Stealing your way into heaven?

Freedom is a gift to us from our creator.
Limiting choice is limiting freedom.

The R&D show uses government(using gerrymandering and election laws/practices) to maintain their power and give themselves immortality, thus limiting choice and freedom.

Is this not stealing a gift from our creator?

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Taxes paid by Consumers

Most people think the only taxes they pay to the Federal Government are the ones directly confiscated from their weekly pay checks and on April 15th of every year. A large part of the people who live in America do not understand that they are paying taxes to the Federal Government on everything they purchase from gas for the car to food at the grocery store, I am not referring to the various sales taxes.

Each and every business has taxes they have to pay for the business and for each person they employ. If a business is going to survive they have to factor all the taxes into the actual cost of manufacturing what ever their products is, this leads to the taxes that have been levied against the business to be passed along to each and every consumer that decides to by their products.

Keeping this in mind every time a politicians states that a certain type of business needs to have more regulations and should have to pay more taxes the end consumers are the ones that are going to feel the tax burden not the business. So any new taxes or regulation are a back door way to increase the tax burden on each and every one of the people who actually pay taxes.

Has the mid term Election of 20 10 really changed anything?

The mid term election of 2010 has made one change that every one in the country can see, we no longer have one party in control of the House of Representatives, Senate, and Presidency. The republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives and increased the number of seats in the Senate, but what can the American Citizens really expect to change in the next two years? I do not mean to make it sound like nothing was accomplished but we should also not get our hopes up that every thing is now going to change.

Lets face reality, the people who were in charge of the Republican party during the Great Republican Spending Spree are still in charge now four years after being removed from power in 2006 mid term election. Have any of these leaders shown us that they now understand the error of their ways and that they are going to represent the people best interest before their own interest? We have some people paying lip service to banning earmarks and others paying lip service to being willing to work the president if he moves towards the center, this sound to me like we are willing to compromise as long as we are getting what we want for personal political gain.

Why are they only talking about banning earmarks, why are they not talking about eliminating them permanently? The reason why is simple (POWER), as long as the politicians have the power to redistribute tax dollars to their pet project they will have the power to buy the peoples votes.The solution is to eliminate the earmarks.

If we want real change in how our government runs our country then we as a people need to change how we run our lives. The people that are to DC are direct representation of the people who elected them to office. When we start holding ourselves to higher standard we can justifiably hold our politicians to the same standards.

All the power to save our country is in our hands, the only real problem is do we stand up and use that power to save our country?

Eliminating Poverty

Why does our country declare war on poverty? Why has our country not fought this war with right tools to winning this war? Why has our politicians created a war on poverty expressly for their own political gain?

The simple answer is that they believe it is what a vast majority of the American people wanted to hear. With that in mind they proceed in the typical government way of trying to eliminate poverty through regulation, new governmental programs, and simply throwing money at the problem. This is the only way that the people in Washington know how to try to solve problems and this solution has been tried many times an yet it still fails to this day. Our education system is in disarray but they continue to throw money at it in the hope they can spend their way out of the problem. It is time to stop with the insanity and try to solve the problem in a different direction.

I propose that the way to solve the poverty problem is actually quite simple but very painful in the short term. If we want to mostly solve the poverty problem, we all know that not every one can be lifted out of poverty because to be lifted will require effort from the individual, we need to stop throwing money at the problem. The money that is being spent by our government to try and help people in poverty is being wasted by passing through all the different bureaucratic hands on its way to the people who could use the help. Lets keep the money that is being sent to Washington to be redistributed to the poor in the local communities where they can redistribute more of the money directly to the people that can use it.

The second step in eliminating poverty is to have jobs available for people to work at. To solve this part of the poverty problem we need to create an environment that is business friendly. If business are not able to hire due to the taxes that are levied against them from the government and regulation that restrict how they operate their business where are the jobs going to come from for those in poverty? When business are able to make profits they expand their businesses which most often requires more employees. So to create the new jobs that will be needed for all those that are now living in poverty we need businesses to be able to create the new jobs.

The third step in eliminating poverty is the taxes that are paid by all those who are earning a living. People need to be able to keep the lion share of what they are earning through the time and effort. This will also have to apply to the people who are willing to take the risk of creating news business ventures which leads to new job creation. When the people get to keep the lion share of their money they will spend it on what they need and not what the government thinks that they need.

The fourth and final step in eliminating poverty is going to be the most difficult of all to implement. This step will require the government to stop the practice of trying to make every ones life as painless as possible. People in poverty will need to have the freedom to be employed as they wish but also be responsible for their decisions regardless whether or not they are good decisions. I know it is hard for people to stand by and watch as some one else is making a mistake, but almost all people learn from their failures and when they try again they do not make the same mistakes.

If this was implemented it would have the following effects:

1. Reduce Government Spending (Something all people want)
2. New Job Creation (Something all people want)
3. Lower Individual Taxes and Business Taxes (Something all people want)
4. Fewer People On Government Subsidized Program like Welfare (Something all people want)
5. An Economy the is Growing Due to Demand (Something all people want)
6. An Employment Market that businesses are competing for Employees (Something all people want)
1. By the way this would lead to higher wages for the employees due to businesses wanting the best available people and a willingness to pay for them, sound like free market principles being applied to employment.

This is a difficult solution to the problem that effects every one in our country, but the longer we wait the problems grows and the painful solution will grow accordingly.

The cycle of life and immortality

Even the United States of America can fail.

A evil force approaches America and it is called poverty. Real poverty, hunger poverty, survival poverty, a poverty that kills nations and enslaves the masses. A chain reaction has started, the house of cards are falling into a heap burying the dream that was America. I would speak of solutions, hope, victory, and salvation if words alone could stop the coming horrors of the destruction, but words alone can not stop the coming attractions only belief in the truth can and that will not happen until the pain of life forces those who have chosen ignorance to feel the truth for themselves. .
America fails because the cycle of life has been broken. When a select few are not allowed to fail then the many can never succeed and thus a ceiling was placed on success. Competition breeds innovations and death clears the way for the dynamic to excel to new heights. The old and broken must die or the new and energetic will never grow and thus will die an early death.
The buying power of the private sector worker is falling with each new tax and with each new tax the private sector worker becomes closer to being a slave to government. We are fast approaching the ratio of one private sector worker to one government beneficiary/worker and it is then the dream that is America will fall into the darkness and silence of history.
It has been the polarizing forced collectivism of the two party system that has infected our country with the disease of corruption silencing the voices of the many and killing the true competition that brings forth new life, new ideas, the true leadership that keeps the American dream alive. Gerrymandering(choosing your voters and silencing dissension) is the potion of immortality given to parties that has disfigured our republic and change representation into a lie. To defend the two party system you must defend gerrymandering and there is no defense for gerrymandering..

By Anonymous

Independence

It is time for all the people of the United States of America to stand on their own two feet.
It is time for all the people of the United States of America to take control of their own lives.
It is time for all the people of the United States of America to remember what Independence means.

Independence does not only mean that our country is free from the influence of foreign countries, which when we open our eyes to reality we as a country are not truly free from foreign influence, but we as a people living in the United States of America are free to pursue our dreams and desires. Independence comes with consequences, with Independence each and every one of us has to take on the responsibility for our choices and actions. If we want Independence then we have to take on the responsibility associated with Independence because the two can not be separated. 

To many things in our society have become dependent on one of the most destructive forces against Independence, The Government.  Thomas Paine stated "Government in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one."  I submit at the present time our government has progressed to an intolerable evil. Our government has placed taxes on the citizens of this country that far exceed their Constitutional powers and the intent of our Founding Fathers. Our government has progressed from simply taxing the citizenry to pay for the services as specified in the Constitution to using the taxes to redistribute the wealth of the citizenry as the elected officials see sit. Why is it that the people of the United States of America are so willing to allow elected officials to redistribute the wealth? My answer is because as a society we have willing chose to allow the government to take the responsibility for us. We as a society have chose to let some one or some thing else to make the decisions so that we do not have to be responsible for the out come of those decisions.

Some will say the this is not our fault because the government has been teaching each generation that the government will catch them if they should fall. Those who say this need to look themselves in the mirror and ask "am I blaming some one else for my own lack of interest?". Lets face it, the only people responsible for the state our country is in is "US". As far as I am concerned it is no longer who is responsible but how are we going to fix it.

Independence is what makes not only our country great, it also is what makes the people great. Just look at all the great things that have been created and invented in our country and how they have affected the rest of the world. I am not saying that these invention would never have come along, but they would not have been found as quickly with out the Independence the people of the Unite States of America use to have.

So it is time for the all the people of the United States of America to make a choice:

    1. Do you chose to be dependent on the Federal Government?
                                   
                                    or

    2. Do you chose Independence?

Fixing Our Country

My fellow Americans we have a great deal of many problems facing our country and while they look daunting we can correct these problems so our country can return to the path of greatness. When we take all these problems together as a hole it seems to be a very large problem that only a few people can correct, but that is an illusion. We have a bunch of small problems that have never been taken care that is giving the country the illusion that there is one big problem in country. While many are complaining about what is happening there is only a few who are actually trying to solve the problems facing our country and it would surprise the country who is actually trying to solve the problems. The following are the problems that I see and how I would like to see them solved.

• Immigration

1. We need to seal our borders to stem the follow of Illegal Immigration to our country
2. Once the borders have been sealed and person current residing Illegally in our country will be required to identify themselves. Once they have identified themselves they will be required to perform the following:
1. They will be required to pay a fine equivalent to the cost of Legal Immigration
2. They will be required to learn our langauge
3. They will be required to learn our history and at least 7 of the following events (The first four will be mandatory). After studying these events there will be a test of comprehensions on these events
1. American Revolution
2. American Civil War
3. The Great Depression
4. World War 1 & 2
5. The War of 1812
6. The Louisiana Purchase  
7. The California Gold Rush
8. The Mexican American War
9. The Cold War
10. Civil Rights Movement
11. Woman's  Movement
    
4. After completing the history test and paying of the penalty these Illegal Immigrants can obtain a limited workers visa
5. Once the limited workers visa is obtained there will be a period of 5yrs that the Immigrant will need to obey the laws of our country. If the Immigrant is convicted of a felony during this period of time, they will be deported to their home country immediately upon conviction. If there is a family involved, the family will have a choice to remain in our country or leave.
6. Upon completion of the 5yrs  period the Immigrant will become a naturalized citizen of our country
3.  All Illegal Immigrants will be denied access to the public schools, public services, and medical treatments with the exception of live and death situation.
4. All business that employ Illegal Immigrants will have all their business assets confiscated and the owners of that business will be placed in jail for a period of 2yrs

• Taxation

1. Eliminate all current taxes and replace with a consumption tax.
2. All tax money that is collected will be sent to a State Agency established to collect the taxes sent to them by Businesses every two weeks.
3. The State Agency Established for collecting taxes will then forward the portion of the taxes to the Federal Government that is their fair share. 
4. The elimination of the Internal Revenue Service

• Entitlements

1. Social Security will be maintained at current contribution levels
2. Medicare is to be phased out over the next 30 yrs
3. Medicaid is to be phased out over the next 30 yrs
4. Welfare is to be reformed to the following standards
1. People may only collect welfare for 2 yrs 
2. Welfare payments are to be no more the cost for minimum wage for a 40 hrs week
3. People collecting welfare may only claim 2 children
4. People on welfare will be required to actively search for employment on a weekly basis. They will also be required to contact their welfare representative with their progress and show the representative documentation of when and where employment was being actively searched for.
5. People collecting welfare will submit to random drug testing, any person testing positive will be removed from the program for a minimum of 90 days from the time of testing positive. To regain access to welfare they will need to test negative for drugs
6. All people collecting welfare must provide a valid address for where they live. All addresses will be collected into data base that all welfare representatives will check before any payments are released.
5.  Unemployment will be reformed to the following standards
1. Unemployment will only be available for 52 weeks
2. Unemployment payments will not exceed  minimum wage for a 40 hrs week
3. People collecting unemployment will be required to actively search employment on a weekly basis. They will also be required to contact their unemployment representative with their progress and show the representative documentation of when and where employment was being actively searched for.
4. Unemployment will be equally funded by both the employer and the employee 

• Military

1. All military bases located in other countries are to be closed over 30 yrs phase
2. Any foreign country that wishes for the United States to maintain the current bases located in their country will pay for at least 1/2 the cost to operate and maintain the base and personnel.
3. We will provide all necessary funding to provide our troops with the tools and equipment that is required to protect our country

By fixing these few problems we can place the feet of our country back on the path to greatness. Once we place our country back on the path to greatness our work will only begin, we will need to remain alert to what our elected officials are doing while they representing the people of the United States of America.