairs and therefore, you shouldn't make anything other than what they 'give' you....
Do you understand the the IRS Code looks at your income as theirs? They account for the income you keep as a 'Tax Expenditure' or in other words, the revenue you keep is money they didn't get to keep in the treasury for themselves.
Taxes on e-bay income are coming. Taxes on garage sale income are coming. Taxes on 'imputed income' (intangible benefits you receive like owning a home below market value or saving $$ by purchasing a used car when everyone else in the neighborhood has more expensive vehicles), those are coming too. In their world view it isn't 'FAIR' that you were smart with your money while the family down the street is struggling to pay for their two houses, their two cars and their boat...... What that means is the family down the street doesn't have any money to tax and since you do, the feds will take yours.......
Wake up and see that if the Federal Government thinks it can seize private banks, that it also thinks that it has the right an responsibility to take control of other privately held businesses!
Small business is the backbone of the economy. The President himself admitted that a couple of weeks ago when he was trying to sell (ram down our throats...) another stimulus package to the American people..... Does that mean small business owners are on his radar now?
Banana Republic dictators think twice before proposing the actions that our elected officials are currently contemplating......
The Junta running Washington, D.C. needs to be voted out of office while we still have the opportunity to do so.
Obviously, if the government thinks it can tax AIG executives to the tune of 90% (in order to recover the payments of bonus money that Congress itself authored and authorized....) just what do you think they'll do to you?
'Oh, I'm too small for them to worry about' : Wrong! You're too small to be able to defend yourself adequately.
'I don't make enough money for them to bother with me' : Wrong! The liberal mindset says you can't manage you own affairs and therefore, you shouldn't make anything other than what they 'give' you....
Do you understand the the IRS Code looks at your income as theirs? They account for the income you keep as a 'Tax Expenditure' or in other words, the revenue you keep is money they didn't get to keep in the treasury for themselves.
Taxes on e-bay income are coming. Taxes on garage sale income are coming. Taxes on 'imputed income' (intangible benefits you receive like owning a home below market value or saving $$ by purchasing a used car when everyone else in the neighborhood has more expensive vehicles), those are coming too. In their world view it isn't 'FAIR' that you were smart with your money while the family down the street is struggling to pay for their two houses, their two cars and their boat...... What that means is the family down the street doesn't have any money to tax and since you do, the feds will take yours.......
Wake up and see that if the Federal Government thinks it can seize private banks, that it also thinks that it has the right an responsibility to take control of other privately held businesses!
Small business is the backbone of the economy. The President himself admitted that a couple of weeks ago when he was trying to sell (ram down our throats...) another stimulus package to the American people..... Does that mean small business owners are on his radar now?
Banana Republic dictators think twice before proposing the actions that our elected officials are currently contemplating......
The Junta running Washington, D.C. needs to be voted out of office while we still have the opportunity to do so.
23 March 2009
The Death of Liberty
"So this is how liberty dies; to thunderous applause....."
Padme Amidala to Senator Organa - Star Wars Episode III
The ignorance of the "Dumb Masses" never ceases to amaze me. Like the street-corner huckster with the shells and the pea, the President, the media and Congress have seemingly pulled the wool over the collective eyes of the populace. How on earth can free men stand idle while elected officials, with the active assistance of a complicit media, demonize the payment of contractual bonuses to AIG executives?
Don't get me wrong, I wonder how someone fails to keep a company solvent yet still gets a bonus. But the premise being reported is a false one to begin with. The Secretary of the Treasury, Tim (the TAX CHEAT) Geithner, Senator Christopher Dodd (Ted Kennedy's drinking buddy) and the CEO of the United States ALL knew about the bonuses to be paid to AIG execs. When it became politically expedient to point the finger of blame, they chose to shame the AIG executives, not the process of passing a monstrosity of a "stimulus bill" and certainly not to cast themselves in a negative light over loopholes and lack of oversight......... I don't think these idiots have a clue as to what they are doing......
They have thoroughly confused the issue and the uneducated among us don't seem to even care. In the name of righteous liberal anger (read: class warfare....), the leftists have kept the public looking for the pea while they keep moving those shells around. The really dirty secret, for those of you who have never played the shell game, is that the true professional huckster has puloined the pea and it isn't under any of the shells that are being deftly manipulated across the board.....
The American people have swallowed this mess hook, line and sinker.
Personally, I'm considering hoarding ammo & toilet paper.......
Padme Amidala to Senator Organa - Star Wars Episode III
The ignorance of the "Dumb Masses" never ceases to amaze me. Like the street-corner huckster with the shells and the pea, the President, the media and Congress have seemingly pulled the wool over the collective eyes of the populace. How on earth can free men stand idle while elected officials, with the active assistance of a complicit media, demonize the payment of contractual bonuses to AIG executives?
Don't get me wrong, I wonder how someone fails to keep a company solvent yet still gets a bonus. But the premise being reported is a false one to begin with. The Secretary of the Treasury, Tim (the TAX CHEAT) Geithner, Senator Christopher Dodd (Ted Kennedy's drinking buddy) and the CEO of the United States ALL knew about the bonuses to be paid to AIG execs. When it became politically expedient to point the finger of blame, they chose to shame the AIG executives, not the process of passing a monstrosity of a "stimulus bill" and certainly not to cast themselves in a negative light over loopholes and lack of oversight......... I don't think these idiots have a clue as to what they are doing......
They have thoroughly confused the issue and the uneducated among us don't seem to even care. In the name of righteous liberal anger (read: class warfare....), the leftists have kept the public looking for the pea while they keep moving those shells around. The really dirty secret, for those of you who have never played the shell game, is that the true professional huckster has puloined the pea and it isn't under any of the shells that are being deftly manipulated across the board.....
The American people have swallowed this mess hook, line and sinker.
Personally, I'm considering hoarding ammo & toilet paper.......
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