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Saturday, May 7, 2011

It's Saturday, let us lighten it up a little.....

Since I am so serious all week long, I have decided that Saturday is going to be  relax day and poke some fun at politicians great moments in history. SO, here is my first Saturday poke at Obama.



Friday, May 6, 2011

I found this rather interesting reading.

ATTENTION- THIS IS NOT MY WRITING. CREDIT GOES TO FEDERALBUDGET.COM.

FEDERAL RESERVE POWER
Let's start with a quote from U. S. Congress Representative Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency for 12 years, quoted from the Congressional Record:

"The Federal Reserve Board has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt, Our people's money, to the extend of $1,200,000,000 has within the last few months been shipped abroad to redeem Federal Reserve Notes and to pay other gambling debts of the traitorous Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks ... "
SUMMARY OF FACTS
1a. The Federal Reserve (FED) is a PRIVATELY OWNED, organization. Unbelievable? Check the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA.

b. Below is the list of the owners of the 12 Central Banks:
- Rothschild Bank of London
- Rothschild Bank of Berlin
- Lazard Brothers of Paris
- Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
- Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
- Warburg Bank of Hamburg
- Lehman Brothers of New York
- Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
- Goldman, Sachs of New York
- Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

In all, there are about 300 VERY POWERFUL, partly foreign individuals that owns the FED.

2. Although the FED is required to give back most of its PROFITS back to the Treasury Dept., there is NO ORGANIZATION that has the power to AUDIT the FED (not even the Congress or the IRS). This creates a HUGE opportunity for creative accounting to hide the profit that ROBS the US Tax Payers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars annually.

3. Every year, a few Congressmen introduce a legislation to AUDIT the FED; and every year, the legislation is defeated. The FED has the most powerful, invisible lobbying power there is.

4. The owners of the FED own the controlling interests in ALL major media in the US. Rockefeller, through Chase Manhattan bank, controls CBS and ABC and 28 other broadcasting firms. Each of the other owners of the FED also have controlling interest in the US media. This explain why the media have been silent about the FED scam. The FED fraud is the biggest and longest cover-up in the US today.

5. According to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the US Congress has the power to print money (The Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, ... According to the Supreme Court, the Congress can not transfer its power to other organization like the FED.

After several attempts to push the Federal Reserve Banking Act through Congress, a group of bankers funded and staffed Woodrow Wilson's campaign for President. In 1913, Nelson Aldrich, maternal grandfather to the Rockefeller's, pushed the Federal Reserve Act through Congress just before Christmas, when most Congressmen were on vacation. Naturally, President Wilson passed the Act when he was elected as a pay back to the bankers.
HOW THE OWNERS OF THE FED PROFIT AT OUR EXPENSE

The US government runs a deficit annually. To cover this, the US government issues bonds which are bought by the FED.

Since the FED has the POWER TO PRINT MONEY, it can buy any amount of the US Government bonds at almost NO COST, save for the expense of printing money (approximately 3 cents per $100).

At this point, the owners of the FED already profit $99.97 for every 3 cents they invested to print the money. Basically, they exchange something that costs almost nothing to them with the US Government Bonds.

Since the FED can NOT be AUDITED by the IRS (or even by Congress), most of this profit can go anywhere the FED owners want to. BTW, did I mention that the profit is TAX-FREE?

After buying the bonds, the owner of the FED can either:
1. Keep the bonds, and collect the interest the US Government now OWES them.
2. Sell the bonds to the US Tax Payers or foreigners.

In either case, the FED owners have profited $99.97 for every 3 cents it invested to print the money. Remember, the FED is a PRIVATELY OWNED corporation, just like the Federal Express. The profit of the FED goes to the FED owners.

The US Government now owes the FED owners the interest on those bonds. Remember that the FED owners DO NOT EARN the bonds. They simply PRINT the money to buy the bonds. In other words, they created money out of thin air, and exchange it for the interest bearing bonds.

In order to pay for the bonds' interest, the US Government taxes the US population.

When a US Citizen holding US Government bonds receives his/her return of investment on the bonds, essentially the money he/she receives is the tax money he/she is paying to the Government.

When the OWNERS of the FED receive the interest on the BONDS they're holding, they are receiving that money for FREE (save the initial 3 cents per $100 investment to print the money)! Not only that, the FED owners receive the money TAX FREE.
Under the LAW, the FED is REQUIRED to RETURN its PROFIT back to the US Treasury. However, NEITHER the Congress NOR the IRS have the POWER to AUDIT the FED. The FED has used this obvious loophole to profit via creative accounting.
Consider this: every year, the FED profits by hundreds of billions of dollars by buying US Government Bonds. Yet it only returns approximately $20 billion to the US Treasury. The rest of the profit has been spent as Operational Expense.

The FED expects us to believe that the FED operational expenses amounts to $100s billion dollars annually!!!


WHY THE FED SHOULD BE ABOLISHED

1. The US Congress has the option to buy back the FED at $450 millions (per Congressional Records). When the Congress does this, it will own back the billions of US Government Bonds held by the FED. The US Government will actually PROFIT by buying back the FED! Also, the US government no longer has to pay interests to the FED owners on those bonds.

2. Through their ownerships in the FED, FOREIGN POWERS CAN and WILL influence the US economy. By controlling our interest rates and money supply, they can actually create economic disaster in the US , should the US disagree with them.

3. Although the FED directors must be confirmed by the Senate, the awesome lobbying power of the FED owners makes this process meaningless. The owners of the FED can and will put whoever they wish in the position.

4. Abolishing the FED will lead to lower inflation. At this moment, the FED prints as much money as needed to buy the US Government Bonds. Since the FED prints this MONEY out of THIN AIR, this leads to an INCREASE of MONEY SUPPLY, WITHOUT increase in GOODS/SERVICES. This, as all of us know it, leads to INFLATION.

If the general public buy those bonds with money that they EARNED by providing GOODS/SERVICES, the money supply level is constant in relation to the goods/services level. Thus, there is no inflationary pressure from selling these bonds. 5. Abolishing the FED will reduce the national debt level. By buying back the FED at $450 millions, the US Government will buy back the billions of dollars of bonds held by the FED. Thus, the net effect is a reduction in national debt. After buying back the FED, the US Government does not have to pay interest on those bonds it buys back, further reducing the national debt.

6. Abolishing the FED will lead to eventual balance budget. Today, even if the US Economy only grows by a meager 2% per year, the US Government should be able to put 2% of US-GDP dollars into circulation WITHOUT INFLATION.

Consider, if the goods/services grow by 2% and the money supply grows by 2%, the ratio of goods/services vs. money supply remains constant. Thus, no inflation is created.

The government can use this extra money supply to fund its project without raising taxes.
As long as the government does not print money more than the goods and services available in the US , there will be no inflationary pressures.
This had in fact been done with Executive Order 11110 of President Kennedy. Kennedy ordered the Treasury Dept. to print a US GOVERNMENT NOTES (vs. FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES). In effect, Kennedy bypassed the FED by making the Treasury Department printed REAL US MONEY, instead of selling bonds to the FED for almost free.

The sad fact is, the US Government does not do this anymore. Instead, the US Government sell bonds to the FED, which buys those bonds using money they don't earn. Thus, the US Government must now pay interest on those money that it "borrows" from the FED.

7. By point (6) above, the US Government can actually reduce taxes on everybody since it has more interest free money to spent in the amount equal to the growth of the US GDP. KEEP IN MIND, THIS MONEY WILL NOT CAUSE INFLATION, since the money is printed along with the growth of the goods and services.

Obama stated in his campaigns, no taxes on 250k and below

While I know everyone heard that statement, and we have heard the Whitehouse state over and over that they only plan on taxing those that make above 200k and there will be no taxes that affect those making lower than 200k, we find out they are attempting to add a tax on the entire country by means of a mileage tax. 

Conservative economists, commentators, and politicians are blasting a draft Obama administration plan that envisions using Big Brother-like tracking devices on private cars to tax drivers on how many miles they travel.

The new tax scheme, designed to help fund transportation spending, would determine your mileage by installing electronic equipment on your car. This would involve monitoring your location and how far you’ve traveled.

Concerned that increasingly fuel-efficient vehicles will reduce revenue from current gasoline taxes, state officials in Oregon, Iowa, Nevada, and Texas already are considering tax proposals based on mileage driven.


In Minnesota, the state department of transportation is conducting a research project that would use smart phones with a GPS application to monitor mileage. Critics point out, however, that taxing drivers based on miles driven rather than gallons consumed would decrease their incentive to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles.


This isn't new. Oregon test piloted this program a few years back, and it has created a complete distrust in the system, and backlash from the states citizens. This is something we simply CAN NOT allow. It is merely another step at the federal government intruding on your personal life, tracking your every move and one more step away from our constitutional rights. If this is allowed to happen then there will be no stopping other ideas they wish to implement.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Where is their penalty for not making the APril 15th Deadline?

By law, both the House and the Senate are required to prepare, mark up, amend and pass a budget resolution by April 15. Last year neither body (both then under Democratic control) complied with the law. This year, the Republican House passed its budget resolution on April 15, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is still in default.

It now appears that Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad has a proposed budget in hand; he has briefed Democratic members of the Budget Committee on its contents. But he is keeping the Democrat budget secret from both the public and from Republicans on his committee.

Important headlines while the world discusses OBL Photo

While the rest of the world rants and raves over seeing a photo of OBL, the important news is sliding under the radar. Is this creating a distraction by choice or just business as usual by the whitehouse?

The Labor Department said Thursday that applications rose 43,000 to 474,000 in the week ended April 30, the third increase in four weeks. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose for the fourth straight week to 431,250.

After being handed a lifeline by U.S. taxpayers, bipartisan lawmakers are meeting Thursday to try hashing out the beginnings of a budget plan that can draw enough support to clear the way for increasing the nation's debt ceiling.

More Than 1,300 Guns Were Bought Illegally by Suspect Buyers Under ATF's 'Gunrunner' Program. It is the closest thing to a smoking gun investigators have in their probe of Project Gunrunner -- a document that shows U.S. officials’ allowed criminals to buy 1,318 guns worth nearly $1 million even after they suspected the buyers were working for Mexican drug cartels and the agency's effort to stop the guns had "yielded little or no results."

(taken from various news agency headlines)

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The Voice of Reason

To Photo or not to Photo

Honestly, I could really care less at this point about a photo of the now deceased Bin Ladin. What concerns me is that this is turning into a huge diversion from the real points that should be making the news.

Next week will decide if the government will raise the debt ceiling or not. Both sides of the fence have their points for and against, but they are strictly politically motivated. I see it more as a way to let government borrow more money on the backs of the American taxpayer. They have already spent us into oblivion, and yes, I mean BOTH parties have. Now they wish to expand that and do more harm to our economy.

I think everyone should contact their respective represenatives and tell them learn to control spending before you raise our debt limit.

Here is a link to contact according to your district.

http://www.nysenate.gov/senators