Martial Law by Executive Order

This order places all resources and infrastructure, including food, water, energy, oil, transportation, and human labor under federal control. Citizens can be drafted into forced labor at any time. The government does not need a declared emergency or crisis to exercise this power. It merely has to say that it is for national defense.

We are transitioning into a fascist system and the sheople of this nation are just baaa, baaa, baaaing away.

Wake Up America!

President Obama's National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order of March 16 does to the country as a whole what the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act did to the Constitution in particular -- completely eviscerates any due process or judicial oversight for any action by the Government deemed in the interest of "national security." Like the NDAA, the new Executive Order puts the government completely above the law, which, in a democracy, is never supposed to happen. The United States is essentially now under martial law without the exigencies of a national emergency.

Even as the 2012 NDAA was rooted in the Patriot Act and the various executive orders and Congressional bills that ensued to broaden executive power in the "war on terror," so the new Executive Order is rooted in the Defense Production Act of 1950 which gave the Government powers to mobilize national resources in the event of national emergencies, except now virtually every aspect of American life falls under ultimate unchallengeable government control, to be exercised by the president and his secretaries at their discretion.

The 2012 NDAA deemed the United States a "battlefield," as Senator Lindsey Graham put it, and gave the president and his agents the right to seize and arrest any U.S. citizen, detain them indefinitely without charge or trial, and do so only on suspicion, without any judicial oversight or due process. The new Executive Order states that the president and his secretaries have the authority to commandeer all U.S. domestic resources, including food and water, as well as seize all energy and transportation infrastructure inside the borders of the United States. The Government can also forcibly draft U.S. citizens into the military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the purposes of "national defense." There is not even any Congressional oversight allowed, only briefings.

In the NDAA, only the president had the authority to abrogate legitimate freedoms of U.S. citizens. What is extraordinary in the new Executive Order is that this supreme power is designated through the president to the secretaries that run the Government itself:

• The Secretary of Defense has power over all water resources;
• The Secretary of Commerce has power over all material services and facilities, including construction materials;
• The Secretary of Transportation has power over all forms of civilian transportation;
• The Secretary of Agriculture has power over food resources and facilities, livestock plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment;
• The Secretary of Health and Human Services has power over all health resources;
• The Secretary of Energy has power over all forms of energy.

The Executive Order even stipulates that in the event of conflict between the secretaries in using these powers, the president will determine the resolution through his national security team.

The 2012 NDAA gave the Government the right to abrogate any due process against a U.S. citizen. The new Executive Order gives the government, through the Secretary of Labor, the right to proactively mobilize U.S. citizens for "labor" as the government deems necessary and to coordinate with the Secretary of Defense to maintain data to coordinate the nation's work needs in relation to national defense.

What is extraordinary about the Executive Order is that, like the NDAA, this can all be done in peacetime without any national emergency to justify it. The language of the Order does not state that all these extraordinary measures will be done in the event of "national security" or a "national emergency." They can simply be done for "purposes of national defense," clearly a broader remit that allows the government to do what it wants, when it wants, how it wants, to whomever it wants, all without any judicial restraint or due process. As Orwell famously said in 1984, "War is peace. Peace is war." This is now the reality on the ground in America.

Finally, the 2012 NDAA was hurried through the House and Senate almost like a covert op with minimal public attention or debate. It was then signed by the president at 9:00 PM on New Year's Eve while virtually nobody was paying attention to much other than the approaching new year. This new Executive Order was written and signed in complete secret and then quietly released by the White House on its website without comment. All this was done under a president who studied constitutional law at Harvard.

It is hard to know what to say in the face of such egregious disregard for the integrity of what America has stood and fought for since its founding. It is hard in part because none of us thought such encroachments would ever happen here, certainly not under the watch of a "progressive" like Obama.

At one level, the prospect for war with Iran is probably an immediate justification. But the comprehensiveness of the Executive Order, like that of the 2012 NDAA, speaks to something much deeper, more sinister. I would suggest that this Order, like the NDAA, has been in the works for some time and is simply the next step in the logic of the "global war on terror." Our political elites have come to consider democracy an impediment to effective governance and they are slowly and painstakingly creating all the democratic legalities necessary to abridge our democratic rights with impunity, all to ensure our "security." Of such measures do republics fall and by such measures tyrants emerge.

The only thing that really remains is the occasion to test the new rules of the game. Perhaps that will be war with Iran, perhaps some contrived emergency, or perhaps, as long as the public and media remain asleep, no occasion will be necessary at all. It will just slowly happen of its own accord and we, like the frog in the pot of slowly boiling water, will just sit there and be consumed by our own turpitude.

Original Article by Huff Post

Ron Paul: US Slipping Into a Fascist System Dominated By Big Government and Big Businesses

Kansas City: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the US is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by big government and big businesses.

The Texas congressman held a fiery rally on Saturday night across the street from a World War I Memorial, upstaging simultaneous Republican Party banquets being held on both sides of the nearby Missouri and Kansas line.

Paul said the US got off track during the era of president Woodrow Wilson, who led the nation through World War I and unsuccessfully advocated for the nation's involvement in a forerunner of the United Nations.

 Although campaign aides were aware, Paul told reporters after his speech that he did not know his rally was coinciding with long-established Republican Party events.  

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The Truth About ObamaCare (Video)

In case you haven't educated yourself about Government Health Care Bill H.R. 3200, it might be worth your while to watch this video. ObamaCare is Socialism at its worst.

Wake Up America!

What Barack Obama's America Looks Like

 

Thomas Sowell: A Shining Light In A Sea Of Darkness

Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 

Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of high school, and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He had received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1959. 

In 1968, he earned his doctorate degree in economics from the University of Chicago. Dr. Sowell has served on the faculties of several universities, including Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles, and worked for "think tanks" such as the Urban Institute. Since 1980 he has worked at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of more than 30 books.  

By Dr. Sowell: 

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly. It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.  

It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals:  defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been shredded and, with them, every person's guaranteed liberties.  

It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.  

It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created with the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood, unions, universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and numerous anti-American foreign entities.  

Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four years than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of. 

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the annihilation of America.  

"Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."   

Thomas Sowell

Grinding America Down. Communist and Socialist Agendas At Work Within Our Borders (Video)

Former Idaho State Rep. Curtis Bowers reveals how Communist (and Socialist) plans, designed nearly five decades ago, are still in place and active within the US. The agenda is to bring our nation down from the inside out. After watching this video, YOU decide if the strategy is working.

Wake Up America!

Obama Administration Denies Christians The Right To Prayer at National Cemetery

The Obamanation and his Administration are once again imposing their position that we are not a Christian nation. Socialism is their call to order.

Wake Up America! The Trees Are In The Forest...

A Texas lawmaker is calling for a congressional investigation of the Houston National Cemetery after he went undercover and determined that cemetery officials are still preventing Christian prayers at the funerals of military veterans.

“The Obama administration continues to try to prevent the word ‘God’ from being used at the funerals of our heroes,” said. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas).

“It’s unacceptable and I’m going to put a stop to it as fast as humanly possible,” Culberson told Fox News Radio. He attended a burial service at the cemetery undercover on July 8, when he says he witnessed volunteer members of the honor guard from the Veterans of Foreign Wars being prohibited from using any references to God.

“The Obama administration had told the nation and me they were not interfering with the prayer said over the graves of veterans,” he said. “And I went undercover to personally verify that claim.” VA officials have strongly denied they’ve banned any religious speech – and have offered support for Arleen Ocasio, the cemetery’s director.

“The idea that invoking the name of God or Jesus is banned at VA national cemeteries is blatantly false,” said VA Press Secretary Josh Taylor in a written statement to Fox News Radio. “The truth is, VA’s policy protects veterans’ families’ rights to pray however they choose at our national cemeteries.”

Taylor declined to comment on the pending lawsuit or other ongoing legal proceedings, but did say, “No one should make judgments before all the facts are known.” Culberson said the commander of the honor guard was told by cemetery officials to approach a grieving widow to reconfirm that she wanted the word God mentioned at her husband’s graveside service.

“He quite correctly said as a Texan and a man of honor and integrity, ‘I’m not bothering that poor woman at this most terrible time of her life. We’re going to do the ritual,’” Culberson said. “Right in front of me, the VA directly and deliberately attempted to prevent the VFW from doing their magnificent, spiritual ritual over the grave of this fallen hero."

The cemetery is already the focus of a lawsuit filed on behalf of the VFW, an American Legion post and Houston’s National Memorial Ladies. They claim the VA banned members of the organizations from using the words “God” or “Jesus” at burial services.

They also allege they were banned from reciting prayers or using religious language during services unless families approved the text in advance. Culberson, who oversees the sub-committee responsible for funding the cemetery, said that he wants the cemetery director fired – and he’s willing to do whatever possible to make sure that happens.

“The cemetery director has to leave,” he said. “I will zero out her salary. If she attempts to work for the VA anywhere in the state of Texas her salary will be zero.”

“It makes my skin crawl that liberals are attempting to drive prayer out of a funeral ceremony for our heroes,” Culberson said. “We’re going to fix this so that no Obama liberal bureaucrat will interfere with the funeral of a hero.”

But Taylor said the rules set in place at the cemetery are meant to protect the grieving families.

“Put simply, VA policy puts the wishes of the veteran’s family above all else on the day it matters most – the day they pay their final respects to their loved ones,” Taylor said. "Out of respect for the families, VA’s policy exists to prevent anyone from disrespecting or interfering with a veteran’s private committal service.”

Controversy first surfaced nationally at the cemetery during a Memorial Day event when a Houston pastor was ordered by the VA to remove the name of Jesus from his prayer.

Culberson said he hopes to hold hearings on the cemetery in the fall.

“They will bury 10 to 20 American heroes today and the Obama administration is preventing prayers from being said over their gravesites – today, ” Culberson said.

Article by Todd Starnes, FoxNews

Obama Turns Down Nearly $1 Trillion in Savings Offered By IBM With No Strings Attached (Video)

In Hussein Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves two things beyond any doubt; that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature, and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals. 
Read on...

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for FREE!

Mort Zuckermann, US News and World Report, a Democrat, was interviewed on Fox and confirmed it. The offer is true. IBM has confirmed it. You won't believe it. IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free and Obama snubbed it.

What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached Obama and members of his administration before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that the United States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"

And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch?

And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money and one that was projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US
history?

Well, it's all true.

Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.

Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program on September 14, 2010: "We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."

A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.

Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said, "It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully And when Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. And it's really puzzling... These are very, very responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.

The Elite Are Not Even Trying To Hide How Much They Hate The U.S. Constitution Anymore (Video)

In the United States today, it is becoming increasingly fashionable to openly trash the U.S. Constitution.  Many among the elite are not even trying to hide how much they hate the U.S. Constitution anymore.  

As the Patriot movement and the Tea Party movement call for a return to the principles that this nation was founded upon, many among the elite and in the mainstream media are responding by publicly dumping on the U.S. Constitution.  The level of vitriol that we are seeing for our founding fathers and for our Constitution is unprecedented.  

It turns out that the U.S. Constitution does not fit very well with the benevolent futuristic "Big Brother" totalitarianism that they want to impose on all of us.  All of that talk about "freedom" and "liberty" in the Constitution does not exactly square with the centralized global planning that the elite have in mind.  The ruling elite believe that the "rights of the individual" must be greatly restricted for the "good of society" and for the "good of the environment".  Right now the "constitutional revival" that is happening in the United States is a direct threat to what the elite are trying to accomplish, so they are responding by openly attacking the Constitution.

At more than 90 percent of the law schools in the United States today, the U.S. Constitution is portrayed as a hopelessly outdated document that is in desperate need of revision or it is portrayed as a "living, breathing document" that we are free to alter as society "progresses".  In law schools across the country, law students are being taught that our founding fathers were racist, sexist, homophobic bigots that did the best that they could at the time.

Keep in mind that a very large percentage of our politicians and all of our judges go through these law schools.  I personally sat in law school classes and listened to law professors trash the U.S. Constitution.  This is really happening.

But these days it is apparently not enough to just poison the minds of law students.

Now the mainstream media is launching a major attack on the U.S. Constitution.

The latest issue of Time Magazine, the number one political magazine in the United States, has a picture of a half-shredded U.S. Constitution on the cover with the words "Does It Still Matter?" emblazoned across it.

This front page article was authored by Richard Stengel and unfortunately the article is not a defense of the U.S. Constitution.

Rather, Stengel insists in his article that the U.S. Constitution "must accommodate each new generation and circumstance."

That is exactly the kind of thing that is constantly being pushed down the throats of law school students all over the country.  Stengel also declares in his article that we must not allow the Constitution to be "an obstacle" that will keep us from making the "progress" that we need to make as a society....

"We can pat ourselves on the back about the past 223 years, but we cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle to the U.S.'s moving into the future with a sensible health care system, a globalized economy, an evolving sense of civil and political rights."

This is typical of what the elite will do.  They will applaud the Constitution as being a good document "for the past" but then they will talk about how we "need to move forward" because people are so much smarter now than they were back then.

The reality is that many elitists love to denigrate the circumstances under which the Constitution was drafted and they love to talk about how much more "sophisticated" we are today.

In an article entitled "Is It Time To Update The U.S. Constitution?" CNN's Fareed Zakaria recently declared that it was time to reexamine our founding document that was created in a "cramped room" that had "shades drawn over the windows"....

By contrast, any talk of revising or revisiting the U.S. Constitution is, of course, seen as heresy. The United States Constitution was, as you know, drafted in a cramped room in Philadelphia in 1787 with shades drawn over the windows. It was signed by 39 people.

But Zakaria was kind compared to a lot of the other pundits out there.

On an ABC News political talk show over the weekend, Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson declared that there are "some gaps, some holes, lacunas, gulfs, abysses" in the Constitution and he went on to make the following statement....

"When it makes the transition from parchment to pavement, there again is the rub. The reality is when I talk about the document being living and vital, I’m talking about the interpretation of it. I’m talking about the meaning of it."

Do you know why elitists love to talk about the Constitution being a "living" document?

It is because they feel like they have permission to change and "reinterpret" a document that is "living and breathing".

Elitists love the idea that the U.S. Constitution "evolves", and of course they believe that it is the role of the ruling elite to direct this "evolution".

James Altucher, managing partner at Formula Capital, expressed his opinion of the U.S. Constitution in his recent article entitled "July 4th Is A Scam"....

Most importantly, lets not view the Constitution as gospel. Countries, people, systems, technology evolves. As they do, its important to see what from the past is good and what can be discarded.

What can be "discarded"?

Absolutely disgusting.

But there are others out there that go even farther in trashing the Constitution.

So far we have examined quotes from elitists that show at least a few shreds of respect for the Constitution.  They desperately want to change it and reinterpret it, but at least they acknowledge that is has played a beneficial role in American history.

There are others among the elite that are not afraid to openly declare hate for the U.S. Constitution.

For example, Michael Klarman of Harvard University Law School delivered a Constitution Day lecture at Johns Hopkins University last September 16th. His lecture was entitled "A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship", and it was a blistering assault on the U.S. Constitution.

Klarman made four major points about "constitutional idolatry" in his speech....

I have four points I want to make today against constitutional idolatry, which is my label for our misguided tendency to blindly worship the Constitution, giving it credit for all the things we love and honor about our country.
(1) The Framers’ constitution, to a large degree, represented values we should abhor or at least reject today.
(2) There are parts of the Constitution with which we are still stuck today even though we would never freely choose them and they are impossible to defend based on contemporary values.
(3) For the most part, the Constitution is irrelevant to the current political design of our nation.
(4) The rights protections we do enjoy today, the importance of which I do not minimize, are mostly a function of political and social mores, which have dramatically evolved over time and owe relatively little to courts using the Constitution to protect them.

Remember, this is not some nutjob that was making this speech.

This was a professor of law at Harvard University.

Barack Obama went to the law school at Harvard University.  Hordes of our future politicians and judges and law professors go through that place.

Klarman is not someone to be taken lightly.

Klarman's remarks were noticed over at The Economist.  It is an open secret that The Economist is a mouthpiece for the global banking elite and they were quite taken with what Klarman had to say.  They published an article supporting Klarman's ideas that was entitled "The Perils Of Constitution-Worship".

In that article, those who love and support the U.S. Constitution were described as "infantile"....

Indeed, there is something infantile in the belief of the constitution-worshippers that the complex political arguments of today can be settled by simple fidelity to a document written in the 18th century.

In the United States today there is a tug of war over the U.S. Constitution. Either the "constitutional revival" being spearheaded by the Patriot movement and the Tea Party movement will eventually win, or the ruling elite and the mainstream media will eventually win.

The stakes are incredibly high.  Just consider what Alex Jones has to say about the matter in the video posted below....

So will you stand up for the U.S. Constitution?

Great tests for this nation are coming.  We are standing right on the verge of the economic collapse of America, and that will be a great time of challenge for the United States.  Our loyalty to the Constitution will be pressed to the limit as society descends into anarchy.

Our politicians are supposed to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.  But sadly, most of our politicians today seem to think that the Constitution should be serving them.

In fact, this very attitude was clearly expressed in the Time Magazine article mentioned above....

"The Constitution serves the nation; the nation does not serve the Constitution."

The inference, of course, is that once we have made enough "progress" we will be able to toss aside the U.S. Constitution like some sort of used rag.

Well, the reality is that there are tens of millions of red-blooded Americans that are not ready to give up on the U.S. Constitution.

If you are an American that still believes in liberty and freedom, don't be afraid to let your voice be heard, because if none of us stand up the America that so many of us grew up loving will soon cease to exist.

Article courtesy of The American Dream

Appeals Court Says Cross On Federal Land Is Unconstitutional

 

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the argument that the cross is solely a memorial.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a cross displayed on public property for nearly a century is unconstitutional.

Three versions of the Christian symbol have been erected atop 822-foot Mount Soledad in the posh La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, since 1913.

The current 43-foot cross was erected in 1954 in honor of Korean War veterans and has been the subject of near constant judicial back and forth since 1989, when two Vietnam War veterans filed suit against the city, saying it violated the California Constitution's "No Preference" clause.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the notion that the cross -- since the late 1990s surrounded by plaques and paving stones honoring veterans and war dead -- was solely a memorial.

"The use of such a distinctively Christian symbol to honor all veterans sends a strong message of endorsement and exclusion," the court said in its ruling. "It suggests that the government is so connected to a particular religion that it treats that religion's symbolism as its own, as universal. To many non-Christian veterans, this claim of universality is alienating."

The court also noted that the site had, for most of history, been used for Easter services -- marked on maps until the late 1980s as the "Mount Soledad Easter Cross" -- and was designated a war memorial with a plaque "only after the legal controversy began in the late 1980s."

"It was not until the late 1990s that veterans' organizations began holding regular memorial services at the site," the court said.

And the court rejected arguments that the cross at a war memorial was no different than any other memorial that includes a cross.

To read the rest of the article click here: CNN

[Just who are these “judges” that are judging that Crosses are Unconstitutional? Have they even read the Constitution recently? Is there anything in that precious document that comes remotely close to implying that crosses on federal land are unconstitutional? 

Last time I checked the National Cemetery at Arlington was on federal land. What about those crosses? Or crosses on churches on US military bases? Or wearing crosses while on federal land? How long is it going to be before these same “judges” judge that those crosses must go? Sound a little Marxist to you? Me too!!

Wake up America!! These perfidious “judges” are trying to judge us into liberal socialism. Until we unite against this type of transgression, America will continue to suffer.]

 

Retired Marine Sergeant R. Lee Ermey Tells It Like It Is (Video)

On the last day of 2010 let's throw out the old and bring in the new. Retired Marine Sergeant R. Lee Ermey does not mince any words on what needs throwing out in this country. You tell 'em Sarge! Oooooooo Raaaaahhhhhh!!

Retired drill instructor R. Lee Ermey took an opportunity to rail against the Obama administration during an appearance at a live broadcast to benefit the USO.

The retired Marine vet stressed that the Marines’ Toys 4 Tots program was working through the struggling economy to bring holiday cheer to young boys and girls, but also delivered a political punch to the Obama administration which he claimed was trying to destroy the country by imposing socialism. 

God Bless The United States Marine Corps, Sgt. Ermey, and God Bless America!!

Here's Wishing For A Happy New Year Full of Hope and Change (Not The Obama Kind Either!)

Reality Check

 

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.'Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected.

They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each paying man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now pa id $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

'I only got a dollar out of the $20,'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!'

'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking at another bar where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia

For those of you who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

What's Black and White and "Red" All Over?

Obama and Holder have demonstrated again that they will impose their Socialist will wherever and whenever they find an opportunity!

Q:What's black and white and "red" all over? 

A: The Department of Justice's newly designed website. 

Gone are the standard red, white, and blue motifs, replaced by an all-black backdrop. And prominently placed on virtually every page of the site is a quote credited to a man who facilitated a greater role for socialists and communists at the U.N., and the global "workers rights movement."

The redesigned website was launched without fanfare, but was noticed internally by several career lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political reprisals. 

"We were told that the media team and the senior leadership that signed off on the design thought that the patriotic shtick from the Ashcroft days was a bit much for an agency that isn't supposed to be political," says a DOJ lawyer, who inquired about the redesign. 

"It was a real effort not to laugh at that."

 Courtesy of VisiontoAmerica

The "ObamaPhone"..You're Paying For It!

More Obamanomics

The following post was sent in by an independent contributor.

I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number, and he told me yes, it was for his “Obamaphone.”

I asked him what an “Obamaphone” was, and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new cell phone, and (2) approximately 70 FREE minutes of air time every month. It is also available in Spanish!

I was a little skeptical, so I Googled it, and lo and behold, he was telling the truth.

Think this is just some silly joke? Click on the link below to read more about the “ObamaPhone” 

www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/Home.aspx

Wake up America!! Taxpayer money is being redistributed to welfare recipients for FREE cell phones.  Enough is enough, the ship is sinking, and it’s sinking fast. The age-old concepts of God, family, and hard work have flown out the window, and are being replaced with "Why should I work for it, when I can get it for free?"

You asked for “Change”… Well, you GOT IT! Right where the sun don’t shine..