Lost Liberties of America

My daughter, an airman, suggested we post the Pledge of Allegiance.
I do pledge my Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands: One nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

I echo her suggestion that, if you agree, make the pledge on your own FB page.

One little girl responded:

 "Guess people here are forgetting about the separation of church and state again. How about we all pledge allegiance to one nation under Allah? No? How bout Mithra? No, still not thrilled about it? How do you think they feel about it? What about how Buddhists who don't have a belief in any gods feel? Or pagans who believe in many gods? If you want your freedom of religion defended, protect that of others as well."

When others supported the "Under God" statement with comments about the Founding Fathers being Christian and America being founded to provide freedom of religion she responded again with,

 "In god we trust and under god were not added until the whole Cold War thing. You can look it up. And if you look into the founding fathers some of them were pretty much entirely disdainful of Christianity. Thomas Jefferson for example. The pledge, and public schools are government institutions. By mandating saying the pledge, particularly with"under god" in it, the government would be endorsing and promoting a specific religion, thus forcing the religious views of some, on all."

Amid the responses to this girl was this one:
"How many names are there for God? How many people believe in an Higher Power without giving "it" a name? If we all (95% of Americans) who believe in God say "I believe in God", does that take away your right to not believe or even disbelieve? No.

Have you studied the old histories (not the newly written histories) that tell of how many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were preachers and ministers of the Gospel? Have you read of how many of the Presidents attended church services under the Dome of the Capitol Building when it was used by several denominations for services, including on Saturday? Even President Thomas Jefferson, who called for the preacher to administer the Sacrament to him while he lay on his deathbed?

Much can be learned about the USA and God and even the Holy Bible at http://www.earstohear.net/heritage/didyouknow.html 

Did you know that Congress paid for the publishing of the Holy Bible, built a church and paid for the minister, instructed that the Holy Bible be taught in public schools, and authorized support for many other religious activities before the anti-god movement of the 1960's?

May I gently recommend you learn more about what both the "Separation of Church and State" and the 1st Amendment means before speaking to the subject. You have your rights to disbelieve or not believe. Please allow others their rights to speak our beliefs without thinking others' beliefs are unprotected."

True believers in a Just, a Fair and a Good God must (I believe) allow all people their rights to peaceably believe, speak and live as they choose. No matter their professed religion. Government has the duty to protect those rights, not by reducing support for religion but by increasing such support equally for all so long as the religion honors the just laws of the land and protects the rights of believers and non-believers of that religion alike.

Any government that restricts the rights of the people in the free exercise of their religion MUST BE CORRECTED through legal means else the moral basis of that government will erode away until it is found to be THE DESTROYER of ALL the rights and liberties of the people.  This is the current destructive position of the Federal government of the U.S.A., according to my observations. 

May God bless and Protect the American States United under God.
God Bless America!

Truly, It is Better to Give. But What is Best to Give?

Here are some thoughts many of us forget: In order to give to charity, the Giver must first obtain something to give.

The next question is: How does the giver obtain that something?

What is the best answer? 

How about: Create new Wealth and sell it to happy end-users for a wise and healthy profit.

Here is a brief, slightly edited portion of a report I just received: 

We can't give unless we (or someone) first creates. Yet wealth creators are encouraged to feel guilt. "Bill Gates, or any billionaire, for that matter," Yaron Brook, author of "Free Market Revolution" ..., said on my TV show, "how did they become a billionaire? By creating a product or great service that benefits everybody. And we know it benefits us because we pay for it. We pay less than what it's worth to us. That's why we trade — we get more value than what we give up. So, our lives are better off. Bill Gates improved hundreds of millions of lives around the world. That's how he became a billionaire."

Gates walks in the footprints of earlier creators, like John D. Rockefeller, who got rich by lowering the price of oil products, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, who did the same for transportation. The clueless media called them robber barons, but they were neither robbers nor barons.

They and other creators didn't just give us products to improve our lives, they also employed people. That's charity that keeps on giving, because employees keep working and keep supporting their families. "That's not charity," Brook said. "(It's) another trade. You pay your employees and get something in return. But the employee is better off, and you are better off.

"And when you start thinking about the multiplier effect, $50 billion for Bill Gates? That's nothing compared to the value he added to the world...." Gates now donates billions and applies his critical thinking skills to charity. He tested ideas in education, like small high schools, and dumped them when they didn't work. Good....  
 
Brook points out that Gates gets credit for his charity, but little credit for having created wealth. "Quite the contrary," Brook said. "We sent the Justice Department to go after him. He's considered greedy, in spite of all the hundreds of millions of people he's helped, because he benefited at the same time. (When) he shifted to charity, suddenly he's a good guy. My complaint is not that he's doing the charity. It's that we as a society value not the creation, not the building, not the accumulation of wealth. … What [society values] is the charity. Yes, it's going to have good impact, but is that what's important? … Charity is fine, but not the source of virtue. The source of virtue is the creation and the building." 

I can just hear people declare how inappropriate it is for a businessman to "Make a PROFIT!", saying "profit" with a sick, derisive sneer, with disgust. 

That is backed up by the declaration that a person who built a business didn't build it, other people built it. The implication is that it is wrong for a business man to take credit for guiding his employees' actions so they grow the business. That implies the employer didn't build the business, the employees did.

While this is correct in practicum, it is technically incorrect. The employees, left to their own thoughts and whims or desires, would likely drive the business into default and bankruptcy because they cannot, thus DO NOT see the big picture with the charted goals to achieve. With no unifying, directional vision the employees would act more like grasshoppers than bees, hopping around eating up resources instead of working unitedly under the boss's (queen bee's) authority or direction, gathering raw product and converting it into finished "honey."

There is no charity available from a grasshopper. Only producers can be charitable. 

 So who should we value more, the producer or the giver?

Government administrators and the mainstream news media teach us to value the giver. Give! Give! Give!l It is bad to take a profit! It is bad, they say, to be a "Robber Baron" who becomes very rich by selling product and service for a profit. Only when profits are given away are they good, we are told. 

This is wrong. 

While "it is better to give than to receive" is very true, it only applies in the appropriate setting. That setting is when everyone involved can be altruistic. Altruism in people is wonderful, and it is rare. The world is generally NOT altruistic. The world is generally whipping from the two sides of self-serving and other-serving. Both sides are needed; it is balance between the two that is the challenge and only in productive business can that balance be achieved. Here is why...

Self-serving business is most successful when the "self-server" serves others what they want and need. Otherwise the self-server, being alone, is extremely limited by single capacity in what can be produced. Everyone needs products to consume, for to live is to consume something everyday. A productive self-server must serve others, and that in accord with other servers, in order to produce more, distribute more and receive more in return. The return is profit.  Without profit the process cannot continue to grow as society grows.

An "other-server" who gives everything away for free ends up with nothing to consume. Living by the implication that profit is bad and that living for one's self is bad, the other-server, if s/he produces anything tangible must give it away in order to feel any self-worth. Only if some other, more wealthy other-server#2 gives other-server#1 a wage or salary will s/he end up with anything to live on. Very often, #2 is either a charity or government administrator, both being funded by self-serving, product-producing, profit-generating "robber barons" (God Help them!).

The  moral of this article is this whole article is this: 

SINCE IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE, THE BEST WAY TO GIVE IS TO --

1    START A BUSINESS THAT GIVES 
2.   A GREAT PRODUCT/SERVICE GIVEN
3.   AT THE BEST POSSIBLE PRICE, THUS GIVING
4.   BENEFIT TO THE MOST AMOUNT OF PEOPLE, THUS GIVING
5.   CONSTANT PRODUCTIVE WORK AND PAY FOR MANY PEOPLE AND GIVING
6.   A SATISFACTORY PROFIT FOR THE INVESTORS, MANY OF WHOM WILL GIVE 
7.   MUCH OF THE PROFITS TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT GIVE
8.   CHARITY ADMINISTRATORS PAYING EMPLOYMENT FOR GIVING
9.   NEEDING PERSONS ASSISTANCE IN THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY, THUS GIVING
10   SUPPLIERS OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT AND GROW THEIR PRODUCTIVE BUSINESSES (that GIVE so much!!)

If you truly want to serve others ... 
if you truly want to GIVE THE MOST ...  
if you truly want to BE THE MOST ALTRUISTIC ...

START A PRODUCTIVE, PROFITABLE BUSINESS THAT POWERS THE ENTIRE PROCESS.

Is America Filled with "Wild Pigs"?

You know what it is to have a friend who regularly forwards to you emails s/he receives, right? For example, my friend recently sent me this: 

----- Forwarded Message -----
Subject: Oops...

Wife texts husband on a cold winter’s morning:

"Windows frozen."

Husband texts back:
"Pour some lukewarm water over it."

Wife texts back 5 minutes later:
"Computer completely screwed up now." 

Always good for a chuckle or sometimes a good belly laugh. He has a great sense of humor.

My friend is also a political activist of sorts, forwarding to me information about how people are streaming from Florida because of a recently passed law requiring drug testing and being drug free before a person can receive state welfare. The email goes: 
Gov. Rick Scott said, "If Floridians want welfare, they better make sure they are drug-free."

Applicants must pay for the drug test, but are reimbursed if they test drug-free. Applicants who test positive for illicit substances, won't be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment. Those who fail a second time will be banned from receiving funds for three years!

Of course, the email begins with

HOORAY, ONLY 49 STATES TO GO!!

Many nations in the European Union and also in the Americas  have massive numbers of people who are on the welfare dole. They do not work nor do they seek work. Why should they? They get free money, free food, free cell phones, free housing. With all that coming in they can obtain credit cards. More "free" money with which to buy all the wonderful things this country imports. (I almost wrote "provides" but there is more manufacturing in China, India and Thailand than in the USA, it seems.) Since there is nothing to do all day, drugs help pass the time and they are easy to get, so why not?

Why not? Clearly the persons who ask such a question is on drug!

Those persons are also trapped in the socialistic mind-set of "Let the government take care of me, I deserve it". They are also taught that it is good to tax the "rich" business owners who "rip-off" the poor working wo/man. Trapped as they are in the thinking that big government has all the answers and solutions to the nation's problems, they turn off their God-given powers of imagination and creation. That abdication of personal rights and powers is the greatest loss to this and every nation that any nation can sustain. 

How do people get trapped into such thinking? How does a nation of people become so "dumbed-down" as to think that a set of "smarter" people in government positions can take better care of them than they can take care of themselves?  

Easy. Free food.Free cell phones, free housing, free money, free drugs.

My email forwarding friends sent me the following just yesterday:  

Wild Pigs

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class.

One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.  The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.   The young man said that it was no joke.  "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground.  The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn.  When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.  When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.  They get used to that and start to eat again.

You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.  The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.  You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.  Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.  They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.  Soon they go back to eating the free corn.  They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods  for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America.   The government keeps pushing toward Socialism(Communism) and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops, welfare, and the latest Affordable Health Care while the people continually lose freedoms, just a little at a time.

If you see that all of the wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy a Representative Republic in America, you might want to discuss this with your friends. 

But, God help us all when the gate slams shut!
In order to NOT get slammed in the same pen I write this to you, my dear Reader: 

• WORK! PRODUCE SOMETHING OF VALUE AND SELL IT AT A PROFIT. 
• KEEP YOUR PROFITS IN THE SAME WAY "THE RICH" DO -- USE CORPORATIONS AND TRUSTS, ROTH IRA'S AND OTHER "NON-QUALIFIED" RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS.
• KEEP YOUR FAMILY STRONG, RELIGIOUSLY GROUNDED, MORAL AND UNITED.
• PREPARE TO PASS YOUR FORTUNE FORWARD TO YOUR GRAND AND GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
• EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN TO DO THE SAME. 
• DEVELOP A PROFITABLE BUSINESS AND A LEGACY OF FAMILY WEALTH.

Socialism, Communism, Fascism. These are all the same -- Dictatorships backed by administrative rules and regulations enforced by brutal force when necessary. The peoples' will is sapped by moral decay and the addictions to drugs, pornography and licenciousness and sexual perversion. The peoples' spiritual nature is shut down by teachings of evolution, of being the offspring of apes and primordial pond-scum instead of being children of a Great and Loving God. People are taught to live after the nature of the beast instead of after the Way of the Lord of Peace and Love.

PEOPLE MUST BE CONVINCED OF OUR TRUE NATURE BEING CHILDREN OF A GREAT, LOVING CREATOR. The animals -- the monkeys, apes, birds, whales and pigs, etc -- are mere creations made to use the earth and provide for the needs of mankind, nothing more. MANKIND IS NOT THE PROGENY OF ANIMALS. MANKIND IS THE OFFSPRING OF THE GREAT CREATOR.

I'll not get into religion here other than to urge you, Dear Reader, to acknowledge your own inheritance as a child of God. You have within you the strength to accomplish great things because of who and what you are and Who is on your side if you are on the side of Goodness, Love, Mercy, Truth and Justice. These are 5 points that delineate Godly attributes. Follow these 5 points in your life and you will find great power within you and great power being drawn to you and you will be able to achieve great things.

Please do not be trapped like wild pigs feeding on free corn.

Being FREE is your inheritance and right from God, your Heavenly Father, and His Son, our Redeemer (who guarantees we can all get back Home when our turn on earth is ended).

Remaining free is our continual task and labor for there are those who want to control your freedom for the sake of power and wealth.

Passing freedom and liberty to our children and great-grandchildren is our right and responsibility.

As Children of the Great Providential Creator of all that is in Heaven and Earth, we have the rights, the power and the responsibilities to maintain freedom and liberty and pass those forward to our posterity.

LET US DO OUR DUTY as men and women, Children of Power.
LET US WORK, TEACH AND URGE OUR CHILDREN TO DO THE SAME.

The power is within you.
God Bless America.
God Bless your Nation.
God Bless You.

Why Taxing the Rich Taxes the Poor

People think they are voting for a tax on only "the rich" who are greedy enough to earn more than the needy "middle class". This article will help educate those people things they were never taught in public school: 

Taxes

By Jeff Clark, Stansberry & Associates
Monday, November 19, 2012

Raising taxes on the rich raises taxes on everyone.

My home state of California just passed Proposition 30, which increases income taxes on residents who make $250,000 a year or more. The top marginal tax rate is now 13.3%, the highest of any state.

Proposition 30 was sold to the voters as "this won't cost you a dime, but it'll make the rich pay their fair share to put our schools back in shape."

Since so many voters thought they were excluded from the tax, and so many voters have no understanding of economics, the lower wage earners were able to vote to take money away from the higher wage earners.

But… they'll get hit just the same.
I was having this discussion a few weeks ago with the gentleman who pays me $4,300 per month to rent my old house. His kids attend public school – the cost of which is paid for through property taxes. Since I own the property he lives in, I pay the taxes. So he believed he could vote to raise taxes to improve the schools and it wouldn't cost him a dime – since he doesn't pay the taxes.

I had to explain to him that the amount I charge for rent is based on my ability to earn a profit on my investment (the home). That means I have to charge him enough to pay all the taxes and insurance on the property and generate a higher income than I could receive on an alternative investment.

If my property tax payment goes up, I would have to increase his rent by a similar amount. So while he doesn't pay the property taxes directly, his vote to increase my taxes would be a vote to increase his rent.

He was shocked… SHOCKED… that I would be so greedy as to force him to shoulder the burden of the increased cost of my investment. I explained to him the alternative if I was unable to earn a fair return on investment was to sell the house and move my money elsewhere – which would leave him and his family without a home.

Again, he expressed shock at my greed.

Funny, though… he didn't seem to mind it so much when he thought he was voting to take my money to spend on his daughters' education.

This is an educated man who is an executive at a large corporation… Yet he has no understanding of the basic laws of economics.

Is there any wonder we are in the mess we're in?

Prop 30 imposes an extra income tax, so it gets around the property tax issue. But the economic argument is the same. By imposing extra taxes on the "rich," the rich then need to raise prices in their businesses to make up for it… or else take measures to avoid the tax completely. That means everyone pays.

From this article we can see the mechanics of exactly why, when those who know how economics work get taxed, those who make economics work pay the taxes. In other words, it is the producer, the working person who pays the taxes ultimately. Why? Because s/he is the producer, of course! 

CAPITAL

Every person providing capital expects profit. He or she who wants to keep the profit for own uses is thereby called a Capitalist. A person using capital to produce profits to give away is called a Philanthrop, or a philanthropic person. Both kinds of people are very useful in society but the Capitalist is essential to economy. Only with every form of capital can an economy work.

 The Labor producer is a Capitalist because s/he requires profit on the use of the capital s/he provides which is the time and muscle and thinking ability God gave her or him to produce with. Industry Capitalists direct Labor Capitalists in creating new products from the earth materials God provided us. The person with the Currency Capital provides the currency to pay the Labor Capitalist her or his profit before the product is even put onto the store shelves for consumers to purchase it. The Management Capitalist organizes and manages the Industry, Currency, and Labor in order to produce and deliver the product for the end Consumer. 

These four (4) basic forms of Capital -- Industry, Currency, Labor and Management -- comprise the basic business elements of Economic Capital .

In passing I mention wholesalers/retailers, shippers/truckers, marketers, sellers, property owners/managers, and many other forms of Capital providers. Any going concern or working business creates a product or service for an end Consumer to buy. 

Every Capitalist will require a profit on the use of the capital provided. The Currency Capitalist generally has currency earning profit instead of using only his or her time and labor to earn it. Many Currency Capitalists and Industry/Management Capitalists have their currency making money for them every hour of the day. Labor must trade time and effort for currency/money. This is why most Currency, Industry and Management Capitalists have more time in which to play than Labor Capitalists who exchange most or much of their time for currency. These Capitalists who have more time and money than other Capitalists are called, genereally, "The Rich".

TAXES

These are some reasons why The Rich Capitalists are admired and envied by the "Middle Class" Labor Capitalists. Middle Class Capitalists want Big Brother, the Government, to tax The Rich and transfer that money into services the Middle Class (and the Poor) benefit from. The middle class and the poor want The Rich to pay all the taxes that pay for all the government benefits, not understanding that it takes about $2.25 of taxes to pay for $1.00 worth of end result services. The Government is a very wasteful and expensive service provider, actually the worst in the world. This is not taught in public school.

Another thing the poor and middle class aren't taught in public school is that whenever The Rich discover their income is diminished by taxes they simply increase the costs of their currency capital so increased profits cover the increased cost of the taxes. Industry and Management also raise their prices to pay for the tax increases. The consumer pays the price of the increase and the Rich Capitalist gets repaid for the increased taxes. The Consumer who ALWAYS pays the final price on the product or service.

Every person is a consumer and there are FAR MORE middle class Labor consumers than Rich consumers who end up paying the higher prices with no reimbursement for the increase. 

Now the lesson is over.  The final step is 

THE QUIZ: 

 1.     IN WHICH CLASS ARE YOU? (check all that apply)

         [  ]   Currency Capitalist          [  ] The Rich Consumer

         [  ]   Labor Capitalist               [  ] The Middle Class Consumer
         [  ]   Earn over $250,000/yr     [  ] Earn under $250,000/year
         [  ]   Management Capitalist   [  ] Industry Capitalist
         [  ]   Pay more because of tax increases   
         [  ]   Pay the same with tax increases
         [  ]   Don't know whether I pay more or less because of tax increases

2.     DO THE EXTRA TAXES FROM THE GOVERNMENT APPLY TO YOU?

        [  ] YES    [  ]  NO

3.     DO YOU BUY ANYTHING FROM STORES, SHOPS OR THE INTERNET? 

        [  ] YES    [  ]  NO

4.     IF TAXES GO UP WILL THE TAXED PEOPLE TRY TO MAKE UP FOR THEIR LOSS? 

        [  ] YES    [  ]  NO 

5.     WHEN TAXES GO UP, WHAT WILL LIKELY HAPPEN TO PRICES OF PRODUCTS? 

       [  ] They'll likely go up   [  ] They'll likely go down   [  ] they'll likely stay the same

6.     IF PRICES GO UP BECAUSE OF INCREASED TAXES WHO GETS PAID BACK BY THE INCREASE?  (check all that apply)

        [  ] The Rich     [  ] The Taxed   [  ] The Consumer   [  ] The Middle Class/Poor   [   ] ME!!

      

7.     IF PRICES GO UP BECAUSE OF TAXES WHO ENDS UP PAYING  WITHOUT BEING PAID BACK? (check all that apply)

        [  ] The Rich     [  ] The Taxed   [  ] The Consumer  [  ] The Middle Class/Poor     [   ] ME!!

8.    DO YOU WANT INCREASED PRICES ON PRODUCTS?

       [  ]  YES     [  ] NO

9.    DO YOU WANT TO RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH? 

       [  ]  YES     [  ] NO

  

10.   WILL YOU VOTE FOR A POLITICIAN WHO PROMISES TO LOWER TAXES ON THE RICH?

      [  ]  YES     [  ] NO

Need a Lift? Take an M&M.

I subscribe to a wonderful news letter from the Stansberry group entitled "Retirement Millionaire". It is informative about many issues retired people are interested in from financial matters to health to world events. I really enjoy it and learn a lot. I find the points addressed in the monthly newsletter normally well substantiated and presented. The price is very reasonable. I'd recommend the "Retirement Millionaire" to anyone and anyone can afford it.

This month one small part of the letter addresses anti-depressants and drug companies. Please allow me to quote:

"SSRIs are the most common antidepressants and include big sellers Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil. SSRIs block the reuptake of serotonin in the brain. This allows the brain to better send and receive chemical messages, boosting mood.

"But antidepressants aren't as effective as television ads lead you to believe. A 1998 study from the University of Connecticut found that as much as 75% of an antidepressant's power comes from the placebo effect. In other words, the act of simply taking something they believe will help – even if it has no physiological effect – makes the patient feel better... Many studies since have also come to the same conclusion.

"The placebo effect shows how important belief and attitudes are in final outcomes. Irving Kirsch, the originator of the 1998 study (and several studies thereafter), has studied the placebo effect for decades. In an interview on 60 Minutes earlier this year, Kirsch said that in many cases, placebos were just as effective as antidepressants.

"But here's the part that upsets me... the drug companies are well-aware of this. In 2010, two reports – one from the New England Journal of Medicine – showed the drug companies buried the results of 74 studies conducted between 1987 and 2004 on 12 FDA-approved antidepressants.

"All 74 studies showed the drugs did nothing more than a sugar pill. Worse... another 11 studies that showed negative results for the medications were published as if they supported the pills' benefits. Trials for Effexor, Paxil, Prozac, and Serzone showed the medications had the same effect as a placebo." (Dr. David Eifrig Jr's Retirement Millionaire, December 2012)

Now, doesn't that just turn  your crank? To think of all those poor depressed people shelling out hundreds of dollars for a prescription they can literally do without and would be better off replacing with a $3 bag of delicious M&M's (no, I am not being paid to plug the chocolates, but I'd love to be!).

How many of you have heard of people committing suicide because of the side effects of their anti-depressant?  I can't count the number of reports I've heard of and read reporting some dire, deadly and depressing effect of a prescription drug designed to take a person from depression to "normalcy". It's depressing. Really!

What the heck is "normal", anyhoo? Does a normal person write anyhoo? Do normal people write blogs? Are normal people inactive in politics or are they the abnormal ones, or are the abnormal people those who are neither active nor inactive but just in-between? Also, who says whether a person is normal? Who is to say the person making the call is normal? You get the gist, don't you? *(If you pronounced that word "jist" instead of with a hard "g" (golf) you are normal, if not, then you just pronounce words phonetically, the way they ar speld, and that, tu iz norml.)

Well, what the heck. The moral of this blog post is "Don't do Drugs", especially not expensive, doctor prescribed anti-depressant drugs. 

If you are depressed, instead, of going to the doctor ($64.95) and buying the drug prescription ($61.99, total: $126.94), just send $98.94 to me. I'll overnight ship you a specially repacked 24 oz. bag of chocolate pills. Take 2 every 5 minutes until the depression goes away. If you need another bag, I'll overnight more to you with a credit card payment of only $83.89 per 24 oz. bag. Doesn't a good discount make you feel better? AND...

... My guarantee is just as good as  your MD offers you. Send me his written guarantee with your order and I'll match it. I aim to please. (Hyuck hyuk)

Take a look at this video:
The Legacy of State-ism - Social-ism - Commun-ism - Obama-ism

Some say Obama will become the next US President not only this election but also the next one and possibly two elections.

Are we going forward or backward? More freedom and liberty or less?

Are you voting for a handout? Are you voting for more government involvement in business and private life? More treating every citizen like a terrorist at airports?

Are you more interested in security than liberty?

Mr. Obama's Litany

After listening twice to the 2nd US Presidential debate between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, after doing some double checking on the accuracy of a few comments each man made and after reading and listening to the comments of others, I have made my own decisions.

I believe Mr. Obama made tremendous advances in his ability to connect with his listeners and his ability to come out looking like a fighter. Mr. Obama was able to make his statements strongly and back them up and clearly, strongly denounce his opponent. Mr. Romney was very clear, also, in his statements, his attacks and his defenses. His statements relating to his supporting women in the workforce, his record of leadership and Mr. Obama's record of failures were also strong and clear. Because both men performed admirably, both political parties certainly call their own man the winner.

Both men made certain comments that required some research to discover the truth. Mr. Obama, however, made enough "shakey" comments that his entire argument was put on a very uneven and, I would say, unsupported foundation.  After discovering the truth about Mr. Obama's Rose Garden "terrorist act" statement and Mr. Romney's reported "This (Salam Harbor heavily polluting, coal burning, electricity generation) plant kills" statement, I made a quick search for Mr. Obama's other trailing statements, events, choices, consequences.

Mr. Obama has left a long litany of wrong statements and decisions.

** Obama says Romney tax cuts will cost the gov't $5Trillion but fails to consider that $5Trillion left in taxpayers' pockets = $5Trillion left in the economy, Obama would rather take the money out of the economy and put it into the hands of the Federal Reserve, a privately held banking system, and then lend it to the wasteful federal gov't that must repay the loan with interest;

** Obama wants to raise taxes on "the rich" who already pay roughly 40% to 45% of the national tax revenues, then claims it unfair for them to want to take their companies to a taxed-less or even taxless offshore business haven, he doesn't understand how high government interference is driving US companies offshore;

** Obama was right, Romney did say in 2003 to the officials of the Salem Harbor proven lethally polluting coal burning plant ,"This plant kills" and, rather than pay to upgrade the burners to burn coal cleaner or the exhaust system to capture the toxic emissions according to State law by June 2014, the plant owners have chosen: the plant will close in 2014, 11 years after Gov. Romney's "sinister" and "uncaring" declaration;

**Obama did not say in the Rose Garden the embassy attack was a terrorist attack, although he did call it an "act of terror", then for 7 days his administration falsely internationally supported labeling the attack a result of a spontaneous riot due to a YouTube video;

**Obama HAS doubled the national deficit overpayment after condemning Pres. Bush for doing 1/2 of what Obama then has done for 4 years;

**Obama called President Bush "unpatriotic" for allowing the national debt to climb to $9Trillion, then, in 4 years, increased the national debt to $16Trillion(!);

** In 4 years neither Obama's administration nor the Democratic Senate has offered any passing national budget as directed in the Constitution, not to even mention a BALANCED federal budget;

**Obama has written 930(+) Executive Orders in 4 years, more than 5x ALL other preceding president's Ex.Orders COMBINED(!) bypassing the Constitutional Legislative process, in effect making 930+ Royal Decrees, many of which silently usurp American sovereign rights from under our noses;

**Obama has appointed Czars ("Kings") over the American people;

**Obama has failed to protect Americans in US Embassies;

**Obama waged unilateral, undeclared war against Lybia;

**Obama has conveniently put off "ending the Iraq war" just in time for election campaigning;

**Obama Administration has proven to prefer protecting the Holy Quran while burning the Holy Bible, setting the Quran book and the Islamic religion above every other book and religion in America, against the proclamation of the 1st Amendment in the Bill of Rights;

**Obama economic policies have:

*increased inflation dramatically:
* increased demand for foodstamps by about 35%,
* decreased the gross national product growth to a piddling 1.6% (as opposed to China's 6%-10%/year);
* decreased the median income by about $2,500/year;
* increased median health insurance costs by about $2,000/year;
* increased the cost of motor fuel by about 110% in 4 years;
* decreased America's international credit rating 33%, from AAA to AA;

**Obama has personally interfered in city internal police matters, making inflammatory racial comments, and has regularly made racial, gender and economically divisive comments instead of seeking to unify a struggling nation of international immigrants;

** What else?

What more is needed to convince voters? 

 Should we give this guy 4 more years to do more of the same or should we give a chance to a fellow who has balanced the budgets of large and small companies, the 2002 Olympics, and a State government and turned them from being broke to being profitable?

We who do not want another 4 years of the same are called "ignorant", "blind" and other things. I consider it far worse than ignorant to vote for Mr. "O" and expect him to perform differently if re-elected. We cannot expect the leopard to change its spots but it is the time, again, for CHANGE.

What must America do:

• America must return to embrace the principles and practices of LIBERTY of the individual, FREEDOM to fail or succeed according to the genius and labors of the individual or team,
• Education must be the responsibility of the Parents of children, assisted by the Community then the State, in that order.
•  Government must return to the limited form outlined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights and other proper Amendments. The government nearest to the Sovereign Individual is strongest and purest.
• Banking and business must be strictly for the purpose of supplying quality products and services according to standards established to protect against fraud. 
• Courts must be held to the high standards of Truth and Justice, tempered by Mercy, as must the Law itself.
• Religion must be free to perform its purpose of teaching Godly standards of Truth, Justice and Mercy, Love, Goodness and Service.  Religion must not be forced by government but taught with patience and love.

There is much more but this is a good start.

I am reading an excellent book "The Naked Socialist" by Paul B. Skousen, son of Cleon Skousen who wrote both "The Naked Communist" and "The Naked Capitalist. Both books are well read best sellers. I expect the 3rd of the trilogy will be also.

I'll keep you posted.
A. Cameron "Anti-Socialist" Sevy