Paulson & Bernake Hand Out Billions, Congress Told To Sit Down And Shut Up.

This sounds Eerily familiar, this was the line that Congress gave to moveon.org last year when they voiced concern over the war in Iraq. It would appear that Congress is getting a taste of its own medicine, as two of Americas most powerful Titans hand out yet again more billions to their corporate buddies. First there was the Bear Sterns Bailout, next the Fannie and Freddie Mac Bailout, and Now the AIG Bailout.

The taxpayers have guaranteed these executives not only a "golden parachute" as they received millions in executive bonuses for failure, but most have also evaded criminal charges and investigations. Disgracefully our leaders just rewarded crooks with counterfeit and/or taxpayer money.

This staggering multi company bailout could cost into the trillions, no one knows for sure and will not know the massive cost for years to come. These two men effectively are now engaged in full scale plunder of the U.S. Treasury and and all its associated accounts including the FDIC Insurance that insures the money in your bank account.

How two men that no one voted for were allowed to plunder every American citizen in favor of the global corporate elite is not only unconstitutional but a public disgrace, and mocks the freedom and democracy that we are told exists here in America.

Ultimately we all a pay price, and Congress knows this, but unfortunately what two men decided in 24 Hrs. Congress could not decide in six months. Ron Paul warned us of the propensity of these kinds of malevolent actions and some six months from today we can expect a magnification and localization of these massive problems. In other words expect your personal bailout of these companies to occur through inflation. Every Time you buy Milk, Gas, Food, or the basics of life notice the rapid inflationary increases, also notice everything you own (your home, your cars, your stocks) to be worth less as no one will be able to invest.

What you will not see on future 2009 receipts is the line next to the state sales tax that says "AIG & Friends Bailout inflation tax 50% of total bill." Put into perspective, and truly bringing home your share of the impending national economic disaster the numbers just make a mockery out of our perception of reality. But your personal share of all combined Federal Debt has just increased from $350,000 per Person to an Est. $450,000 to $500,000 per person overnight.

David Walker a former U.S. Accountant and head of the Government Accountability office indicated that we have hard choices ahead of us, but what he failed to mention is that Congress has exposed itself as arbitrary and powerless over the actions of the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve who just essentially pushed America to total and complete bankruptcy. They did this without approval from Congress or a vote from the American people. They just told our elected leaders to "sit down and shut up" as they stealthily wrote massive checks out of your bank account to their friends.

Many of the companies involved in this federal Ponzi scheme are in fact the very banks and corporations who own the Federal Reserve. This is one major reason why the FED steps in to help their owners avoid prosecution and provide them with taxpayer money to clean up their mess by absorbing these criminals into the basement of other Federal Reserve Companies. For those not in the know the Federal Reserve is no more Federal than Federal Express and they just demonstrated this week that they have more power than Congress.

This is something to sleep on as continuing to live a local illusion that "because things are under control in our yard that there is no cause for alarm." I believe that in given time there will be a mass rude awakening in America. The time for countless millions to come forth is now not after being sobered by the fact that we gave some of the greediest and most evil people on the planet control over our lives. This did not work in Germany back in 1938 and will not work in America.

Taxes Taxes And More Taxes!

My opponent was surprised by a proposed six percent sales tax on deliveries that has lawmakers scratching their heads.

The new tax would cost businesses like DHL, UPS, or FedEX who deliver packages, letters, documents or even food. The, bill applies to all delivery businesses except restaurants offering take-out food.

The new tax will create an estimated $59.7 million in revenue, and is expected to fund the state PILOT program that reimburses cities for nontaxable property.

Finance Chairman Rep. Cameron Staples, D-New Haven said “The goal of the proposal is to fully fund PILOT... if there’s a better way to find the money to do this he’d be willing to entertain a discussion."

According to an article by Christine Stuart a reporter at CT News Junkie:

"Sen. President Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, and Speaker of the House James Amann, D-Milford, said the tax, passed last week by the Finance, Revenue, and Bonding Committee, was a surprise. “No one is ready to endorse or sign onto it until there’s more information,” Williams said Monday."

If the bill survives passage through budget season — here, “if” is emphasized — it would be a huge coup for cities like New Haven that have a lot of college and hospital property."

Hopefully, our representatives in Hartford will realize that Americans are overtaxed and that more and more taxes are not the solution to our problems. CT needs to return to the basics of governance through the coming recession. If there is any doubt that we are over taxed watch the following video and then think again.




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Tune in, Tune out

For the last two weeks my email has been flooded with forwarded messages from my friends about Ron Paul, and judging by the amount of responses to last week’s article in The Rebel Yell about the presidential candidate, it seems his campaign is growing in popularity. I was very interested in finding out more since I didn’t know much about the Ron Paul “revolution,” so I checked out a video on YouTube titled, “Ron Paul: A New Hope,” which is a brilliant title. Someone should make a video called, “Dick Cheney: The Empire Strikes Back” so that people might understand why many consider Ron Paul to be a new hope for American politics.

Throughout the video, uplifting background music played behind various clips from Ron Paul speeches. He promised to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, which I don’t think anyone would object to; he also wanted to abolish America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, which I think would be fantastic. However, one thing occurred to me - this man has some amazingly progressive ideas, but if he actually does try to follow through with them, he’s definitely going to be assassinated either politically, or literally. The reason being: the average citizen who might want these changes doesn’t have the power he or she is constitutionally supposed to have to make them happen. Plus, there’s no way the reserve’s bankers would let the Ron Paul revolution get too crazy.

The video was well made, giving off a sense of renewed hope about a return to an America the framers had envisioned; an America whose first interests are the interests of the people, not the major corporations and special interest groups. The main function of our government is to serve and protect its citizens first. But sadly, this isn’t the case, because our current system of politics and democracy has disconnected itself from what it was meant to be - a representative government by the people and for the people.

The bottom line is that our “democracy” and way of life which we wish to export to other countries is in a downward spiral, and I’m not sure if even a Ron Paul revolution can turn it around. Think about this - the richest 1 percent of the U.S. population makes 50 percent of the total income made in the United States. What we have here is not a democracy, it’s an oligarchy.

The policies of our government, both at home and abroad, are out of touch with the true interests and needs of the people. A good example of this, a very pressing issue that is hardly mentioned on any news station nor spoken of by any government official, is the threat of the next global pandemic. Our federal, state and local governments are ill-prepared for an outbreak of SARS, Avian flu or the next influenza pandemic. Hospitals are under-funded, understaffed, and overcrowded. Insurance premiums are forcing many doctors into rural areas and away from big cities. If a mild pandemic were to hit the United States, it would create a complete disaster with the current state of emergency medical services being what they are.

Another example of how this country is not answering to the needs of the people is the strictly profit-driven attitudes of pharmaceutical companies. Ever wonder why your kid brother or sister runs around the house singing “Viva Viagra” all day? That’s because pharmaceutical companies specialize in marketing and producing drugs and treatments for diseases of the rich - like erectile dysfunction. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want to research vaccines or cures for influenzas, viruses and other causes of mass death and suffering because there is little or no profit in such research and development. And if a private company does discover a cure for HIV/AIDS, cancer or any influenza or virus, any and every company would patent it in order to sell for an astronomical amount of money.

Ironically, money is what’s necessary to correct some of these problems, but getting it is a question that again exemplifies how we are not a country run by the people, for the people. Case in point: the national debt is more than $9 trillion, and $1 trillion of it is going to that quagmire in Iraq. Nothing good has come of this war for the United States. We went into Iraq for two main reasons: One, to secure access to friendly oil, and two, to make the Middle East safer for Israel by spearheading a transition to democracy in Middle Eastern states beginning with Iraq, because rarely do democracies go to war with one another.

But what’s actually happened is the war has emboldened a new radical alliance in the Middle East between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon with Iraq, which has a majority Shiite population that may eventually join this rising alliance. And how is the U.S. government trying to counter-balance this new alliance? By selling more than $20 billion worth of hi-tech armaments to Saudi Arabia. Oh yeah, how many of the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers were from Iraq? And how many were from Saudi Arabia?

The war has been disastrous, with thousands of Americans killed or maimed during combat and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead and dying. There is no doubt that this war has hurt U.S. credibility worldwide. There is no more soft power, only hard power; and the word of the United States does not resonate as it once did in the international community because the carrot is gone, leaving us only with the stick that is seemingly getting frailer. And yet, we hear of a “revolution” among some candidates’ campaigns, an end to the war among others, but the decision to elect such candidates, which is supposed to be held in the hands of the people, has become too oligarchical in nature.

Changes are needed, but citizens are kept ignorant. How? The United States ranks ninth among industrialized nations in the number of people between the ages of 25 to 34 with high school degrees. Thirty years ago, the United States was number one in that category. Our public education system is falling behind quickly, but do we do anything about it? We talk about it, but the truth is that the 1 percent of the population that makes 50 percent of the entire income of the United States doesn’t really care about public education and have no interest in improving it. They’re interests lie in maintaining the status quo. Just keep feeding us Britney Spears, O.J. Simpson, Ellen DeGeneres’ dog, and all that other guff on the evening news that keeps us tuned in to unimportance and tuned out to what we should know.

It seems like there are a trillion examples of flaws within the system that need to be fixed; basically one flaw for every dollar spent in Iraq. But where does change start? Does it start with the Ron Paul revolution? We’ll see. He was right about one thing - the founding fathers would be disgusted if they saw how things are going today, mainly because these politicians are not for us, they are for the interests of those lobbyists who fund their campaigns. But they have no problem taxing us without truly representing us. I wonder if the founding fathers had planned on this - taxation without representation. Probably not.

By Sharief Ali, Contributing Writer

The Internet will Soon be Vulnerable to Taxation.

The Internet tax moratorium will expire on November 1, 2007. Congressman Jim Walsh is a co-sponsor of H.R. 743, this bill amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on State taxation of Internet access. It also prohibits the application of multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.

H.R. 743 has 237 co-sponsors, suggesting the bill would have little trouble passing the full House if called for a vote. Recent reports by me on this blog board have called attention to the attack on the internet by our countries leaders who are constantly looking for ways to pay for things. Taxation being their favorite. This bill, however would be a complete upset to the millions of internet users who would see their already high internet service bills skyrocket.

This bill will act with discriminatory animosity toward everyone who already is dependent on the internet for their careers, jobs, and school. This measure to protect the internet from taxation must be supported by every concerned citizen who believes that the last bastion of free speech must remain as pristine and untouched as when it first began.

Our nation has a reputation, for excessive spending, making bad laws, and then rarely to never fixing the problems those laws created in the first place. We need to send a message to our leaders that we will not allow the continuous and unrelenting policy of taxation ruin our lives, and our ability to prosper any more than it already has. Voice your opinion and call your Congressman and tell them not to tax the Internet.