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Penn Jillette on Occupy Wallstreet:
“In order to make that argument, you have to completely ignore the whole world. 300 million people in the United States is a very small number, when you’re talking about knocking on 7 billion, world-wide. Those people are all, every single one of them are in the 1% and every single one of them pays a monthly cell phone bill that is the yearly income of a family in much of the rest of the world.”
Penn and Teller were the people to introduce me to libertarianism.
I fucking love Penn Jillette. He’s pretty spot on most of the time.
The Road To Genocide is Paved with 1%ers.
Many fear that anarchy will undoubtedly lead to chaos, while this isn’t true, I can see how one can deduce such a conclusion but I do not agree with it. Chaos doesn’t necessarily guarantee violence, what it does guarantee is uncertainty. Uncertainty is nothing to fear for it is the essence of life. Uncertainty is what makes life grand and mysterious it is what sets us free. I do not fear chaos because I do not fear uncertainty.
What I do fear is the organization of chaos and that is the antithesis of anarchy. That is the fingerprint of tyrants. Those so vile and so power hungry that they feast on the weak minded and broken hearted. in order to win the people over they must first shirt responsibility. They must hand them an enemy which they did not know existed. One that is believable and powerless against the mob that is being assembled. This is how tyrants achieve power. This is how chaos is organized.
“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.”
What led to the Genocide of the Armenians along with the Genocide of the Kurds, Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire was a newly elected government who needed someone to blame for all their troubles. They chose these people because they had accumulated great wealth and power and that wealth and power was blamed for the economic troubles of the Ottoman Empire.
What led to the Holocaust of the Jews along with the Holocaust of the Gypsies, homosexuals and the minorities in Germany was a newly elected government who needed someone to blame for all their troubles. They chose these people because they had accumulated great wealth and power and that wealth and power was blamed for the economic troubles of Germany.
What we have in America today is a newly elected government who needs someone to blame for all our troubles. They choose these people because they have accumulated great wealth and power and that wealth and power is blamed for the economic troubles of the America.
The tyrants of this world always find a way to pin blame on a minority group that is ease to blame for our troubles. They win the people over by handing them a sacrificial lamb. They gift the people with a feast on the meat of another animal and they disillusion them as to not see that there is murder of a fellow man but instead see it as a purge of a cancer.
Look at the world as it burns today. People are rioting in the streets, burning cars, fighting with police. People are out of work, out of homes, out of food, out of money and out of hope. They are desperate and desperate people are capable of dangerous feats.
It takes only a spark to ignite a room full of volatile gas and we’ve been pumping the room full for a decade now. I try to stay positive but it’s near impossible. I suppose the only way to do so would be to erase what I know and to ignore what I see. To grow blind and numb to my surroundings, but I can’t. They burn too hot and to bright that even with my eyes closed I can feel the heat and still see the glow.
The world is vulnerable right now. That much is undeniable. I know this like I know my own name. With every passing day I am thankful that a new radical hasn’t yet risen to power to guide the droves of the worlds improvised into doing unthinkable tasks. Every day that goes by without the room igniting into a chaotic fireball is one less day to fear.
Our only hope is that the next great leader is a virtuous one, a person of peace and not one of vengeance. One who sees what little good is left in the world and kindles it, grows it into a blaze, lights our torches and sets us free.
William R. Mattox, Jr. (sometime before 1996)
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And in 1912, the average family paid 0% in Federal Income Taxes. Our national debt was only 2,868,373,874.16, and had only increased about $700 million from 1900.
Another thing they don’t tell you is that even if income taxes had not changed, America has seen a steady increase in both income per capita and total population. This means that without increasing the percentage that we tax the population at, we should see an increase in tax revenues just based on those two increases.
But politicians don’t want to tell you that or else we’d all be lobbying for less taxes. Instead they’ve successfully flipped the narrative from “no taxation” to “no taxation for MY income group”. They’ve successfully pinned the different income levels against one another and they are letting us duke it out for who will pay the unnecessary taxation that is placed on the people.
If you are for taxing the 1% at a higher rate, and you and your representatives in Washington succeed, where do you draw the line? First it’s the 1% but once they pay a heftier portion, should we look at the top 5%? The top 10%? The top 49.9%? We shouldn’t but we probably will because that’s how mob rule and mob politics works. The majority always feasts on the minority and in this country, the minority that we have decided to vilify is the 1% of income earners.
Yet for whatever reason we forget that it is the leech government that takes in nearly 20% of all of our income and blames us for not giving more.
Obama demands $1,000 per handshake
I wonder what a fist bump would cost you?
Bomb sniffing dogs could be seen around Greenfield Village in Dearborn as officials prepared for President Barack Obama’s visit on Wednesday.
Supporters lined up bright and early to get in the door at The Henry Ford, including Lonnie Peek, who handed over $1,000 to stand in a rope line and shake the President’s hand.
Peek said paying that price will mean a bit of a sacrifice, but it’s worth it.
“A thousand dollars is a lot of money. But other folks are kickin’ in for their candidates, so what you do is you bite the bullet,” Peek said. “You wanna have your conscience good, to feel that this is what I did.
“You know, you go without a couple of meals. We can miss a couple meals,” he said.
Yikes! Missing meals to shake Obama’s hand? Also, Mr. Peek probably couldn’t afford to go to one of Obama’s $35k per plate fundraisers.
So, what’s Obama saying here?
“I’ll only shake your hand if you’re a member of the 1%”
But he’s a man of the people! Perhaps this is a genius Robin Hood inspired plan that involves charging the ultra-wealthy ridiculous amounts of money that will go towards providing more “fairness” to others. Yea, yea, that’s it.
He’s stealing money from people, but not really stealing. More like forcing them to willfully hand it over. Robbery without the knowledge that one is being robbed. It’s brilliant if you think about it.
Or perhaps this is boost his already ginormous ego. He’s trying to raise the most money any campaign has ever raised and break the billion dollar mark. And therein lies the problem I have with Obama. His message that he ran on and was elected on is the polar opposite of his actions since winning office. He’s all about the people, he says, yet he holds $35,000 dinners and charges $1,000 for a handshake.
A freaking handshake.
You’re a politician, your job is to shake hands with the people. Hell, you’re goal is to shake hands with as many people as possible. Meet and greet them. Listen to them. Even pretend to care about what they care about. You’re supposed to be accessable to all walks of American citizens, not just those willing to go out on a $35,000 dinner date or those with $1,000 of cash burning a hole in their pocket.
You’re the #1 citizen of the American people. You’re job is to represent us, not alienate us. A $1,000 for a handshake? You’re kidding me, right? How much is it to take a picture with you? Priceless? Come on, Mr. President. Your campaign war chest is has as much money as anyone in the history of US Politics has ever had. You can buy and sell the GOP, yet you’re still charging $1,000 for someone to get in a line like a sheep, wait an ungodly amount of time just so they can breath the same CO2 you expel for 10 seconds?
Obama’s lost touch with who he was before taking office, or at least the man he told us he was. The man with the hole in his shoes. The man who was willing to roll his sleeves up and help you get some work done. The man who’d lace ‘em up and shoot some hoops at a local park. That man doesn’t exist anymore, yet he and the media still want us to believe he does. The ‘Average Joe’ is gone. He’s been replaced by a man of the establishment. A man who makes nearly a million dollars a year, who’s net worth puts him in the 1%. A man whose family spends $10+ million dollars on vacations. A man that sees himself as a celebrity and who fraternizes with the social elite.
Now that I think of it in those terms, what’s a $1,000 to meet a rock-star, demi-god? Now only if we could find someone in America that had a $1,000 laying around.
But those racist tea parties had nothing to do with the midterm election and played no part at all in the discussion of the debt, deficit or healthcare.
Robert Reich wants no part of reality, he’s to busy making up his own perfect world in his head for us all to live in.
He believes that America has some severe issues and that we keep heading for our own demise, yet he thinks Obama is the savior and that other economists are fools, the same ones that predicted this demise while the rest of the world was guying bottle service on their American Express cards.
Robert Reich is the man telling us to stop eating cookies as he’s reaching into the cookie jar.
Here’s a bunch of millionaires petitioning to pay higher taxes, but when they were put on the spot, they refuse to donate to the US Treasury Department.
This brings me back to the smoke & mirrors campaign of Warren Buffet. Think what you want about NJ Governor, Chris Christie, but he earned a lot of respect from me when he told Warren Buffet to finally ‘just write a check and shut up’ about supposedly “wanting” to pay more in taxes.
The reality is that Warren Buffet makes so much damn money that he wouldn’t care WHAT rate he was taxed at. He’s at the end of his life and clearly no longer cares for the money, especially considering the fact that he gave almost all of it away to Bill Gate’s charity anyway.
Increasing the taxes on those that make $100k+ doesn’t hurt the ultra-rich, it hurts the middle class and the lower tiers of the upper class. You know, those families that make good money, but not enough to stow away millions in off-shore accounts or setup shell-corporations to get their effective tax rate below 15%.
I used to admire Buffet, but he’s become a righteous, delusional prick ever since he gave away the majority of his fortune.
