Posted By5775 on August 01, 2004 at 23:45:10:

     Before any politician can run for public office they must be bonded or insured at a minimum of $1 million on a city level, $10 million on the state level, and $100 billion on a federal level.

     You wouldn't hire someone to roof your house if they weren't insured or bonded! These $ amounts could be adjusted by individual cities, counties, states, or the federal is the people of the corresponding entity so decide. Why would you allow someone to represent you through the White House, Congress, U.S. Senate, State Legislature, or any city, county, state, or federal branch of government without some kind of protection? The very people you elect to represent you should pass bills and laws which protect the U.S. taxpayers-citizens against any mis-representation, accidental or otherwise resulting in misappropriation of funds resulting in waste, fraud, theft, or influence due to campaign contributions, gifts through the Washington lobby, or any outside influence!

     It should be written in the constitution to protect the interest of We the People & America as a nation. The Vietnam war & now the war in Iraq with no exit plan or plans for natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina prove We the People cannot sit by and let our representatives fail with a safety net.

     As individuals we are forced to have insurance for our cars, homeowner insurance would be a costly mistake should some one break their neck on your doorstep. Why do we allow our representatives to enter into public office with the support of campaign contributors who expect & receive tax cuts in return which taxpayers absorb? Taxes individuals absorb which force property taxes up, individual income tax, sales tax, & most all the taxes we pay while the corporations which contribute to campaigns to  our representatives,  {pennies on the dollar} enjoy the luxury of tax cuts which turn into huge profits. How many of our representatives invest in companies who's stock rise due to those tax cuts?

     I don't know of any insurance companies that cover this but I'm sure if enough people backed an idea such as this we could convince Congress to pass such a law to enact some sort of financial security put down by any politician before they can run for office. Any insurance would not be taxpayer funded as this would defeat the purpose.

    If I'm not mistaken, many of our representatives are rich with millions of dollars in properties and other assets. Bush &Cheney are millionaires who could no doubt come up with enough $$$ to be bonded! It is ridiculous to believe any millionaire would run for public office while spending millions of his or her own $$$ on a campaign when the office they run for offers far less a year in salary. While it is true our representatives accumulate a retirement and health care unmatched by their employers this is not the motivating factor for public office.

     Campaign contributions and gifts through the Washington lobby play a significant roll.  How much $$$ would a corporation willing to donate $1,000,000 to the republican party while $500,000 to the democratic party in the same election stand to gain in profits and would that be a benefit to any Congressman or U.S. Senator who had knowledge of the benefits a corporation would secure through such tax cuts or incentives? Pennies on the dollar, the price paid through a democracy evolved into a democratic dictatorship while young Americans die in Iraq in the belief they are promoting democracy while un-American corporations such as Halliburton with political affiliations with the White House & several of our mis-representatives. The sons and daughters of those representatives are NOT in Iraq, they don't work for minimum wage which our representatives hold down in the interest of the same corporations which contribute!

     Idaho is a good example of why this idea should be supported by the taxpayers. Boise, Idaho's former Mayor Coles and his sidekick, unlucky Lyman were removed from office for misuse of public funds. As it turns out they were traveling around the country on tax $$$ while entertaining female co workers.

     The Idaho Governor as well as legislature have failed miserably costing the taxpayers millions of dollars. The Boise Tower and University Place are just two examples! While being promoted by these representatives the taxpayer are continuing to pay in legal and other ongoing expenses. State Senator Noble in the following scandal.

     The latest in scandals in Boise is a really good one, true colors by one of our mis-representatives. Kuna, State Senator Jack Noble introduces a bill to change the way the 300 foot distance between schools and liquor distributors is calculated. This would allow the Jacksmart store, Noble owns in Melba, ID., to sell liquor. Currently the distance is property line to property line and Noble’s bill would have it measured from building to building allowing Jacksmart to have a liquor license. This was brought to the attention of the world by Dan Popkey in the Idaho Statesman and eventually brought before the ethics committee at which time Noble LIED through his teeth. After further investigation it came to light that Noble owed more than $10,000 to the state in sales and use taxes and $934 in unpaid unemployment taxes. Later it came to light that Noble is fighting a bank’s efforts to foreclose on assets for allegedly defaulting on $724,412 in loans. I could go on but I think it is clear what is going on in Idaho.

     There is obviously a conflict of interest in the Idaho Legislature. Term limits ring a bell? How long are the American people going to continue to allow themselves to lose money by elected officials who fail miserably through gross, proficient  incompetence & self gain at the expense of the taxpayer?

    Noble resigned! The ethics committee didn’t have the stones to do their job and only censured Noble. After it became clear he would be expelled as 25 votes were amassed, with more than the two-thirds of the 35 member Senate needed Noble handed in his letter of resignation. What I find interesting is the attitude of some of Idaho’s Senators. Some comparisons to the U.S. House of Representatives were made: 22 cases in which U.S. representatives have been censured, selling of military academy appointments, assaulting another member, bribery, & payroll fraud.

     It’s pretty damn clear to this taxpayer that the Senators of Idaho are shirking their responsibility!  This entire process has made it clear, term limits are in the best interest of the citizens of Idaho who voted for term limits! Voted in three times and upheld by the courts yet repealed by Idaho's honorable representatives?

     This all comes back to full disclosure! We the People need to demand full disclosure by our representatives, who they accept campaign contributions from, gifts from the Washington lobby, tax those as the $20 tax for every $1 contributed idea suggest. Next an investigation into how they vote and how those votes apply to contributors as well as how they are invested in the market. Is there a conflict of interest and is there insider trading? Had Jack Noble been a little more patient he could have worked his way up and been in a position to really make the bucks. A state legislator is child’s play, a stepping stone to wealth and a place among the POWER ELITE! You blew it Jack and you opened the door as Nextrev will use this to help expose the truth about politics in America. That is if the American people have the stones to back these ideas. I DOUBT IT BECAUSE THAT WOULD GO AGAINST THE GRAIN! That would be like standing up for yourselves and we all know the America people have it better than anyone in the world. This is the greatest country in the world. If for just one minute the American people would realize they could have so much more, you know, like what you pay for in blood, sweat, $$$, and tears!

     We're losing more everyday. Jobs, health care, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, $$$ for education, $$$ for veteran's health care, and more yet our representatives live a life unparalleled in that they are compensated whether they fail U.S. or not. Great salary, health care, retirement which we are losing as a result of their failing.

 

Two Ideas posted by Linda E on May 29, 2004 at 16:09:09:

  The first idea I have and have been writing and researching about is to IMPEACH Mr. Bush. I do not understand how our governmental body could go through the process for Mr. Clinton when all he was being accused of was lying about a sexual indiscretion. Well Mr. Bush has lied about much more than that and yet our governmental body does nothing?

: The most important thing I think we need to do besides that is get rid of the electoral vote. If every American knew that their vote actually counted. You can bet your American bippy that everyone would be lining in to do just that.

: I keep thinking about our forefathers and what they did prior to the Revolutionary war... like say the Boston Tea Party. It was a means of deliberate resistance and it did indeed get the governments attention. What if every single person in American called in sick and didn't go to work for a day. If we all just stayed home, didn't drive anywhere, didn't spend any of our hard earned money. Just shut the country down. I mean it turn off your radios and tvs and just stay home. But alas, with all the letters I have written to my Senators, and while they tell me they share my concerns, the latest legislation passed proves otherwise. At least I am thinking and pondering and sharing ideas.

: Linda E.

Posted by 5775 on August 17, 2005

   Investigation into our representatives, who contributes to their campaigns, and full disclosure as to our representative’s investments and relationship to their votes in Congress and the U.S. Senate!

     Included in this idea would be a law against all tax incentives, city, county, state, or otherwise so corporations would choose a location for reasons other than those tax incentives which are absorbed by the people who don’t work for those corporations!

     Idaho Statesman, 8-10-05: Dan Popkey commentary. Kempthorne feeds at firms’ campaign troughs. Dan writes, As we learned in May when I reported Kempthorne bounced checks to his hairdresser, Kempthorne struggles to live on $98,500 salary & $54,000 housing allowance. In 2003, he charged $22,356 to the campaign, $33,169 in 2004, & $15,079 in the first six months of 2005, a total of $70,604.

   In the past decade, Idahoans have seen their total property taxes grow from less than $700 million to $1.1 billion. Income taxes raised $979 million, $878 million from individuals, $101 million from corporations!

     Property taxes: $461.3 million from owner-occupied residential homes. $327.2  million from commercial & industrial properties & equipment. $240.9 millions from rentals & other residencies not occupied by their owners. $50 million from utilities, railroads, & others with “operating property.” $47.4  million from agriculture. $10.6 million from timber. & $3.4 million from mining.

     I find it interesting that corporations, agriculture, timber, utilities, and all the other subsidized industry pay less in taxes while enjoying profits in the millions & billions as CEO salaries too often reflect. Contribute to campaigns, get tax cuts & incentives along with subsidies, then pay as little per hour wage as possible to the individuals who absorb the tax cuts & incentives, individuals pay the wages of the representatives who award these corporations tax cuts and incentives.

      Insider trading would be the conflict of interest I believe as damaging as any when it comes to our representatives. How do our representatives invest and do the companies they invest in contribute to campaigns or through the Washington lobby. America needs to do a very in depth investigation into our representatives, where they invest along with how each one votes on bills and laws & how these companies they invest in profit from those votes. Would Congress investigate and would they find anything? HELL NO!! What are the American people going to do about it? NOTHING???!!! “There’s nothing you can dooooo.” I can almost hear the laughter coming from the White House, Congress, U.S. Senate, & every industry in the nation making a fortune while we, {taxpayers} lose our ass paying for it all.

      Do terrorist have an ally in this democracy? Our President started a war while no doubt heavily invested in oil, making a fortune along with Cheney & corporate buddies at the expense of Americans dying in Iraq and paying for it all here in America.

      Tax incentives, local and federal government are all about tax incentives to bring manufacturing to where ever. While this may seem normal or business as usual simply because it’s done everyday it appears a little corrupt to this taxpayer. Who contributes to campaigns and who gives gifts such as vacations to our representatives? Corporations! When our representatives, local or federal give tax incentives so that businesses locate in the U.S. or a certain city what are the real benefits and who pays? Who absorbs the taxes when incentives are given to a corporation for coming to town? These companies and our mis-representatives spout out about job creation but what are the consequences?  

     Idaho Statesman: 8-7-05 Drug researchers leak secrets to Wall Street firms. Some firms gave key clients data and stock advice.

     This article makes it clear we have a problem. Trade secrets, just doctors and Wall Street? Sorry, it runs a little deeper. If doctors and financial groups are making $$$ in the market you better believe you representatives aren’t giving tax cuts and incentives just so you can have a job! Read on, the idea about drug research and your tax dollar idea should make the average taxpayer think. Your tax $$$ gets the ball rolling and then the research is handed over to drug companies like Bristol-Meyers.

     Idaho Statesman: 7-29-05, Bristol-Meyers profits up; AstraAeneca CEO retires. Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co.’s profit soared 91 percent in the second quarter helped by a one-time tax benefit, while sales growth helped push up earnings at rival drugmakers AstraZeneca PLC by 50% & GlaxoSmithKline PLC by 7%. Bristol-Meyers said it’s earnings rose to $1 billion, or 50 cents a share, in the April-June period from $527 million, or 27 cents a share, a year earlier.

     91%, give me a break! Who made money on this scam? Tell me it wasn’t any of my representatives. This is too easy to track, too easy to investigate. If I weren’t working 55 to 60 a week driving truck for the dairy industry which is subsidized up the wazzoo with tax $$$ while I write of waste and what looks like scam after scam in waste, kickbacks, transportation, & warehousing with pictures of  dairy products sitting next to garbage on 100 degree days & in contaminated trailers I would do an investigation myself!

     Idaho Statesman, 8-16-05 Price of wholesale drugs rises twice as fast as inflation. Pharmaceutical industry says AARP uses ‘fuzzy math.’

     Recently the CEO of Micron, Steve Appleton in Boise, ID., made the pitch to local government for tax incentives or Micron may locate in Europe or Asia. American taxpayers are fighting terrorism all over the world yet these companies would suggest they move out of country if they don’t get tax incentives to stay. The same Americans who pay the taxes these un-American companies evade are fighting terrorist, dying to make America and the rest of the world a safer place. Why would any American support a corporation that would locate out of country for profit if they don’t get tax incentives which that same American taxpayer absorbs while fighting terrorism?

     Every penny every taxpayer in this nation spends goes to job creation just the same as Appleton’s claim. I buy gas, it creates jobs in that industry which has reported profits by Exxon up to 44%. State workers with the dept. of roads have jobs due to the same spending and it flows throughout the nation in other related fields. I buy bread, milk, food of any kind and it crates jobs throughout the agricultural industry which as a taxpayer my tax dollar supports through subsidies. Do I need to go on?

      Do you suppose terrorist see the irony or unpatriotic profiteering by these U.S companies? Do terrorist love the allies they have in U.S. corporations who bleed the American taxpayer while sending U.S. to war? Do terrorist love the allies they have in our mis-representatives? This is a double edged blade for American taxpayers, we can’t win. We work for companies who buy our representation and if they can’t make enough money they leave the country which in turn hurts America again by taking jobs and money with them. We buy the products these companies produce which translates into profit for these companies. Outsourcing promoted by our mis-representatives. We support the nation through taxes we pay, including taxes these companies don’t pay, do the work, buy the products, pay our mis-representatives, and in all reality prostitute ourselves out to the same people and corporations who are ripping us off.  We send our loved ones to fight and die so these companies can exist and make billions of dollars.

     Idaho Statesman, 3-30-05, Micron earnings up, employees to get bonuses.

     Recently Micron went begging the Idaho legislature for tax breaks, incentives or they may not build a new facility in Boise, ID.  Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron in Boise made the pitch shortly before 3-3-05 when this article came out knowing Micron was predicting a 14 cent per share increase which actually turned out to be 17 cents a share, or $118 million according to this article.

     Now you have to ask yourself WHO has shares? Does the governor? State Legislators? Employees? Steve Appleton???!!! Other Micron Officials???  Read on.

    Just after legislature passes the bill Micron announces a bonus to employees, $12 million worldwide! Micron’s  11,000 Treasure Valley employees could get bonuses averaging more than $600 which could help the Treasure Valley economy? Idaho chief economist Mike Ferguson predicted some of that bonus money would find it’s way into the retail sector of the local economy. I wonder how much MORE the other half a million people living in the Treasure Valley will have to pay in property taxes to offset Micron’s buy out of our representatives who WE PAY-THEY PAY OFF???

     I could go on forever but would anyone catch on. Insider trading by our representatives in return for tax incentives and tax breaks, taxes We the People absorb while going to war based on lies. War in which our own president and vice president promoted based on lies and then gave no bid contracts to corporations they either once worked for or are invested in. Tax incentives and tax breaks to corporations that contribute to the campaigns, {both parties}to ensure their man wins the election. Where does your president and vice president invest their money? Wouldn’t be in companies who not only contributed to campaigns, sent your representatives on vacation through the Washington lobby, or gave information as to how stock would do should tax breaks or incentives came to be would it? Maybe America needs a full blown investigation.

     I once read that Alan Greenspan doesn’t invest in the market to avoid the conflict of interest it would pose. His wife invests in the market but not the chairman of the Federal Reserve. How is it that our representatives, including the president and vice president are allowed to invest and if they do invest why aren’t We the People demanding full disclosure? If our representatives are making money in the market after giving tax breaks and incentives to companies they’re invested in while taxpayers who aren’t invested in these companies absorb the taxes evaded through this insider trading We need to have that investigation!!!

     Micron isn’t the only company benefiting from the tax incentives, all told the tax incentives to billionaires adds up and We the people absorb those taxes! Chris Thompson of Nampa, ID. has the right idea as he wrote in an editorial.

      Micron, go to Korea! Thompson points out that these large businesses are resource hogs-water, sewer, power, landfill, and millions of vehicle miles over inadequate local road systems. Citizens get shorted on capacity and later we have to develop more capacity to serve our private needs.

     Corporate America has a much larger responsibility than it’s own bottom line, no matter what they say. If they can’t make it on merit, then they failed. That goes for Micron, Simplot, and the government all sacking the American consumer hard for profits/taxes. The limited local resources have been inadequate for everyone for years, with no infrastructure improvements and reservoirs empty every year. This is playing too close to the line from our leadership.

     How large are Boise and Southern Idaho going to have to be before these vitally important needs are addressed? If Mr. Appleton has his way, it’ll be a lot longer.

     It’s good to see someone who cares a little bit about the community in which he lives and knows the politicians and un-American corporations don’t give a damn about U.S.!!! I only hope Chris finds this book and gets on Nextrev. in support of ideas I know he would agree with. As far as I’m concerned all the corporations who don’t like America and can’t make it without begging and placing the tax burden on the same people who go to the wars based on lies by the same representatives who give tax incentives while investing in those corporations. They can all go to Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, China or hell for that matter because they would send America to hell along with the American people through their greed!!! Go then Micron, you'll be replaced & we’ll elect real Americans who will tax you to death should you want to import your product back into America!

End all retirement for past and present government representatives. They aren't willing to save Social Security and the
only way they will is if We The People put them in a positions of saving their own retirement as it will be Social Security!
Repay all the $ borrowed from Social Security with the 50% of taxes saved from ideas.

1. About $1.4 trillion was counted in the trust fund and OWED to Social Security by the government in 2003.
2. Social Security's projected shortfall over the next 75 years is $3.5 trillion.
3. The Social Security Office neglected to state in this letter just how much gov. owed Social Security at this time or just how gov. plans to pay back the money it owes!!! Is the money gov. owes included in the $7 trillion deficit and if so why NOT??? Does the U.S. gov. use the same creative bookkeeping Enron did and are the American people being misled as were the employees of Enron who lost their savings?

 

my 2 ideas

Posted ByBilly on June 03, 2004 at 01:21:24:

1) Nothing will change in this country till we terminate our relationship with the zionists. Confront the Christian Right with the Karaite Jews who hold to the Tanach (the God inspired OT) who emphatically reject zionism and consider the nation state of Israel to be illegal. The zionists use the Talmud (traditons of man). I don't think the rapture crowd knows this (Taalmud v Ot) and it should make a difference to them.

2) Get everybody to agree to not show up to vote!

The Impending Crash

Posted By Glen on June 03, 2004 at 01:19:55:

While our government and the ultra rich manipulate the stock market, the working man (or woman - must remain PC) is about to see another Enron-style crash in his hard-earned 401K. The baby boomers are retiring and the transfer of wealth is taking place. Our future, if the present course remains true, is bleak. Mounting national and personal debt are financing a paper mirage that grows thinner each day. The great depression that began soon after the stock market crash of 1929 will be paled by the economic nightmare that lingers over the near horizon. The government has used the interest rate reductions, war and other economic stimulus to push the problem into the future and thus force a future administration to deal with the mess. We are all to blame for allowing our elected officials to patch up problems now without regard for the future consequences. At some point we are going to have to face the crisis. And at some point we are going to have to change our ideology and doctrines to make decisions not just for today but for tomorrow.

Problems to work on immediately

Posted By Mimi on June 03, 2004 at 01:16:29:

Problem one: The corrupt voting machines. Who cares how the people vote as long as
they get to count them.

Problem two: Why did NORAD fail on 9/11 and why was the head of NORAD promoted
instead of court-martialed?

87 billion dollars

Posted By Jose Romero on June 03, 2004 at 01:13:43:

It just really pisses me off to see that our government can come up with 87 billion dollars for a shit hole country. When there are millions of people in this country with out health insurance, jobs, a decent education and a million of other problems which are stacked up in a pile and forgotten. Now its starting to stink and people are noticing. Don't be afraid to speak your mind! I WILL NOT BE QUIET ANYMORE!

 

Re: 87 billion dollars

Posted By Peter on June 03, 2004 at 01:14:54:

In Reply to: 87 billion dollars posted byJose Romero on June 03, 2004 at 01:13:43:

: It just really pisses me off to see that our government can come up with 87 billion dollars for a shit hole country. When there are millions of people in this country with out health insurance, jobs, a decent education and a million of other problems which are stacked up in a pile and forgotten. Now its starting to stink and people are noticing. Don't be afraid to speak your mind!!! I WILL NOT BE QUIET ANYMORE!!!

you're right

Posted Bysky on June 03, 2004 at 01:12:58:

You're right. No one speaks out because they are scared. It's sad. I wonder where the true men are, like in centuries past who would rise up and do something when situations get out of control like this. Like our forefathers and the Boston Tea Party. They risked life and limb. But now our men are too busy watching football and other sports and sitting in front of the TV, totally brain dead after spending long hours slaving in the corporate system I guess. I hope some of them come out of the TV induced coma soon or all will be lost.

 

 

Posted by 5775 on 8-17-05

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: $20 TAX ON EVERY $1 CONTRIBUTED!!!

     Tax campaign contributions and all gifts from corporate un-America and the rich who buy our representation through the Washington lobby $20 for every $1 contributed or gifts such as vacations. This may not stop the sell out of America but we may as well set a price on our representation. Who do those politicians work for?

     Idaho Statesman, 11-18-04: Counties want to limit aid to illegal immigrants.

     This article makes it obvious that our representatives are failing and have been failing far too long when it comes to our nations borders. There are too many miles of border to patrol, that’s the line our representatives use to cover their loyalty to campaign contributors. The Idaho Association of Counties is working on a bill for next year’s legislative session that would allow county governments to reject applications for indigent medical care or reimbursement when they are made by undocumented immigrants.

     How stupid is this? How many years have the American taxpayers been footing the bill for illegal immigration. Wasn’t the WTC attack bad enough along with the promotion of illegal immigration by our mis-representatives to create cheap labor for campaign contributors? Now the fact that we’ve NEVER had any legislation preventing benefits and services for illegal immigrants adds to the 9/11 failures by our representatives. If our representatives were so irresponsible to let our borders open I would have thought they would have had some laws against allowing our taxes to take care of every illegal immigrant who needs health care while bleeding the taxpayers to death. Health ins. cost and prescription drug cost out of control, 45.8 millions Americans without health insurance. How many of our representatives take $$$ in campaign contributions from drug companies? What kind of person accepts $$$, a fantastic salary from their employers and makes a fortune doing the worst possible job by promoting illegal immigration, outsourcing, allowing 9/11 by doing nothing when the warning are brought forward years earlier, and then goes to war blowing Iraq to hell based on lies???

     The bottom line here is that our mis-representatives are failing, have been failing for years and not only have NO ideas as to how to stop illegal immigration or cover cost created by it but are profiting by it! These so called representatives have created this immigration problem along with the un-American corporations who contributed to their campaigns and sent them on nice vacations because they didn’t want to pay a living wage, promoted illegal immigration to the point it has become a burden on the American taxpayer whose jobs were stripped in favor of those illegal immigrants !!! It’s way past time for those who are responsible to foot the bill!

      Joseph W. Felts has opinion about NAFTA and other free trade agreements as written in editorials upcoming but what good are they. What good does it do to have that opinion, write an editorial, call your representative when your representation can & has been bought?

     If anyone reading this doesn’t have the intelligence to get online and support this idea, send email to the White House & your representatives referring too this site then I suggest you send information allowing a direct deposit from your payroll to these mis-representatives as it would save a lot of hassle. They sure would appreciate it if you just send your money, quit whining, bend over, & take it like a man!   Terrorist would also enjoy the support in financing their cause!

     It’s finally happening, too late but they’re trying.  Minutemen, www.minutemanproject.com  will try to plug holes in U.S. border! It’s almost unbelievable that after all the years of job loss and tax $$$ lost that these people would finally get together and try to stop illegal immigration. I hate to break it to them but they are wrong! Not wrong in what they’re doing or trying to do but wrong in the way they are going about stopping illegal immigration. Just think for a second as to why we have illegal immigration and who brought it on. The rich, corporate un-America and our mis-representatives! If the Minutemen want to do something about illegal immigration go to the source of the problem. Going to the border won’t stop it. The profit from illegal immigration will drive the flow just like illegal drugs. How long has America had a war on drugs? Stop it in Arizona and it will move to New Mexico, stop it in New Mexico and it will move to California. These 500, 1,000, or however many people, minutemen, would be time & money ahead to get on Nextrev., support this idea and or go to Washington and start something. Protest and bring others from all across the nation on board. Turn that 500 into 5,000, 5,000,000, and make the rich who created this problem & our mis-representatives who sold out the American taxpayers pay in other ways. Cut their pay and retirement!  Make those responsible pay for a solution and restore good paying jobs to Americans!!!

     I respect their ideas and plan but they can’t win. They’ll waste time & money and never get the results they want while corporate un-America will continue to promote illegal immigration because it saves them a fortune and our representatives won’t help because it isn’t in their best interest either. What’s best for We the People isn’t what’s best for the power elite and the power elite have a damn site more influence in Washington than We the People!

   

     Idaho Statesman, 7-11-05, Vasquez’s latest tactic could set trend. If using RICO Act helps stem illegal immigration, others could try it. Sue local businesses that hire illegal immigrants, using a federal law that was created to fight the Mafia.  RICO-{Racketerring Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act.}

     This taxpayer finds it damn strange that not one of our representatives in the White House, Congress, the U.S. Senate, state legislators, or the INS has come up with this idea. I guess if I were taking campaign contributions and gifts from the corporations who hire illegal immigrants I would be a little reluctant to suggest suing my contributors.  If I were also being paid a fine salary along with health care and that fine retirement as mentioned earlier I might also be a little reluctant to bring this up also as it would spoil the other very lucrative part of the equation I have going for myself. Corporations who I invest in through the stock market & who I’ve made a fortune in the stock market on wouldn’t be very appreciative and I would be losing $$$. Who cares about those taxpayers, idiots!

     Well guess what, I think the gig is finally up! If the American people have the stones! People dumb enough to say something stupid like, “there’s nothing you can do” or “it’s worked for over two hundred years” won't get it done. We the People will continue to lose our ass & the world now knows, it’s all out in the open. Republicans & Democrats along with their corporate buddies can explain it to U.S.! Lie if you want, lie to the taxpayers, lie to yourselves, lie to the world, lie to your wives, but don’t lie to me! I Know what is going on & I’m not about to fall for any lies as the book is written & I’m standing on my experience as an American taxpayer who has paid for this crap for the past 30 plus years. I watched my parents struggle through life raising seven kids and I’ve watched this entire country struggle. Vietnam killing 58,000 Americans, then struggle through one scandal after another while the American people still say, “there’s nothing you can doooooo!” Bullcrap! I’m doing it and in the Nextrev. book,  America: Taking on the Corporation & The Best Representation Money Can Buy. In the epilogue of America: Empire,  I’ll print the first few pages of the next book, you’ll find it entertaining and interesting as I stand up to the corporation I work for! I won’t be working for this company long as corporations can’t have someone willing to stand up to their abusive bullshit. Power trip, control freaks who brown nose their way up the corporate ladder abuse the American taxpayer,{employees} through our employment while our representatives stand by and allow it. I won’t tolerate this kind of disrespect and through these books and Nextrev., with the help of the American people we’ll set this country back on track!

 

The WasteBasket: A Weekly Bulletin on Government Waste   Vol. VII No. 5 February 1st, 2002 IT IS TIME FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM Anyone serious about cutting wasteful spending and subsidies should support reforming our campaign finance laws. This is a leading way to reduce the influence that wealthy special interests have over Washington. The heart of this reform is limiting the impact of "soft money" on elections. Not directed to one specific candidate, each year millions of dollars are donated by corporations, unions and wealthy individuals to the national and state party organizations and on independent issues advertising campaigns. The current soft money system benefits only the special interests and punishes both middle-income and lower-income Americans. Soft money is at the core of the corporate welfare giveaways that cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The pernicious influence of big money permits special interests to advance their agendas in Congress and at the White House -- too often at the expense of ordinary taxpayers. Over the past several decades, the use of soft money contributions has snowballed out of control. Special interests often spread money around to all sides so that they can guarantee their voice in the legislative process regardless of who wins the election or which party holds a majority in Congress. A quick look at the soft money contributions during the 1999-2000 election cycle reveals that 980 organizations gave $100,000 or more to the Democratic and Republican parties. Countless special interests hedged their bets by contributing equally to both parties. For example, Enron, whose political influence has come under serious scrutiny of late, gave $532,565 to the Democrats and $1,138,990 to the Republicans. Northwest Airlines, who has recently knocked on Congress' door asking for a bailout contributed just short of $1 million dollars, splitting it evenly between the Democrats and Republicans. These contributions buy special interests a disproportionate amount of influence over the lawmaking process. At the very least, a $100,000 check does an excellent job at opening the door to a one-on-one meeting with a powerful lawmaker during which special interests can advocate irresponsible spending. Each year, industries benefit from billions of dollars in handouts from the federal government. The energy sector contributed nearly $65 million in individual, PAC and soft money donations to federal candidates and parties in 1999-2000. Coincidentally, energy legislation passed in the House in 2001 included $62 billion in subsidies to these same corporations that financed the campaigns of the lawmakers who wrote the subsidies into law. During the 2000 election cycle, agribusiness made over $20 million in soft money investments, and stood to receive more than $170 billion over 10 years from the Farm Bill passed by the House last year. That's a better investment return than an Enron executive selling off their options. Last year the Senate passed a landmark campaign finance reform bill, which is a positive step toward limiting soft money contributions. On January 24, the final four signatures were added to a discharge petition to force House leadership to stop blocking campaign finance reform legislation from coming to a vote on the floor. This step brought our country closer than ever to real campaign finance reform. Reforming our campaign finance system to stop wealthy corporations and individuals from having a disproportionate amount of influence is long overdue. Passing a strong campaign finance reform bill that limits soft money contributions is a step in the right direction.

 

www.whitehouseforsale.org

     Look at this site and do the numbers. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? Why? The president of the United States of America can do more for anyone willing to contribute than any old ghostbuster! This & the following information is off the White House for sale site, you decide if it’s fact and if so would a $20 tax on every $1 contributed do anything to ease the burden on the American taxpayer who is absorbing every penny evaded by the people and corporations including foreign interest who buy our representation through contributions.

     The next pages include a partial list of Super Rangers, contributors, & other information about breaks given to special interest. Give me a break, I pay 40% and more of gross income but as a U.S. citizen I have to watch my government sell me out to anyone with the $$$ to buy my employees who I pay very well! The next few pages add to the situation. If www.whitehouseforsale.org  is a legitimate site and the numbers are fact We the People need to get on line and support them & a $20 tax on every $1 contributed!!! Look at the partial list of bundlers??? Bundlers my ass, liars, cheats, and thieves! That includes Bush and Kerry!

     Contributing to both parties as I have pointed out before, in an election to ensure their horse wins! If that fact doesn’t tell the American taxpayer something I guess nothing will. Why would anyone contribute $2,300,000 to Kerry and $6,100,000 to Bush as Elected Officials/Civil Servants did? Does the fact that elected officials and civil servants, our employees if I’m not mistaken contribute to presidential candidates tell the taxpayer anything?

     It makes this taxpayer wonder if my tax dollar is being contributed by my elected officials & civil servants to my elected officials, including the president to ensure higher wages, health care, & retirement for those employees while they piss away all the same pay & benefits, Social Security, Medicare, outsource jobs, jobs lost to illegal immigration, and so on for their employers-US?!

     It appears obvious that our politicians, all the way to through the White House are giving away everything We the People are dumb enough to let them! We do nothing while being taken, worse, we send young Americans to die while the power elite profit!

Bush Rewards Rangers and Pioneers with Recess Appointments

Throughout his first term in the White House, President Bush has consistently rewarded his biggest financial supporters with special favors, insider access and prized federal appointments at home and abroad. Last Friday, President Bush quietly appointed major fundraisers as ambassadors to the Bahamas and Estonia as well as to two positions on the board of directors of the Inter-American Foundation.

The four Rangers and Pioneers were among 20 “recess appointments” announced by the president on July 30. By making these appointments while Congress is not in session, Bush bypasses the Senate confirmation process. All the appointees will serve until the end of 2005.

According to analysis by Public Citizen, nearly one of every five of Bush’s elite fundraisers in the 2004 or 2000 elections has received a presidential appointment. At least 173 Rangers and Pioneers (or their spouses) received appointments ranging from jobs in the executive branch to positions on federal advisory boards to spots on the Bush-Cheney transition team. This tally includes four cabinet secretaries and 29 ambassadors.

 

Bush Appointees Gut Air Quality Rule and Give Congress

False Information about the Consequences

The Bush administration has gone to great lengths, even so far as giving false information to Congress, to gut a clean air regulation opposed by electric utilities – an industry that funneled $4.8 million into Bush’s 2000 campaign, according to Public Citizen’s new report EPA’s Smoke Screen: How Deception of Congress, Campaign Contributions and Political Connections Gutted a Key Clean Air Rule.

Documents and discussions with former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials reveal that Bush appointees made untrue statements to two Senate committees when asked if a weakened New Source Review (NSR) rule was expected to jeopardize lawsuits against electric utilities accused of modifying coal-fired plants in violation of NSR. Contrary to what senators were told, EPA staffers had concluded that the new rule would undercut enforcement cases that had the potential to reduce air pollution from  U.S. electric utilities by 50 percent annually.

As early as May 1999, the electric utility industry’s trade association had urged members to make bundled donations to the Bush fundraising machine. That arm-twisting bore fruit in August 2003, when the EPA issued a new NSR rule that could shield electric utilities from billions of dollars in fines and compliance costs at their coal-fired plants.

 

 

 

 

Bush Profits from the Medicare Drug War

In the final push for Medicare prescription drug legislation, the pharmaceutical industry, HMOs and related interests spent more money and hired more lobbyists in 2003 than ever before, according to The Medicare Drug War, a new report by Public Citizen. The pharmaceutical and managed care industries spent a combined $141 million last year. Drugmakers and HMOs hired 952 individual lobbyists in 2003 – nearly half of whom had "revolving door" connections to Congress, the White House or the executive branch.

Drug industry and HMO executives and lobbyists also rank among President Bush’s elite fundraisers. Twenty-one executives and lobbyists achieved "Ranger" or "Pioneer" status. These Rangers and Pioneers have collected at least $3.4 million for Bush so far. In addition, two of John Kerry’s biggest backers were lobbyists on the drug industry payroll in 2003.

Corporate Cronies

The Bush administration, on behalf of some of its biggest financial backers, has worked to delay and debilitate a reform measure that would hold CEOs and corporate boards more accountable to their shareholders.

On October 14, 2003, after a series of corporate scandals, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally introduced the so-called shareholder access rule, a modest reform measure that would make it easier for concerned investors to place their own nominees on a company’s board of directors. More than a year later, the rule still hasn’t been approved by the SEC.

Fifty-three senior executives from corporations opposed to the rule qualified as “Rangers,” “Pioneers” or “Super Rangers” – the honorary titles given to big-money bundlers who have collected at least $200,000 or $100,000, respectively, for the Bush campaigns or $300,000 for the Republican National Committee (RNC). These rainmakers personally rounded up at least $8.3 million – probably much more – for Bush campaign efforts in 2000 and 2004.

     If these people, CEOs, corporations, & politicians We elect and pay very well to sell U.S. out through corporate influence worked half as hard at making the economy work for We the People, save Social Security, Medicaid, make health care affordable, keep prescription drug cost down, and so on We the People would have more money to spend on the economy resulting in profits for these dead beat companies. Un-American corporations who have all but eliminated the American work ethic for easier $$$ through the corruption of our political system. These companies would see all the profits they need if they quit cheating the taxpayers who pay the elected representatives who We pay very well! Corporations and elected officials who take an oath to this country yet America is in a war based on lies so these companies can make billions more, not only off the America taxpayer but the very countries they claim to be saving from themselves. The world is not as stupid as the American people, they can see the truth as they are not so close and they can see the manipulation the American people are lulled into through the very democratic form of government we would shove down the throats of others.

     I’ve written quite a bit about trucking milk and other products from one state with the same products back and for between each other. Does it occur to anyone in this country, while the U.S. is the largest consumer of oil, {while at war in what many believe is all about oil} that we have allowed the transportation industry to all but eliminate the rail system in favor of trucking? A rail system which could haul  millions of tons of product from one end of the country to the other and back while eliminating thousands of trucks form a highway system overloaded with unnecessary hauling if managed in an organized, efficiently run system rather than profit for corporate un-American sell out of the American people by our employees, {representatives.}

     The government of this nation is controlled by corporate un-America to the point we are at war half way across the world while these corporations who buy our elected officials, {White House all the way down to local government} can profit and do so at the expense of the American people who are literally dying in Iraq, patriotically???

 

Abolish The Federal Reserve

Posted ByDenise M. DiPasquale on June 04, 2004 at 13:55:33:

Abolish the Federal Reserve which has a strangledhold on Americans and American wealth.

The Federal Reserve is NOT a government agency but a private entity owned by a few very wealthy families and their practice of fractional reserve banking has put a choke hold on ordinary Americans.

Usuary interest rates keep them fat and rich and ordinary Americans in poverty. We don't need the Federal Reserve - we don't need usuary interest rates.

I Say It's Time for Folks To RISE UP in the name of Righteousness!

Posted ByRC on June 04, 2004 at 13:54:56:

I know that not everyone believes in God. I don't have a problem with that. We each have that right in this country, to believe in whatever faith we choose, or to choose not to believe in anything at all.

But as a Christian, as someone who believes in & follows Jesus Christ, I get more & more pissed off every day at the so-called Religious Right, so I'm calling them out here & now.

Conservative Christians, who have dominated nearly all public discussion of faith & God in this nation for the last 2 decades, whose representatives occupy our Congress & Senate, whose pundits can always manage to get their faces on t.v. to complain about QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY or other equally meaningless aspects of America’s leisure viewing habits, who are forever pointing their judgmental fingers at anyone whose behavior they regard as 'sinful' or 'ungodly' -- none of these so-called Christian leaders have said A SINGLE WORD about the wickedness in high places that is rapidly leading to the economic collapse of this country. The Pat Robertsons haven't said boo against the greedy bastards at Enron who nearly bankrupted CA by manipulating electricity prices last year. The Tony Perkins/FRC crew hasn't spoken a word about the demons running WorldCom, who put thousands of people out of jobs & destroyed their pension funds (ditto for Enron on those counts as well). If these robber-baron corporations ever actually get fined, the politicians in Washington will simply pass laws that allow them to write off their fines as business expenses. The rich White men who did this should be in prison, but to date, they are still free even though they are de facto criminals; “Even a child is known by his deeds, by whether what he does is pure & right” (Proverbs 20-11). Yet no one in the Christian community has stood up to denounce them.

None of these so-called Christian cronies of Bush’s has called him out for what is about the be the largest single transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history, once Congress hands him $87 billion of OUR MONEY -- YOUR MONEY!! -- which Bush will then to pass on to Bechtel, Kellog, Brown & Root & Dick Cheney’s old employer Haliburton to ‘rebuild iraq.’. (BTW, according to the Congressional Research Service, Haliburton has already overcharged the U.S. guvamint $250 million for gas purchased from foreign countries for distribution in Iraq. Yeah, that’s the way them Texas good ol’ boys do thangs. You can read more about it here: http://www.commoncause.org/action/action.cfm?artid=85&topicid=17 ) ALL of these companies were MAJOR COMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS s who paid Bush’s way into the Whitehouse & paid his cronie’s way into the House & Senate, so they could make sure that $87 billion gets approved.

WAKE UP, AMERICA!! 9-11 WAS NO ACCIDENT -- it was the power elite's opening salvo in their final war against the American people & poor people all over this planet! 9-11 was Bush's justification for all the steps he & our so-called leaders have taken to hijack our constitutional rights, then rob us blind, all under the guise of "National Security/the war on terrorism/rebuilding Iraq/making the world safe for decocracy”.

And the corporate-controlled media merely served as Bush's message-bearers, banging the drum in lockstep rather than questioning the status quo & reporting on what was happening behind the scenes. Rather than serving as the Watchdog of Government that the press was created to be.

It’s all of a piece, you see. Every time you turn on the news, another huge corporation announces plans to lay off thousands of workers, so it can ship those jobs overseas, while unemployed American’s are facing financial ruin. And these companies are NOT in financial difficulty – THEY HAVE BEEN ENORMOUSLY PROFITABLE FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS! Sheer greed is the only justification for their actions. And our Congress, rather than fining corporations for every job they send abroad, allows them to import foreign workers under H-2A visas so they can take the jobs that should be going to Americans!

Do you think all this things come to be by accident? It’s all of a piece. Call it NWO, call it the Illuminati, call it the Power Elite – it’s all the same scheme. And it’s about to roll over all of us like a big-ass Humvee.

God warns against such avariciousness repeatedly in the scriptures:
“He who impresses the poor to increase his riches & he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.” (Proverbs 22:16)

And God admonishes Christians to be at the ready to fight against such evil: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (Ephasians 6:12-13)

Yet these so-called Christian leaders don’t seem to have a word to say about the “rulers of the darkness’. And it pisses me off, big time. I say it's time for folks to RISE UP IN THE NAME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Actually, Bill Moyers interviewed someone the other night who says it much more eloquently than I ever could. You can read that interview here:

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_hough.html

Posted ByJoe Sixpack on June 04, 2004 at 13:57:11:

1. IF 90% OF ORDINARY TAX-PAYERS REFUSE TO PAY IN 2003, WE WILL HAVE A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION-THE GOV. WILL BE FORCED TO LISTEN.

2. IF 90% OF THE POPULATION IS ORGANIZED IN EVERY STATE WE CAN END THE POWER OF THE LOBBY IN WASHINGTON. HOW? BY CAMPAIGNING AGAINST SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES IN EVERY STATE THAT REFUSES TO REPRESENT THE VOTERS INTEREST.

 

 Posted by 5775: 9-18-05

END AUTOMATIC PAY RAISES FOR OUR REPRESENTATIVES!!! www.cagw.org

Posted by 5775:9-18-05

SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY

     In 1983  Social Security tax was increased to ensure solvency, every penny of the $1.5 trillion raised through that tax has been BORRWED & spent by our representatives. Social Security is suppose to be a trust fund yet there is not one cent in an account accruing interest.  This idea would benefit everyone who posts an idea or follow up on an idea as any money saved by any idea accepted would contribute to Social Security. This fund is suppose to be some sort of bonds, treasury bonds, but what are they worth? What is the dollar worth when it’s value is dropping around the world? The world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and our economy!

 

     Maybe if enough people signed on to file a class action law suit against our government employees, past Presidents, Congress, U.S. Senate who have been in office from the time Social Security funds were first tapped into, including the $1.5 trillion from the 1983 tax increase we could save Social Security. End all retirement due to those who failed and they could collect Social Security instead of the retirement funds they get, the retirement portfolio Dubya compares with his privatization scam!

                

Posted by 5775: 9-18-05

     PUT A CAP ON CREDIT CARD INTEREST RATES! 6% with 1% going into an account to help reduce health insurance & prescription drug costs.

 

     The amount of interest paid on many credit cards is 18 to 22%! Why??? Who owns these credit card companies, banks, insurance companies, & other un-American black holes responsible for most of the bankruptcy in America? Who are the major investors in these companies? Are your representatives investors? Reading the newspapers it’s obvious the American people are overextended, bankruptcy is the reward for hard work and paying your taxes in America!!!

Credit card companies sent out 6 billion solicitations through the mail in 2005, 27 to each adult in the US. The average American has eight cards & the average household in many states has a $10,000  credit card debt. The US Post Office is funded by US, taxpayers, not Visa, Master Card, or Capitol One. Postal rates are on the rise with more junk mail everyday.

Capping credit card interest rates would benefit the taxpayer in more ways than one. Most working Americans don't get paid holidays postal workers get & I'm sure if researched there would be other advantages to capping credit card interest rates, bankruptcy for example.

Campaign contributions are a direct benefit to terrorist & our mis-representatives an ally!