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Einstein’s definition of insanity:
Doing the
same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Someone is not telling the truth so who do you believe, Republican chant of cut taxes for
the rich or George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
& Abraham Lincoln?
My choice, Washington, Jefferson & Lincoln
Were the founders of this nation and Abraham Lincoln incompetent
or was it that they were ill advised, maybe they were just uneducated,
how else do you explain away their thoughts that debt is a bad
plan. Could anyone explain to them or would anyone even be stupid
enough to try, that spending
$16.774 Trillion in interest payments with trillions more still owed on interest was/is a good idea.
President George Washington
and National Debt
As
a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible… ($34.85 Trillion
National Debt, failed that one)
Long ago Thomas Jefferson wrote
“I place economy among the first and most important
virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we
must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debt, we must
be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our
labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from
wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they
will be happy.”
“The money power preys upon the nation in
times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more
despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than
bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been
enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power
of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggravated in a few hands and the
republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
Many people will look at this site, rationalize "My life is good, this doesn’t affect me, why should I care? Still have my MTV, BET, ESPN"; impervious to danger, like the Captain of the Titanic steaming full speed toward the iceberg ahead.
I know no safe
depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if
we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion
by education.
Thomas Jefferson
For an overview listing of the contents-index; and a start of solutions to fix some of our problems plus a questionnaire please follow the links.
Sadly
to many people in the United States appear to be like the character Nick in
closing scenes in the 1978 movie Deer Hunter played by Christopher Walken; Stoned/Catatonic
zombies. I hope, I pray that the people will wake up before the live round
makes it to the chamber because betting on this round of Russian Roulette has
already been placed. Your children's and their children's future is the bet. Wake
up, come on-wake up before it's too late. Sticking ones head in the sand, will
result in hitting the live round. Wall Street is playing a game that must be
stopped.
Goldman
Sachs has churned out many politicians and presidential advisers, including Mr.
Trump’s Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and his first National Economic
Council director, Gary D. Cohn. The road from Goldman to Washington is so
heavily traveled that the firm is sometimes nicknamed “Government Sachs.” - Kate
Kelly
**************
From
the Republican Neo-Con blueprint
TYRANNY OF DEBT
An exceedingly
burdensome debt has been created ($35.802 trillion). For the payment of
interest it becomes necessary to have recourse to new loans, which do not
swallow up but only add to the capital debt. And when this credit is exhausted
it becomes necessary by new taxes to cover, not the loan, BUT ONLY THE INTEREST ON IT.
These taxes are a debit employed to cover a debit.
“Let me issue and control a
nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.”
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
(1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild.
If the loan bears a charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in interest a sum equal to the loan borrowed,($35.8 trillion) in forty years it is paying a double sum,($71.6 trillion) in sixty - treble,($107.4 trillion) and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt.
Disney does a great job at make believe
Unfortunately
it is time for a reality check because this is one seriously ugly mess
When the $16,774,000,000,000 ($16.774 trillion) already squandered for interest is added to the debt still owed this becomes
a lot of money. This was a great plan for the banks/lenders but a horrible plan for those having to pay the interest!
There is no nice way to say this, Wall Street
does not care about you, Bankers do not care about you, Owners of Hedge Funds
do not care about you, The Elitists don't care about you, the majority of the people living in the United States
of America have been used.
"You can fool all the people some of the
time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the
people all the time."
Abraham Lincoln
Many have been played as fools, Wall Street
does not invest in America, Wall Street is a Gamblers Paradise, those people do not work, they are con men
skimming the cream of the everyday workers blood, sweat and tears. Wall Street
does not give a rip about you or your kids. The Bankers, and Gamblers (Wall
Street & Hedge Fund operators) only care about money and with so many in
the House, Senate and even President candidates
begging for campaign money they will not produce change because that
would amount to biting the hand that feeds them.
If history repeats itself yet again it
will not be pretty:
I SEE ONE-THIRD OF A NATION ILL-HOUSED,
ILL-CLAD, ILL-NOURISHED
THE TEST OF OUR
PROGRESS IS NOT WHETHER WE ADD MORE
TO THE ABUNDANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE MUCH
IT
IS WHETHER WE PROVIDE ENOUGH FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TO LITTLE
From the Memorial of
President Roosevelt
President George Washington in his farewell speech
warned the people of the dangers of Potentates’; Political Parties & Debt: it is too
bad that the people have disregarded/ignored his sound advice!
It seems that our politicians’
are somewhat confused.
The
greed, maneuvering and hypocrisy of to many elected officials is disgusting.
Some of us do not suffer from amnesia, we are facing a financial nightmare because
the Republicans took this country off the gold standard back in 1971, when
Nixon was President, to pay for the War in Vietnam and have been
living on borrowed money ever since.
In 2001 instead of using the surplus money the government was taking in to pay down “our” National Debt, President Bush and the Republicans (G.O.P.) decided to run up a Strategic Deficit (Two unfunded wars and a tax cut, plus the Trump tax cuts for the rich of 2018) never taking into consideration the law of unintended consequences, (Strategic deficit to cut programs) this plan was concocted while the Republican President Reagan was in office and now 45 years later the debt is bad enough that implementation by the Republicans can and has commenced.
What will it take for the masses to wake up
Unfettered "capitalism" is every bit as
dangerous as communism and fascism
and
Tyranny is legal when
tyrants make the rules
oli•gar•chy: a puppet government controlled by individuals, corporations, and P.A.C.s who
have bought off (purchased) candidates i.e. Adelson, Koch, Soros.
For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions
Wall Street Pays Bankers to Work in Government,
Admission of guilt
Elizabeth Warren slams corporate wrist-slapping
Some
people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government
institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these
United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers;
foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money
lenders.”
– The
Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee
in the 1930s
Despite being warned, President Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson
The Federal Reserve Bank (which is not run by the United States government and which came into existence because of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913) finally stopped the controversial policy known as quantitative easing, they The FED now hold over $8.8 Trillion in Public Debt, (Guess where the money came from? The United States Treasury Dept.)
One private
equity chief went so far as to publicly thank Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal
Reserve chairman until February 2014, whose program of extraordinary economic
stimulus has helped push stocks higher, feeding the private equity machine.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, the head of the Blackstone Group, took
home $452.7 million, ([$8,690,000] $8.69 million per week) also more than double what he made in the previous year.
Invitation Homes: Dallas-based subsidiary of
The Blackstone Group has spent $8 billion buying about 43,000 homes nation wide.
That's amazing, veterans are homeless and these people only seem to be
concerned about fatter returns. The COO of Blackstone Group is
now the CEO of Costco (Is he just another Wall Streeter or is he
going to protect his employees as founder Jim Sinegal did when he was CEO of Costco, only
time will tell
Wall Street (Blackstone Group) buyers snap up thousands of local homes for rentals
An internal Goldman memo suggested that speculation by investors accounted for about a third of the price of a barrel of oil. A commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal regulator, subsequently used that estimate to calculate that speculation added about $10 per fill-up for the average American driver. Other experts have put the total, combined cost at $200 billion a year.
Why were the banks allowed to raid the FDIC? Because that is where the money was.
Steven
Mnuchin, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary fits this description
by L Michael Tomkins, EdD, of a Psychopath “A psychopath doesn’t have a
conscience. If he lies to you so he can steal your money, he won’t feel any
moral qualms, though he may pretend to.” MR. Mnuchin was a founder of OneWest
Bank, this video explains how people lost all they had to a group of psychopathic lovers of money, control and power.
Taken for a Ride Again (4 1/2 min video)
Loophole manufactured, loophole exploited.
What is it going to take for THE PEOPLE to wake up?
Single payer – Single;
one, solitary: Payer – the person or entity
who pays the bill
Insurance - coverage by
contract whereby one party agrees to guarantee another against a specified loss
Greed – selfish desire; example, The
greedy CEO wanted more money at the cost of your health
UnitedHealth Group Mulls Losses
CEO Stephen Hemsley Took Home $66M
Insurance companies are more concerned
with profits and the bottom line of the company, not the efficiency of your
healthcare.
The Pay of a few insurance CEOs; not including
stock options.
Anthem
CEO Joseph Swedish: $13.5 million
Cigna
CEO David Cordani: $14.5 million
Humana
CEO Bruce Broussard: $10.1 million
Bitter
Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
With solutions
offered toward the end of the article
Compensation
for CEO's in major pharmaceutical companies fiscal year 2015
Juan Ramon Alaix
/ Zoetis - $ 8,700,000
Mark Trudeau /
Mallinckrodt - $ 9,700,000
Rajiv Kanishka L.
De Silva / Endo Int. - $10,900,000
Robert Bradway /
Amgen - $16,100,000
John Lechleiter /
Eli Lilly - $16,600,000
George Scangos /
Biogen - $16,900,000
Ian Read / Pfizef
- $18,000,000
Heather Bresch /
Mylan - $18,900,000
Richard Gonzalez
/ AbbVie - $20,800,000
Brenton Saunders
/ Allergan - $21,600,000
Alex Gorsky /
Johnson & Johnson - $23,200,000
Kenneth Frazier /
Merck $24,100,000
Jeffery Leiden /
Vertex - $28,100,000
Leonard Schleifer
/ Regeneron - $47,500,000
And you thought it was about your health – it’s not – it is
about the investors and their returns
Another
Richard Nixon gift that just keeps on taking: HMO's
Ehrlichman: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can—the reason he can do it—I had Edgar Kaiser come in—talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because— the less care they give them, the more money they make."
If the people of the United States of America have been legally mandated by the President, House, Senate and Supreme (Kangaroo) Court to have to purchase Health Insurance why are a group of "Individuals" allowed to pocket Millions of Dollars in wages off the premiums that WE THE PEOPLE are forced to pay; I thought that was the definition of extortion. The Mafia could only hope; legalized extortion, how could it get any better then that? It just got better: The crime syndicates could not dream up legalized extortion like this - state officials have approved rate increases of 25 to 50 percent or more in 2017.
“Single Payer” explained in plain, simple, unembellished english
Someone would have to be one hell of a fiction writer to make this up so just in case you wanted to understand why your health care premiums’ need to go up; Ex-wife needs $433,991 a month
Seeing how WE THE PEOPLE are forced into paying into this racket how about forcing maximum wages payable to these bums, maybe something in line with 25 times the minimum wage [Minimum wage $7.25 per hour; Maximum wage $181.25 per hour, and let’s put a stop to "Stock Options" while we are at it.
“Investors” &
“Management”
Destroyed
American companies
The Destruction of the
Middle Class "Stock Options"
fetter: a chain or shackle; something that confines; restraint
Unfettered, unrestrained
capitalism gave us this national debt, exorbitant health care costs, destroyed pensions,
sent jobs off-shore, and brought in foreign workers to replace American workers
with H1B1 visas.
Unfettered capitalism is just unchecked greed.
People working together for the betterment of all used to be what America was about, it gave us clean drinking water, electricity (rural electrification of U.S. 1920-1930), Interstate freeway system, vitamins A & D in milk, iodine in salt, pensions, a 40 hour work week. If that is considered socialism I'm having a difficult time seeing where that is such a bad plan. Our military is a socialistic organization and before the era of Money, Money, Money (Dave Ramsey’s theme song), Christianity was socialistic in nature.
Penned 1992
I pledge allegiance to the flag of a nation that
is
bankrupt and dying.
Not just
financially in this sea of red ink but morally as well.
And to
the republic for which it once stood.
Has our
sovereignty been signed away?
(Treaties Supersede our Constitution)
Which has
forsaken God.
Injustice,
greed, lies, debauchery.
Is
divisible with special interest groups.
Over
30,000,000 laws.
How many are
pay-offs to special interest groups?
And
miscarriages of justice for all.
Unfortunately
when laws are not enforced equally on all people
justice
becomes a joke.
President Trump wasn't serious about Draining The Swamp
It
is difficult to DRAIN the SWAMP when the SWAMP RATS are your buddies
A
Private Equity (Blackstone Group (SWAMP RAT)-Owned Doctors' Group
Sued Poor Patients Until It Came Under
Scrutiny
Health system sues thousands of patients,
seizing paychecks and putting liens
on homes (Another SWAMP RAT)
A financial and moral Coup of the United States has taken place; all is ok, MTV, ESPN and Dancing with the Stars are still on.
I realize that I’m nothing more than another uneducated American but I can’t even begin to get my mind around how screwed up Religious Leadership has to be when one group Enshrines Rape with Theology and another group feels that I am a Donkey put here to serve the EffendiISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
The choice is yours and it is really quite simple, the choice will be between what is right and what is simple. Do you continue, try to understand what is happening, what are the consequences for yourself and your children or do you change channels, go to a warm and fuzzy website -- leave this mess for someone else.
By A
Member of Congress February 5, 2015
Confessions of a Congressman
If Congress wants to stop the Cynics, Congress needs to stop the Games
To stop Gerrymandering; (the creative drawing of Congressional Districts which everyone with a computer can look up by Googling there district); use districts drawn up using Zip Codes as they are set up now. DO NOT ALLOW Zip Codes to be redrawn but just add or subtract a Zip Code North, South, East or West to get the desired number of people needed in each District.
We have problems because to many refuse to stand for anything
By the time World War II ended the young men,
both rich and poor had learned to work together to survive and because of the
shared horrors of war continued to work together for the betterment of all.
Unfortunately over the years others who had
not witnessed or been involved in the horrors of war decided they were more
valuable and manipulated our elected officials to manufacture laws for their own
self-interest.
Is it not amazing how many seem to have an
inflated value of their self-worth, many making a high dollar salary believe
they are worth it (CEO’s, Lawyers, Wall Street Gamblers). We are all
replaceable, although some are a little harder to replace than others
(Einstein, Tesla).
I have found few to be worth $250,000 a year;
I have never met anyone worth $50,000 a month ($600,000 a year). Now if we
could just convince the poor kids selling drugs (maybe they like caviar too)
that money isn’t everything because when we die and I don’t care who you are,
the big house, fancy cars, exotic toys of the lifestyles of the rich and
shameless, it all stays.
If you are a decent individual some people
will cry at your funeral, and some might even mourn your passing for a time,
reflecting on the good times, but, life goes on, the world didn't stop spinning. At work they will find someone
to replace you; you’re expendable, you are replaceable.
What is
that CEO or Lawyer or Wall Street Gambler really worth when good men and women
are injured, maimed or killed standing up for this country? How arrogant can
the CEO or Lawyer or Wall Street Gambler be when we as a nation can replace a
President such as Lincoln or Kennedy in just a matter of hours?
CEO
rakes it in / CEO to make Hundreds of Millions
- $15,000 Reenlistment bonus’ clawed-back
Those two articles qualify and quantify the definition of chicken-shit. First article only runs 5 paragraphs
Chicken shit people and organizations’ are easily recognized because of
their greedy, self-centered and often-times manipulative actions.
YOUR ACTION NEEDED: Contact
your elected representatives in Washington DC and tell them to get over
their party differences and get to solutions NOW. Let them know
you are disappointed that $16.465 trillion has been squandered so far
paying interest on the $34.85 trillion National Debt.
Here is a list of contact information Address & Phone Numbers
Everybody was hoping Somebody would do it.
Anybody
could have gotten involved, but Nobody wanted to.
Everybody got angry because it was Somebody's
job.
Everybody thought Somebody else should do it.
Nobody realized that it wouldn’t get taken
care of.
It ended up that Everybody blamed others when Nobody did what Somebody -- Anybody could have done.
The first step in repairing a problem is to acknowledge there is a problem
The real reason
Afghanistan was invaded: Vast mineral wealth
Trump Finds Reason for the U.S. to Remain in Afghanistan: Minerals / July 25, 2017
Millions in Off-the-books cash was given to President Karzai of
One has to wonder, was it incompetence or malfeasance; $28 Million Wasted on Afghan Uniforms only part of U.S. problem
It is amazing what can be overlooked when it come to the Love of Money
Made In China, with American Technology - China Removed Secret Equipment From US Spy Plane (2001)
IBM sells PC group (ThinkPad) to Lenovo (China) (2004)
Microsoft develops Windows 10 version for China’s government (2017)
In General Electric (G.E.)give-aways to China; Greed pays off big for the CEO (2011)
Chinese supremacy - Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Will Enable China To Dominate 1000s Of U.S. Communities (2013)
: How
The Chinese Party Bosses do not care about
you,
Iran and the arrogance of the CIA drone wars; how can this possibly end well
Newly
assertive CIA intensifies covert operations in Afghanistan
Never
read any article concerning the CIA that did not qualify as a SNAFU or FUBAR
“The American people don’t mind if there are
C.I.A. teams waging a covert war there.” Actually Some Of Us Do Mind
A little background on North Korea: The
wiseguy regime, The North Korean Connection, Thousands of N Korean tunnels, Rev. Moon, North Korea &
the Bushes
Russia Uses American Technology to Help Hide Submarines 1987
Russia creating new nuclear missile system (2004)
Moscow to Dallas in 32 minutes & we can't stop it 2013
Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy (2011) - I concur; to often Wall Street and Big Business epitomize parasitic tendencies’ example: Bolivia-Bechtel and The Water Wars
US financial showdown with Russia is more
dangerous than it looks 2014
Does Russia really own around 20% of American Uranium Deposits 2015
We have a Standards Problem and it needs to be fixed.
We as a
nation are at a cross-road, unfortunately neither the left nor the right seem
to understand how we got here, may I offer an observation; When there are no
standards, chaos follows.
There are two major standards that have been
disregarded first one is a dual principal, morals & ethics, the standard
that was used in the past. During the time of Washington and Jefferson (The
Bible, the book of morals & ethics) has been for all intents and purposes tossed out by the crazy right and
loony left, it appears that neither group has bothered to read the book.
Because we as a nation no longer have shared
standards, a kid is killed over shoes and a cop willingly gives a homeless
person a dung sandwich; something is seriously wrong in our country. (There are
a large number of decent kids and cops but there are problem kids and problem
cops and way too many people with weird standards).
When standards are removed, corner stone's
(boundaries') shifted, anything goes. Some laughed, some mocked her as she died - Teenagers Recorded Man Drowning and Laughed
This can actually be fixed, Proverbs is as applicable today as it was 3000
years ago when first written (the rest of the book is also applicable), there
are a number of good preachers out there that will call bullshit what it is but
opening and reading the book yourself helps to ensure preachers are and keep telling the
truth. Education is the key; that is what Martin Luther and Gutenberg
with his invention of the press gave to We The People, the ability to read the truth. It was an incredible
gift at the time and still is because the Religious Authorities were lying
there asses off as to what was printed in the Book to control the masses.
Second one concerns finances, and will be
more difficult to repair, with the removal of the gold standard money could be
printed without concern as long as the debt was paid back, it wasn't paid back,
$33.5 Trillion later we now have a mess.
Thomas Jefferson stated that education is the key, he did not say that it would be pain free or easy but/and your involvement not only matters, it is needed
A distastful ALPHABET SOUP; IMF, SAP, GATT, WTO, CRF, TNC
Bolivia (South American Country), Bechtel (American Corporation) and the
water wars
There is no nice way to say this; we the people have been hosed! Do you want to understand how this mess came about? There was/is a plan and it looks really ugly for the Red Neck - Blue Collar - Christian crowd: Hard times lie ahead, but cheer up, things are getting worse
Here is that list of contact information again Address & Phone Numbers
Chipping: looks good on paper, might want to think about this also
Teen Girls keep having Children and we keep Encourging Them
The Pregnancy Trap
&
Men's needs Woman's needs
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