Friday, November 13, 2009
"George S Patton speech: Iraq & modern world"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyUX6wV1lBQ
We need another Patton today. I try to stay optimistic,I remember that Reagan would say something to the effect that some say America's best day's are behind her but I say America's best day's are yet to come, I am afraid that we may be crossing a threshold where America's best day's may truly be behind her. May God and time prove me wrong
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Inconvenient Constitution
I can't believe these guys. Here they are,they have sworn to uphold, and defend the Constitution, and lo and behold they don't even know what it says!
Nelson is not the only one, several congressmen have been asked, as well as White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, what authority there is in the Constitution for mandating that individuals purchase health insurance, and to a person they all start answering by saying they're not Constitutional scholars, then proceed to show ignorance of what this august document does say. It would seem that the Constitution is an inconvenient document to these folks.
Well in the interest of clarity here's what a 1994 C.B.O. memo had to say on the subject...
"A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government."
Did you get the part about the government not requiring people to buy goods or services as a requirement of lawful residence. There is a reason why,the Constitution doesn't allow it! It's called the freedom to choose!!!
That's right the government cannot force me to buy health insurance. Now I can almost hear someone saying "but the states require people to by car insurance". True enough they certainly do. This is predicated on the idea-that has been upheld by the Supreme Court- that driving is a privilege extended to you by the state therefore they can impose that requirement on you.
Citizenship however is a God given right guaranteed to anyone born in the U.S or naturalized as a citizen. They are basically trying to say that citizenship is a privilege and therefore to enjoy that privilege we must buy health insurance.
I think they will find that the inconvenient Constitution of these United States will stop them in their evil little tracks!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Those who make a difference
I'm getting this Veterans day dedication out a little late, but, better late than never!
This video is dedicated to my oldest son, as well as, all the great men and women who put themselves in harms way to serve our country.
They are our very finest and they really do make a difference. This is my salute to you all.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Unconscionable Sermon on an American Street
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115325
This video is an absolute outrage! As I listened to this idiot spout his trash I became angrier and angrier! Then it occurred to me that if this fellow had been a Christian -preaching the love of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ- he probably would have been shut down by the police!
I know that we have freedom of speech in this country -and as the name of this blog implies- I am a great supporter of freedom but there is a limit to that freedom. What we see here is tantamount,no it is, allowing an agent of our enemy to spout his propaganda on OUR streets in the MIDDLE of a WAR!!!
Good God could you imagine a member of the Gestapo being allowed to rail against Jews ,Americans, and anyone else he hated on an American street during WWII!
If this had been a Christian speaking against sin he would have been charged with "hate speech". Yet this muslim extremist is on our streets advocating violence against "infidels and hypocrites"!
Well folks who do you think he's talking about? He's talking about anyone and everyone who calls themselves an American. We have a real problem and PC is blinding us to what it is. We have an enemy living among us that wants nothing less than our annihilation, and some members of this enemy force are American and they put loyalty to Islam ahead of love, and, loyalty to country!!
Because of political correctness our military and police authorities turned a blind eye to the Islamic terrorist Hassan that took 13 lives, and wounded several others, at Fort Hood!!
Because of political correctness we try to continue believing that guys like the one in this video do not represent legitimate Islam. Hell these guys ARE THE TRUE BELIEVERS!!!! Just read the KORAN it calls repeatedly for the most vicious forms of violence against any and all who "disbelieve Islam and refuse to bow before the "Prophet"!!!!
America WAKE UP!! If we don't get over this fear of offending people who want to destroy us we are all going to wind up either dead or in slavery to Islam!!!
Monday, November 9, 2009
20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and America appears to be falling head long into Communism!
I find this video to be positively amazing. The scenes it shows are of the first seconds, minutes, and hours after this hated symbol of socialist oppression came tumbling down. It also shows people fleeing over the wall eager to escape the man made hell that was the eastern block behind the Iron Curtain!
As you watch this video you can see the overwhelming exuberance and joy of people getting their first taste of freedom in years, and many for the first time in their entire lives.
Over the years more than 300 people were murdered or injured by the East German Socialist Government as they sought to extricate themselves from the "socialist paradise" that they suffered horrendously in!
Flash forward 20 years to this very day. Just 2 day's ago the American Socialists in the United States House of Representatives voted to plunge this country head long into the same kind of failed system, that the East Germans craved freedom from, Communiusm!
East Germany- and indeed the entire eastern block- was a place where everyone had job security. If you didn't have a job you were thrown in jail. That was the socialist solution to unemployment. These people had cradle to grave health care,government assistance, and most telling of all cradle to grave slavery.
Now the Democratic Socialists in America are trying to pass into law a bill that says you shall, you shall, you shall, so many times that it is sickening. Under their diabolical plan if you don't want any part of their nonsense you can be fined tens of thousands of dollars, charged with a felony, and be put in prison for as long as 5 years. This -in my book- is NOT Freedom!!
Just think if they can do that they may well be able to eventually pass laws making it a crime to speak out against this plan, and any other wonderful socialist experiment, they propose! And make no mistake they have plenty of them not the least of which is the next big goal on their horizon "Cap and Trade".
It's time to stand up and shout at the top of our lungs that we the people WANT OUR FREEDOM not a Socialist Paradise!!
On this 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, if we take this plunge into communism we may never know REAL freedom again.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Eric Cantor:"Republicans Do Have A health Care Plan
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Well this-is in my opinion- a sad day for America! Last night I watched the spectacle of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reading the results of the house vote and -smiling like the Cheshire cat- announcing this turkey had passed.
We have often heard that Republicans have "no plan" when it comes to health care reform legislation but House minority whip Eric Cantor exposes this claim for the lie it is. Republicans in the House and Senate have several excellent proposals that would reform health care without the government DICTATING to the American people how and in what form they will receive health care.
As it stands now the House version lays down the Law literally and tells Americans what they "SHALL" do! It even criminalizes opposition to their plan by making it a felony to not buy into this garbage.
As Mr. Cantor points out the Democratic proposal runs to almost 2000 pages. In addition this monster creates more new federal bureaucracies than can be counted.
It's interesting that Queen Nancy wore a Lenin Red Dress last night as she proclaimed victory. I swear I thought I saw a gold hammer and sickle on her right shoulder, but after rubbing my eyes found I was seeing things.
If theses damn Democrats get their way the freedom, economic opportunity, and choice we have so far enjoyed will become a thing of the past. History teaches us that democracies rarely last more than 200 years. Seems our's is about to expire.
Yes Republicans do have a plan for health care reform too bad it will likely never see the light of day!!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Speaking truth to power!
For a long time now the left has had the erroneous idea that they had an exclusive monopoly on protest! In fact for a long time-because the majority remained silent- they did have a de-facto monopoly, but, not any more. Americans of all stripes who think that government has crossed a line have become energized and are no longer silent.
For years now the left has loved to say "speak truth to power"! Well today Americans by the hundreds if not thousands were speaking truth to the powers that be in Washington, and that truth is, that they, the politicians, work for us, not the other way around!
In the midst of all this I heard a sound byte by Queen Nancy in which she said she had spent her whole life on this-health care reform- and that it was important to the people. No it is important to HER because she has invested her life in turning this country into some kind of communist paradise!
Well here is some truth being spoken to power by me -And I believe what the protesters were also saying-go to hell with your communist paradise!
Speak truth to power America is not a communist country it is a Democratic Republic belonging to the people and regulated by The Constitution! It's time Nancy Pelosi and company read it!!!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
That Ain't My America By Lynyrd Skynyrd
I ran across this by following a link on the Jimmy Z show broadcast for Nov. 3rd. It really sums up how I've been feeling since Queen Nancy, Prince Harry, and Emperor Barack started their campaign to turn America into a communist country.
This really is a great song hope you enjoy it and if you do turn somebody else on to it.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sarah Palin:Anti- Establishment!

I heard this statement made by Pat Buchanan on MSNBC's Hardball. Matthews as usual had asked some inane question about Palin in connection with the race in New York's 23rd district where another-Palinesque-maverick, Doug Hoffmann, seemed poised to beat out an "establishment" Democratic Party candidate. Indeed Hoffman had already ran the Republican Party establishment candidate out of the race!!.
It made me think back to the radical years of the late sixties early seventies when the left owned the "anti-establishment moniker. How damn ironic I thought that a conservative such as Sarah Palin should be called "anti-establishment".
But why not? After all the times have similarities, today as in 1968-1975 or so, America was beset by an entrenched, often arrogant, and out of touch, administration, as well as political establishment.
In those days the hippies, and the "New Revolutionaries," were the ones challenging the established order-indeed the watchword of the day was question authority-now these self same hippies control Washington and are calling for blind faith in their nonsense!
Today it is not the hippie socialists but rather the -"anti-establishment"- conservatives like Palin and Hoffman as well as the town hallers and teabag protesters that are the new revolutionaries.
In the words of an old sixties song "The Times They Are a Changin". After the last election liberal politicians and pundits said that conservatism was dead. Oh contraire! The New CONSERVATIVE -not to be confused with neocon- Revolution is only beginning .
Time to take back America Conservatives!!!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Conservative Party U.S.A Part II

Over the weekend all the buzz on the weekend talk shows centered on the two gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the hotly contested senate race in New York. I found it very interesting that in the latter-the three way race between Democrat Bill Owens,Republican DeDe Scozzafava, and Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman- all the commentators seemed to lump Hoffman in as a Republican just because he is conservative.
There was barely a mention of the fact that Hoffman wasn't just a conservative Republican causing trouble for the official Republican nominee,but that he is in fact, the nominee of a totally separate "Conservative" party. To top it all off Scozzafava -who had the endorsement of no less a Republican party luminary than Newt Gingrich (why I don't know)-was forced to pull out,and even endorsed the Democratic candidate.
I find myself wondering if this could be the beginning of a movement that could be a rude awakening for the "Grand Old Party". I also think this may be a good time for the GOP to reexamine the history of it's own beginning!
The Republican Party- or the Grand Old Party-had its beginnings in 1854 when disaffected opponents of slavery from the Whig,Freesoil, and Democratic parties met in Jackson Michigan to form a new party which they called "The Republican Party".
Until that time the Whig party had been promising to oppose slavery but didn't keep that promise. Today "Conservatives" have been courted for years by a party that increasingly acts anything but conservative.
Many seem to think the two are one in the same,but, THEY ARE NOT!! Republicans can be conservative but many conservatives-myself included-just happen to vote Republican more often than not. However this same group of people would be just as happy voting for a conservative Democrat against a liberal Republican-or as I believe was the case in the last two National elections-not vote at all.
Yes the "Grand Old Party" would do well to take stock. This new conservative movement, and this new "Conservative Party", might well leave them on the dust heap of history alongside the old "Whig Party"!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Michael Moore's Plan to Communize America!

Given the fact that the mortgage companies have been given billions this point has some merit. However the problem started because of socialist policies that allowed people who could not "AFFORD" to buy homes they couldn't afford!
This one is very telling. Moore let's the cat out of the Health Care bag note the use of the word "Nonprofit". Yes lefties like Moore who has made massive profits from his films hate to see others make a profit. HEY MIKE THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. Companies exist to make MONEY!!!!!
I say let em get as many donations as possible.
Notice here the nonsense about companies only existing to make a profit. Duh companies aren't charities nobody works for free!!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Afgahnistan-Pakistan Burn While Emperor OBama Fiddles

Today's headlines scream "11 Dead in Kabul" "Car bomb kills 100 in Pakistan"!!
Afghanistan is rapidly becoming a huge mess and that may well be the understatement of the day. While our president "dithers" our soldiers, U.N. workers. and innocent civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan die!
This is totally unacceptable! The president should definitely make a considered, and measured, decision, but at this point it is beginning to look as though Obama is paralyzed by indecision, whether that assessment is true or not!
Even the liberal talking heads on television are beginning to question what looks to be presidential indecision. I remember when Bush was president it was demanded -by the left- that he listen to his generals on the ground.
How amazing that now that one of their own is in power none of the liberal activists that hammered Bush can be found.
The worst part of this is that American soldiers are dying in ever increasing numbers for -what I would say-is a lack of reinforcement! Our enemies are gaining the upper hand! If you don't believe that they are today's news from Kabul is proof to the contrary..
In the history of this war- since we originally secured Kabul - this sort of thing has not happened in the area that it did,which is one of the most secure areas in Kabul, and indeed all Afghanistan.
We as a nation have to decide are we in this to win or not! If we are in it to win we MUST give the generals all the numbers of soldiers, and equipment, as they ask for.
Our soldiers, the Afghan people and the people of Afghanistan cannot wait while Emperor Obama Fiddles literally as Rome-so to speak- is burning!!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Conservative Party U.S.A.:Could this be an alternative to the G.O.P.

Could the Conservative party of America be a viable alternative to the Grand Old Party? I'm beginning to think it could. Recently this party nominated Doug Hoffman to be their candidate in the N.Y senatorial campaign. His Republican In Name Only opponent -DeDe Scozzafava- is slightly to the left of John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.
Ms. Scozzafava has been endorsed by the likes of Acorn, and supports abortion for God's sake!! this is why I feel as if -to paraphrase Ronald Reagan- the Republican Party is leaving me! How can a party that claims to be conservative support someone who is basically a Liberal Democrat.
Check out this video from Doug Hoffman, then click on the logo at the top of the page. You may well decide this party Could be a viable alternative to the G.O.P.!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Chuck Schumer on Limiting Executive Pay!
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I apologize to any coming to view this page. When first created the above video worked. I have tried unsuccessfully to re post it ,but, you can watch the interview at The Meet The Press website.
Chuck Schumer appeared on "Meet The Press" this morning and talked with David Gregory about the Feds move to slash executive compensation and bonuses at companies that took "Bail out " money.Then O'l chuck talks about the "average American taxpayer".
Chuck says the taxpayer says I work hard, pay my taxes, and did nothing wrong why should I have to pay for this? Then he goes on to say that taxpayers want theses guys to tighten their belts.
Schumer is right. As an American taxpayer I didn't like the bailout. Yes those companies that took government money ought to tighten their belts and pay back the taxpayer! However I don't like the idea of the government dictating salaries or pay of any kind.
If the fed or -or any other branch of the government- can dictate pay to these guys they can dictate -sooner or later- to all of us!!
So I said to myself "Hey Chuck" are you ready to tighten YOUR belt and take a slash in pay??Congressmen like you are costing me, and all the other over burdened taxpayers, too much money.
In fact - a few years ago - the Heritage Foundation put out a report that claimed our Congress men cost us 6 million a year! That's right six million! Hell theses guys ARE the "evil rich" !
Members of congress are handsomely paid,have better health insurance than anyone in the world, and run around in giant limos,ride in chartered jets,and basically live like lords!!
Meanwhile the American taxpayer is more, and , more becoming a surf. Yes a surf! These guys have a guaranteed income, don't really have to show up for work -Barack Obama spent more time on the campaign trail than in the Illinois senate-they can always just have themselves put down as not present.
They are totally insulated from the effects of their own policies. Meanwhile we live with the consequences of their bad decisions and because of more and more laws,and regulations, become more and more dependant on them.
But that's not enough! No theses power hungry liberal criminals want to control EVERYTHING!
What's happening now is just a "foot in the door" if you will. Once they have set the precedent they will eventually seek to control all companies and regulate everyone's pay! They are literally trying to turn us into subjects!
In fact-if you take this to it's ultimate conclusion - you may well find that they will be telling everyone what kind of job they will do, where they live, as well as what kind of transportation you will be required to use.
Sound familiar? Sounds a lot like communism to me! And not just any kind of Communism, but Soviet style communism.
No until o'l Chuck Schumer is ready to slash his pay, live in the REAL WORLD with the rest of us, and sacrifice with the rest of us, he needs to quit throwing stones!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The New Currency of The Future?
http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentID=191
I started out tonight to post about the Federal Reserve's plans to tell banks how they can compensate their employees. During my research I ran across an article telling how Dmitri Medvedev unveiled a new world currency at the G-8 summit.
I was blown away! A world currency? I have heard conspiracy theories for years about one world government and currency etc. etc. So I did a search for "Eurodollars" what I discovered has shaken me to the bone!
This nation is being sold down the river and no one seems to be paying any attention to what is REALLY going on!! The picture at the top of this page is a sample of this proposed "United Future World Currency"! It can be found at http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentID=191.
Have I got your attention yet? Well sit down because what I'm going to tell you next is going to rock your world. The stated goal of the United Future World Currency project is as follows...
"the initial aim is to unite the United States of America with the United States of Europe, it will also be open to other Countries".
In my post from Sept. 20th I posted the video of Lord Monketon -formerly of the U.K. warning how the European Union -whose capitol is in Brussels- was dictating to England such minutiae as when the trash would be picked up. Well this garbage about a world currency was initiated in Brussels and Rome-which points to Biblical Prophecy but that's another post-and appears to be part of the process of imposing European Socialism upon us and the rest of the world!
In the late presidential campaign- and even afterward- we have been warned that Barack O. represents an attempt at European style socialism in this country. Mr. Obama even became-as far as I know- the first U.S. presidential candidate to campaign in Europe!
Could Barack be this organizations "Manchurian Candidate" in America? I have heard recently that Medvedev of Russia and Putin may be at odds. Could Medvedev be "their man" in Russia?
I don't know but I'm beginning to wonder if the current economic crisis wasn't somehow manufacture in order to advance the agenda of the Future World Currency Project!
At the web site for this future world currency one can find a tab for their "Manifesto".
Manifesto? Hum seems I've heard that term before. Oh yeah I remember manifesto as in 'Communist Manifesto".
Although being a distinct and different document it is none the less very scary in it's own right. Aside from the stated goal of uniting the United States and Europe it also seeks to indoctrinate their vision into the youth of the world.
Dictators like the Nazis and the Communists always target the "youth" in order to achieve their objectives. I'm going to stop here for now. I will be writing more about this in future posts. I will have to take time to research this and do some more posts.
I strongly urge anyone who reads this to go to ...
http://www.futureworldcurrency.com/Documents.asp?DocumentAreaID=47
and check this out for yourself. I feel that if you love this country you too will be shaken to the bone at the prospect of "The New Currency of The Future".
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
It's Time To Tell Barack Obama To Listen to The Generals
Remember when George Bush was President and all one could hear from the Liberal Democrats was that George Bush should "listen to the generals on the ground"? Now however their silence is deafening in the face of President Obama's glaring indecision on what to do in Afghanistan.
Yes in the Bush era it was imperative that Bush listen to what his professional military commanders were asking for until General Petraus asked for a troop surge. Then OMG! Petraeus became Betrayus.
Obama has been asked by the ranking general on the ground in Afghanistan-General McChrystal-to send in several thousand more troops to fight a resurgent Taliban.
But what does the anointed one do? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! While Barack outdoes Jimmy Carter in the art of vacillation more of our American soldiers die for lack of reinforcements. Where is the liberal concern for the lives of our fighting men and women now? What happened to the Cindy Sheehans and the like?
Where is Harry-The War Is Lost -Reid. Calling for an immediate withdrawal of troops?
Today our soldiers are in need of our support. General McChrystal should be given the resources he needs to fight this war ,and, he should receive them immediately.
The great One went to great pains when he was running for President to draw parallels between himself and Abe Lincoln. Lincoln picked his Generals and delegated to them the authority to prosecute the war. If the general didn't get the job done he was replaced.
Lincoln did not try to tell his commanders how to fight all he requested was that they actually fight, and, fight to win!
It's well past time to tell Barack Obama to listen to his Generals. We need to fight to win in Afghanistan or get the hell out!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wake Up America Our Sovereignty Is At Stake
"Under John Major and Tony Blair, Britain gave away power after power. It lost its veto in several areas and was subject to the racket called "qualified majority voting" – a way to ensure the Franco-German alliance carries the day – in others. The result is horrifying. Today, eighty percent of British Laws are actually made in Brussels, and the Mother of Parliaments, home to the Pitts, Palmerston, Salisbury and Churchill, such great champions of British sovereignty, has no power to reject or even amend them. The most hated reforms in Britain today – closure of post offices, the ridiculous Home Information Packs whose costs prevent people selling their homes in this housing crisis, and a reduction in garbage collections to once every fourteen days – all are the result of European directives, made in Brussels"
Wake up America! It's time to heed the words of this self proclaimed English "refugee". In this video Lord Christopher Moncketon explains how Great Britain gradually ceded sovereignty to the European Union.
Post offices being closed, regulation on housing, and changes in trash collection may seem like small things,but, all large problems start small. In a short time our President will be heading to the G 20 Summit. There it is quite likely he will sign a global warming treaty that will provide for a world government,transfer of wealth from the developed nations to the less developed nations, as well as a structure to ensure that rules, laws, and regulations passed by this unelected world government can be enforced.
Watch this video, do some research, and I think you will agree it's time to "Wake Up America Our Sovereignty Is At Stake".
Thursday, October 15, 2009
White House reacting to media criticism in a manner similar to Hugo Chavez

How are Anita Dunn and Hugo Chavez similar? Obviously it isn't that Dunn is a man or an actual dictator. What makes theses two similar is their shared paranoia of a free press that can criticize what they do!
Fox News reported in March this chilling statement of Hugo Chavez... " Chavez said that "if it weren't for the attack, the lies, manipulation and the exaggeration" of the private media networks, the Venezuelan government would have the support of at least 80 percent of the population".
Ms. Dunn and the White House have accused Fox News of spreading lies and distortions.
"In recent weeks, the White House has begun using its government blog to directly attack what it called "Fox lies."
This is a sign of insecurity on the part of the White House. Chavez likewise is insecure and rightfully so. He has corrupted Venezuelan democracy.
Liberals in general and the Democrats in particular do not really like free speech. Their idea of free speech is no restrictions for liberal opinion, but if you have a conservative opinion, you are suspect and need to be watched, regulated, or shut down.
Rush Limbaugh's recent trouble with the NFL is proof of this point. Limbaugh was blackballed, by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, because of his conservative beliefs. However they didn't attack him directly on that point, no, instead they characterized him as a racist, and with the assistance of lies and distortions in the liberal media, a new kind of "McCarthyism" shut him out of his bid for the Rams.
Likewise Ms. Dunn and the White House seek to demonize and marginalize Fox by making accusations of lies and distortions-similar language by the way as Chavez used- in order to -in my opinion-silence criticism by Fox News.
No liberals don't like true free speech. It is my opinion that liberals, Democrats, and the current gang in the White House have more in common with Hugo Chavez than with the American people who clearly have found Fox News to be a very credible source for news.
They truly are reacting to criticism in a manner similar to Hugo Chavez.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Health Care Cooperatives The Only Thing Acceptable in Baucus bill
http://www.iptv.org/video/wvx.cfm?id=6346
(click on above link for video about health care coop's)
Well the much awaited Baucus Bill has finally emerged from committee and is probably dead on arrival. This turkey is nothing but a lot of taxes,regulations, and pork. There is however one part of the proposal that-I believe- has merit, the health care cooperative provision.
Other conservatives have claimed that Health Care Cooperatives are a backdoor way of bringing in a public option but I'm not so sure. I am a member of a rural electric cooperative and it is independent of the government and owned by it's members. I am even payed a dividend by my cooperative at the end of the year.
Many try to use REC's as a poster child for not having HCC's. They make false arguments such as REC's are government subsidized. This is not true. Granted they receive tax breaks and low interest loans, but invester owned utilities get tax breaks from the government as well. In fact most investor owned utilities gather money from consumers to pay federal taxes that these utilities often times are not required to pay to the government however they still get to keep the money. See this web site http://www.blachlylane.coop/news/story.php?ID=51 for more info.
In fact the dollars they collect to cover taxes they never pay is around 60Billion per year. This eclipses the estimated amount of loans and grantes REC's receive which is around 83 million dollars.
Electric cooperatives provide energy at lower prices than Investor owned utilities and do so while providing better service. And in case you're wondering no I don't work for the cooperatives
If we can achieve the level of success with health care cooperatives, that we have with electric cooperatives, then HCC's may well be an important component to real heath care reform.
The way I see it instead of being something to fear they may well be something worth trying. Hey if they don't work they won't survive.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Fair Tax Jack or It's Time for real Tax reform
http://nbcfairtax.blogspot.com/2009/10/fair-tax-jack.html
I picked this cartoon up from another blog I am a follower of "Northern Boone County FairTax".
In case you don't know what the Fair Tax is it is plan to replace our current-and horribly broken- income tax law with a national consumption tax. I can almost hear readers saying "I pay too much sales tax now"!
Well my response is typical of many. I wish there were an alternative to taxes but so-far in human history no one has figured out a way to run a government without them. So what can we do to make it as painless, if you will, as possible.
This is where the Fair Tax comes in. The beauty of this form of raising revenue is that-unlike the current system- it does not punish hard work and achievement.
How does our current system punish hard work and achievement? Well it penalizes hourly workers for working hard. People who earn an hourly wage are in effect punished for working overtime by being forced into a higher tax bracket where-if you work too many hours- you can actually end up with less take home pay than working a straight week.
Entrepreneurs, companies, and innovators are penalized by the current system for ,in essence. being successful.
The FairTax ,on the other,hand lets companies, hourly workers,and those who bring innovation to the marketplace to keep all they earn and only pay taxes on what they buy.
Everybody has more money and can therefore better afford consumer goods, or factory expansions, or whatever the case amy be. I could go on all day about the virtue of the Fair Tax but time and life won't allow. That's why I recommend you go to http://www.fairtax.org/ or click on the picture below to learn more.
