You either pay attention or pay through the nose. I would rather pay attention.
If the assessment of the special advisor to the President for “Green Jobs” is any indication, then we can pretty much equate Obamunism to Marxism.
Green Jobs Czar Van Jones is an admitted communist. See this man’s history in the short YouTube video below. Click once to play it.
What I loved about this book is its’ title. Fleeced. Everywhere in the book where the word “fleeced” appears, you could swap in the words “officially screwed”.
The content is actually pretty good too. It addresses several topics and how the American governments (both Republican and Democrat) are fleecing the tax payers.
Morris covers several topics including the media, the do nothing Congress, pension funds, credit care companies, hedge fund billionaires, the Teachers Union and many others. Each chapter also includes a bit of information on what people can do to fight being fleeced.
What was very pleasing to see was a sentence in the conclusion that reminds me of this blog’s tagline “You either pay attention or pay through the nose. I would rather pay attention.”
The only way to avoid being fleeced by our own government is to pay attention to what our elected and appointed representatives are doing – or not doing – in Washington.
Although this book is geared towards the American system, the lesson to pay attention is important in all democratic nations.
8/10 Screws
Timing is everything. And Ottawa’s museum workers have voted in a landslide to strike with a likely start date to be in mid September just in time for the new school year.
As they have been working without a contract since April 1st, the timing of this strike could not be more opportune for the union. In typical fashion, they will aim to disrupt our lives as much as possible because they know what we all know. The primary visitors to museums are school children on school trips and a strike in April and through the summer will not garner any attention or cause any disruption. But there is an added reason they waited from April to September. And it all has to do with who takes the children to these museums?
Unionized teachers of course.
Mark my words. This means that we can count on teachers complaining about how important school trips to the two museums are and that it is important for the government to settle with the strikers so classes can go on field trips. All in a show of union solidarity.
If parents don’t stand firm and make it clear to teachers that they do not feel that field trips to these museums are necessary, you can rest assured that tax payers will, once again, get OfficiallyScrewed.
American President Barry O has come out and said the following:
We can not continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We’ve gotta have a civilian security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.
This quote raises a whole slew of questions that remain unanswered.
Day 4
– Why do we need a civilian force?
– Who is posing a threat to us?
– Who will this “force” be made up of?
– Who is the real enemy?
– Does the president know of a coming event? If not, who builds an army against an unrecognized enemy?
– Why won’t the media get off their butts and look into these radicals in the White House? And into this civilian army?
These questions REALLY make you wonder. If they don’t, you’re probably spending too much time listening to Lindsay Loserhan or watching Wheel of Boredom and not paying enough attention to the real world.
Here are the questions from Day 3 in the 5 part series. Note that some of these questions are not hard to dig the answers up to as you will shortly see here on this Blog.
Many of you know I am very much a libertarian. My primary focus is to make sure politicians stop “officially screwing” the tax payer. If you feel the same way and are an American. You HAVE to ask these questions of your congressman, your state Senators and eventually your very self.
Day 3
– Why does the FCC have a diversity “czar”?
– Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to “balance” the airwaves?
– Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?
– Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?
– Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?
– Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?
– Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?
If Lloyd has his way, stations who don’t comply to the governments definition of the “public interest” will have to pay a massive fine — that helps support public broadcasting:
– What will be the definition of “public interest”?
– Who defines “public interest”?
– Why should it be balanced? Because it’s public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don’t count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)
Questions Glenn Beck urges you to research in his 2nd of a 5 part series are below. Note: I am going to give myself the task of trying to answer these questions over the next while.
Day 2
– Who is “surrounding” the President in the White House?
– Do any of the President’s advisers have criminal records?
– Are the President’s advisers working to better the country or their own ideals?
– Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington?
– What roles do they have in crafting bills?
– What was “STORM”? What happened to the founders, where are they now?
– What qualifications must one have to be a Presidential adviser?
– What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist?
– Do the czars have power?
– Should a communist have the ear of the President of the United States?
– What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills?
– Does the President know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance?
– How many people in the administration are connected to the movement for a democratic society?
– What role does George Soros play… CONSTITUTIONALLY?
All this week, Glenn Beck has had a special series on entitled “Reasonable Questions in Unreasonable Times”. He is asking Americans to stand up and do their own research. Do not blindly follow him or Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. But instead, follow your own gut. Here are some of the questions from Day 1 (Day 2 to 5 will follow). Simply READING some of these questions should wake people up to what is going on in their own country. I know I will never be able to answer all these questions, especially since I am a Canadian, but I will do my best to help point people in the right direction.
Day 1
– Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?
– We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?
– The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?
– If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?
– Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them, how exactly does that work?
– Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?
– Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?
– Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?
– How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor to the president?
– Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special advisor?
– The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?
– If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?
– If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?
– If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?
– Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?
– Why would you want to overwhelm the system?
– Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about “not letting a crises go to waste”?
– What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?
Question for Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton:
If you feel Omar Khadr should be brought back to Canada because he was a child combatant when he was captured then would you support charging his mother with reckless endangerment or some form of child abandonment?
I’m just saying…
It may be a dated issue, but new information has been retrieved by Bernard Goldberg that puts further in disrepute the story by then CBS Reporter Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes that indicated George W. Bush dodged the Vietnam draft by finagling his way into the Texas Air National Guard. Well the truth is now coming out that not only did Bush NOT dodge the draft, but instead that he actually volunteered to go to Vietnam!!!
After all the attacks Dubya took, I just felt it was important for people to know the truth and maybe, just maybe, he wasn’t as bad as the media made him out to be. See clip from Bernard Goldberg’s site below.
Until now, the controversy over the Rather/Mapes story has centered almost entirely on one issue: the legitimacy of the documents – a very important issue, indeed. But it turns out that there was another very important issue, one that goes to the very heart of what the story was about – and one that has gone virtually unnoticed. This is it: Mary Mapes knew before she put the story on the air that George W. Bush, the alleged slacker, had in fact volunteered to go to Vietnam.
Who says? The outside panel CBS brought into to get to the bottom of the so-called “Rathergate” mess says. I recently re-examined the panel’s report after a source, Deep Throat style, told me to “Go to page 130.” When I did, here’s the startling piece of information I found:
Mapes had information prior to the airing of the September 8 [2004] Segment that President Bush, while in the TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight instructor who served in the TexANG with Lieutenant Bush advised Mapes in 1999 that Lieutenant Bush “did want to go to Vietnam but others went first.” Similarly, several others advised Mapes in 1999, and again in 2004 before September 8, that Lieutenant Bush had volunteered to go to Vietnam but did not have enough flight hours to qualify.
ADDENDUM: I felt I have to add that not only does this story raise my opinion of George Bush, but it just makes me look at the MSM, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes with even more skepticism. Lying and hiding to get yourself ahead and dragging others backwards is lower than a snake’s belly IMHO. The days of reading a newspaper and trusting the words implicitly are long behind us.
Anheuser-Busch announces beer prices will go up about 4% across the board in the coming months!
This sucks for me because I am looking forward to trying their new addition, the world’s lightest beer Select 55. Only 55 calories and 1.9g of carbs!