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This programme was broadcast in March 2001 - and it told the story of what happened on September 11th 2001: The planes were remo

Submitted by Lars on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 09:40
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As always, they tell what they are going to do before they do it.

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This programme was broadcast in March 2001 - and it told the story of what happened on September 11th 2001: The planes were remote-controlled as David Icke has been saying for 11 years

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Mitt Romney's 13 Globalist 'Working Groups' Exposed

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Brandon Turbeville

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled “Romney’s Foreign Policy Advisers Exposed as Globalists” where I compiled a list of the 22 individuals selected by Mitt Romney to serve as his foreign policy advising team back in October 2011.

Along with the names of each of these individuals, I included a list of globalist, neo-con, or otherwise nefarious organizations or government offices that they belong to or have belonged to in the past.

Besides announcing a foreign policy advising team, Romney also announced 13 (interesting number) working groups dedicated to regional and issue-specific policies. It is not surprising that the individuals, although somewhat less important in terms of their pedigree, are themselves diehard globalists.

As I wrote in my last article dealing with this subject:

Considering Romney’s attendance at the 2012 Bilderberg meeting and the apparent tendency of the elite in leaning to Romney as the next president, it is imperative that those who are aware of the forces truly guiding the United States and the rest of the world be prepared to shift gears, even if it is only temporary, and begin to expose Mitt Romney as the criminal globalist that he is.

Still, we must guard against being played like a tennis ball and rushing back into the arms of “Bush on steroids” Barack Obama. Unless we become significantly more streetwise than the general public has been in the past, the condition of the world will only continue to degenerate with every election, regardless of the results.

Therefore, I have compiled a similar listing of Mitt Romney’s 13 Working Groups, the individuals that make them up, and the organizations that they are or have been a part of. Keep in mind, the list is by no means comprehensive.

1. Afghanistan & Pakistan Working Group

James Shinn – Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs; Chase Manhattan; East Asia Bureau of the U.S. State Department; Advanced Micro Devices; Dialogic (voice processing firm); Council on Foreign Relations; National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the Central Intelligence Agency; National Intelligence Officer for East Asia for the Director of National Intelligence; Global Strategic Associates; Millstein Center for Corporate Governance;

Ashley Tellis – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Senior Adviser to the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; National Security Council; RAND Corporaton; RAND Graduate School; Council on Foreign Relations; International Institute of Strategic Studies; United States Naval Institute; Navy League of the United States;

2. Africa Working Group

Tibor Nagy – Former Ambassador to Ethiopia; Former Ambassador to Guinea;

3. Asia-Pacific Working Group

Evan Feigenbaum – Council on Foreign Relations; Paulson Institute; Eurasia Group; RAND Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia; adviser to Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick; Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford University);

Aaron Friedberg – Center for International Security Studies (Princeton); Defense Policy Board; U.S. State Department; U.S. Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs (Office of the VP 2003-2005); Director of Policy Planning (Office of the VP 2003-2005); Council on Foreign Relations; International Institute For Strategic Studies; National Bureau of Asian Research; Project for the New American Century; Social Science Research Council; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars;

Kent Lucken – Citigroup; Eurasian election observer via U.S. State Department; USA-Asia Institute; Former Foreign Service Officer; Robertson Stephens Investment Bank; Institute for Global Leadership (Tuft’s University);

4. Counter-Proliferation Working Group

Eric Edelman – Iran war proponent; Iraq war proponent; Foreign Policy Initiative; Center For Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Council on Foreign Relations; Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies;

Robert Jospeh – U.S. Chief Negotiator to Libya in 2003 (regarding nuclear weapons), National Institute for Public Policy (NeoCon Think Tank), Center For Security Policy (Pro-Israel Think Tank); Rumored to have been responsible for the Iraq-WMD-Niger claims circulated by the Bush Administration.

Stephen Rademaker – Barbour, Griffith, and Rogers; formerAssistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation and International Security at the U.S. State Department (reportedly stated that India’s vote against Iran at the IAEA was coerced); Podesta Group;Bipartisan Policy Center; Assistant Secretary of State; worked on the staff of Senator Bill Frist; Chief Counsel to the Select Committee on Homeland Security for the U.S. House of Representatives (helped draft legislation that created the DHS); Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council;

5. Counterterrorism and Intelligence Working Group

Michael Chertoff - Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; legally advised in favor of torture, body scanner beneficiary; Co-author of PATRIOT ACT; Covington and Burling;Chertoff Group; Institute For Cultural Diplomacy; Latham and Watkins; active in Whitewater Investigation; Assistant Attorney General;

Michael Hayden - Former CIA Director, Former Director of the NSA (where he oversaw domestic wiretapping), Former Director of National Intelligence, Former Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, Proponent of the Trailblazer Project, Former Director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, Torture proponent, argued against Probable Cause, Council on Foreign Relations, principal at the Chertoff Group, Board of Directors of Motorola Services,

6. Defense Working Group

John Lehman – member of the 9/11 Commission; Foreign Policy Research Institute; Project For A New American Century; National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States; Heritage Foundation; Center For Security Policy; Committee on the Present Danger; J.F. Lehman and Company; Hawaii Superferry; Princess Grace Foundation – USA; Ball Corporation; Partnership For A Secure America; Council on Foreign Relations; Staff member to Henry Kissinger at the National Security Agency; Securing America’s Energy Future;Straight Talk America; Paine Webber;

Roger Zakheim - Council on Foreign Relations; The Vulcans; Project For A New American Century; SPC International; International Institute For Strategic Studies; Heritage Foundation;Center For Strategic and International Studies; Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) tasked with tracking down the Pentagon’s missing 2.3 trillion dollars; Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan; Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton; CNA Corporation; Center For Strategic and International Studies; Global Panel America; Chatham House; Royal Institute of International Affairs; Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences; American Jewish Committee; System Planning Corp.; Northrop Grumman; McDonnell Douglas; London School of Economics;

7. Europe Working Group

Nile Gardiner – Heritage Foundation; Foreign Policy Researcher for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Transatlantic Alliance supporter; Iraq war supporter;

Kristen Silverberg – Deputy Assistant to the President; Adviser to the Chief of Staff; Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Senior to L. Paul Bremer in Iraq; law clerk to Clarence Thomas; Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Affairs;

8. Human Rights Working Group

Pierre Prosper – Arent Fox; L.A. District Attorney’s Office; Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice; Lead Trial Attorney for the United Nations; U.S. State Department;

9. International Assistance Working Group

Grant Aldonas – Center for Strategic and International Studies; Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Overseas Private Investment Corporation; President’s Export Council; Milller and Chevalier; counsel to Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform; adviser to Commission on U.S. Pacific Trade and Investment; Split Rock International; Center for International Private Enterprise; Foreign Service in Mexico; Global Fairness Initiative;

Daniel Runde – Project on Prosperity and Development; Foundations Unit for the Department of Partnerships; Advisory Service Operations at the International Finance Corporation; Office of Global Development Alliance at the U.S. Agency for International Development; Citibank; Bank Boston (Argentina); Alex. Brown & Sons; Global Philanthropy Forum; Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy; Society for International Development; Peter C. Alderman Foundation; Alliance for the Family; Advisory Boards of the UN Development Program’s Growing Inclusive Markets Initiatives;

10. International Organizations Working Group

Christopher Burnham – Bush era appointee; Deustche Bank;

Paula Dobriansky – Council on Foreign Relations; Climate Change promoter; Trilateral Commission; Institute For Cultural Diplomacy; Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs;Bipartisan Policy Center; Freedom House; Hungary’s International Center for Democratic Transitions; Australia-American Dialogue; National Endowment for Democracy; American Council of Young Political Leaders;

Robert O’Brien – Arent Fox; US Alternate Representative to the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly; Former legal officer with the United Nations Security Council (Compensation Commission); International Center for Dispute Resolution/American Arbitration Association; U.S. Department of State (Public-Private Partnership For Justice Reform in Afghanistan);

11. Latin America Working Group

Clifford Sobel – U.S. Ambassador to Brazil; U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands; SJJ Investment Corporation; CMS Realty Company; Norcrown Bank; Net2Phone; Alexis de Tocqueville Institution; Business Executives for National Security; Campaign America Inc.; Council of American Ambassadors; Empower America; Lexington Institute; Republican Leadership Council;

Ray Walser – Heritage Foundation; Foreign Service Officer (Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, South Africa);

12. Middle East & North Africa Working Group

Mary Beth Long – Neural IQ Government Services; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense For International Security Affairs; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics; Central Intelligence Agency (Directorate of Operations); Deputy and Acting Chief for the Haiti Task Force (CIA); Embassy Principal Money Laundering Officer (U.S. State Department); Williams and Connolly, LLP.[1]

Meghan O’Sullivan – Trilateral Commission; Special Assistant to the President; Deputy National Security Adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan; National Security Council; Brookings Institution; Council on Foreign Relations; strategic adviser to John Hess/Hess Oil; Aspen Strategy Group; Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; TechnoServe;

Walid Phares - Foundation for Defense of Democracies; European Foundation for Democracy; Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism; Wikistrat; Department of Homeland Security;

13. Russia Working Group

Leon Aron – American Enterprise Institute;

William Martel – International Security Program; Tufts University (Fletcher School); Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs;

[1] “Biography: Ms. Mary Beth Long: Assistant Secretary of Defense For International Security Affairs.” Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. www.csce.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Files.Download&FileStore

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Ron Paul to Hold Major Rally in Tampa Ahead of RNC


LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold a major rally with thousands of supporters ahead of the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

The event will take place at noon on Sunday, August 26th at the University of South Florida’s 11,000-seat Sun Dome. Yesterday the Ron Paul campaign signed a contract to secure the venue with the approval of the Republican National Committee.

Details of the event are as follows. Time is Eastern.

Sunday, August 26, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Ron Paul Major Rally
Sun Dome
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33620

A map of and directions to the Sun Dome can be found by clicking here.




http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/06/2...head-of-rnc-2/

Ron Paul: Problem With Healthcare is Too Much Government

Ron Paul’s op-ed explaining what the root problems of America’s healthcare crisis actually are, via The Advertiser.com (New Orleans):

Today, the Supreme Court is expected to issue its long-awaited decision regarding the constitutionality of the “Obamacare” law. I recently discussed absurd legal arguments by Obamacare advocates that Congress can compel the purchase of health insurance, and the dismal record of federal courts applying so-called “judicial review” in protecting liberty. It is obvious that Obamacare’s legal apologists either are wholly ignorant of constitutional principles, or wholly lawless in their blatant disregard for those principles.

Likewise, supporters of Obamacare are willfully ignorant of basic economics. The fundamental problem with health care costs in America is that the doctor-patient relationship has been profoundly altered by third-party interference. Third parties, either government agencies themselves or nominally private insurance companies virtually forced upon us by government policies, have not only destroyed doctor-patient confidentiality. They also inescapably drive up costs because basic market disciplines — supply and demand, price sensitivity, and profit signals — are destroyed.

Obamacare, via its insurance mandate, is more of the same misdiagnosis.

Gabriel Vidal, chief operating officer of a U.S. hospital system, sees this problem squarely in his daily work. As he explains, Obamacare will only make matters worse because it fails to recognize that “costs are out of control because they do not reflect prices created by the voluntary exchange between patients and providers”» like every well-functioning industry.”

Instead, “health costs reflect the distortions that government regulators have introduced through reimbursement mechanisms created by command-and-control bureaucracies at federal and state levels,” he continues. “But it is theoretically and practically impossible for a bureaucrat — no matter how accurate the cost data, how well-intentioned and how sophisticated his computer program — to come up with the correct and just price. The (doctor-patient) relationship” has been corrupted by the intrusion of government and its intermediaries (HMOs, for example) to such an extent that we can no longer speak of a relationship that can produce meaningful pricing information…”

Absent such pricing information, our system increasingly resembles socialist systems with centralized price setting, shortages, rationing, apathy, and declining quality of care…

The problem is acute and worsening. Obamacare’s third party insurance mandate is only the first step toward what the political left really wants: a single payer government healthcare system.

Meanwhile, conservatives seem resigned to a third party insurance system and therefore fail to present a viable alternative to the American people. They continue to speak in terms of saving the health care “system,” when in fact what America needs is a rejection of all government systems in favor of free market mechanisms…

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Shadow Government Would Thrive With Romney as President



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Brandon Turbeville
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Anyone who has watched even a single 2012 Republican Primary debate should be aware by now that there is has been an unshakeable commitment by virtually every candidate to the colonial “state” of Israel.

Although Ron Paul’s position on Israel is somewhat more tempered than that of his Republican counterparts, not one of the other candidates is capable of even remotely criticizing Israel or its acts of aggression and oppression throughout the region.

The same situation exists for the Democrats as their incumbent candidate, Barack Obama, has already proven himself to be one of the most ardent and willing supporters of whatever decision is made by the Israeli government and the hidden hand behind it.

Yet it is the Republican field, partly because of the primary races and partly because of the demographic makeup of its supporters, that inspires such an “I support Israel more than you do,” contest at every debate.

Indeed, it has been hard to tell which candidate (when all were still in the race) was the loudest supporter of Israel at any given time. However, during the course of the circus known as American political debates, when platform policies did not seem convincing enough to some members of the audience, there were at least two candidates who began to play the “established friendship” card as a method to demonstrate their already-developed sense of Israeli-American relations.

One of these instances was at a Republican debate on December 12, 2011 where Newt Gingrich, in a testy exchange with Mitt Romney after his claim that the Palestinians were an “invented people,” stated that he had known Benjamin Netanyahu since 1984. Romney countered that statement with the fact that he also knew Netanyahu, after having worked together many years ago at a “consulting firm.”

Romney actually went much further than Gingrich and stated that, before he made any comments about the Israeli/Palestinian situation, he would contact his friend “Bibi” and essentially ask Netanyahu for permission to make his statement. “Before I made a statement of that nature [Gingrich’s “invented people” comment],” Romney said, “I’d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say ‘Would it help if I say this?

What would you like me to do?’” As many commentators have pointed out, Romney’s position is nothing more than the outsourcing of American foreign policy to Israel.

Nevertheless, both of these statements were made as a matter of fact. Yet, most likely due to the context in which the comments were made, as well as the nature of the mainstream media, for several months there was no attempt to uncover just how close these three individuals actually are.

Gingrich holds connections to Netanyahu through relatively obvious means as both were political leaders in their respective countries at the same time. Not only that, but Gingrich and Netanyahu share a common fundraiser, Sheldon Adelson, who is often considered one of the richest men in the world by mainstream sources.

Mitt Romney’s connection goes back a bit further, however, and the friendship between the two men seems to be much more personal. In fact, the relationship is so “coincidental” that one might be justified in wondering whether or not this friendship actually began as some kind of intelligence/shadow government operation where both men were being groomed for their respective posts as they exist currently and may develop in the future. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time a President has been groomed by the intelligence community for his future position. Of course, at this point, the evidence is only circumstantial. Still, considering what we know about the operations of the Shadow Government, it would be wise to remain aware of these connections.

With that in mind, it is reported by Michael Barbaro of the New York Times that Romney and Netanyahu first met in 1976 after both men had been hired as “corporate advisers” to Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In one of the “coincidences” revealed by the report, it is noted that both men attended business school in Boston with Romney attending Harvard and Netanyahu attending MIT, two institutions that have clear links and history with intelligence agencies, elitist think tanks, secret societies, and other related affairs.

Upon arriving at BCG, the two men had already developed quite a reputation for themselves, as Romney was the son of a Michigan Governor and former Presidential candidate; and Netanyahu had recently completed a tenure with the elite special forces unit of the Israeli military.

Both Romney and Netanyahu have publicly recalled the days when they were coworkers at BCG. As Barbaro writes:

Mr. Romney, never known for his lack of self-confidence, still recalls the sense of envy he felt watching Mr. Netanyahu effortlessly hold court during the firm’s Monday morning meetings, when consultants presented their work and fielded questions from their colleagues. The sessions were renowned for their sometimes grueling interrogations.

‘He was a strong personality with a distinct point of view,’ Mr. Romney said. ‘I aspired to the same kind of perspective.’

Quoting Netanyahu in reference to the same period, the article reads, “’His star, the prime minister said of Mr. Romney’s time at Boston Consulting, ‘had already risen.’”

Both men spent two years at BCG with Romney’s tenure lasting from 1975-1977 and Netanyahu’s affiliation with the company running from 1976-1978. While still attached to BCG, Netanyahu returned to Israel to create an “anti-terrorism foundation," while Romney famously switched companies to notorious asset stripper Bain & Company where he helped destroy the businesses and lives of thousands of people.

In yet another interesting “coincidence,” during his time at Bain, Romney worked closely with Netanyahu’s second wife, Fleur Cates. Although Bibi and Fleur later divorced, the New York Times reports that she and Romney are still in contact with one another.

The connections between Romney and Netanyahu have persisted, evolving into what Barbaro describes in his article as a “network of friends.” Network is an definitely an interesting term in this context and it may be more accurate than Barbaro intended it to be.

Nevertheless, after Romney’s election as the Governor of Massachusetts, Netanyahu paid him a visit where the two men allegedly discussed various aspects of government life, specifically the hallmarks of union-busting, asset stripping, and privatization, policies both men have such a fondness for.

A few years later, Romney himself traveled to Israel where the two men met in the Old City in Jerusalem and allegedly discussed economics. At this discussion, Netanyahu told Romney that he was engaging in a campaign to discourage American pension funds from investing in companies connected to Iran. At this statement, Romney “immediately saw the wisdom of his action” and organized meetings between Netanyahu and American government officials.

Romney then embarked on his own campaign of politically motivated investment strategies by sending out letters to legislators suggesting they sell off all assets of corporations doing business with Iran held by any pension funds under their control.

Unfortunately, America’s irrational support of Israel will not change regardless of who is elected in November. Obama, with the exception of some very mild rhetoric, could scarcely be more cooperative with Israeli Government interests; and Romney is quite open about his willingness to be drawn into WWIII. This is to be expected since both men are public representatives for the same agenda, just like their predecessors.

Because of this fact, it would be very interesting to investigate just what Romney’s ties to the intelligence community may be. After all, he has openly professed his parallel vision with the mad dog of the Middle East, Bibi Netanyahu. As Romney has stated, “We can almost speak in shorthand. We share common experiences and have a perspective and underpinning which is similar.”

Of course, it should also be pointed out that Romney and Obama’s loyalty to Israeli interests does not equal loyalty to the Israeli people, who are only being used as the battering rams and triggers of destabilization and world war. Nor do the American people factor into this equation as anything but financiers and warm bodies for future military adventures.

With the obvious oppression of the Palestinian people, we see a clear recipe for a lose-lose-lose situation all the way around, except for the very small cliques at the top who will laugh, as they always do, all the way to the bank.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Ron Paul: No Weapons for Terrorist Rebels!



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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 7/2/12: Big Opportunity to Audit the Fed: Support H.R.459

Submitted by legalizeliberty on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 22:59
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The math of your slavery.

Submitted by wolfe on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 18:16
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[Thanks again to all. The math is complete! I just need to plugin and hookup all the footnotes. I promise to do that as soon as I can. In the meantime, if you have any questions on a specific line, please ask. Also, if you think of any costs that I forgot, or have an issue with one of my figures, please let me know.]

Your slavery is well hidden. Not everyone understands it when I say that the government steals 70%+ of your life because they haven't seen the math. So I am going to break this down for everyone. I will try to reference sources where possible. Instead of going into long explanations for each item, I will foot note the explanations.

Before I go into it though, something which you need to understand is that no one up the food chain pays for anything. All extra costs and expenses are passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices, so you may not understand that $3 of that milk price is government theft, but it is.

Also, I am not going to differentiate between local, state, and federal taxation. It is all government theft and I see no reason to make a distinction.

Average Household Gross Income : $62,857.00+
Federal Income Tax Bracket ( 25%) : $ 6,876.00-
Estimated State Tax Bracket ( 5%) : $ 3,142.00-
Social Security Tax (12.4%) : $ 7,794.00-
Unemployment insurance, etc ( 2%) : $ 1,257.00-
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So your estimated "net" is : $43,788.00+
Inflation*1 ( 10%) : $ 4,378.00-
Sales Tax ( 6%) : $ 2,364.54-
Compliance SOX* ( 0.1%) : $ 43.00-
Compliance General ( 0.5%) : $ 218.00-
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Adjusted Spendable "wealth" : $36,784.00+
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[Vehicle Ownership]
Gov Taxes Vehicle Ownership : $ 200.00-
Gov Extortion(1 ticket/y) : $ 300.00-
Gov Mandate (Insurance $150/m) : $ 1800.00-
Fed Fuel Tax ($.495/g, 15g/w) : $ 386.00-
After Vehicle Taxes/Theft : $34,098.00+
[Housing Costs]
Property Taxes ($150k@1.5%) : $ 2250.00-
Ordinance Compliance*2 ($5k/y@2%) : $ 100.00-
Trash/Water Service (used or not) : $ 480.00-
After Housing Taxes/Theft : $31,529.00+

Wow, we haven't even fed ourselves and the government has already looted around 50% in DIRECT and easy to understand costs. Just wait until we get to the indirect costs!

[General Living]

Food Price Controls* ($300/m@10%) : $ 360.00-
1 Week Vacation (Hotel $100/n@15%) : $ 105.00-
School Supplies (2 Children $100/c) : $ 200.00-
Utility Taxes ($300/m@10%) : $ 360.00-
Which brings our total wealth to : $30,504.00+

Whew... That's it right? It's been rough but we seem to still have some left. First, you have to remember that the above is JUST what government takes, forces, or controls. That doesn't include ANYTHING tangible, just the taxes on tangible goods and services! And unfortunately, we aren't done.
[More pain]

Healthcare Mandate (Family Plan) : $14,700.00-
(Or if you opt for the fee, it can be considerable but somewhat cheaper!)

Government taxation and compliance however is not a "specific" cost. It, in fact, has would I call a 10% life. At each stage, it has an impact. For instance, when you buy a stereo, you are also paying for fuel taxes in transportation, tariffs on import, regulation and compliance overhead for that company. Who in turn, is paying the same costs for their suppliers, etc. The ability to calculate this 10% life in the form of higher prices is almost impossible in complexity. But given the number of hands that these things pass through before you ever see it, I think it is more than fair to take off about 10% of our initial "Adjusted Spendable Income" of 36,784.00 creating a cost of $3,678.00.
Actual wealth after gov interference to : $12,126.00

In closing, I want to say this. What prompted me to do the math is that when I started to do well ($60k range), my friends who were still making 15-20k looked at me like I was rich, but for some reason, I always seemed to be just as bad or worse off than them. Some of the math is impossible to know, and so where there is no clear answer, I made a conservative guess.

So in actuality, you are only circulating about $12k if you make/spend 60. The rest belongs to our masters. And don't even get me started on the corporate masters which take away what little is left.
I have no clear way to correctly estimate what the cost of goods and services would be without this interference but what I can say is that they leave you with only 19.2% of your initial "wealth".

This is why we can't have nice things.

Various Sources:
Reference Room
http://budgeting.thenest.com/average-american-household-budg...
http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-individual-income-tax...
http://www.ehow.com/how_4828711_calculate-social-security-ta...
Fuel tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.auditnet.org/articles/Sarbanes-Oxley_Implementati...
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/falling-prices-why-is-...
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-24/health/health.care.penalt...
Is fine in healthcare bill big enough to ensure coverage? - Los Angeles Times


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Would someone please explain the Republican play-book to me?

Submitted by pmchanjr on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 00:48
Ask DP

Everyone knows there's not a "snow-balls chance in hell" that Mitt Romney can possibly beat Barack Obama this fall; especially now that the Supreme Court ruled "National-Romney-Care" legal and constitutional. Could it be more obvious to anyone that the old guard Republicans are simply giving Obama the "ultimate straw man" in nominating Romney?

Could it be that the Republicans struck a deal with the Democrats in a joint effort to repress Ron Paul's message? Every Democrat and Republican I know falls quiet as mouse when you hold up Nobel-Obama-Speak or Double-Speak-Romney to Doctor-Know-Paul.

I'm beginning to think both parties are colluding against all of us! Am I delusional, or can anyone else see my point? Is the G.O.P. just stalling till 2016? What's the long play here?

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GOP chose a loser

Submitted by Colorado Sean on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 04:40
Honestly, what does he believe in? There is no way this guy wins, none. A high school debate team would trounce him with this material:

100% Proof Mitt Romney Flip Flops Like A Fish On Dry Land - YouTube

In order to win he has to buy all the major metro area polling stations + buy millions of hanging chads + buy the re-count + buy all the Diebold programmers + buy key Governors + buy the entire Supreme Court.
Wait a minute, that's the strategy.


Yah out of the last 4 people

Submitted by mikezelot on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 04:04.
Yah out of the last 4 people in the primary Romney was the worst pick.
Most electable out of the 5
1. Ron Paul
2. Newt Gingrich
3. Barrack Obama
4. Rick Santorum (Close 4th)
5. Mitt Romney

Ron Paul would of beat Obama with ease as we all know with a true difference to obama's views

Gingrich would of had a rougher time with his past comeing up in attack ad's but the man can speak and is one hell of a debater

Obama still has some pretty strong support and is the incumbent advantage

Santorum like paul would really be a big difference to obama but no way could he get the independents behind him it would be close but i think obama would win it

Romney no chance in hell... "any one but obama" only goes so far


Goldman Sachs owns both parties and the MSM; they decide.

Submitted by AnAppealToHeavenWash on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 04:09.
It is like watching a video game that you didn't put a quarter in.


GOP voters chose Romney

Submitted by Freedom's Remnant on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 02:05.
GOP voters chose Romney because they want to win and they think Romney is most likely to be able to appeal to the independent voters they'll need to beat Obama
.
With most GOP voters it's not about principles. Many of them lean toward liberty but when push comes to shove they run back into the arms of big mama govt for security. They're not willing to swallow the whole individual liberty pill. They only like to nibble at the edges, kinda like the way a princess nibbles on hor dourves at a cocktail party.The truth is, principled men like Ron Paul scare the living $hit outta most republicans

I've been saying this forever - I agree to the nth power

Submitted by Queen of Liberty on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 01:46.

The PNAC and the American Interprise Institute have surely infiltrated the upper parts of the Republican Party. These people telegraph on CSPAN. I mean, give me a break - Romney? A statistical for sure take it to the bank proven time and again that this is a candidate the people will not accept. A sure bet. No red dems no swings. Romney has about as much appeal as Jonn McCain had in 2008. Unexpectedly Sarah Palin was making him win.

The tea party is born. So what did McCain do? He took a poison pill, votes for 757 billion dollar banker bailout and suspends his campaign to do so.

The tea party is born. How on earth can the GOP back Romney and maintain any credibility? Key Republican Party members are part of a power structure - a syndicate with no interest in building a strong America or upholding the rule of law. No interest in you, and certainly no interest in the future of the GOP; Obviously.


Easy: "Money is the 'mothers-milk of politics"

Submitted by Bob-45 on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 01:30. PPolitical parties sell influence; hence, lobbyists. QUESTION; If you are a political party establishment and must choose between a candidate who will sell influence to the highest bidder and one who will not sell influence at all, whom do you choose? The GOP establishment knows it will have more influence to peddle if Barack Obama is re-elected than if Ron Paul is elected POTUS. Hence, the GOP establishment would prefer an Obama victory to giving Ron Paul a real crack at the presidency


lowered expectations

Submitted by ecliptic on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 01:24. Permalink
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They don't play by their own play-book

Submitted by iamaqt68 on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 01:17.

I had a friend tip me off about the Republican Oath the other day. I hadn't ever read it before.

Mitt Romney breaks every single one of the beliefs with his stances.

Knowing that came in really handy just a couple of days later. Some woman told me "Ron Paul is NOT a Republican!" I politely said, "if you read the Republican oath, he certainly is. However, Romney is not." My guess is she scurried off to get a copy of the oath. I'm sure I'm not the only one that hadn't read it.

Oh, and the Republican Preamble is a good chuckle too.
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Either one keeps the scam going

Submitted by Brad-at-dr.com on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 01:09.

They are the same

People when you get to the top.

Goldman Sucks and cronies.

They only fear change, ie Ron. And hopefully it's what they are gonna get. Don't give up yet. Tampa may surprise them all.

Peace

Ron Paul Campaign has $3.3M on hand: What's in store for the convention?

Submitted by DJP333 on Sun, 07/01/2012 - 19:50
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As we are closing in on the Republican National Convention, it seems as if the Ron Paul Campaign has conjured up a plan to once again shock the nation.

Few acknowledge that fact Mitt Romney has not even been formally nominated, let alone the fact that Ron Paul is still actively campaigning for the nomination.

However, the official campaign of Ron Paul and a small Paul supporting grassroots group named LAWYERS FOR RON PAUL are effectively working above the fray in order to make the biggest impact this August.

The Ron Paul campaign has not stopped and has something up it's sleeves come this August.

http://www.examiner.com/article/ron-paul-campaign-has-3-3-mi...

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