The Best Money Can Buy

We have the best government money can buy. Unfortunately, money doesn't buy the best government for the people. It buys the best government for those wealthy enough to pay for it. That is not democracy. That is an auction.

U.S. Senator's Top 10 List of Corporate Tax Avoiders

U.S. Senator's Top 10 List of Corporate Tax Avoiders

Here's why we have a budget deficit. Rather than cut services to the poor (who provided the big business profits by receiving low wages and benefits), shouldn't we get the big boys to pay their share? After all, they get plenty of benefits from the taxes WE pay.

A Message for Our Leaders

Please join me in reminding our government leaders to consider this scripture passage as they make decisions.

“So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.

Malachi 3:5 New International Version

You can find senators' e-mail addresses at:

Senators of the 112th Congress

Other leaders can also be found at dot gov sites (If in doubt, Google it -- or Bing it.)

Cheap iPads

Here's a great deal I discovered on the Notes from underground blog. Thanks to Steve Hayes for posting this.

Cheap iPads

Give it a look.

Rich Germans demand higher taxes

Rich Americans would never do this:

Rich Germans demand higher taxes

Rich Americans and Republicans would do this:

We woke up this morning to learn that the new center-right coalition of Ms Merkel’s CDU and Mr Westerwelle’s FDP have decided to cut taxes.

Thanks to Loomnie for bringing this to my attention.

Foolishness

There are fools and there are fools. Judging from this article, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is one of them. Bush's heavy handed power grabbing security policies and military intervention more closely resemble the destructive actions of Mugabe. The land grab had nothing to do with economic policy. It was geared to destruction of political opposition and enriching supporters -- like Bush Republicans loved to do. Obama has more affinity with Tsvangirai, a former trade union leader, who seeks to help the working man rather than the overlords of society.

S.C. governor compares stimulus to Zimbabwe

Posted: 06:16 PM ET

From Jessica Yellin
CNN

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) — The United States faces a Zimbabwe-style economic collapse if it keeps “spending a bunch of money we don’t have,” South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Wednesday.

Sanford, a Republican, has been a critic of the Obama administration’s $800 billion stimulus plan. He said he’ll turn down about a quarter of his state’s $2.8 billion share unless Washington lets him use that money to pay down debt.

“What you’re doing is buying into the notion that if we just print some more money that we don’t have and send it to different states, we’ll create jobs,” he said. “If that’s the case, why isn’t Zimbabwe a rich place?” Zimbabwe has been in the throes of an economic meltdown ever since the southern African nation embarked on a chaotic land reform program. Its official inflation rate topped 11 million percent in 2008, with its treasury printing banknotes in the trillion-dollar range to keep up with the plummeting value of its currency.

But with South Carolina’s unemployment rate now at 10.4 percent — the second-highest in the country — state lawmakers will attempt to override Sanford and take the $700 million if he turns it down, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer said.

Master of Science in Taxation

Heard a promo on the radio by a local institute of higher learning announcing a new degree. It's a Master of Science in Taxation. Now, there's something severely wrong with a society that has a tax system so complex as to justify master's degree level study. I'd worry about the mental health of anyone who willingly sought the degree or taught the courses. It's sick.

Profits of War

Private contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Iraq

"This is not the coalition of the willing. It's the coalition of the billing."

For all of the lofty talk of freedom, liberty, democracy, war against terrorism and other such bunk, the real basis for the war and its continuation is the buck. At a time in our past making fortunes during war time was called war profiteering. It was considered contemptible and was also illegal. Today it is called free enterprise and is lauded.

The companies with the largest number of employees are foreign firms in the Middle East that subcontract to KBR, the Houston-based oil services company, according to the Central Command database. KBR, once a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., provides logistics support to troops, the single largest contract in Iraq.

(Note the connections to the Texas oil industry and Hilliburton. Who are their friends?)

It is also a way of enslaving the working class in the USA. As workers are forced to rely upon investments in the stock market for survival when they are no longer able to be "productive" in the work place, they need a healthy investment return. The jobs created in the production of war material become essential in combating unemployment. War is not only profitable for the wealthy owners of companies with war contracts, it is essential for avoiding financial collapse of the nation's economy.

Former government employees trained at taxpayer expense can retire or resign and do the same work at exorbitant salaries.

And we the workers to pay the taxes foot the whole bill and surrender our freedoms to the god Mars. How can anyone dare call this a "Christian Nation?"