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A Few Quick Thoughts on The Ryan Plan

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The Business Consumption Tax
What are the implications?

1. It is a hidden tax. When congress wants to raise it only a few greedy corporations will complain. The average voter will be easily sold hikes on this tax as sticking it to the evil rich.

2. It is a tax on labor. Costs of goods and services are subtracted out. It used to be a fundamental conservative understanding that if you want less of something; TAX IT. By way of explaining progressive terminology I remind that LABOR means JOBS for WORKERS. Taxing labor, as this VAT does, means fewer jobs and not as a function of increased productivity (good) but as a function of the tax [...]

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Money doesn’t grow on trees. Or does it?

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Thought occurred to me recently concerning the size of the national debt. Follow me for a minute.

There are roughly 250,000 leaves on a typical tree. Found this out by googling it. In addition there are typically 350 trees per acre in a mature forest.

250000
X 350
87500000

Ok, so we have 87.5 million leaves per acre.

Next we have 640 acres per square mile.

87500000
X 640
56000000000

This gives us 56 Billion leaves per square mile.

Now as a part time resident (and native) I knew WV has about 25000 square miles. Turns out 24231 is exactly the right answer.

56000000000
X 24231
1356936000000000

1356 Trillion leaves. That’s a [...]

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First with a h/t to @MelissaTweets.

Backscatter/Naked scanners/Child Porn facilitators will not even detect plastic explosives like PETN.

http://gizmodo.com/5712481/fool-the-tsas-scanners-with-pancakes

Seems like while we were discussing body cavities it was entirely unnecessary to stick it where the sun don’t shine. Just get out the rolling pin and go. Pancake your PETN or other malleable explosives and walk on through the backscatter machine to your assigned gate.

Innocent homemaker laying out dinner for her family? Or al-Aqsa martyr planning her next attack?

Just roll it down flat and backscatter will not pick it up. According to the report the backscatter will also NOT pickup knives, guns and other contraband if said contraband is properly placed on the body. It relates to image resolution and angles of [...]

No major nationally known politician will talk about ending the Social Security Ponzi Scheme.

Except, Rick Perry. Here.

Several of us recently had a debate in the diaries (Here and Here.) regarding the scam and how to end it. Thanks again GC.

The other side of the argument was that Social Security is “defacto constitution,” whatever that means, and that nobody who is anybody is saying it should be ended.

Not only is Perry talking about ending Social Security, he is talking about ending ALL of the New Deal. Income Tax, SS, and More.

Perry criticized President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and an early 20th-century “progressive era” movement that “gave the federal government access to our wallets via taxation.”

Perry,” I want people to be afraid not to talk about that Social Security is bankrupt and is a [...]

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A Tale of Two Futures

I could have kept Dickens original title describing two cities. One is a city on a hill providing light to the world, a beacon of liberty as envisioned by our forefathers. The other city is a Pompeii-esque backwater ossifying under a mountain of debt, excessive taxation and suffocating regulation destined for the ash heap.

One of these two cities is our future. We have delayed the decision for as long as possible. Much as the population of Pompeii, perhaps too ignorant to understand the signs and thus the danger when Vesuvius began its eruption, did not flee until it was too late; we too have delayed a choice, ignoring the signs and minimizing the danger. If we choose not to decide, [...]

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Who Needs Money?

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It would seem evident that Republicans will take the house, the senate is a toss-up and the RGA will do well. At this point the size of the victory is the big question. It won’t really matter if DeMint wins with 70% or 71%. We are coming down to a point where a few extra dollars here or there may help decide a close election. Michelle Bachmann, for example seems to be OK on cash and sending her money at the expense of say Christine O’Donnell may be a bad choice.

According to RCP, the races below are the ones mostly in play.

So who has money and who needs money? Which races are literally going to turn on a dime?

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US Constitution 21 Pages. Republican Pledge 21 Pages.

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They could have just reprinted the US Constitution and said, “There, we promise that.”

Guess that wouldn’t be sexy like Twenty-One pages of wonkish gibberish.

It also shows a complete lack of understanding concerning what did work about the original Contract. Its brevity. Hence its marketability.

Think Google. Who clicks past page one? If you are going to send a message the gist of it had better be on page one.

The average person likely won’t get past the second paragraph of this document. And like the major flaw in the original Contract there is very little in this doc that is permanent.

Even if fully enacted we are just an election away from the next Obamanation.

The [...]

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What do you do with 3-5 million unemployed, angry youth?

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When you left your magic suit in the last phone booth.

Kids that have spent 12-16 years being indoctrinated into the belief

Your nation is a nasty mean place without any relief.

No jobs to be had and boy are they mad.

Mad at mom

Made at dad

Mad at a government that promised more than it had.

But wait, there is the ONE. His greatness nearly eclipses the SON.

He got vision, he got plan. Barry Saetoro that is our man.

What do you do?

Fund a National Service Corps

The last great depression

saw a Reichstag procession.

Yes, we’ve seen that before.

Heil Hitler they said

You’ll bow down a knee

You’ll his name shout with glee

Heil Hitler [...]

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Tea Party Losers

With the DE primary over and the Tea Party candidate declared the victor, Redstater’s and other conservatives would do well to consider one important fact, if O’Donnell does not win the general election, it will not matter how many seats we win in the US House or the US Senate, the mainstream media will declare the Tea Party effort to be a bunch of LOSERS. The “R”stablishment Republicans have already so declared.

While the truth is her primary victory is proof that Tea Partiers are a force to be reckoned with and moderate to left leaning Republicans should take heed. Truth in the MSM has been at best an accident for at least 50 years.

Fear of this force and loss of party control is [...]

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