Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep
under his gabardine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery
acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.
-Trinculo
The Tempest
So, Washington’s odd couple shared the same gabardine to protect their turf and power. John Boehner and Barack Obama, heretofore we'll call "The Establishment."
These strange bedfellows are pushing through a bill that defies November's mid-term election that will make a mockery of all their big talk and promises. It is about ego and power; it is not about what people really want.
Black Lives Matter?
I am sure there will not be any protestors outside the White House today or this weekend staging “die-ins” or other tactics in the name of Eric Garner or anyone else. However, the deal cut last night will not fund cameras for police departments. (This is not about TASR which we have taken profits on. It is just the kind of lip service Obama's core constitutions have gotten for six years.)
So, where did the money go?
- EPA's new rules
- $1.1 Trillion in spending
- $500 Billion deficit
- ObamaCare
- Amnesty
The vote was a nail-biter, the House passed H.R. 83 last night, and now the Senate will take up the vote.
| H.R. 83 | Favor | Oppose |
| Democrats | 57 | 139 |
| Republicans | 162 | 67 |
| Total | 219 | 206 |
When it was over, Nancy Pelosi said she was "enormously disappointed" that prior to the vote, Maxine Waters told her colleagues, "don't be intimidated by Obama." Maybe the media had it wrong all these years about the real obstructionist.
However, it moves to the Senate, where upstarts Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren want to stop it...but for very different reasons. Can the establishment force its will once again?
If they win, the American people are the losers...
Take this Country, and Shove it
It has been a serious rough patch for America, but the thought of renouncing one's citizenship is a drastic move, and it is hard for me to understand. Yet, that has been the case in ever-increasing numbers. Last year, 2,999 people said, “Take this country, and shove it.”
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That was up 221% from 2012, and 1,200% higher than 2008.
However, I do not condone such an action while we remain a Republic, and I get where people are worried about a government that is creeping deeper into their lives and wallets. More Americans are opting for arming themselves and raising their voices, which is why the gun ownership chart mirrors citizens bolting.
Well, the administration is fighting back and taking a page from the mafia characters in the movie "A Bronx Tale.”
There is a famous line from the movie when a biker gang refused to leave the neighborhood bar, so the local guys locked the door and said, "Now youse can't leave."
Now, if you want to leave America and give up citizenship, the new fee is up 400% to $2,350, and there is an exit tax for people with $2.0 million in assets.
I am talking about all assets; including homes, salaries, retirement accounts, stocks, art, and jewelry. You have to pay this tax immediately as if you just sold all that stuff. I guess, “If you can't pay, you can't leave.”
Instead of taxing people to make them stay, how about we tax people less to make them not want to leave? How about protecting our Constitution, instead of hinting at its destruction, and our government protecting its citizens like those mafia guys who protected their neighborhood?
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