OPINION: Second amendment protects military style weapons

Just looking for a creek end in Dark Corners ((THEIR COUNTRY))

One Nation, Indivisible

The average person may not remember predatory tractor loans made in the 1970's and 80's when vast amounts of land and large numbers of family farms were "taken" by investors after equipment loan defaults. The default and forfeiture of the farm was built directly into the sales contract and ultimately allowed singular interests to gain control of most food production nationwide.

Farmers remaining on their own farms were used as sharecroppers and sold their crops on futures for pennies on the dollar. With control of these markets established, food prices went up, government subsidies to not grow crops increased and bumper crops were gathered and burned rather than reduce value in the marketplace.

Bush Jr. Chaired the Task Force for Regulatory Relief under appointment from Reagan that deregulated speculative discretionary investments that covered such investments which completed the mission started under Carter. The plan worked too well when widespread drought brought more farms into default than investors could afford. Short term losses were paid when congress bailed the FDIC out with our very own social security savings fund. The "S&L Scandal" would evolve into the largest theft ever perpetrated against America, to date.

Now we have over 26,000,000 people on food stamps paying $3.00 per bell pepper, yet picking a $3.00 bell pepper is not profitable enough for any American to do because there is no money in it. Modern agricultural interests prefer the use of less costly immigrant labor with over 20,000,000 Americans underemployed or out of work and the average worker earning 2(two) bell peppers per hour after taxes. This is no accident.

Odd Ollie

The next era would reveal that some in our military were covertly delivering drugs to raise money for the purchase of American arms to supply to keepers of American hostages. A Governor wanted to control the release date of the hostages until after an election, yet "could not recall" those events after the fact. The American people looked the other way or thought some involved patriotic while some went to jail and those drugs went into our streets.

This same administration began a "Just say No" campaign which sounds like a good idea after soliciting drugs; like Budweiser says "drink responsibly" or the lotto says "play responsibly". . .by initiating a "War on drugs" promising to seek out and punish "Kingpins" and "traffickers". Most people thought prosecuting those importing contraband would reduce the amount of available drugs and would be a great idea...after all.

The administration instead enacted a Federal Minimums Policy for drug possession that literally throws persons entire life away behind bars for less than a handful of drugs, and the same "I don't recall" doesn't work at all for your children. Some laws even insist on much "stiffer" penalties for more dilute drugs resulting in decade's longer incarceration for even smaller quantities of actual drug.

The "Land of the Free" has more people incarcerated than the next five countries combined as our systems rob the very lives of those equipped with less willpower as profitable business. The incentive?...the annual bounty of over $100,000 per inmate.


Who gives a Saddam?

A fairly close ally and very important oil trading partner took a miscue and rather than forcibly building an oil pipeline to an ocean port, turns his ragbag army loose on his neighbors' capital which they marauded and stole whatever they could before fleeing.

In an instant, amid world outcry we killed several hundred thousand fleeing military and hostages with CBMs and continued to carpet bomb the whole country "back to the stone age" with "old bombs we needed to get rid of anyway" if memory of older ordinance and attitude are correct.

What was expected to become very profitable as sanctions allowed "food for oil" became very costly instead when no oil shipments were made, food rotted on the docks and oil was being sold in currencies other than American dollars. . .while America maintained a no fly zone! Gas prices gained to record highs. . .

As a Country we've paid dearly to secure these interests and correct this problem and indeed the "Mission Accomplished" was securing crude oil production. "Won the war" is misinterpretation.

The seized financial assets of an evil dictator with nearly 30 years of oil sales should have been very sizable, but more than $10 billion per month went on Americas' (our children's) tab making me wonder just how profitable nation building must be. . .and to whom? If Germany only recently paid off some war debt, what are we expecting/getting in return for our personal vestment?


Wars on this, Wars on that

Another commodity soon came up for grabs when Russia lost control of its opiate producing interests and the good ole US of A stepped up and poisoned poppy fields to take control in a way that no bullet ever could, by hitting them in the pocketbook. This is now on record as America's longest war and we're still being told it is because of one guy, or due to the war on terror.

Fact is, while we maintain controls on opiate markets there are over 22 million (22,000,000) Americans addicted to opiate pain medication and it sounds like a "war on drugs", but who's on the drugs? Considering our Federal Government was founded on a $20 Gallon liquor tax, what's more likely than they're just after their cut since there are no limits on pill production.

We borrow over 40% (0.40+ cents) of every single tax dollar our government spends, mostly from our own Federal Reserve which has holdings upwards of 100 Trillion Dollars while we pay the Federal Reserve roughly a Trillion dollars in interest every year, we also payback the amount we must borrow every year.

Folks we spend 53% (0.53 cents) of every single tax dollar on defense and our full time soldiers live near poverty. Our paranoia is extremely profitable to some, yet our best defense is still to remove our shoes at the airport. The worst terror event our Country ever experienced was committed with plastic knives and cellular phones but we're still being strangled by trillions of dollars in new debt. How many times and how many ways do we have to pay??


Precious Blood to the Perfect Heist. . .

The growing resentment of war was reflected in the midterm election and perceived as a slap in the face to those holding the house only 8 of the last 40 years. The enraged and powerful of the party continued to "globalize" and pulled funding from onshore projects and moved asset offshore to further destabilize consumer banks already overextended with large amounts of unsecured consumer debt. Much ado was made of predatory lending and the media escalated feared losses of home equity, later estimated to be correctable in every respect for $100,000,000. . .a mere ripple nationally.
Home equity was the proverbial "red herring" as stock markets were manipulated under a cloak of "shifting consumer confidence" and years of investment equity held in personal 401k retirement funds became lost in a "stock crash".
Some say it was a computer glitch or the wrong number of digits having been entered during a transaction, but "too big to fail" banks showed insolvent and the "bubble burst" with 401k investors losing 40% of their retirement funds in what was called a "correction".
Bush 42 provided funds borrowed from the Federal Reserve to bail-out investment banks that then used the funds to purchase devalued stock. The year after the crash market volume of trading was over 10,000 shares again with most loans already repaid.
The people investing for a half generation in 401k retirement stock funds bought the rollercoaster they'd been told so much about and were forced out at the bottom and the investment banks kept the tickets. Now in the midst of the second great depression with trading volume well over 13,000 shares. . .clearly they'll do "just fine". . .


If I had a Nickel, I'd be a corporate raider. . .

We've had a presidential candidate who speaks the code that we are supposed to be too dumb to understand yet the wealthy love to hear. He proudly espouses that the top 5% of income earners pay 60% of all taxes and will not pay any less! The fact is that if high earners were to pay less than 60% of taxes, it would be due to them sharing more profits with their employees who pay much higher personal tax rates. Clearly, far more would be going to the government to pay our debt if the top 5% paid less than 60% by paying their employees more fairly, but this is how business limits and controls government by not paying its employees more.

If the top 5% of income earners, (very, very few people), pay 60% of all taxes at around the 10-12% rate after deductions, how much money are they really making? My estimates would be they are pocketing 90% of all profits generated from onshore businesses and nearly 100% of offshore. The average American may be far more successful with this tax advantage. . .if they didn't go to jail.

This same candidate stated that the reason most businesses struggle or fail is that they pay a personal tax rate as opposed to the capital gains tax rate that he pays. Why is everyone else so uninformed of the tax law he uses and why is everyone paying so much if they don't have to? Why are we criminally liable for fraud if we mistakenly pay too little, but the government can apparently receive this overpayment from so many taxpayers and not make any effort to inform or repay its citizens?



Class Warfare, You don't say. . .

We live within a socialistic society which by its own nature serves to repress and limit our upward mobility. This is why adults with families' now earn the minimum wage and receive public assistance to make ends meet. All of your private information is gleaned to make sure that you'll not have one crumb more than needed and then the top 5% knows that their 60% of taxes are being well spent on what they refer to as the "safety net".

How much money would it take for everyone to live comfortably and have a decent paying job...more than we have? The lower 47% of income earners that we hear spoken of so negatively have less combined asset than just a few individuals within the top 1%. Add a few more individuals and a handful possesses more asset than 200,000,000 Americans combined.

Those possessing generational wealth have dreams of creating dynasties that will grow, not diminish. None of the safeguards like inheritance tax or protection from monopolies will return this money to our system and we will forever be this much poorer and have this much less.

Per capita we're seeing the lowest birthrate since the 1920s', the lowest standard of living ever, the lowest homeownership ever, the highest cost for medical care and education ever, also the highest incarceration and abortion rate in history. Hell, I'd say they don't even want us here. WE are the victims of class warfare.



"Mo' Tea. . ..anyone?"

The people united to form the "Taxed Enough Already". A party borne from history and grassroots effort, and it began with people marching in the streets. The T.E.A. party was the average person sick and tired of paying half of their meager earnings to income, fuel, excise, sales, and sin, luxury, and property, prior, built-in and hidden taxes including "Fees" before they could even pay bills.
If I spend every dollar I ever make on cheeseburgers the government wouldn't care, but penalizes me for investing my hard earned and thoroughly taxed money into something worthwhile, i.e. car, home etc. because my government feels entitled to my possessions and will forever be there with its hand out wanting money because I actually "own" something. THESE are the people who are taxed enough already, not the top 2% of multimillionaires already paying 10% or less tax rates on profits.

This "T.E.A. Party" has now been hijacked by these richest of the rich "AS" the special interest. . .and you never see, never know nor speak with them, those whom interpret their own tax law. Now while we're careening at a fiscal cliff, ask yourself "Who really is controlling this government?" Notice the media attention sought to express discord, fear and chaos, yet continued willingness to send profits offshore and jobs away from America. Ask yourself, who are these "grassroots" posers so determined to get their way that they'll "by damn, destroy the country to get it". We can no longer afford this "Special Interest Government" paying defense contractors nearly a million dollars each per year for an empty shipping container at our grandchildren's expense.


Psychos, S.S.R.I.'s and the 2nd. . .

I've witnessed first hand the pronounced change in individuals' decision making and rationale resulting from the use of Prozac and other S.S.R.I.'s including the death of a close family member. I question why these drug/medications are administered by family practitioners after a patient admits to "feeling a little blue" and there is usually no medical explanation of the need for these medications that are meant to permanently alter the brain.

Most importantly, the GP in an office has no idea of the patients' brain type or brain chemistry being altered. We all grew up hearing that different brains react differently to drugs, but who has a "good" relationship with their doctor and hasn't been sent home with samples of Zoloft and a script so you can "get right on 'em"?

S.S.R.I's provide a new level of relief from inhibition similar to alcohol that can be advantageous to the neurotic and/or inhibited. The "side effects" are suicide and psychotic episodes as has been experienced in multiple school shootings. This is one similarity in all the mass killings, but the media is far more interested in gun control than reality and would prefer to see guns removed than give up profits from pharmacopeia.

Growing up on violent video games alone stunts interactive development resulting in dissociative disorders. Take this same dissocialized kid with psychotic tendencies then remove inhibition via selective serotonin saturation to the level of an advanced cocaine addict and we'll have major gun control in no time. . .


Hmmm, Unoccupied?. . .smells Occupied..ooo

Guess to end my tirade I'd have to mention the Occupy Wall Street (recently, jailhouse) movement. These very well intentioned and disenfranchised youth express a concern for the loss of upward mobility in this post national chain store economy noting very few possibilities for upper-level positions. They are also aware of the vacuum (and ocean) between supply and demand, and of their susceptibility of having to "make do" with their old bedroom for a while longer than planned or until "things get better".

The 26% unemployment rate for one year college graduates makes many question whether "things will get better" as many keep working in minimum wage positions. Most notably the Occupy Movement realized how badly the odds were stacked against them by now with vast volumes of American money having been swept from our Country leaving them and their children saddled with Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars each in debt as we face the lowest standard of living ever while having to compete with 20,000,000 experienced/unemployed/underemployed for a job.

Most Occupiers don't remember when things used to be made here. . .before the generations of pride and ingenuity were boxed up and shipped to third world countries for something called "globalization". Before. . .when all those big empty buildings were bustling with workers and a man could afford a house and wife and children on his salary alone, not forced to have a room mate just to keep an apartment.


This is how Loyalty is repaid Capitalist Style. . .

Heard good news and bad news the other day, the bad news is that we are not preparing adequately for our future and we're sure to lose Social Security and Medicare until at least age 70, but the good news was that China is buying some of this very underpriced real estate that we seem to be burdened with after the foreclosures. . .seems we can't afford to take advantage of it at this time, how considerate. Guess red herring is merchantable, too.

The message is that the machines of capitalism are tweaked for 100% profit so the top 1% gets it all. Capitalism never was about being fair, just fair enough to work. . .and every capitalist needs a worker.

We have a school system that trains us to be team players and to get along with others to achieve a goal, and though necessary these are subservient attributes that never lead to the front of the line or close a sale. Individuality is rewarded far more than teamwork in life and individuality cannot be taught, it must be learned. . .and not on a video game. . .

Whew. . .getting tired of ranting about problems, but if this time allows food for thought and it will have been worth it.

Thanks for reading. . .Davy Mac