Progressive Democrats & Neocons
Another thought provoking and informative article by our March speaker, Dr. Aubie Baltin
A MUST READ!
UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE
For People Who Think
DANGER DANGER DANGER
PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS & NEOCONS
This year, the federal deficit will total at least $1,600,000,000,000.00 ($1.6 trillion), Using GAAP accounting rules, the nation’s fiscal year 2009 deficit was roughly $9,000,000,000,000.00 ($9 trillion). This is equal to 17% of America’s total private wealth accumulated over a period of 235 years – wiped out by just one year’s worth of government deficit spending.
What these statistics mean is that it is absolutely impossible for the Government to fund its debt and deficits, even if it steals all of the nation’s private wealth. Therefore, the Government’s only solutions are either to file formal bankruptcy (outright debt repudiation and the dismantling of bankrupt government programs) or unprecedented American monetary inflation and debt monetization. If the Government chooses to inflate its way out of this fiscal catastrophe, the United States dollar will essentially become worthless. You can be absolutely certain that Dr. Bernanke is well aware of these realities, just as the Chinese schoolchildren are who, when patronized by Geithner about America’s “strong dollar,” laughed in his face.
The Government has announced that during the fiscal years from 2010 through 2019, it will create an additional $9,000,000,000,000.00 ($9 trillion) in deficits, an amount that is certain to be understated by trillions given our Government’s historic accounting practices. Furthermore, the Office of Management and Budget has reported that the United States Government will experience massive, non-stop deficits for the next 70 (SEVENTY) years.
These deficits and debts are now so gargantuan that they have become surreal abstractions that are impossible even for sophisticated financiers to begin to comprehend. The common citizen has absolutely no idea what these numbers imply for their future.
The peoples “representatives” have deliberately committed treason by selling their citizens into slavery from which they and their descendants can never escape since the debts piled onto their backs can never be repaid. Despite expensive and sophisticated brainwashing campaigns emanating from Washington, claiming that America can “grow” out of its deficits and debt, the public is waking up to the fact that it is arithmetically impossible for the country to ever pay off it’s debts as long as it stays on its present increasingly Socialist track.
Once you’ve dug yourself a hole and you want to get out, the first thing you must do is STOP DIGGING.
AMERICA’S FIFTH COLUMN
America, just like every empire that has come before it, can only be defeated from wit in. No country or group of countries can defeat America economically or militarily.
The enslavement of the American people has been orchestrated by a pernicious Master Class of Politicians from both parties, who have seized the United States by the throat. Slowly but surely, they have taken the Freest and most Successful Free Market Economic Power and, in the name of protecting the little people, transformed the country into a Socialist State to the point that it is now on the verge of Destroying Capitalism (The Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs). This Master Class is choking the nation to death as it accelerates its master plan to plunder the people’s dwindling assets on its way towards a One World Government. But their final goal cannot be achieved until they first destroy the world’s only super power. These Wannabe, Power Hungry, Communists, Master Subversive Class are comprised of politicians, the Wall Street money elite, the Federal Reserve, high-end government (including military) officials, government lobbyists and their paymasters, military suppliers and media oligarchs and our education system. The interests and mindset of the Master Class is so totally divorced from those of the average American citizen that it is utterly tone deaf and blind to the justifiable rage sweeping the nation. Its guiding ethics of greed, plunder, power, control and violence are so alien to mainstream American culture and thought that the Master Class might as well be an enemy invader. But nonetheless, the Master Class is here, it is real and it is laying waste to America. To the members of the Master Class, the people are not fellow-citizens; they are instruments of labor, servitude and profit all sold to the people in the name of equality and helping the under-privileged.
BUT it is not too late. We have three years left to set the wheels in motion to first STOP and then Reverse the last 100 years of Socialist Cancer that is destroying our country.
America’s public finances are now completely dysfunctional and chaotic. However, something far worse than debt enslavement and monetary implosion looms on the horizon: Namely, a Master Class-sponsored American dictatorship.
Throughout history, the type of situation in which America now finds itself in has been a fertile factory for tyranny. The odds of an outright overthrow of the people by the Washington and Wall Street Axis almost came into being under FDR, but fortunately for the people, he died. The fact that so few people believe an American dictatorship is possible is exactly why it is becoming more and more likely. Recent events paint an ominous picture of a Master Class that is now in total control.
• When 90% of the American people rejected the $780,000,000,000.00 ($780 billion) TARP bailout plan, the Master Class put it on a fast track and approved it anyway.
• When a clear majority of the American people said NO to a government takeover of Chrysler and GM, the Master Class poured billions of taxpayer dollars into those corporate sinkholes and then took them over anyway.
• When the people said no to multi-trillion dollar crony bailouts for the bankers and insurers whose corruption had caused global financial mayhem, the Government pledged to those elite insiders more than $13,000,000,000,000.00 ($13 trillion) of the people’s money anyway.
• When the people expressed astonishment and anger that Wall Street planned to pay itself record 2009 bonuses, all of it due to Phantom Profits coming from trillions of dollars in zero interest loans and the elimination of mark to market accounting in the midst of America’s worst-ever fiscal and financial crisis, Wall Street stuffed its pockets with unearned, undeserved, taxpayer bonus money anyway.
• When the people said no to a proposed $40,000,000,000.00 ($40 billion) bailout of AIG and its elite trading partners such as Goldman Sachs (an amount that subsequently exploded to $180,000,000,000.00+ ($180+ billion)), the Master Class went underground and covertly misappropriated taxpayer money and made the payoffs anyway.
• When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were nationalized at enormous taxpayer expense, the Government approved $6,000,000.00 individual pay packages in 2009 (150 times the average American wage) for the CEOs (friends and advisors of Obama) of both failed companies anyway.
• When a clear majority of the people said NO to nationalized health care even after being bombarded by a multi-million dollar, lie-drenched propaganda campaign, the House and Senate passed nationalized health care bills anyway in 7 days, without any of the signers having read the 2700 page Bill.
• When more than seven million American workers lost their jobs and were subsisting on unemployment benefits and food stamps; when private sector workers’ 401Ks and IRA retirement plans plummeted in value due partially to Wall Street’s market corruption (including systemic front running, flash trading, naked short selling and misinformation and other manipulations) – Government “defined benefit,” lifetime-cost-of-living-adjusted pension plans, and life time Cadillac Health Care Plans, which just like the Congressional plans became immune from the public plan despite being under funded by $2 trillion and continues to increase. Even though these very same Federal Government Employees earn DOUBLE what private sector workers earn, they were also given another round of pay and benefit increases, using a good part of the so called Stimulus money, instead of it being used to create jobs.
WE DEFY YOU
The message from the Ruling Master Class to the American people is simple and clear: Screw You !
Governments that openly defy the people are either already totalitarian or in the process of becoming so. Monetarily, the United States clearly functions as a totalitarian dictatorship already, with a Federal Reserve that operates in secrecy, creates limitless amounts of debt and currency at will, and showers trillions of dollars upon favored insiders with zero transparency or accountability whatsoever. The Federal Reserve is so shameless about its dictatorial powers that it flatly refuses to provide details about multi-trillion dollar bailouts and rescues of privileged elites, in open defiance of Congress and the people. The fact that they get away with these blatant acts of defiance demonstrates the true extent of the Master Class chokehold on America.
Every single Government entitlement program in the United States is bankrupt. This includes Social Security ($17,500,000,000,000.00 under funded; $17.5 trillion); Medicare Part A ($36,700,000,000,000.00 under funded; $36.7 trillion); Medicare Part B ($37,000,000,000,000.00 under funded; $37 trillion); Medicare Part D ($15,600,000,000,000 under funded; $15.6 trillion), Government and military pensions ($2,000,000,000,000 under funded; $2 trillion), Food Stamps (current under funding difficult to measure because the number of recipients is exploding; hundreds of billions under funded versus original projections); and the list goes on. The above under funding amounts are NET of projected tax receipts over the next 50 years. But the current Recession has invalidated virtually all long-term budget and tax receipt assumptions, meaning that the true under funded amounts are now greater than current projections.
Far more cause for alarm than these mind boggling numbers is the casual indifference with which the politicians are now making the country’s irreparable fiscal circumstances even worse.
The Nationalized health care program, which will cost at least $2 trillion more over the next ten years, is being crammed down America’s throat by a bankrupt Government that does not have the money today and will not have the money tomorrow to pay for it.
“Cap and Trade” is a multi-trillion dollar tax scam being foisted onto the American public without a legitimate debate or popular referendum. You might be surprised to learn that “Climate Revenues” are already included in the federal budget, starting with $79,000,000,000.00 ($79 billion) in fiscal year 2012 (after the Presidential election). During fiscal years 2012 through 2019, the Government expects to collect $646,000,000,000.00 ($646 billion) in “Climate Revenues,” a completely new tax category that will not be paid only by the rich, but by every single person who uses energy directly or indirectly. Have any of your elected so-called Representatives told the public that? These “Climate Revenues” are based on junk science, lies and hysteria, and have been pimped by greed-diseased parasites who seek to make billions from operating and manipulating the Cap and Trade “marketplace.” Favored elitists such as Hank Paulson, Al Gore, General Electric, Goldman Sachs and Amoco among others, have positioned themselves to profit from the nation’s upcoming Cap and Trade tax misery and economic debilitation.
The reality is that the giant Ponzi scheme called the United States of America is (like Madoff) running out of money and the rest of the world’s savings. Every Ponzi scheme requires ever increasing amounts of NEW money to be constantly poured into the top of the funnel in order to keep the Ponzi Scheme going. If the Washington and Wall Street Axis were not legally able to create and distribute counterfeit American money, while stealing most of the rest of the world’s savings, the Ponzi scheme would have collapsed a long time ago. Trillions of new, out-of-thin-air, printing-press and electronic “dollars” have bought the Axis additional time, but new sources of revenue must immediately be found to keep the scam alive. Congress is fully aware of this reality. Outright tax increases would be bad politics during a Recession that is morphing into a Depression and also bad for 2010 re-election campaigns, so they cannot be implemented. Therefore, Congress continues to advance the Health Care and Cap and Trade agendas, which are nothing but Taxation Trojan Horses festooned in righteousness and sanctimony despite overwhelming popular opposition.
If the nationalized Health Care program is passed, subterfuge revenues and fees will kick in immediately in 2010, whereas costs will not begin to accrue until 2013-2015 and later (again after the 2012 election). The Government plans to spend the revenues immediately to forestall a total fiscal collapse.
Nationalized Health Care has absolutely nothing to do with health care; it has to do with creating an immediate revenue stream to help fix the current Government funding crisis as well as a massive grab for control of 17% of the American Economy. Similarly, Cap and Trade has nothing to do with fixing the environment. It, too, is nothing more than a massive tax increase similarly designed to address the Government’s epic funding shortfall, with thick slices of pork thrown in for privileged insiders and deceitful propagandists like the bloated “Father of the Internet” and now “Savior of the World,” Al Gore.
GOLD
On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an Obama hero, outlawed Gold ownership overnight by signing Executive Order 6102, which gave the people three and one-half weeks to surrender all privately-owned bullion to the Government for a price of $20.67 per ounce. On January 30, 1934, nine months after collecting the people’s Gold, Roosevelt devalued the dollar 69% overnight, by raising the Gold price from $20.67 to $35.00 per ounce.
Since its founding in 1913, the Federal Reserve has devalued the dollar by 98%+ thanks to endless money printing and debt creation, a corrosive and impoverishing process that is now accelerating. In the past year, the Fed has engineered $20+ trillion in bailouts, subsidies and guarantees for well-connected and lucky scavengers and opportunists, an amount equal to roughly 40% of the total private wealth created in this country since its inception. All because a few elitist Government man-gods, with an almost perfect record of error and failure, have deemed in their imperial wisdom that it shall be so. The citizens, whose hard-earned wealth is being systematically destroyed by this continual, government-decreed monetary debasement were never invited to the debate or given a say, which is par for the course for dictatorships. This massive de facto devaluation now hangs over the people’s wealth like a great monetary Sword of Damocles.
Conceptually, whether it is a 50% overnight devaluation as in Venezuela, 69% overnight devaluation in the United States, 98% devaluation in America over time or a 99% overnight devaluation in North Korea – what is the difference? The fact is there is no difference; monetary debasements are all the same. In each and every case, the people’s wealth is stolen via Government edict, while the people stand by helplessly in shock.
FOR WHOM DOES THE BELL TOLL?
A foreign “them” or a domestic us? Who is to say that you will not be told tomorrow morning that, effective immediately, in accordance with some perversely named mandate such as the “American Monetary Security, Wealth Preservation and Terrorism Prevention Act,” enacted by emergency for “the safety of the nation and the financial well being of the citizens,” all existing currency and bank balances will be redenominated in “New Dollars,” at a conversion rate of 1 new for every 100 old currency units? Would this not simply be another almost predictable act of defiance toward the American people by the Ruling Class? And if that happened, do you honestly believe that the Ruling Class would not have been alerted in advance and allowed to make special preparations for itself ahead of the devaluation? Do you think they intend to go down on the same ship as the people they are supposed to serve? If such a currency devaluation were announced, what could you do about it? March on Washington? But how would you get there if your money had just been wiped out and nobody would accept your Dollars anyway?
Of course UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE and its adherents have been working at protecting themselves for over 7 years now. While others lost as much as 50% of the value of their IRAs, Pensions, and 401Ks, the average return for all subscribers was over 38%; a good part of which has been tucked away in One Ounce Gold Coins purchased for CASH, beginning at $300/oz all the way up to $1000/oz. It is still not too late to start protecting your financial positions, but you must begin acting soon and the best way of starting is by subscribing to Uncommon Common Sense today.
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A New Contract With America
UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE
For People Who think
FREEDOM
A NEW CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
There is the seed of freedom that exists in every individual. It was inevitable that one day someone would eventually make use of this truth. They were our nation’s founders and with the help of God, came up with the most perfect Constitution. But in Man’s subconscious never ending desire for power, politicians have been trying to change it ever since.
The seed of freedom lies dormant most of the time within the subconscious of Man as long as he thinks that there is no danger of him loosing his freedom. He may not notice it at first as it begins to slip away, but when it finally begins to look like its loss might soon affect him directly, slowly but surely that fear of his loss of freedom begins to stir. Man must make that discovery for himself and hopefully he does so before it’s too late for him to take action, as the inherent nature of self is forever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom or power.
The TEA PARTIES have demonstrated that the FEAR of the potential loss of freedom has been awakened and only requires some leadership to channel Man’s fear into constructive action. Show him a way how he can hang onto his freedom and his way of life and the Tsunami created will be unstoppable.
NOW is the time to channel this desire for freedom before it’s too late to stop the Fascist Tidal Wave that is cresting upon us – at the ballot box and without the necessity of taking up arms. But by 2012, if we the march towards Fascism is not reversed it will be too late.
WE MUST STOP THIS TIDAL WAVE OF FASCISM NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE TO BE REVERSED WITHOUT THE USE OF GUNS.
CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: 2010 & 2012
The Corner Stones of this new platform must rest upon a foundation of Capitalism and universal, non-controversial truths that all Americans can embrace.
Before proceeding, let me point out one crucial salient fact: The demographics of the advanced countries, such as all of the 31 states of Europe including England, Russia, Canada and especially Japan are such that their birth rates cannot sustain their country and especially their culture. The USA has been exempt thus far because of our huge immigration (legal or otherwise). The average birthrate necessary to sustain a country is 2.1 children per family. The average in all the countries mentioned above ranges between 0.9 in Japan and 1.8 in France. The birthrate of Moslems is over 8. There are over 50 million Moslems in Europe and by 2030-50, all of Europe, Russia and Canada will be Moslem countries under Sharia Law, without firing a shot. To date, only the USA is exempt from this threat because of Hispanic immigration.
Hispanics, unlike Moslems, do not want to overthrow the American Government or it’s culture. They all come here to become Americans just like every other massive wave of immigrants who have come before them. Take notice that by far the great majority of Hispanics are Religious Christians and inherently Conservatives who believe in the Christian work ethic. They are the fastest growing community in the USA and will soon become the largest of all communities. If we drive the Hispanics into the arms of the Democrats, the Republican party is not only doomed, but it will die out completely as fringe, independent Conservative groups spread out to take their place with no chance of gaining any more political power than the Libertarians have now. With these facts in mind, let’s see if we can come up with a platform that can pull off a Reagan and Gingrich like sweep in 2010 and 2012
IMMIGRATION & ENGLISH
It can continue to be the Republican and Conservative’s Achilles Heal or we can make it our greatest ASSET. All we have to do is face the facts and get realistic. If there is one thing in this world that does not need protection from, it is the English language. Every Chinese child must learn English as a second language. Only in the USA is a second language not mandatory. English is the universal language of Science and Business and does not need protection. Like every other mass immigrant culture, by the second or third generation at the latest, they all learn English and speak it predominately and take their rightful place in America as AMERICANS. They are not plotting to change our Laws or overturn our culture.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
We can’t even water-board a known Terrorist and they must be Morandized, so there is no way that the USA can hunt down, arrest and deport 20 million people. Take that inflammatory kind of talk off the table. But that does not mean that there is nothing that should and can be done.
#1 We must tighten security at all our borders so that we know and control who comes into our country. First and foremost this is necessary for National security purposes. This is a stand that would resonate with the whole country including Hispanics, most of whom are already citizens and are paying more than their share for supporting illegal immigration.
#2 Draw up a 5 to 7 year program towards citizenship that includes learning English, learning and passing a test about our Constitution and system of Government (Civics) and swearing allegiance to our Country, Culture of Individual Freedom and our Flag.
#3 Quadruple (or more) the size of our Immigration and Naturalization Service so that the legal Immigration as well as the Deportation Process can be accelerated and thus reduce the need for illegal immigration. With a birthrate of only 1.8, we need immigration in order to survive and support our country, culture and ever increasing numbers of seniors. Of equal importance, we must monitor all foreign students so that we know where they live, what schools they are attending and the grades they achieve. We could have stopped the 9/11 bombers had we been making sure students were really students.
#4 Only American Citizens are entitled to the full protection of our Constitution and Courts. Terrorists and all illegal aliens have no constitutional rights except for those that we decide to grant them. We need strict enforcement of our laws so that if any non-American with less than 10 years residency is convicted of a felony, they are automatically deported. All non-citizen gang members wearing their gang tattoos is sufficient evidence of criminal intent and enough reason for deportation. Three strikes and you’re out – If you are a non-legal resident and you are convicted of 3 crimes, you are deported. It is ridiculous to spend $75,000/year keeping non-citizens in our jail and who knows how much money hunting them down, arresting and trying them over and over again, while providing them with free legal representation.
The way immigration is handled is a major problem, but if handled properly, it can be one of our major solutions. Similar to the advantage that adoption has over birthing your own children, you can choose who you adopt. We can choose who we let into our country. After all, it is our country and there are more willing applicants than we can possibly accept. We Choose, Not Them. We also establish fair quotas and requirements that would be beyond reproach, especially by Hispanics. European immigration is not a solution to our birth rate problem.
TERM LIMITS
POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTLY.
No better proof of that is watching our Congress in action. Ninety-eight percent get re-elected, even though as a group they have an approval rating that is 1/3 of what Bush’s was at his worst, tells us that the Elections are not acting as term limits. Once in office, they build power bases and fiefdoms that breed corruption. They in turn allow power bases to grow within the Government’s bureaucracy that result in laws being made by non-elected fringe extremist groups. (EPA)
In 1994, Term Limits was Gingrich’s centerpiece of his Contract with America and it should be ours as well, especially since its popularity has been handed to us on a platter by the arrogance and complete disregard for the will of the people. This is demonstrated by the out of control, reckless spending of our current Congress and President, as well as by the Immigration Policy that we, the people, had to defeat.
We must eliminate the 3 rules of Government: “Get Re-elected, Get Re-elected, Get Re-elected.” Then and only then can we expect our legislators to vote their own conscience since they would no longer have to act against their own “best self interest”. It is the only way to drastically reduce the money going into politics. Why? Because since there would be no chance for re-election, money donors would have no hold over one term elected or appointed officials (like Bernanke).
NOTE: Under Term Limits, not one cent would or could be raised while in office.
EDUCATION
Education is part of every political party’s platform: But the results never change – our education system just keeps getting bigger and worse.
Our platform will be different. It will truly be focused on children by centering it on radical change. The simple truth being that you cannot fix a system (Socialist, Centrally Planned and Controlled) that is designed to fail from the outset. The USA spends about 50% more per student than the rest of the developed countries and yet we have the worst system.
The new system would be centered on VOUCHERS, a free market capitalist solution, which will not cost one cent more than we are now spending. It begins with the elimination of 95% of the Federal Department of Education. All the money now controlled by them would be allocated in the form of vouchers to the Parents, to be paid to the school of their choice (public, private or home schooled) with one proviso: Should the student fail, the money will be forfeited back to the parent in the form of a voucher, to be used only for remedial summer education. This would be a cause that every parent (Black and Hispanics in particular), whose kids go to a failing school, would get behind. Without 95%+ of the Black and Hispanic votes, the Democrats would be doomed to defeat. But more importantly, a competitive system based on capitalistic principles of profit, competition and free choice would work. Our freedom and country’s best protection is an educated populace – we are in a world wide competition.
Let the public schools lose a few million or so students and see how fast they improve and start to compete with the private schools. After all, they have the advantage of a huge infrastructure and State Government money. Let those capitalistic competition juices start to flow and we all know what will happen. The teachers are not stupid, give them a choice and it won’t be long before they get rid of or change the structure of their Unions and eliminate all the incompetent teachers and stupid work rules that the Unions now protect. Their jobs would be at stake. The 5% left of our Federal Education Department would be used to monitor the final exams, which would determine whether or not the schools get to keep the voucher money. We can get around the no money for Religious Institutions by giving the money directly to the people who, in turn, can then choose the school of their choice.
A UNIVERSAL SUNSHINE LAW
To control spending and reduce the size of government, every perpetual spending Bill must be reviewed to make sure it’s meeting its intended goals and objectives. Each program will require a 51% vote of approval by the House and a 60% vote of approval by the Senate in order for funding to continue. That is the only way to get rid of billions in wasteful spending and more importantly, to make sure we are getting our money’s worth. Instead of just talking about Waste, Fraud and Abuse, we will actually have a concrete plan to do something about it.
NOTE: Congress will be so busy reviewing existing laws they won’t have time to create more damage.
JOB CREATION – THE FREE MARKET CAPITALIST WAY
a) INFRASTRUCTURE: Rebuild our Interstate Highways and Bridges by turning them into TOLL roads and bridges and putting them up for tender. They would get rebuilt in the quickest and least expensive way possible, while not using one nickel of Government money. As a matter of fact, it would bring money into the Government to help pay down its debt by way of the tenders. It would also save money by eliminating the Government’s need for maintaining the roads and bridges, while still keeping control over the tolls. One million plus new jobs would be created, virtually overnight, especially when the states and cities see how well it works without the requirement of Government money, As a matter of fact, they would actually make money from selling the licenses. How many jobs would that create? A Million or More?
NOTE: Auctioning off existing bridges and roads would be a good way of bringing money into the Government (Federal, State and Local) to help pay down their debt.
b) NUCLEAR POWER CONSTRUCTION: Auction off permits to build nuclear facilities on existing and closed Military Bases, thus facilitating their permitting and getting around NIMBY problems. How many construction jobs would that create without any Government money being used? 300,000 to 500,000 to start?
c) Drill, Drill, Drill:
The USA has the world’s largest, untapped reserves along our shores and waters along our northern borders, which are about to be drilled by foreign nations. We have 300 million vehicles on the road and 250,000 service stations and there is no feasible way to replace all of that within 25 years, even if we had the money and all the necessary technology already existed. In the meantime, we can defeat all our major enemies, like Chavez, the mid-eastern tyrants, Putin and most of all, Iran.
If Bush had been able to pass an all out drilling program, we could not have done much about it because all available drilling rigs had already been contracted for. But right now, because of the worldwide Recession and the temporary drop in the demand for oil, we have a golden reprieve. We can now get all the drilling rigs we need to start a massive drilling program so that within 5 to 7 years, we would be pumping a minimum of 5 million additional barrels/day of our own oil. At $70/bbl., that comes to over $120 billion year, year in and year out. That is money that we would no longer be paying to foreigners. What would that do to our Trade Deficit and Balance of Payments Deficit? Plus, how much of that money would be going to our own Government in the form of taxes and royalties not to mention income taxes on all those high paying oil related jobs. And don’t forget corporate income taxes. If that new oil also dropped the price of oil, it would bankrupt Russia, Iran, and Venezuela. What would that do to Iran’s nuclear plans and all terrorist funding? With proper free market incentives, we would then have the time and money to develop alternate sources of energy. Since our energy needs, during a normal expanding economy, grows at 3% per year compounded, we will need all the energy we can get our hands on, especially if we don’t want to live under the threat of continuous brown outs.
NOTE: If we do not start drilling quickly, the window will close and at the first signs of economic recovery we will be back to $140 oil and above. In point of fact, the increases may have already started.
NOTE: China is already attempting to lock up all the oil and gas it can get its hands on all over the world, including Canada and the North Slope. Are we going to just sit and watch our country come under the thumb of China and Russia?
INCOME TAX REFORM
Income Tax Reform is the platform upon which we can build to solve our two main, long term problems of Social Security and Medicare. Trade and Budget Deficits get taken care of without lifting a finger in the normal course of our rejuvenated Free Market Economy.
Institute 20% Consumption Tax based on the Fair Tax Principle that would include a $10,000 per adult and $5,000 per child Negative Income Tax* for everyone earning $75,000 or less (a family of four gets $30,000). Apart from fairness, this is also a prerequisite to permanently solving our Social Security and Healthcare problems as well. In addition, it would go a long way to reducing the size of government by rationalizing a great many welfare programs.
* Negative Income Tax: Since more than 50 million people pay no income tax at all and everyone will now be paying the equivalent of a 20% Sales Tax on all purchases with absolutely NO exemptions or deductions. In the name of fairness and in lieu of creating additional welfare programs, the Government would mail out checks of $10,000 to all adults with social security numbers earning less than $75,000 and $5,000 to children under 18 years old.
HEALTH CARE REFORM
First and foremost, every healthcare provider must post a Menu of Services outside their door in plain sight, just like restaurants do. It must show a comprehensive cost for all services, which would also include a breakdown of specific services. Consumers could then just walk down the hall of a Medical Building and compare costs and services. The same would hold true for hospitals. We can’t expect an individual, who is sick, to start negotiating with his MD, even if he could get in to see him for that purpose. We would soon see who is cheaper, non-profit or for profit services. All individuals, including foreigners, would now pay the same for all services whether they are insured or not. Many people could now afford to self insure.
To encourage people to shop for services, we would replace our current system with a Medical Savings Account Plan and a very minimal Government paid Catastrophic Insurance plan that has a $15,000 annual deduction per person. The first $15,000 or $40,000 for a family would be paid out of their own pocket; the third party payer problem would then be eliminated. Since the first $15,000 that would be paid would be out of pocket money in their Medical Savings account, not only will the consumer shop around, but he will no longer demand tests and services that are not necessary. Every person would be mandated to contribute $2000/year out of their $10,000 negative income tax into their medical savings account, ($8,000/year for a family of 4 $5000 catastrophic Insurance) that would be invested in 6% zero coupon savings bonds and could be cashed and used for their own and family’s health care only. Upon death, any remaining money would go to their heirs. The plan would naturally by design be portable and each individual could buy private insurance plans, with all the bells and whistles they want to pay for, instead of the Government’s miniscule plan. This would drastically reduce Corporate Employee costs and raise salaries. It would also eliminate any corporate discrimination against older employees since they would no longer cost the company anything for age related benefits. This would drastically shift the Country’s Production Possibility Curve to the right and raise the entire country’s standard of living.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
If an individual, starting at 18, put $1,000 per year out of his $10,000 Negative Income Tax Rebate into an 8% zero coupon savings bond that matures at age 70, that would amount to well over $500,000. Within 50 years, the Government and companies would be completely out of the Pension and Health Care Business. In the process, poverty would be eliminated in America within 50 years as this money would also be passed on to the heirs upon the individual’s death. This is something that the 45 year Socialist War on Poverty and $12 trillion could not do.
By combining the Health Care and Social Security plans, a family of four would contribute $10,000 to their Health Care and Retirement out of a total Negative Income Tax of $30,000. This would leave the family a $20,000 base on which to build, thus eliminating the necessity of most welfare programs (except for special situations), while eliminating poverty in America forever. There are many other benefits, but I don’t want to confuse the issue now.
CORPORATE INCOME TAX REDUCTION
Reduce the Corporate Income Tax Rate to 25%, in conjunction with a 100% write-off on all investments, beginning in January 2010 to last for 7 years. Please consider that 35% of nothing is nothing, but 25% of something ends up being a lot more revenue to the Government. That, in conjunction with the elimination of the burden of healthcare and pensions (see proposals for Income Tax. Healthcare and Social Security reform), would make US companies the most competitive in the world by far. We would become the world’s first country of choice to start new companies and build new plants. This would create an easy 10 million jobs over the next 7 years. Outsourcing would now become something that other countries would have to worry about. We could say goodbye to unemployment and start looking for more qualified immigrants to fill all the millions of jobs that would open up.
That, my friends, is a CAPITALISTIC game plan to rebuild our country and reclaim our rightful place as number ONE in the world.
UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE
Aubie Baltin CFA, CTA. CFP. PhD (Economics)
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Answers will be given at the March 24, noon meeting.
It’s Not About Political Parties. It’s About Liberty
How can a “crazy” Californian and a “conservative” Georgian be friends? It’s simple – through the principles of ’98. In 1798, the John Adams administration signed into law that Alien and Sedition Acts, which made it a crime to publish “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against the government or its officials. In practice, it was used to quell the freedom of speech in dissent against the sitting administration.
In the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson responded:
“the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government”
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Time to Support Ed Lynch – DO SOMETHING NOW for YOUR Country
The South Florida 9-12 Project has endorsed Ed Lynch for Congress in district 19. Now is the time for its members to back up that endorsement with action.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Will Charlie Crist Ditch the GOP?
Two highly placed and independent sources, speaking strictly on background, tell me that Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to leave the Republican Party and run as an independent in the race for the U.S. Senate.
With Crist trailing Marco Rubio by 18 points in the latest polls, the Crist campaign has been in panic mode, launching attack after attack on the conservative Rubio.
Yesterday, the attacks reached a crescendo with the Crist campaign, and/or his disgraced Republican Party of Florida thug bootlickers,…
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You Can Make a Difference
My thoughts:
After reading the below article from Kitty Werthmann, I sat down and starting composing this letter, not sure why.
The last few times I have seen a play at The Kravis, I’ve thought of “The Sound of Music” – everyone quietly enjoying a production while something dreadful was happening to their country. It also reminds me of the illustration of putting a live frog in warm water and he is so comfortable, he won’t jump out as you turn up the heat!
During Christmas, I was asked why I was fearful (due to my comments about our country’s leadership and choices that are being made). I am not fearful for myself, nothing can come to me that hasn’t first passed through the nail-scarred hands. I am deeply concerned for my country, the USA that was established on Judea/Christian believes and the Word of God. I’m concerned that my children, and especially my grandchildren, will not enjoy the freedoms that my grandparents, parents, myself and earlier generations enjoyed and experienced.
About 10 years ago, I was convinced, as a Christian, I could not quietly watch as our country’s moral fabric was being torn to shreds. Church’s cannot hide behind the fear of loss of tax breaks and/or their generous congregation deciding not to be so generous. (When asking a church to hold a nonpartisan voter registration drive on the 4th of July, the response was, “No, it would offend members.”) If our churches are teaching the Word of God – they must teach the truth and arm their Christian Soldiers with their rights and the Truth.
Over and over again, through out history – one person has made a difference, for good or bad. You can make a difference for GOOD. It is past time to stand up for what you believe is right. Yes, you have more on your schedule than you can possibly achieve. Not to be an alarmist, there are plenty out there, but this could truly be the most important item on your blackberry. Take a few minutes, a few days a week, and learn about your country and community. Learn about our Founding Fathers. Learn about the Political Parties. Learn about our elected officials – at all levels. Do not let the enemy tell you that you can’t make a difference. You can.
To be honest with you, I am sick of politicians. Most promise everything and deliver nothing. It appears their number one objective is to get re-elected, earmarks, lies and power. I have learned over the years, is it doesn’t matter how suave and debonair they appear, what matters is their soul. Are they a man/woman of character and integrity? With whom have they surrounded themselves? What are their core values? Do they change their beliefs depending on polls? Are they running for election to serve you or to serve themselves? Do they answer your questions or do they “spin”. Ah, that means you have to be asking them questions. Guess what, you can ask questions. Take time to call, write and attend events where candidates are speaking. We must hold them accountable. They work for us, We are the People!
If you would like ideas on how to get started, please attend our meetings and we will get you educated and prepared to make a difference. I stand amazed, my parents were in high school during WWII. It wasn’t that long ago.
Let Freedom Ring!
Kitty Werthmann, 77, of Pierre, is president of the South Dakota Eagle Forum. She lobbies the state Legislature on family issues. She has lived in the United States since 1950 and has been a U.S. citizen since 1962.
“The TRUTH is true even if no one believes it. A LIE, on the other hand, is Not True, even if Everyone believes it.” anonymous
America, Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away
By: Kitty Werthmann (An Austrian who witnessed what took place under Hitler)
What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or read in history books.
I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily. The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted. We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group — Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler. We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed. After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.
Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage. Hitler Targets Education – Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children:
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education. Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had. My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy. Equal Rights Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men. Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service. Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers.. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.. Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna .. After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.. We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control. We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it. “Mercy Killing” Redefined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness. As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia. The Final Steps – Gun Laws: Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily. No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away.. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up. Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria .. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom. After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn’t; paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account. “It’s true….those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.. America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away “After America , There is No Place to Go”
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Allen West in First Round of NRCC “Young Gun” Candidate
Washington-The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced today that ten Republican candidates have reached ‘Young Gun’ status, the top tier of the Committee’s three-level Young Guns recruitment program. These candidates have reached the third and final step by establishing a clear path to victory through their ability to build a formidable campaign structure and achieve important goals and benchmarks.
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The True Obama Agenda
Subject: Cloward-Piven Government
Article from The American Thinker
by James Simpson – February 10, 2010
The TRUE Obama Agenda.
It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead America forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact.
In September of last year, American Thinker published my article, Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Part of a series, it connected then-presidential candidate Barack Obama to individuals and organizations practicing a malevolent strategy for destroying our economy and our system of government. Since then, the story of that strategy has found its way across the blogosphere, onto the airwaves of radio stations across the country, the Glenn Beck television show, Bill O’Reilly, and now Mark Levin.
The methodology is known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and we can all be grateful to David Horowitz and his ‘Discover the Networks’ for originally exposing and explaining it to us. He describes it as:
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two lifelong members of Democratic Socialists of America who taught sociology at Columbia University (Piven later went on to City University of New York). In a May 1966 Nation magazine article titled “The Weight of the Poor,” they outlined their strategy, proposing to use grassroots radical organizations to push ever more strident demands for public services at all levels of government.
The result, they predicted, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … For major economic reform at the national level.”
They implemented the strategy by creating a succession of radical organizations, most notable among them the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), with the help of veteran organizer Wade Rathke. Their crowning achievement was the “Motor Voter” act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 with Cloward and Piven standing behind him.
As we now know, ACORN was one of the chief drivers of high-risk mortgage lending that eventually led to the financial crisis. But the Motor Voter law was another component of the strategy. It created vast vulnerabilities in our electoral system, which ACORN then exploited.
ACORN’s vote registration scandals throughout the U. S. are predictable fallout.
The Motor Voter law has also been used to open another vulnerability in the system: the registration of vast numbers of illegal aliens, who then reliably vote Democrat. Herein lies the real reason Democrats are so anxious for open borders, security be damned.
It should be clear to anyone with a mind and two eyes that this president and this Congress do not have our interests at heart. They are implementing this strategy on an unprecedented scale by flooding America with a tidal wave of poisonous initiatives, orders, regulations, and laws. As Rahm Emmanuel said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
The real goal of “health care” legislation, the real goal of “cap-and-trade,” and the real goal of the “stimulus” is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to the government to control. Do not be deluded by the propaganda. These initiatives are vehicles for change. They are not goals in and of themselves except in their ability to deliver power. They will make matters much worse, for that is their design.
This time, in addition to overwhelming the government with demands for services, Obama and the Democrats are overwhelming political opposition to their plans with a flood of apocalyptic legislation. Their ultimate goal is to leave us so discouraged, demoralized, and exhausted that we throw our hands up in defeat. As Barney Frank said, “the middle class will be too distracted to fight.”
These people are our enemies. They don’t use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined, and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, Korea , Vietnam , and bush wars across the globe, and the Nazis we faced in World War II.
It is time we fully internalized and digested this fact, with all its ugly ramifications. These people have violated countless laws and could be prosecuted, had we the political power. Not only are their policies unconstitutional, but deliberately so — the goal being to make the Constitution irrelevant. Their spending is off the charts and will drive us into hyperinflation, but it could be rescinded, had we the political power. These policies are toxic, but they could be stopped and reversed, had we the political power. Their ideologies are poisonous, but they could be exposed for what they are, with long jail sentences as an object lesson, had we the political power.
Every single citizen who cares about this country should be spending every minute of his or her spare time lobbying, organizing, writing, and planning. Fight every initiative they launch. It is all destructive. If we are to root out this evil, it is critical that in 2010 we elect competent, principled leaders willing to defend our Constitution and our country. Otherwise, the malevolent cabal that occupies the government today will become too entrenched.
After that, all bets are off.
NRCC Announces Allen West is “On the Radar”
At the REC (Republican Executive Committee) meeting tonight, Chairman Sid Dinerstein reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) had announced LTC Allen West as an “On the Radar” candidate. This is the first step of its Young Guns program. The Young Guns program assist U.S. House candidates during their elections.
A quote from the allenwestforcongress.com website: “The NRCC is committed to working with Allen West as he continues to meet the rigorous goals of the Young Guns program,” said NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions. “With all that Allen West has accomplished in just a few short months, I am confident that he will be successful in his effort to win this seat for Republicans and keep the Democrats accountable for their reckless anti-jobs agenda.”
Allen West was greeted by the REC members with a standing applause. West acknowledged he has been recognized not only by the NRCC and over 2 million hits on YouTube but by the the other side. SEIU and ACORN will be getting involved. It’s time to stop being a cheerleader and to join the fight. LTC Allen quoted Plato, “Those who refuse to engage in politics will ruled by their inferiors.”
Go to allenwestforcongress.comand get involved NOW.
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RPOF in Turmoil
Under pressure for immediately favoring Gov Crist over Marco Rubio in the US Senate primary race and alleged mismanagement of party finances, on Jan. 5, 2010, Chairman of the Republican Party of FL, Jim Greer announced his resignation effective Feb. 20. On Jan. 8, Vice Chair Allen Cox also resigned from his position.
At tonight’s REC meeting, Sid Dinerstein announced that there are some calling for the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer to also resign.
Chairman Dinerstein said the RPOF is an embarrassment. RPOF Executive Director Delmar Johnson was receiving $400,000+ salary, three times more than the Governor’s pay. Greer and Johnson had made a secret contract. Not to mention, RPOF chartered a plane to D.C. for Senator LeMieux’s swearing in ceremony at the tune of $15,000.
Next week, at the RPOF executive committee meeting in Orlando, State Committee Woman Sharon Day or State Senator John Thrasher will be voted as a replacement to Jim Greer.
It should be an interesting meeting. If you are interested in attending, please contact Fran Hancock or Peter Feaman.