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		<title>Fannie Mae &#8211; Now Here is a Song to Sing Along with!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am changing my name to Fannie Mae
I am going down to Washington D.C.
I’ll be glad they got my back
‘Cause what they did for Freddie Mac
Will be perfectly acceptable to me
I am changing my name to Fannie Mae
I am headed for that great receiving line
So when they hand a trillion grand out
I’ll be standing with my hand out
I’ll get mine
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0000ff"><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Turn up the volume</span></strong> and Sing Along with ol&#8217;Capt. Karl:</em></span></p>
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<p>Oh the price of gold is rising out of sight<br />
And the dollar is in sorry shape tonight<br />
What the dollar used to get us now won’t buy a head of lettuce<br />
No the economic forecast isn’t right<br />
But amidst the clouds I spot a shining ray<br />
I can even glimpse a new and better way<br />
And I’ve devised a plan of action worked it down to the last fraction<br />
And I’m going into action here today</p>
<p>CHORUS:<br />
I am changing my name to Fannie Mae<br />
I am going down to Washington D.C.<br />
I’ll be glad they got my back<br />
‘Cause what they did for Freddie Mac<br />
Will be perfectly acceptable to me<br />
I am changing my name to Fannie Mae<br />
I am headed for that great receiving line<br />
So when they hand a trillion grand out<br />
I’ll be standing with my hand out<br />
I’ll get mine</p>
<p>When my creditors are screaming for their dough<br />
I’ll be proud to tell them all where they can go<br />
They won’t have to scream and holler<br />
They’ll be paid to the last dollar<br />
Where the endless streams of money seem to flow<br />
I’ll be glad to tell them all what they can do<br />
It’s a matter of a simple form or two<br />
It’s not just remuneration it’s a liberal education<br />
Ain’t you kind of glad that I’m in debt to you</p>
<p>Chorus</p>
<p>Since the first amphibians crawled out of the slime (of the slime!)<br />
We’ve been struggling in an unrelenting climb<br />
We were hardly up and walking before money started talking<br />
And it’s sad that failure is an awful crime<br />
It’s been that way for a millennium or two<br />
But now it seems that there’s a different point of view<br />
If you’re a corporate titanic and your failure is gigantic<br />
Down in Congress there’s a safety net for you</p>
<p>Chorus</p>
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		<title>Whitney: Housing to Fall Another 30 Percent</title>
		<link>http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/04/07/whitney-housing-to-fall-another-30-percent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meredith Whitney, the analyst who called the financial crisis months in advance, now says banks soon will recover ever so slightly, but that housing has a long way yet to fall — as much as another 30 percent. 

Home prices have already come down more than 19 percent over the past 12 months, but Whitney is firmly in the camp calling for a 50 percent peak-to-trough decline. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span>The Liberty Tree Lantern concures with Meredith Whitney&#8217;s view below.  If you listen to the video make sure to note Meredith stating that the U.S. Government is trying to program your minds to make you believe things about the economy.  Basically she is stating that the U.S. Government is trying to make your mind believe in &#8220;The MATRIX&#8221; that our economy can be supported by Dollars made from nothing more that paper and ink printed on a glorified computer printer at the offices of THE FEDERAL RESERVE company.  But the fact is no matter what our minds are programmed to believe, The MATRIX, (our economy that only exists in our minds, as it is created by little more than Monopoly money worth little more than the paper printed for the game), is not sustainable.  This is a VERY GOOD THING.   Because the collapse of The MATRIX will allow us to recoup our freedom, our liberty, our rights and be able to rebuild our country and our economy in the &#8220;REAL&#8221; world using real money in the atmosphere of FREEDOM.  Sure we will live in hell for a few years and we may even, probably, have to go to a hot civil / Re-Revolutionary war to ENFORCE the CARDINAL LAW of our land upon our Government called The Constitution, but in the end, after a few years of hard work, the VAST majority of our common ordinary American citizens will be INDIVIDUALLY properous and individually much more powerful than our U.S. Federal Government.  Our Government will then be OUR servants.  And Government employees will not have wages, health insurance, pension programs far exceeding anything that We The average people have, because they will work for us, THE MASTERS, not us Working for them, where they keep on stealing our earnings in taxes to pay for all of this insanity in the world of The MATRIX.</span><br />
<span>Pray for the collapse of The MATRIX!  (Meaning the collapse of our economy).  It is the only way out of this hell hole of darkness of Socialism, Communism and Fascism.  Let us, We The People, take our country back;  Let us take back the reins of power from the Federal Government that is rightly ours as as our rights bestowed upon us in freedom and liberty by the hands of our almighty God himself.  What mere Government has the right or the audacity to take away that which God gave us?</span><br />
<span>There is a reason why the Founding Fathers wrote a law in The Constitution which states that direct taxes shall be apportioned.  The Sixteeth Amendment, which was never ratified and which is nothing but a lie by Secretary of State Philanderer Knox anyway, does not confer any new taxing powers to the Federal Government on ordinary American citizens earnings.  All direct taxes are still supposed to be apportioned or not exist at all.  The reason our Founding Fathers wrote this into the CARDINAL LAWS of The United States of America is because they knew that the power to tax is the power to destroy and enslave.  Our country existed and became the most powerful nation on Earth during the time before there were any &#8220;Income Taxes&#8221;.  Read / search other articles in this blog for further information and details.</span></p>
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<td valign="top">Meredith Whitney, the analyst who called the financial crisis months in advance, now says banks soon will recover ever so slightly, but that housing has a long way yet to fall — as much as another 30 percent.<br />
Home prices have already come down more than 19 percent over the past 12 months, but Whitney is firmly in the camp calling for a 50 percent peak-to-trough decline.<br />
&#8220;Home prices cannot bottom while liquidity is still contracting from the economy,&#8221; she told CNBC.<br />
Whitney predicted banks would turn the corner soon, but that earnings would not exactly sparkle.<br />
&#8220;I think you’ll see a directional turn,&#8221; Whitney said. &#8220;Banks will make a little money, as little as a penny a share, but they won’t lose money.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Investors should reconsider short positions on bank stocks, she said, but also avoid buying into sell-offs.<br />
&#8220;The fundamentals are not getting any better but capital ratios should get better,&#8221; Whitney said.<br />
Meanwhile, time Times of London reports that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to report that toxic debts at the global level could reach $4 trillion, of which $3.1 trillion originated in the United States.<br />
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		<title>U.S. Government to Ensure Stimulus Doesn&#8217;t Go To &#8220;White Men&#8221; White families or Skilled Labor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[White men and skilled people shouldn't receive any stimulus jobs or money.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #800000">The Liberty Tree Lantern doubts that comment is needed to be made on the insanity and discrimination of the Spirit and Intent of how the <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Obama Administration</span></strong>, through Obama&#8217;s <strong>United States Secretary of Labor</strong> Robert Reich, is planning on using the Income Taxes that they are going to be stealing out of our <strong><em>very near future</em></strong> earnings in ADDITIONAL  Federal Withholding and Payroll Taxes, <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">taken right out of our paychecks </span></strong></span><span style="color: #800000">before we even receive them, for so-called  STIMULUS packages, the vast majority of which programs are patently Socialist by definition to begin with.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000">What do you think about an Administration and U.S. Congressman, such as Charlie (tax cheating) Rangel (D-NY) that states this:</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000">FOLKS ,   HOW  LONG   ARE  WE   GOING   TO   LIVE   IN   DENIAL   THAT    OUR   COUNTRY,    OUR   JOBS,    OUR   LIBERTY,   OUR   FREEDOM    AND   OUR   AMERICAN   WAY   IS   BEING   SYSTEMATICALLY    DESTROYED?</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"> <span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>NOW    WILL    YOU   RISE   UP    AND    DO     SOMETHING? </strong></span>    SOON   YOU   WILL   ONLY   HAVE   A   COUPLE   OF   HOURS   TO   DECIDE    TO   RISE   UP   OR    THE    U.  S.    GOVERNMENT    WILL     HAVE    DESTROYED   OUR   ABILITY   TO   RISE    UP    AND    ACTUALLY   DO   ANYTHING    TO    DO    ANYTHING,    BECAUSE    THEY     WILL    ENTIRELY    DESTROY     THE     CONSTITUTION    AND    THE    PROTECTION    OF    OUR   NATIONAL    AND    INDIVIDUAL   RIGHTS    AND    LAWS    ON   GOVERNMENT.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000">If you want to go out and have a cocktail or a few beers at a Supper Club or tavern,  for Gods, sake  talk about these things with everybody you see.   Your freedom, your jobs, and your lifestyle depends on how much you talk about these matters.   You have little time left&#8230;   Go out into the public and talk about these things.  YOU   HAVE  TOO!    Denying that these things by our enemy, The U.S. Government, are happening is the ultimate in utter stupidity and foolishness.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">AND forward a link of this blog to everybody.</span>   Where else is anybody going to learn that we have been living in a REAL (FINANCIAL)  &#8220;Matrix&#8221; just like in the movie.   &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; is what most call &#8220;OUR ECONOMY&#8221;.   Our economy is supported by The Dollar.   The Dollar have printed on them what they really are  FEDERAL RESERVE &#8220;NOTES&#8221;.  A  &#8220;NOTE&#8221; is nothing more than a &#8220;promise&#8221; to pay back the holder with &#8220;real&#8221; money in the future; an I.O.U.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong>Trillions of Dollars have been / are being printed out of thin air.  How can wealth and blessings of wealth be printed out of thin air and the value of it be sustained.  IT ISN&#8217;T POSSIBLE!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong>Our economy, better to be understood using the term: &#8220;The Matrix&#8221;,  only exists in our minds because our minds have been programmed to believe that the Dollar is worth a Dollar while in &#8220;REALITY&#8221; it represents little more than any paper and ink that comes out of your home printer.  How would you like to be able to print money out of your home printer and be able to use that money for whatever you wanted and give or borrow, at interest or no interest, however much you wanted to whoever you wanted?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong>The FEDERAL RESERVE &#8220;SYSTEM&#8221; is a cartel of twelve private banks which are owned and entirely controlled by forty mostly foreign mega-powerful persons.  Congress Constitutionally illegally gave &#8220;The FED&#8221;, which is as &#8220;Federal&#8221; as Federal Express, the ability and the authority to print as much money as they want for whatever reason they want, so that the Federal Government would have the ability to have limitless borrowing to grow far beyond the authority and laws written in OUR Constitution.  Our Income taxes go Directly from IRS collection centers and are given to THE FEDERAL RESERVE company to pay &#8220;interest&#8221; on the Government borrowed money.  NONE of our Income Taxes goes to the Treasury and NONE of our Income Taxes are used for the things that Government spends money on.  It all goes to THE FEDERAL RESERVE company for their own personal purposes in the form of profits from interest on The Public Debt.  They lend some of our Income Tax money to the U.S. Government because this private company believes it is a good risk and has a good return on investment of &#8216;THEIR MONEY&#8221;.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong>We have to let &#8220;The MATRIX&#8221; collapse.  Yes that is exactly the same as saying, We have to let our ECONOMY collapse.  This is also the same as saying we have to let the prison of our minds collapse, because without TRUE freedom of our minds and true freedom in REALITY we can not ever have TRUE individual prosperity.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong>Besides letting our economy collapse, we must FORCE the U.S. Government to OBEY the laws WE THE PEOPLE did establish and ordain as written in The Constitution, to the Word, Spirit and Intent as it WAS meant before any legalize spin or judicial activism by The Supreme Court.  And, we must revisit any Amendments, that were claimed by any lying Secretary of State, such as Secretary Philanderer Knox, to have been ratified.  The 16th Amendment would be a good first one to take a good and thorough looksie at the ORIGINAL &#8220;STATE Certified&#8221; documents from the States.   <span style="color: #ff0000"><em>THIS IS ONE ITEM THAT THE <span style="text-decoration: underline">AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST FIGHT FOR</span> TO HAVE DONE, SO WE CAN GET <span style="color: #800000">OUR FREEDOM, OUR REAL ECONOMY, OUR MONEY AND OUR PERSONAL PROPERTY BACK</span>!  </em></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><em><span style="color: #800000">After &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; (our economy) has collapsed and AFTER we have RE-ESTABLISHED  the Constitution to its full force and affect upon our NEWLY <span style="color: #0000ff">CONSTITUTIONALLY </span>Established Government, we can rebuild our economy using REAL   Dollars, backed by gold and silver bullion, and gold and silver coin, and create real INDIVIDUAL wealth and prosperity.  Just imagine how quickly we will be able to restore the wealth our minds were programmed to &#8220;think&#8221; we had, when all of our earnings are ours to keep.  Just think how much money we will be able to GIVE in love to others to help our neighbors, our friends and brothers/sisters in need.</span></em></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><em><span style="color: #800000">Just think of how God will bless America once more when he creates the &#8220;real&#8221; wealth and not a private company called THE FEDERAL RESERVE and we honor and pray to him for our individual prosperity and economy instead of praying to our almighty Government with our hands out begging to them.  What has happened to us and our honor that we would beg the U.S. Government for handouts?  What has happened to us when we pray to Government for blessings, food and housing instead of to God?  <span style="color: #0000ff">What has happened to us when we honestly believe that a private company called The Federal Reserve can create wealth and prosperity for us from printing presses and then, in the end, not have to pay for it out of our own property and sweat in the form of <span style="color: #ff0000">slavery through taxation</span>?  We must have gone mad!  <span style="color: #800000">No, actually, we let public schools, the main stream media, the U.S. Government and The Federal Reserve and their Trilateral Commission, use a technique called &#8220;Mass Behavior Modification&#8221; on our minds.   We started to believe all of this stuff and we let them remove God from the equation of life and our lives.  We must get ourselves de-programmed so that we can live in TRUE freedom and procure the actual blessings of a loving God and NOT the cold hands of the U.S. Government being controlled by a humongous privately held corporation called THE FEDERAL RESERVE &#8220;SYSTEM&#8221; that created &#8220;The MATRIX&#8221; (our ECONOMY that only exists in our minds and that which is Godless as it is made up of little more than printers ink and paper).</span></span></span></em></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><em><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff">We must not fear the blessed collapse of &#8220;The MATRIX&#8221; </span>(OUR ECONOMY) that only exists in our minds anyway) which controls our minds and our lives in a prison you can not touch or see.  A form of slavery through taxation and massive NEAR FUTURE increases in taxation that we can ill afford and which will only serve to deepen the U.S. Government&#8217;s and The Fed&#8217;s control and manipulations of us and our daily lives AND ultimately the entire destruction of Liberty and Freedom under God.</span></span></span></em></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #800000">The final result of our current course is a hybrid of Socialism, Communism and Fascism resulting in the equal distribution of misery in poverty under a one world government with nowhere to run to escape to freedom.  No America to run to.  A U.N. style total TOTALITARIAN world wide State in the nightmare of equal poverty where everyone in the world is &#8221;encouraged&#8221; to sing together (at the point of a fully automatic weapon held by a soldier under a blue helmet)  &#8221;<em>We are the people, We are the Children</em>&#8220;  and &#8220;<em><strong>It&#8217;s a Small World After All</strong></em>&#8220;, as if we were in the Disney World ride from hell.  (Okay, I know, AS crazy as it sounds, seeing and hearing for myself, actions such as  The Secretary of Labor Robert Reich  above, I know  this is true and a fact AND <strong>that&#8217;s enough</strong> <strong>for me!</strong>  I&#8217;m ready to grab my gun right now! (especially the singing part &#8211; <span style="color: #0000ff"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">really! </span></strong> go to your pubic school <span style="text-decoration: underline">right now today</span>, they are really having and programming our children to do and sing this stuff getting them ready for the &#8220;NEW WORLD ORDER&#8221; <span style="color: #800000">multi-culturalism, over Tolerance, Anti-American nightmare</span>, sadly this <span style="color: #800000"><strong>IS NOT A JOKE! </strong></span> GO  SEE  <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">AT  YOUR   OWN   PUBLIC   SCHOOL</span></strong>, to witness it for yourself</em></span>)<strong> </strong> And, to complete the &#8220;behavior modification&#8221; the &#8220;programmers&#8221; who work for THE FEDERAL RESERVE / U.S. Government and the <em>NEW WORLD </em>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s a Small World After All</em>&#8221; ilk will now say about me and the gun thing;  See a bible thumping &#8220;gun clinging&#8221; nutcase;  just to control and brainwash <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">YOUR mind/s</span></strong>..  Why,,,     so that liberty, freedom, personal individual prosperity and God can not come back.  They are, without question, of the darkside, minions of evil.  The minions who want to rub out God and any sense of righteousness and morality.  How can printing money from a printing press, resulting in no need for God what-so-ever (at least on Earth) be moral?).  If there is a God and you chose &#8221;The MATRIX&#8221; printing presses over the collapse of &#8220;The MATRIX&#8221; (our economy), rather than and in preference to honoring  God, <em><strong>then why should he bless us with &#8220;REAL&#8221; assets, resources and individual prosperity?</strong></em>   </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #800000">And, how do you think <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">he</span></strong> is going to judge you when the time comes?   None of us will have a choice but to decide which side we are on, the side of freedom, liberty, individual prosperity and God, OR the equal distribution of misery in poverty in a Godless Socialist, Communist, Fascist hybrid under a U.N. One World Governance ultimately controlled by the forty owners of THE FED and their printing presses printing out the NEW WORLD CURRENCY.  . &#8211; -  <em><span style="color: #0000ff">Capt.  Karl</span></em></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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		<title>WI Assemblyman John Nygren-R (89th) To Push State Sovereignty Bill DESPITE Democrat Opposition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberty Tree Lantern has just been informed that the honorable Assemblyman from the 89th District of The State of Wisconsin, Mr. John Nygren-R is going to push the State of Wisconsin Sovereignty bill to protect Wisconsinites from the ravages of the usurping tyrants of the U.S. Government, despite his concerns that the Democrats will just forward it to committe where it will just die.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot"> T</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">he Liberty Tree Lantern has just been informed that the honorable Assemblyman from the 89<sup>th</sup>District of The State of Wisconsin, Mr. John Nygren-R is going to push the <a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/?s=State+Sovereignty"><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>State of Wisconsin Sovereignty bill </strong></span></a>to protect Wisconsinites from the ravages of the taxing, usurping, tyrants of the U.S. Government, despite his concerns that the Democrats will just forward it to committee where it will just die.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">This bill will utilize the laws written in The Constitution itself, under the 9<sup>th</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup> Amendments and “Enumerated Powers” clauses to protect the people of our State from all manner of despotic mandates and taxation, especially that coming down for all of the Corporate Bailouts like AIG, Bank Bailouts like Goldman Sachs and hundreds of others, TARP, TALP, and multiple stimulus packages amounting to TRILLIONS of Dollars that they want to pass on to Federal Withholding and payroll taxes to take the money out of our paychecks here in Wisconsin and throughout the nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Knowing the tendencies of Eric Holder and others in the Obama Administration, as well as the despotic Democrats in the U.S. Congress, there is little doubt that they could force gun control legislation mandates on to the States to thwart the Second Amendment without getting their usurping hands dirty.  The U.S. Congress, especially with the cast of characters there now, have long been known for their extortion practices using our own earnings and taxpayer money, against us, beguiling the States to spend, spend, spend and, thereby, control our State of Wisconsin and ultimately all of us individually.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Who knows what kind of other mandates that the U.S. Congress and the Obama Administration could force our State to do to our companies that would force them to either leave the State, close or layoff people?  For example, they could compel our State to enforce all sorts of <a href="There Is No Atmospheric Green House Effect">Global Warming </a>agendas on our businesses that would cause huge increases in prices on us consumers, resulting in less purchases, finally resulting in closings or more layoffs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">To date at least nine States, such as the great State of Oklahoma, have passed a version of a State sovereignty bill to protect their citizens from the Federal Government using the cardinal laws written in The Constitution upon the U.S. Government.  At least two dozen States will have such a bill passed within a couple of months to protect their people. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">John Nygren of Wisconsin has a battle on his hands due to the nature of the Socialists in the Wisconsin State legislature to have a propensity for massive spending and taxation on people, especially in the State of Wisconsin.  In fact they have managed to spend us into a deficit of $5.7 BILLION Dollars.  They are working extremely hard to minimize cuts to the State budget in favor of increasing taxes and fees on our people and businesses in our State.  It appears that they have a very soft heart for the taxsters and spenders in Washington D.C..  In fact many are concerned that our Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate will fight to protect the Federal Government’s Constitutionally illegal and economy killing massive increases in Federal Withholding Taxes, payroll taxes, FICA taxes and Medicare taxes by pushing our State sovereignty bill into committee where it will die.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">If you don’t think that our State of Wisconsin Assembly and Senate should push our Sovereignty bill into committee <span style="text-decoration: underline">to let it die</span>, but rather you would like to see it pass, you should call and write your State representatives to let them know how you think.  In addition, come to the <a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/wp-admin/Tea%20Party%20in%20Madison,%20the%20Land%20of%20Socialism,%20That%20Will%20NEVER%20BE%20FORGOT!"><span style="color: #0000ff">Madison Tea Party</span></a> at the steps of the Capitol on April 15<sup>th</sup>and really let them know what you think!  But first call your representatives AND write those letters in support of the State of Wisconsin Sovereignty bill sponsored by Assemblyman John Nygren representing the 89th district covering Marinette, Peshtigo, Oconto and other surrounding areas of Wisconsin.</span></p>
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		<title>Popular state sovereignty bills draw comparison to Civil War posturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S.C. House of Representatives has approved a resolution with the same state's rights concerns (but omiting the dire consequences), and the Senate is expected to soon take up a similar resolution.

S.C. State Rep. Michael Pitts (R-Laurens), who authored the House bill, says that it's not as much a threat to the Union as it is a "wake-up call." Federal mandates have strained his patience, particularly those laws relating to gun control and the treatment of illegal immigrants. Threats aren't necessary, he says.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="ContentDate"><span style="color: #800000">This writer for The Liberty Tree Lantern has been forecasting a combination Civil / Re-Revolutionary War, to commence sometime between 2005 and 2017 due to unsustainable taxation on the average common blue collar working man as a result of all manner of Socialistic unsustainable spending programs resulting in taxation and inflation, dragging down the economic power of our country and, thereby the power, freedom, liberty and prosperity of all people across our nation.</span></span></p>
<p> <span class="ContentDate"><span style="color: #800000">The following article is just the beginning of such articles resultant from all manner of Constitutionally contemptuous legislation, behaviors and actions on the part of both houses of Congress and the Judicial Branches especially followed by various Administrations who sought out Socialist programs, such as Social Security and Medicare which have always been mathematically and, eventually politically unsustainable as all Socialist and/or Communist programs are throughout the ash heap of history.  Socialist Security and Medicare are $90, 000,000,000,000.00 ($90 TRILLION DOLLARS) in UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon, right now JUST FOR THOSE TWO Socialist programs alone.  That makes all the bailouts, TARP, TALP, and multiple so-called stimulus packages look like a cake walk.  Just to cover Social Security and Medicare ALONE all common working families will have at least 80% of their earnings WITHHELD in FICA and Medicare taxes with in four or five years or so.  Obviously the Federal Government will make those increases as incremental as they can, like boiling a frog in a pot of water, if you turn up the heat slowly the frog will just stay in the water until he is cooked.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentDate"><span style="color: #800000">The bank and corporate bailouts, which are coming out of our earnings in the near future, in the form of Federal Withholding and Payroll taxes, will only add to the 80% that they HAVE TO take out of your check to pay for Socialist Security and Medicare.   <span style="color: #0000ff">Isn&#8217;t that SPECIAL?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentDate"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff">State Sovereignty Bills may avoid a war if we can just start to shut down all of the Socialist / Communist / Fascist Programs as well as FORCE the Federal Government to OBEY THE LAW as written WORD for WORD, to the very spirit and intent as it WAS meant on the day of its ratification before any legalize spin, Judicial tampering and activism, or Cabinet lies like that from Philanderer Knox about the Sixteenth Amendment being passed.  There are certified documents from States actually DECLARING  that they are NOT ratifying the 16th Amendment BUT YET Knox certified for the record that said States did ratify it.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentDate"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff">There are all sorts of reasons why the Income Tax is not a LAW.  THERE IS NO LAW to support INCOME TAXES.  You can read much information about this on this blog.  The Power to Tax is the power to destroy freedom and individual prosperity.  NOW YOU KNOW WHY.  And NOW you know why direct taxes are to be APPORTIONED.  Why, you say?  Because Income Taxes, outside of War or National Emergency, must be politically impossible or our Government will use our own money against us and usurp our power and even more of our money as a bunch of tyrannical despots as proven throughout all of history as we have been warned by numerous writings and documents.  &#8211; - <em>Capt. Karl</em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="ContentDate">MARCH 18, 2009</span></p>
<p><span class="ContentByLine">BY <a title="Click here for Greg Hambrick archives" href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Archive?author=oid%3A16235">GREG HAMBRICK</a></span></p>
<p>The threat is only implied in more than two-dozen state sovereignty bills making the rounds in legislatures across the country, except for a New Hampshire bill where the authors didn&#8217;t hold back. Any law infringing on the state&#8217;s right to self govern would trigger the dissolution of the nation: &#8220;All powers previously delegated to the United States of America by the Constitution &#8230; shall revert to the several states individually.&#8221;  <em><span style="color: #0000ff">Now that&#8217;s</span></em> <em><span style="color: #0000ff">passion, dedication, and conviction on the part of the Patriot residents of New Hampshire.  &#8211; -  Capt. Karl</span></em></p>
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<p>The S.C. House of Representatives has approved a resolution with the same state&#8217;s rights concerns (but omiting the dire consequences), and the Senate is expected to soon take up a similar resolution.</p>
<p>S.C. State Rep. Michael Pitts (R-Laurens), who authored the House bill, says that it&#8217;s not as much a threat to the Union as it is a &#8220;wake-up call.&#8221; Federal mandates have strained his patience, particularly those laws relating to gun control and the treatment of illegal immigrants. Threats aren&#8217;t necessary, he says.</p>
<p>&#8220;If Washington doesn&#8217;t wake up and our economy keeps going the way it is going, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll have to dissolve the union,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It won&#8217;t be able to stand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Political revolts against federal laws are nearly as old as the nation itself. From trading to slavery to civil rights, states have felt put-upon by Washington&#8217;s mandates. But it was a political standoff on Charleston&#8217;s shores in 1832 that framed the argument leading to the Civil War.</p>
<p>It was a stand for state&#8217;s rights that applied similar language to what we&#8217;re seeing in the present-day debates over sovereignty, says Civil War historian W. Scott Poole, an associate history professor at the College of Charleston.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was fairly horrified actually,&#8221; Poole says upon reading Pitt&#8217;s House bill. &#8220;It clearly harkens back to nullification.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;King Street, King Street&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>A federal tariff on European imports was crippling sections of the South Carolina economy in the late 1820s, and there was no relief following the election of President Andrew Jackson in 1828. The mounting tension led the state to nullify the tariff in November 1832. The challenge from South Carolina was likely one of the worst of Jackson&#8217;s presidency, writes <em>Newsweek </em>Editor-in-Chief Jon Meacham in <em>American Lion, </em>his 2008 book on Old Hickory&#8217;s years in office.</p>
<p>The state would continue to collect the fee for several months while it awaited other southern states to join the protest. In the meantime, Jackson ordered ships to the Charleston Harbor to ensure the tariff was collected and to protect federal interests in anticipation of armed revolt. But secessionists weren&#8217;t as well positioned in other states, and South Carolina nullifiers were left to stand alone. Even among its own residents, there were unionists in S.C. who felt strongly that the nation must be preserved.</p>
<p>In one particular exchange cited in <em>American Lion</em>, the political debate nearly led to a brawl in the streets of Charleston, according to a letter by the Rev. Samuel Cram Jackson.</p>
<p>A group of people supporting nullification &#8220;staked out King Street downtown,&#8221; and they sent word to federal supporters, called Unionists, who had gathered nearby that they should use Meeting Street or risk a confrontation, according to Meacham.</p>
<p>&#8220;The warning infuriated the Unionists,&#8221; Meacham writes, going on to quote the letter from Samuel Cram Jackson: &#8220;Their blood was up, to think that the nullifiers should dictate the street they should walk in. The cry resounded, &#8216;King Street, King Street.&#8217; Before they left their hall, they organized into companies, chose their leaders, and promised implicit obedience. Both parties were armed with clubs and dirks.&#8221; It looked to be 500 nullifiers, compared to 1,000 Unionists. The confrontation was eventually resolved without a battle. According to Samuel Cram Jackson, &#8220;it was owing entirely to the firmness and wisdom of the leaders that the streets of Charleston did not run down with blood.&#8221;</p>
<p>Without support from other states, and citing the threat of federal force, South Carolina accepted a compromise tariff in early 1833, ending the political standoff.</p>
<p>Meacham notes a letter from Jackson soon after the resolution that reveals he understood the real goal of the state&#8217;s nullification posturing.</p>
<p>&#8220;The tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object,&#8221; Jackson wrote. &#8220;The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Back to the Future</strong></p>
<p>As in 1832, some have claimed the modern argument over state sovereignty is in response to the crippling financial crisis, like the Republican Caucus of the state Senate.</p>
<p>&#8220;While Congress continues its irresponsible spending spree and grows our debts on the backs of hardworking South Carolina taxpayers, many Senate Republicans are pushing a resolution to reaffirm our state&#8217;s sovereignty under the United States constitution,&#8221; wrote spokesman Wesley Donehue in a recent caucus release.  <span style="color: #0000ff"><em>Why the hell wasn&#8217;t the Federal Government following the CARDINAL LAWS as WE THE PEOPLE did ordain and establish on THEM &#8220;under the United States Constitution&#8221; in the first place? ? ? ? ? ? ?  Why should States have to REAFFIRM the LAW on the Federal Government, for crying out loud?  If the tyranical scofflaws in the U.S. Government are not OBEYING the CARDINAL LAWS of our Land, than why the hell should WE THE PEOPLE, their masters, follow ANY of the B.S. laws that they excreet causing enslavement being indentured slaves to taxations for spending that didn&#8217;t do anything for us our our families?  Does the Federal Government produce goods?  Do they create things that produce money other than TAXATION or printing of unGodly money from printing presses backed by little or nothing and then by a private International Banking company called The Federal Reserve &#8220;System&#8221;!  </em>- &#8211; <em>Capt. Karl</em></span></p>
<p>But, once again, it is about more than just money.</p>
<p>Pitts notes he first designed his bill in response to mandates that the state provide education and emergency medical treatment to illegal aliens. And it goes beyond that to other concerns, like the threat of stricter gun control laws under the new Democratic administration, Pitts says, as well as Bush-era policies, like No Child Left Behind and the Patriot Act. Authors of sovereignty bills in other states have also made reference to federal abortion laws.</p>
<p>The U.S. government has been continuously overstepping its bounds since Roosevelt, Pitts says. &#8220;They send money to the states with strings attached.&#8221;  <span style="color: #0000ff"><em>Now you know why Freedom means freedom from Government.  All together now,,,   Ah Duh!  &#8211; - Capt. Karl</em></span></p>
<p>But courts have determined that it&#8217;s Washington&#8217;s prerogative to require states to spend the money it provides in a particular way, says College of Charleston political science professor William Moore. Today, states are even more dependent on federal aid than they were 200 years ago.  <span style="color: #0000ff"><em>Are you beginning to see why direct taxes have to be &#8220;APPORTIONED&#8221; according to The Constitution, so that they are not politically possible except in times of National emergency?  Because any way else and government will always use our own money to control, manipulate and use us.  It is the story of the world, according to our wise founding fathers and that which we must guard and fight against in any way necessary to protect our earnings from the likes of them! -  &#8211; Capt. Karl</em></span></p>
<p>&#8220;If you have your hand in the government pocket, you&#8217;re going to have to abide by those requirements,&#8221; he says.  <span style="color: #0000ff"><em>This is called usurpation.  This is why earnings were not to be taxed as per the Constitution.  The power to tax is the power to control, manipulate and destroy.  Additionally earning are not &#8220;Income&#8221;.  They are nothing more than an equal exchange of property.  You give your talents, knowledge, skills and labor for an equal value of exchange.  There is no profit or income.  How can it be taxed?  In the entire humongous U.S. Tax Code do you know that there is NO definition of what Income is?  </em>- &#8211; <em>Capt. Karl</em></span></p>
<p>The threat of secession in the New Hampshire bill has doomed its passage as it was overwhelmingly rejected by the state House earlier this month, but South Carolina is poised to approve its sovereignty resolution, which avoids declaring such drastic consequences.</p>
<p>Pitts, an Army veteran and retired police officer, stresses he doesn&#8217;t want to see South Carolina secede from the Union, though he&#8217;s candid enough to note that &#8220;we have very little in common with the West Coast.&#8221;</p>
<p>The struggle in 1832 was only a prelude to the secessionist battle to come decades later. Jackson framed the argument for preserving the union in his response to South Carolina&#8217;s nullification threat.</p>
<p>&#8220;To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the union is to say that the United States is not a nation,&#8221; Jackson wrote. &#8220;Because the union was formed by a compact, it is said that the parties to that compact may, when they feel themselves aggrieved, depart from it; but it is precisely because it is a compact that they may not. A compact is a binding obligation.&#8221;</p>
<p>His words suggested a resolve in the heart of Washington that would truly be tested years later on the battlefield. Recollections of the blood spilled in that war between the states likely kept New Hampshire from approving its recent preamble to revolt. It will likely also keep other states like South Carolina from doing more than stomping their feet in dissatisfaction.</p>
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The revelation on Sunday by American International Group Inc was another potential public relations nightmare, coming on the same weekend that the Obama administration expressed outrage over AIG's plan to pay massive bonuses to the people in the very division that destroyed the company by issuing-billions of dollars in derivatives insuring risky assets.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 2.4pt"><span style="font-size: 22.5pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">AIG payments to banks stoke bailout rage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">John O&#8217;Callaghan and Lilla Zuill, Reuters  </span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">Published: Monday, March 16, 2009</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;color: #666666;font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1309" src="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/files/2009/03/aig.jpg" alt="aig" width="404" height="272" /> STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty ImagesLogo of troubled insurer American International Group Inc. on a window at an office in New York. American International Group CEO Edward Liddy told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner bonuses could &#8230;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt;color: #666666;font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;color: #c00000;font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">(Liberty Tree Lantern commentary in this red color.)</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">WASHINGTON/NEW YORK &#8212; Goldman Sachs Group Inc and a parade of European banks were the major beneficiaries of US$93-billion in payments from AIG &#8212; more than half of the U.S. taxpayer money spent to rescue the massive insurer.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Do you realize that this $93 BILLION, going to banks and shareholders of foreign countries, will be coming out of your earnings from your future paychecks in the form of ADDITIONAL Federal Withholding and Payroll taxes?</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The revelation on Sunday by American International Group Inc was another potential public relations nightmare, coming on the same weekend that the Obama administration expressed outrage over AIG&#8217;s plan to pay massive bonuses to the people in the very division that destroyed the company by issuing-billions of dollars in derivatives insuring risky assets. <em><span style="color: #c00000">Do you see, now, how crony Socialism / Communism / Fascism works now?<span>  </span>Watch how they take our money out of our future paychecks and give it to Big Corporate Executives.<span>  </span>These bonuses are not coming out from profits created by A.I.G., these bonuses are being paid directly from the money that the U.S. Government is UNCONSTITUTIONALLY and illegally STEALING out of our paychecks.<span>  </span>Income Taxes are not constitutional.<span>  </span>You can read all about this on several articles in The Liberty Tree Lantern.<span>  </span>This is ONE the exact REASONS why the Founding Fathers wrote “Apportionment” clauses, regarding direct taxes, in the Constitution resulting in on-going taxation virtually impossible politically.<span>  </span>The apportionment clauses of the Law in The Constitution, also facilitates the “enumerated powers clauses of The Constitution which state that the Federal Government is only allowed to do a very small handful of things and that anything not specifically “listed” in the Constitution is to be done / handled by the sovereign independent State Governments or otherwise the people themselves.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;color: #c00000;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The U.S. Congress has virtually killed these safe guards of freedom through the Laws set upon the U.S. Government, by way of The Constitution.<span>  </span>This incremental scofflaw activity has resulted in the Federal Government illegally usurping power and money from us, The People and becoming heinously Bigger than ever allowed by our LAWs that We The People did ordain and establish on them.</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The size of the payments also illustrates how seriously a potential collapse of AIG was viewed by the regulatory authorities. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in an interview with CBS news magazine &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that the failure of AIG would have brought down the financial system.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">The Federal Reserve is a cartel of twelve privately owned banks.<span>  </span>It is completely owned by forty private mostly foreign persons.<span>  </span>The Grace Commission Report to President Reagan found that NO Income taxes paid by the American People is collected by the U.S. Government.<span>  </span>They reported that ALL our taxes are collected by (IRS) Agents and send directly to this private company – The Federal Reserve.<span>  </span>Now the Federal Reserve is taking our money that they take out of our paycheck via the IRS through withholding and payroll taxes and are giving it to foreign banks. Why are We The People allowing these tyrants to steal this literally BILLIONS of Dollars from our earnings and give it to huge private banks and executive bonuses?<span>  </span>Why are we putting up with this?<span>  </span>Why are we allowing them to take any money out of our paychecks, at all, when it isn’t even Constitutionally legal for the specific reasons <strong>to avoid and ensure that what is happening to our economy, our freedom, our liberty and our personal individual prosperity wouldn’t?</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">AIG, an embattled insurance giant that <strong><span style="color: #1f497d">has received federal bailouts totaling US$173-billion and is now paying US$165 million in employee bonuses</span></strong>, is at the heart of a global financial crisis that President Barack Obama is trying to address with plans for trillions of dollars in spending.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">As part of those efforts, Obama will announce steps on Monday to make it easier for small business owners to borrow money, officials said.<span>  </span><span style="color: #c00000">Not likely.<span>  </span>Small Business is not a considered friend by The Administration or The FEDERAL RESERVE “SYSTEM”.<span>  </span>Small Business is a creature of FREEDOM and as such is a massive generator of wealth for the average common man and working man.<span>  </span>Too much power naturally goes back to common people by supporting “small” business. <span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">But the revelations that-billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were funneled through AIG to Goldman Sachs &#8212; one of Wall Street&#8217;s most politically connected firms &#8212; and to European banks including Deutsche Bank, France&#8217;s Societe Generale and the UK&#8217;s Barclays could stoke further outrage at the entire U.S. bank bailout.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">See what The Liberty Tree Lantern has been trying to warn our readers about for so long?<span>  </span>This is the historically proven outcome of Socialism, Communism and/or Fascism, the direction of our country and along with this monster, us.<span>  </span>We have to RISE UP and fight for our rights to stop this juggernaut.<span>  </span>If we don’t, none of us will have money and the next step, according to the history of all Governments seeking absolute power, is break us to the point that they can control us with sustenance (food) and shelter, by taxing us to the point where we depend on them just for the necessities for life.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">FINANCIAL SYSTEM AT STAKE?</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The fact that-billions of dollars given to prop up giant insurer AIG were then transferred to European banks and Wall Street investment houses could raise new doubts about whether the rescue was really economically necessary.<span>  </span><strong><em><span style="color: #c00000">No Shit!<span>  </span>I sure to God hope so.<span>  </span>Americans aren’t that stupid to just take this and they know that this money has to come from somewhere and they know who is getting the bill.<span>  </span>They know this is all coming out of our paychecks in massively increased Federal Withholding and Payroll taxation.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t to me seem fair that the American taxpayer has got to bear the 100% of the downside,&#8221; said Campbell Harvey, a finance professor at Duke University.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Ah duh!<span>  </span>We are just trying to work, make a living and have a nice natural American Family Culture type life.<span>  </span>Don’t keep on stepping on our feet, our liberty and stealing our earnings!</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;A hedge is not a hedge if you did not factor in the counterparty risk. And the U.S. taxpayer should not be obligated to make people whole for hedges that were not properly executed.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Goldman Sachs, formerly led by Henry Paulson who was treasury secretary at the time of the original AIG bailout, said, as it has in the past, that its AIG positions were &#8220;collateralized and hedged.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Deutsche Bank and Barclays declined to comment. Societe Generale was not available for comment.<em><span style="color: #c00000"><span>  </span>Comment, what the heck, why should they comment.<span>  </span>They got our personal earnings money from our future paychecks already.<span>  </span>The damage is done.<span>  </span>Soon the IRS Agents will be coming to our businesses and homes to collect to pay for these bills and profits to these foreign banks and private foreign investors, who are friends and cronies of the owners of The Federal Reserve company.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">As it seeks to ease the credit crunch that was the original target of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the Treasury will also offer more details this week about the workings of proposed public-private partnerships to take toxic assets off banks&#8217; books, including a timeframe, a senior department official said on Saturday.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;No taxpayer in these arrangements is going to lose money until the investor who put up the money has lost 100%,&#8221; said Chief White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Actually it depends on the investor.<span>  </span>If the investor is a crony to the U.S. Government or of The Federal Reserve company, trust me, the money will first come out of our paychecks.<span>  </span>If the investor is not a crony of the U.S. Government or The Fed then the poor guy will probably take a major hit.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Treasury officials have said the fund, or funds, would be a vehicle to provide as much as US$1 trillion in financing for buying bad assets &#8212; particularly mortgages gone bad as a result of the U.S. housing bust. The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp would participate.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">When the Fed “participates” that means that they are going to play God and print up more wealth, which will devalue the dollar even more.<span>  </span>Eventually the “nature” or Natural Law, Laws of God, which includes gravity and economics that exist in his created universe, will cause a massive correction to the true value of the Dollar which is about 2 – 3 cents right now, before anymore printing.<span>  </span>This means that a single loaf of bread will cost $90.00 – $100.00 dollars.<span>  </span>A $1,000.00 per month mortgage will then cost $50,000.00 per month. A typical steak dinner at a restaurant will cost as much as $2,000.00 per plate.<span>  </span>This is due to the fact that we live in “The Matrix”.<span>  </span>Little of the wealth we “think” we own is real.<span>  </span>It is based in wealth printed out of thin air.<span>  </span>The natural forces of the universe will cause a correction where wealth is only supported by that created by God and not by a huge private company call The Federal Reserve.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;color: #c00000;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">This does not mean we can’t become, in the future, as wealthy as we are “programmed” to think we are today.<span>  </span>It just means that we can only realize individual prosperity through freedom, outside of “The Matrix” (our FAKE economy that only exists in our minds), and only via honest true HARD assets and the hard work and sweat of man, that we are blessed with from our creator.<span>  </span>Monopoly money doesn’t work over the long run, because it takes God, who created all things, out of the equation and results in immorality, corruption and the destruction of goodwill and the fellowship of man.</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;color: #c00000;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot"> </span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">STILL INCOMPLETE</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">As more Americans lose their jobs and homes, Obama&#8217;s new administration is under heavy pressure to show that the rescue plan for AIG and major banks is working to free up lending and rein in the riskier excesses of Wall Street.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Lending what?<span>  </span>Monopoly money?<span>  </span>FEDERAL RESERVE “NOTES” (like is printed on every bill in your wallet).<span>  </span>Do you know what a NOTE is?<span>  </span>Think about it.<span>  </span>It is only the “promise” to pay with “real” money in the future, an I.O.U., but in this case, a future that never arrives.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The payments to AIG counterparties include the provision of collateral to back up credit default swaps, a form of financial insurance that AIG&#8217;s London office was writing; the purchase of the collateralized default obligations, a type of complex debt security that underlay that insurance; and payments to counterparties of a securities lending program.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Did you know that most of the owners of The Federal Reserve are from England?<span>  </span>In fact, they are remnants of the old East India Trading Company.<span>  </span>Go figure…</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Through three separate types of transactions, Goldman received an aggregate US$12.9-billion. Among European banks, SocGen was the biggest recipient at US$11.9-billion, Deutsche got US$11.8-billion and Barclays was paid US$8.5-billion. <em><span style="color: #c00000">How can we let our Constitutional form of Government steal our money and give it to these big banks?</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The AIG disclosures are still incomplete in that they do not include payments to the banks since December 31.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Oh, there are even more secrets being held from us with regards as to how they are spending our earnings at these foreign banks and Big Corporations?<span>  </span>Imagine that!<span>  </span>Isn’t that special?</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The list of counterparties was made public by AIG amid growing pressure on the insurer to come clean about the true beneficiaries of the bailout ahead of a congressional hearing on Wednesday at which AIG chief executive Edward Liddy is slated to testify.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski, whose committee will quiz Liddy, said the counterparties and bonuses would both be topics for investigation at the hearing.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">It’s called vet it and forget it.<span>  </span>Nothing will truly be done.<span>  </span>Our money will still be taken from our personal earnings from future paychecks and given to these big corporations and executive bonuses.<span>  </span>Our paycheck account bill keeps on getting bigger and bigger every day.<span>  </span>Soon they will be actually taking out for all the charges.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Summers &#8212; speaking before the payments to banks were made public &#8212; called the AIG bonuses &#8220;outrageous&#8221; but said contracts must be honored, even though Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had &#8220;negotiated very forcefully&#8221; with AIG and done all that was &#8220;legally permissible&#8221; to limit the payments.<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Isn’t it special how the U.S. Government can’t do anything to protect our earnings from The Federal Reserve company and their cronies, but the U.S. Government can pass all sorts of legislation abridging tenets of The Constitution?<span>  </span>Whose side is the U.S. Government on,,,<span>  </span>ours or the big bankers and the huge corporations?<span>  </span>That’s easy to answer, who is getting the vast majority of our future earnings?<span>  </span>Are we getting the majority of our future earnings or are the big banks, Big Corporations and Big Government?<span>  </span>What right do these companies and executives have to our earnings from our hard work?<span>   </span>. .<span>  </span>.<span>  </span>Isn’t this called “Slavery”?<span>  </span>Think about it.<span>  </span>You don’t have much time.<span>  </span>Soon they will have everything wired so that we can’t reclaim our rights, liberty or prosperity, for we will be living in the equal distribution of misery in poverty through a One World hybrid of Socialism, Communism and Fascism United Nations style government.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;We&#8217;re not a country where contacts just get abrogated willy nilly,&#8221; Summers, a former treasury secretary, said on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; program. &#8220;What the lesson is, is this: We don&#8217;t really have a satisfactory regulatory regime in place.&#8221;<span>  </span><strong><em><span style="color: #c00000">What the hell does this mean?<span>  </span>Perhaps an “international” regime?<span>  </span>A One World Government regime?<span>  </span>A destroy the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution regime?<span>  </span>WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE people.<span>  </span>Our time for action, in the Streets, before the BLUE United Nations helmets cover our streets and IRS Agents are all over the place stealing any money we make to give to Big Corporations, Big Banks and Big Government.</span></em></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">HELP FOR BIG AND SMALL</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">To help small businesses, officials said Obama intends to provide US$730-million from the congressionally approved US$787-billion economic stimulus program to cut lending fees, boost loan guarantees and expand other programs. <em><span style="color: #c00000">Okay, let me get this straight.<span>  </span>Direct U.S. Government control in daily business and decisions?<span>  </span>WOW.<span>  </span>This is <strong>EXACTLY</strong> what ended in well over <strong><a href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/wp-admin/HOW%20MANY%20DID%20COMMUNIST%20REGIMES%20MURDER?"><span style="color: #3366cd">ONE HUNDRED MILLION<span style="font-weight: normal"> people being MURDERED</span></span></a></strong> by the U.S.S.R. plus far more mass murders from other similar Socialist / Communist Government entities.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;We know that small businesses are the engine of growth,&#8221; Christina Romer, who chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Ah duh!<span>  </span>That’s because small business is at the heart of freedom and free enterprise, which are the greatest wealth generators ever created on Earth.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;We absolutely want to do things to help them.&#8221;<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">Yeah, right.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">As part of the financial rescue, the Obama administration expects private investors to bolster government funds to help cleanse the banking system of bad assets, said Austan Goolsbee, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;It&#8217;s better to do this jointly with private capital,&#8221; Goolsbee told &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221; &#8220;I believe there is a reasonable expectation that people will participate.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">The idea of offering financing support from the government for private investors willing to buy the toxic assets was first put forward by Geithner in February but the lack of detail has disappointed financial markets.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">CHECKING AIG CONTRACTS</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">AIG&#8217;s Liddy said in a letter to Geithner the giant insurer was legally obligated to make 2008 employee retention payments but had agreed to revamp its system for future bonuses after the Obama administration objected.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;There are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last 18 months, but what&#8217;s happened at AIG is the most outrageous,&#8221; Summers said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Representative Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, said the government must see if the bonuses can be recovered, adding that the timing of AIG&#8217;s commitment was important.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;We can&#8217;t just violate law, legal obligations,&#8221; Frank told Fox. &#8220;I understand that. But I do want to find out at what point these illegal obligations were incurred.&#8221;<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">We’ll see what happens here.<span>  </span>The whole thing stinks.<span>  </span>I don’t know how any of us can trust the U.S. Government with our money that they are not, according to our LAW in The Constitution, supposed to have or get their grubby despotic hands on.</span></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, called the AIG situation an &#8220;outrage&#8221; and said the nature of the contracts needed to be checked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">While the news that AIG bailout money went to foreign banks could further stoke political outrage, some experts said the alternative could have been worse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 15pt"><span style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot">&#8220;The nationality of the bank should not matter,&#8221; said Peter Morici, professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. &#8220;We have an inter-related financial system. You do something to mess with that and all bets are off the table.&#8221;<span>  </span><em><span style="color: #c00000">I bet the American people would be free and there would be no Matrix.<span>  </span>We would all honestly own what we only “think” we own in our Matrix like economy, programmed into our minds.</span></em></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The privately held international company, owned by forty individuals mostly from Britain, called The Federal Reserve "System", is a cartel of twelve private banks.  The Chairman of "The Fed", which is as "Federal" as Federal Express Corporation, stated that his company was looking for the following items to "control" our businesses, economy and, thereby, in reality our private lives.  These recommendations, that can't be refused, if you catch my drift, were communicated by Chairman Bernanke at the meeting this morning at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR):

Government's Must continue to take FORCEFUL, "COORDINATED", action to restore financial markets.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The privately held international company, owned by forty individuals mostly from Britain, called The Federal Reserve &#8220;System&#8221;, is a cartel of twelve private banks.  The Chairman of &#8220;The Fed&#8221;, which is as &#8220;Federal&#8221; as Federal Express Corporation, stated that his company was looking for the following items to &#8220;control&#8221; our businesses, economy and, thereby, in reality our private lives.  These recommendations, that can&#8217;t be refused, if you catch my drift, were communicated by Chairman Bernanke at the meeting this morning at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR):</p>
<div id="attachment_1144" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1144" src="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/files/2009/03/225px-ben_bernanke.jpg" alt="Dr. Ben S. Bernanke 14th Chairman of the Federal Reserve company," width="225" height="280" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Ben S. Bernanke 14th Chairman of the Federal Reserve company.</p></div>
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<li>Government&#8217;s Must continue to take FORCEFUL, &#8220;COORDINATED&#8221;, action to restore financial markets.</li>
<li>Continued viability of systemically important banks is vital.  <span style="color: #0000ff">In layman&#8217;s language that means that all governments need to continue to raise withholding and payroll taxes on all working people to give to big banks.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">Treasury and The Fed will take any necessary steps to ensure banks have enough capital and liquidity. <span style="color: #0000ff">This means that they will continue to take as much ADDITIONAL money out of our future earnings as they need to give to big banks.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">Reform of U.S. Financial System should be &#8220;COORDINATED GLOBALLY&#8221;.<span style="color: #0000ff">  This means that their should be a One World Government so that no American or anybody else in the world has a place to run to to protect their INDIVIDUAL earnings, property or freedom from the Government or the Banks.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">Bernanke: Regulators Must insist banks can monitor and manage risks in a timely manner. <span style="color: #0000ff">This means that Big banks should have the authority to dig into the private affairs of private lives and businesses and even tell them what to do if they feel like it.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">Calls for &#8220;CONSOLIDATED SUPERVISION&#8221; of all systemically important financial institutions by The Federal Reserve company.  <span style="color: #0000ff">This means that The Fed, the largest most powerful private corporation in the world, should have ultimate control over all banks that hold the individual banking accounts of Americans.</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000ff"> and eventually all accounts throughout the world.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">U.S. also needs to supervise all systemically important non-bank financial firms.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">FED focusing on contingency plan for two clearing banks that handle Repos.  <span style="color: #0000ff">This means that The Fed is working to setup two Big Banks to take what you own in property when you go broke from the future ADDITIONAL taxation of your earnings, which will be 80 &#8211; 90% of the common working man&#8217;s paycheck.  The vast amount of GDP wealth resides with the Hundreds of Millions of the average working class in America; therefore, The FED, the private company who &#8220;profits&#8221; through the collection of ALL INCOME TAXES paid in the United States, which THEY collect through the IRS, according to The 1983 Grace Commission Report to President Reagan, will receive your personal property through these two banks when you all go broke from taxation, which will occur with in three years or so.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">Fed should have explicit authority over systemically important payment and settlement systems. <span style="color: #0000ff">This means that The Fed will decide who gives and who receives, who is allowed to be wealthy and who will pay to develop the wealth for the anointed.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000">Bernanke suggests either tighter controls on Money Market investments or Insurance Plan.</span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #800000">We all need to see what Thomas Jefferson, President and Founding Father of our Nation, said about Central Banks like The Fed:</span></p>
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<ol>
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<li>Banking institutions, paper money, and paper speculation are capable of undermining the nation’s stability and could be a danger in time of war. The Constitution does not empower the Congress to establish a National Bank. Rather than trust the nation’s currency to private hands, the circulating medium should be restored to the nation itself to whom it belongs.</li>
<li>″Paper is poverty,… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788.</li>
<li>″It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie, is a good or an evil… I believe it to be one of those cases where mercantile clamor will bear down reason, until it is corrected by ruin.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:409 </li>
<li>“One of three great measures necessary to insure us permanent prosperity… should insure resources of money by the suppression of all paper circulation during peace, and licensing that of the nation alone during war. The metallic medium of which we should be possessed at the commencement of a war, would be a sufficient fund for all the loans we should need through its continuance; and if the national bills issued be bottomed (as is indispensable) on pledges of specific taxes for their redemption within certain and moderate epochs, and be of proper denominations for circulation, no interest on them would be necessary or just, because they would answer to everyone the purposes of the metallic money withdrawn and replaced by them.” –Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 1816. ME 15:30</li>
<li>“It would be best that our medium should be so proportioned to our produce, as to be on a par with that of the countries with which we trade, and whose medium is in a sound state.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:430</li>
<li>“That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied. –Thomas Jefferson to Josephus B. Stuart, 1817. ME 15:113</li>
<li>“The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals… it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:430</li>
<li>“Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.” –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:189</li>
<li>“The States should be applied to, to transfer the right of issuing circulating paper to Congress exclusively, in perpetuum.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:276</li>
<li>“The evils of this deluge of paper money are not to be removed until our citizens are generally and radically instructed in their cause and consequences, and silence by their authority the interested clamors and sophistry of speculating, shaving, and banking institutions. Till then, we must be content to return quoad hoc to the savage state, to recur to barter in the exchange of our property for want of a stable common measure of value, that now in use being less fixed than the beads and wampum of the Indian, and to deliver up our citizens, their property and their labor, passive victims to the swindling tricks of bankers and mountebankers.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:185</li>
<li>“Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:276</li>
<li>“It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.” –Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 1779. ME 4:298, Papers 2:298</li>
<li>“I now deny [the Federal Government's] power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798. ME 10:65</li>
<li>“A spirit… of gambling in our public paper has seized on too many of our citizens, and we fear it will check our commerce, arts, manufactures, and agriculture, unless stopped.” –Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 1791. ME 8:230</li>
<li>“All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass… It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality… It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.” –Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792. ME 8:344</li>
<li>“We are now taught to believe that legerdemain tricks upon paper can produce as solid wealth as hard labor in the earth. It is vain for common sense to urge that nothing can produce but nothing; that it is an idle dream to believe in a philosopher’s stone which is to turn everything into gold, and to redeem man from the original sentence of his Maker, ‘in the sweat of his brow shall he eat his bread.’” –Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:381</li>
<li>“I own it to be my opinion, that good will arise from the destruction of our credit. I see nothing else which can restrain our disposition to luxury, and to the change of those manners which alone can preserve republican government. As it is impossible to prevent credit, the best way would be to cure its ill effects by giving an instantaneous recovery to the creditor. This would be reducing purchases on credit to purchases for ready money. A man would then see a prison painted on everything he wished, but had not ready money to pay for.” –Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1786. ME 5:259</li>
<li>“We should try whether the prodigal might not be restrained from taking on credit the gewgaw held out to him in one hand, by seeing the keys of a prison in the other.” –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pleasants, 1786. ME 5:325, Papers 9:472</li>
<li>“The maxim of buying nothing without the money in our pockets to pay for it would make of our country one of the happiest on earth.” –Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 1787. ME 6:192</li>
<li>“That we are overdone with banking institutions which have banished the precious metals and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium, that these have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness, that the wars of the world have swollen our commerce beyond the wholesome limits of exchanging our own productions for our own wants, and that, for the emolument of a small proportion of our society who prefer these demoralizing pursuits to labors useful to the whole, the peace of the whole is endangered and all our present difficulties produced, are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.” –Thomas Jefferson to Abbe Salimankis, 1810. ME 12:379</li>
<li>“The system of banking [I] have… ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:18</li>
<li>“The banks… have the regulation of the safety-valves of our fortunes, and… condense and explode them at their will.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:224</li>
<li><span style="color: #800000">“I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed [by legislation doing so] have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated.” –Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on Bank, 1791. ME 3:146</span>     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><strong>“[The] Bank of the United States… is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution… An institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?” –Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1803. ME 10:437</strong></span>     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. –Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1802. ME 10:323     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“In order to be able to meet a general combination of the banks against us in a critical emergency, could we not make a beginning towards an independent use of our own money, towards holding our own bank in all the deposits where it is received, and letting the treasurer give his draft or note for payment at any particular place, which, in a well-conducted government, ought to have as much credit as any private draft or bank note or bill, and would give us the same facilities which we derive from the banks?” –Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1803. ME 10:439     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“Bank paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs. It is the only fund on which they can rely for loans; it is the only resource which can never fail them, and it is an abundant one for every necessary purpose. Treasury bills, bottomed on taxes, bearing or not bearing interest, as may be found necessary, thrown into circulation will take the place of so much gold and silver, which last, when crowded, will find an efflux into other countries, and thus keep the quantum of medium at its salutary level. Let banks continue if they please, but let them discount for cash alone or for treasury notes.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:361     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“The art and mystery of banks… is established on the principle that ‘private debts are a public blessing.’ That the evidences of those private debts, called bank notes, become active capital, and aliment the whole commerce, manufactures, and agriculture of the United States. Here are a set of people, for instance, who have bestowed on us the great blessing of running in our debt about two hundred millions of dollars, without our knowing who they are, where they are, or what property they have to pay this debt when called on; nay, who have made us so sensible of the blessings of letting them run in our debt, that we have exempted them by law from the repayment of these debts beyond a give proportion (generally estimated at one-third). And to fill up the measure of blessing, instead of paying, they receive an interest on what they owe from those to whom they owe; for all the notes, or evidences of what they owe, which we see in circulation, have been lent to somebody on an interest which is levied again on us through the medium of commerce. And they are so ready still to deal out their liberalities to us, that they are now willing to let themselves run in our debt ninety millions more, on our paying them the same premium of six or eight per cent interest, and on the same legal exemption from the repayment of more than thirty millions of the debt, when it shall be called for.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:420     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><strong>“The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties.” –Thomas Jefferson to Josephus B. Stuart, 1817. ME 15:112</strong></span>     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“Put down all banks, admit none but a metallic circulation that will take its proper level with the like circulation in other countries, and then our manufacturers may work in fair competition with those of other countries, and the import duties which the government may lay for the purposes of revenue will so far place them above equal competition.” –Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 1820. ME 15:280</span>     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“But it will be asked, are we to have no banks? Are merchants and others to be deprived of the resource of short accommodations, found so convenient? I answer, let us have banks; but let them be such as are alone to be found in any country on earth, except Great Britain. There is not a bank of discount on the continent of Europe (at least there was not one when I was there) which offers anything but cash in exchange for discounted bills.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:277     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000">“If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it. As to the public, these companies have banished all our gold and silver medium, which, before their institution, we had without interest, which never could have perished in our hands, and would have been our salvation now in the hour of war; instead of which they have given us two hundred million of froth and bubble, on which we are to pay them heavy interest, until it shall vanish into air… We are warranted, then, in affirming that this parody on the principle of ‘a public debt being a public blessing,’ and its mutation into the blessing of private instead of public debts, is as ridiculous as the original principle itself. In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper.” –Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:423     
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<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><strong><em>“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.” –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:61</em></strong></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong>“Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and jugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own interests, the quantum of circulating medium for the nation — to inflate, by deluges of paper, the nominal prices of property, and then to buy up that property at 1s. in the pound, having first withdrawn the floating medium which might endanger a competition in purchase. Yet this is what has been done, and will be done, unless stayed by the protecting hand of the legislature. The evil has been produced by the error of their sanction of this ruinous machinery of banks; and justice, wisdom, duty, all require that they should interpose and arrest it before the schemes of plunder and spoilation desolate the country.” –Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 1819. ME 15:232</strong></span>    </span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<div><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #0000ff"><strong></strong></span>Who is on OUR side?  Bernanke or Thomas Jefferson?  This is our choice to make.  If you choose Bernanke you might as well send all of your personal property to one of the two banks he is planning for the REPO of all of your valuable personal belongings.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #800000">If you choose Thomas Jefferson, STAND UP AND FIGHT like HELL for your FREEDOM from the ONE WORLD Government under The Federal Reserve System!  Time is short!  We do not have much time left!  STAND UP and fight NOW!  Listen, learn, read, think for yourselves; for your time for action on your findings grows short.  <span style="color: #0000ff"><em>- -  Capt. Karl</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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		<title>America After the Collapse of &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; and The War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel so sorry for all the people who lost so much after years of hard work, effort and risk.

I have been trying to tell people about this collapse since 1982. When I started a group called F.A.I.R. (Families Against Imminent Robbery), which was founded on the concerns of the Socialist unsustainable programs of Medicare and Social Security.

What we are going through now IS ABSOLUTLY NOTHING and a Cake Walk!  Compared to the Social Security and Medicare Socialist debacle
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">I feel so sorry for all the people who lost so much from the collapse of &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; (our economy), after years of hard work, effort and risk.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">I have been trying to tell people about this collapse since 1982. When I started a group called F.A.I.R. (Families Against Imminent Robbery), which was founded on the concerns of the Socialist unsustainable programs of Medicare and Social Security.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">What we are going through now </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">IS <span style="text-decoration: underline">ABSOLUTLY NOTHING</span> and a Cake Walk!<span>  </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: small">Compared to the Social Security and Medicare Socialist debacle that isn’t even being talked about yet.<span>  </span>Skip what is going on now is <span style="text-decoration: underline">meaningless</span> compared to what is to come.<span>  </span>Social Security and Medicare is now $90 Trillion Dollars in UNFUNDED debt, over the infinite horizon.<span>  </span>We all either pay 80% of our earnings JUST FOR THESE TWO PROGRAMS or we get LITTERALLY shot at by <span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>the people who are going to demand their entitlements</strong></span>.<span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: small">Personally I have already committed to going into the ditch with my children and standing up to the Social Security and Medicare entitlement demanders and the (IRS) AGENTS of<br />
“The Matrix” for I believe in freedom and I am going to fight for my children and the future of my country.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="font-size: 9pt;color: #666666;font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: 18pt;color: black;font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&amp;quot"><span style="text-decoration: underline">No Wascally Weform Allowed</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="font-size: 9pt;color: #666666;font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">Do any of the head honchos at AARP realize how ridiculous they appear in their irrational opposition to any Social Security reform and their steadfast support of the status quo? I have long </span><a href="http://www.socialsecuritychoice.org/images/AARPElmerFuddShotgun.jpg"><span style="font-size: 9pt;color: #519525;font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;text-decoration: none"><span style="font-size: 11pt;color: #1f497d;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-919" src="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/files/2009/03/aarpelmerfuddshotgun.jpg" alt="aarpelmerfuddshotgun" width="368" height="272" /></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt;color: #666666;font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot">been suspect of AARP&#8217;s support of big government programs. I have turned fifty two and the last thing I will want is to be a member of such a liberal anti-freedom group as this.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: small">You know that I have been writing e-mails about this economic collapse, regarding the financial crisis, the failure of huge corporations, huge bank failures, in detail, for at least three years.<span>  </span>I told everybody that “The Matrix” (the ECONOMY that only exists in our minds) was going to collapse between 2007 and 2015 only dependent on oscillations with complex derivatives affecting economic structure or what I call “The Matrix”.<span>  </span>I have details and writings of this all over the Internet in forums and The Liberty Tree Lantern years ago.<span>  </span>My personal investment assets had a gain of 191% since 2000.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: small">Some other people listened to me and had around the same profit rates.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: small">Coming next is the combination Civil / Re-Revolutionary War within three years.<span>  </span>Hopefully people will “LEARN” that only freedom, true freedom, with NO “Matrix” from the owners of The Federal Reserve “System” will ever bring back the wealth they “thought” they had in their minds.<span>  </span>It is vital for posterity that a critical mass of Americans learn or understand the “true” meaning of freedom and how to work hard and pray to rebuild our nation after the war.<span>  </span>I find it incredible that people honestly thought that The Fed can print TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS of wealth out of “thin air”, paper and ink and give / lend it to whomever they want.<span>  </span>Only God can create wealth out of thin air or the void of space.<span>  </span>I cannot believe the blasphemy of our fellow citizens to honestly believe that a private corporation can print wealth, spit in Gods face by completely taking him out of the equation of life by printing monopoly money, and get away with it in impunity.<span>  </span>We’ve got one heck of a spanking coming for our childish lack of responsibility and disrespect for God.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: auto 0in"><span style="color: #1f497d;font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&amp;quot"><span style="font-size: small">Once we learn our lessons, understand that it is <span style="text-decoration: underline">OUR personal and INDIVIDUAL responsibility</span> to make sure our children learn the true and only meaning of FREEDOM, how to keep it, why it is the best way to go by far and that we <strong>personally and INDIVIDUALLY, but united,</strong> have to ALWAYS force Government to OBEY the LAW that We did ordain and establish upon them, I believe our wealth will come back <strong>as good or better than ever</strong>, through hard work, high technology, the incalculable wealth generation of true freedom under the blessings and resources provided by our creator.<span>  </span>We that survive the war and the imminent collapse of “The Matrix”, will be amazed how fast God replenishes our individual wealth without the shackles of Government, “The Fed” and it’s “Matrix” pounding our heads, brainwashing our minds and stealing our earnings.</span></span></p>
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		<title>They&#8217;rrrrreeeee Baaaccckkk! ver 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Capt. Karl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Surprise Surprise guess who are back to take more out of our paychecks, again.  Yep you may have guessed it, GM and Chrysler.  They are planning on taking another 22 BILLION Dollars out of our future paychecks.

The UAW is standing tall and tough, man!  THEY are demanding that they be able to take money out of our personal individual future paychecks and use it to pay for their high wages and most especially their Cadillac Health Care Insurance program and their king's ransom pension program that way back in 2005 was over 10 BILLION Dollars in UNFUNDED debt and today is likely 3 times that.  The UAW and the Automakers need our earnings to pay for these UAW "legacy" entitlements.  Without the exceptional wages, benefits and insane pensions the Automakers would be significantly profitable and be able to keep many thousands employed.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Surprise, Surprise the huge Corporations GM and Chrysler are back for more of our earnings that they are going to have Big Government take out of our paychecks, by the force of The Matrix (IRS) Agent&#8217;s gun to give to UAW pension programs, Cadillac Health Insurance programs and incredable wages and salaries. See: <a title="Permanent Link to GM Forklift Driver Wages $103,000.00 per Year. Soon From Our Paychecks." rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/11/19/gm-forklift-driver-wages-10300000-per-year-soon-from-our-paychecks/"><span style="color: #265e15">GM Forklift Driver Wages $103,000.00 per Year. Soon From Our Paychecks.</span></a> and <a title="Permanent Link to BIG 3 Auto Supplier Tells Bailout Automaker to Go To Hell on Request" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/01/01/big-3-auto-supplier-tells-bailout-automaker-to-go-to-hell-on-request/"><span style="color: #265e15">BIG 3 Auto Supplier Tells Bailout Automaker to Go To Hell on Request</span></a></p>
<p>After the last multi-BILLION Dollar robbery of your earnings, these Automakers, announced this morning, and UAW are after another <strong>22 BILLION!</strong>  How many more times are we going to let them dive into our future earnings? </p>
<p>And, they are going to be back for more because the so called &#8220;legacy costs&#8221;, a sort of &#8220;entitlement&#8221; program within the BIG THREE Auto Companies are so expensive that these companies can not possibly be competitive with other auto companies.  Not only that but to buy a nice car you are looking at $30,000.00 to $45,000.00.  Isn&#8217;t that insane in itself?  Why are we going to allow the UAW to support their addiction to high wages and over the top benefits to be paid directly out of our future paychecks, when we don&#8217;t even get such pay, insurance, other incredible benefits, or king&#8217;s ransom pension programs.  In 2005 GM&#8217;s  unfunded corporate liability for the King&#8217;s Level pension program for all UAW workers was OVER TEN BILLION DOLLARS.  Today it may be three times as much due to all of the additional retiring and the ravenousneeds of such opulent program.   Why are we allowing our U.S. Government to take this money right out of our NEAR-future paychecks?  We need to get our heads examined.  WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS?</p>
<p>Why should Government have the right to take our earnings, right out of our paychecks in the form of all sorts of withholding and &#8220;payroll taxes&#8221; (which almost nobody understands that the part that companies kick into the taxes is actually coming out of the employees earnings in the form of a HIDDEN tax that almost NONE OF YOU REALIZE.  You see, if your employer wasn&#8217;t taking this money and sending it to the Government, you would be getting it.  This would be a huge raise to you of over 7% per paycheck.  AND YOU DO NOT AND HAVE NOT EVER REALIZED THIS FACT!  You need to understand that the Government is stealing twice the money out of each paycheck, than you have realized, in a HIDDEN TAX called &#8220;employer payroll taxes&#8221;.  Man are we gullible or what.  <strong>Do you have ANY Idea how much more money you would have if your Government OBEYED THE LAW in the Constitution?</strong></p>
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<p>So bend over and grab your knees you average working American, because the UAW, Big Corporations, Big huge Banks, and SUPER humongous BIG GOVERNMENT are sending &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; (IRS) Agents to take <span style="text-decoration: underline">at least 80%</span> of EVERY BODY&#8217;S paycheck in the form of &#8220;Federal Withholding&#8221;, Payroll taxes, FICA (Social Security taxes), MEDICARE taxes, none of which will go to benefit or help you or our families personally, but which will be taken from you and given to these HUGE entities, that are &#8220;too BIG to fail&#8221;, and as SOCIALIST domestic spending &#8220;TRANSFER&#8221; programs to take from all of us and give to others, who THE GOVERNMENT and THE FEDERAL RESERVE &#8220;SYSTEM&#8221; who controls our Government through controlling the money, deem worthy.</p>
<p>Socialism, which what is happening, where Government takes from everybody&#8217;s paycheck to disburse all earnings <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">as they see fit , </span></strong>is where this is going.  This will result in the EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF MISERY IN POVERTY where everybody but the Corporate and Banker cronies of the U.S. Government and THE FEDERAL RESERVE and officials of The Government are &#8220;allowed&#8221; to &#8220;get ahead&#8221; and become prosperous.</p>
<p>How long are you the average producer / worker going to take them spending your earnings?  Why can&#8217;t you, as per the LAW in The Constitution, keep your earnings?  The Constitution states that all direct taxes shall be &#8220;apportioned&#8221;.  According to a number of Supreme Court cases the 16th Amendment DID NOT alter who was nor who wasn&#8217;t taxable with regard to the apportionment clause.  Additionally there is comprehensive proof that the 16th Amendment, in any case,  wasn&#8217;t even ratified. See: <a title="Permanent Link to IRS Special Agent finds Federal Income Tax a HUGE FRAUD!" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/11/irs-special-agent-finds-federal-income-tax-a-huge-fraud/"><span style="color: #265e15">IRS Special Agent finds Federal Income Tax a HUGE FRAUD!</span></a>  , <a title="Permanent Link to Truth in Taxation Hearings - Income Taxes Not to Be Paid?" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/11/580/"><span style="color: #265e15">Truth in Taxation Hearings &#8211; Income Taxes Not to Be Paid?</span></a> , <a title="Permanent Link to IRS and Judge Refuse to Show Income Tax Law" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/11/irs-and-judge-refuse-to-show-income-tax-law/"><span style="color: #265e15">IRS and Judge Refuse to Show Income Tax Law</span></a> , <a title="Permanent Link to Government Corruption Rampant. Cheating Americans For Decades" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/11/government-corruption-rampent-for-decades-cheating-americans/"><span style="color: #265e15">Government Corruption Rampant. Cheating Americans For Decades</span></a> , and <a title="Permanent Link to Ron Paul on CNBC 2004 - UnConstitutional Income Tax" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/13/ron-paul-on-cnbc-2004-unconstitutional-income-tax/"><span style="color: #265e15">Ron Paul on CNBC 2004 &#8211; UnConstitutional Income Tax</span></a>.</p>
<div id="attachment_792" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 272px"><img class="size-full wp-image-792" src="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/files/2009/02/charlie-rangel-nancy-pelosi-henry-waxman-obama-sign-bill.jpg" alt="charlie-rangel-nancy-pelosi-henry-waxman-obama-sign-bill" width="262" height="208" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Look at how happy they are to steal your earnings from your paycheck and spend it on whatever they want! Isn&#39;t that special?</p></div>
<p> How long are we going to let the tyrants in the U.S. Congress get away with spending our earnings?   Are we going to let them spend our earnings until we can&#8217;t afford to pay for basic living costs anymore?  How can the U.S. Government steal money out of all of our paychecks, at the end of and IRS Agent&#8217;s gun, and force us to give OUR EARNINGS to other people, without us having the right to say yes or no or even who will get our money?</p>
<p>Some of us wouldn&#8217;t, of our free will,  give our money to huge banking companies too numerous to list here, but you can see the list here: <a href="http://www.mgwashington.com/index.php/news/article/database-banks-receiving-tarp-funds/2482/?appSession=60069506084776&amp;RecordID=&amp;PageID=2&amp;PrevPageID=2&amp;cpipage=11&amp;CPIsortType=asc&amp;CPIorderby=Amount">Database: Banks Receiving TARP Funds</a>, but of course Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) really appreciates taking your earnings and giving it to the Big Bankers in the form of the TARP.  See: <a title="Permanent Link to Congressman Charlie Rangel Takes “Junket” to Caribbean on Bailout" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/17/766/"><span style="color: #265e15">Congressman Charlie Rangel Takes “Junket” to Caribbean on Bailout</span></a>  <span style="color: #0000ff">Isn&#8217;t that special?</span></p>
<p> Some of us wouldn&#8217;t volunteer to give our money to huge corporations like AIG, GM, Chrysler, etc., etc., etc.</p>
<p>Some of us would rather take the money that is stolen out of our paychecks, and given to whomever the Government wants, and either use it to take care of ourselves and our family or give it to our &#8220;personal&#8221; friends, neighbors, or intra-congregational destitution amongst our local Church members, than have Government give our money to whomever.  How dare the Government, steal our money, right out of our paychecks and then have the gull to give it to whoever they want?  Who the hell does Charlie Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Henry Waxmanand all the rest of their ilk, think they are that they can steal our future money and do whatever they want with it?  Are they going to start to send &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; Agents of the IRS to come to make &#8220;examples&#8221; out of us when we stop allowing our employers to withhold our earnings?</p>
<p>But of course Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) stated publicly that Income Taxes are voluntary.  No Senator, especially the Democratic Leader of The Senate,  in the U.S. Congress would lie would they?  (Does a bear shit in the woods?)  You can see and hear him for yourself here: <a title="Permanent Link to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) States Income Tax Voluntary" rel="bookmark" href="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2009/02/17/senate-majority-leader-harry-reid-d-nv-states-income-tax-voluntary/"><span style="color: #265e15">Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) States Income Tax Voluntary</span></a></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want the U.S. Congress to take at least 80% of your weekly paycheck in the form of all sorts of withholding taxes, then what are you going to do about it?  I sure to God hope you are not so nieve as to think that you don&#8217;t individually have several alternatives to action to do something to help in the cause of freedom and to protect your earnings, personal property and your rights.  You have all sorts of options on what you can do &#8220;personally&#8221;.  But first you have to believe in yourself and that you can.  CAN  WE  DO  IT?    YES  WE  CAN! ! ! !    Read the rest of this blog for numerous things you can personally due to protect your rights, liberty and have the ability to climb out of this SOCIALIST/FASCIST scum &#8220;Matrix&#8221; (Our economy that only exists in our minds) that has imprisoned us, a prison for our minds.  An economic  prison of the mind, programmed by &#8220;The Fed&#8221; and the U.S. Government, that destroys our rights and our liberty, from which we must break free to restore our personal, individual wealth; but this time &#8220;for real&#8221;, with real money and hard assets.</p>
<p>How many more times are we going to let these huge Automakers and the UAW, cronies of the U.S. Government and &#8220;The Federal Reserve&#8221; company, to steal our earnings right out of our paychecks? You have to stand up for yourself and DO SOMETHING!  Protect yourselves from these tyrants and despots!</p>
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		<title>Congressman Charlie Rangel Takes &#8220;Junket&#8221; to Caribbean on Bailout</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York's Charles Rangel and five other Democratic members of the House enjoyed a trip to the Caribbean sponsored in part by Citigroup (see above) in November - after Congress had approved the $700 bailout for financial firms (including Citigroup).

The members no doubt will object to the terms "junket," but that shoe fits. The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, has asked Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to investigate the Nov. 6-9 excursion to the island of St. Maarten.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the &#8220;<a href="http://commonsenselogic.blogspot.com/2009/02/charlie-rangel-takes-all-expenses-paid.html">Evaluation</a>&#8221; Blog:</p>
<h3 class="post-title"><a href="http://commonsenselogic.blogspot.com/2009/02/charlie-rangel-takes-all-expenses-paid.html">Charlie Rangel Takes an All-Expenses Paid Trip to the Caribbean on CitiBank&#8217;s dime&#8230; After Voting for Their Bailout</a></h3>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial">I don&#8217;t know about you but I&#8217;ve had it with all this corruption. It&#8217;s time to tar and feather all politicians! Every stinking one of them!</span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial"><a href="http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090201/OPINION01/902010344/1005/OPINION" target="_blank"><span style="color: #336699">&#8216;Shameful&#8217;: Big shots on Wall Street, in Congress still don&#8217;t get it</span></a></span></div>
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<div id="attachment_785" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 250px"><img class="size-full wp-image-785" src="http://captkarl.blogivists.com/files/2009/02/amd_chuck-rangel.jpg" alt="Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) loves and &quot;enjoys&quot; TARP Bailouts!" width="240" height="363" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) loves and &quot;enjoys&quot; TARP Bailouts!</p></div>
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<hr /></span>New York&#8217;s Charles Rangel and five other Democratic members of the House enjoyed a trip to the Caribbean sponsored in part by Citigroup (see above) in November &#8211; after Congress had approved the $700 bailout for financial firms (including Citigroup).</p></blockquote>
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<p>The members no doubt will object to the terms &#8220;junket,&#8221; but that shoe fits. The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, has asked Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to investigate the Nov. 6-9 excursion to the island of St. Maarten.</p>
<p>It was called the Caribbean Multi-Cultural Business Conference, but &#8220;the primary purpose &#8230; for most participants appeared to be to take a vacation,&#8221; said the NLPC. And not only was the timing lousy, but &#8220;corporate sponsorship of such an event was banned by House rules adopted on March 1, 2007, in response to the (lobbyist Jack) Abramoff scandal,&#8221; the group pointed out.</p>
<p>Joining Rangel on that trip were Donald Payne of New Jersey, Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan, Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and Donna Christenson, delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands.</p>
<p>If they haven&#8217;t already, they should reimburse the taxpayers for all expenses related to that trip &#8211; and from their own funds, not from another taxpayer pocket.</p>
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