There are two bills in congress right now that must be stopped. PIPA (Protect IP Act) in the Senate, and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the house.

These bills can (and knowing Obama/Congress, will) censor the Internet, something explicitly they are not supposed to do by the Constitution.

While the supporters of the bills say “that will never happen,” all we have to do is look at the history of our government and see that when they give themselves power over something, they take it and use that power.

Contact your congressman/senator and tell them you are opposed to these bills. Here are the websites for the House and Senate. Follow the links to your representative’s webpage. Call, email, fax or all three.

The object of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. I highly suggest you do that in this case. The consequences of not doing so are dire indeed.

All I can say about the OWS and all of the other Occupy movements, Cloward-Piven is winning. Who are Cloward and Piven? Why, two Liberals who came up with a way to crash the American economy. I wrote about this two years ago. Here is the proof.

These Occupy movements are starting to strangle the budgets of the cities they are “occupying.” Extra police, clean up, and all of the other things are adding up and they are getting ready to collapse the cities. Once 4 or 5 cites have devolved into chaos caused by these “useful idiots,” Obama can order martial law and then all bets are off. He gets his wish and becomes Dictator-for-life. America becomes a third-world country and not only the US, but the world will be finished.

This must be stopped. Our future depends on it.

It seems that the “Workers Paradise” of Zuccotti Park is not quite all it’s cracked up to be.

“Professional homeless” (their words, not mine) have been invading the OWS camp to partake of the wonderful food. So, whatever happened to Lenin’s words? “From each, according to their means, to each according to their needs,” or something like that. Turning away the homeless to soup kitchens or just feeding them PB&J is not very nice.

Just another part of the hypocrisy that is exhibited by the OWS crowd every day. You mean the homeless can’t get the same nice food that everyone else gets? Nice treatment of those who need it the most.

Just as a side note, Tea Party organizations in some cities like Atlanta have sent letters to their mayors demanding the same treatment as the Occupy movements in their cities. I mean, there are no permits for the gathering, no permits pulled or fees paid to squat on the parks. The Tea Party wants nothing more than equal treatment under the law, which is what this country was founded on. Will they get it? Probably not, but it will expose those in office as the hypocrites they are.

This list goes on, and on about how the Tea Party are “violent subversives,” but the (armed) Tea Party people hold peaceful demonstrations, all within the law and do not squat and set up camp in public parks. You don’t see clashes with the police, rapes (yes, women are leaving the OWS encampment because of the rapes) or other disruptions of the peace found at the various Occupy places across the country.

And yet the OWS is being compared to the Tea Party. It’s kind of like comparing Rush Limbaugh to Air America. That dog won’t hunt.

I wanted to weigh in on this subject. My feelings and thoughts have finally come to a head.

It seems to me that this “movement” is nothing more than a disorganized mob. They can’t agree on a common message, they have no significant reason to protest, except to protest itself. It stated on Wall Street, where the protesters purchase products from companies traded on Wall Street, if they have a 401(k), it is most likely invested in that very same Wall Street. The ignorance and hypocrisy is blinding.

The reason for this post is the following two photographs. I don’t know their names, but let’s call them Ashley and Karen.

Ashley looks like she came into a comfortable amount of money because of the hard work of her parents. She is calling for her to be taxed more. “She is the 1%, and she stands with the 99%.”

Next comes Karen. She has dire medical and financial problems. I am not going to get into the complexities of medical insurance here. Just the fact that she doesn’t have, and is very likely never to have medical insurance.

I would now like to introduce them to each other. Ashley, meet Karen. Karen, Ashley.

I would then say, “Ashley, if you want to help other people, here is a person that will gladly take any money you want to give her because it will keep her alive.”

Why give money to the Government for “redistribution” when 83% gets absorbed into the government for overhead? Ashley could give $275,000 to Obama, who would let only $47,000 actually make it to a person or persons. Or, she could give all of it to Karen, who would be able to use 100% of it.

Besides, when Ashley calls for takes to go up on “her,” she is also calling for taxes to be raised on many other people as well. Ashley, if you want to pay more to the government, please, write a check and send it in. I’m sure they will cash it. BUT DON’T GET MY TAXES RAISED WHILE YOU’RE AT IT. You may be swimming in money, but I’m not.

Liberals. Bah. The view that government can be the parent to everybody is not what this country was founded on. Stand up on your own. Take what comes your way, good and bad. If you get knocked down, stand up and try again, and again, and again until you win. That’s what America was founded on. That’s what made America great. These Liberals want to tear that ideal down. I don’t know why, no Liberal has ever been able to hold a coherent conversation with me. When faced with facts, they start screaming epithets and attack me rather than calmly debate the facts.

Just keeps getting in Barry’s way! Because the DEMOCRATS in the Senate won’t pass President Obama’s “jobs bill,” Barry had this to say:

“Scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done,” President Obama said today to a “Jobs Council” meeting.

From what it sounds like, (and if it walks like a duck…) Mr. Obama doesn’t want to be President, but rather Dictator-for-Life! That way he could get what he wants done, done!

Of course, what he wants to do (and he is succeeding) is to wreck this country. Saddled with $14,000,000,000,000 worth of debt that didn’t produce squat but to make some people rich before they took the money and ran (like Solyndra), Barry wants to do it again with his “jobs bill.”

The definition of insanity is to repeat the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. No matter how many times you use the recipe for Cinnamon bunt cake, you will never get a devils food cake out of it!

Let’s get this guy out of office in 2012. At this point, I am almost convinced that a chimpanzee throwing darts at a wall could do a better job than what Barry is doing now.

I see all of this uproar about a Constitutional Amendment to require the federal government to have a balanced budget. This is one of those “sound good” ideas that isn’t a “good, sound” idea.

Our Founding Fathers were totally against having any debt that is owed to other people or governments. It says in the Bible, “the borrower is slave to the lender.” This is so true. Without a good, sound fiscal policy debt can eat up your life. I know, I’ve been there. I’m still there, but I’m working my way out of it.

But our Founding Fathers also knew that there would be short, specific times when it would be necessary to go into debt, temporarily for some significant reason, such as a large scale war. Which is why Article I, Section 8 reads in part, “[T]o borrow money on the credit of the United States.”

But with the advent of Keynesian economics, where you are to look to government instead of yourself for help, the idea of perpetual debt became acceptable. So, in order to buy votes, over the last 50 years, the Congress has given bread and circuses to the people today, in exchange for their children and grandchildren paying for their excesses.

It took a Republican Congress to balance the budget. It can be done, as long as we’re not trying to pay off the unions and other special interest groups who all have their hand out.

So, now we look at amending the Constitution to require a balanced budget. This is very similar to the idea of legislating behavior with Prohibition. I know the Tea Party is going for it, and it may be time to require this, but I don’t like it. There will be times we will have to go into short-term debt, and if we are required to balance the budget every year, either other programs will have to be cut in the short term, or taxes will have to go up. And as you know, it is a very rare case when taxes go down.

There is no “special” language to let a short-term out that greedy politicians won’t hang their hats on. “3 out of 5 annual budgets must balance,” or “only during declared war” will leave that foot in the door for a return of the excesses of today. For haven’t we had “wars” on drugs, poverty, homelessness, et. al for the past 50 years?

The best way to safeguard the public treasury is to elect those who will work to balance the budget without external limitations, and to change the guard often. This is why the entire House is up for election every two years and why spending bills must originate in the House.

We must divest ourselves of a professional political class, for this is where our problems lie. I would rather see a term limit amendment than a balanced budget amendment.

But we, as a People, must also divest ourselves of the entitlement mentality, looking to government to solve our problems. When a person screws up, there must be negative consequences or they don’t learn. We have forgotten the lessons our Founding Fathers taught us. Let us learn them again, and teach them properly to our children so the United States can continue to be the shining city on the hill for the rest of the world. There is no other country where immigrants from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe come to for a new life, one where hard work is rewarded and there is no secret police to lock you up because you are “too rich” or for any other reason. There is no other country in the history of the world where the people give power to the government, rather than the government granting freedoms to the people.

Let us therefore be diligent, prudent and circumspect and keep it that way.

I watched the Presidents speech Monday night, and was not surprised to see the Socialist peeking around the curtain. No significant cuts in spending, with more taxes on those who make over $250,000. He even had the audacity to say “people like me” need to pay more in taxes. Well, Mr. President, PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS! How about returning your entire salary and get paid ZERO for the rest of your term.
Just take a look at this table. It shows by income how much of the total federal taxes are collected.

The people who make over $250,000 already pay HALF of the total income taxes collected. How much should these people pay, Mr. President? 75%? 80%? 100%?

And the argument “Warren Buffet pays at a lower rate then his secretary” is a straw man. Look at it this way: If the secretary paid 15% of her salary (say, $50,000), and Warren ($100,000,000) paid 10%, then 15% of $50,000 is $7,500 and 10% of $100,000,000 is $10,000,000. Big difference between $7,500 and $10,000,000, isn’t there?

I am proud of the Republican Party at this moment. They are acting Conservative. They are calling for smaller government, no more taxes and working off the debt.

The thing I am not happy about is the cuts are spread out over ten years. It’s called “baseline budgeting.” When you and I talk about cutting something, we are talking about next year will have a smaller budget than this year. But that’s not how it works in Washington. Say a particular department or program has budgeted an increase of 12% in their budget next year. If you cut the growth back to 7%, then you have “cut” 5% of their budget. See how that works? There have been almost no actual cuts in spending in government programs, only cuts in growth. This is why our debts go up by the trillions, but only go down by the billions. We need to produce actual reductions in spending, not reductions in growth. That’s the only way we are going to balance the budget.

If we can provide a stable outlook, where businesses are not uncertain as to expand or not, then our economy will grow at a steady and healthy pace. This will put people to work, collecting more taxes and reducing the costs of government and the income of the government will go up, and significantly.

Keep it up, Speaker, you have the support of the House and the People. Don’t fold now.

…The debt ceiling that is.

This entry from “Evilblog” is railing against the Republicans for not raising the debt ceiling.

I’m actually kind of proud of the Republicans at this moment. They are sticking to good, solid Conservative values. Fiscal responsibility and just plain keeping your word.

Evil blog says,

They could just raise the damn debt ceiling tomorrow like Congresses in the past have done 74 times without any problems.

And he’s right, they could. Just let America get deeper into debt, and make it just that longer to get out of debt. But the House has finally cut the alcoholic off by refusing to serve the government any more booze, because the Government spends money like a drunken sailor.

“But it will wreck America’s Credit!!!!11!!!” And….? Maybe it needs wrecking, to tell you the truth. It’s already so bad that we are printing money to buy our own Treasury notes so the spending can continue because no one, not even the Chinese, will buy our debt.

I’ll admit, I and my company will be drastically affected if Medicaid spending is drastically cut. I could lose my job. But something has to be done about America’s debt problem.

Adding taxes is a great way to ruin an already weakened economy. A long term stabilization program needs to be laid out. At a minimum, the next 10 years needs to see a promise to cut, or at least not raise the tax rates on businesses. It is this uncertainy that is preventing small business (which is 80+% of the employers in this nation) from hiring and expanding their business.

This is the place, and now is the time to hold the line and start being fiscally responsible.

Go get ‘em, Boehner. You have my support.

…Those who earned the money should keep it?

I happened across this article, “America Needs Taxes,” and I find it a bunch of hooey.

Like this statement:

In fact, Eisenhower, a Republican, presided over an era where corporate taxes accounted for a quarter of all federal tax receipts, and the richest Americans still enjoyed their wealth while paying a 90% top tax rate. Americans were never more prosperous as a whole than during that era.

It took some digging, and it’s like comparing Granny Smith apples to McIntosh apples, but I found that Federal tax revenues declined under Eisenhower. However, under JFK’s posthumous and Reagan’s tax cuts, Federal revenues increased. I can’t dig up W’s tax rate numbers, But I do know that the revenue numbers were mixed. But considering what the country was going through in our post 9/11 world, it could have been much worse.

Keynesian economics suck. Debt is not acceptable as a “percentage of our GDP.” Especially when you’re talking about $7,000,000,000,000. Yes, that is the number for $7 trillion. Why? Because if the GDP falls to a disaster, we default on our loans. Let’s put it this way: No debt, no risk. As Dave Ramsey says, “100% of the home foreclosures had a mortgage on them.”

Getting back to taxes. If you let people, especially business owners, keep their own money, they will likely invest it some way. The smart ones at least. If business owners can believe things like, the government won’t take over their business, or taxes aren’t going up, then they will invest their money back into the business. This will grow the business, and he will have to hire people. When you hire an unemployed person, they go from being a “tax consumer” (i.e., on food stamps, unemployment, etc., consuming governmental services) to being a “tax producer” (someone who pays taxes). This lowers the costs of the government and increases their tax revenue. The person has a job, the business owner gets more money because his capacity (and business) have expanded, and the government gets more money. Win-Win-Win.

Now, let’s look at it the other way. The government raises taxes, the business owner cuts back on his business because he can’t afford the tax burden, so he lays people off. They go from tax producers to tax consumers. The business makes less money, so the owner pays less in taxes. Sure, tax revenues go up, for a while. Until the downturn hits, then the death spiral starts, more taxes leads to less people working, and so on.

We see this in all the Liberal cities. Detroit, New York, Chicago and so on.

So, we come back to my original point, whatever happened to the concept of letting the people keep the money that they earned?

To think that America is a static pot of money where someone has to lose for someone else to win is ludicrous. America is an ever growing pie, and everyone has pretty much the same chance to get ahead that anybody else does. It all depends on how much you are willing to work. Liberals have the opposite view. They believe that everyone needs to cross the finish line at the same time, no matter how far you have to run. Some will have to run a marathon, while others may only have to walk a foot.

Think about that.

This weekend is not about barbecues, or car sales, or furniture sales.

This weekend is meant to remember my battle brothers and sisters, who went out to protect our country and our way of life, and who never came back.

Please visit a veterans cemetery this weekend, and thank them for your freedom. Tread lightly, heroes lie sleeping there.

Always remember this:

It is the VETERAN, not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN, not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN, not the politician,
who has given us the right to vote.

It is the VETERAN who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag, and who’s
coffin is draped by the flag.