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I moved to America in the late 1970s. The population was around 225 million people. The economy was recovering from another economic shock, the nation was enduring a deep recession which continued through 1982. Business bankruptcies rose 50 percent over the previous year. personal bankruptcies we at all time high. Farmers were especially hard hit, as agricultural exports declined, crop prices fell, and interest rates started to rise. It got so bad that mortgagees were transferring hands like business cards. Give your name and assume payments, almost any one with a job could own a home. with no end in sight to this current mess could this lending process happen again ?
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cost of health care
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Have you ever wondered why health care is so expensive? its cause it cost so much to train medical staff. have you wondered why government wants to cut health care cost? It’s not to help the citizens , rather its to reduced the wealth of the middle class. while the Republicans cut Unions the Democrats go after the medical establishment as both went after teachers. can’t have a smart citizen , questioning their inherited or acquired rights. who is next?
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US Reform Act of 2011
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The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, before e-mail,
before cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because of public pressure. This was a time when People of a democracy were taught that a democracy of the people, by the people required all the people to take an active part.
The current sitting congress and those past have systematically defunded public education of the taxpayers under the pretense of National Security and budget. The result is a small controllable voting public who understand government. What this has left the great US with is a country of over 300 million taxable people that are mostly poorly uneducated and therefore easily confused.
I got the following note from an email blast that is going around the web, which i have embellished for clarity, i would like to share this with you. It’s simple and direct the way the founding fathers of US operated.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. Term Limits.
12 years only, one of the possible options below…
A. Two Six-year Senate terms
B. Six Two-year House terms
C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
2. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay
when they are out of office.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social
Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social
Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.
4. Congress can buy their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional
pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in
the same health care system as the American people.
7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
Lies to the people are consider a violation of their oath of Office and will not need a recall. Removal from Office is immediate and can only be restored with a public vote.
Lies while in office will be considered a criminal offense and will be enforced with the same laws already in place that apply to “we the people”.
8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen by congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message.
Maybe it is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! If you agree with the above, pass it
on please.
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the original sources
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“I’m focused on the job”
I Just got a letter from Obama telling that he is ” focused on the job” I elected him to do? take a look around the country. 44 million Us citizens are on food stamps , 24 million are unemployed , 17 states are stripping Unions, our gross debt to GDP ratio is 97.4%. 1 million Americans have had their homes foreclosed on since Jan 2011 by the very banks you bailed out with OUR tax money, 1.6 million are broke.
Yes we can Hope
You and both Gov parties are stripping our tax services because you chose to spend our tax money not on the citizens who are entitled to it but on despots, dictators and war mongers around the world. “I’m focused on the job” Not “IN” my book sir We are in another war, have not reduced our spend on the war and have not reduced government spending in areas of waste, Need some suggestions ? cut congressional wages to 1990 levels, ( they get enough perks from corporations ) Invest in building a future America, its parks, Roads, dams, bridges communications, schools, health care, you know the things we pay TAX for. not for personal wars or vendettas.
Could US Taxpayers defund AFRICOM ?
"be mindful" of AFRICOM
AFRICOM justification is transparent if not obvious, America has observed china making tremendous headway into Africa for past 20 years and in essence ignored it. However, paranoid fear conquers all logic. So once we recognized the need to secure resources and found the right candidate to represent America in Africa, progress should be made. OOps Egypt Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Palestine and most likely more to come.
The President delivered a 4:38 sec speech in Ghana. The first 2:46 sent a message of invasion and not a message of friendship. Obama reminded Africa that “conflict is a part of life, constant as the rising sun”.
His Speech in Ghana makes it quite clear that:
1) America will be here in Africa and any African country that welcomes America will not have to face the wrath of America.
2) that any country that does allow a US base will benefit from the sudden influx of cash and presence of dominating law to restore peace and make it safe, for just a few liberties.
3) that the USA will benefit from its natural resources.
These facts are well understood and there is ample empirical data that will predict the outcome of either engagement within a chance factor of 98% certainty that one or both of the outcomes will end in an absolute mess.
In the fiscal year 2010 $302 million tax dollars were used for AFRICOM operations, these figures do not include funding for exercises. AFRICOM spent the year shifting humanitarian resources from civilians to military personnel. Most African countries reject this militarization of civilian foreign engagement. Most also repudiate the role of the U.S. military and it use of private military contractors in training and equipping African soldiers.
Funding will have to increase for AFRICOM now that US has a UN mandate to support no fly zones in Libya.
But here is the Ugly truth. The debt to US GDP spending ratio is at 97.3%. and that is the US line of credit. The US Taxpayer has only 2.7% credit left.
US Military spending so far in 2011 is over $693 billion tax dollars. The cost to tax payers to open a new African frontier of military combative bases will most likely eat that 2.7% margin. The Us presence in Africa is described in the Wikileak file, AFRICOM will inevitably be conceived as hostile, which will result in expensive skirmishes, when all is said and done will cost more in reparations for American tax payers.
In either case the current Federal budget to keep up 177 combative active bases is projected at $750 billion tax dollars when you add the cost of an engaged military its over $3.5 trillion tax dollars, its not sensible for the tax payer to support this Empire expansion with only 2.7% of taxable income available. Americas free spending Congress has gone insane. The actions of both the left and right have shown this. Across all US states, blatant attacks on fundamental rights are being implemented as law. Both the left and the right are complicit in two Active global wars with no clear mandate, with no clear fund control. The treasure that is America is being waisted on lies.
The Empire is almost broke, there is no enemy. There never was. Our well funded FBI and Gov controlled US media cant seem to decide which Bin Laden is wanted Osama or Usama. That’s like Fred and Frank. Laws placed to control Gov spending changed at the beginning of the 111th Congress, remember PAYGO its was modified by including an “emergency” exemption. This designation was provided for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R. 1), which increased the deficit and increased the public debt limit to $12,104,000,000,000, that’s trillion, today we are at $14.244 trillion and counting.
America is not alone in this, thankfully most disenfranchised taxpayers are coming out of the fog of war and begun to yell cease-fire. Almost every contentment has revolts on the aristocracy and Gov. From the Bahrain where an oppress society is created at birth, Déjà-vu, to Belgium where street parties are held to lampoon politicians and remind the citizens that its been 250 days without an operational Gov. To America where the taxpayer is focused on internal political strife, national funding, 24 million Jobless, 1 million homeless, 44 million hungry. Things are changing, the lower class and disenfranchised need to say enough . Tax payers need to understand their role in this process and its importance. It is symbiotic.
It would seem logical for US taxpayers to stop AFRICOM and set up USACOMM. perhaps if they put all that aid and training into the USA they will be better off to help others.
Lot less hostile and close to home!
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What is a Conspiricy ?
They look so smart in their uniforms, very well-trained for Slaughter
Cenk @theyoungturks, I would reconsider your argument about your belief in a conspiracy. Your “Turkish laugh” should be sign enough that you would understand. But you don’t. So here is my explanation. Most Rich people are smart, if they weren’t they would be poor.
These rich people know the golden rule. “Fail to plan, Plan to fail” so it defies all logic that they would plan the success of their fiefdom and not plan our current situation.
They also know another rule, and that is “the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many”. This power hierarchy has existed in every chapter of civilization all filled with horrific murder, injustice, genocide done by “others”. perhaps the use of conspiracy softens the fact that This time its “we the people”. who are the brunt of it all.
Stay frosty until the collective “many” can unite as one to oppose the ruling few and shutdown the IMC, this will just be another Déjà vu .
In summary Cenk , a person or group who conspire to do evil is the same as a person or group that plan to do evil.
Getting board with the sugar-coating.
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Attack on Unions in America
It is clear that both the Left and the Right are so entangled in arguments that consist of who is right or wrong that they keep forgetting the real issue at hand.
Public workers in Wisconsin protest the plan to cut benefits
As in the past the musical chairs that we play with congress will give us the same result. This attack on unions may yet backfire in the governments face.
The facts are the US Gross debt to GDP ratio is at 97.1% and climbing at 7 tenths per second. The seated congress that we entrust our taxes to has squandered those taxes, as did the last congressional empire that was seated there.
There is no State in the Union that will have any profit this year or for the foreseeable future with the direction this congress has taken and maintaining. The amount of savings from cutting further taxpayer services selective or otherwise will make no difference to the budget deficit. Voters, media and passive citizens have with one voice allowed this government to continue squander:
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- $1.57 trillion tax dollars on wars they won’t stop
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- Trillions in bank and insurance bailouts without any independent investigation or corrections
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- Billions in gifts to other more important nations other than taxpaying states of the Union
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In reality every state is required to first support:
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- Trillions for Federal Fake Wars
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- 177 Us military bases worldwide
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- A war machine that consumed over $895 billion in 2010 trying to kill 100 people
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- Billions in Military aid to foreign state nations
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- Trillions of tax dollars due to incompetency
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- A multi billion dollar dictator support and retirement fund ( new openings imminent)
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The Us government has projected the cost of war in 2011 to be $928.5 billion, yet the military reports that our enemies number still in the low hundreds.
Now with a fresh print smell
The US economy and its practice of placing others first before the taxpayers have caused this great nation to fall into immense debt. The power given or presumed by the president is given under the assumption that the person in place is infallible his wisdom is somehow Superior to ours. The Us Presidents umbrella support of this debt issue with shields of impunity, has indicated to others in congress that actions taken with taxpayer money are above all US National laws.
So expect the spending overseas and local cuts to the taxpayer services to continue. The forecast for 2011 is as follows
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- $10.1 billion foreign military aid
- $10.1 billion international security assistance
- $44.1 billion foreign economic aid
- $33 billion increase in military spending on war
expect taxpayer cuts in basic services such as :
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- $1.2 billion Postal Service cut (so much for more job creation)
- $87.7 billion cut in unemployment support
- $93 billion cut in general welfare
- $17.9 billion cut in taxpayer education
- $2.3 billion in federal aid for interstate highways
The state and federal government is not just attacking the Union of workers but also the state of the Union.
The most wanted man in the world ?
Who does the FBI actually want? On the web site it’s this man @ http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten
FBI most wanted profile of Usama Bin Laden
CAUTION:
“Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world. “
- List of know aliases for the most wanted man in the world and it’s not Osama!
Aliases:
Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, The Prince, The Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, The Director
Osama, dude I hope you have a twin.
File media image of Osama
at best a dam good lawyer.
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Fact or Fiction
“German officials say the Hamburg group were all recruited from the Taiba mosque in Hamburg. In the 1990s. The same mosque — then called Al Quds – was attended by the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks, Mohammed Atta.”
The government official of any nation is not an oracle of truth, and based on our current economic condition, our government treats we the people with disrespect. They have lied to us openly since 9/11 including the act itself. We are in financial crisis because of a long fact-less war base 100% on lies. The British, American and Israeli governments know this and condone it. Their willingness not to stop the war crimes is evident in the refusal to stop even after no evidence was found. Today Our Governments war on terror is funded by our current taxes and now that we are broke, its on credit.
When asked about the past action, the blame is shifted to faulty data. joked about and dismissed with an imperial gesture. was it faulty data, then why didn’t we stop after we found out ? someone is a liar.
Our government murdered a sitting head of state for the same reason as we apologized for the Bio terror we inflicted on a foreign nation 65 years ago. We accused him of ties to 9/11 of having nukes & WMD that he could use on us. We invaded and destroyed his country because of faulty data lies.
Our government with our tax money and approval is currently occupying two foreign countries for reason based on faulty data lies.
Our government is spending trillions of dollars on war all invested because of faulty data lies, while we hemorrhage with true job losses in low 20% and climbing, .
America has managed to drive a wedge between the two of the largest belief groups in the world and keep it stoked. Each time the world starts to question their actions there is a heightened terror alerts. Each time there are hints of investigations a new threat is announced by the world media. So we get scared and don’t question their actions.
History will remember the fall of the American empire as a classic fall, that was manipulated by a small nation they created, who later used them to satisfy their desire to please a mythical god . The issue is not the Hamburg Cell, or their alleged actions, the issue is the body of lies this war is based on. This current course of action is doomed to failure, the empire is broke and history is never wrong.
“Strike fear and you gain power, suppress education you maintain power, call it a religion and you legitimize the power.”Psp Sup
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