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  • Let's Solve Problems Rather Than Spout Rhetoric - Support these two ways to avoid the Fiscal Cliff
    (1) Let's Solve Problems Rather Than Spout Rhetoric As the President proposed in his speech to the United Auto Workers Union and as Warren Buffet and George Soros agree with, the upper echelon of earners pay taxes at a lower rate than the average middle class person, which is an extremely unfair position to be in that needs to be rectified. On the other hand, the counter argument has been that increasing taxes on the wealthy will discourage job creation. The problem has been that a blanket lowering of taxes on the well-to-do does not in general promote the trickle down economic theorem first proposed by Reagan. Instead, we see the wealth going overseas in the form of outsourcing or being hoarded and not being allowed to "trickle". We suggest that indeed taxes do need to be increased on the upper class to be in align with what the rest of us have to pay, but to alleviate the trickle plug in the form of a dose of tax write-off "Flomax". Allow corporate elites who increase domestic employment to take write-offs that lower their taxes. Effectively they then offset their own taxes by bringing more domestic tax payers into the fold as domestic employment is increased. As we now should have more domestically employed we will have increased revenue going into Social Security thru FICA, thus making it solvent again as well as alleviating Medicare concerns. For the nonbusiness owning elite (movie and football stars, second generation wealth inheritors, etc.) encourage foundations, mutual funds and LLCs to be developed which in turn invest in companies to increase domestic employment, then pass the write-offs through to their members. With the write-off proviso we can encourage the upper class to do what is in their own interest to do, which is to lower their own taxes by increasing the domestic workforce, effectively shifting the extra taxes to those who are hired. This I view as good government influence. (2) Let's Solve Problems Rather than Spout Rhetoric. We need to remove the incentives for offshoring jobs so tax that advantage away and put it towards the deficit as described below. Investing in Our Future PROPOSED: - Economic regulative legislation to ease domestic job issues, reduce the deficit and the Social Security shortfall. Implement this as another tool of the Fed, to be administered impartially using row economics, just as interest rates are. That provides a means to regulate money flow to and from the national economy. Remember we are not doing outright protections (as in tarriffs), but setting windows within which free trade flows as normal. But this way we protect domestic businesses from being overwhelmed while still forcing them to be efficient, we remove the advantages of offshoring and maintain good standards of domestic living rather than letting it be "watered down". And so here is another source of revenue other than direct taxation we need to use which no one seems to want to talk about. In short: o Use carefully placed and actively monitored surcharges on foreign products to negate labor cost advantages and bring the labor costs of imports that could be made here near what it would cost to make those products here. This is an economic regulatory mechanism, NOT protectionism, that should be another impartially administered tool of an independent body such as the Fed. o Apply the revenue of said surcharges towards the national deficit, then when that is low enough towards the general revenue, thereby lowering taxes for all citizens. o Exclude products made here by foreign companies who choose to locate plants here, hire domestic labor and abide by our nation's labor laws. (We may import products but not labor needs.) o Do not exclude domestic companies which export their labor needs outside this country then bring their products made there back here to sell. (We may export products but not labor needs.) o Provide tax credits to those companies which increase domestic employment, impose additional tax on those who outsource. As we now should have more domestically employed we should see more revenue going into Social Security thru FICA, thus making it solvent again :-). After all, Social Security as originally conceived is the minimal level income safety net for the old and disabled paid by domestic labor thru the good faith contract of the active generation helping take care of the retired and disabled. So if we keep letting our jobs go overseas who will pay YOUR Social Security? Exporting jobs short circuits this mechanism, requiring alternative funding sources like what we're proposing. This will maintain a good standard of living within our country. It might encourage other countries to establish and maintain equally good standards of living for their citizens as well, since the cheap labor and subsidy advantage will be removed. What could be better? That's the answer to our dilemma, keeping existing jobs here...
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    Created by Richard Cox
  • Government Conflict Of Interest Pledges
    I was prompted by an article I read on the unemployment rates we have in our country to write about what might be causing the high rate as I see one of the main reasons. I am asking for people in great numbers to sign my petition who agree with me. Then as the signors of this petition we have to stand up and fight for it. A friend told me when he reached 2 years on employment they took him off the rolls and stopped paying him. I know he has looked for work in all the time he was on the rolls and since. Is he the only one and is he no longer counted as “unemployed”? Are there others? We should know government can not create private sector jobs. If we do not know that we are not really paying attention. So many of the real private sector job creators are big corporation (exec) Republican backers. Could one of the reasons they are refusing to create jobs, when so many of them can because many big corporations are doing well, be that they are supporting the GOP who wants and hopes Romney wins so all of a sudden millions of jobs are created if he does? Then they could say something like “look, it takes a Republican to create jobs”? I know small corporations create a huge amount of jobs when they can and need to. We should support them as they do. Now for the reasons I believe we are in so much trouble concerning the economy and jobs. Think taxes primarily, although it may not be as you think, and there is more. Around 270 plus GOP in government, including Romney and Ryan, have signed the Norquist PLEDGE. If you know what that is you would know it is a 'no way out of doing what Norquist wants' PLEDGE. If a signor breaks the pledge that signor is “toast”, according to Norquist, and with the $billions Norquist has he can do it – ruin their careers and the signors know it. If you in elected government refuse to sign it Norquist will hurt you until you do. Obama and most Democrats have not signed the PLEDGE. Norquist says – 'If they sign the pledge they get support, they get to govern, they win and I make it possible. If they do not sign the Pledge, or they violate it, they are toast'. Listen to him say this in the interview in his words and do not just take it from my paraphrasing, even though it is pretty close to what Norquist actually says. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7419360 . Norquist said he wanted to bring the tax structure and budget back to where it was at the beginning of the 20th Century. His words are “to the size that would fit in a bath tub”. That way unnecessary programs (according to him and the those with him) would starve out of existence. That is how they want to shrink government. Programs such as Social Security and Medicare would die from lack of funding and no play on words intended but so would so many of the people depending on those programs. Norquist knows this so maybe that has been part of their, The Tea Party and the now GOP elected officials who have signed it, goal all along with the PLEDGE. We have inflation since the 1950s that wouldn't have been thought of in the early 20th century. You will find a few, very few, Democrats who have signed. According to the link there are 236 Representatives and 41 Senators for the total of 277 in our current Congress who have signed the PLEDGE. http://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/072911-federalpledgesigners.pdf Norquist is so good with diverting the onus of the consequences for non-compliance from himself onto the voters in this interview. Interview at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7419360n . Also see Norquist: Romney Will Do As Told http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/13/grover-norquist-speech-cpac.html “We The People” should fire all the signors of the Norquist PLEDGE at the polls or as soon as possible, make such threating-for-life-binding pledges against the law and replace the signors with whomever we want from both sides of the aisle but with those we might believe will have our best interests at heart. That is a tough job, I know, but we have to try. We must always make the candidates and the representatives more fearful of our votes than they are of such immoral and conflict-of-interest pledges and campaign donations. And all donors must be known so we might know who is trying to buy the loyalties of our government officials, elected and appointed. This Norquist PLEDGE is a huge part of the real TP/GOP agenda, at least for the signors. It means never to vote in favor of a tax under any circumstances, and that also means once taxes go down, as with what George W Bush did, they cannot go back up. It can also mean no regulations on Corporations if they can get it and whatever else is wanted. I do not know anyone who wants tax increases but what if “current” circumstances show the need for tax increases now or in the future? Think about what was going on during the beginning of the 20th century and ask yourself 'would we be able to remain the great American nation with those kinds of b...
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    Created by Steve Jay Dickheiser
  • Texas Spanish & Mexican Land Grants
    An Open Letter To Texas Officials
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    Created by Nicolas Balli
  • Stop Abhorrent State-Sponsored Psychiatric Abuses and the Drugging of Our Children
    Millions of Americans are held against their will everyday, and compelled to take dangerous psychiatric drugs against for committing no crime. And over 4 million children are drugged up and caused untold damage for behaving in regular developmental childhood manners in school and at home. The abuse is rampant. The law (M.G.L.c 123 S12) is unconstitutional and / or defective and infirmed, and must be repealed or amended immediately.
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  • End Martial Law
    'Da Vexing 9-11 Truth Campaign to end 65 years of Murder & Squander for Fascist Gain by Shock & Shame. May 5, 2012, Abuse News #4847 by John Jenkel, 800-500-7083, [email protected] Tamara and Anna's Resolution to annul democracy ending MARTIAL Law 107-243 Whereas, under Public Law 107-243, "-- The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary in order to --" do whatever his sponsors want him to do in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, or on the horse farm of 9-11 Bounty Hunter John Jenkel in Sonoma County, California, for the benefit of domestic enemies, special interests, fascists and criminal profiteers, all of whom profit from addiction, human suffering, world terrorism, plunder, population management, religious genocide, government organized crime, and mass murder at the unbearable expense of we the congressionally betrayed people; Whereas, under Public Law 107-243, we the congressionally betrayed and $15.7 trillion robbed people are deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, in violation of the 5th Amendment that mandates a declaration of war by Congress before one American can be ordered into harm's way anywhere. It converts our President into an ELECTED DICTATOR, ends democracy, creates a police state, and treasonously installs MARTIAL LAW "as he determines to be necessary" in the land of the brave who now fear public officers carrying guns; Whereas, "the use of the the Armed Forces of the United States" has included: a) killing 28 year old CIVIC founder Marla Ruzicka of Lakeport, California in Iraq on April 16, 2005 because she and her driver Faiez Ali Salem violated the 6 PM to 6 AM curfew enforced by "the Armed Forces of the United States;" b) Sonoma County Sheriff Bill Cogbill declaring the hacked remains Stanford grad student Mengyao "May" Zhou was "a suicide." Her body was found in the locked trunk of her locked car on Jan. 25, 2007 at the Santa Rosa Junior College; c) Sheriff Deputies John Misita and Jim Ryan shooting unarmed, mace-blinded, and starved 16 year old Analy High School "world savior" Jeremiah Chass 11 times on March 13, 2007 while contained in his stepfather's van on his family's property; d) California judges terrorizing 9-11 Truth Campaigners by taking their babies; e) the County of Sonoma unreasonably seizing properties from John Jenkel under the pretense of fraudulent and unconstitutional legal authority on Nov. 4, 2009 and Aug. 25, 2010, for Afghanistan pipeline investor/Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, but not for fix-it Governor Jerry Brown on April 21, 2011; Whereas, MARTIAL Law 107-243, authorized by 373 members of the 107th Congress and 9-11 attempted wife killer Bush legalized the murders of over 103,000 earth neighbors and lynching of over 6,445 congressionally betrayed Americans, including over 694 Californians. Said 374 traitors evaded their sworn duty to support and defend the constitutionally protected rights of Americans to due process of law before they were deprived of life. They give aid and comfort to their criminal profiteering sponsors and squander public debt to fund mass murder and plunder on foreign soil in unconstitutional undeclared United States wars for profit; Whereas, under democracy ending MARTIAL Law 107-243, Congress has squandered over $153 billion of California's public blood debt since the 2,798 unplanned murders, attempted assassinations, controlled demolitions, and US Air Force attacks on 9-11, to fund Hoover Institute-advised unconstitutional United States wars of congressional choice, never necessity, against CIA-fabricated enemies to give aid and comfort to domestic enemy sponsors, rendering Howard Berman, Mary Bono-Mack, Ken Calvert, David Drier, Elton Gallegly, Dianne Feinstein, Darrell Issa, Jerry Lewis, Howard McKeon, Gary Miller, Dana Roharabacher, Edward Royce, and Adam Schiff ripe for death penalties under Penal Code Sect 37; Whereas, MARTIAL Law 107-243 creates a POLICE STATE to hide 2,798 unplanned murders caused by 9-11 attempted wife killer George warmonger Bush during the Enron-sponsored organized crimes and attempted assassinations of United States Energy Czar Dick Cheney and his anti-Enron VP staff from Halliburton on 9-11; Whereas, under the Constitution for, never of, the $15.3 trillion congressionally insolvent United States, MARTIAL LAW may be declared only under clause 15, Sec, 8, Article I to protect the states against invasion and, on application of the legislative or the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence; Whereas, we the people of the United States ordain in our Constitution that Congress is the sole branch of government empowered "to declare war." Congress must call the President into actual service as commander in chief of the United States by its declaration of war to execute specific foreign policy for invasion of foreign soil upon the advi...
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    Created by John Jenkel
  • Iraq war cover up! Sabotage of the American drones and economy
    Back in 2007 G Bush said that people from the public sent in some of the Iraq war winning strategies. They covered it up because the person that won them that war was accused of rape when he was 8 year old, and he walks like he is gay from an incident in 1997. He is innocent and can prove it all. To cover it up they came to a deal. That was to stop using his strategies "sabotage them:" go bust and remove all cameras from his house. They broke the deal and have been illegally watching him. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oblique-weapons/1668384160061114 The real Iraq war strategist, set them all up and can prove it. It's a proven cover up and more.
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    Created by scott ryan