Will the Real Conservative Please Stand Up?
Once again, the November elections look to be a vote for the lesser of two evils. We’re getting more of the same from both ‘big-box’ parties.
For the Republicans’, it was McCain’s “turn” to run, so there he is. McCain is no conservative by any stretch, but he does represent of the current GOP philosophy of compromise.
For the Democrats, they saw an opportunity to end the Clinton reign and seized it. (applaus-applause) Taking a freshman politician with a squeaky clean look, they compromised ideals for image –again. Win or loose the Whitehouse, those in the party with the most to fear will be rid of their biggest threat once and for all.
Many think McCain would nominate a "real conservative" to the Supreme Court. However, IF he gets that chance, remember that IT’S ONLY A NOMINATION. The majority liberal congress will never approve a real conservative so McCain will giddily select a centrist who will keep the philosophy of the court just as it is now. This is the McCain way. Compromise.
McCain supports the efforts in Iraq, but honestly none of the Presidential candidates are going to change that course. Has anyone asked McCain what he plans to do after Iraq? Is he willing to fight for freedom first? Freedom at home? Let's not forget McCain-Kennedy, the bill giving citizenship to millions of illegal’s and do nothing to stop the easy passageway across our borders.
The GOP is gone. It can't be fixed. The democrats are imploding and will continue to be the fringe kooks we know they are. The GOP is eagerly filling the gap vacated by the old Democrats. So the only option left is to start supporting a party that holds the beliefs that made this nation great.
Both the Libertarian and the Constitution parties have enough members to be viable over the next few election cycles. Both parties stress the importance of, and faith in, the Constitution, AS WRITTEN and support the idea of liberty for all. These ideals are being stolen from us with each passing election.
Don’t accept the notion that a vote for a 3rd party is a vote wasted. No American’s vote is EVER wasted. If all third party supporters and independents voted with one voice, they would actually become the majority party!
The GOP started as a grass-roots third party. Third Parties help shape this nation and give voters an avenue to express their unique opinions. Third parties give sources of leverage to major-party loyalists to "keep the pressure on" their party to adopt or emphasize positions the party tends to ignore or abandon.
It IS time for a change but not the undefined emotional change advocated by many. The change needed is a return to the CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES so many men and women have fought and died for. The change is one of sanity and equality for all. The change is for strong local and State government which are far more effective and responsive to people than a central national government whose loyalties are NOT to the nation’s populace.
Wars aren’t won by a victory on each and every battle field. Victory takes time. Freedom has a snowballing effect. Win a few battles, people will notice, a few more, people will join. Before our kids are handed the keys to this nation for safe keeping, we can win back the ideals of liberty and freedom, but it MUST start NOW. The time is NOW to vote your convictions with the understanding that with courage, things can and do change. This year, vote for someone else, join with others to make a stand for what’s right and not a lesser of evils.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability
If you don't believe the media is all in the liberal camp, then ask yourself why you didn't see this story plastered all over the news!
For the past 45+ years, the US government has been illegally taxing its citizens. That's right, the income tax is illegal according to the constitution. The IRS has never once been able to show the legal statute for forcibly collecting income taxes and finally, the people had their day in court and won!
But wait....this case really isn't going to change things now...or is it?
The IRS is reeling, fending off all potential legal challenges and not pursuing an appeal here. Why? Because they know that if this case ever reaches the supreme court, everyone in the IRS (and tens of thousands of supporting bureaucrats) will be out of work. They know they can't prevail, so its best to sweep this loss under the rug and hope not too many people hear about it.
What I predict however, is that the next congress will finally get their act together and pass the Fairtax proposal. This option should have been done years ago, but now the politicians have little choice. The victors of the aforementioned court case are hotly pursuing the IRS and will eventually get enough people interested that the IRS (your friendly neighborhood ---hood) will be forced out of business. Not that the USA needs the income from the income tax, but the politicians do. Its the best source of non-tractable, increasable, income they have and they don't want to loose the cash cow.
If the income tax is shown to be the fraud that it is, people will eventually demand its elimination and there will be a major up-hill battle to get it replaced with anything new. Therefore, by implementing the fair tax now, the politicians can protect at least part of their income dynasty, albeit, a much smaller portion.
The revenue dollars "lost" by the elimination of the IRS would be almost equal to the expenditures required to maintain the income tax. A 'wash', and therefore a totally unnecessary tax other than to control more and more Americans and give the government a big hammer to keep dissidents in line with. So its not a far leap to believe that once this fraud is uncovered, voters would demand its elimination and not accept any new taxation to take its place. Therefore, if congress wants to retain any power through taxation (its number one tool), then then some form of income tax replacement is necessary, and quick --- before the jig is up.
If you look at the various proposals, and what has the best chance of passage, its pretty clear that the fair tax is the big winner. The idea of the flat tax is good, but it leaves too many possible loop holes and will anger one large group or another. The flat tax would not be an easy sell since you'll be stepping on far to many toes. Additionally, since the Feds lost the battle of the amnesty bill because voters didn't believe congress would enforce it, so will they not believe that congress will keep to the spirit of the flat tax. Its easy to imagine this reverting back to the current tax system in a few short years.
The fair tax on the other hand doesn't give anyone any leverage. Its a level taxation field across the board. There are no deductions of any kind, for anyone, for any purpose. Rather than tax income, you tax spending. This eliminates the burden imposed on producing which kills the human spirit and prevents a lot of people from taking business risks (the cornerstone of the free market system).
While the fair tax will make it harder for congress to fool around with your money, they will at least maintain some form of tax revenue stream. They should be able to see that something is better than nothing.
Personally, I'd like to see the abolishment of all income tax and replaced with nothing, but if that won't happen, the next best option would be a consumption tax without loopholes to be exploited. Therefore, I think its important that our elected officials, and those seeking new offices in the next 24 months, be forced NOW to take a stand on taxation one way or the other. If they have courage, and really believe in the American Constitution, then they should be supporting the total abolishment of the income tax with no other replacement taxation. If on the other hand, they want to preserve the status-quo as much as possible, then they will support the fair tax.
Of course the liberals will take their usual stance and fight tooth and nail to maintain an unconstitutional income tax and tell you to just shut the hell up.
Take your pick.
For the past 45+ years, the US government has been illegally taxing its citizens. That's right, the income tax is illegal according to the constitution. The IRS has never once been able to show the legal statute for forcibly collecting income taxes and finally, the people had their day in court and won!
But wait....this case really isn't going to change things now...or is it?
The IRS is reeling, fending off all potential legal challenges and not pursuing an appeal here. Why? Because they know that if this case ever reaches the supreme court, everyone in the IRS (and tens of thousands of supporting bureaucrats) will be out of work. They know they can't prevail, so its best to sweep this loss under the rug and hope not too many people hear about it.
What I predict however, is that the next congress will finally get their act together and pass the Fairtax proposal. This option should have been done years ago, but now the politicians have little choice. The victors of the aforementioned court case are hotly pursuing the IRS and will eventually get enough people interested that the IRS (your friendly neighborhood ---hood) will be forced out of business. Not that the USA needs the income from the income tax, but the politicians do. Its the best source of non-tractable, increasable, income they have and they don't want to loose the cash cow.
If the income tax is shown to be the fraud that it is, people will eventually demand its elimination and there will be a major up-hill battle to get it replaced with anything new. Therefore, by implementing the fair tax now, the politicians can protect at least part of their income dynasty, albeit, a much smaller portion.
The revenue dollars "lost" by the elimination of the IRS would be almost equal to the expenditures required to maintain the income tax. A 'wash', and therefore a totally unnecessary tax other than to control more and more Americans and give the government a big hammer to keep dissidents in line with. So its not a far leap to believe that once this fraud is uncovered, voters would demand its elimination and not accept any new taxation to take its place. Therefore, if congress wants to retain any power through taxation (its number one tool), then then some form of income tax replacement is necessary, and quick --- before the jig is up.
If you look at the various proposals, and what has the best chance of passage, its pretty clear that the fair tax is the big winner. The idea of the flat tax is good, but it leaves too many possible loop holes and will anger one large group or another. The flat tax would not be an easy sell since you'll be stepping on far to many toes. Additionally, since the Feds lost the battle of the amnesty bill because voters didn't believe congress would enforce it, so will they not believe that congress will keep to the spirit of the flat tax. Its easy to imagine this reverting back to the current tax system in a few short years.
The fair tax on the other hand doesn't give anyone any leverage. Its a level taxation field across the board. There are no deductions of any kind, for anyone, for any purpose. Rather than tax income, you tax spending. This eliminates the burden imposed on producing which kills the human spirit and prevents a lot of people from taking business risks (the cornerstone of the free market system).
While the fair tax will make it harder for congress to fool around with your money, they will at least maintain some form of tax revenue stream. They should be able to see that something is better than nothing.
Personally, I'd like to see the abolishment of all income tax and replaced with nothing, but if that won't happen, the next best option would be a consumption tax without loopholes to be exploited. Therefore, I think its important that our elected officials, and those seeking new offices in the next 24 months, be forced NOW to take a stand on taxation one way or the other. If they have courage, and really believe in the American Constitution, then they should be supporting the total abolishment of the income tax with no other replacement taxation. If on the other hand, they want to preserve the status-quo as much as possible, then they will support the fair tax.
Of course the liberals will take their usual stance and fight tooth and nail to maintain an unconstitutional income tax and tell you to just shut the hell up.
Take your pick.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Where will tomorrows leaders come from?
If you were born before 1960(ish), you should be able to understand the wacky thinking of our current politicians. They are, for the most part, from the hippie generation. A generation born to self indulgence, and "not giving a damn, but make it look so". Okay, they had their protests and they rallied around some godless banner, but for the most part they, as a generation, didn't care about anything but themselves. "Free love" (ie, sex anytime, anyplace with anyone) was the mantra of the day and engaged in at every turn....in between joints anyway.
They refused then, and still do, to take responsibility for anything they say, think, or do. The world revolves around them. God is to be ridiculed, not honored, and anyone "foolish" enough to believe in God must be silenced. The abortion laws came from these same people. Again, rather than accepting responsibility for their actions, they want to blame others and have a fast and easy way to side-step any consequence of their actions.
These are the ones in power now. The "don't trust anyone over 30" crowd.....all of whom are over 30 themselves, and now asking for our trust. How ironic.
The immediate future doesn't bode much better. Most of these hippies will have to fight for their power positions with the generations that followed them. These generations however, were mostly educated BY the hippies....in the institution they took over first....the government school system. So where does that leave us? Mainly with an uneducated, ignorant, and wildly skewed idealized group with no basis in true history and generally poor abilities to think or communicate. Therefore, it is nearly guaranteed that they will repeat history because they didn't learn the real history to begin with.
For example. Most of the hippies would like you to believe that no war is justified, and all who fight in one are wrong. This most certainly applies to the Allied forces that won the victory of freedom they so dearly enjoy. They never got the idea that war is evil, but necessary in a world filled with evil. Had the world allowed the Nazi and Japanese to conquer all civilized nations, they would have no freedom now. Yet the hippies somehow believe that you can "talk out" your differences with everyone. A dangerous and stupid mistake. Yet, they have taught children for the last 30 years to use this tactic exclusively because America is bad for it's military use to preserve freedom.
So what will these up-and-coming leaders do? Exactly what they've been taught. They will folly on trying to "dialog" with deeply evil people that have no intention of 'dealing' with their enemies. They will give in, give up, and hand over everything in the hopes of coming to some peaceful resolution to world conflict. America, as we know it will cease to exists. The dream our forefathers fought and died for will be gone.
But wait, there may be some hope. A select few may have the ability to change things. Leaders --real leaders-- who have not only learned real truth, but have been taught to think for themselves. Where are these leaders? They are the home-schooled, the Catholic schooled, the private Christian schooled of the past decade. They are the ones given the torch of truth and goodness. They, for the most part, have not been polluted by the hippies and their non-responsibility mentality. These are the kids who have been taught how to think, and how to reason with wisdom. They are few, but they are well trained to overcome the masses.
Here is a small example. The following text was taken, verbatim, from a web site where the poster was asking for technical assistance. Please try and guess his age, country of origin, and education level.
"so u need ur private ip address translated into a human-readable name this is not new to me man and u have to do that using sites like dyn.dns.org i know that but i just got a new firewall and so i have to port forward now. ok so i am a hacker (i take pride in being a script kiddy) and the reason i need this server is for xss or css. but the 1 thing now matter how much i hear but it and i know about everything i donot know if u need a router to port forward. because with a router u need to open ports or else nobody other than urself can connect to other internet applications because ur unforwarded self is pluggin the port. but i know there is a function to open tcp and udp ports with windows firewall and i used to use it but microsoft hid the CENSORED from me and i'm sure thats what happened. so i cannot open the ports i need to so i bought a firewall that interacts with windows firewall and i'm gonna use it to open the ports because i have x2 and none of my domains work as websites. even the 1's i have registered with a dns."
Interesting. I contacted this person off-site and asked him a bit about his background. He is 20 years old. Born and raised in an affluent suburb of Chicago, and has a BA degree in business administration from the the Illinois State University system. He is unemployed and not seriously looking for work at the moment because he really just wants to "hack" most of the day.
Compare this to the high trend of home and private schooled children winning award after award in national spelling bees, math bees, science fairs, and the like. Universities are beginning to set aside special places for homeschool kids and actively seeking them out for recruitment. The whole concept of home-school has reached into the mass media and yet, as much as they'd like to discredit these children, home-schoolers and privately educated students consistently outscore and out achieve those educated in government schools.
So how will the left defend against a bright, well educated and honorable generation of leaders? They will try to make the position of leadership so horrible that none will want to accept that role for themselves. If you look at the clintons, the masters of personal deprivation, they have constructed an entire army of people to do nothing but destroy the lives and reputations of anyone who opposes them. Nothing is beneath them. Handing over America's freedom is an acceptable loss if it means not losing their own power.
As well, both of the mainstream parties will try to fight off an educated population by allowing tens of thousands of under-educated aliens into the country and hook them on the welfare roles. Their plan is to make as many people as possible dependent on them so they retain the power base and keep getting elected through a system they already loath. They fully understand that a poorly educated populace is easier to control. They hope they will be able to convince the majority to abandon the principles of our constitutional government so that they can retain power without regard to the will of the people. If nobody without their blessing can get into power, they will never loose it.
So it is up to us now to accomplish three goals. The first, to see to it that our basic belief in a Constitutional Government model is secured. This means that ALL of those opposed to supporting our Constitution must be removed from office. This includes most members of both parties. Those that remain must be held accountable to stay within the limits of power given to them under the constitution. These two things are done (currently) through the election process. It is time for people to abandon the notion that they need to choose the lesser of two evils and start electing good, moral, and decent people.
Second, those in office now must be forced to do what is right for the country. First and foremost this means protecting the boarders and deporting everyone who is here illegally. The people are not fooled by the current proposals to "secure" the boarders. Its just another appeasement intended to give the elected something to brag about at home when they haven't really done anything for the betterment of the nation at all.
Third, the educational system in this country needs to be abolished. ALL national programs dealing with education must be eliminated. The NEA -a lock, stock, and barrel hippie run organization- must be abandoned. Local governments, and the people who comprise those governments, are far more capable of educating their own populace. There is NOTHING that a federal government can do properly with respect to education so they must be forced to abandon all rights to it. There should be no "business" in the business of education. It does not take a "college educated" person to teach the basic tools of learning to young people.... home-schoolers prove this day in and day out. A teacher is one who has the gift and desire to teach and not politicize. Schools are about learning the basic tools for life....reading, writing, mathematics, history and science. Not how to have sex "safely", nor how to learn corrupted history and lies about our world's past. Religion is best keep at home unless the school is founded by, and supported by, like-minded groups of believers. However, this is not to suggest that religion should be absent from the public education system. On the contrary, religious freedoms and rights should be rigorously protected in these institutions. If a group of children what to hold a Bible study, they should be encouraged to do so. If others believe its their duty to pray 4 times a day, so be it, allow them that freedom, but school teachers are not the ones to look for to teach religious morality, but the school is a place to practice such learnings from the home.
I really don't know what our future holds. I fear that we are close to losing everything my mother and father fought for in WWII, and their parents in WWI, and past generations long gone. As the nation has prospered, we've allowed our children to become spoiled and shirk responsibility and its come home to roost. I do have a high hope though, that the few who've held close to moral truth will prevail, and the USA will remain the beacon of light in President Reagan's vision.
They refused then, and still do, to take responsibility for anything they say, think, or do. The world revolves around them. God is to be ridiculed, not honored, and anyone "foolish" enough to believe in God must be silenced. The abortion laws came from these same people. Again, rather than accepting responsibility for their actions, they want to blame others and have a fast and easy way to side-step any consequence of their actions.
These are the ones in power now. The "don't trust anyone over 30" crowd.....all of whom are over 30 themselves, and now asking for our trust. How ironic.
The immediate future doesn't bode much better. Most of these hippies will have to fight for their power positions with the generations that followed them. These generations however, were mostly educated BY the hippies....in the institution they took over first....the government school system. So where does that leave us? Mainly with an uneducated, ignorant, and wildly skewed idealized group with no basis in true history and generally poor abilities to think or communicate. Therefore, it is nearly guaranteed that they will repeat history because they didn't learn the real history to begin with.
For example. Most of the hippies would like you to believe that no war is justified, and all who fight in one are wrong. This most certainly applies to the Allied forces that won the victory of freedom they so dearly enjoy. They never got the idea that war is evil, but necessary in a world filled with evil. Had the world allowed the Nazi and Japanese to conquer all civilized nations, they would have no freedom now. Yet the hippies somehow believe that you can "talk out" your differences with everyone. A dangerous and stupid mistake. Yet, they have taught children for the last 30 years to use this tactic exclusively because America is bad for it's military use to preserve freedom.
So what will these up-and-coming leaders do? Exactly what they've been taught. They will folly on trying to "dialog" with deeply evil people that have no intention of 'dealing' with their enemies. They will give in, give up, and hand over everything in the hopes of coming to some peaceful resolution to world conflict. America, as we know it will cease to exists. The dream our forefathers fought and died for will be gone.
But wait, there may be some hope. A select few may have the ability to change things. Leaders --real leaders-- who have not only learned real truth, but have been taught to think for themselves. Where are these leaders? They are the home-schooled, the Catholic schooled, the private Christian schooled of the past decade. They are the ones given the torch of truth and goodness. They, for the most part, have not been polluted by the hippies and their non-responsibility mentality. These are the kids who have been taught how to think, and how to reason with wisdom. They are few, but they are well trained to overcome the masses.
Here is a small example. The following text was taken, verbatim, from a web site where the poster was asking for technical assistance. Please try and guess his age, country of origin, and education level.
"so u need ur private ip address translated into a human-readable name this is not new to me man and u have to do that using sites like dyn.dns.org i know that but i just got a new firewall and so i have to port forward now. ok so i am a hacker (i take pride in being a script kiddy) and the reason i need this server is for xss or css. but the 1 thing now matter how much i hear but it and i know about everything i donot know if u need a router to port forward. because with a router u need to open ports or else nobody other than urself can connect to other internet applications because ur unforwarded self is pluggin the port. but i know there is a function to open tcp and udp ports with windows firewall and i used to use it but microsoft hid the CENSORED from me and i'm sure thats what happened. so i cannot open the ports i need to so i bought a firewall that interacts with windows firewall and i'm gonna use it to open the ports because i have x2 and none of my domains work as websites. even the 1's i have registered with a dns."
Interesting. I contacted this person off-site and asked him a bit about his background. He is 20 years old. Born and raised in an affluent suburb of Chicago, and has a BA degree in business administration from the the Illinois State University system. He is unemployed and not seriously looking for work at the moment because he really just wants to "hack" most of the day.
Compare this to the high trend of home and private schooled children winning award after award in national spelling bees, math bees, science fairs, and the like. Universities are beginning to set aside special places for homeschool kids and actively seeking them out for recruitment. The whole concept of home-school has reached into the mass media and yet, as much as they'd like to discredit these children, home-schoolers and privately educated students consistently outscore and out achieve those educated in government schools.
So how will the left defend against a bright, well educated and honorable generation of leaders? They will try to make the position of leadership so horrible that none will want to accept that role for themselves. If you look at the clintons, the masters of personal deprivation, they have constructed an entire army of people to do nothing but destroy the lives and reputations of anyone who opposes them. Nothing is beneath them. Handing over America's freedom is an acceptable loss if it means not losing their own power.
As well, both of the mainstream parties will try to fight off an educated population by allowing tens of thousands of under-educated aliens into the country and hook them on the welfare roles. Their plan is to make as many people as possible dependent on them so they retain the power base and keep getting elected through a system they already loath. They fully understand that a poorly educated populace is easier to control. They hope they will be able to convince the majority to abandon the principles of our constitutional government so that they can retain power without regard to the will of the people. If nobody without their blessing can get into power, they will never loose it.
So it is up to us now to accomplish three goals. The first, to see to it that our basic belief in a Constitutional Government model is secured. This means that ALL of those opposed to supporting our Constitution must be removed from office. This includes most members of both parties. Those that remain must be held accountable to stay within the limits of power given to them under the constitution. These two things are done (currently) through the election process. It is time for people to abandon the notion that they need to choose the lesser of two evils and start electing good, moral, and decent people.
Second, those in office now must be forced to do what is right for the country. First and foremost this means protecting the boarders and deporting everyone who is here illegally. The people are not fooled by the current proposals to "secure" the boarders. Its just another appeasement intended to give the elected something to brag about at home when they haven't really done anything for the betterment of the nation at all.
Third, the educational system in this country needs to be abolished. ALL national programs dealing with education must be eliminated. The NEA -a lock, stock, and barrel hippie run organization- must be abandoned. Local governments, and the people who comprise those governments, are far more capable of educating their own populace. There is NOTHING that a federal government can do properly with respect to education so they must be forced to abandon all rights to it. There should be no "business" in the business of education. It does not take a "college educated" person to teach the basic tools of learning to young people.... home-schoolers prove this day in and day out. A teacher is one who has the gift and desire to teach and not politicize. Schools are about learning the basic tools for life....reading, writing, mathematics, history and science. Not how to have sex "safely", nor how to learn corrupted history and lies about our world's past. Religion is best keep at home unless the school is founded by, and supported by, like-minded groups of believers. However, this is not to suggest that religion should be absent from the public education system. On the contrary, religious freedoms and rights should be rigorously protected in these institutions. If a group of children what to hold a Bible study, they should be encouraged to do so. If others believe its their duty to pray 4 times a day, so be it, allow them that freedom, but school teachers are not the ones to look for to teach religious morality, but the school is a place to practice such learnings from the home.
I really don't know what our future holds. I fear that we are close to losing everything my mother and father fought for in WWII, and their parents in WWI, and past generations long gone. As the nation has prospered, we've allowed our children to become spoiled and shirk responsibility and its come home to roost. I do have a high hope though, that the few who've held close to moral truth will prevail, and the USA will remain the beacon of light in President Reagan's vision.
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