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Obama follows Heritage's advice ... Why not all their advice?

May 28, 2009 | By Nathaniel Ward

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Obama follows Heritage's advice

President Obama announced this week that he will --integrate the Homeland Security Council with the National Security Council -- exactly as Heritage Foundation experts recommended.

The change will enhance national security by strengthening the government's response capability and efficacy while streamlining bureaucracy. In a statement announcing the transition, the President explained that today's national security challenges "demand a response that effectively integrates all aspects of American power."

In April,  Heritage domestic policy experts Jena Baker McNeill and James Carafano advised the President to "fold the HSC into the NSC" since "policy-planning for homeland security has matured to the point that a separate council is no longer essential." This recommendation followed on a more comprehensive Heritage report issued last September.

While these are welcome changes, McNeill and Carafano warn against complicating these important reforms. "The White House should also demonstrate prudence and restraint in expanding the authority and responsibility of the President's staff. The NSC should remain focused on its primary task: Policy coordination and providing staff advice to the President. The Administration should resist the effort to 'operationalize' the White House by expanding its capacity to conduct crisis management and planning day-to-day operations."

-- Amanda Reinecker

"The American Conservative Party"

The American Conservatives Party website ... fighting the two-party system - one county at a time

http://theamericanconservatives.org

 

The ACP Creed

We Believe:

• the legitimacy of government exists only as long as it defends human liberty.
• the origin of human liberty predates government, and therefore liberty cannot be repealed by government.
• the existence of human liberty presupposes the right to defend it, and the basic right to live begets the rights of self-defense and free expression.
• the self-ownership evident in human liberty begets basic rights over one’s self and time, and that the right to pursue happiness and self-fulfillment originate here.
• the boundary of human liberty ends where it transgresses the rights of another. Jurisprudence exists to mediate disputes where the boundaries of more than one individual intersect.
• the armed forces and law enforcement exist to bolster private defense, not to supplant it.
• that the American Experiment was born out of these beliefs and that it has resulted in a bountiful gain for the human condition.

Principles of the American Conservative Party

Foundation:

From this Foundation, all principles flow:

• The individual is sovereign
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

• Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just limited powers from the consent of the governed
  • "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish the Constitution for the United States of America." What does this mean? Simply put, that the formation of a legitimate government can only occur when the citizens themselves choose to surrender a portion of their inherent authority. The citizens may chose to give, but the government cannot chose to take (or keep) authority against the wishes of its citizenry.
    

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Millionaires Go Missing ... Maryland's fleeced taxpayers fight back.

The THE WALL STREE JOURNAL  (May 27 2009)  Another Story of "Redistribution of Wealth"

Here's a two-minute drill in soak-the-rich economics:

Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy. Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%. And because cities such as Baltimore and Bethesda also impose income taxes, the state-local tax rate can go as high as 9.45%. Governor Martin O'Malley, a dedicated class warrior, declared that these richest 0.3% of filers were "willing and able to pay their fair share." The Baltimore Sun predicted the rich would "grin and bear it."

One year later, no-body's grinning. One-third of the millionaires have disappeared from Maryland tax rolls. In 2008 roughly 3,000 million-dollar income tax returns were filed by the end of April. This year there were 2,000, which the state comptroller's office concedes is a "substantial decline." On those missing returns, the government collects 6.25% of nothing. Instead of the state coffers gaining the extra $106 million the politicians predicted, millionaires paid $100 million less in taxes than they did last year -- even at higher rates.

No doubt the majority of that loss in millionaire filings results from the recession. However, this is one reason that depending on the rich to finance government is so ill-advised: Progressive tax rates create mountains of cash during good times that vanish during recessions. For evidence, consult California, New York and New Jersey.

The Maryland state revenue office says it's "way too early" to tell how many millionaires moved out of the state when the tax rates rose. But no one disputes that some rich filers did leave. It's easier than the redistributionists think. Christopher Summers, president of the Maryland Public Policy Institute, notes: "Marylanders with high incomes typically own second homes in tax friendlier states like Florida, Delaware, South Carolina and Virginia. So it's easy for them to change their residency."

All of this means that the burden of paying for bloated government in Annapolis will fall on the middle class. Thanks to the futility of soaking the rich, these working families will now pay Mr. O'Malley's "fair share."

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This is another devastating example of how stupid our Politicians are.

"VAT" Value Added Tax by the Federal Government ... Its Coming !

Please start paying attention to even what appears to be small stuff... The Washington Post reported 5-27-09 that the federal government is working on a VAT tax system.  Instead of just taxing the final sale of a product the government will tax everything along the way, I mean Everything from raw materials to shipping to manufacturing to shipping to retail to you the consumer.  WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT YOU THE CONSUMER WILL PAY A LOT MORE FOR YOU PRODUCTS !  DO YOU GET IT ?

=== Principle of VAT ===
The standard way to implement a VAT is to say a business owes some percentage on the price of the product minus all taxes previously paid on the good. If VAT rates were 10%, an orange juice maker would pay 10% of the $5 per gallon price ($0.50) minus taxes previously paid by the orange farmer (maybe $0.20). In this example, the orange juice maker would have a $0.30 tax liability. Each business has a strong incentive for its suppliers to pay their taxes, allowing VAT rates to be higher with less tax evasion than a retail sales tax. Behind this simple principle are the variations in its implementations, which will cost billions just to implement this process, hence more bureaucracy.

This is "BULL SHIT' 

Email your representative in Washington and say "Quit thinking of ways to tax our country start looking to cut the bloated budget."

Lying for Islam

We as Americans need to understand because the entire world is changing.

This is a YouTube link for a video on Muslims philosophy ... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMc3XMB6ZZg

Start paying attention to the subtle changes.  The EU European Union and mostly France and England have been asleep for the past 20 years.

Terrorist strongest assets is breaking ... "Will"

A book I have read lately is insightful, scary and incredibly profound.  "America Alone" The end of the world as we know it, by Mark Steyn published in 2006.  The beginning to the e.....   Part 1 "The Gelded Age"  Part 2  "Arabian Night"  Part 3  The New Dark Ages... And How to Lighten Up.

In this book to get started Steyn quotes:

• "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.  Osama Bin Laden Kandahar, November 2001
• "If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative"  Donald Rumsfeld  Washington, October 1998
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Chapter Ten "The Falling Camel" Last Legs.... Steyn writes as a sub title "Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)

In Chapter Ten "America Alone" Mark Steyn writes... "After the Madrid bombing, the Spectator, the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language, ran an editorial headlined "We Are Not at War."  They wished to assure Britons that the jihad would not be taking possession of Buckingham Palace:  "Osama bin Laden is no more likely to march triumphantly down the Mall than is a little green man from Mars.  Al Qaeda has means but no end."

Well, no, Osama won't be going down the Mall  and through the Palace gates, unless it's surviving granules of DNA on a gun carriage.  But it doesn't have to be that dramatic:  the al Qaeda air force won't be having dogfights with the RAF over the White Cliffs of Dover before the Queen signs the instrument of abdication in the presence of the Acting First Ayatollah of the Islamic Republic of Britain.  Yet you can reach the same point of surrender very gradually, almost imperceptibly.  in that respect, the editors of the Spectator have it exactly backward: al Qaeda haven't the means, but their end---the Islamification of the West----is shared by millions of law-abiding Muslims.  Recall on of the most famous images of terror, from Joseph Conrad's great novel The Secret Agent (1907)  and it signature scene of the lone terrorist padding the streets of London with a bomb strapped to his chest:

The power of the image lies in the bomber's isolation from the tide of Londoners all around him, all blissfully unaware.  But as became clear very quickly after the 2005 England Tube bombings, that's not quite the world we live in.  It's not black (the bomber) and white (the rest of us): there's a lot of murky shades of gray in between: the terrorist bent on devastation and destruction prowls the street, while around him are a significant number of people urging him on,

and around them a larger group of cock-sure young male co-religionists gleefully celebrating mass murder,

and around a much larger group of "moderates" who stand silent at the acts committed in their name,

and around them a mesh of religious and community leaders who serve as apologists for the inciters,

and around them a network of professional identity-group grievance-mongers adamant that they're the real victims,

and around them a vast mass of elite opinion in the media and elsewhere too squeamish about ethno-cultural matters to confront reality,

and around them a political establishment desperate to pretend this is just managerial problem that can be finessed away with a few new laws and a bit of community outreach.

It's these insulating circles of gray---the imams, lobby groups, media, bishops, politicians--that bulk up the loser death-cult and make it a potent force.  And way out at the end of this chain of shades of gray is the general population.  And sometimes enough of them bleed into the gray blur of passivity and defeatism, as in Spain.  Sometimes they don't, yet, as in America.  And sometimes, as in the United Kingdom, they talk about defiance and the old Blitz spirit, but they make a thousand trivial concessions day by day.  That's how great nations die---not by war or conquest, but bit by bit, until on day you wake up and you don't need to sign a formal instrument of surrender because you did it piecemeal over the last ten years."

Mark Steyn "America Alone"

This book is very well written, to help understand just what is happening in this world today and who wants to control it.  It is not what and who you might think.  My suggestion "Hold on to your WILL" and read this book.

 

 

Recommended Web Site "Friends of the Constitution"

Americans all over this great country are getting involved in lots of ways.  Friends of the Constitution web site has displayed lots of videos that encourage the restoration of this back to founders intentions.

http://www.friendsoftheconstitution.us

Helping the Freedom Movement

 

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Recommended WebSite to View

This is a website that reveals extrodonary government information and displayes this information in a very simple way.

Truth in 2008 and beyond

http://www.truthin08.org/

 

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Restore our Republic... Now

 

Every day requires you to learn somthing more about who, what, when and where!  Moreover "Follow the Money"

 

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KFI 640 Radio Rally "No as in No More Taxes" Are You Listining

Saturday May 16, 2009 John and Ken from KFI 640 radio hosted a rally to promote NO on all the bills to raise taxes.

This Rally was a hugh success.