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Embezzlement of donations at Grand Rapids Home for Veterans

2012-02-14T20:11:00.000-08:00

Updated Grand Rapids Home for Veterans : Crime in progress Part 13 entry, due to new information becoming available today. Seems another group made a donation that never got to the veterans as well.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in progress part 19

2012-02-11T18:57:00.000-08:00

Balancing the operating budget on the backs of veterans. VETERANS now being charged for healthcare that is supposed to be already paid for.

Today I was sitting outside in the make shift smoking area, where 2 overhead heaters barely kept the little hut warm enough to stay in. This smoking "hut" is located in the Kozy Corners outside pavilion, and is basically a 30 foot by 20 foot area, that has removable canvas walls, and 2 hanging vertical blind type doors made of long clear plastic that is 8 inches across.

Well, I was informed today that Some 100 percent disabled Veterans are now being charged for their medical care.

Four different veterans told me that as of January of this year, the home is sending them bills for their health care, despite being paid over 6 thousand dollars a month for room and board.

As a standard, a veteran who is 100 percent service connected disabled, does NOT have to pay to be here, and that includes health care.

But if they get sent out for anything, that is, if they have to go to one of the local hospitals, they are now being told they have to pay for it in addition to the costs they are already paying with their disability checks from the Veterans Administration (which covers their cost of living here).

I have no idea what is going on, but it sounds like someone is trying to get more money than they are allowed to be taking.. In other words, more stealing from veterans.

I see this as trying to balance their budget on the backs of veterans. They claim they are loosing over 18 thousand a day, due to the "privatization" fiasco.

Either way this is NOT right, and we are looking into it. A son of a veteran who is here, told me that when he got the bill for his fathers outside health care (trip to the local hospital) he took it to a lawyer who told him not to pay it, because his father is 100 percent military related disabled.

Well, we will see what happens.. I will post more on this, in this section of the blog, when I find out more.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in progress part 18

2012-01-27T19:35:00.000-08:00

Financing your stay at GRH4V. This article is dedicated to the discussion about member financing, and the problems being encountered. It will be a long one and I will update it, (finish posting it) later this week.

In the mean time, I encourage readers to look at the paper found at this link.
Michigan Veterans Homes, by Bruce Baker, Fiscal Analyst, May 1997.
www.senate.michigan.gov/sfa/publications/issues/vethome/vethome.html

It contains a history of the home up to that time, and was written for the Michigan Senate. A very very interesting paper.

Where is the money, and where did it go?

That is the question many Veterans are and have been asking. As previously reported in this blog, monitory donations have disappeared, and in one case, the people making the donations inquired about their donation, which they knew had NOT been given to the designated veterans who were supposed to have gotten it. Only then did the administration come up with the funds and ensured the donators that by months end the designated veterans would be getting their donations. Well, that is not the only money that goes missing.

As this entry into the blog page starts, I refer you to a paper written in 1979, which covers a lot of good information about GRH4V, and the Michigan veterans home trust.

At issue today is lack of accountability both in actual accounting and reporting, and in the responsibility of the administration to account for money being used to pay for veterans living expenses here. As well as money donated for specific things and not being used for those things.

First, Veterans are concerned about the fact that when they apply to come here, they sign a bunch of paperwork. And few if any, receive a copy of said paperwork unless they ask for it. Some have asked several times without the copies forthcoming. The fact remains that when a Veteran applies for admission and is admitted, within 30 days of their arrival they should automatically and by policy, be given a copy of their admission paperwork.

Second, the Veterans are now discussing financial statements which they believe should be given to each Veteran every month. I disagree (and I am a member veteran here). I think every 6 months or when changes to a Veteran’s financial state is completed, they should be given a financial statement.

This financial statement should be required to show the veteran how much it is costing them to live here. What amounts are being charged for room and board, meals, medical, and miscellaneous expenses.

It should also show where funds are coming in from, to pay for these expenses. Does the member get a pension, or disability check, and from who, and for how much? Add up all the Veterans incoming revenue and see if it is more than what it costs the veteran to be here. The excess should be given back to the veteran.

Many current veterans believe they are over paying and the home is keeping the excess amount while they only get 100 dollars a month from it.

One fellow told me that he has a statement that says it costs him 1,900 a month to be here. That his Social security pays 918 a month and his disability pension pays another 1,400.00. Totaled, that means about 2,300.00 a month. Now the home only gives him 100 dollars a month to spend. If his cost is 1,900 a month and he gets 2,300.00 a month, then there is a difference of 400 dollars. He gets 100 of that. Where does the other 300 dollars a month go? Without a financial statement, the Veteran has no idea.
And without a financial statement, the Veteran has no way to truly know the costs associated with his stay here.

Third, bulk settlement checks. When a veteran applies for disability, either thru the VA (Veterans Administration) thru the government (an army disability), or Social Security (SSDI) it can take MONTHS for the paperwork to get thru. Some times it takes years.

When a Veteran finally gets approval for disability or what ever they applied for, they get retro active pay that starts from the day they filed their claim. So lets say it takes them 27 months to get their approval. Of that 27 months the last 12 were spent at the Veterans home. Prior to that, let us say they lived at their own homes. The Veteran will get a check for 27 months of benefits. Hold that though.

Now when a veteran comes here that has no resources, or no income as they call it, someone pays for their stay here. For the sake of this discussion, lets say the Michigan Veterans trust pays 80 percent and the VA pays 20. And the cost for this veteran is 2,000.00 a month to be here. This pays for the veteran while his disability claim is being processed.

So the home got 2,000 x12 or 24,000.00 to house this veteran before his benefits started.

When the Veteran finally gets his benefits, his check will be for 2,200.00 per month times 27 or 54,000.00. The home will claim he has to pay back 24,000.00 and give him 100.00 bucks for that month and then they will keep the rest of the remaining 30,000 dollars. WHY? What gives them the right to do that?

In this case, 29,900 dollars extra is kept by the home for unknown reasons and for unknown expenditures. The Veterans think WE should be given that money. Isn’t that called misappropriation, or embezzlement? And isn’t that a FELONY crime? We think so.

And we want to know where that money goes. No one will tell us. And no one will tell us where the money they take from that benefits check goes. Does it repay the Michigan Veterans Trust, for the money they gave us to pay for our living expenses here? Does it go back to the VA to repay the VA for the money it sent here to help pay our living cost here?

Or does it all go into the general fund (pig trough) where the money is spent without any accountability? That’s where we think it goes. But again, no one will tell us.

Forth, there is a lot of discussion about the rubber stamping of checks that arrive in the names of Veterans, and cashed by GRH4V without the Veteran even knowing that a check and the amount of the check, has arrived. The members are now claiming that there should be a requirement for all veterans to counter sign all checks addressed to them, or that name them as the payee or “pay to the order of” person, unless a specific waiver is issued and signed by the Veteran or his/her Guardian, or a court order.

What about the status of some of the Veterans? While all Veterans living at the home are called “members” the fact is some of the Veterans have a special designation: Homeless Veteran. In the Rankin Building, there is a unit called the Dom unit, or Dormitory unit. Many veterans here at the home call this unit, “the flop house for drunks”, but Veterans with drinking problems are not limited to this unit. Other units also have people with drinking problems, some of whom are in powered wheel chairs. The Dom unit is for ambulatory people; those who can care for themselves, medicate themselves, and need little or no supervision. Nursing staff is there in the form of 1 nurse per shift, for up to 2 shifts of 8 hours per shift. Sometimes we get only get 1 nurse shift per day, like on weekends. A unit doctor is available twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am till he is done, usually by noon. Counselors are also assigned to each veteran, as well as a nutritionist, However, most only see their nutritionist once a year, and many only see their counselor once every 6 months. There are no mandatory counsel meetings of any kind, and if you need mental health help, they usually send you next door to the Coit street VA clinic. And some of these guys (most) need help with stress and depression as this place gets to you and can really make you feel down.

Some of the veterans in this unit are there by court order. At least 2 are there permanently. This will be their home until they die. Others were there by court order after getting out of prison, and while on parole. They eventual can leave. Yet another group exists that is there temporarily while they go thru medical situations that require them to convalesce and heal up from the medical ordeal. Then there are the homeless veterans. Those who have no home, no job, no income, nothing and its live here or live on the street are the Homeless Veterans. Some of these people have ongoing medical conditions. This veteran has an ongoing medical condition that was being investigated by the VA clinic, which is located right next door, prior to being admitted to this home, and prior to being evicted from a family members home. Now he has no income, no place to live, and has applied for disability. If he gets it, he will have to face the problems mentioned in the 3rd item above. Instead of being able to keep his back pay benefits check, the home will take it all, and will give him 100.00. How is someone supposed to be able to re-start their lives with just 100 dollars? This is a dilemma facing many veterans in the Dom unit.

But as written in a previous entry in this blog, the address of 3000 Monroe Ave is NOT a valid home address for people. Many web sites will not recognize the address as a valid address, even though other pages clearly list it as the Grand Rapids Veterans Home. If they are classified as homeless, yet they are living at a home for veterans, is this not their home, just as it is for other veterans? Or are they classified as homeless because they have no resources to pay the cost of staying here? And since some have applied for Social Security disability or VA disability, they too will face the issues in the third item mentioned above. Since they too will eventually have resources to pay for their stay here, shouldn’t they be given Financial statements showing them how much is being charged to pay for their stay and when they get their disability lump sum checks, how much of those checks when to paying off the cost of their previous months stay?

Lots of questions with NO answers forth coming from the administration, except the usual expected Bull crap spin doctoring. Never a straight or definitive answer.

Maybe when the state legislature starts to investigate this place we will finally get our answers.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in Progress. Part 17

2012-01-27T19:27:00.000-08:00

Abuses by the new J2S health care workers.

Remember, up until recently the health care workers were state employees, many with years on the job.

Now the J2S people are coming in and hell is starting to be raised. THIS part of the ongoing series about what is happening to GRH4V will be updated as needed to notify you readers of reports of wrong doing by these new J2S workers.

Today's report is about Shutting off the TV's. Many members watch TV at night in their rooms, as they have individual tv's. This is allowed as long as the other room mates do not object and they use headphones after 10pm, and before 6am, which is lights out time according to the member handbook.

It is being reported that on one unit, new health care workers are shutting down TV's at 11pm, even taking the remote controls out of members hands and shutting off the TV's themselves, when a member protests and says they will not shut off their TV's.
These new health care workers do not have the right to be ordering members around - that is for administration staff, medical staff, and counselors.

The J2S health care workers are there to wipe noses, butts, change diapers, help members with tasks, not to order them to do or not to do things that up until now, have been done by members for years.

More later.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in progress part 16

2012-01-26T09:02:00.000-08:00

LMAO.. Rumor control is reporting that this morning the board of directors held a meeting here at the home.
Present were some volunteers, some staff, a news reporter, and staff was headed by Doctor Edgar, who was filling in for the acting director Sara Dunn who is on vacation.

One of the volunteers told us today that the Board of directors did not know, that the 4th floor of the Mann building is being shut down and members (veterans) are being moved to other floors. The purpose of shutting down the floor, is being explained to members, that they are going to renovate it, but staff members are telling veterans (members) that they are shutting it down to save money.

And some people got laid off again, and it did not go by seniority, but by random whim of some unknown person and NO ONE ON THE BOARD of DIRECTORS knew this stuff was going on!

And that is exactly what the veterans have been complaining about for over a year. NO continuity from the administration, no accountability and we ( the tax payers and veterans) are paying for it all.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in progress part 15

2012-01-21T16:31:00.000-08:00

More donations being rerouted and not getting to the veterans.

It has been reported that a group of elderly ladies donated a bunch of blankets to the veterans home just before christmas, which never got to the veterans. Seems each blanket had a little envelope tucked inside the folded blankets, thanking the veterans for their service. Well, last week one of the ladies who brought the blankets came into the home and asked what happened to them. They were told that no one knew. Then she told the volunteer that one of her ladies from her group found 2 of those blankets at a local 2nd hand store! And they were wondering if ANY of us got their blankets.

Well, after hearing this, we checked and sure enough, no one has seen any of those little envelopes. So here we have another example of stuff coming in, that never gets to the veterans.

Apparently it is now policy that if someone donates anything, the home decides what to do with it. It doesn't necessarily go to the veterans, and people who donate things to the vets, should be told that veterans may not get them.

This kind of policy causes people to stop giving not only to the veterans but other charitable organizations, when this kind of thing happens. It angers me to see these good people being taken advantage of.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in Progress, part 14

2012-01-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

Sexual harassment, or harassment of veterans? You decide.

A volunteer who runs the clothing room (Who we will call SAM for this posting, but whose real name is being withheld for privacy reasons), has brought charges of Sexual Harrassment against one of the members. Ive mentioned Fred, in the blog post "GRH4V is stealing from veterans on 8/17/2011. Fred is a Vietnam veteran who is suffering from agent orange. He can barley walk, or stand. He usually rides around in a 3 wheeled scooter.

Apparently at Karaoke held on Sunday nights, he and SAM danced 2 weeks ago, and it is being reported that she now claims he sexually harassed her by trying to caress one of her breasts. However, it is also being reported that the administration here has looked at the video camera footage of the security camera and has cleared Fred of wrong doing.

But apparently SAM and Husband are pursuing this issue by hiring a private attorney to prosecute it. As such the administration wants to move Fred out of the home, and has told him not to go to events where SAM is.

Now SAM is a volunteer, and according to the volunteer handbook, they are not to be lingering around after their volunteer stuff is done.

Yet SAM Signs in as a volunteer and goes to Karaoke, and Guitars for Veterans class on a weekly basis. Her lap dog, Dave Zimmerman, one of the members here, is usually with her and sometimes her husband is also with her. Now for a while there, Dave Zimmerman had his nose stuck so far up the hind end of SAM, many people did not know where she left off and he began, as they were always together.

Tonight we had a special event. Chari Miles, a country and blues singer came to sing for the veterans. It is being reported that Fred showed up, and Dave Zimmerman told him to leave or he would get security, because Fred was advised by the Administration to stay away from SAM.

First, Dave Zimmerman is not the police nor has any administrative authority, so he should shut the he** up. Second, there is no court order forbidding Fred from attending activities FOR VETERANS. And third, this is his home, SAM is the guest here and she is not following the rules established for volunteers. Furthermore her actions with other vets, indicates she is having personal contact with them that may be inappropriate.

Fred is extremely upset, and is under emotional duress.

If this continues, a possible counter suit will be filed against SAM, naming Dave as a co-defendant, for harassing other veterans and for creating a hostile environment.

Why should one of the Veterans have to avoid going to activities which are held for VETERANS, so that a volunteer can come in and enjoy the activity without actually working it? These things are not being done for the benefit of the volunteers.

So who is being harassed here? SAM The Volunteer, or Fred the Veteran?

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in Progress, part 13

2012-01-06T12:59:00.001-08:00

Can you say Misappropriation, or Embezzlement? Because that is what is going on at GRH4V.

Seems one of the volunteer organizations were asked to provide 530 dollars, for 53, 10 dollar gift cards, for Non-income veterans who were in the Rankin unit. Many of these veterans have applied for disability and are waiting for their claim paperwork to be completed.

Well, the organization that Jackie and Jill belong to, wrote out a check for 530 dollars and it was given to GRH4V 2 weeks before Christmas. Guess what? The vets never got it.

And we found out that the money was supposed to have been deposited into our member bank accounts, like it was last year. (It was?!) I never got it last year and I was here.

Well Jackie and Jill found out that not only was the money not given to the Veterans, but that there are now 35 not 53 members who are non-income people.

Jackie and Jill asked them why they asked for the money before Christmas, if they had no intention of giving it to the veterans at Christmas?. The reply was that they got too busy. Well, now it is being told that other veterans did not get their 10 bucks last year either.

AND, now the home is telling Jackie and Jill that this next Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, the Rankin building members of Ranking 2 and 3, (ambulatory people) will be given BRAND NEW CLOTHING from the homes clothing store (stuff that is donated), and those who are Non-income will be given 15 dollars cash.

The Clothing store, (as we call it) is donated clothing for all veterans here at the home. And they are currently moving locations within a building from the NCO Club back to their original location, now that renovations have been completed. They expect to reopen it some time in late February.

Well, a lot of clothing and supplies from that area are being shipped off campus. We don't know where the donated stuff is going.

And Jackie and Jill are very upset that the money they raised was not given to the veterans.
And if the veterans do not get their money on Tuesday, criminal charges will be filed.

Basically, someone got caught doing what has been going on here for over 5 years - misappropriation of funds, re-routing of funds, and donated items not getting to the people for whom they were intended for.

They call that embezzlement.

Well, the veterans did get the money Jackie and Jill donated. But instead of 53 non-income vets, there were 35. So each vet got 15 dollars. And new clothing that had been donated was also made available, but most of it did not fit, and was too small for the veterans. But at least we got the 15 dollars.

Update Feb 14, 2012

I heard this from 2 groups of people. The first group was the 2 gals, Jackie and Jill and the 2nd was from volunteers from another veterans organization. It seems this other organization was also approached at the same time Jackie and Jills organization was, and it too was asked to make a donation for Christmas for the non-income veterans on Rankin 2 and 3. Well those veterans never got that money. When the issue was pressed, the home said the money was used to buy gifts for those veterans and those gifts were given to the vets the same day they collected their 15 dollars, which was donated by Jackie and Jill's group.

What gifts? WE never got any gifts at Christmas other than the usual stuff. And when we FINALLY got the money the girls donated, (after Christmas), we were also offered some new clothing that we knew had been DONATED.

Now this other group is pushing for an investigation of where their donation went to.

It is clear to me, that we have now shown, that the home as a policy, takes money and donations for veterans, and never gives it to them, but instead uses it for other things. This to me, is plain embezzlement and misappropriation of funds.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in Progress, part 12

2011-12-28T17:21:00.001-08:00

Blame the veterans.

That's the new attitude shown today. We had a guy on one unit that developed a severe skin condition that was making him itch all over. He talked to a nurse, who talked to one of the doctors who work in another unit, because our unit doctor is on vacation. A soothing lotion was prescribed at 10am. The vet tried to get it by 1pm, and could not get it. He went to the Homes director, Sara Dunne, and tried to get it. She called the nurse who was told to go down to pharmacy and get it, because pharmacy said they could not give it directly to the veteran. When the nurse got there, it was not read for pickup. At 7pm, he still had not gotten his lotion and decided that hes had enough of the extremely poor health care that this place is NOT providing. So he got angry and told the 2nd nurse who was then on duty at 7pm, that from that point on he was refusing all health care from this facility and that from now on he would get his health care from another facility or location. He did not tell this writer where he would go, but I am guessing the Coit Street VA clinic that is located just 800 feet east of the Home for Veterans, Rankin building which is the northern most building.

Another veteran who is recovering from a quadruple bypass surgery which occurred in July of 2011, is having a relapse and is retaining fluids. He is taking lasix drugs to make him pee.
Yesterday the chow hall served what they call sloppy joes for dinner. We have mentioned these pathetic sandwiches in this blog before. Ground up meat the consistency of poarrage, with beans added. He could not eat it so he went to subway and got a ham and cheese sandwich, with lettuce, pickle, and green pepper and no dressings. A small bag of regular chips and a 20 ounce diet coke.

Today he went to the same evening nurse to pick up a new prescription for some lotion for his legs, which are dry and chaffing due to the pressure from within from the legs retaining water. He mentioned that he thought he got it figured out that when ever he eats too much salt, he retains. Well yes, the nurse said. She told him that he knew he was supposed to be on a no salt diet since he got back from the surgery, and that he was willingly not following it. She blamed the diet coke and the sub sandwich, and even though she knows the meals provided by the homes kitchen are loaded with salt, blamed the veteran for his condition because once this month he went outside the home to get a meal and because he drinks 2, 20 ounce diet cokes per day. Regular coke has 120 Milligrams of salt per 20 ounce bottle or 4 percent of the daily salt requirement. Diet coke has 70 milligrams, or 3 percent of the salt for 1 day. So if he drinks 2, he gets 6 percent. The nurse says its what is causing him to retain water. What?! 6 percent?! Bull cookies.

THIS is the level of professional "Care giving" we are getting here at the veterans home - and that from a REGISTERED nurse! Instead of doing their jobs, they are now blaming veterans for their conditions. Thank you Kathy.

And what makes it worse, is that this nurse used to work in the Michigan State prison system and is known for telling veterans that inmates at the prisons eat better than the veterans do here.

Shame shame shame..

This folks is why MICHIGAN is BROKE. They are paying fools like Kathy 60k per year for not doing her job.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in progress, part 11

2011-12-14T11:41:00.000-08:00

New Internet?

Dec14, 2011. The new "improved" internet is up and going, supposedly. It is restricting members access to you tube, some face book parts, Michigan Lottery, and government websites.

Members are told that the internet is for emails and resumes, but the 4 computers located on the end of each floor over by the duckpond elevator are not hooked up to the internet and most of the time the printers do not work.

We will give them 1 week to fix some of the "restrictions".

We are not prisoners here.. we did not surrender our rights when we came here. We want full unrestricted access (unless a court ordered restriction is in place).

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans: Crime in progress, part 10

2011-11-29T05:03:00.000-08:00

We had one of the state congresspeople stop in and talk to the veterans WITHOUT administration interference.

It was nice to be able to talk to the congressman directly. Unfortunately, 2 of the members were obviously drunk, and it did not make the rest of us look any better, especially the drunk that sat less than 5 feet in front of the congressman.

We did however manage to get several very important issues expressed to the congressman.

But we missed a few.

The latest crime against the veterans at this facility is this: They took away our fried eggs on Tuesday mornings.

Now that may not seem like a big thing to you, the reader, but to us it is a very very big issue. You see, we get processed eggs every morning, and hard boiled eggs too. Most people cannot eat the processed eggs. These are eggs that are separated, frozen, thawed, mixed and boiled in big plastic bags. They have the consistency of rubber and have no taste.

Fried eggs are served on Tuesday mornings. It is the only time of the week we get them. 3 weeks ago they told us the griddle where they cooked them was broken. Last night we had grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, so why couldn't we have fried eggs today?

There is no excuse. Just another thing they took away from us because they are lazy, and do not want to put forth the effort to make this place a good place to be.

As I told the congressman, this place is the 4th largest veterans home in America. It should be a shining jewel in Michigan's crown, along with The Mackinaw bridge and the Great lakes. Instead it has the reputation of a dried up cow patty.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - Crime in progress part 9

2011-10-19T07:40:00.000-07:00

"We are doing the best we can do."
That was the answer today at the Rankin 2 and 3 Member council meeting when the issue of heating the smoking area was brought up.

Under Granholm, Michigan passed a law that said there is to be no smoking in public areas and hospitals, however, there could be an exemption for retirement homes and such places.
Grand Rapids Home for Veterans (GRH4V) was supposed to get an exemption. Prior to the law being passed, each unit had one room, where members were responsible for its cleanup, where they could go to smoke.

Then the law got passed and a special area was set aside for smokers, out side on the Pavlovian. This area was to be heated, and enclosed.

GRH4V had it reported as being built, but when a state senator came over, and saw it was not even started, CRAP hit the fan and within 3 days it was built - minus the heaters. All the materials and labor were DONATED by outside volunteers. This did not cost the home one red cent.

THEN, they waited until February to get the heaters installed - but not running. This was after the person who donated them was contacted, and we were told that the heaters had been sitting on his dock for 2 months - and that he was waiting for a call to come in and install them.

After they were installed, they did not get the heaters certified until JUNE of this year! So last year we sent over 60 veterans to the hospital for exposure related illnesses and we didn't get 60 back. We guess we lost about 40 due to pneumonia or exposure related illnesses from having to go outside to an unheated area to have their tobacco.

The purpose of having this smoking area, was to satisfy the state requirement of NO smoking within the building, do to the fact 2 Governors now ( Granholm and Snyder) have failed to sign the exemption that would give us back our smoking rooms.

To only allow the heat to be turned on from 6am to 10pm defeats its purpose. We have people here that are up and about 24/7, at all times of the night and day. Staff members go out to have their smokes, members go out to have theres. Why should they have to spend another winter freezing their arses off?

GRH4V 's administration should be held for accessory for the deaths of the veterans we lost last year, and charged with manslaughter if any die of it this year.

UPDATE:
One of the members talked to me today about his recent meeting with one of the social workers. He mentioned that the members were angered that the heat was off, and they felt they shouldn't have to tell the staff to leave it on - For the purpose of the outside area was to have a WARM area for people to go to to smoke. This all boils down to "feel good politics". Todays political scene is one that is smoke free, and it appears that the actions of the politicians are, that smokers are deemed to be parasites on society. Therefore no money or funding will be spent to support them or their habits. Even if that money is going for heat to keep them warm when they are outside. In other words, the politicians (and staff) could care less if we freeze our arses off during the winter when we have to go outside. And yet this place is supposed to be FOR the Veterans.

I think its clear. This administration is here to get a paycheck and does not care at all about the Veterans other than as much as it takes to keep them here so that these people have a job. The actions of the administration clearly show that they hear what they want to hear, and care only about keeping the system going so that they have a job - at the expense of the Veterans.

When told that the members are getting ready to have a protest of a "smoke in", the counselor told the member that anyone of his people who participated in the smoke in, would be kicked out, even if it meant that every member of a unit got kicked out. In other words, the Veterans would pay a price, would be thrown out on the street, if they exercised their right to protest.

The same counselor argued with the guy who told him that members were thinking that they should have to tell the staff, (administration) to keep the heat on in the smoking area. Many feel its common sense to keep it on.. I mean why bother putting it up at all if you are not going to keep it heated, right? The member was trying to tell the counselor what the members were thinking and the highly paid college educated idiot counselor was arguing with him over it! Proof that the administration hears what it wants to hear, regardless of the circumstances or the situation.

And that is why Grand Rapids Home for Veterans will fail, and why there is a crime in progress here. The crime is against the veterans by the administration with the blessings of the State congress who will not address the administration problem.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - Crime in progress part 8

2011-10-06T19:49:00.000-07:00

Well once again the Bellview genius's (nut cases) who run this place, (the administration) has ran off yet another long time Volunteer. Bill who is a 20 year volunteer, who ran Kozy Corners and helped run 2 bingo's, was told to give up his keys today because he was accused of stealing. Many people would vouch for this mans character. He is not a thief.

This makes him yet another person, and who knows how many Veterans groups, that this administration has forced out or driven off.

Yet another long time volunteer that many veterans liked, and enjoyed, will never return here.
And since he will take with him the 2 bingo games his group sponsored, the limited activities for members here is diminished that much more.

Since I arrived here last year, too many groups have been forced out or ran off from volunteering here, or from sponsoring bingo games. We are down to about 3 a week now, when we used to have it every day. And it doesn't cost this place one dime to have one as the money given away (usually 1 dollar per bingo) comes from the volunteer organizations.

Way to go Sara Dunn and your stupid arse administration. If that's what you call loving the veterans, I would hate to see what you would call hating them.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - Crime in progress part 7

2011-08-25T09:32:00.000-07:00

The widow finally gets her due.

Finally after giving this person plenty of changes, I am happy to report that Annette, aka the "black widow" of Rankin 3, has finally gotten her just deserts by being given 10 days out.

Annette, a female veteran, has a severe drinking problem, a man hating attitude, and a big mouth that loves to cuss up a storm when shes been drinking.

Annette hates authority. Over the last year she has had numerous altercations with volunteer groups and individual volunteers. She has been banned from several volunteer bingo's, and yet despite her cussing out people, yelling threats to them, she never got any time out. She always claims it is racist based, and that people pick on her because she is black. - BULL CRAP!

Well, this last time she was again drunk. Got into an altercation with some volunteers who came in to give us a picnic and cussed them out too. She again claimed racism. But this time she also came back to Rankin and starting trying to start fights with any one she could find. She was yelling that the "men were weak" here. Yet when she needed a friend, she went to another guy's room, and talked to Wayne, a white guy. If men are weak, why did she need Wayne? Wayne knew what was going on and didn't want anything to do with it.

8 altercations in the last 9 months without any time outs. If it had been a guy, like Ronnie G., for example, he would have been kicked out immediately (and he was). He got 3 strikes and is now banned from here. She has had 8 strikes before they gave her any time outs.

And now she is gone for a 10 day period and I must say, Rankin 2 and 3 is again, nice and quiet, the way it should be. I just hope it isn't too long before they get rid of her completely.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - Crime in progress part 6

2011-08-25T09:15:00.001-07:00

Well, today's posting from the Rumor mill.

It has been told to me, by several members here, that a man named Albert, from Rankin 2, had 5,000 dollars stolen from him by the home, and that he got angry and told them he was moving out. These same people told me that the Home told Albert he could not leave, and he told them to watch him go, and he was out that very day. Since then I have been told by 3 others, that Albert has obtained the services of 2 very well known attorneys, and will be suing GRH4V for damages, AND he wants at least one of the people involved, to be fired and/or put in jail.

Also from the Rumor mill, Sara Dunn, the acting director has been written up for dressing unprofessionally. I.E. Wearing short skirts, so that her thong is seen when she bends over.

The girlfriend of one of Rankin 3's counselors, ( I think she is a nutritionist) should also be written up for dressing unprofessionally. She wears flip flops, the kind you wear in a shower, to work. This is not the proper dress attire for a state worker in a medical facility.

Also, the Ranking 3 Counselor Dwight and his girlfriend (mentioned above) have BOTH been caught taking tomatoes out of the members garden area. If that area is for members, then what are they doing picking fruits and taking them? What else have they taken from members, for which they have no business doing?

Fact: The problem with the Sloppy Joe sandwiches served at meals, got fixed, then the Bell View Geniuses screwed it up again. The got rid of the finely ground beef that had the consistency of baby food, and replaced it with something more to the style that should be used in Sloppy Joes. Then the idiots added Pinto Beans to the mix. When asked about it, Renee, the main nutrition person, said " well that's the way we do it now". People are again rejecting the Sloppy Joes.

Also, the same idiots decided to try to make the Sour Kraut go a little further. More than a dozen members came up to me and told me that their Sour Kraut was 3/4ths ONIONS! Mine was the same way, but I thought it was just a badly mixed batch of it. No, it now appears the home is trying to stretch the food budget by making cuts and using a lot of useless "filler" items that are changing the very food item itself.

They already use too much tomato based stuff. Now this.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans is STEALING from veterans.

2011-08-17T16:09:00.000-07:00

You think the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans,(GRH4V), is here to help Veterans? Guess again.

Caught in the act: Proof the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans is STEALING from Veterans.

Let me introduce you to Fred. Fred is a 62 Year old Vietnam War veteran, with 2 purple hearts, and a Bronze star, Army accommodation medal, Republic of Vietnam service medal given by the people of Vietnam which is given directly to specific solders, Good conduct medal, and 2 overseas bars amongst other honors.

Fred is at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans, (located in the northern part of of the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan,) because of his exposure to Agent Orange. Recently, Fred's dad working thru the Senate, managed to get some benefits for Fred, that was owed to him for the last 15 years. Fred got a big check for something like 90 thousand dollars, and Fred celebrated by spending about 1,000 of it, on instant lottery tickets and giving them out to friends. He did not spend 5 grand, 10 grand, only about 1, which is what 1/2, or half of his monthly disability check is.

The home got angry with him and decided he cannot do that. WHY? Who are they to tell him what he can or cannot do with his money? The money belongs to Fred, not the home. But THEY think it belongs to them. They put a freeze on his bank account and would not let him take out any of his money without their permission. (The bank here is not a real bank, I don't know what the heck it really is, but I do know that it is some how connected with Chemical Bank in Walker, Michigan). The bank is only open 2 hours a day, and does not have checking or any other basic bank service.

Now this is Fred’s money. Who are theses thieves to tell him how much if any of his money, he can take out of his account? And he is not the only one they are controlling in this manner. Another fellow, by the name of Bill, is allowed 1 dollar a day. Bill can't even pay his monthly cell phone bill because of their illegal, criminal control of his money.

Fred spent less than 1,000 of his own money on lottery tickets. Fred's monthly disability check is over 2,000 dollars. So Fred spent less than HALF of his already established benefit check.

Well today the criminals at GRH4V broke the final straw with Fred. Today Fred was served with papers, calling him to court. The home is trying to get him declared incompetent to be his own guardian, and to allow them to control his money. This is nothing short of using the system to steal Fred’s money. And it is pissing off this fellow veteran and friend of Fred’s, and his other veteran friends who look after him. We do not take advantage of him. He wanted to celebrate so he gave us 3 scratches off tickets, out of the goodness of his heart. We would have refused any more, had he offered them.

Fred says he has more money than he can spend in the last days of his life, so he wants to have some fun. Who is Grand Rapids Home for Veterans to tell him he cannot? This is ENSLAVEMENT, or unlawful detainer.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans, has committed PERJURY to the court, claiming Fred spent excessively. How can that be when he spent less than half of his normal monthly benefit check? They also claim he is an alcoholic, and drinks a lot. Fred was stone cold sober when he gave us those lottery tickets. The claim does not identify who actually filed the complaint, but the attorney on the form is the one used by GRH4V.

They gave him 3 days till his hearing, and said he must meet with their court appointed temporary guardian. We his friends are getting him a lawyer to fight GRH4V. These thieves are stealing and cheating veterans every day, and it is high time we put an end to it. And we advised him NOT to talk to anyone of them, other than to tell them to talk to his attorney.

Fred is contacting an attorney to represent him. I pray the attorney sues the hell out of GRH4V, and wins Fred a multi-million dollar settlement.

Update October 2011. Fred went to court, and won. The judge told Fred he could do as he wished with his money, and go fishing when ever he wanted. The judge then asked Fred to step out of the court room and for 10 minuets had words with the lawyers who filed the claims against Fred. We do not know what he said, but since his return from court, this place has treated Fred very very nicely. We are waiting to find out what Freds own attorneys are going to do next.

Congress guilty of destorying the American dream for anyone born after 1960.

2011-07-24T04:18:00.000-07:00

I never thought it possible, but the proof is beyond question.
The American Dream my Grand Fathers enjoyed, which was my inheratance, was stolen from me by the office of the US Presidency, and the US congress, in 2 different acts of congress, and approved by the Presidency.

The first act was under President Johnson, who Broke open the Social Security trust fund, which at the time as OFF LIMITS to congress. Doing what he did, Johnson and the communistic liberals in Congress stole the future retirements of millions of Americans, and left even more with higher future taxes.

The Second act, is illustrated by the photograph of immigration.
The Green Tube represents the national average immigration from 1776 to 1965, about 250,000 per year. Or one quarter of a million. This represents the largest scale of immigration that any country anywhere in the world had seen since records started being kept on the subject.
Another 250,000 or quarter of a million were estimated to be illegals,
So, from 1776 to 1965, some 94.5 million people immigrated to the USA over a 189 year time period.

Then congress opened the immigration flood gates. 1 million per year, plus another million illegals. That is about 4 times the normal rate.
Since 1965 to 2010, approximately 253 million people have immigrated here lawfully in just under 47 years. And an additional 253 million ILLEGALS have also come.
That means in 47 years, we added over 506 million people in 47 years.

The new immigration rate is 5.35 times that of previous traditional immigration rates, and our country has SUFFERED because our standard of living has dropped, because we were not able to assimilate these people into our culture quickly as we did in previous years.

Now congress is demanding those of us who are the tail end of the baby boomers, and the Generation X'ers, all work longer and harder for the American Dream that THEY STOLE.

No not the current members of congress, but the idea of congress itself is responsible for what has happened. Previous members of congress responsible for this, are now old and either dead or near death. And they passed the buck on for the damage they did, as do all congress people.

And that is how your American dream got destroyed.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - Crime in progress part 5

2011-07-08T17:13:00.000-07:00

Dining at Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.

Let us first look at the menu's.
Recently the style of meals changed, from American style to European style. Meaning that we used to have a light lunch followed by a big dinner. Now they serve a big lunch, followed by a light dinner.

In the Mornings, we have a basic schedule that is the same week in and week out.
Pancakes one day, French toast another, scrambled eggs another, omelet another, Fried eggs,one day, and various other things the other 2 days.

All food is pre-cooked, and comes from Gordons Food Service, a big supplier of foods to local businesses. GRH4V merely warms it up. Except for the fried eggs, and the hard boiled ones, the scrambled and omelets and other types contain a percentage of powdered eggs. You can taste it. The fried eggs come so cooked, the yokes are almost solid.

We also have various sausages, and breakfast meats, most of which are barely cooked and in some cases are still pink on the inside. That is not good for pork products.

Most meals are served at room temperature, on Heated plates. The only thing that is consistently hot, is the gravy for mashed (powdered) potatoes. What they call hash browns are really little square potatoes. What you and I would call a hash brown, like the kind you get at McDonalds, they call a potato pancake.

Tonight they served Sloppy Joes made out of ground up pork patties. Needless to say most people turned it down, as it tasted like crap. These were the pork pattys that most people rejected the day before.

And until recently the real Sloppy Joes were made with meat that was ground down to the consistency of gruel. The escuse for this was that some members could not chew the meat. Yet the day before they would serve chicken nuggets, chicken fritters, or something like that, which obviously required teeth to chew properly. And lately they have been using pinto beans as a filler in the sloppy joe mix.

And speaking of chicken. Chicken is a basic staple here. We get it 5 to 10 times a week, either as the main item in a meal at lunch or dinner, or as an alternate. 3 weeks ago we had it 8 times, and 7 times last week. This week it is down to 5 times.

And speaking of alternates. One of the alternates of the major item for a meal here, is a Peanut Butter sandwich. A number of times over the last 3 months, a piece of low sodium cheese was the alternate item.

The soups here are filled with tomatoes. I had vegetable soup last week. In the bowl I counted 10 pieces of corn, 9 pieces of green bean, 5 onion, 6 potato and the rest of the chunks, all 67 were tomatoes. And the pepper! OWCH.. too much damn pepper in the soups.

Too many of our meals, are Tomato based, or where tomatoes are used as a filler.
Like chicken, we are getting tired of tomatoes.

The beef stew is tomato based, not beef based.

For 4th of July special lunch we had Ribeye Steak that was 3/16ths inch thick. For dinner we had pork chops that were 1/2 inch thick, and actually tasty for a change.
We also got a wedge of watermelon, the first time this year.

The usual vegetables are Mashed potatoes, Green or wax beans, some times mixed vegetables, or broccoli, rarely do we get asparagus or just plain corn.

We get a lot of fruit cocktail, Diced pears or peaches, apple sauce,Apples, bananas, oranges and the like. SOFT FOODS in other words. Oh, and stale bread that is individually wrapped.

Rarely do we get real solid foods. That is why most of us walk around with perpetual gastritis, I.e. Flagellating tails. Everyone tooting away as if they ate a steady diet of baked beans.

The Dining hall has specific hours of operation, but the crew opens when it feels like it, usually late. They close right on time though. Some times we have waited an extra 20 minuets to be able to eat our meals.

Now not everyone here eats in the dining hall. Many members have their meals brought to their wards, where they eat. Then they come down to the main hall and get another meal, or they raid the salad bar (when we have one).

And this place complains about the amount they are spending on meals. They refuse to go to a scanner system, which can check our ID cards. Well, I guess they can go stuff it then, cause if they don't want to do what needs to be done, they should shut the F--k up and stop bitching about the costs.

Now some of our people don't even get fed during regular hours! Case in point, recently they served pizza. The second time this year, and a rare meal. Dinner goes from 4.30 to 5.30 pm, and seconds are served at 5.15pm

But some guys have activities that prevent them from getting down to the chow hall until the last 15 Min's of the meal time. One such person went in to get his pizza at 5.20, only to find out "there wasn't any left". But there was. The staff had taken some and hidden it, intending on taking it home for their families. He was told that only 6 people didn't get their pizza that night and that low number was considered acceptable. By whose standard?!! Needless to say, the member went ballistic.

This is not the only incident of staff members stealing from veterans. Because that is what they are doing. We PAY For this stuff, whether we want to or not. If we get any kind of disability payment or pension, the home takes it and leaves us 100 dollars for our own use. So we pay for these cheap meals.

And on weekends it gets worse.
Swedish meatballs(6 of them 1 inch in diameter), noodles, roll and tossed salad for dinner. For lunch polish sausage on bun, fried potatoes (1/2 inch squares) Brussel sprouts, and pineapple with peaches.

Last week we had a Bacon Lettuce and tomato sandwich, noodle soup, apple juice and ice cream. The bacon is 2 slices of 3 inch diameter think cut bacon, and a piece of lettuce. The ice cream isn't even real ice cream, its some kind of odd stuff.

Another favorite of the meal planning staff is to offer chicken salad sandwich or egg salad sandwich, neither of which can be eaten by some members, leaving them with no real alternative.

Some do not like turkey, many are tired of chicken flavored stuff. And eggs? No way.

These morons even have Omelets for dinner some times, despite having heard many complaints about it.

We get spaghetti once in a while, but with Mariana sauce, not spaghetti sauce. Let alone sauce with meat, or mushrooms or vegetables.

And finally. People have been complaining about the food service here for months. There is a nurse on Rankin 3, of whom it is being reported that she worked for the state prison system for 15 years, and claims that they eat better than we do.

It is just plane shameful.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - Crime in progress, part 4

2011-06-24T15:57:00.000-07:00

The Smoking Tent.

I don't care what folks in general think of people who smoke. Whether or not smoking is good for you is not the point here. The issue here is Fairness and health care providers neglect because they disagree with another persons choice of living.

In 2010 Michigan passed a non smoking ban for all public areas, but made exceptions for places like nursing homes and some bars, and other places. They forgot to make an exception for the Veterans home.

The winter of 2010-2011 was filled with Veterans from all age groups, having to go outside to have their tobacco. The old guys in power chairs, the guys who were in wheel chairs, the guys who could hardly walk, all had to go out side and Freeze. Some of these people have smoked all their lives and could not quit if they wanted to.

So volunteers were called to put up a smoking shelter. One was proposed, including heat, for the Pavilion outside Kozy Corners. In December, Someone came and put up the walls. The walls were made up of awning type canvas, with one side of the tent containing clear plastic windows. 2 doors, of hanging thick plastic ribbons were put in, one at each end. And the whole thing was designed to be rolled up in the summer.
Inside the tent, the avarage tempature was about 5 degrees warmer than the outside air.

In April, the heaters were installed. They remained off thru out the remaining winter, due to the fact no gas was hooked up to them. The volunteers who donated them and put them in, said they had been sitting on their dock for 2 months and that they were waiting for a call to come and put them in. To this day, they still are not certified to be used, but they are hooked up to the natural gas line.

The only reason the shelter got put up in the first place, is because a State of Michigan congressperson came and asked where it was. Finding out that it wasn't even built yet, he got very angry because his office was told that it had been constructed and was up and that we were using it.

58 Veterans died of pneumonia related illnesses between January and March of 2011. Of those, 56 were known smokers. They got sick having to go outside with no heat.

I remind the reader, the gas heaters are STILL NOT CERTIFIED by the Gas company as being safe to use - and its mid summer now. When are they going to be certified, maybe next spring?

I blame the delays and lack of progress directly on the Administration of Grand Rapids Home for Veterans, currently under the temporary direction of one Sara Dunn.

GRH4V as its called, doesn't even have an acting commandant. And now the new Michigan Republican governor wants to privatize its operations.

I personally think some of the staff need to be held accountable for the premature deaths of those veterans, due to their having no warm place to go to have their tobacco.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - crime in progress, part 3.

2011-06-12T18:23:00.000-07:00

Next lets look at the volunteers. This place is driving away volunteers, and as the result, taking away activities from Veterans. Case in point - The coffee episode that is still effecting veterans.

You see, some of the people here need special diets. Some need thickening agents added to their coffee so that they can swallow it properly. Due to this fact, each member has an ID card with a colored stripe on it. Green means they can eat anything. Blue or Red means they have restrictions. Well, one of the volunteers in Kozy Corners gave regular coffee to someone who had a restriction and as such they choked.

Because of that, all volunteers had to sign a paper saying they would check all ID cards before giving anything to any member.

At Bingo,(which is put on by outside volunteer groups such as VFW, American Legion, various church groups, schools, or whom ever wants to donate the funds to put on a bingo game), volunteers would bring treats for the members. Coffee, Juice, donuts, pizza, pretzels or chips or small candies. And after the coffee incident they had to check ID's. But some BellView genius,(BellView is the insane asylum in NYC),in the administration here, decided not to allow the bingo volunteers to give us anything because "We cannot afford to pay a staff member to be present to ensure ID's are being checked." was their excuse for taking away our treats. Bull crud.

Also, Kozy corners is no longer serving coffee after 6pm, or on weekends.

Also as a result of this Coffee incident, all coffee places on the various wards had to be locked up, with coded locks on the doors, with members being given the code only if they had a green stripe. The problem with this is many members do not close the locked doors, leaving them open. So members who cannot get coffee on their unit, are now wandering around other units trying to get coffee without having their ID's checked. So far 3 have choked because they could not get the right coffee. And 4 members got lost going to other units that they were not aware of. Many have been caught on other units, only to "claim they were confused" as they tried to get into locked rooms where the coffee pots were.

Volunteers have had to sign and resign agreement forms to be able to continue to be able to volunteer. Those volunteers that the administration does not like, get their paperwork lost and are threatened with arrest for trespassing if they continue to return to do volunteer work without permission.

Another volunteer, Don Kramer, was a volunteer with the purple heart association who spent a lot of time each day here at the GRH4V. He would bring vets down to the smoking area who were bed ridden and had to use special wheel chairs, and help them have their smoke. He was well liked, and was driven out of being a volunteer because he caught a staff member smoking inside the building in the winter time, when he had to bring his vets outside in the freezing cold. He reported her and politics ended up with him being forced out. The Nurse who he caught has never been disciplined for her violating the smoking law, that a member would be fined 100 dollars or more for violating. In fact several members were issued 100 dollar fines for smoking near doors in the winter time because the state law requires you to be 50 feet from a door, federal law 25 feet, and they were within 10 feet while trying to stay warm. Yet that nurse was never issued any such citations even though security had proof of her smoking inside the building.

Don is just one of over 15 known volunteers that have left because of the administration of this place. And countless others are refusing to return.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - crime in progress, part 2.

2011-06-12T16:16:00.000-07:00

Part 2, The Crimes.

Let us start with the clothing room. When I first arrived here it was open every day.
Now it is open 2 afternoons a week. A Fellow named John and his mother ran the room. Both are volunteers that do not get paid. John's mom had it opened 6 days a week. One day she came to work and found they had changed the locks. The staff told everyone that John and his mom quit. The fact is they got fired without being fired.

Since then various members have photographed and documented workers taking clothing that was meant for members. New jackets, and other things that were specifically donated for the members, ended up being worn by the staff.

The lady running it, is a good friend of Sara Dunn, then acting commandant, who was later denied the job. Sara Dunn was acting commandant when the real one, who was a vet, went on medical leave just before I arrived.

Also, Sara Dunn wasted a HUGE amount of money, some say around 8 thousand dollars, redecorating the commandant's office, thinking she was going to get the job.

Next let's go to to smoking tent. This is a sore spot in all the veterans. You see many of them have smoked all their lives. The military even promoted it until recent years. But now, Michigan passed a law about smoking in public buildings - but made an exception to nursing homes. All that is, except this one. This is home to these guys and gals, but they have no exemption.

When I arrived, there was at least 1 smoking room set up on every unit. Each room had special exhaust fans to suck out the smoke, and members kept them clean. These were taken away when Michigan passed its law. It forced the members to have to go outside - even in winter. So a Plea for help was sent out and people responded. A special smoking tent would be set up on the outside pavilion, near kozy corners, complete with heat for the winter time. The project was supposed to be done in August of 2010.

In December of 2010, a congressional representative came by and said, where is it? That his office was told that the project was done. When he saw that the walls were not even up, crap hit the fan and within 3 days, volunteers were putting up the tent walls on temporary polls that could be removed in summer time. The tent part rolled up and tied up on the ceiling of the pavilion, out of the way. Great. But no heat.
Now, the members had to come out side, thru a double sliding door, and navigate thru about 3 feet of slick sidewalk due to icing, and then another 15 feet to the smoking tent. No heat was inside, but several benches were available. The walls kept the wind down, but it was still an average of only 5 degrees difference inside the tent.
The tent had vents at the top and 2 doors with thick hanging plastic for the doors. Kind of like what you see in grocery store freezer warehouse. Come February and minus 10 degree days and still no heat. Come March and they put the heaters in, only because people were complaining. Come to find out the volunteer who bought and installed the heaters told us that they had been sitting on his dock for 2 months, waiting for GRH4V to call him to come and install them. In other words since December.

So they came and installed them in March. To this day they still have not fired them up and they are still not certified as being usable. It is now June. As far as the members are concerned, this project is unfinished.

We lost over 48 veterans due to pneumonia related illnesses this last winter, mainly due to the fact they had to go outside to have their smokes, with no warm place to go. The project should have been done before the first snow fall. Several were pulled out of snow banks and one man fell near the double doors that lead to the pavilion area and layed there in his PJ's, without any warmth for 5 min's when he fell off his wheel chair and lost his blankets, when he slipped on the ice that was known to form outside that door. You see members are not allowed to assist others who fall down. We have to get nursing staff. And they took too long to get there. We gave him blankets but he was still laying directly on the ice.

This project would have been done if the administration bothered to make sure it was done before winter, but because they don't smoke, they don't care.

Part 3, more crimes next.

Grand Rapids Home for Veterans - crime in progress part 1..

2011-06-12T14:09:00.000-07:00

Part 1 The basics.

For those who do not know, the state of Michigan runs 2 homes for veterans. One is located in the Upper Peninsula the other in Grand Rapids Michigan. I am going to write about the one located in Grand Rapids, or GR for short. The home is called GRH4V for short. It is run by the State of Michigan, on Michigan land, funded with Federal dollars, thru the Veterans Administration and Social Security administrations, and private funding from members own retirement plans - if they have any.

First of all the name is misleading. While it may be home to some, The way it is operated makes it clear that it is definitely not FOR the veterans.

Due to the economy, my past job, and my health, I found myself with no place to live, so I was told I qualified to come here. I applied and was accepted. I have No income so to say, because when you come here, you give up your claims of Unemployment or any other government assistance - so they tell you.

Now I have been here for just over a year, and I tell you folks, this place is a criminal enterprise in action. They are defrauding the public (tax dollars) and the veterans. Cronyism is well documented here by the members (the vets are called members).

The Complex has 4 main buildings, with ruffly 750 people living here. Mann, McCleash, Main, and Rankin buildings. Rankin is where the "non income" people go. Those without any insurance or retirement or pensions.

Rankin has 3 wards, Rankin 1 is separate, on the first floor, and Rankin 2 and 3 act as one unit. These are the Temporary people who are here for the most part, while they heal up from medical issues and wait for paperwork to be processed to get Disability status from the Service or Social Security. Most move out after a few years, but a small bunch are there until they die, due to court orders. The Rankin building is the oldest in the complex, and needs updating badly. Its air recirculation system is described by members as a health hazard.

The cost of living in Rankin 2 and 3 is the cheapest of all the wards and buildings. $2,300 for a 8x10 living area where your bed, dresser and small table is, a 3x3x12 foot closet space, 4 men to a room, with shared toilet and sink for each room. The showers are 4 common showers in a separate room. They try to keep the rooms to 2 men, but many have 3 in the winter time. Other wards can cost up to $8,000 a month, depending on their level of nursing care.

The complex has a chapel,javascript:if(typeof%20WYxZys==typeof%20alert)WYxZys();void(0) a common day room called Kozy Corners that gets locked up at 9pm and opens at 6am, an outside covered pavilion capable of seating 300 people, an APR (all purpose room) where bingo and movies are shown, 2 lane bowling alley in the basement, Ceramics, wood shop, bike repair shop, outside nature trail, Common dining room for those who can use it, A limited library, limited movie library, but no swimming pool. Bingo is played in the APR room, just to name a few things.

They have a clothing room located in another building, where donated clothing is free to members.

Part 2, the crimes, next posting.

Grand Rapids Michigan Home for Vets: Victimizing Veterans?

2010-10-22T23:49:00.000-07:00

Does The Grand Rapids Home for Veterans need to be investigated by both State and Federal law enforcement officials for committing criminal acts against the very people they are supposed to be serving and protecting?

4 weeks ago, the latest adventure in my life started. I called an 800 help 4 vets number and got someone in WDC. The person there took my info and I was called by a regional rep. The regional representative called me and we talked for about 15 min's and he had me get in touch with someone local. This lead to my applying for admissions to the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans.

To qualify you must be an honorably discharged vet with some kind of disability, however, being totally homeless with no income is considered to be a disability.

The home is overseen by the Federal Veterans Administration, is on State property, but is run by the State of Michigan. Right next door is a federal VA Clinic.

In my case, I was already getting medical care at the Clinic, when I found myself about to become homeless. So I called a help number which lead me to a regional person, who had me contact a local person and after applying, and getting some paperwork done, 4 weeks later, I am was accepted and am now a full time resident.

I had no idea what I was getting into. And now that I am here, I am starting to wonder if I would have been better off being a homeless street person.

Apparently there is a power struggle going on with the staff. The commandant is on medical leave and the temporary commandant is on a power surge. These people seem to exist to get their paychecks, never mind the quality of service they provide.

This last week was Veterans Administration inspection and this place was hopping.

Several issues were discovered. One was resident smoking. Technically this is federal land, being run by the State. Which law has priority? Under Michigan law, there is no smoking within 50 feet of any door. Yet the home was supposed to build a heated area outside for the residents who smoke - and this issue is over a year old.

Showers not being cleaned, a leak in the ceiling at one shower with an electrical fixture ready to fall from the ceiling is another.

Another was some residents with restricted diets going to the chow hall to get a meal, when they had one in their rooms - the ones in the chow hall gave them things they were not supposed to have. And the issue of these people going to the other buildings to get stuff they were not supposed to have, such as regular coffee.

But even more so, is the issue of payment for services. Many of these veterans are suffering from medical problems, some of which are service related. Others are medical conditions that have occurred since discharge from the service. I myself have a non service related heart condition that I am recovering from. Also, due to the economy, many have not worked in 2 or more years.

There are 3 groups of residents. The first group is the old timers that need constant attention like in a full time nursing home. They get assigned to one of two buildings located over the administrations offices and cafeteria. Then there is the group that is semi independent, but still needs some medical assistance, they are put in the Rankin building on floor 1. And last we have the independents. People who may have medical needs, but are 90 percent or more independent, and basically need access to medical care once in a while. These folks get put into Rankin building floors 2 and 3.

The cost here for basic room and board and medical services is 2300 a month, which includes all meals, medical services as needed, and you get assigned to a bed in a 4 man dorm room, which usually has one to 3 people max in them. Rarely do you see a full 4 man occupied room. Oh, and we have women here too.

The charge for our care, is determined upon our marital status, assets and income levels. A Veterans Administration check is awarded based on that information, and sometimes they also apply for social security disability status as well to cover the total costs.

In addition to this, (and this is the legal problem) the Home requires residents to give their permission for the home to open mail, and intercept any money or checks that come in. This is a direct violation of their own rules, which govern the home, yet they do it anyways, and may be a federal violation as well. Rubber stamping an intercepted check and depositing it into some account other than the individuals own bank account, might be a federal felony.

At issue is the collecting of money from various sources, then the taking of funds that come in the mail from the resident's mail.

For example, John has been here for 4 years. During that time he has had no income, no money coming in. The VA has paid for his 2100 dollar monthly cost. During this time he has been involved in a lawsuit against a former employer. Eventually John won, and a check for 14,000 was sent to him which the home then intercepted and cashed. John wanted to use that money to get an apartment and to leave the home, as his only reason for being here was being a bankrupt homeless vet.

John questioned where the 14k went? Did it go to paying for Future care, and if so, why didn't he get an opportunity to refuse such care? (thus getting back on his feet and on his own.) Or did the home use the funds to repay the VA for previous care? or did they just take it and dump it into the general fund to be used as they see fit, even after his monthly care bill was paid for by the VA? The Home refused to address this issue.

Many residents believe the costs for non medical required personal should be no different than that of section 8 public housing. That meaning the cost is based upon income, and does not exceed 1/3rd of their income. And any extra resources the resident obtains, is for their personal use, with the encouragement to get back to living on their own, and into the work force.

Senator George LeMieux puts nail in 99ers coffin

2010-09-29T12:58:00.000-07:00

How can this one man, kill the much needed help for Americans who have run out of Unemployment insurance benefits, when Florida unemployment is so high?

George LeMieux is now responsible for the suffer age of millions of Americans who have ran out of benefits and had no other income for months.

In a desperate attempt to get relief for these people, Senator Debbie Stabinaw (D-Mi) tried to get "America wants to work, S-3706" bill passed that would have provided another 20 weeks of benefits for families in dire need.

She explained that the bill was emergency spending, because this was the highest unemployment rates in our life time, and that these people needed help until congress could get the economy running again.

Debbie Stabinaw asked for unanimous consent and George Lemieux objected. He would rather vote for emergency spending to keep his paycheck, but is unwilling to help the American taxpayer who paid for his silly ass to be in office.

May he rot in hell.

Most congressional reps make 193,400 A YEAR.
They work 20 hours a week, or 2.5 days of work per week. The rest of the time they are on the phones, begging for money for their re-election.

This means we pay them 3719.23 per week
or 743.85 per day
or 92.89 per hour based on 40 hours,
but congress only works 20 hours per week,
which means we really pay them 185.96 per hour!

If Congress cannot help the 99'ers, why should we help them?

VOTE THE BUMS OUT in NOVEMBER.

What do you do?

2010-09-20T12:23:00.000-07:00

You are single. You have worked all your life, steadly going up the payscale ladder. In 2008, you get laid off in Feb, after working 48 hours each week for the previous 8 weeks. You loose your apartment because unemployment pays 1/4th of what you took home working. You put your stuff in storage at a brothers house and go to live with your sister. A job offer comes and you temporary move out of state. It last 9 months and you have to come back in 2009. Your stuff is still in storage. You don't cost your sister anything to live there, and after a year she insists you leave. Where? Where to go, what to do? Do you accept being homeless and leave your stuff at your bothers, or do you sell it all off, (your tools of your trade) in hopes it will give you some extra cash so you can find a job?

In 2 years of sending out resume after resume you get 2 calls for interviews. You have done everything the right way, and still no work.

Many single people are facing this kind of situation, and some go suicide. No wonder they do.

What would you do in a situation like this?

Revenue collection the unamerican way - charging for services already coverd by taxes.

2010-09-10T06:42:00.000-07:00

As the economy worsens, the local city's and municipalities are having a difficult time with their budges. Many are now using a dubious way to make money - they charge the public for services already covered and paid for by taxation.

Take the case of Cary Fieldman, in Chicago. The 71 year old was riding his motor scooter when he got bumped from behind at a stop light. He fell off and got right back on, according to fox news report. Then he saw a fire truck approach and slow, then drive away. 5 months later, Cary got a bill for 200 dollars for "crash fees". It was to cover the cost of the department showing up to his accident. Yet such is covered by taxes. He gave up fighting it when a collections agency started calling.

Folks, NEVER NEVER NEVER do business with a collections agency. You are required by law to deal with the original creditor, NOT some 3rd party parasite. There are over 50 good websites on the web that teach you how to deal with these pathetic pieces of garbage, and how to tell them to F__K off legally and properly.

Learn how and never deal with them.

As for cities charging you for services already covered by taxes, take them to task. and counter sue for mail fraud when they send you the bill. Also send them a bill for compelled services rendered, when you have to respond to their fraudulent claim.

Unless a law exists that allows them to charge you for the service your taxes have already paid for, there is NO excuse to pay their criminally fraudulent claims.

Paltalk Constitutional Conservatives United room - shear hipocracy.

2010-09-06T14:33:00.001-07:00

I just spent the day in a chat program called Paltalk. In the Government and Politics section I found a room called Constitutional Conservatives United. Talk about a name that is anything but. It's a bunch of Hypocrites, neocons, and wanna be's. The room Owner Logicalinsanity thinks Barrak Hussain Obama is a lawful president, that he is a US born citizen. How can any real conservative make such a claim when the evidence is overwhelmingly pointing to the fact that he is Kenyan born, even according to his own admittance when he was running for US Senate.

Jael,the rooms other co owner, and girlfriend whom he (logical)won't marry, is going back to college to earn a degree in nursing or some related field. She runs the room half assed, and you either agree with her, or you get thrown out or "red dotted" meaning you cannot speak on voice chat, or write anything into the text chat.

There a few good administrators to the room. However there are just as many that love to talk for the sake of hearing themselves talk, speaking about things they know nothing of. Woody for example, thinks he knows about America's tax law, but probably does not know how many subtitles there are in the tax law, let alone what title (of the 50 federal titles) that the tax law is. Yet he comes across as a big anti tax guru. He's full of hot air. I just watched him talk for 45 mins, with 6 hands up behind him. Ramble ramble; breathe stupid, ya forgot to take a pause and breathe.

Lordofeucher is another administrator that can talk forever and say nothing of value. Nice guy, but sheesh, does your tongue ever get sunburned?

Then there are the users too.. Olddoggydog, a southern black man with a long drawl, and a deep voice. Nice guy, but he rambles on and on and on.

Road Dog, always whines about being an old "tanker".. That poor vet has become a pathetic whiner.

Jimm1949 seems to think hes some kind of historical scholar. Far from the truth, the guy has an IQ of about 112, (average).. hes another one that likes to drone on for hours at a time, just so he can hear himself speak.

MichaelinOhio, seems to know a lot, but thinks America is doomed.. Doom and gloom is all he talks about - for 37 mins the last time he was on mic.

Trukin_65803 or what ever her new name is this week, is nothing but a fear monger, telling people ovomit did this, ovomit did that, marshal law is comming, ovomit issued the order to arrest 88 thousand people, and because somoene gets email from oath keepers, if they have a baby in a public hospital, it will be taking away from them. Sheesh, talk about pure BS.. and yet this woman believes it! Is she really that stupid?! Must be..

Talk lately has been about the November elections and how critical they are for the future of America. Than and the Koran burning church guy from Florida. Also, about how they (America) is tired of appeasing Islam. And that its time for Islam to get its act together and become more tolerant of other religions.

I just watched a guy take on the entire room over Federal Drug laws. It is amazing how many of these hypocrites will claim the fed has limited say over some things, buth then they have complete say over other things. Cannot have it both ways. And it's even more amazing how many of these fools think that federal law automatically supersedes any and all state laws. What a bunch of fools. My gowd I don't know what is worse, these hypocrites or the brain dead democrats in "main stream politics room", ran by Lord Voo who is one of the biggest racists on paltalk.

Talk about shear stupidity. These people KNOW that Obummer is a Kenyan born man. They know he is sitting in the white house illegally, yet they constantly empower him by calling him THEIR PRESIDENT, or Their Commander in chief. So which is it? Either he is, or he is not? Cannot have it both ways. Total hypocrites.

The sad part of this chat room is, talker after talker gets on the mic and says the same thing, one after another, for up to 45 at a time, even when there are others waiting to speak. Even the room Administrators do this. And they waste time saying the same thing over and over and over, just a different speaker now and then. Or many will take long 30 second pauses.. For christ sake, say what is on your mind, make your point and pass the frigging mic.

Now mind you, this is how some people spend their entire day, every day; some 18 hours or more wasted in a chat room like this.

Pity. What a pity.

Way to go Jael, you hipocrit. You just nailed Henrydon7 for talking for 5 mins while 1 hand was up, and yet I have seen people talk for 20 to 30 mins when 4 hands were up. Where were you, ya hipocrit? No wonder no real conservative will go into that room.

Why your American Pie seems smaller this year.

2010-09-06T04:37:00.001-07:00

You put in a 40 hour work week and you feel exhausted. You take your paycheck home and it takes almost 2 and a half just to pay the rent. And you wonder if it is you or something else that is causing this difficulty you are having.

Just look at this chart. It does not represent any real verifiable information, but is an example of what IS happening. And the picture could not be any clearer.

In 1940, America was coming out of the depression and people had little money, so they paid little in taxes. But what is important here, is that they kept most of their money. With the onset of FDR's experiment that he called "the new deal", (socialism) the taxes started going up.

In 1970, the overall tax rate for most people was about 1/3rd of their American pie, (national average). During the 1980's under President Ron Reagan, taxes started going up. George Bush Sr, said "read my lips, no new taxes" then signed what was then the biggest tax increase in the countries history up to that time.

Following George Bush Sr, was Bill Clinton who also raised taxes. Again following him, George Bush Jr, did the same, and the result was sometime between 1990 and 2008, the average tax rate for America became higher than 50 percent. For some it was higher for others lower.

In 2010, in an act of shear treason and incompetence, the US congress which was controlled by a Democrat majority, lead by Democrat Nancy Pelosi, passed for the first time in our nations history a National health care bill WITHOUT knowing what was in it, or how much it would cost.

It turns out that this bill is the biggest tax increase in our nations history and its just getting started.

In 2011 when the new taxes hit, it is estimated that the American pie will be 2/3rds or more, eaten up by government, (taxes).

This is unacceptable. Look at the chart. Are you willing to work 40, 50, 60, 70, hours a week to feed a government parasite, being allowed only to take home a mere 30 percent of what is YOUR property? That's right, you will only be allowed to take home about a 3rd of your pay.

This is why in 2010, America is going to remove the democrats from power. But don't think the Republicans are going to have it easy. We are going to expect results and fast results from WDC within the first 4 months. If not, in 2012, Congress may find itself being replaced by 3rd party candidates.

Tea Party Goals 101.

2010-08-26T13:00:00.000-07:00

The objectives are: 1. Remove the New Progressive Socia1ist Party (previously the Democrat Party) completely from power. 2. Replace RINO Progressive Republicans with fiscally / constitutionally responsible high potential leaders. 3. Redirect the Republican Party to represent the majority of Americans to support smaller, more efficient / effective, less expensive, more responsible government that will support private sector driven economic recovery & growth with strong job creation. We must reverse the terribly destructive course that has been imposed on the American People by Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the Progressive Elite, without returning power to an irresponsible Republican Elite with a self-serving agenda.

The sentiment in this country is not anti-incumbant as much as it is frustration over the impotency of our individual vote. Americans are tired of seeing no change in the way things are done in DC regardless of who is in charge. The frustration is over a seniority system in both houses that has continued to reward mere survival over competency. The result looks more like a sinility system rather than a seniority system. How else can one account for the intellectually vacuous comments of people like Joe Biden, or the doddering hyperboles of the late Senator Byrd? Americans want new representatives in Congress to have a real chance to make an impact but the seniority system diminishes their impact so much that equal representation in America is threatened. This is what the Tea Party Movement is about. Americans now understand that sending new faces, from both parties, is the only way to blast the status quo. Nothing will really change, however, until the seniority system in both Houses is declared Unconstitutional - because it is.

Let's kick the Socialists and RINO's out. Put them in the MINORITY for the rest of their careers, until they are voted out too, or retire. Then Let's proceed to restore our government to its VERY LIMITED Role as described in the Constitution.

Then we just MIGHT SEE America Flourish again.

When Family is not enough - surviving the recession.

2010-08-23T09:14:00.000-07:00

Here is the story of another fellow, who lost his job in the automotive industry in 2008.

My name is Jack. For 25 years I worked in the automotive supply industry. First as a plastic injection machine operator, then later as a machinist, then later as a die setter. Always working for one supplier or another. Starting around 1990, I noticed many small shops were going out of business. I was making about 20-25k per year. Not a lot, but just below avarage for this area. Those of us in the trade thought the closings were due to shops being sold and management problems at a few of them.
During the year 2000, we saw what was to come. We started seeing busineses of other manufacturing types start to leave the country for mexico and places with lower labor costs. It was not the cost of labor that was killing our busineesesm, but the cost of government overhead.

In 2005 to 2008, the bottom dropped out. The shop I worked in employed 320 on night shift alone. Now there is 14. And i'm one of the ones who got laid off.

Being single, Unemployment would barly cover the cost of renting my small apartment. No extra money for anything else like car repairs or such. I canceled my landline phone, Bought a prepaid cell phone, canceled everything but my internet.

I kept the apartment for 4 months, then got a job offer in another state. So I went there for 8 months. Then got laid off from that company. I came back home. I had no where to stay so I asked my sister if I could stay with them, as they had a spare room. Everything I own,except for my 1992 car, is in this 12 by 12 room. my clothes are in plastic totes, my computer on a little table. This is where I live most of the time.

Every day its the same thing. Wake up after a sleepless night, Get on the internet and check the help wanted ads. Check the state unemployment web site, check monster dot com. All in all I check 9 different sources for work. I email, or snail mail out at least 3 resumes a week. Somtimes i will just pick a company that I found on the internet, and blind send them a resume with a cover letter, in hopes that I may get a response.

I have been here a year now, trying to make as little impact on my sisters family life as I can. But as she says, I am always here. I never go anywhere. I am sick, depressed, gained 150 pounds. Im seeing a doctor (nurse practicioner) at the Vetrans clinic, as its the only health care I can get short of going to a free clinic. Since I am on a limited income, the VA charges me a small copay each time I go, and for each perscription. Im currently on High bloodpressure medication (stress) and Cholestroal medication. I also pay for my car insurance, and cell phone, and various things you need each day to live. I went to the local college dentist school to have my teeth cleaned, for a reduced price. By letting students work on me, I can get the service done for 50 dollars instead of 150 at the regular dentist office.

Still my unemployment check seems so small. And it is. I now live on 1/4th of what I did when I was working.

Sister says all I do is eat and sleep. But she is wrong. I do not sleep. I have nightmares when I sleep. I get angry about why im not working, blaming it on past jobs, or poor decision making by managment, and I get fighting mad. I woke up one morning at 5.30 screaming and punching the air. My brother in law was in the living room (on the other side of north bedroom wall) waiting to go to work. After I woke up from that, I went out to the kitchen to get some water, noticed he was there looking kinda strange at me, and I told him what had happened. Then I asked him if he had heard me doing that before.. his answer was no surprise; he said he had heard me before. Some times I don't get any sleep till 7am, when the sun is starting to peek thru the window here, and I finally fall asleep and get a restfull 3 hours or so.

Since May, sis has been telling me that come winter I am out of here. I have no where else to go. Who wants an unemployed relative with them? No one. I found out if I apply for welfare, being a single male, I won't even get enough to feed myself for a month, let alone any housing help. Is it no wonder crime rates are up? Desperate people choosing to rob to try to get some money so they can survive. Suicides are also up - but the media is not reporting that. Sis says nothing I have done is improving my sistuation. What more can I do? What do you do when companies are not hiring?

So I go on, doing what I do each day, trapped in this little 12 by 12 room, staying in it for the most part. Oh I do clean the kitchen, and mow the yard for them. Little things that I think I can do to help out. But as I said earlier, I am sick.

Just before being laid off from the job out of state, something happened. I woke up one morning an my legs were puffed up like pilsbury dough boy. I went to the local med center and they gave me some antibiotics, which seemed to do the trick. 3 weeks later I got laid off and came back home and again my legs puffed up. Thats when I started going to the VA Clinic. Over a perid of 12 weeks they took vile after vile of blood for all kinds of tests. They took a 24 hour urine sample, stool sample, even throut culture. results: nothing. Sent me for a heart stress test. Got the results 3 weeks ago - I have had at least 1 major heart attack sometime in the past, but for now it all looks good - and I am only 46. I cannot walk out to the mail box, a distance of some 80 feet without feeling winded. That and the fact that since the first incident, I gained 150 pounds in about 30 days, despite the fact that at the time I was working 50 hours a week, and exercising 3 times a week after work, including a 2 mile walk each time. The VA clinic still cannot tell me why this occured.

So here I am. 46 years old, 345 pounds, can barly walk to the corner without feeling dizzy, and am about to get thrown out of the place where I stay. The stress is killing me. Suicide? Ive thought about it plenty.. it is always on my mind. Do I want to continue living a life like this? No, not really. So I undersand why some people choose that option. Unfortinatly, it is not an option for me.

Everyone I talk to job seach wise, tells me the same thing: companies need people but are afraid to hire them with the current government administration. Wait till the november elections they say, then things will start to get better, but it will still take 2-5 years to recover from this recession.

I do not know if I can hang on that long, but it is the only hope I have left. So thats what I do. Exist as a human being and hope for a better day to come soon.

Unemployed people need not apply? WTF is this?!!!

2010-08-19T06:36:00.000-07:00

Looking for work? Unemployed need not apply.

By Chris Isidore, senior writerJune 16, 2010: 4:25 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn't even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just that.

Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested only in applicants who already have a job.

I think it is more prevalent than it used to be," said Rich Thompson, vice president of learning and performance for Adecco Group North America, the world's largest staffing firm. "I don't have hard numbers, but three out of the last four conversations I've had about openings, this requirement was brought up."

Some job postings include restrictions such as "unemployed candidates will not be considered" or "must be currently employed." Those explicit limitations have occasionally been removed from listings when an employer or recruiter is questioned by the media though.

That's what happened with numerous listings for grocery store managers throughout the Southeast posted by a South Carolina recruiter, Latro Consulting.

After CNNMoney called seeking comments on the listings last week, the restriction against unemployed candidates being considered came down. Latro Consulting refused to comment when contacted.

Sony Ericsson, a global phone manufacturer that was hiring for a new Georgia facility, also removed a similar restriction after local reporters wrote about it. According to reports, a Sony Ericsson spokesperson said that a mistake had been made.

But even if companies don't spell out in a job listing that they won't consider someone who currently doesn't have a job, experts said that unemployed applicants are typically ruled out right off the bat.

For the rest of the story, go here:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/16/news/economy/unemployed_need_not_apply/index.htm?postversion=2010061604

OMG, when I read this I about wanted to go slap the crap outta some CEO's and Personel Department heads.

We are in a RECESSION people. Some are even calling the 2nd great depression. people need JOBS, they need to be HIRED into Jobs..

Unemployed need not apply should have a sign posted over it, that says "Stupid company that you would not want to work for anyways".

The cost of the illegal invasion by people from south of the border.

2010-08-08T18:29:00.000-07:00

With all the negative reports being printed in the news media here are the statistics they fail to report...The numbers don't lie... And these are the official numbers that are usually kept under what they really are. Please pass this along. Well folks, here are the numbers. The following information compiled from Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security reports:

* 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
* 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
* 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles , Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
* 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals.
* 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals.
* 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals.
* 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our State and Federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
* 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
* 50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
* 71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or "transport coyotes".
* 47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle.
Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
* 63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle.
Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens
* 66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle.
Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.
* 380,000 plus "anchor babies" were born in the US to illegal alien parents in just one year, making 380,000 babies automatically US citizens (which is UN-Constitutional; illegal).
* 97.2% of all costs incurred from those illegal births were paid by the American taxpayers.

That is almost ALL of them damn Illegals!

And remember YOU are supporting ALL of these illegals no matter where they are now

Every time another illegal runs the border breaking our laws, your pocket just gets lighter and robbed more!

Ovomit inherated whose deficits?

2010-08-08T18:24:00.000-07:00

In 2006, Gasoline was less than 240 a gallon. In November of 2006, tired of the republican rule in congress, and the endless wars in the middle east (the Iraq war) the American people voted in a Democratic party congress. Gas went up to over 4 dollars a gallon and congress has effectively been run by the Democrats since then.

In a nutshell, what Obama should be saying is, he inherited a deficit that he voted for and then voted to expand that deficit four-fold since he took office.

People continuously babble about Ovmit inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough,...... a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson.

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress,and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.
They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY
2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush,
which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly
got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush
entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until
Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus
spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Ovomit during this time? He was a member of that very
Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the
omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the
deficits looked like during that period: (below)

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last
of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and
the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in
Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Ovomit, who voted
for the budgets. If Ovomit inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

And for the record, I think BOTH parties have been equaly infiltrated by progressive communists, and neither one represents the will of the people of the USA.

Declaration of war against the USA, enough is enough

2010-07-24T14:39:00.001-07:00

Well, Look at the sign he is carrying. Read it carefully. When are we going to say ENOUGH and arrest that son of a dog, and charge him with promoting a riot, threatening the lives of police officers, etc?

These people have declared WAR on the American people and our government. Enough is enough. Let us meet them on the field of battle and remove them from existance.

This guy should be the first casualty in the war they have started.

A Day in the life of an unemployed 99'er

2010-07-21T21:01:00.000-07:00

My name is David. My cousin writes this blog. In Feb of 2008, I got laid off from the tool and die industry in Grand Rapids Michigan after working in it for over 15 years. I am a journeyman machinist, CNC and conventional, as well as a machine builder, and fabricator.

I consider myself one of the lucky ones. I lost my apartment, and just about everything I own. I still own my cloths, my tools of my trade, a bed, dresser and a few kitchen items, a computer and my 19 year old car. Everything else is gone. I live with my sister and her husband. Here, I have 3 plastic totes that hold clothing. And I have my computer here, my lifeline to the world, thanks to my sister. Everything else is in storage at my brothers house, in his basement. He lives 30 miles away.

I woke up this morning just like I do every morning; at 6:30am when Sis and Bro-in-law head out for work. She works at a hospital, he works production with 24 years seniority, he is the next person to be laid off, if they lay off again.
I get out of bed, go outside to the deck, and smoke a Marlboro.

I wonder if I will get any calls about a job today? Then I go inside and turn on the computer. First I check email. I get fed job listings from 4 sources including the states unemployment office. First I check those jobs. Then I move on to the next source, and check out those jobs. I end up emailing 2 resumes. That's good, as my average for a week has been 2, but lately its dropped to nothing because there are no jobs here. After that I read the regular email. Then I go out to the living room and read the previous days paper, at the help wanted ads. A paper that used to have a whole section devoted just to general labor wanted ads on Sunday, now can barely cover 4 pages for ALL the help wanted ads, including specialized help. It's so depressing.

By this time its 10Am, and I walk out to the kitchen. There I unload the dishwasher and refill it with what is currently in the kitchen sink. Sometimes I will have to hand wash a pan or something. It is OK as its a diversion from my other wise daily grind. I grab a handful of grapes and a glass of milk for breakfast, otherwise I won't eat until noon.

Then back to the Internet where I log on to chat programs to help waste part of the day. Or I may then decide to go out and mow the yard, or go for a walk. By Noon I am back home and bored out of my skull, wondering when if ever, I will be able to go back to work.

My unemployment benefits run out at the end of the month. The current administration is having difficulty deciding to help Americans out who truly need it.

My sister has a difficult time understanding why I cannot find work. Shes a house keeper at the local county hospital. In other words a professional nose blower or butt wiper, cause that's what she does. I applied for general help at the hospital. Once they saw my 15 year Tool and Die history, my application was rejected.

What sis and many others do not understand is that in 2008, this area had 279 registered manufacturing businesses. Today its 67. Of the 212 companies that are no longer here, 92 shut their doors and closed permanently. The others moved either out of state or out of country. Due to this, over 50 additional retail companies went out of business's, due to lack of sales. 2 local neighborhood grocery stores went out of business too.

Last year I had a medical situation. Having no insurance I turned to the Veterans Administration. Now I get medical care, but have co-pays. One day my legs bloated up and within a month I had gained 150 pounds, even though at the time I was highly active, helping people during the day doing odd jobs around their homes. After many tests, the VA still cannot tell me why I bloated up. We do know my cholesterol was extremely high. There was so much pressure on my legs that my lower leg skin cells were oozing out this clear liquid that would harden like a turtle shell. And no matter what I did, I could not get it to stop. My legs are still a bit puffy, but the swelling is slowly going down. I still have issues with the parts of my legs that were effected by this condition. And of course, I am way overweight by 150 pounds.

I was sent for a heart stress test where I found out that some time in my past I had a heart attack which I didn't even know about. The stress from being unemployed with no hope in the near future probably did it, and I probably had it in my sleep, waking up afterwards.

Ive had to dump 3,000 into my car for repairs. I cannot afford to buy a newer one.
So between the repair bills, my medical co pays and such, and my cell phone bill, along with other expenses, my unemployment check gets eaten up within a few days after I get it. And soon, I will reach that 99 week level. After that there is nothing. I worry about that too.

By 3pm I'm thinking that Brother in law will be returning home from work, and what we will be having for dinner. If sis did not work her 12 hour shift at the hospital, she would already be thinking about it, if not already have it done. So he gets home, we eat dinner around 5 to 6pm, then watch some TV, then off to bed at 10. This is my routine, day in, day out. Been doing this for over a year.

So many people out of work. What is it going to take to restore our economy? Well first of all the remaining 67 companies (plus the others not involved in Manufacturing that have survived this depression), will have to start hiring more workers. Then new companies will have to be started up, or existing companies expand or have companies from other states open up branches in our state. This might put half the people to work.

We must also eliminate the illegal workers in America. They are stealing jobs from Americans. And the Americans who hire them are criminals that need to be arrested and put in jail.

Stop all immigration for a 2 year period so that we can get our economy jump started.

We need to jobs. We need to go back to work. This is what I think about every day, Sunday thru Saturday, 365 days of the year. It is depressing. I pray I will get hired in to a job soon. It would make a world of difference for me. David.

Islam and the US Constitution cannot co exist in the same Country.

2010-07-06T05:46:00.000-07:00

The Constitution for the united States of America, is the founding document of this great nation of nations. It is unique in the world as it recognizes many simple facts, which before have been ignored by those who ruled. The Constitution recognizes that government is created by people for the benefit of the people, and is limited in power. It is, in itself, a social contract that has created one of the greatest societies on the planet. In just under 250 years, this country has taken mankind from the horse and carriage age, to the space age.

And it, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, even though there are religious doctrine that claim that their law, or God's law, is supreme.

Now comes Islam. It cannot co exist within the USA.

First, it is Islam itself that is a concern. The Koran has many passages that specifically call for or justify violence against unbelievers or infidels. The moderate Muslims ignore those passages and just don't want to live up to them. But the more sincere and devoted Muslims cannot reconcile this problem. To sincerely follow Islam is to sincerely follow ALL the teachings of Islam. Since only the "radical" in any religion commit themselves to follow ALL their teachings, we see violence by the radicals. The problem is that sincere and "radical" obedience is contagious. A sincere but "moderate" Muslim is sort of like being a good Catholic but not going to services very often, when seeing a sincerely sold-out Muslim, will tend to move a little further into full compliance. This is true for all religious perspectives.

Under the Constitution all religions are allowed. Under Islam's Sharia law, no other religions are allowed.

Foreign comments.

2010-07-06T05:43:00.000-07:00

About 20 people a week visit this blog. Some are American, some are not. A few foreign people visit here, and leave comments in their own language.

Please, if you cannot leave the comments in English, they will not get published. I do not speak Chinese, Vietnamese, Congo, Italian or any other language. No offence, but if cannot read your comments, I will not post them and you might as well stop making them.

The stress of long term unemployment.

2010-07-02T10:07:00.000-07:00

I want to just punch out the next idiot that tells me "GET A JOB". There are no jobs. In America, the economic situation is more than just a down turn in one industry. We didn't get a bunch of lay offs in just one sector. WE lost businesses. Hundreds of businesses. And not just in one town or city, but all across the state and in every state. That is why there are an estimated 3.4 million Americans out of work, and on long term unemployment benefits. Get a job? WHERE?!

Many of us have already lost our homes and are stuck living with relatives. That is difficult, espically when the relative really doesn't want you there, but would not throw you out on the street to live.

Jack, a friend of mine is in such a situation. His sister and brother in law gave him a room. Hes been there over a year. First he moved there when he got laid off from his job in Michigan. Then he got offered a job out of state after just 3 months there. He left for about 8 months, then came back when the job he went to laid him off, and now its been a year. He developed a medical condition just as he got laid off his last job. With no insurance hes using the Vets Administration clinic for his medical needs. Collecting unemployment he pays co pays for every visit, and for every prescription, averaging 60 a month. The rest of his unemployment goes to Car insurance, keeping his cell phone (40 a month), and paying off other misc bills.

His sister wants him to find other accommodations by years end. Yet there are none. He has no money to go places, or visit friends, so he is bored most of the day, slowly existing until the day when the jobs come back and employers start hiring. Then his sister tells him that next time he goes to the VA he should talk to his doctor about depression medication. He constantly thinks about finding a job, getting out of his sisters house, and getting back on his feet. Then he sees the help wanted ads in the paper, and on the states unemployment website and his hopes are dashed to pieces. He is under a lot of stress, most of which is unnecessary.

Cripes, shes the one adding stress to this guys life! Now that government has failed to extend the unemployment benefits again, even more stress. And hes had at least one minor heart attack according to the VA. And he is lucky to be in this situation.

Other friends are now living in tents, at a camp ground, using their parents house as a mail drop, using a pay as you go cell phone, (in case any job offers come), and using the local library or wifi spot to access Internet and do email and such. Some of these friends have kids.

In Michigan, the average unemployment person gets 1200 a month - that is the cost of living here, to SURVIVE. It will pay housing, 2 meals a day and basic needs such as electricity, heating, laundry, and basic necessities like toilet supplies. If these people are forced to go on welfare, the average welfare check is 400 a month, with 250 in food stamps. Half of what they get now on unemployment, which itself, was less than half of what they took home when they had proper paying jobs.

Now the government has canceled about 1.2 million peoples unemployment benefits, due to congress not passing the extension. Today was their last check. Another 2.2 million will loose theirs by the end of the month. Due to the drop, in people collecting, the government is reporting unemployment figures dropped too, to 9.8 percent from the 15.4 percent. AND the news media is reporting NEW claims for unemployment are on the rise. WHO IS LYING TO WHOM here?!

All this adds to the stress levels now being experienced by those who are unemployed. It is a wonder the suicide rates have not increased, but maybe they will soon.

UPS and the Grand Tour.

2010-06-24T06:38:00.000-07:00

United Parcel Service.. yes, so called number 2 in package delivery world wide.. Number 1 in the USA.

I have a question for UPS Executives.. How come my packages take the grand tour of the US before being delivered?

I pay to have my packages delivered in the least amount of time, not the maximum time allowed by the contract. (3-5 days means it gets there in 3 days if possible not always on the 5th day).

a month ago, I ordered some stuff online from a website and they sent it standard UPS. Using the tracking number I tracked this package, thinking that since it was coming from L.A. California, it would be 4 days. This package went from LA to Phoenix, to Chicago, to PURETO RICO, back to Chicago, then Detroit then finally to the local UPS office in Kalamazoo which is the closest UPS facility to me.

Now mind you, Chicago is 80 air miles from K-zoo, and Detroit is 250 driving miles away. Pureto Rico is another COUNTRY away, some 1,900 miles south east of me.

So this package went from Chicago, to PR and back, then to Detroit and back. Total waste of time, waste of resources. And the package was delivered 2 days late. I chewed out some major hind end at the local UPS office when I found out it was in P.R.

well maybe this was an isolated incident. Right? WRONG.

Last Friday I ordered something thru amazon and again tracked it. This time the Item went to some place in Indiana just out side Chicago THEN to some place in Ohio (near Toledo), THEN back to Kalamazoo. The package traveled an additional 300 miles out of its way and delayed delivery by one day..

Every package I have been able to track, takes these grand tours, being sent to places it has no business being in..

Try tracking your next package and see how much of the USA it has seen.

No Thanks, Windows 7 Sucks.

2010-06-08T20:29:00.000-07:00

I didn't like Vista when it came out, and now they have Windows 7. Another peice of Totally messed up Microsoft highly priced garbage.

When is Microsoft going to learn? IF it will not run in "classic" mode, ya might as well not put it on the market.

I just spent 2 hours in a long distance trouble shooting conversation with my moms renter who could not get their computer to access the Internet. You see my mom rents a little summer house, or cottage, and as part of that, gives the renter Internet access. I installed a router and ran a special cat 5 line from moms house to the rental house, (about 50 feet), and its worked great for the last 3 years. But the new renter has WINDOWS 7.

Im running XP Pro, my laptop has XP home, and my sis's computer has Windows 7. So I disabled my Internet connection on sis's W7 machine then it took me an HOUR to figure out how to turn it back on. No help was available from anyone.

In XP you go to Control panel, then network connections. Very simple. In W7 you gotta figure out what bloody menu does what. I tried the help files, but they just told me to open some other window that I already had opened. DUH..

I do not like the "super bar" nor the way the icons sit in the task bar.

Over all, I think a lot of people will end up hating W7 as bad as they do Vista.

"Oil spill response team" for the gulf?

2010-06-04T14:04:00.001-07:00

Been watching the local news about the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and a thought hit me.

Here where I live, we have a small group of people who are paid full time to do one thing: Fight fires. Their job is first, to fight any fire that happens in any public building, such as the City center, State building, or Federal building down town. These guys and gals get paid to sit on their butts, and be ready to, and if necessary actually fight and put out a fire in those buildings. They also fight fires in homes, apartment buildings and other privately owned structures. If they are not fighting fires, they are training how to do so; practicing various scenarios.

Now, it seems to me, that in the Gulf of Mexico, we have well over 100 wells. We know oil spills will happen. So why isn't there an oil spill response team standing by for the whole area?

Once again lack of proper leadership, lack of proper government oversight, has caused yet another disaster to be bigger than what it needed to be.

If government is going to be the one responsible for allowing or disallowing drilling offshore, then it seems to me they also have the responsibility to ensure protection of the environment in case of an accident which will, sooner or later, happen.

The Oil accident by BP is a perfect example, of yet another "too little too late" attitude response, which the US government seems to have adopted as its standard.

Like many of you people, I am tired of paying high taxes to people who are not doing the job that needs to be done, which should be done, and which should already be done.

Vote the bums out in November, and lets try some new leadership.

Who is responsible for enforcing existing laws?

2010-05-06T15:27:00.000-07:00

The Federal (national) government has specific authority, powers and responsibilities granted to it, by the states, via the contract called the Constitution for the united States Of America.

If the fed does not do its job, does it not then fall upon the states to uphold those laws as they understand them? This is what Arizona has done.

Arizona sees the immigration problem not as a civil problem, but as an invasion of our sovereign nation. And it is taking steps to ensure the safety of its citizens, and the union.

Yet people are complaining about this government uphold the laws that already exist! Why is this?

Personally, I think that any American who stands against upholding our laws, and stands with the criminals who have violated our nations laws, should themselves be decreed criminals, and charged with aiding and abetting known criminals.

If the government ever decides this invasion is an act of war, then these people should be charged with treason for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

America is a nation of laws. It is up to all of us to uphold those laws and not support the lawless.

Changing course.

2010-04-27T17:05:00.001-07:00

America is at a critical time in our nations history. We must change the course that this country is currently taking.

Imagine a big ocean going tanker, that takes 10 miles just to make a right hand turn.

Imagine that it takes 10 years to make that right hand turn. This is the situation America is in today. We know if we continue our current course, America will end up as corrupt and as dysfunctional as any Communistic/socialistic government has in the past, and the Great American Experiment will end in total failure.

We can avoid that fate.

Today, most Americans have come to the conclusion that both political parties have been infiltrated by socialists/Communists, and this is not the American way. We are facing a debt that can never be paid off in any number of lifetimes. But that fate is avoidable. How do we do it?

As the Tea Party people have said, Both parties have to go. We need fresh faces in congress that are CONSERVATIVE orientated people. People who believe in limited government, lower taxes. America cannot provide for the whole world. It is time we start taking care of our own needs first.

2010, Vote every incumbent (anyone who is re-running for congress) out of office and replace them with conservatives. Conservatives can come from both main parties and
3rd parties. Any office that has new people running for office, because the incumbent has chosen not to run for office, should be filled again, with a conservative.

2012, take back the white house, with a conservative candidate. No re-hashes of old faces. No 3rd party candidates. No Ron Paul, No Mitt Romney, No Hillary Clinton, no more of the same ole crap. The old gang must be fired and put out of public office.

In 2011, the new congress must begin undoing what the socialistic democrat controlled (and republican approved) congress has done for the last 4 years. Undo the blatantly unconstitutional national health care take over for starters. Congress MUST stop overspending immediately. They must start eliminating federal departments that are no longer needed. Department of Education - gone or reduced by 80 percent. Department of energy is a total failure, eliminate it and move the Nuclear oversight portion to another department. Over all most departments need to be reduced in size by at least 20 percent.

Close immigration for a period of 4 years, until we get this mess cleaned up. Congress should assign members of both house and senate to a joint committee on rewriting our nations immigration laws, and day worker laws. Immigration when opened, should return to the pre 1960 levels, and requirements.

Close the borders, Notify all illegals to leave the country then start a round up and send them home.

Pass law, no more anchor babies. If other countries do not allow it, why should we?

Balanced budget law, limiting congress to overspend only by 5 percent each year, based on the previous years revenue collected.

Open NAFTA and GATT and re-negotiate. Free trade is not fair trade to American workers. No more Free trade.

Tax law, if the IRS cannot identify the liability statute, they have no business collecting it. Subject IRS books, publications to the standards of the Office of Management and Budget paperwork reduction act. This alone will save hundreds of millions.

Make English the national language. All official publications to be printed in one language. This will save millions.

And last but not least, begin a program of paying off existing debts using apportionment.

Within 10 years, the Ship USA will be on a new course, and the huge debt we now have, will not become "unpayable". It may take us the next 50 years to pay it off, or even the next 100, but it will be possible if we do this now. And America will be saved.

Saying NO to Ron Paul for 2010

2010-04-14T18:44:00.000-07:00

Sorry. But this Teaparty member will not endorse, nore vote for Ron Paul in 2010. Nor do I support nor approve of Steele as the RNC chairman. It is time for Steele to go. He has failed to lead the party where it needed to go. He has failed to rally the troops.

And Ron Paul to me, represents another attempt by the progressives to derail the Tea Party movement. And that is unacceptable.

America is Broke - what that really means.

2010-04-09T06:33:00.000-07:00

For all 535 voting members of the Legislature,

It is now official, you are ALL corrupt morons:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.

This is why America is now Broke. Your solutions are failures. Maybe its time to try the tested and true way of living: You want to eat? You had better work. Plain and simple.

Tea Party Day 15 April 2010

2010-04-08T06:34:00.000-07:00

We hear a lot about the Tea Party people in the news lately, and some folks still do not understand what the Tea Party movement is about.

It is NOT Democrats, it is NOT Republicans.

What it is, is common Americans shedding the 2 party system, who are demanding that the Representatives in congress obey their oaths of office and represent the people. That is that congress does its job according to the constitution, NOT special interest. That congress represent the people, not its own agenda. That congress understands they work for us, and that we do not exist to provide for government.

The current administration is the worst in our nations history, but it is not alone. Both parties have helped create the current situation and that is what is angering most Americans.

Americans are fast becoming intolerant of big government and increasing taxes, while at the same time they watch government sell out their jobs with unbalanced trade agreements that benefit the other parties and not America.

While the average family's resources drop lower and lower, both State and Federal governments are suffering lack of revenue flow, and are trying to pass new and higher taxes to make up the difference. The problem is, the people who would pay those taxes, just do not have the money.

In other words, congress is increasing spending, increasing taxes, when we are at a time when they should be reducing both.

Add to all that, the practicaly indescribable unconstitutional piece of legislation called ovomit care, (national health care) and all of its hundreds of constitutional violations and you can see why people are angry. And that is where the Tea Parties come into play.

People from all walks of life. Democrats, Republicans, 3rd party people. People of all races, Black White, Yellow, Green, Red, etc. are coming together under the tea party banner to protest both State and Federal policies and taxing, that they believe is destroying the very fabric of America, and which is stealing the American Dream from future generations.

Although there has been 1 confirmed direct threat against one member of congress, it would not surprise me to find out that many many more happened.

If the current congress continues on its path of self inflicted destruction on this nation, it would not surprise me to eventually read in the news media of physical violence against some of the members of congress. Nor would it surprise me to learn some day that 1 or 2 or so just "disappeared", never to bee seen nor heard from again.

I hope it does not come to that. I hope the American people will rise up in November and exercise their right to vote an vote ALL of the bums out. Firing the entire House of Representatives and 1/3rd of the Senate on the same day will be a FIRST for our country. A page in history that will reverberate through out future decades. History will show that day as the day the American people stood United and reminded the US congress who they work for.

We the American people, the people of the Tea Parties.

It's the economy, Stupid!

2010-03-04T06:26:00.000-08:00

Yes, that's what they told George Bush Sr, when he ran for re-election. And that is what we are telling congress in 2010. They are not listening to the people. Instead of dealing with the issues at hand, this congress is determined under Democratic leadership to shove a health care reform plan that we the people do not want, upon us.

At a time when government made some bad decisions earlier with NAFTA, which resulted in a whole economy being uprooted and moved overseas, our government is doing things that are not required of us and many people are on what is now being seen as perpetual unemployment benefits, or a new type of welfare.

They tell us to go get jobs. Where? Ronald Reagan talked of "trickle down economics". And people scoffed at him for that idea. Yet we see it clearly today in the areas that were hit hard by the NAFTA uprooting. Not just one bit of manufacturing, but ALL manufacturing has been effected. Automotive, pharmaceutical, furniture, and hard goods (Cloths washers, dryers, Stoves, Refrigerators, etc), all have been effected.

The results of those central items to the local economies have tricked down and we see the results. People who used to work in those fields, used to use their pay to buy groceries, pet supplies, go out to dinner at restaurants, buy goods and services of all types, which provided various jobs in the local economies. Local Grocery stores, bakeries, Car repair places such as muffler shops, break shops and tire shops, Hair care shops, book stores, Specialty shops all have seen reduced customer buying, and many had to close their doors. This caused even more unemployment.

Manufacturing is the center of all of the economies in this area. when they left, 85 percent of the local economy left with it.. and worst of all, the Revenue sources, government depended on, were also removed. We the people had to make adjustments, but government never did.
That is why we are in the situation we are in.

Government made this mess with NAFTA. Free trade is not FAIR trade. And if government wants to get us OUT of this mess, NAFTA must be re-negotiated and re-written to be FAIR trade. Otherwise, government will fail, because will spend itself into oblivion.

Secret bonus's for destroying lives?

2010-03-03T05:17:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine, Bob Hurt from Florida writes:

http://oastilley.wordpress.com/

Look through the articles at the above link and find some insights into the conviction a few months ago of Oscar Stilley and Lindsey Springer in a tax crimes case. Oscar and Lindsey have collaborated in helping IRS victims fight criminal charges in court. Three years ago Oscar won a stinging victory against the IRS in the Robert Lawrence case – he revealed to the DOJ at the 11th hour his intent to marshal a Paperwork Reduction Act defense against charges of willful failure to file. The DOJ whined that it had not prepared an offense for that defense and begged the judge for time. The judge said no, and the DOJ moved to dismiss, with prejudice. Lindsey Springer collaborated with Oscar in preparing the defense. And that defense has lost in circuit courts of appeal for a variety of reasons, chiefly because the judges seem unable to read and comprehend the PRA, or the tax laws harmonized with the Constitution, for that matter.

Then, the IRS started a criminal investigation of Oscar and Lindsey, determined to make them pay for making the government agents look like fools. Gubmunt Goons crashed into Lindsey’s house and stole $12,000 from him, later returning only $10,000, and the court has refused to force the crooks to return the balance of the money. Do you smell criminal gang activity or racketeering?

As Frank Kowalik pointed out in his book IRS HUMBUG, the income tax appears to apply only to US government employees, and a “return” actually constitutes a kickback for the privilege of working in a cushy government job. Think about all those life long benifits congress critters get after serving only 2 terms.

Now if you think the state courts give noble patriots a bad deal, that cannot hold a candle to the egregious abuses of the biggest law firm in the world against the people of the states, without an iota of jurisdiction, from my way of seeing things. As others have repeatedly said, and I affirm, the Constitution must enumerate powers, and I see no power for the US government to impose upon people of the several states any liability to pay a direct unapportioned tax, NOR an non-geographically-uniform excise tax on occupations of common right. Yes, the US government has plenary taxing power, but only within certain constraints.

The Dept Of Just-us of course wins almost all of its tax crime battles. They, the IRS agents, and judges can, of course, obtain SECRET cash awards of up to $35,000 for a job well done through their destruction of a state citizen’s life in a tax crime prosecution, not to mention utterly illegal liens and levies.

Judges need a new dose of “NO MORE IMMUNITY” throughout state and federal courts. You only get rid of it through attack, LOUD, OFTEN, and HARD.

Feel free to Google the article “How to Bring Justice to Judges.” Now seems like a good time to review it.

BOB is correct in assertation. How can we the American people obtain justice if our own court system will not uphold the laws of this land, and instead act as co conspirators in a war against the American people? When the federal judge who was a retired marine threw out the case against barrak husain ovomit, I knew then that no judge in America would uphold their oath of office and America had become a lawless, leaderless society.

This kind of situtation is intollerable for americans. It is not right, and we should not have to put up with it. We pay their salaries, and if they are not doing their job, it is time to FIRE THEM. So now we have people trying do the research to find out how we can.

In other words, Tea Party part II: The Judicial System.

Fair tax, Flat tax, National Retail Sales tax, and the current system

2010-02-28T17:39:00.000-08:00

Reallyfedup and I were chatting in "constitutional conservatives united" chat room over on paltalk, and we ended up in a tax debate over the "fair tax". For the first time it occured to me some things that so far have not been mentioned about the current system and compairing it to the new proposed fair tax.

Under the fair tax, we the people would allow our government just one source of taxable revenue: Sales taxes. Now I stand against the fair tax, as I think its a bad idea because of issues already stated. However I could support it, IF the amount of the sales tax did not exceed 15 percent on start up and required a super majority vote of 75 percent of both House and Senate, to raise the rate, and the rate could only be raised 3 percent per year.

Now with our current system congress can tax many items, thus it has many sources of revenue.
Duty taxes on any number of items, Custom taxes on any number of items, direct taxes apportioned, and excise taxes which can be placed on specific items or privileges.

Now why would the government want to give up a Multi-source revenue flow, (which our current system is, even if its broke) for one that has just 1 source of revenue?

Again, that is why the Fair tax will never become law. The people reject a single payer healthcare system, as the government will reject a single source revenue system.

Time for the Goverment to come clean about the Income Tax.

2010-02-20T21:18:00.000-08:00

At a time when our government is demanding more and more of our property (taxes), shouldn't the government have to show us how we are liable for the income tax?

For over 50 years, people involved in what is now known as the Tax Honesty Movement have been trying to find ways to challenge the IRS's (and the governments) claim that the money we get for working for a living is taxable income and for which there is a liability.

People like Irwin Schiff, Bob Shultz, Joe Bannister (former IRS agent), Sherry Jackson, John Kotimer of Save-a-Patriot, Barry Knoicov (formerly of DeTaxing America), Pete Hendrickson, and many many others have given their lives to finding out what the liability is.

Bob Shultz, of WE the People foundation, Petitioned the US congress with a Redress of Grievances, seeking answers to questions; among which were questions about the Income tax liability. Taking the issue to court, the lower courts said the government has no duty to answer our questions.

The courts do not know what it is. They still argue over what the definition of "Income" is.

The IRS doesn't know what it is, and if it does, it refuses to answer.

The Tax honesty movement, has therefore been left to prove things on its own.. and here is what they have found out.

The IRS is the agent of the agent of the US government. The governments agent is the Secretary of the treasury. His/her agent is the people that work under him/her and are collectively called the IRS.

The IRS system of record keeping is so screwed up, no one really can understand it. Their computers are outdated before they even get them running.

The courts cannot agree if the income tax is a direct tax requiring apportionment or an excise tax which does not. One circuit court will say one thing, the other will say something else.

The US Supreme court has given us a definition of income but many still do not think it is clear enough.

the US Supreme court has stated that the 16th amendment did not create any new powers of taxation, nor did it change any of the tax restrictions which existed at the time of its adoption. (properly declared ratified or not), and that congress has always had the power to tax incomes.

The courts have also said the income tax is an excise tax. And again the US Supreme court has told us what an excise tax is.

The Social Security card and number belongs to the US government, it is not mine, nor yours. And having one does not create an income tax liability.

Commercial corporations are not required by law to obtain a SSN from a newly hired worker as a condition to hire them, to pay them, according to a non published court case EEOC V ISC, where the courts told the defendant that the law requires them to ask for a SSN, and if none is given, to send a letter of transmittal to the IRS.

IRS agents are not trained in law, they are trained in procedures. Just like today's cops. Neither has to know the law that they are enforcing. Makes you wonder how they can enforce something they don't know about.

All capitals for your name on legal documents, , doesn't create any liability or presumed duty to act in any specific way.

When signing any IRS form under penalties of perjury a citizen is waiving their constitutionally (?!) secured rights against self incrimination.

The courts have said there are "taxpayers and non-taxpayers". Taxpayers are subject to the law, Non-taxpayers are not. And that the non taxpayer has no recourse using taxpayer procedures and forms. Yet the courts today force non taxpayers to use taxpayer forms and procedures before allowing a citizen to seek judicial oversight and judicial injunction against the IRS.

There is no liability statute in Subtitle A, chapter 1 of the IRC which is the income tax.

The first liability statute in subtitle A, is found in chapter 3, tax on nonresident aliens and foreign corporations. The liability is section 3461, and the withholding agent is made liable.

Other taxes found in the IRS also have liability sections. Section 5005 Sub paragraph B, Sentence 1, contains the liability section for who is liable for taxes imposed on distillers or importers of distilled spirits. Yet there is no liability section for Subtitle A, Chapter 1, or 2, the income tax on individuals or the self employed.

This leads the average man or woman to wonder why we are paying for something which we may not even owe!

Every one wants to pay their fair share, as it were, for our government. We all want the best government in the world and understand that will cost money. The problem we face today is that our government has gone way beyond its Constitutional boundaries. And this nation is now facing debt that is so great, 3 generations not yet born will be born into bondage to pay for it all.

That isn't right and is just plain wrong.

People in chat rooms, don't even have a clue as to the financial restrictions imposed on our government by the States thru the Constitution. They talk of Flat tax (a direct tax which would be unconstitutional) a National Retail Sales tax (an excise tax which we already have, you just don't see it) and the Fair tax (which is not a solution at all). All the fair tax does is change the way they take our money, it does not address the real issues of accountability, and government overspending. It also does not eliminate the IRS, and instead changes its name, and adds another government department which sends out a monthly check to tax payers. It causes government to grow, not shrink.

They talk of eliminating the IRS, the idea of which is proof some people are dumb. As long as this government has a treasury and someone has to collect and account for the revenue, there will be some group of people that do the function the IRS does, no matter what name you give it.

Everyone agrees that our biggest problem is lack of accountability of the IRS and its workers. So what is the solution? Impose oversight. We have a government department that does that. It is called the Office of Management and budget. Require the IRS to adhere to the rules and regulations imposed by the OMB, and you will fix 90 percent of its problems.

IF the IRS cannot identify the liability statute, it has no business taking money from us, without violating our 4th and 5th Amendment secured rights. Period.

Income tax: IF Congress and the courts cannot get it right, why should we be expected to?

2010-02-04T12:16:00.000-08:00

In an email group that I am a moderator of, we were talking about the effect of Bob Shultz's We The People organization, and its effects on the over all tax honesty movement. Below are 2 parts of the conversation I think you will find very interesting.

When Bob first started out, before he was WTP, homogeneity was not a problem. But he wanted to get various Patriot leaders and their groups together. So he set up his original public event on the steps of the Capitol Building with CSpan and several elected representatives and tried to enlist a number of speakers. . . . I was one of the possible speakers. Being as young and as naive as most people here, I declined. I believed that the so-called income tax was an indirect excise and two of his best known speakers believed that it was a direct tax. I decided that it would do more damage than good for both perspectives to be propounded from the steps of the Capitol Building.

Assuming there would have been several representatives & C-Span coverage, that would have been a golden opportunity to expose one of the biggest problems of all - the fact that in many cases there is no definitive answer & the laws are supposed to be written so the average person with a decent education can understand them. Some of the U.S. Courts of Appeals have held that the income tax is a direct tax, others have held that it's an indirect tax, the 2nd Circuit has ruled both ways & here's what a federal judge in the eastern district court in Tennessee had to say during the conference where both sides & the judge discuss jury instructions:

THE COURT: He has been allowed to testify at length regarding his theory about excise taxes and so forth. But I am not going to tell this jury one way or the other whether or not the income tax is an excise tax. Frankly, I don't know. I haven't reached that point myself.

OK, so if a federal district judge doesn't know, the 4th Circuit says one thing, the 9th Circuit says another, the 2nd Circuit's gone both ways, how on earth can the average taxpayer know? Mr. Congressman, can you tell us which it is? How about you, Mr. Senator? People are being prosecuted for violating a "known legal duty", but the "duty" can't possibly be known if the public doesn't even know what kind of tax they're supposed to pay! Or if it even applies to their situation in the 1st place!

The "uncertainty of the law" issue has been argued successfully in a few cases, like U.S. v. Critzer, 498 F.2d 1160 (1974), in which the 4th Circuit said:

"While the record amply supports the conclusion that the underreporting was intentional, the record also reflects that, concededly, whether defendant's unreported income was taxable is problematical and the government is in dispute with itself as to whether the omitted income was taxable. We therefore reverse the judgments of guilt and direct defendant's exoneration from criminal liability." (Emphasis added).

But such issues have not been brought to the forefront & a televised interview with Congresscritters on the steps of the Capitol would have been an EXCELLENT place to do it.

This is what I see as the major problem with "patriots", especially those who espouse unproven or already defeated methods & Robert Parker hit the nail on the head referring to egos - the "gurus" have this "I'll tell YOU what the law says" attitude, rather than raising the issue as a question - especially a question which the Gov't. has no definitive answer for. He who puts forth the claim bears the burden of proving it & rather than risk not being able to, which most people can't, just throw it out there as a question & let the public see that the Gov't. doesn't know the answer. Make Congresscritters look like idiots on camera & see how fast they scramble - maybe they'll clarify the tax code, maybe they won't & the odds are they won't, but until you get a huge number of people saying wait just a damn minute now - you better straighten this mess out, Congress, nothing positive will happen.

Let's use the fatally flawed & failed "861 argument" as another example of the "uncertainty of the law" - OK, let me ask you this, Mr. Congressman - if these "sources" sections don't tell me if I have "taxable income" or not, which section does? There are NUMEROUS sections of the tax code you could approach the same way! And back to the jury instruction conference mentioned above, here's part of one jury instruction which was given:

"Turning now to the third element of this offense. You are instructed that the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant's failure to make a return was willful. Willfulness is the voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty. The defendant's failure to make a return was willful if the law imposed a duty on defendant to file a return; he knew of this duty; and he voluntarily and intentionally violated that duty. The defendant's conduct was not willful if he acted through negligence, inadvertence, mistake, or due to a good faith misunderstanding of the law. If the defendant had a subjective good faith belief, no matter how unreasonable, that the law did not require him to file tax returns, he did not act willfully. (Emphasis added).

And that instruction is just exactly why the defendant was found not guilty - did he file returns? No. Was he required to was what the jury wanted to know, but they didn't get an answer. The whole case boiled down to whether or not he willfully violated a known legal duty - yes or no. The jury said no. (U.S. v. Lloyd Long, No. CR-1-93-91, EDTN 1993).

So we're right back to the point - what is that "known legal duty"? And rather than blast away with what your theories of it are, just ask the Gov't. to PROVE to you "beyond a reasonable doubt" what it is! Obviously they can't - but the public doesn't know that.

Now, if the congress cannot make it clear, so that the courts can figure it out, Why should the burden of proof be on the American citizens?!!
We are being forced to prove a negative, which is very clear to me, is impossible to do! Yet this is the system we have.

Changing it to a flat tax, or a "fair tax" will not solve the problem. Only imposing proper oversight will.

If congress cannot make it clear, if the courts cannot see it clearly and all agree then the IRS should have no business trying to collect something which is clearly not a tax, and thus not lawfully collectedable under our laws, without violating the 4th Amendment.

Job Growth 2010 - low pay unskilled jobs

2010-01-20T03:53:00.000-08:00

Carreer Builders dot com has an interesting article, of the jobs growth to expect in 2010.
10 jobs, of which 6 of the top 7 are low skilled, low paying jobs, such as store clerks, shelf stockers, and customer service reps. The only high skilled paying job was a R.N. (Registered nurse). Medical professions were the only high paying jobs represented in this top 10 list.

Sad day for America.

Lessons learned 2000 to 20010

2010-01-18T16:54:00.001-08:00

In 2006, the American people voted in a democratic majority into congress and the result was 4 dollar a gallon gas prices. Members of congress listened to environmental Nazi's and passed a law that reduced our ability to refine crude oil into usable products by requiring 2 refineries get shut down, when you build 1 new one. This at a time when we needed more refineries. Stupid move.

Then the US Congress called in the CEO's of the major oil companies to complain about the huge profits these companies made. Some of the CEO's threw congress's accusations back at the congress, blaming the congress for the mess. Reminding the Congress that the US government makes more money (revenue) from a gallon of oil, than all the companies involved in its extraction all the way down to selling it retail, combined.

They also blamed congress for the lack of refineries. The congress was lead by democrats.

In 2008, the housing industry fell. again, due to laws imposed on banks by the Democrats. Then the banks needed bailing out.

In 2008, the American people under what is now being seen as the most corrupted election in the 200+year history of the USA, And amidst claims of corruption, voter fraud, voter count tampering, and out right criminal activities, the lowest majority of voters ever recorded, voted in a man whose constitutional qualifications to even take the office, was in question. The Majority of eligible voters did not vote.

In 2009, President apparent Barry Seotoro, aka Brarak Obama, spent 4 times as much for his inauguration than the past president. Then within 90 days of his taking office, he spent as much money as the last 2 presidents spent during their entire tenure as president, combined.

In his first 36 hours in office, Obama signed executive orders sealing all his personal records so that the public could not get access to them. How he could do this, is any ones guess, as the records at colleges and the bar association should be a matter of public record, not subject to the whims of ANY sitting or non sitting President.

That's right. Obama spent in 90 days what the last 2 presidents spent in 16 years.

In 2009, the Democrats tried to reform health care, when there is no such provision for doing so, under the Constitution.

in 2008 Democrats AND Republicans tried to pass an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. It was done under Reagan once, but apparently its goal of keeping illegals out, did not work. Luckily the American people HOUNDED congress, and the bill never got passed.

In 2009, Democrats tried to get amnesty as part of the 1.5 trillion health care reform act.
It was soundly defeated.

In 2008, and 2009, a number of citizens tried to bring Barrak Obama to court to force him to prove he was Constitutionally qualified to hold the office of President. Time and time again, Federal Judges who took an oath to uphold the Constitution, committed acts of treason, breach of oath of office, and crimes against the Constitution by refusing to hear the cases. If we the people do not have standing, who does?

In 2008 and 2009, Republicans failed to rally and vigorously demand Obama prove his credentials.

During the 2009 year of his office, Obama wrote many Executive orders that clearly circumvent the limitations of the office of the President and nothing was done by either party to stop such actions.

In 2010, the American people awakened to the reality that the man sitting in this nations highest office, along with members of congress, spent in less than 90 days what the 2 previous administrations spent in the last 16 years, putting this country so deeply into debt, that it will be at least 8 generations before they ever see the light of day, IF we get this country on a financial track of recovery in 2011.

In 2009, over 2.5 million people attended a "tea party rally" in WDC. Not one arrest was made, and the area was left very clean, with trash and garbage piled neatly in designated areas. The media reported thousands, while the DC police and National park services gave the estimates of 2.1 and 2.5 million respectfully. Obama left town to go to Minnesota for that weekend and claimed he knew nothing of the rally.

It is clear, the American people are being ignored by members of congress, and the call for 2010 is to vote them all out, regard less of party membership.. Fire 'em all, is a battle cry for Patriots and Tea party members alike. Even long time democrats are attending the Tea parties, but the media still refuses to acknowledge this fact.

Americans in numbers never seen since WWII are angry that the US congress has REFUSED to listen to them, and keeps spending money we do not have. The First of what appears to be several backlashes is going to happen in November of 2010. We will see just how angry the American voters are. Every seat in the US House of Representatives is up for election and 1/3rd of the US Senate is up for election.

People are calling this the Ejection Election of 2010, when the American People EJECT the members of congress who refused to listen to the people while this country was slipping into recession.

Jump starting America's new Economy- what we need.

2010-01-16T11:56:00.000-08:00

Face it. Government operates on Revenue, aka taxes.
Government gets its taxes from 3 sources: people, businesses and from trade both interstate and international.

If government wants more revenue, it needs to set up its policies to encourage maximum participation in employment, in business and in trade.

Giving tax cuts to businesses is not a bad idea, IF it is done right. There is no sense in giving business tax cuts only to see the tax cuts go into the CEO's pocket.

Offering tax cuts for investing in newer updated machinery, such as Presses, office equipment, safety equipment, new buildings for expansion, etc.. is a good idea.

Eliminating taxes on inventory, is a good idea. Why punish a business for having inventory that the business is going to use to make profit, which is then taxed.

Offering a tax cut for installing solar panels, for use to run AC systems or even compliment the electrical usage of the business is a good idea.

Business surcharges, is a bad idea. Mandates are a bad idea.

The average business needs to make a 20 percent profit margin just to stay in business, that is 20 percent after all expenditures are paid for, including but not limited to, the cost of paying workers, the cost of paying off machinery, electric bills, rental fees (for space for the business to be in), paying off share holders and all taxes. All said and done, 20 percent at years end is a good amount. Companies can then re-invest this 20 percent in research and development, new workers, and new machinery or whatever they need to expand the business.

Individual workers already pay enough in taxes. They pay the hidden taxes imposed on business, when they buy the goods and services provided by the businesses at the retail level.

However, even individuals can be given incentives. Home owners all over the USA can be given tax incentives to invest in Solar technology or wind power technology to supplement their own power usage at home. Just 2, 4x8 solar panels on the roof of an average home, can save money in the long run, and in a town or village of 2,000, if every home has this, the electrical usage from coal fired power plants can be reduced.

Government needs to invest in finding ways to reduce the cost of solar technology so that it becomes cost effective for both home owner and business owner. Using solar hot water heaters can be a way to save money as well. In Israel for example, ever home and business has a solar hot water heater installed on their roof. Combined, they save millions in energy costs.

NAFT must be repealed. Fair trade is one thing, Free trade destroys a country and its revenue base, not to mention its standard of living.

Elimination of the general fund; (a.k.a. the pig troff), or limiting the type of taxes that get dumped into it, must be done.

New taxes should be raised for specific bills, and once paid, the tax sunset and no longer collected. The amounts collected under those bills, should have to be used only for its intended purpose, and not be allowed to be used for anything else, nor re-routed to the general fund.

Imposing limitations on governments ability to get credit, must also be imposed. No more unlimited spending, leaving a generation not yet born, to have to pay for it. Such is generational tyranny and sooner or later, its going to be refused by a generation that just stands up and says HELL NO! We are NOT GOING TO PAY FOR YOUR DEBTS!

Eliminate property taxes. These taxes should be outlawed as a matter of principal. The foundation of every man is his own labor, or results of said labor. Owning property free and clear of government is a god given right. To force the man to pay a yearly fee for said property is to admit he never fully owns it, and that government does. That is Communism, not Freedom.

Get people working and spending and the revenue streams will go from a trickle, to a raging flood for government. The more a man has in his had on payday, the more government will get from it, when he starts spending it on goods and services.

IRS just doesn't get it - Everything that comes in is NOT income.

2010-01-13T04:37:00.001-08:00

Local TV station news webpage had an article the other day of how home owners who have their homes forclosed are going to get screwed yet again by the system.

Only this time its going to be by the IRS. The Unaccountable IRS that still thinks that "income" = everything that comes in. Even after several court cases have said other wise.

Income as used in the tax laws is very specific. It is profit, seperated from the captital.

The article claims that the amount left due on a morgage that is forgiven when the bank takes back the property is thus income and taxable on the person. THis is WRONG.

Heres how they say it works.. You go out and get a 100k home loan. You paid off 150 of the 300k 30 year mortage. The economy dives and you loose your home in forclosure.

The bank takes back the house, and you have to pay income tax on the remaning 150k of the loan. Their justification is, that when the bank gave you the money, it was not taxed as income, as it was a loan. This is true, it is NOT income, but not becasue it is a loan. The reason it is not income is because you did not use any capital to invest, and the money is not a return of that investment, therefore it is not INCOME as used by the tax laws.

The IRS justifys its actions by saying that since you did not have to pay back that extra 150k, that it represents a profit to you and is thus taxable. But no, it is not a profit. YOU LOST that profit, when the bank took back the house. So how can that balance be a profit, or a benifit to you?

This is why we MUST force accountablity standards on the IRS. The IRS is making claims it cannot justify the amounts it is STEALING from the american people.

Folks who have worked their entire lives, only to see the fruits of their labor taken from them, should not be penalized yet again. But that is what the IRS is doing and getting away with.

We need to Say NO to this kind of theivery, and tell the IRS to sit on it and rotate.

Do not Drill here, Do not drill Now, - instead, Build here, build now - Refineries.

2010-01-12T05:45:00.000-08:00

America has plenty of oil to last us for the next 300 years. We have producing wells that are capped all over the place. New pumping and extraction techniques are allowing older wells to be re-tapped and they become producing wells yet again.

The problem we have is refineries. During the 1980's, the environmental Nazis, got a bill passed thru the Federal congress that said in effect, that for every new refinery built, 2 older ones must be taken down.

America now has less than half the refinery capacity it had during the 1970's oil embargo under Carter.

There are different types of crude oil, and oil is trapped in different types of soil. Being able to extract that oil and refine the contaminants out of it, is necessary for the long term energy policy.

Most of our refineries are designed to refined "sweet crude" that is crude oil with little or no sulfur or other contaminates. However, many of our wells have crudes with higher amounts of sulfur or other contamination's. WE do not have the capacity to refine these kinds of crude because of the Environmental Nazis.

WE do not need "drill here drill now".

What we need is "build here, build now, a new refinery" capable of refining the more contaminated types of crude oils.

USA is like private country clubs.

2010-01-12T05:00:00.000-08:00

To understand what the USA is, is difficult for many people, so I use the sport of Golf, to explain it to people.

Each state, is like a private country club. The Bear, The dunes, Kent Country club, etc. Posh, highly maintained golf courses available ONLY to members and their guests. The membership contributes to the club, and enjoys the benifits of membership, which includes access to the club grounds (18 holes of golf), and club house.

Now this group, decided it wanted access to other country clubs, so they created a bigger organization, whose membership is the clubs themselves. The clubs join the bigger group, called the National golf association.

Now, thru their local club membership, AND their clubs membership in the National club, individual members can go to other clubs, and with a fee, have access to their grounds and clubhouse. The key point being, is that to go to other clubs, they must be a member of a club that is already a member of the national club.

The USA is the same way. The states are the local golf clubs, and the Federal government is the National club.

When one or more of the local clubs, or the national club, starts opening up the courses to anyone, who is a non member, simply by having them pay a minor fee, or by making the courses available for free, the entire national membership and local memberships get damaged.

Because the locals have agreed to specific rules as part of their requirement to join the national level, they are forced to accept the new standards imposed by the national club, even if they are damaged localy.

This is what has happened to the USA. The Federal goverment forgot we are a club, with exclusive membership and opened it up to anyone. In other words they are trying to put more people into this, than it can properly handle. Its like having 5 people trying to use the same sink at the same time. Someone is just going to have to wait.

The problem is, our government is not making people wait they are adding another 3 people to our 5, for the 1 sink.

Where before we all had our own sinks, a better life style and higher standard of living, today we see what we have being taken from us by the national level.

And that is what is happening in america and why it is failing. Perhaps it is time for the states to withdraw their membership.

Revenue problems for the USA

2010-01-10T04:49:00.000-08:00

In the coming years, the Government of the US of A, will have to do something it has not done in nearly 100 years - operate on a balanced budget. In order to do that, the governments ability to have endless credit will have to be diminished, and a limited supply of credit made available to it. It will have to depend on current cash flow instead. That means it will have to know what it has in the treasury so that it can spend only what it has, so that it does not have to use credit.

The current credit payments due, are what is now killing this country financially.

But how can a country know what it has coming into the treasury when it itself, doesn't even understand its own revenue laws?

Recently in an Egroup, Dave Milner and I had a conversation about the misconception of the Income tax.

There are at least 6 US Supreme Court cases that claim the so-called income tax is an indirect tax in the form of an excise. In fact, this is the only aspect of the so-called income tax that the Supreme Court, Congress and the IRS all agree.
An indirect excise is a tax on certain activities or certain privileges. The IRS cannot offer a list of activities that are taxable for revenue purposes that includes most American's jobs. That is why the IRS quotes no liability statute.
One cannot effectively fight the IRS or the so-called income tax unless one first correctly identifies the type of tax one is fighting.

Yes we do have those 6 cases.. Now tell us how working for hourly pay is some how a privilege, or that our pay is pure profit.
Ive already smashed the "your pay is profit" idea. The only way our pay can be pure profit is if we are a business, and we are not. The IRS does not see the difference by choice.
Nor can anyone tell me that the Fed has the authority to declare me to be an employee just because I work for someone else and get paid (even exchange), IMHO.
There is so much wrong with the APPLICATION of the law, not the actual law itself, although the way it is written is so sloppy that it should be declared void for vagueness.

You are absolutely correct, the IRS applies the law and the tax to millions of Americans to whom the laws and the taxes do not apply. Much of the success is based on Americans' ignorance and complacency, but that is no excuse for the misapplication of the law.And you are absolutely correct, working for a private corporation for a paycheck is IN NO WAY an activity that is taxable for revenue purposes.
But you are not correct when you say that the IRS sees no difference between your pay and your profit. The IRS knows very clearly the difference and tricks Americans to proclaim pay equals profit. It does so cleverly and dishonestly, but again it can only accomplish this because of ignorance and complacency on the part of Americans. And lack of accountability by any oversight authority.
If you remember the 16th Amendment wording, Congress has the authority to tax income from whatever source derived. The importance here is the separation of income from its sources. "Income" is taxable, and has been defined in law only once -- the Corporation Excise Tax Act of 1909, where it was defined to be revenue less costs less expenses. In other words, income was profits. This is the only definition of income found in American law.
But the SOURCE of income was NOT taxable. The source of income (profits) is capital. You take your money and invest in a business, the profits of which are revenue-taxable.
And the "source" being capital, is private property: your savings account, your paycheck, etc. To repeat, the "source" is not taxable, and that includes your paycheck.
But look at the Form 1040. It says "list sources of income: W-2s, 1099s, etc." The IRS asks that you list your source of income as if it is taxable, when The Law says it is not taxable.
And Americans do it every year, making their pay equal to their profits. It is Americans that do not see the difference, not the IRS.
And the only way I know of to beat this problem is to get the IRS to change certain entries in your Individual Master File. Once you do this, then you can stop declaring your pay to be equal to profit, and the IRS will leave you alone.

Yes, I agree. what kind of tax is it? The IRS calls it a 1040 tax, yet no such tax exists in the Internal revenue code, nor in any law book. And the fact that the IRS's own book keeping; namely the Individual master file; is wrong and they know it, is again proof of the need of proper oversight of the IRS - the very thing told to us by the 1998 IRS hearings held by US Senator Roth as shown on Cspan.
How can you fight and obtain justice from an entity such as the IRS when no oversight is imposed upon them for their accuracy and their work?

And thus the conversation went on to other things. But the fact is clear: for the IRS to be able to tell the US Treasury department how much money it has, it needs to identify every possible tax imposed (lawfully) by the US congress. For the IRS to claim a 1040 tax, a w-2 tax, or the like, would be to lie to the US congress. Such will not help nor allow the US government to obtain necessary precise knowledge of how much revenue is in the treasury at any given time.

In other words, for the first time in its history, and for the financial future of this country, the IRS must be made accountable for all the information it puts out, both to the tax payers of this country, and to the government itself.

Operation: Ejection Election, 2010.

2010-01-04T20:06:00.000-08:00

That's right folks. No more Mr. Nice Voter. We DEMAND congress listen to us.. and they are not. They failed to hear us, or chose to ignore us.

Operation Ejection Election 2010 is about firing EVERY member of congress in 2010 whose seat is up for re-election. Do not vote for any incumbant. If they are in office now, vote for someone else. A complet turn over of the House of Represenatives will send a resounding message to Washington D.C. - that they work for us, and WE CAN, and WE ARE firing them all!

We said NO to corporate bail outs - yet Ovomit and his cronies gave away millons to CEO's.
We said NO to corporate bail outs, yet Ovomit and crew took over General Motors corporation which STILL ended up filing for bankruptcy protections.

We said NO to healthcare take over, yet they are desperatly trying to shove their system down our throuts. This is NOT the health care reform we wanted.

So lets send a message to WDC.. Operation Ejection Election, were Americans Eject all those bastards who refuse to heed what the American taxpayers are telling them.

Open Felony acts in The US Senate, Bribery 101.

2010-01-04T08:39:00.000-08:00

Submitted for posting by Bob Fasnella, Citizen.

On December 19, 2009, Senator Ben Nelson, democrat, from Nebraska was granted immunity by the democratic Senate leadership from Medicaid funding mandates that all other states will be required to pay in return for his vote to pass the Senate Health Reform Bill.. Two weeks ago, Senator Mary Landrieu, democrat from Louisiana acquired $300,000,000.00 from the Senate democratic leadership for the State of Louisiana in return for her vote to save the Senate Health Care Reform Bill. Would you consider this blackmail, bribery, corruption at its highest level?

Certainly an option very worthy of your consideration!
Pass It On For Our Country
And the memory of our Founding Fathers
At least read this. Form your own opinion, even if you disagree with this issue, but at least read it.. You and I owe that to our country

All I ask is that you consider the suggestion here. The entire Congress of the United States is corrupt.. And I mean both Houses and I mean both major parties. I realize that a few Members of each House are trustworthy, but, as a group they are absolutely the most corrupt bunch to ever disgrace our Nation. In November of 2010 the entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election; all 435 of them. One third of the Senate, a total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election.

Vote every incumbent out.

And I mean every one of them. No matter their Party affiliation.

Let's start all over in the House of Representatives with 435 people who have absolutely no experience in running that body, with no political favors owed to anyone but their own constituents.

Let's make them understand that they work for us.

They are answerable to us and they simply have to run that body with some common sense. Two years later, in 2012, vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out. We can do the same thing in 2014 and, by that time we will have put all new people in that body as well. We, the People, have got to take this Country back and we HAVE to do it peacefully. That's what the Framers of our Constitution envisioned.

I am also suggesting term limits on the NEW BUNCH -- 8 YEARS FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
AND 12 YEARS [2 terms] FOR SENATORS. NO EXCEPTIONS. THE LONGER THEY STAY IN OFFICE THE MORE POWER THEY GET AND THEY LOVE IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RE-ELECTED. WE HAVE TERM LIMITED THE PRESIDENT - NOW LET'S TERM LIMIT THE LEGISLATORS.

And we do away with their Special Retirement system and their health program (they should have same health programs everyone else in America does). When they are through serving their country they go back to being private citizens. They should view their service as a privilege; after all it was designed to be a part time job to represent the voice of the people, NOT the special interest groups and those who can do favors for them.
If they don't like this proposal then don't run for office.

Let's make it happen. VOTE THE POWER ABUSERS OUT........LET'S TAKE AMERICA BACK !!!!!!!!!
IF YOU LIKE THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING IN OUR COUNTRY,
THEN DO NOTHING.........

THIS MOVEMENT IS A RAPIDLY GROWING GRASS ROOTS MOVEMENT TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT.

Bill Benson's mistake, and why the 16th Amendment does not matter.

2010-01-04T08:35:00.000-08:00

Bill Benson's article began with a severe mis-statement. "In 1894 Congress passed an income tax act very similar to the current income tax law." The Act of 1894 was substantially different than the Act of 1909 which was why the Act of 1909 has remained on the books and the Act of 1894 was overturned by the US Supreme Court.

Benson's entire effort was undertaken based on the erroneous belief that "Without a validly ratified Sixteenth Amendment, the federal income tax is unconstitutional." This is a false belief. The Act of 1894 created a direct tax on individual Americans that was not apportioned. This was unconstitutional and declared so by the US Supreme Court. The Corporation Excise Tax Act of 1909 created an indirect excise that applied to the privilege of operating as a corporation and used profits to measure the tax. The Revenue Act of 1913 extended that excise tax to individuals.

Had the current so-called income tax actually been a direct tax, then it is possible that the 16th Amendment allowed for it to exist without apportionment. This would suggest that the repeal of the 16th Amendment would invalidate the current so-called income tax. But the fact is that the current so-called income tax is an indirect excise and the repeal of the 16th would have absolutely no effect on it. Further, the US Supreme Court has underscored this with a number of decisions clarifying that the 16th Amendment added no new powers of taxation to already existing Congressional powers. The Court has also offered several decisions clarifying that the current so-called income tax is an indirect excise and entitled to be enforced as such.

As much as I value and respect the incredible amount of effort put forth by Benson and his team of researchers, the bottom line is that he was misinformed and set about trying to discredit a tax that didn't exist. And the success or failure of his lawsuit will, in my opinion, accomplish the same result -- nothing.

The Bill Benson Case: The law that never was.

2010-01-03T13:07:00.000-08:00

According to Bill Benson, the 16th amendment was never properly ratified and as such, does not allow an unapportioned income tax.

The US supreme court has ruled that the income tax is an excise tax, which has never needed apportionment. In deed if we look at other tax related cases, the court in various forms, reiterate that exicise taxes are privliege taxes, such as the wage tax which like the income tax, is an excise tax.

Bill Benson has been on a legal crusade to get the 16th declared invalid and void. Agree with him or not, This is an example of what just 1 American can and is DOING to change our country for what he believes is for the better. And for that I salute him.

Here is his story.

In 1894 Congress passed an income tax act very similar to the current income tax law. That law was challenged on the basis that a tax on income is a direct tax, the United States Constitution requires direct taxes to be apportioned and the act passed by Congress was not apportioned. The United States Supreme Court agreed and held the income tax act was unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, aff. reh., 158 U.S. 601 (1895).
In 1909 President Taft called a special session of Congress. Taft asked Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to overcome the Supreme Court's Pollock decision. Congress proposed the Sixteenth Amendment, which was then sent, by Secretary of State Knox, to the States for ratification. Certificates, known as enrolled resolutions, were sent back to Knox by the States; but the language on the certificates differed from the 16th Amendment language passed by Congress. Knox sent the certificates to the Solicitor of the United States and asked for a legal opinion as to whether the States had ratified the proposed Sixteenth Amendment.
The Solicitor noted the differences between what Congress proposed and the states ratified and presumed that, because States do not have the authority to alter a proposed Constitutional amendment, none did.
In 1984, William J. Benson traveled to the capitols of all forty-eight states. There he obtained official, certified, copies of each State's legislative journals pertaining to the State's activities in ratifying, or not ratifying, the proposed 16th Amendment. Benson also traveled to Washington, D.C. and obtained from the United States National Archives, certified copies of the official documents pertaining to the proposed 16th Amendment.
The legislative journals conclusively establish, that despite not having the power to do so, several States intentionally modified the language of the proposed amendment. Having done so, the States violated Article V of the United States Constitution, and their votes cannot be counted.
Benson discovered other discrepancies too. He wrote and published a book on what he discovered, The Law That Never Was, Vols 1 and 2, available on his web site at www.TheLawThatNeverWas.com. The 17,000 official, certified, documents conclusively show that less than the constitutionally required thirty-six States voted to ratify the proposed Sixteenth Amendment.
Without a validly ratified Sixteenth Amendment, the federal income tax is unconstitutional. Bill accused the government of a massive fraud and cover-up and urged the American people to exercise their rights under the First Amendment to petition the government to correct this fraud.
In 2004, the government filed a lawsuit against Bill Benson. That lawsuit alleged Bill was falsely telling people the 16th Amendment was not ratified. The government asked the United States District Court in Chicago to issue an order preventing Bill from telling people what he found and preventing him from selling the supporting information through the Internet. The lawsuit also asked for the names and addresses of everyone who obtained Bill's information.
Bill attempted to defend against the allegations that he was lying by filing with the Court the evidence which proves he is telling the truth. The government, being wholly unable to refute the fact that the documents prove Bill is telling the truth, instead asked the Court to strike Bill's evidence from the court record.
The Court struck Bill's evidence from the record, then ruled that Bill had provided no evidence to refute the government's allegations that his statements were false. The Court then issued an injunction making it illegal for Bill to tell the people what he had discovered.
Bill then filed an appeal with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Bill argued that when the District Court refused to look at and consider his evidence, he was denied fundamental due process of law. The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution mandates the government give a defendant, charged with violating the law, a fair hearing in which the Court must consider the defendant's evidence.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, just like the government attorneys, refused to address this issue.
Bill has now filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking them to hear his case.
The District Court pleadings are here: www.jeffdickstein.com/pleadings.aspx
The Court of Appeals pleadings are here: www.jeffdickstein.com/7thcir.aspx
The oral argument before the Seventh Circuit may be heard here: listen now
Here are samples of the official, certified documents Bill obtained: Kentucky / South Dakota
Details of the 16th Amendment argument are here: www.jeffdickstein.com/hirmer.aspx

A Very Interesting Observation of the 2 Political Parties.

2010-01-02T02:34:00.000-08:00

There is an old lawyer joke that goes something like this:

In the 1830's A young lawyer fresh out of law school in the east, heads out west where he finds a nice small town that he wants to settle down in. He notices there is a court house . Courious, he goes in and meets the judge who informs him that the judges nephew is comming to open a law office. "Does this town have enough work for a full time lawyer? he asks the Judge.
No, is the reply.
Then with a smile he contines, "but it does for two!"

That is what I remembered when this information below came accros my desk.

Perhaps The Problem Is Identified... at least the true reason for rising healthcare costs!

Johnny Carson nailed lawyers with one of his "how cold was it?" jokes! "It was so cold that lawyers were running around with their hands in their own pockets!!"

This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way.
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party.
Barack Obama is a lawyer.
Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.
Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
John Edwards is a lawyer.
Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.

Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different: President Bush is a businessman.
Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator.
Dick Armey was an economist.
Tom Coburn is a Doctor.
House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.
The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich. The Lawyers' Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.

And, so we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers' Party, grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become"adverse parties" of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is who he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.

When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, ashappened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing. We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America.

Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy. Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers!

Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as "spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you" and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.

When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is partialy responsible for our high medical and product costs.

You would think that the so called champions of Health Care reform would want to address that problem, which could have immeadiate effects on the overall cost of healh care the benifit of the people. Yet they are steadfastily refusing the address the issue. Could it be because they see the tort system as it is, as their own private controled cash cow?\

Write your 10th Amendment, Amendment!

2010-01-01T04:57:00.000-08:00

Under the 10th, The states have more power than the Fed. So here is your chance to write a constitutional amendment to help put the FED back in its limited box.

I'll do the first one.

Proposed Amendment to the US Constitution.

Congressional Pay Raise approval amendment.

The US board of Governors meet once a year at which time all request for congressional pay raises will be either approved or rejected, with a majority vote of the state Governors on each issue. The board may at its discretion, raise or lower the amounts requested, but cannot on its own, initiate a pay raise, nor can it set up automatic pay raises. All requests for automatic pay raises are catagoricaly disapproved by this amendment.

Congressional pay raises approved then take effect the following 1st of January of the comming year.

End amendment proposal.

Tax revolt brewing

2009-12-29T23:30:00.000-08:00

As one of the final posts for this year for this blog, I want to take a few minutes to tell you about a comming event. How it will unfold, is open to anyones guess.

The year 2010 will be marked with a lot of things happening in America. Hyper inflation may very well be a daily concern.

But I feel a tax revolt is in the making. With so many states looking at the current administrations Health Care reform mandates, many are saying they simply cannot afford the Federal governments new plan. I believe many states will simply refuse to particpate in it due to costs alone. During a time when 48 of the 50 states are facing record budget shortfalls, adding another 300 billion each year to their budgets to cover the unfunded Federal mandates for the health care reforms, will result in states simply saying they cannot afford it, and there fore will not particpate in it. What will the fed be able to do then?

This will have repercussions on other taxes as well. In states with already high unemployment rates whose taxes are already so high that businesss are leaving, other tax revolts may come into play. People refusing to collect various taxes or pay them may become the norm. People having to choose between paying taxes, or putting food on the table, will also be a factor in the upcomming tax revolts.

2010 may very well be the year the entire nation says enough! to the high taxes that are destroying the very fabric of this nation. And they may say so on both State and Federal levels.

I hope so.

Suing Government Operatives for Income tax Abuse.

2009-12-29T22:08:00.000-08:00

Possible Non-Rebellion Path to Justice, by Bob Hurt.

Let us examine some facts regarding income tax in America. The U.S. Constitution requires Congress to apportion direct taxes among the states according to percentage of the population. Congress created confusing tax laws that make it seem as though everyone who earns money must pay a tax on profit, and their own labor has no value in that profit calculation.

People who “smell a rat” in this concept and study it in depth discover the reality that people generally do not owe an income tax. They find out that government operatives abusively demand it, collect it, and condemn everyone who refuses to pay it because they don’t owe it. Those who organize, lead, and the resistance to unconstitutional and unlawfully implemented income tax comprise a “tax honesty movement.”

Government operatives have aggressively attacked people in the “movement,” contriving to get them incarcerated for writing and selling books about the movement and how to participate in it by refusing to pay any unowed tax. The Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), at the continued behest of the President of the United States, have established a culture of persecution of people in the movement. Government operatives, including judges, refer to them variously as Tax Defiers, Tax Protestors, Tax Cheats, etc. Government operatives have thus besmirched the image of the tax honesty movement and its adherents in the minds of the sheep-like people of America who blindly believe “everybody ought to pay income tax on their earnings.” Government operatives don’t do this merely to win in disputes against tax honesty advocates, but to defame and destroy them in the mind of the public.

This must stop.

An attorney friend wrote me about this yesterday:

“We, meaning several of the attorneys in the movement, are looking very hard at several ways to mount a counter-offensive against the DOJ sponsored assault on the movement. That is, however, not as simple a matter as it appears. If the defamatory component in their assault were as cut and dried as in [an anti-tax-honesty attorney’s] case, then that would definitely be in the works, but it's a glancing blow, open for argument.

“We are also, however, planning on issuing a challenge to this bunch to put up or shut up. More on that once we get the wrinkles ironed out. We're already shopping for a sponsor to promote and conduct the showdown.”

I fully endorse such a plan of action. After all, even a glancing blow can give people the heart to mount a more aggressive and effective attack against the abuse. To that end, I supplied my friend with a list of facts in support of the cause of action. I present it to you for review and encourage you to add any items you think I have missed. Send them to me and I shall forward them to my friend. Once you examine the list below, you will see why my friend might prefer a little anonymity.

1. The IRS creates frivolous argument penalties out of thin air. Congress has the exclusive power to decide whether an argument is frivolous, but only within the constraints of the First Amendment.

2. The whole official tax world seems to believe USDC and USCCA judges are gods who never err, but you can prove non-unanimous panel court rulings show that even judges don’t know what the law means, and sticking people with a majority ruling still does not solve the problem that the law MIGHT mean what the dissenters say it means, This proves that the legislature has let the people down by creating laws even judges don’t understand and therefore the common people have no obligation to try to decipher and obey them.

3. Court rulings get overturned all the time, and shenanigans by the DOJ and judges prevent most people from appealing bad decisions because they simply run out of money. This appears to constitute part of the DOJ strategy for beating down people who don’t agree with the implementation of the income tax or interpretation of the confusing tax laws. If a ruling gets overturned, that means people cannot trust the judgment of judges.

4. The DOJ could not possibly win so many criminal Income Tax cases unless it suborned the jury and/or judge.

5. The secret cash awards amount to bribes to create more prosecution of tax protestors, and to do any illegal make the victim of IRS abuse lose the court case.

6. DOJ prosecutes instead of showing people the law. That amounts to criminal racketeering and SLAPP violation, and a refusal to respond meaningfully to a petition for redress of grievance.

7. A judge’s ruling demonstrates opinion, not fact, particularly when the judge flat prevents juries from learning that they can judge the law, and the judge tells them what the law means, and the judge and DOJ prevent their victims from entering evidence.

8. The USDC judges NEVER require the prosecutor to submit evidence that proves the 7 elements of jurisdiction in tax crime cases.

9. Judges, DOJ attorneys, and IRS agents are all prejudiced because they are taxpayers who must “return” a kickback to government for the privilege of performing a government job. This prejudices them, and prevents the people from getting fair trials before them. The jurors have similar prejudice and NEVER have non-taxpayers as half the members.

10. No duly authorized assessment officer EVER signs a statement under penalties of perjury that the assessment reflects an accurate amount of tax owed, due, and payable by the named taxpayer.

11. NO COURT seems to have the authority to declare that any given person does not have “taxpayer” status. That violates Amendment 1 (petition for redress).

12. Judges’ threatened and real sanctions and disciplinary actions against attorneys prevent the people from IRS victims from having available or obtaining an aggressive, vigorous, OR COMPETENT defense.

13. The American Condition guarantees the eventuation of evil and iniquitous judges through

a. Unconstitutional judicial immunity from prosecution for crimes and torts in both ministerial and judicial functions,

b. historical meaninglessness of “good behavior” controls,

c. lack of any law that punishes violations of the loyalty oath or Code of Judicial Conduct,

d. virtual impossibility of honest and prompt impeachment proceedings,

e. actual impossibility of empaneling juries of knowledge and integrity,

f. impossibility of a citizen’s submitting evidence of judicial crimes to grand juries without DOJ interference,

g. Integration of the bar into and regulation of the practice of law by State Supreme Courts, along with the farming of state judges to populate the federal judiciary.

As you well know, the people can achieve liberty from abusive government only through

1. litigation that obtains judicial punishment of the abusers,

2. political action that installs good elected officials who eliminate bad laws, and

3. separation from the iniquitous abusers, such as through armed and violent rebellion.

As shown in the above lists, America now provides apparently hopelessly

1. hamstrung grand juries,

2. corrupt judges who enjoy immunity they should not have,

3. legislators who make unconstitutional laws even the judges cannot understand, and

4. iron-willed executive officers who exceed authority and abuse the people at will.

In addition, America suffers from an irresponsible and relatively stupid electorate because of

1. massive immigration and unchecked procreation of low-IQ people, and

2. giving every irresponsible, indigent, ward-of-the-state non-felon citizen over 18 the power to vote.

In other words, the courts and political process no longer provide Americans with remedy. Abuse by government operatives has skyrocketed as a consequence. That leaves only one option with any hope of working - separation from the abusers, as exemplified by the nation’s founders in the Declaration of Independence, the text of which I provide below as a reminder of YOUR OBLIGATION to America.

On the other hand, I hope our attorney friends will demonstrate the ability to take effective legal action against the perps in Government. And I shall support their efforts because
1. I consider it the right thing to do, and
2. Violent rebellion is SUCH a pain in the ass.

Will you join me in this?

Just some Facts about WHO stole our Social Security.

2009-12-26T17:23:00.000-08:00

Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,

It is no longer Voluntary, unless you want to live like the amish.

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program;

Now it is 7.65%

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,

No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,

Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, wit h Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That's right!

Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!

The Rule of Law, why America needs to clean house.

2009-12-21T05:39:00.000-08:00

In an email group discussion, people have been talking about what is wrong with our judical systems. If any of you have been in court, either as a plaintiff, defendant, or just as an observer, you have seen how screwed up our court system is.

It also offers some clues as to how to reform the system. I hope you find this informative.

I offer these comments from an email from a friend named Bob Hurt who is an activist down in Florida.

Bob writes:
A note of introduction to Law Philosopher John Wolfgram’s remarks about Tom Cryers response to my comments to Tom and Larry. Larry answered another point about Mercier’s Invisible Contracts, with which, basically, Larry disagrees on the basis that an invisible or unknown contract isn’t really a contract and the law is knowable. I responded with points demonstrating that the we cannot know the law except sometimes. For example, who knows the pre-revolution English law which still applies in Florida? And, we certainly have a hard time predicting what the law means because judges routinely seem to rule that it means something other than what it says. Tommy responded by saying non-lawyers should stay out of the law because they don’t know the snares and pitfalls that derail them from remedy in courts. Now, see what Wolfgram-the-Philosopher makes of Tommy’s comments…

Subject: RE: regarding Teknosis article "Larry Becraft analyzes the legal bases of Mersky

Your letter to Bob contains two misplaced ideas, Tom, two basic misconceptions of the role of lawyers and the law.

The first is that ordinary people should not practice law for themselves, or help others. The wrong of that idea is that the law binds ordinary people and the burden is on the law to make itself clear for ordinary people; and the rule of law; its due process, from the Constitution on down is for ordinary people, to bind them in some situations, and to free them in others. What is the right of Petition, if only lawyers can do it? What is the Constitution, if only lawyers understand it and can apply it to obtain its protections. How does Congress or state legislatures know of the problem unless ordinary people, non lawyers like, well Branson, Benson in his original position with Beckman, Bob and most non lawyers on say, Gary Zerman's list, or Jon Roland, for that matter.

Your first conception error ignores the political side of the law. When the law is such a compound complex mess as it is, that is itself, a political problem that people have to get riled up about to change and to get riled up they have to engage the legal system, and as a legal reformer, you have to have ordinary people engaging the system too and coming away with their tales of woe and frustration. It is that confluence ordinary people frustration AND the reciprocal frustration that lawyers like you feel, as expressed in your letter, that stimulates the underlying vehicles for change; and gives it direction, something that is sorely needed today. (We have impetus for change, without direction) When this political process grows big enough, and it is growing to that point, where it is engaged in popular ligature, television and movies that demonstrate from the people's point of view, from the view of those ordinary people who have engaged the system, then the political pressure will mount and real change will occur in a direction that responds to the ordinary people frustrations that ignites it.

Your second misconception involves the role of lawyers. While it is true that many lay persons have screwed the law up in the very way that you and Beecraft so heroically try to systematically debunk, the actual truth is that lawyers have screwed it up, and allow it to be screwed up and prosper from its sad state, much much more than the few entrepreneurial lay lawyers that you and Beecraft target. You target the easy guys to defeat. Your real target should be the foundational problems caused by judges ... US Supreme Court judges. They have screwed the law up and escaped both the legal and the political consequences.

A case in point is the case you mentioned below, the issue of state liability for judges who are routinely protected by the federal immunity. Now, I'm not saying that you didn't do the right thing by referring your client to file a complaint with the state commission on judicial performance which got the judge fired, ... as a lawyer. But that did not get your client just compensation, nor did it aid the development bf the law, nor, despite your good feelings about one judge getting a little justice, do anything to fix the system. That judge will be replaced by another equally susceptible to the corrupting influences of a broken system.

But the point that you, as a lawyer seeking to prevent your client from immense frustration and hardship, missed, is central to the legal/philosophic battle that unites you, I, Beecraft, Dickstein, Gary, and a lot of our lay friends. That point is the state's rights issue supremacy over federal law as far as state judicial immunity goes. The fact that immunity is not mentioned in the Constitution means that it cannot be a supremacy matter. So, for instance, in a 1983 action the feds automatically grant judicial immunity to state judges, prosecutors and so on, but the real issue in 1983 issues of immunity is state law. I know of no legal authority and if you do I ask you to provide it, by which federally created immunity applies to state actors right through the 9th and 10th amendments. You mean to say that a state cannot openly say that its agents are liable for the constitutional torts that they commit?

That is a very important issue and it can raly people who are more interested in state's rights than the immunity issue, and it could appeal to a Supreme Court that has said time and again that there are federal benefits to allowing the states to experiment, which would include state decisions to not follow federal immunity. But even more, it is an opportunity to bring to federal attention ludicrus contention that immunity automatically flows from the sovereign regardless of what the state sovereign says about it.

In this vein, read the concurring and dissenting opinions in Bevins, especially that of the chief justice, in trying to deal with the immunity issue and allowing direct action against federal agents. Read the footnotes on what is said to justify immunity and think of how each of those things do not apply today ... with insurance ... and that the entire problem of subjecting government agents to liability is a government created problem by and through the assumption of sovereign immunity... a phony problem of judicial obstruction of the common law doctrine of respondeat superior.

Why, under our constitution, Tom, does respondeat superior not apply to government agents' violation of constitutional duty?

So, Tom, if we assume that your client had no more patriotic bone in his body than most attorneys, then you did the right thing. But in fact, there was a major issue there which he, as a patriot, may have wanted to bring and to pay you to help him bring, and from what you said, you didn't even give him that choice. You just assumed that he did not want to fight with the real enemy that caused the corruption that he experienced from a judicial functionary, and by following your advice, you got a notch on your six gun but didn't do a thing to fix the system.

So, while you are saying that people should hire lawyers to confront the government on legal issues, the sad fact is that even lawyers who know what the law is under the facts, most of them, like way over 95% of them are in it to make money, not address the issues that need to be addressed if the system is ever to be anything but a money making system for the professionals involved. The fact is, and you more than most know it, is that the system is so corrupt that most of the time that justice is obtained, is is not because of the legal expertise of the attorney, but because of other legally irrelevant factors, like the personal dedication of the attorney beyond expectations, the size of the law firm opposing, the color of your skin or whether the judge has a satisfactory sex life on a particular day.

So, in our adversarial system, the batting average of lawyers is that justice obtains in maybe 55% of the cases, and most of those, it obtains for the wrong reasons. That means that with all of our lawyerly skills and connections, if you seek justice and pay for an attorney, you get a 5% advantage over a flip of the coin.

And in our adversarial system, 95% of the pro pers lose, not because they are wrong on the law or cannot present the factual case, but because they are in pro per ... meaning, they are not a part of the professional group that our system is designed to service and provide a good life for and moreover, by presuming to litigate in pro per they are a threat to the whole corrupt system. After all, what would happen if the batting average of in pro pers getting just result began to approach the 55%, the 5% advantage over a flip of a coin, that lawyers get a just result?

What I would like you to do, Tom, is reconsider your own orientation to our mutual problem. Immunity, government sovereign immunity and all of the corruption that it brings, is the problem. It is not a problem that people try to figure out how the system works and to get over, around or through that garbage dump ... at least not our problem. Systematic Government unaccountability to the people for the wrongs that government does to the people, that is our problem.
- Wolfgram

Tom Cryer wrote to Bob:

Bob,

I wish I had time to teach everyone how to find the law and when to rely on and when to question authorities, but that would be about a five to ten year course, at a minimum. Why not ask a medical doctor to educate the public on how to discover a cure for cancer? Believe it or not, that would be more attainable a task.

The law is not like learning math. Math, physics, chemistry, etc., all work on laws that are rigid, unchanging and without exceptions. With the law there are different layers, every "rule" having exceptions and every exception having others. When an attorney graduates and passes the bar he knows more law than he ever will again, having just crammed three years of study up front for the bar exams. But even then he doesn't have a working knowledge of it.

It takes years of experience, research, trial and error for him to understand the human, political, sociological and psychological components in the system that administers that law. Although I don't necessarily advertise the fact, I make greater use of my education in psychology, sociology and political science than I do of my legal training.

Cases don't present a clear picture of the law any more than a car or a toaster presents a clear picture of steel or plastics. The law is only one of the raw materials that go into the processor we call our judicial system.

People need to be informed of what the law demands of them and to what the law entitles them, but that does not mean they all need to be able to do what lawyers do. We need to know when to go to the doctor and when time for a procedure comes we need to be informed of benefits and risks before deciding to consent to the procedure. But we do not need to understand all of the medical considerations to the point of being able to perform the procedure ourselves. We have doctors to evaluate our situation and to make recommendations for remedies, inform us of the risks and benefits and to then administer the treatment or conduct the operation.

The same goes for the law, maybe even more so. Although medicine, like law, makes no guarantee of a favorable outcome, it is more predictable than the legal process because the laws that apply are not as flexible and are not acted upon by as many outside dynamics. Lawyers do not operate in a sterile environment.

This may sound patrician, but people need to leave lawyering to lawyers just as they leave medical treatment to doctors. If they have doubts as to their rights and duties they should consult a competent and reputable (getting harder to find, I'll grant you) attorney to research the issue and explain his findings. His recommendations will not be limited to the law alone, which is what a layman doing his own research may conclude. An attorney's advice will take into account the law, how it is interpreted and applied (and how it is misinterpreted and misapplied) by the courts, procedural obstacles, the weight and admissibility of evidence, the risks and a host of other forces at play in the real world. While a layman may act upon reliance on the raw material the attorney will advise on the basis of the finished product.

I try to educate people on the substance of the law but to advise them on the realities of the legal environment. For example, I once had a client come to me wanting to sue a judge for mishandling his case. In my opinion letter I pointed out and verified the many excesses and abuses that had been committed by the judge. I also pointed out that Louisiana's judicial immunity statute did not protect the judge because he had exceeded his authority, placing himself outside the "umbrella" of the statute.

However, my research also showed that the Louisiana courts, including the Supreme Court, totally ignored the limited state immunity statute and, instead, applied the inapplicable federal blanket immunity statute. While the law provided for one thing, other factors led me to advise him to take his complaint to the Judicial Commission because a law suit would have been unsuccessful. The client followed that advice (unfortunately, attaching my letter which was forwarded to the judge with the complaint). The judge ended up being forced to resign (and still refuses to speak to me--so what?). A failed law suit, based solely on the letter of the law, would have only reinforced the judge's perception of himself as above the law.

Another example you know about is that while I endeavor to inform people that the IRS is lying to them about the law and to explain the law to them, I also advise them to avoid singular legal combat by complying, for now, with the IRS's demands. I do that because I know there is a bridge out on the road to court, something you won't find in the law books. I also know that the solution is going to be political, so I urge them to, instead, devote their energy to informing their neighbors and friends and recruiting them to apply political pressure to force a rebuilding of the bridge.

If people want to understand the law, then have them get that understanding from those who not only know the law, but understand it and the process it undergoes between client decision to initiate and court decision to adjudicate. I know we tell them to rely only on primary authorities, but those authorities need translation and they need to be understood in the context of the system that applies them.

We don't need for people to go out and read law, draw erroneous conclusions and then confuse and mislead others. "Lay lawyers", as Pete Hendrickson likes to call himself, are just as dangerous and counterproductive as "lay surgeons". Look at how many people have been fined thousands of dollars or, worse, prosecuted and imprisoned for following his "lay advice". Look at what happened to him for drinking his own "lay kool-aid". Not only did he get the law wrong with his inclusio ab exclusio misapplication, he got the advice wrong, telling people to put themselves in harm's way, pushing them under the bus. How many of those people would still be working for the cause if it weren't for the adverse results of a lawyer wannabe's bad advice?

What lawyer would tell people the UCC, state commercial transactions law, trumps federal tax law? What lawyer would tell people that there is a secret body of law hiding a Straw Man? What lawyer would mistake a "reorganization" for a bankruptcy? What lawyer would fabricate a non-existent use for a for-use-by-corporations-issuing-original-issue-discount-bonds-only interest reporting form as a draft or some kind of financial weapon?

These people remind me of the Japanese propaganda machine that had the Saipan natives so convinced that Americans would rape, torture and murder them that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of them leapt from cliffs, many after throwing their children and babies over. Senseless waste, senseless destruction of humanity, all for the sake of manipulating and maintaining control of others. At least the Japs did it for their "god", the emperor. These people are doing it for profit, self-aggrandizement, the government or all three.

What we need is more lawyers who are aware of the schism between the IRS myths and the law itself. If your people want to make a difference they can do far more good in far less time and with virtually no effort by submitting the six challenges I sent your lying friend to every lawyer they can find and doing the same with every IRS agent they come into contact with.

If and when the legal community wakes up and becomes aware of the fraud it will be over.

I've copied this to my list of attorneys in the movement in hopes they might chime in pro or con on my comments. I know you're going to ask, so will go ahead and let you know that you are welcome to forward it to your people, as well.

-Tom

10 Planks for a new 3rd party, or 10 new planks for the reformed Republican party.

2009-12-21T05:38:00.000-08:00

It is pretty clear, that most Americans feel that the US Congress no longer represents them. People feel this way about both Democrat and Republican parties.

There is talk of establishing a new, 3rd party made up of conservative Americans or if we conservatives take back the Republican party from the RINOS, we can use these 10 planks as our new party platform.

If so, I propose the following 10 planks of a conservative government be adopted as this new parties goals and requirements. Members who join and run for office under this party must swear to uphold and complete the following tasks.

10 planks of the new conservative 3rd party.

1. Reform congressional rules and procedures, and Establish accountability by members of congress for bills they write/pass.
2. Establishment of balanced budget procedures for long term fiscal responsibility.
3. Re Establishment of the original checks and balances of the 3 branches of government.
4. Establishment of accountability of the IRS.
5. Election Reforms
6. Reform Immigration
7. Limiting or eliminating foreign aid
8. Review of all trade policies
9. Review of all Constitutional amendments since the 12th.
10. Reduce Future costs of government. Limit cost of government.

Footnotes.
1 They are to be subject to the same laws as the rest of us. All bills are to be read to full house or senate, with full quorum present, before voting on. Congress pay raises to be approved by majority vote of State Governors.

2 Imposition of long term payment plans for paying off existing debt. Balanced budget procedures to be implemented. Constitutional authorization to be put on page 1 of every bill proposed. All passed bills must contain Constitutional authorization clauses that cover every expenditure and/or revenue collection.

3 Return the Senate to representing the states. Repeal the 17th amendment or have it declared unconstitional. Impose accountability to members of the judiciary, oaths of office of all federal judges and prosecutors to be checked and up to date and filed as required by law. Congress committees to look into complaints against judges and prosecutors within 120 days of their being filed.

Lawyers by definition, officers of the court and part of the judiciary. Lawyer participation in Congress should be a question for the entire country.

Require the US Supreme court requirement to give reason why it will not hear a particular case. It has failed to hear several constitutional issue cases in the last year alone.

4 The IRS is the Agent of the Secretary of the US Treasury, whom is the agent of the US Congress. The IRS must be made accountable to this nations laws. The Rules and regulations of the Office of Management and Budget are to be imposed in FULL on all IRS publications, pamphlets, instruction sheets, and forms. IRS agents and workers to be made liable for information they present to the public.

5 : Establishment of uniform rules to apply to the Electoral College. No more winner takes all. Each canadate must vote for the canadate which receives the majority votes for that district. Establish election reforms, covering registrations, and donations, and implement verification processes that are uniform through out the union. Impose harsh penalties for voter fraud. Require all future canadtates for Federal positions to how proof of US natural born citizenship, or US citizenship where such is required.

6 Establish new immigration reforms. Re-write immigration laws to reflect modern situation. Provide for better border patrols, increased border security, faster ID and removal of illegals . Impose harsh senantaces for illegals that kill or maim citizens. Securing our boarders to be made a priority.

7 . Limiting aid to those countries that are friendly to USA and eliminating aid to those who are not. No more loan forgiveness. Leave the UN, or re-write the funding laws, so that the US is NOT paying for the majority of it. Remove the UN HQ from NYC and send it to the EU where it belongs.

8. NAFTA free trade is not fair trade. Re negotiate NAFTA or eliminate it. Future trade treaties to be beneficial to USA and the people of the USA.

9. Review and verify all amendments since the 13th, were ratified properly. At question are the 13th, 14th, 15th done under threat of arms, the 16th (declared, but not proven), 17th (removed states representation in the senate without their consent) and others.

10. Find ways to keep the cost of this federal government down. Pass a law to limit the amount congress can tax. Stop the cost of government from going higher than 20 percent of the GNP per year, or 20 percent of a citizens gross receipts. Elimination of government departments which are no longer needed or ineffective. Reduction in the overall size of government. Require government to participate in the same retirement plans as the rest of us. No more life time benefits period, let alone after serving 2 or 3 terms. If a 401k is good enough for the average worker, its good enough for congress.

No more complaining, whining, bitching.

2009-12-21T05:28:00.000-08:00

Ok.. I'm done. No more will I dedicate posts to whining about stuff in this blog. America is leader less and we need ideas to fix the problem. So that is what I am going to dedicate the rest of this blog to.

Educating and explanations is what we will do.. beginning with the next post.
I hope you find the newer aittude more enjoyable.

The General Fund, aka The Pig Troff

2009-12-13T22:10:00.000-08:00

Yes once again, Michigan is being treated to another financial disaster thanks to Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm.

Several Highway repair and expansion projects which have provided some jobs in this states dismal economy are being threatened to be put on hold because the state cannot come up with matching funds for the federal funds.

But that is not exactly true; the fact is the state already raised the money to pay for the matching funds. The problem is, Granholm had the money dumped into the general fund, aka the pig troff where it was spent on other things, instead of what it was supposed to be used for. Now the state needs to again raise funds to be able to meet its obligations for the road improvements.

The General fund is fast becomming the big pig troff and where most of the governments wastefull spending is happening.

Money collected specificaly for schools, or for road work, or for wildlife management, or for parks and recreation are being dumped into the general fund where there is no guarentee that the money needed for those departments, will be there when the time comes.

Perhaps a way to ensure the future of this state is to eliminate the general fund, and require that taxes raised for a specific use, be used ONLY for that use.

The USA, World overpopulation and Isolationism.

2009-12-03T04:36:00.000-08:00

Must the USA become an isolationist to survive the world overpopulation problem?

It is now clear to anyone who has been keeping an eye on things that America is in trouble. The 2nd and 3rd world countries have exploding populations, and America, the land of the immigrants has tried to ease that problem. But as Roy Beck of Numbers USA has pointed out, its an impossible task.

Most people love what America represents: A land where people have rights given to them by their creator, not some madman Lord, tribal chief, or dictator. That we have the right to own property, that the fruits of our labor belong to us - not to other people. That we are a free people, who believe everyone has the same chance to succeed or fail in life, depending on how much the person is willing to put into it. That we stand up for the little guy, and defend the weak, and as a nation are strong. That we respect the rule of law, and as such have created one of the greatest and most prosperous societies this world has ever known.

But that is in danger of collapse from with in. These same people do not seem to understand that we have a system in place, the infra structure, that helps create this great society, and that without that stable infra structure, the system collapses. It breaks down when people no longer stand up for what is right, when the rule of law is laughed at and ignored, and when our most sacred laws are pushed aside simply because they are old and "not up to date with current events".

If I had to describe America, I would describe it as a closed system of membership, which benefits those who are members. The members work towards common goals, obtaining benefits from achieving the goals. It has worked for over 200 years. But now it is no longer working. Why?

At the core of our infrastructure is the US Constitution. The foundation blocks of law. When the membership no longer contributes to the common goal of upholding this basic set of laws, the system collapses on itself. And that is what is happening.

Immigration is part of the problem. The system is designed to take in only so many people each year and to assimilate them in to our culture. For the first time in our history, we have thousands of people who are immigrating to our country, who are not assimilating into Americana. We have thousands who do not want to be part of our country, yet want to reap the benefits of being here.

In other words, they want to enjoy the benefits of membership without having to be a member or to contribute to the overall well being of the group. We have a word in our language to describe this. It is PARASITE.

If the member ship continues to allow these people to obtain benefits from the group without having to contribute to it, eventually the group will not have any benefits to give to the membership. And being a member will no longer have any meaning.

Some say such is isolationist. Does America need to adopt a hard line when it comes to immigration? Can it succeed and continue to maintain its membership and the benefits of being a member, if it is constantly giving out benefits to non members? I think it cannot.

The USA MUST reduce the amount of people it is allowing to immigrate, back to the original levels of about 1/4 million per year. And we must find and remove those people who are here criminally, that is those that did not come thru proper channels and came her unlawfully.

If not, the American system that so may people love and respect, will break down and the world will return to chaos.

We were the first and are still the only country in the world whose founding documents acknowledge that our rights come from a creator, and that governments job is to protect those rights, not rule the people. That government is created to do the jobs best accomplished by a collective, and not by thousands of individuals. That government has specific duties and powers, delegated to it, (that means temporarily given to it) by the people.

Absent that, you have a history of rotating tyrants.

Well, our membership has a choice to make. become simi-isolationist, that is to reduce the number of immigrants, so that we can assimilate them in to our system, or face collapse of the system because of too many parasites.

Now is the time for American citizens to get hard and to stand up and be counted.

Temp services, good or bad?

2009-12-01T12:13:00.000-08:00

As the economy continues to stutter, and companies are starting to see some growth yet are afraid to hire full time workers due to the upcoming Ovomit taxes, and the expiration of the Bush Tax cuts, Temp services are being seen by some as the answer to finding a job for the millions of workers currently drawing unemployment benefits, or for those who have exhausted their benefits.

For those workers who have exhausted their benefits, the temp services may be their last recourse. For those who still have unemployment benefits, the Temp Services represent a huge gamble of possibly loosing their benefits.

Over the last 2 decades I have worked for several Temp services. Only one was a direct hire where I had to go thru a temp service to get my job. Never again will I do that. If a company wants me, they can hire me directly.

I have almost had my unemployment canceled because of a temp service. They offered me a job that was 4o miles away, paying 8 an hour - less than 75 percent of what I was making prior, and I refused it. I ended up getting a job on my own and when I got laid off from that job due to lack of work, I had to fight to get my unemployment. As it was, my claim was reduced by 2 weeks. But it took me 6 months to get the first check, due to having to go thru the hearing processes. I lost my apartment, and almost lost my car. The only reason they did not get my car was because they couldn't find me or it.

I have had friends go thru similar situations. Some loose their unemployment benefits because they quit a job that the temp service said was one thing, and they found out it was something totally different. John D. A friend of mine was sent to a job he wasn't even qualified for and the company sent him home, but told the temp service that he quit. When that happens the Temp service will refuse to give you any future assignments and John spent 3 weeks fighting it, then another 3 months fighting for unemployment benefits to cover lost pay for that 3 week period. He eventually won.

Still other friends of mine love the temp services. One has worked for Kelly services for 8 years, working a few weeks here, and a few weeks there. That's fine if you can live on less than 20k per year.

On the employer side, I have heard many complaints about the Temp Services. Back in the mid 1990's I was working for one such temp service, which sent me to a place to be a 2nd shift hi-lo driver/material handler. They gave me the State of Michigan hi lo drivers manual and told me I had to take a 50 question test, and could only miss 12 questions to pass it. I had never seen the book, and studied it for 30 Min's. I was the first person out of 27 to pass the test. I worked there for 3 weeks before they decided to give me my driving test, but by then I had already found a full time job somewhere else with better pay and benefits so I left it.
The supervisor who gave me the test complained that he was tired of temp services because they did not filter their workers. He said they had the attitude of "here is a body, here is a job, put them together to see if they fit". And I have heard similar comments from other companies.

So are temp companies good? I guess it depends upon your point of view. As for me, they are not. But for some people they are.

2010, 2012 Is america ready for a 3rd party?

2009-11-30T05:03:00.000-08:00

Hard core conservatives need to take back the Republican party or this country will be primed for a 3rd party. That is what I am seeing and hearing all over the place.

The American people are fed up with both parties. The majority of them feel neither party represents them in Congress.

When you have congressional kooks serving 2 terms and walking away with a life time of benefits, after accomplishing nothing more than increasing the size of government and putting us further into debt as a nation, most people believe that the system is broken beyond repair and that there is no hope of recovery.

Then there is talk of a 3rd party, and images of Ross Perot come to mind. People afraid that if America runs a 3rd party, that Barrak Ovomit, (or what ever his name is) will be re-appointed in 2012. But I do not think so.

A 3rd party that is established on a platform of accountability and the goal of reducing government spending and the size of government, of lowering taxes on the American people stands a very good chance of becoming a viable party. And remember, the Republican party was once a 3rd party.

The possible new 3rd party must embrace the ideas that reflect the American Voter's needs. And that means LOWER TAXES. IRS accountability, Federal Reserve accountability, Equal application of the laws to members of congress amongst many other things.

The new party must address and deal with the illegal population problem and immigration reform. And make Americans understand just how much this problem is costing us, and why we need to deal with it.

The new party will have to address government accountability on all levels, including Federal Judges, Election reform, congress being exempt from the laws it passes.

The new party will also have the duty and the responsibility of putting this country on track for fiscal recovery. They will have to make tuff choices. Closing of Foreign military bases that we no longer need is a must. This nation cannot afford to be the worlds police force anymore.

The USA is one of the youngest nations on the planet, and reportedly one of the freest, yet constantly other nations are trying to tell us how to do what we do. IF they are so right why aren't they the world super power leader?

The USA has a blueprint for success. All we have to do is follow it. Run away spending, and lack of accountablity is why we have this mess now. It is time to stop the decay of our great nation. It will be done in 2010 and 2012, or this nation will become like all the others.. just another page in history of a great civilization that grew, then died. The problem is, the alterative awaiting us is worse than what we have now, so I say lets not take that route.

A 3rd party will give the american people a real choice - but only if it is put together properly from the start. The founders of the party will have a job equal to the founding fathers of our country. Difficult yes, but not unacheivable.

The choice is up to the voters. They will decide in 2010. Give the congress back to the republicans or give it to the conservatves, who will then start working on the possible 3rd party.

Why Johnny is working poor.

2009-11-30T04:15:00.000-08:00

You go to work, work a 40 hour week, plus some extra that's not even on the clock, which benefits the company and assures you have a job next week.

You go to get your pay and the first thing you see is government has taken 15 to 33 percent of your paycheck in something called taxes. They are in effect, taxing your right to work, your right to exist as a human being.

And then you pay more taxes, when you spend the rest of what you are allowed to take home.

And you wonder why?

Yesterday on Paltalk, we were chatting and someone mentioned yet another country has defaulted on a loan to the U.S. 60 billion. That is 60 billion that we the American taxpayers have to come up with in addition to our regular taxes. 60 billion that was not used for health care.
60 billion not used for education, fixing our roads, paying for our border patrol, or ensuring our military has the equipment it needs.

So I wondered how much money that was for each of us.
well I googled the US population, and it gave me 304,059,724 lawful Americans. This is not counting the estimated 25 million illegals.

so we take that 60 billion and divide it by the population and we get a figure near 1,973,297 dollars, or about 2 million dollars each of us have to pay EXTRA to cover this one defaulted loan.

Well that may not seem much. Not when you consider that the one loan is one of many that are defaulted on by foreign countries.

This is why Johnny is working poor, and why he cannot live the standard of life that his parents did. Its because the federal government has reached into Johnny's pocket, and taken more out that it is allowed to, and used that money for purposes it is not allowed to, and has caused harm to Johnny and his family.

Dream Team for new American Presidency!

2009-11-27T07:59:00.000-08:00

NEW AMERICAN conservatve government
President - Sara Palin
VP - Bachman
Ambassador to Britian - Michael Savage
Home Land Security - Joe Arpio
Press Secretary - Ann Coulter
Dept of Interriror - Ted Nugent
Sec of State - "the guy from boston" on youtube.
UN Ambass - Jeff Dunham
Sec of Treasury- Mitt Romney
attorney General - Mark Lavin
Presidential speach writter - Rev Manning.
Speical Advisor to President - Alan Keys
Head of FCC - Lou Dobbs

America, are you ready for a 3rd party?

2009-11-23T08:45:00.000-08:00

With both American political parties leaning so far left, that most Americans do not see any difference between the two, one must ponder the question is America ready for another 3rd party?

And if so how would such a party come to exist? In light of the current views of Americans that the US congress is NOT doing the will of the people, by forcing the so called health care reforms which are blatantly unconstitutional and which should be seen as acts of treason upon the people, should the People of the USA consider forming a new party? I think the answer is yes.

Defeating the defeatist attitude of many will be the first obstacle to overcome. I would think that such a party would simply move forward with its goals, and as people finally comprehend that this is a new party that means business, more and more people will flock to support it.

The party will have to be built around a set of standards that the American people can relate to, and support. Possibly doing a "contract with America" will need to be done, to help promote the party.

Total rejection of the current 2 parties in power, that are not representing the American people must be publicly stated and made to be understood by the general public.

Establishing and promoting the reasons for establishing a 3rd party must be presented to the general public.

Taking part in state governments must be part of the over all strategy of the new party.
As it must be recognized that the state governments have powers the Fed does not and the States can exercise said power to bring positive changes to the Fed.

As we continue to see the current bureaucracy in WDC totally ignore our nations laws, to impose upon the American people a bleak future where only higher taxes are the real reality, perhaps it is time for America to start thinking about a 3rd party.

Stimulating the economy, creating fantom districts.

2009-11-18T18:45:00.000-08:00

Stimulating! Ten New Congressional Districts in Michigan!

By MS. KATHY HOEKSTRA 11/17/2009 9:15 AM

My colleagues at Watchdog.org and its state-level affiliates were the first in the nation to break the story that the $787 billion federal stimulus package "has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according toRecovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist."

This includes Michigan. In its first installment of promised quarterly online reports, Recovery.gov lists 10 new districts to the Great Lake State's phalanx of 15 U.S. House seats (the center column, by the way, is the number of "new jobs" reported):
31st congressional district 0 $1,650,890
00 congressional district 26 $880,855
21st congressional district 17 $810,000
22nd congressional district 0 $722,192
16th congressional district 1.5 $465,898
28th congressional district 0 $418,186
23rd congressional district 2 $214,843
83rd congressional district 1 $156,820
60th congressional district 0 $56,328
37th congressional district 2 $11,933

Interestingly, a closer look at the stimulus awards in these non-existent congressional districts (see spreadsheet here) includes a community policing grant of $29,507 for the city of Midland, in congressional district "00." Midland is home to the Mackinac Center, whose office building is within a stone's throw of the district headquarters of Congressman Dave Camp. Rep. Camp serves Michigan's 4th Congressional district. Stimulus awards totaling more than $810,000 reported in the "21st" district were given to recipients in Mount Pleasant, Alma and Shepherd, cities which are also technically in Rep. Camp's district. (Incidentally, one person representing more than one congressional district may be a constitutionally questionable practice.)

"I guess we know why Michigan's unemployment rate is going up despite all these claims of new jobs. They're being created out of thin air," said Camp's spokesman, Sage Eastman.
Judging by some of the comments included by the local-level folks, inputting this information was not easy, many getting their reporting instructions at the last minute.

Writes one seemingly frustrated award recipient in Rapid River:
"Impossible registration process. Unable to reach help desk in less than 2 hours, registration process ultimately took an extra week to accomplish."

And this entry from a recipient in Sand Lake:
"Process to register was not clear. We did not even know we received ARRA funds until October 7, 2009. Each registration area required 24 - 48 hours to activate. This entire process is convoluted and should have been a seamless process. Had some type of notification been sent when the funds were awarded the report would not have been late. There were many technical error(s) with the registration process."

According to Watchdog.org, the federal recovery Web site operates on an$84 million budget. One would think such hefty price tag would ensure more accurate reporting. Instead, it says nearly $6.4 billion was used to "create or save" fewer than 30,000 jobs in these 440 "phantom" congressional districts. That's almost $225,000 per job.

Just don't tell us we need to fill those congressional seats.

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Activist Judge interfering with justice in the Springer case.

2009-11-18T18:35:00.000-08:00

Lindsey Springer, recently held guilty by a jury who received improper instructions from yet another activist judge, explains his defense of the charge of failure to file a tax return form.

So, I am only allowed in good faith to show why I believed the Form 1040 did not comply with Federal Law (Position 1) and the US DOJ is opposing arguing the Form 1040 is not subject to the public protection of the Paperwork Reduction Act in effort to oppose my defense (Position 2) while the District Judge continues to tell the Jury the Form complies in all respects with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Position 3).

CAN YOU NOW SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE IRS? Do you think the jury got confused?

The United States Government Accountability Office says IRS must comply and does not.

U.S. DOJ argues the IRS does not have to comply because the obligation to file is statutory and a mandate.

The United States Judicial Branch says IRS must comply but without any findings of facts whatsoever. The District Court says Form 1040 does not violate the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Springer argued the Form 1040 is required to comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act and OMB Regulations and further argued Form 1040 contains none of the required displayed information and in fact does not comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 or OMB regulations IRS certified they would comply with.

In a nut shell, Springer is claiming the Office of Managment and Budget is claiming the IRS must comply with the Paperwork Reduction act. And that IRS form 1040 does not meet the requirements of that act. As such he cannot be penalized for not filing a 1040 form, as he has no way to know that it is the proper form to use, other than by taking the word of an IRS offical, as the 1040 form is not mentioned in any tax law (title 26).

The activist judge makes a decision that the form itslef does not violate the OMB laws without having the authority to make such a statement/decision. This is where springer will have grounds for a retrial or a dismissal upon appeal.

Springer also needs to get the OMB on his side, with a represenative from the OMB to assist him.

Springer shows us clearly where one part of government (the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB), says the IRS must complay with the Paperwork Reducation Act or PRA.
Another part of goverment (in this case an activist judge) says the form meets the PRA. Yet the previous part of government says the form does not. This is something that can and should go to the Supreme court.

However, based on the recent history of the US Supreme court, I doubt they will do their duty and hear this case.

Just some facts about Social security.

2009-11-16T00:51:00.000-08:00

As an independant conservative, I will vote for the canidate that will best represent me. I openly bash both parties.

Yes, I believe George Bush lied to us about why we had to go to IRAQ. No, I think he told us the truth about the WMD's as I was sitting off the coast of IRAQ when Sadam used them on the Kurds.

I am in my mid 40's. I am generation X, the first generation that will not do as well as its parents generation and what I am about to post makes me SICK.

With the current administration doing things that are blatently unconstiutional, and the republican party for the most part, either joining them in doing so, or doing little or nothing to stop them, I think its high time We The People fire BOTH parties in 2010. Fire every member of the house of represenatives that is running for re-election and recall and/or fire ever member of the US Senate as well.

Social security is supposed to be voluntary for Americans. We have the right to work without a SSN. This was proven in the unpublished case, EEOC V ISC, which was carried out via the Dallas Texas EEOC office. I have a certified copy of this court case.

Yet try to get a job without giving the new company a SSN. Try opening a bank account without a SSN; unless you are an illegal, they will not do so, even though by law, they can.

When it comes to social secuity and its demize you can thank ONE party for 99 percent of the damage done to it.

Social Security Franklin Delano. Roosevelt (Terms of Office March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945), a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put Into the Program would be deductible from Their income for tax purposes each year,
4 .) That the money the participants put into the Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would Only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'Put Away' -- you may be interested in the following:

Question: Which Political Party took Social Security from the Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it?

Answer: It was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat, Term Of Office: November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969) and the democratically Controlled House and Senate.

Question: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax Deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

Answer: The Democratic Party.

Question: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

Answer: The Democratic Party, with Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (Al Gore) [Vice President Term of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001] casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US .

Question: Which Political Party decided to start giving Annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:

Answer: That's right! James Earl Carter, Jr. (Jimmy Carter) (Democrat, Term of Office: January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981) and the Democratic Party.

Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments!

The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of Awareness will be planted and maybe changes will Evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully Sure of what isn't so.

BOTH parties are equaly guilty of expanding the size of Government, even though each one blames the growth on the other. That is the problem with our 2 party system.

Under the American 2 party system, one party always devotes its chief energies to tryingto prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonlysucceed, and are right.

Slavery Reparations, You're kidding me, right?

2009-11-15T03:52:00.000-08:00

Warning: This post may be offesnive to some, but the point it makes hits home hard.

THIS is not my orignal work but a cross posting.

Begin:

How many slaves do you own ?

As you will recall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Harvard professor who got arrested by Cambridge Police a month or so ago.

Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers. He now writes a column which can be googled ~ "Fred on Everything."

Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the things his editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His stuff is iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended everyone.. regardless of political orientation. So, with the warning that "This is definitely not politically correct," here comes Fred......

The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system and a culture.

Please note that he elegantly describes the mood of many Americans and he does so without prejudice.

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Slavery Reparations ..........by Fred Reed!

On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks. It's because of slavery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional blacks. I guess he'll send me a bill, huh?

I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be patient.

You want free money because of slavery, right? I don't blame you." I'd like free money too.. Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a million dollars for every slave I own, and another million for every year you were a slave. Fair enough? But tell me, how many slaves do you suppose I have? In round numbers, I mean...say to the nearest dozen. And how long were you a slave?

Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do and didn't happen to you.. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do and never happened to me. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and thrown from the Eiffel Tower . I'll bet you've never done it to anyone. I want reparations. Kind of silly, isn't it?

But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other whites did to some other blacks in another century?

How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused by blacks? Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles , a city in my country. Cities are expensive, Hank. Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send me a check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial.

But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers, or burn down a city.

Over the years blacks have burned a lot of American cities: Newark , Detroit , Watts , on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in all its forms, the cost of all of those police calls people had to make, for cells and jails and security systems in department stores.

I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime committed by blacks. Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in everything for the benefit of blacks. See what I mean?

Now, I'd view things differently if you said to me, "Fred, blacks can't get anywhere in a modern country without education. We know that. We need better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words. Can you help us?"

I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes.. Let's sell an
aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the economic main-stream.' I'd say It partly because it would be the right thing
to do, and partly because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for blacks to study and learn to compete and stop burning places. But is it going to happen? You may not believe it, but I, and most whites, don't like seeing blacks as miserable and screwed up as they are.

I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers who barely speak English. It just plain ain't right. But, Hank, what am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At some point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get done.

Maybe it's time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank.. I think blacks are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century. Get a few hundred people in the street, implicitly threaten to loot and burn, holler about slavery, and sadly the Great White Cash Spigot turns on.

Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game. Few people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks. Political correctness keeps the lid on -- but everyone knows the score. Which scares me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and burning.
(The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement. Ever think about that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and wearier of it. Not good, Hank.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), blacks keep demanding things. As I write, you demand reparations for slavery. Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money for some ancient race riot.

Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence . Blacks in New York hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand the elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity apparatus, which means blacks want to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank.

What happens if whites ever say, "No"?

Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits whites are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot. But don't you think you might do blacks more good if you told them to complain less and study more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital design ~ not Black Studies (as you teach). That's how everybody else does it. It works. Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions would decline. Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor black kids to study real- life sho-nuf subjects?
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Note added by blog owner:
My family came to America in 1903 and 1892. We have never owned slaves. We traded with the local natives for our first peice of land, as it is written in our family bible. Unlike some, we actually got along with folks. Yet I am to pay for something that happend 200 years before my birth and 50 years before my great grandfather stepped foot on American soil. No. I do not accept that charge, and refuse it for the fraud that it is.

Louisiana Attorney Tom Cryer takes on a Government shill over income tax

2009-11-14T21:31:00.000-08:00

Tom Cryer, 25+year attorney in the State of Louisiana, takes on another attorney that is condeming him for what he is doing.

Tom Cryer was charged with 5 counts of willfull failure to file a tax return for a trust he runs for his mother (who is the benificiary). According to Cryer the trust did not earn enough income to meet the threashold requirement for filing an income tax return, and then to take it one step further, claimed no such liabity existed.

He was found not guilty unanamously by the jury. Part of what Cryer did was list every liablity statute in the IRC (internal revene code).

Now he is taking on another attorney who is blasting him for what he is doing - trying to help impose some kind of order and accountablity to the IRS.

Tom Cryer writes to his fellow attorney:
Subj: Time's Running Out, Rebecca
Date: 11/13/2009 10:16:14 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: CryerLaw
To: Rebecca.odell@verizon.net

Well, well, Rebecca. Surely you could have come up with at least one of those simple, obviously there, easily found authorities. You're a lawyer, aren't you? You should be able to pull those up in a matter of minutes!! It's been over two weeks and you have only two days left to get yourself off the hook you've crafted with your lies and unprovoked diatribe. It's put up or shut up time and I'm not hearing anything!

I'm losing faith in your research abilities, Rebecca. Guess I should start drafting that suit and bar complaint for Monday.

Since you distributed at least some of your lies as a member of a law firm, getting them involved in this, I'd suggest that you seek their help since they have a vested interest in not being sued and in not having one of the firm subjected to disciplinary action.

I think I'll share this with those who tied up time and effort in this project you've attacked and those who've been injured by your lies and attacks. They have a right to know that you are obstructing and opposing those who are attempting to restore our Constitutionally guaranteed limited federal republic. Since I don't know (yet) who or what has motivated your efforts to impede and sabotage the movement I guess I'll have to leave it to them to speculate.

Who are you working for? Why don't you want the freedom and tea party movement to succeed? The firm you work for has offices in D.C., doesn't it? It must depend upon some government related commerce. So which agency approached you and put you up to this? How can you preach about your "morality" and pontificate about the importance of our Constitution when your actions demonstrate a contempt for any who would invoke it? How can you sleep at night knowing of your nefarious motives and artifice?

Tick tock, tick tock. Clock's running on picking up your get-your-tail-out-of-a-crack-free card. Better hurry.

Tom Cryer

-----Original Message-----
From: cryerlaw@aol.com
To: Rebecca.odell@verizon.net
Sent: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 6:59 am
Subject: Re: [Tampa-Tea-Party] Fwd: Beware of These Seminars Scheduled for November

Okay, Rebecca, I'm going to try this one more time.

You can't seem to get past my justifiably angry tone and you can't seem to stop digging when you find yourself in a hole. I'm up to my armpits in preparations for a very important project, but I'm going to set those aside for a moment for the scant and remote chance that I can help you.

I'm not vitriolic, venomous nor am I a religious zealot. I can accept and consider adverse arguments that are authoritative, so I'm not so absorbed in my conclusions to the point of immediately labeling anyone who disagrees WITH AUTHORITY for his position, as corrupt or ignorant. What I am is angry. White-knuckled, teeth grinding angry, outraged, that someone who knows nothing about me or what I am trying to accomplish would go to such great lengths to attempt to scuttle those efforts and to destroy the reputation of another and for what? Lack of reason? Lack of knowledge? Ignorance resenting knowledge? What is your motive? Man-hater? Sadist?

My motives are not as you characterize them. I was sworn in when the ceremony was a solemn obligation to God, not a perfunctory gesture, to support and defend the Constitution and laws of the land, including the rule of law. I don't know to whom or what you swore, but I know it had to have changed between 1973 and 1999. I have remembered and kept that obligation even at the expense of great loss and extreme suffering in more ways than you can ever know.

You claim that your motive is out of moral obligation, yet you demonstrate no moral remorse for reckless conduct and senseless interference. When confronted with lies you simply brush them off and make up more . . . a "new" morality? At each turn I've forgiven you, but I'm no saint, so please, stop digging. Forgiven, however, does not mean that I will not require you to account for your conduct. I owe you that and you owe me for damage done and you will suffer the consequences, even if it's only to prevent you from doing something like this again. Forgiven means I refuse to hate you back, but make no mistake about it, I am going to sue you and I am going to report your dishonesty to the bar.

Perhaps if you were to put the shoe on the other foot for a minute you can understand why I am so amazed and outraged by your loose cannon, combative and destructive misconduct. Since your unprovoked false and malicious attack I have received numerous emails and calls.

I've been told a host of things about you, such as that you have always been an "irrational and combative bitch" and that arguing or discussing anything with you would be pointless. I've received emails applauding me "for placing (my) foot firmly into Rebecca’s big mouth!" Emails saying that you are a "a very distraught and confused woman". I've even been told that you have made wild and delusional accusations that a homosexual governor raped you and that an illegitimate child resulted from the act. I know that could not be true, because if that had happened a paternity action and DNA would have settled the question long ago, since you would be morally obligated to obtain for your child the support of its father and morally obligated to preserve its inheritance rights. But I don't know whether you have made any statements to that effect.

Now, that's what I've read and been told. I don't know you and I don't know if any of those things are true, but I've been told every one of them and much, much more. I'm not confused, but if, without provocation, without any contact or inquiry to or about you, without any good reason other than that I "understood" these things to be the case, I were to compile those accusations and send them out into the infinite ether of the internet to my mailing list of 8,000 and the members of my coalition to their 100,000 plus, that would make you angry. Even if all of those things were true you would be entitled to be angry as hell because it would be a senseless and harmful act without any reasonable motive. Vandalism. You'd be just as angry as I am.

First an account of your actions and then an act of either charity or retaliation, I'm not sure which. You accused me of being a disbarred attorney (which you could have easily verified or belied with a few keystrokes, but didn't) and that is a lie. You accused me of being a tax evader, but that, too, is a lie. You accused me of encouraging others to evade taxes, but you can't come up with one single time I have ever encouraged anyone to refuse to file or pay income taxes because I never have. You accused me of leaving a number of ruined lives in my wake although not one person on the face of the earth has ever suffered any adverse ruling, civil or criminal, for acting on the faith of my recommendations. Lie after lie after lie.

You have called me a tax protester and I'd bet ten bucks to a donut that you don't know what a "tax protester" is. You "hold" me liable for income taxes although according to the IRS's books I have no taxes due, much less liens or any collection action pending.

Forcing the IRS to observe and apply the law as it is written, putting the federal government back on its Constitutional diet, is only a small part of what I am working on. Only the first small step of a long journey. I am also determined to see the end of the fed and the restoration of sound money, so does that make me a "bank protester" or "against money"? The next tentacle after the fed is the unauthorized department of no child allowed ahead, so I suppose that makes me "anti-education"? An "education protester"?

When confronted you point to language on the web site that belies your statements as though they were evidence of their truth. And, now, after all that destruction, all that deception and misrepresentation, you want to argue about my motives? You don't know me or my motives, so how do you dare speak to either? You misrepresent my position as that there is no income tax. Another lie. You point to what you call case law as authority for your belief that wages are income, even though you could not have read any of those cases and still believe that those statements were rulings in the cases (because they weren't) and even though that dictum is in direct conflict with Supreme Court authorities that inferior courts are without power to overturn.

You were wrong to disseminate all those lies, but you can't admit when you're wrong and the punishment for that is that you will never learn from your mistakes. You are condemned to continue to be a hateful, destructive and miserable person who makes far more enemies than friends. For that I pity you as much as I am angry with you.

Now, the act of charity/retaliation. The point that Larry has tried to make with you and that Bob has tried to make with you is that although there are many of what Larry calls "gurus" and I call snake oil peddlers and charlatans that make up the "Tin Foil Hat Brigade", there is also a large portion of the tax honesty movement that has legitimate, well-founded issues with the manner in which the IRS is applying the income tax. In fact, it is because of these legitimate issues that the snake oil peddlers and con artists are able to prey on the newly aware who buy into them in self defense against what they know to be an unlawful exaction.

I am going to be tied up for the next week and a half and recovering for another week, which I make to keep me occupied until around November 15th. So, here's your way out of the mess you've insisted on making for yourself. No law suit, no bar complaint (even though I'm obligated to report deceptive and dishonest behavior). You don't have to admit that you are a liar even though you have lied. You don't even have to apologize. All you have to do is between now and November 15 perform the following simple tasks:

1) Produce a statute that plainly and clearly lays liability for payment of the income tax on the persons you listed as "liable" in your note to Larry (and don't give me that Section 1 crap--you can read);

2) Produce a statute that justifies the assignment of a zero basis to personal earnings;

3) Produce a Supreme Court case holding that the exercise of a fundamental right,such as our right to earn a living through our own labor, is an activity taxable by the federal government;

4) Produce Supreme Court cases overturning McCulloch v. Maryland, Brushaber and Stanton v. Baltic Mining;

5) Produce Supreme Court cases overturning Doyle v. Mitchell Bros., Eisner v. Macomber and Glenshaw Glass; and

6) Produce Supreme Court cases overturning Butcher's Union, Yick Wo, Truax v. Raich, Coppage v. Kansas and Meyer v. Nebraska.

Now, that should be simple enough. Better than being sued cross-eyed and being at the very least reprimanded. You "know" I'm dead wrong just as I "knew" the fellow I sought to save from himself by finding a liability provision for him so he would resume filing was wrong. This should be a cake walk. And to give you a head start I'm attaching a memorandum on the subject that cites all of those cases mentioned above and explains their import and importance.

If you can do those five simple things then not only will you have escaped your well-earned consequences, you will have accomplished what the IRS, DOJ and even the Court has been unable to do. You not only keep your cap, you'll get a feather for it.

Happy hunting.

Tom Cryer

Lindsey Springer On trial for not using an undisclosed tax form.

2009-11-14T21:26:00.000-08:00

The case below is another example, of why people are calling for the elimination of the IRS and switching our tax system to something else. THis is a perfect example of NON-accountablity of the IRS. IF accountablity standards were imposed, cases like this would not see the light of day in our courts.

In a nutshell, Lindsey Springer is arguing that he cannot be penalized for not using a non disclosed form. The IRS says he must file a return, but does not state what the return is, nor what form is used to satisfy that requiremet. Lindsey says that the laws of our nation require that such forms meet the standards of the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction act, and that no such form for the IRS exists, nor is such form mentioned in any tax law, or IRS publication. Therefore he should not be on trial.

In his own words:
First, the Government in closing yesterday told the jury that Oscar Stilley and Lindsey Springer were con men who prayed upon people in distress with tax crimes by telling them the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 was a complete defense to any charge that encompassed the failure to file a "return" mandated by statute.

THE DISPUTE-

Our alleged "con" begins with these words:

CONGRESS’ WORDS THAT ARE ETCHED IN STONE

§ 3512. Public protection

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that is subject to this subchapter if--

(1) the collection of information (Form) does not display a valid control number assigned by the Director in accordance with this subchapter; or
(2) the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that such person is not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a valid control number.
(b) The protection provided by this section may be raised in the form of a complete defense, bar, or otherwise at any time during the agency administrative process or judicial action applicable thereto.
The question is whether I, or anyone else, was required by any specific law to answer the questions on Form 1040 for years 2000 through 2005, for the purpose of being subjected to penalties. I have never told someone not to file a return because of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 commands or violations. I have only directed people to this act in effort to deflect or defeat penalty claims by the IRS because they have not earned them nor deserve them.

THE COURT-

LINDSEY SPRINGER - DIRECT BY MR. SPRINGER

1 The Court has emphatically rejected any substantive defense

2 based on the Paperwork Reduction Act

See Page 175, line 1-2

LINDSEY SPRINGER - DIRECT BY MR. SPRINGER

Members of the jury, perhaps it's time to reiterate

8 one matter. And all I'm going to do is repeat one thing

9 I said yesterday. The Court has ruled that the Form 1040

10 did not and does not violate the Paperwork Reduction

11 Act.

See Page 207, beginning line 7 of Springer Direct Testimony

During the middle of my closing argument the District Court repeated this statement to the jury for the third time.

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-

The United States Department of Justice argued on Docket 71, page 6 that United States v. Holden, 963 F.2d 1114, 1116 (8th Cir.1992) held "that tax form instruction books are not an agency request for information subject to the PRA"; United States v. Dawes, 951 F.2d 1189, 1191-93 (10th Cir. 1991); United States v. Wunder, 919 F.2d 34, 38 (6th Cir. 1990).

The United States Department of Justice argued in Docket 104, pg. 1 (first Bill of Particulars) that the "filing of income tax returns is mandated by statute. United States v. Collins, 920 F.2d 619, 630-31 (10th Cir. 1990); United States v. Dawes, 951 F.2d 1189, 1193 (10th Cir. 1991); United States v. Neff, 954 F.2d 698, 699-700 (11th Cir. 1992); United States v. Hicks, 947 F.2d 1356, 1359 (9th Cir. 1991); United States v. Kerwin, 945 F.2d 92 (5th Cir. 1991); United States v. Wunder, 919 F.2d 34, 38 (6th Cir.1990).

The United States Department of Justice and IRS have consistently argued that the requirement to file a "tax return" is mandatory but that they will not specifically commit that such requirement is mandated to be accomplished on Form 1040. Nor will they ever commit to what mandate the Form 1040 satisfies.

UNITED STATES’ IRS-BRIAN MILLER EXPERT -

November 5, 2009 during presentation of case-Springer asking questions-

Q. Is it your testimony here today that I was required

5 to file a return?

6 A. That is my testimony, yes.

7 Q. Because the income -- the gross income exceeded the

8 threshold amount?

9 A. That's absolutely right.

10 Q. What form was I required to file?

11 A. You were required to make a return.

12 Q. I wasn't required to file a Form 1040?

13 A. The form -- it has been a while since I've looked at

14 that. I know that the Form 1040 is an accepted form for

15 making a return, but it seems like -- the law says you

16 have to make a return.

17 Q. So as far as you're concerned, the law doesn't

18 specify what the form is supposed to be for the word

19 "return"?

20 A. No, the law does specify what the form has to be.

21 It has been a long time since I've looked at that.

Miller Cross, pg. 93, beginning line 4

GAO REPORT MAY 2005 (listed at penaltyprotestor.org)

In footnote 50 of the May, 2005 GAO report on issue of IRS non compliance with the PRA, at page 31, GAO explains the obligation regarding any Agency claim that their request form (form 1040 for example) to the public is mandatory. This footnote reads:

The requirements for this statement and the OMB number are together known as the "public protection provision," in that a person cannot be penalized for not responding if either the control number or the statement is absent. However, the public protection provision may not apply if the collection is mandated by statute (e.g., the requirement to file a tax return).

GAO report next begins to explain how to determine if the Agency demand for information on its request for information form is mandatory according to some law of congress. On page 32 of the GAO report, the GAO stated:

However, collection forms on the four agencies’ Web sites did not consistently include required information. Specifically, an estimated 41 percent of forms (487 of 1,179 total forms, excluding bootleg and expired forms) on the four agencies’ Web sites—ranging from 13 percent at VA to 55 percent at HUD—contained one or more violations

On page 34 of the GAO Report, GAO further explains how an agency may be excused from the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 regarding their request from the public for certain information:

In the case of IRS, most of the agency’s noncompliance resulted from forms that did not cite the tax law that requires the information to be collected. OMB regulations and guidance state that agencies are to cite the law or other authority whenever the collection of information is required to obtain or retain a benefit (such as a passport or Social Security payment) or is mandatory (with civil or criminal sanctions imposed for failure to respond).51 However, the following typical PRA notice on IRS forms omits the required reference to the law:

We ask for the information on this form to carry out the Internal Revenue laws of the United States. You are required to give us the information. We need it to ensure that you are complying with these laws and to allow us to figure and collect the right amount of tax.

When we discussed with IRS officials why the specific tax law requiring information to be reported was missing in one of our case studies, the IRS Reports Clearance Officer stated that IRS’s burden estimation methodology increases the burden estimate when a specific law is mentioned in order to include the time required to read the law. Further, IRS officials told us that citing the "Internal Revenue laws of the United States" provided adequate disclosure and that on many forms, it would be impractical to cite a specific law authorizing the collection. Nonetheless, the regulations require citation of the law so that respondents are fully informed. Until IRS corrects this language on the forms, respondents may not know what law is associated with the information requested.

If information collections do not comply with the PRA requirements described, the public may be asked to provide information without appropriate disclosure of the information that would allow the public to exercise scrutiny of agencies’ collections.

REVIEW OF THE ABOVE

Congress tells the whole world "no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that is subject to this subchapter if--

the Form does not display a valid control number assigned by the Director in accordance with this subchapter; or

the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that such person is not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a valid control number.

Public Protection Provision (3512) can be raised as complete defense at any time.

Court tells Jury Form 1040 without citing to any specific year "does not violate" the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Court tells Springer there is no substantive defense regarding the Paperwork Reduction Act violations on form 1040 during trial.

United State Department of Justice argues the requirement to file a "tax return" is mandated by statute and therefore the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 provides no protection from penalties for failure to file a return when mandated by statute. In essence they argue the Form 1040 does not have to comply with the requirements of the PRA or OMB regulations.

IRS claims requirement is to file "return" and that they just could not remember which specific form the law requires to be filed by Springer. The IRS expert is certain a specific form is identified in the law but it had been so long he could not remember at the time he was testifying as an "expert."

GAO says if any request for information by any Agency is asserted by such Agency to be "mandatory" or "mandated by statute" then the Agency must do two things. First, they must cite the statute on the Form itself and then they must inform the public on such form that the public’s obligation to answer the questions on the form is mandatory. In the second requirement, the Agency gathering the information is to explain on the purported mandated provision that the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 does not apply to the mandated request and that if a member of the public does not answer such request there is criminal sanctions that could result citing to such specific criminal provision (giving proper notice to the public).

GAO also informs IRS in its report they are not in compliance with the PRA or OMB regulations on many of its forms without citing specifically to Form 1040. IRS argues to GAO that having to inform the public of what law mandates the public answer the form 1040 questions would place significant burden on the public to read the law and it is for that reason they do not cite any specific law.

Springer cannot even find on form 1040 the phrase "the law requires" or any other similar phrase referenced in the GAO report at issue between GAO, OMB and IRS let alone "mandatory" or other specific words explaining what obligates answers to be given with criminal penalty for failure to answer.

Springer claims the Form 1040 for 2000 through 2005 (at issue in criminal case) fails to comply with 44 U.S.C. section 3506(c)(1)(B), 3507, 3512 as well as 5 CFR 1320.8, 1320.9, as well as said form 1040 does not fulfil the certification promise IRS’s Certifying Information Officer (CIO) certified on its 83-I for 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2005, that each Form 1040 would display information to the public regarding those 10 requirements the PRA and OMB regulations mandate.

Springer also claims form 1040 for years 2000 through 2005 does not cite a single code provision nor any statement the form is mandated by that code provision. The form also fails to inform the person being asked to answer questions on form 1040 any other mandated by Congress required information.

Because you probably would never ever see this again in your lifetime and because the possibility exists that I may not ever again be able to explain to you my findings, I thought I would take the opportunity to share with you my purported "con" so you can decide for yourself where the label "con" actually should be placed.

I am just a foot soldier serving my God and Country.

Continental Congress, good idea, waste of time?

2009-11-14T06:24:00.000-08:00

Assembled by the We the People foundation, chair maned by Robert Shultz, the 2009 continental congress is in full session.

This NON state Representative membership is getting together to devise suggestions to put our country back on track.

However, unlike the first real Continental Congress of 1775, these people have no political power as they are not Representatives of any state government.

At best the efforts of this group will be seen by the State and Federal governments as nothing more than another redress of grievances - which Bob Shultz already knows first hand, says it has no obligation to answer. So it may very well be a total waste of time.

So how do we put together a REAL Continental congress that the FEDS will HAVE to listen to?
By taking over our local state governments, and then as a Representative of the people, call for an assembly. The States must call for the assembly for it to be legitimate.

Now here is the argument. The people have called for their state Representatives to do this. Instead, they have been ignored, just like they have been ignored by their so called federal representation. So the people would argue, that since the states will not do it job, it is ultimately up to the people, and thus the 2009 Continental Congress was formed.

Will it have any effect? It depends on who in WDC (and the state governments) think they have to listen. And right now, at the time of the writing of this blog, that means about 4 people.

This is why America is leaderless. And why in 2010 every member of congress must be voted out, either via normal election process, or by recall election.

It is time we remind them who they work for, and who pays their salary.

Horrors of defaulting on student loan

2009-11-13T16:58:00.000-08:00

By By Lynn O'Shaughnessy

Don’t default on your student loans.
It’s hard to imagine getting trapped in a scarier financial predicament.
People who face foreclosure enjoy more rights than Americans who default on their student loan debt. Folks who receive stern letters from the IRS possess more rights than student loan defaulters.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. Mark Kantrowitz, the founder of FinAid.org and one of the nation’s best-known financial aid experts, had this to say this week about student loan defaults:
“If education debt is evil, then defaulting on your student loans is a one-way ticket to hell.’ Borrowers who get into trouble, Kantrowitz added, “are stuck in an oppressive house of horrors with no way out.”
In a piece entitled, The Horrors of Defaulting on Education Debt, Kantrowitz wrote seven chilling profiles of student loan borrowers whose lives were ruined by staggering debt. The craziest story of the bunch involves a member of the Air Force, who must repay $150,000 in college student loans even though he never borrowed any money. Someone stole his identity and took out a students loan. The victim is repaying the student loan debt because he might otherwise be kicked out of the military for being financially irresponsible. That’s how perverse the student loan laws are!
Kantrowitz’s stories clearly illustrate that the draconian student loan laws needs to be overhauled. But is Congress paying attention?
If you or a family member is struggling with student loan debt, I’d urge you to check out the website of Student Loan Borrower Assistance, which is a program of the National Consumer Law Center.
Anyone with a student loan should also visit IBRinfo, which was created by the nonprofit Project on Student Debt. The website informs student loan borrowers about two federal loan programs that can make student debt more manageable.

COMMENT by a reader..
RE: The Horrors of Defaulting on a Student Loan
You want a bigger horror of defaulting on a student loan? Be one of the class of victims of student loan farming that took place in the 1980's, which congress knows about. During the late 1980's due to high default rates, both houses of congress started looking into the problem with student loans and found that many defaults were by students who went to proprietary trade schools. They found that many schools were selling worthless educations leaving their victims with bills (loans) they could not pay. And yet the congress to this day has NEVER offered any kind of debt relief for these victims. Their debt has grown so large that many have just given up trying. One person I know borrowed 12k. IF he could pay them off today he would have to come up with 227,000 to cover accrued interest, and penalties. Basicaly he would pay what he has earned his entire life so far. He was waiting for the 5 year wait so he could file bankruptcy but then the law changed to 7 years then it was eliminated, so he was unable to get out from under the crushing debt. Now today at age 55, he figures he will retire with 1/2 (if any) social security. He cannot save a dime, cause if he does, they take it with the new no court order required garnishment law, not that he has anything to save, because he has to switch jobs every 2 years or so to avoid the garnishment law, which in effect, fires him from his job, because he cannot afford to live on 1/3rd of his paycheck.

Think about this. If you worked 40 hours, but were allowed only to take home 15 hours of it, would you even try to keep a job? That is what the no court order garnishment law does to these people.

So yes, I do know of a worse horror of defaulting on a student loan.

The "voluntary tax", Bearing False Witness.

2009-11-12T21:41:00.000-08:00

By Bill Butler.

Ever wonder how politicians like Harry Reid can say, with astraight face, that the United States income tax is a "voluntary"tax? Here is a video of Mr. Reid explaining how the US tax systemis voluntary. Mr. Reid is no dummy. He knows what he is talkingabout. He is speaking the truth. He is just not telling the wholetruth. The whole truth, which Mr. Reid will not share with us plebes,is there that the US income tax system is a voluntary system,but it begins with employers "voluntarily," under the threat ofdraconian federal fines and imprisonment, saying false things abouttheir employees. If you are an employer and refuse to lie aboutyour employee to the IRS , you could be imprisoned. That is howvoluntary it is.

To truly understand Mr. Reid's voluntary system, it is important tofirst recognize that the Internal Revenue Code is a statute. Statutesare positive, man-made, law. In evaluating the rights andobligations of individuals under positive, man-made statutes,words and definitions are vitally important. For example, if thedefinition of "employee" in the Code was "green bananas," and youare an employer who has 40 hard-working, honest employees but nogreen bananas on your payroll, you have no employees as defined by the Code. To employ a more nuanced example, if the Code definedemployee as "a person of American Indian descent," only the poorNative American on the payroll would be an employee as defined bythe Code. The other 39 non-Native American employees would not beCode-defined employees.

The IRS, through its 3 million-word Code, successfully compelsemployers to "voluntarily" withhold income from their employees andpay it to the federal government and further compels them to fileyear-end W-2 and 1099 statements claiming that their employees'income derives from federally taxable activities. Even thoughmillions of employers do this every quarter, the question remains,are all these employees "green bananas" (individuals whose incomederives from federally taxable activities) as defined by theCode? The Code of course provides a powerful incentive, fines andimprisonment, if employers fail to tell the IRS that their employeeis a green banana subject to the federal income tax.

So here's how Mr. Reid's voluntary system works. The withholdingprovisions that apply to workers are found in chapters 21 and 24of the Code. For instance, in chapter 24, Section 3402, entitled"Income tax collected at source," requires all "employers" who pay"wages" to "employees" to withhold a percentage of those wagesand send them to the federal government. Section 3402 requires all"employers" paying "wages" to withhold from those wages a percentageof those wages as determined by Treasury Secretary (and failed taxprotestor) Timothy Geithner:
Â§ 3402. Income tax collected at source
(a) Requirement of withholding
(1) In general
Except as otherwise provided in this section, every employer making payment of wages shall deduct and withhold upon such wages a taxdetermined in accordance with tables or computational proceduresprescribed by the Secretary.

If, after reading the foregoing section, an employer is notsufficiently persuaded to deduct money from his employee's paycheck and send it to the federal government, the Code provides a panoply of incentives. Section 7201 threatens to fine (up to $500,000) andimprison (up to 5 years) any employer who willfully tries to evade"or defeat" any tax imposed by the Code. That's right, defeat. If an employer reads the Code and willfully fights to "defeat" it with things like truth and sound arguments, it could be a crime. Land of the free? Home of the brave? More like, speak up and they will throw you in the clink. In addition, section 6662 threatens to fine an employer who underwithholds or fails to withhold.

So the Code provides employers with strong incentive to tell the IRS that their employees are "employees" as defined by the Code and that their wages are "wages" as referenced in section 3402. So what, you might ask. What is untruthful about any of that? Or you may be one of those who thinks that all tax protestors, including the brave and intelligent Irwin Schiff, father to Austrian economist and candidate for Senate Peter Schiff, are simply skinflint crackpots. They should just shut up and pay their fair share to abet the killing of Third World brown people and bail out silk-stocking Wall Street bankers. After all, everyone knows that we are all obligated to pay federal income taxes and also knows that things like roads, bridges and police did not exist before the 1913 Fabian Socialist income tax.

Here is the rub. The most relevant, most important definitions of "green bananas" (the people whose activities are subject to the withholding called for in 3402), the definitions of "employee" and "wages", are also contained in chapter 24, subtitle C of the Code, in section 3401. Here is where an employer can discover whether any of their employees are actually "employees" as referenced in section 3402, and whether these employees' pay actually qualifies as the "wages" subject to the withholding mandated under section 3402:
(a) Wages
For purposes of this chapter, the term "wages" means all remuneration (other than fees paid to a public official) for services performed by an employee for his employer, including the cash value of all remuneration (including benefits) paid in any medium other than cash;

The definition of wages begs the question, "who is an employee"? The answer is also found in section 3401:
(c) Employee
For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" includes an officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia , or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing. The term "employee" also includes an officer of a corporation.

Pretty narrow definition. Clearly doesn't include any free market employee. Strange, but true. In future pieces I will discuss the history and development of the Code.

So you see, when Mr. Reid says that the income tax system is voluntary, what he means is that employers, after reading section 3402 and perhaps reading the narrow definitions of wages and employees in section 3401, and finally reviewing the draconian sanctions under sections 7201 and 6662, "voluntarily" send a portion of their employees' paychecks to the IRS and further provide the IRS with W-2's and 1099's reporting that their employees (regardless of whether or not they are in fact employed by the federal government or otherwise engaged in any federally taxable activities) have earned taxable wages. The poor free market employer is therefore coerced by the IRS into falsely informing the IRS that his free market employee is an employee as defined by section 3401(c). This is how Mr. Reid's voluntary system starts, with a false employer statement that effectively throws employees down an IRS rabbit hole where the fundamental rights contained in the Fourth Amendment and Fifth Amendment do not exist. Innocent employees, unschooled in statutory construction, uneducated in the history of law, logic and often grammar, are faced with the choice of fighting an 800 pound gorilla orliving a life of quiet desperation. Those who do fight, like Irwin Schiff, end up political prisoners at 81 years old, having done nothing but attempt to expose a coercive and violent fraud.

Libertarians and Austrian economists are not surprised to learn that the current withholding system, clearly theft based on coerced false statements, was the WWII brainchild of Chicago school monetarist Milton Friedman along with members of the Federal Reserve-cheerleader Brookings Institution, the US Senate and the US Treasury.

The issue gets even more interesting, however, because the Rubik's Cube-complex Code contains thousands of definitions, even some broader, all-encompassing definitions of "employer" and "employee," particularly in section 3121, Subtitle C, Chapter 21 relating to FICA and FUTA insurance withholding. See, e.g. 26 U.S.C. Â§ 3121(b) (employer defined for purposes of FICA and FUTA taxes) and Â§ 3121(d) (2) (employer defined for purposed of FICA and FUTA taxes). Even these broad definitions, however, harmlessly fall to the floor like the angry bullets aimed at Neo in the Matrix when met with other definitions, also in section 3121, that appear to be purposely drafted to miss their target. From 26 U.S.C. § 3121(e).:
(e) State , United States , and citizen
For purposes of this chapter -
(1) State
The term "State" includes the District of Columbia , the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , the Virgin Islands , Guam , and American Samoa.
(2) United States
The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , the Virgin Islands , Guam , and American Samoa . An individual who is a citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (but not otherwise a citizen of the United States ) shall be considered, for purposes of this section, as a citizen of the United States .

Applying all of the definitions contained in sections 3121, it is clear that FICA and FUTA insurance taxes apply to each and every and all kinds of employment relationships, but only in Samoa . Nowhere does section 3121 define or reference any of the 50 States. You can search the Code for yourself here.

It is therefore fair to say that Mr. Reid's income tax is a voluntary system that begins with employers lying about their employees and their taxable income and further that the insurance withholding (FICA and FUTA) provisions in the Code have no "geographical" application within the 50 sovereign states and that non-government, free market employers within the 50 States who pay FICA and FUTA withholding to the IRS do so "voluntarily" in spite of the very clear and very narrow definition of both "State" and "United States" contained in section 3121. Just being patriotic, I guess.

Wow, that Irwin Schiff sure is a nutbar, huh? Who would be so silly to go to prison for revealing a truth that could crash the empire and set free future generations?

But don't try this at home, kids. Peter Hendrickson, author of Cracking the Code, tried to present these arguments in a criminal trial in Michigan in October of 2009. The judge in Mr. Hendrickson's case refused to allow Mr. Hendrickson to provide the jury with access to the actual statutes so the jury could read the law themselves. The judge apparently believes that the plain language of these statutes might confuse the jurors.

Note added by blog ed - And this happens in most tax trials. The judge refuses to allow the jurors to see the actual law. The Judge in effect, tampers with the jury, disallowing the accused to a fair trial. Is it no wonder they get high conviction rates?

Welcome to the USSA.

Bill Butler is a Minneapolis attorney whose practice is devoted to protecting liberty and property interests. His website is Libertas Lex.

www.strike-the-root.com

IRS no accountabilty is the only reason to call for a fair tax solution

2009-11-09T21:07:00.000-08:00

Ok. Here is what we do know.
The IRC applies to taxpayers, it does not apply to non-taxpayers.
People have the right to set their affairs so that they owe the least amount of tax.
It is possible to be a taxpayer for one tax, (owed) and a nontaxpayer for another tax (not owed).
There are NO procedures listed in the IRC for Non taxpayers.
There are no clear procedures to rebut the IRS's created presumption of liability which changes the status of one from a nontaxpayer to a taxpayer.
The IRS is not accountable for anything it says, prints, publishes, or in most circumstances, what it does.

Knowing this, look below, and see what we have learned over the years.

Bob Hurst writes as part of another message, incorporated into this one:

You want my opinion? Okay, here goes.

Ralph makes a valid argument (the regulations did not go through the proper public review and comment process).

So do Lindsey Springer and Oscar Stilley (the IRS violates the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 by failing to put proper information on the tax forms, like what law requires someone to file that form and what law imposes a penalty for failing to file it).

So does Tom Cryer (a law imposes a tax on people but no law imposes a liability upon people for paying that tax).

So do Randy White and Pete Hendrickson (we don’t owe the tax, so we have to correct the rebuttable presumption that we earned income). Tom thinks Hendrickson’s fails because of 26 USC 7701(c). Randy has made a masterful argument about the meaning of includes, attached.

Some arguments have only a temporary nature, like Ralph’s Federal Registry complaint or Lindsey Springer’s PRA argument. The government can correct their errors by following the right procedure.

The IRS calls the above arguments frivolous and imposes a $5,000 penalty for making them.

All of the above, is proof, that the lack of accountablity, imposed on the IRS, is what is causing 98 percent of our problems.

The US Congress has given the IRS the authority to presume, which shifts the burden of proof to the people. This means we must prove a negative, which theoreticaly is impossible. So how do we rebutt their presumptions? Pete Hendrickson tried.. And his case is still going on, due to the other part of this problem, the corrupt court system that no longer stands for truth and justice based on the rule of law, but rather on Charge and Conviction, based on precidence.

It is for this reason, that many are calling for replacing the current tax laws with something called the Fair tax, which itself is an excercise in stupidity, due to what must be accomplished for the fair tax system to competely replace the current system.

Nay, I say that when we have looked at the evidence of corruption in the courts, our first defense should be that the law is so screwed up, no one can understand it, and then prove to the court that without accountablity standards imposed on the IRS, the citizen is locked in a judicial trap - dammed if we do, dammed if we do not. And by any standard, rule of law or precidence the court has to rule in favor of the citizen.

I do believe it would be easier to prove how screwed up the law is, rather than trying to prove a negative.

Flat tax, more wasted bandwith from the peanut gallery.

2009-11-08T18:45:00.000-08:00

R George Dunn writes: (my comments in red)
YOur anger is failing you to see clearly. If you take away 22% or as you state 89% in some product, this lowers the production cost, lowering the wholesale level and at the retail, take away the payroll tax and it lowers domestic product more. This being true, our free trade with imports becomes more equitable, thus producing jobs.

What anger? I am not angry with you for being ignorant nor for being incapable of understanding why the fair tax will never become reality. But I do stand up and voice my oppisition to a proposed system that will be more messed up than the current one.

By providing the pre-bate checks to every citizen, whom are all on file with the feds already,
Not all citizens are on file with the feds already. Many whom would get a pre-bate check, are not even in the system. What about those folks? To encompas them the prebate check system would have to be 4-5 times bigger than the system we have now. This is something the fair tax people are refusing to accept and/or understand.

it will put an equitable safety net under all of us, especially the poor. This is certainly constitutional as upon repeal of the 16th amendment, the Feds are then left with indirect taxation to which they can certainly give it back through pre-bate being it is given back to each individual equally.

Our current system has great flaw. The lobbyists run this country by being able to buy votes. FairTax will eleiminate much of this by eliminating the loophole game of taxes. If we add to that campaign finance rule that only constituents can contibute to candidates and no more corporation profit nor non-profit, then we the people become the center of Government attention.

The only flaw with our current system is lack of accountablity being imposed on the IRS by the US congress. Once that gets imposed, the IRS will have to account for every thing it does, every word it publishes, and every claim of liablity it files.

Being an isolationist Nation is not wise, as history has shown. Therefore, to compete internationally with our manufacturing will once again make our economy sound. If we do not fix our tax structure soon, there will be nothing to fix.

Who said anything about bing an isolationist nation? You are grasping at straws George.

THEN another individual chirped in. Xraydid stated:
George you are so correct in all that you stated. People can get all the facts here http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_main

The only people who are against H.R.25 are those who profit from the current system. Congressmen who buy votes by using tax cuts, Lobbyists who argue and recieve payment for getting tax cuts, and those who are misinformed and have been listening to the ones who profit from the current tax system.

You are so wrong. Every american has something to gain by congress simply imposing accountablity standards on the IRS with its current system. The IRS would be forbidden from collecting a tax unless it could identify the statute that is the liablity. That means 89 percent of Working class americans would have the so called "income tax withholding" stopped immeaditly.

Even today if you want your tax burden to drop 50 percent, it is easy to do: stop spending money.

US Healthcare bill: Acts of TREASON by members of the Congress

2009-11-07T21:41:00.000-08:00

united States Speaker of the House of Representatives, House Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill is 2,037 pages and includes many details the public may not be aware of.

The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released a letter clarifying that Americans who fail to obtain adequate health insurance may face excessive monetary fines and possible jail time.
Both which are violations of our founding charter. Jail time for being poor, is debtors prison. Excessive fines are punitive damages designed to further enslave a man or woman.

And let us not forget, does not the 13th amendment forbid involuntary servitude? Where does congress get its authority to require ALL AMERICANS to participate (pay for) their health care plan? This bill should be seen as a direct act of aggression by the members of congress, against our founding charter, and in direct violation of their oaths of office. In other words, TREASON.

The National Taxpayers Union is opposed to the health care bill because it increases taxes in the middle of a recession and hands over an even larger part of America's health care system to the federal government which has already clearly proven it cannot manage a limited system called Medicaid and Social security, let alone take on the task of running a nation wide system.

Freedom Works is against health care because it creates new taxes and federal mandates. Again, the Federal government doing things it is not allowed to do by our founding charter.

The Job of the US congress is to REGULATE interstate commerce, and foreign commerce. NOT control it, or we the people. Apparently this congress forgot that.

Fair Tax Proponet still doesn't get it.

2009-11-07T10:01:00.000-08:00

R. George Dunn left a new comment on the post "Again Fair Tax proponet avoids the issue."

He says" Any tax placed on business or employees is a built in cost factor of what domestic products cost. If you were to eliminate all those taxes, it would remove 22% of the cost of American product. "

George, you don't have a clue, do you? That's 22 percent at each STAGE of the products development before it reaches the consumer. Right now the average price of any consumable item in the USA is 1/3rd to 3/5ths taxes. And in some extreme cases where government has taxed the crap out of a particular item, taxes represent 89 percent of the retail price.

George goes on to Say: "This need to change the tax structure is a separate issue from all the unconstitutional spending the feds are doing. FairTax will create an abundance of jobs. "

Ok George, First you start taking about unconstitutional spending, then go off on another tangent about creating jobs. The only jobs the fair tax will create for sure, is an expanded government bureaucracy that will send out the monthly prebate checks. The idea here is to REDUCE the size of government not expand it. Current government cannot track and account for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it send out in social security, medicade and welfare checks each month, and yet you and your kind want to expand this 7 fold? Don't already have enough fraud and waste in government without creating more?

George goes on to say: " In 2010, if we remove those who are for big government to include RINO (neocon) Republicans and leftist DEmocrats, we will gain ground on becoming once again Constitutional federally, a refounding of America."

George,. what you don't understand is that fair tax IS big government getting bigger. It's a big "solution" to a crisis that does not exist, for a problem that has a simple solution.

The only reason people are looking at fair tax is one of three possibilities. First, they are totally ignorant of the real problems with our current system, (most people are here). Second, they know of the problems but refuse to accept the simple solution (of imposing accountability standards to the IRS) (about 12 percent are here) . Or third, they know the situation, know the real solution, but don't want that, but instead have a different agenda of expanding government and imposing a higher tax rate on the people under the discise of fixing the current system.
And that is the category I think most fair tax people are in.

Jihad in America; The Grim Reality of the Facts.

2009-11-07T03:34:00.000-08:00

One of these days, my fellow Americans will remove their heads from between their lower set of cheeks and deal with the reality of what is going on in America with this one group of people.

Yes, we now have Jihad in America. I have always said, the Muslim Relegion/Cult cannot co exist in america becasue the relegious doctrine forbids a muslim from giving alliegence to anyone else, any other government, etc..

In simple terms, our laws, (the constitution, satutory laws, etc) mean NOTHING to them.

People in chat rooms are saying this:
" Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR Chairman Omar M. Ahmad "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth. " as reported by Blackwolf.

Jihad Watch says: "The problem is that Christians are not committing violence and quoting chapter and verse of the Bible to justify it. But Muslims are committing violence and quoting chapter and verse of the Koran to justify it."

The recent arrest attempt and death of a home grown muslim extreamist in detroit, now the incident at fort hood and the others in the last 6 months are showing the truth about this cult to the american people.
And I state the facts. I do not hate these people. But their relegion, their cult, is not a relegion of peace. Actions speak louder than words and the actions we are seeing shows us this is one group of people who must be seen as a threat to this nations security and should be removed.

The people are reporting the shooter at Fort Hood was screaming "allah ackbar" as he was killing innocent people.

How much longer is this country going to tollerate this? If our government continues to do nothing, due to its being leaderless, the american people will take the law into their own hands and we will see nasty stuff happening.

And the media? it doesn't have a clue. They say its not because of his relegion. It is exactly because of his relegion, which allows them to do such things, that they do it.

That is the Grim Reality of the facts. Only the Muslim relegion tells its people that of others do not join islam, they are to be killed and that its ok to kill them; yet they claim to be a relegion of peace..

Actions speak louder than words.. were are the muslims now? Why are they not standing up in outrage over this? Instead they ae playing the victim. Enough. This muzzie attacked his fellow solders. This was in reality another terrorist attack. And once again the terror was from a muslim.

Question of the year, Who has Judicial standing?

2009-11-02T19:50:00.000-08:00

Who is responsible for upholding this nations founding charter? The states? The people? The US Congress? My dog rover? That is the question that needs to be answered.

Some are arguing the States have that responsiblity. This idea comes from the fact that it was the representives from the 13 states who came together to create a larger but limited government. Since the people from the states sent represenatives representing the states, then some argue, upholding provisions within the Constitution must also be done my represenatives from the states and by that they do not mean the US Congress.

Others argue its the people who are responsible, since it is also the people who are ultimatly responsible for all debts incured by the new national government. While the states may get the bill directly, it is the individual people of each state that ends up having to pay for part of the bill, as like the National Government, the State governments have no money of their own, they too must collect it from the people via taxation or other legal means of collection.

Some also argue that since all power flows from the people, to the states, and from the states to the national, that the people should have standing to bring suit against any and all who violate the Constitution.

So far this year several people who have filed suit in referance to the Identity of the man currently occupying the White House, have all had their cases dismissed for one reason or another. Most courts said people lack standing.

If the people lack standing, then who has it? The courts will not say who, just who does not and so far that has been everyone that has tried.

Judge Carter, - he ain't no marine no mo

2009-11-02T19:26:00.000-08:00

9th Circuit court judge Carter has dismissed the case brought on by several citizens in the name of Justice, to discover the real Identity of Barrak Hussain Obama, the alleged long legged mac daddy whose real origins are hidden from public scrutiny.

judge carter, an ex marine, apparently does not know what Semper Fi really means, cause the idiot just violated it.

The jobs of our Federal justices is to uphold the law. Written law, in the form of the US Constitution, is the legal document which empowers the federal government. An executive order, cannot overrule the document that gives it authority to act.

Therefore Ovomit's executive orders cannot override the written law. And Judge carter, whose job it was to uphold the law, has failed to do so. Instead he is using some lame excuse to justify his failure to uphold not only his oath of office, but his military oath as well.

And he is not the only federal judge to do so. We must get rid of these people an replace them with qualified, and non oath breaking people. This is why our judicial system is so broken, because people like carter are allowed to continue.

It is because of people like Carter, who sit in offices of public trust and violate that trust, that we now have a leaderless America.

CBS news, Unfit for television, reports Obama case dismissed.

2009-10-29T15:50:00.000-07:00

CBS news, reports that "Birther Orly Taitz's Lawsuit Dismissed".. By labeling Dr. Taitz a birther, CBS news is willfully slandering the attorney. CBS news has removed itself from neutrality and has shown us it is not reporting the news, it is making the news.

SCREW YOU CBS. I will no longer watch any CBS Television programs. I am boycotting the Commuinist Broadcast Service and all of its affiliates.

From another view, another news source that does not CREATE the news, but one that report it, has said that Judge Carter, an ex US Marine, Refuses to address the real issues of this case and has used the lame arse excuse of 63 million people voting for obama, (or setoro, what ever his real name is). The so called judge who has discraced himself with this blatent violation of his oath of office, claims that the plaintiffs do not have standing to bring suit.

If We the people do not, who the heck does?!!

Now we wait for the military to stand down untill Barry or Barrack proves his citizenship, or some one goes postal, or the 2010 elections give america a new congress that can stop the distruction that man and his commie-crat friends in the Congress, are doing to this nation.

What good is haveing laws, if the courts will not uphold them? Hey Carter, Article 2 of the Constitution IS THE LAW.

Who Represents YOU the American, in the US congress?

2009-10-29T12:50:00.000-07:00

Does your congressman or Senator actually represent you, or is it someone else? The Current US Congress seems to be representing someone other than the American people.

And it has been going on this way for quite a long time. One of the job descriptions mentioned in the Constitution, for the US Congress, is the regulation of Interstate commerce and Foreign Commerce. I do not see health care mentioned anywhere. The term "General Welfare" means the welfare of the states of the union, not individual people.

Congress has failed to provide proper oversight of the IRS, the Banking industry, the Student Loan industry and has failed miserably to provide proper oversight of the automobile industry.
All of this has resulted in several financial disasters.

They have failed to balance the budget, to start paying off this nations debt, and instead have mortgaged the future of a generation not yet born. And you and I have allowed it to happen, because they are NOT representing the people.

Well here is your chance to do something. Help us send a message to WDC that will be heard.
WDC ignored the 2.5 million conservative man march on 9/12, - the fact that here were no arrests, and the people did not leave the area looking like a trash pit, wasn't even mentioned by the media. The media itself claimed only "tens of thousands" attended, but a picture is worth a thousand words and the pictures from the DC rally show hundreds of thousands of people there.

The MEDIA no longer represents the people either. They no longer report the news, they create the news.

So help us send a message that will reverberate for the next 10 years.

In 2010, Sign a recall petition for all US Senators who are not up for re-election.. FORCE THEM to a recall election. THEN, in November of 2010, FIRE every member of congress that currently holds office.

Elect Micky mouse if you have to, but do NOT VOTE for a current sitting congressman or senator.

If we fire every one of them at the same time, WDC will reverberate with the message for years to come - that the American people have had enough of no representation and our voice will be heard and it will be heeded.