Take a Second

Take a second to think....

Take a second to think about taxation.  How much money is the government taking in.

Lets look at this.  The profits of the company that you work for are taxed.  Your wage is taxed by federal, state, local, and sometimes county governments.  This reduces the amount of money in your pocket.  On top of that you are taxed for everything that you buy.  You need gas for your car, it is taxed.  Pack of smokes, taxed.  Food on the table, taxed.  Clothes on your back, taxed.  You want to fly to visit relatives, taxed and fees.  Everything is taxed.   Your electric bill, your phone, your water....

And the fees.  You want to build a house or add on a deck, you need a permit.  You want to launch a boat into the river, you need a permit.  Get a drivers liscense, there is a fee.  Register you car.  Own a car.  Buy a car.   You want to take a shit in the woods, you might be fined.  Your property is taxed until the day you die.  You cannot own anything outright in the United States.  Even after you pay for your house, you have to pay property taxes for the rest of your life.  

If you do not pay, you will be fined, penalized, humiliated, or imprisioned.

And we are free?

We work to buy things with Monopoly money that is of no real value.  

Work, buy, consume, die.  

That's the new American Dream!

It is insane.  

A list of government agencies:

FBI
CIA
DOJ
IRS
SEC

FDA

DEA

ATF

TSA

DOJ

NSA

NASA

TREASURY

STATE DEPARTMENT

ARMY
NAVY

MARINES
AIR FORCE

NATIONAL GUARD

COAST GUARD

HOUSING AUTHORITIES

MUNICIPAL GOVERNEMENT

STATE GOVERNMENT

AOA

COUNTY GOVERNMENT

SECRET SERVICE

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

MINERAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE

PENNDOT

ODOT
VDOT

AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMISSION

PARDON ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

USPS

FUALL

OK, I made that last one up.

I could go on, and I'm sure that you can too.  

I'm sure that some of these agencies do fine work, but damn.

Actually, here is a list:

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/All_Agencies/index.shtml

I stumbled on this.  Not sure if it is legit yet, although I suspect that it is.  You be the judge and let me know.  It sounds plausible.  

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5823209513192072459&ei=AMYPStz2CYeergK4wJHpCw&q=comprehensive+annual+financial+report

It is all insanity.  Seriously.  Take a second.

The current Chairman of the House Financial Services Comittee

Just Sayin'

How does this happen? Coincidence? Naw.

The Hypocrisy is Astounding

GOP Leader Boehner Floor Speech Opposing Democrats' Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill

Mr. Boehner had no problem voting for the USA patriot act without reading it.

Ron Paul - Patriot Act - NOBODY READ IT!

Regarding the USA Patriot Act

Rep. Peter Defazio stated, "This bill is still warm. It just came off the Xerox machine. ... I go to my friends on the Committee on the Judiciary and ask them what is in it, and they said, `We cannot tell you; we do not know. Our copies are still warm in our hands, too.' '

You can find Mr. Boehner's name in the Yeas section on the Patriot Act vote.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml

Give me a break

True News 13: Statism is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix

The Mechanics of War

F'ing Disgusting

The ones who are right

Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)

Ron Paul has been talking about this for years

Someone predicted this economic collapse A year ago, who?
Ron Paul on the Economic Collapse!



Ron Paul and Peter Schiff were dead on, while the others who were dead wrong acted like they were crazy. Paul and company are predicting high inflation and a possible currency collapse if the United States continues to print money attempting to "bailout" the economy. I specifically like the stock picks by the various "experts" in the Peter Schiff clip.
Peter Schiff was Ron Paul's economic advisor.

Here are the latest predictions. 





Sounds crazy, right? Don't think so.  Don't be fooled into thinking it cannot happen just because conventional thinking is telling you otherwise.  "Outlandish" predictions always seem implausible until they happen, at which point everyone jumps on the band wagon so that they don't look like complete fools. This phenomenon is happening already.

Bears Stearns if fine (Jim Cramer)



Ships going down (Jim Cramer)



Cramer Meltdown

I feel sorry for Cramer. Seems like he got tricked too.

The things you own



Oh, never mind. Obama will save us.