Schlafly is wrong. Not about having a class structure in America, but in making her division between those paying income taxes and those not. Our real class division is between our hereditary ruling political class and their slaves. For those who don’t think we have such a ruling class, I offer a partial list: Al Gore Jr., George W. Bush, Russ Carnahan, Lacy Clay and Teddy Kennedy. There are plenty of others - in both parties.
Gill O’Teen
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Now is the time to go Galt!
Don’t Tread On Me!

I have been around long enough to recall that when Reagan was President, my Federal Income Taxes did decline. However, seemingly simultaneously the amounts deducted from my weekly check for Social Security and Medicare increased. The net impact on my take-home pay was that I had less money I could call my own. That said, the major point almost everyone is overlooking is that Congress has control of the purse. No President has the Constitutional authority to raise or lower taxes. That power is reserved to the House and Senate. However, and I’m not sure how this beast snuck up on us, we now live in a time when gum’mint subsidiaries are able to increase what it costs us to do business with them. They simply call these fees. These fees do...

Without a doubt, we cannot continue allowing OUR gum’mint to spend like there’s no tomorrow. On December 31, 1 Yo (aka 2009 A.D.), the U.S. Debt to GDP ratio was a mere 85.62% and one of the Euro convergence criteria was that government debt-to-GDP be below 60%. On Tax Day 2 Yo (aka 4/15/2010 A.D.) it was a much heftier 89.39%. Yesterday, this ratio was 89.41%. Calculated linearly, we are on track to hit or exceed on May 2 the dreaded 90% threshold about which Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff wrote last month:
“The relationship between government debt and real GDP growth is weak for debt/GDP ratios below a threshold of 90 percent of GDP. Above 90 percent, median growth rates fall by one percent, and average growth falls...

In describing a 1962 dinner for Nobel Prize winners, John F. Kennedy said, “...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.” That statement is still true today, and the subject of that compliment once wrote in 1782 about Freedom of Religion, “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Applying that same standard to this argument, I conclude that any gum’mint has absolutely no business intruding into the lives of its adult citizens except as noted by the author of OUR Declaration of Independence. As events over the past several years verify once you give Dee Cee an...

Debt Clock Notes, July 31, 2 Yo, Part 3: Anybody who’d like to verify my work may request copies of my screen shots from June 30 to July 30 and a copy of my Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing these numbers. However, the numbers are only as trustworthy as is the National Debt Clock itself and depend on how well I can read and type. Bear in mind that I qualify for senior citizen discounts, suffered a stroke about 3 years ago and have fairly poor eyesight. Also I have a professional engagement with an anesthesiologist Monday morning, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to respond. Gill O’Teen gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth...

Debt Clock Notes, July 31, 2 Yo, Part 2: Over the past month Our national debt increased $141,640,939,427 (1.08%), and Our GDP increased by $32,603,617,017 (0.226%), and the last time I checked 1 point anything is greater than 0 point anything, in other words Our debt increased at a faster rate than Our GDP. Meanwhile, the Federal Deficit increased $3,223,296,603 (0.225%) - at least that rate is less than the GDP rate! The corresponding Debt:GDP Ratios grew: 0.7745871% (0.852%), 0.7749024% (0.852%) and 0.0550752% (0.058%). Our Work Force shrank by 873,245, in spite of the addition of 3,444 Federal Employees, Our population increased by 236,758, giving an Our Employment Rate drop of 0.316%. Thankfully, the Food Stamp roll dropped 236,971...

Debt Clock Notes, July 31, 2 Yo, Part 1: After the close of business last June 30 at 4:41 PM ET, according to numbers from the National Debt Clock web site [http://www.usdebtclock.org], Our National Debt was $13,119,360,133,396; Our Federal Deficit was $1,431,907,468,866; Our GDP was $14,427,293,927,093; Our Debt:GDP ratio was 90.9343096% according to my spreadsheet’s calculation, 90.9343188% according to that site’s own calculation which in a separate spot gave a second opinion of 94.3596033%; Our Work Face Count was 139,384,228 including 4,262,143 Federal employees; Our Population was 309,626,716 giving an Our Employment Rate of 45.017% (calculated by letting my spreadsheet divide Work Force by Population); and 41,585,896 folks were...

There is evidence that there are such distractions at work in today’s political environment. Right now, kongress and the man behind their curtain wish us to believe that the evil Wall Streeters were behind the 2008 economic collapse. Maybe, but kongress was at the minimum complicit in that financial bloodbath. The Tea Partiers are accused of committing violent acts and of being racist even though to date no proof that this is so exists. Town Hall victim, Kenneth Gladney was beaten by SEIU thugs because he was thought to question kongressmon Rusty Carnahan’s positions on obummer’s agenda. Gladney is an African-American conservative. During her failed senatorial campaign, one of democrat Martha Coakley aids knocked down a reporter who...

Magicians often use a technique to either distract or redirect the attention of their audience. Politicians have adapted similar ideas to pursue their agendas. In 64 AD the Roman Emperor Nero, faced with a potential civil war because of a great fire which left about 70% of his city in ruins. Rumors circulated that the emperor himself was somehow responsible for the destruction. In order to quell the uprising, he found a handy scapegoat in the Christian minority living in that town, and redirected the wrath of the Romans into a persecution of the followers of Christ. Similarly, Hitler, at the end of the first war to end all war, sought to unify the German people. He chose to do this by rallying his lemmings with hatred of the Jews. This...

In your reply # 26 posted at 2:11 EST, you asked, “do you really think a republican will fix the deficit???” I reply to your question with a similar one, “do you really think a democrat will fix the deficit???” Personally, I don’t think any of the klowns in dee cee will fix anything other than their own finances unless by ‘fix’ you mean rig the rules in order to assure a particular outcome. Such rigging might include physical harm to any with a contrary desire.

Gill