100% Tax Rate?

What would a 100% income tax on all those who earn over $100 thousand amount to?  I'm not taking about a wimpy marginal rate, where one might tax only those dollars of income over $100 thousand (leaving the taxpayer $100 thousand).  No, I'm saying you find all those who made more than $100 thousand and take every last penny -- an absolute tax of 100%.

 

Check these facts out;

·       Our federal government alone is spending more than $10 billion a day.  A 100% confiscation of all income of those making more than $10 million would amount to less than 24 days of federal spending.

·       Confiscating 100% of all income from those who made over $1M funds the federal government for 72 days.

·       Confiscating 100% of the income from those who made more than $200K funds the federal government for only about six months.

·       The government spends $30 billion more than a 100% confiscation of the annual income of all Americans that reported more than $100K in income.

The bottom line is that we cannot fund our current levels of spending even if we make unrealistically charitable assumptions about taxpayer response to confiscatory tax rates and confiscate the entire annual income of every American who makes more than $100K.

Marriage Is A Rite NOT A Right!

I coined this phrase yesterday and I decided I would elaborate on this simple concept since it seems many can't grasp this. Now someone else may have coined this phrase before me but since I haven't heard it before I am claiming I coined it. The idea that something which has been a religious rite for thousands of years as a union between one man and one woman is actually an inalienable right, per the Constitution, to be afforded anyone even if they want to marry the same sex in spite of what the rite has always been, is patently stupid. A civil union will afford these people the same legal rights as a marriage and it allows the religious rite of marriage to remain between one man and one woman.

This isn't a matter of bigotry or somehow depriving someone of their rights. It isn't a right, it is a rite and falls under the separation of church and state. This is just another example of the attempt to establish a national religion.

You may scoff but let's look at a few ideas here. Religion may be defined as; a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. With that definition, atheism, or the elimination of belief systems acknowledging a supreme being, (or as the Declaration of Independence says; a divine Creator) is a religion that is being established by the Government, thus violating the first amendment of the Constitution namely that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Atheism is being established by courts throughout this country and the freedom of speech is being stifled and trampled upon every time someone is forced to remove the word God from a speech or poem they have written or when they can't recite the pledge of allegiance because that horrible word is in it.

The atheists that claim the right to be free of religion make that claim based on a document that says they have the right to vocalize that claim because the right was given to them by the very Creator they claim doesn't exist. My logical conclusion is that; if this Creator doesn't exist then they have no right to claim freedom from religion. Since they have just voided their "right" to complain about it they should just shut up! Too bad more people don't apply simple logic in their lives.

Anyway, please feel free to comment or complain about today's blog, but please keep it clean and keep it rational. Thank you.

A.D.D. and Me (To drug or not to drug.)

Okay, Adult ADD speaking here. I was diagnosed as a "Hyperactive" child, this was the first term they used to label us. The verbiage has changed but the symptoms are the same. My Dad has been in social services for most of my life and was familiar with the only medicine used back then, Ritalin, and he didn’t like what he saw it do to the kids taking it. As a result he refused to have me medicated. He never told me I had a ‘disability’ either. I never knew until I was diagnosed as an adult with adult ADD. I was encouraged to take medication and I tried for awhile but was appalled by the lack of emotion I felt most of the time, I was just coasting through my days and nothing really touched me. What most people diagnosed with ADD really need is attention. Let me explain. Attention Deficit Disorder is an apt name because it describes both the signs and the treatment. The subject has difficulty focusing on any one thing, emotion or idea at a time. This difficulty is demonstrated through displaying a sense of irritation. This can often be helped by continued assistance from someone who will listen to what they have to say or in other words pays attention, you see this person has a deficit of attention. I had a mother who listened to me all the time and that was the best medicine I had as a youth. I now have the best wife in the world who listens to be all the time and that has kept me improving for the 13 years we have been married. When someone else is there and is understanding of the problem it makes the person who has it feel less guilty for mistakes they make and feel like all of their thoughts aren’t just drifting off into the ether sphere to never be heard or seen again these feelings are a large part of the aggravation they display. They can actually matter to someone even if that person can’t remember all of the things that are shared. This improves their confidence to accomplish tasks and their overall drive rises. Like any disability understanding is a large part of the battle and not feeling like it is your fault is most of the rest of the battle. Not feeling like others are purposely ignoring you helps greatly as well.

People with ADD have neurons in their brain that firing too fast to be caught by the receptors. Most of the drugs that are administered slow the firing process down. This will calm down your average patient but it will also remove a lot of his/her creativity. Don’t get me wrong I am not adverse to medication. I also have asthma and other ailments so I have been taking medicines all of my life. But there are some medicines that are classified as mood altering drugs. ADD meds are in this group because although the primary goal is not to alter the patient’s mood, is it a primary result of the medication.

Try some REAL effort with your child, listening and trying to understand what they are talking about. You will find that your bond with them will increase and their need to communicate all of the time will ease. If they have the hyperactive element of the problem then find ways to let them get outside a lot of the time to get rid of the excess energy. If they are old enough then talk to them teach them what is wrong and what you can do to help them. Teach them that they are special in many ways. Most people with ADD are actually more intelligent than those around them and part of their problem is that they feel lost when no one understands them. Try harder to get what they are saying and they will learn ways to communicate with you better. I will admit there are those who are so stricken with this ‘disorder’ that they simply cannot function in society without some chemical help. However, I do not believe most are in that boat. If you are hesitant to dope up your child you are right to feel that way. Most of the kids diagnosed these days are the way they are simply because we have TV’s and other forms of entertainment media raising our kids and the frustration of not being heard builds up and is demonstrated in ways that appear to be ADHD. A kid can’t talk to a TV or a video game and get the love and affection he/she needs.

Be the parent your child needs. Try it you might like it.

Are You Worried?

A man came from lowly beginnings. He dreamt of influencing people and guiding his own destiny. He believed he was guided by divinity, God, Jehovah, Allah, whomever you will. He was a speaker and a writer. He wrote his autobiography which helped him succeed financially. This man felt that America needed better leadership. Through his oratory skills he was able to excite crowds and motivate people to do what he wanted. He made it on the cover of Time magazine as person of the year. He rose to a position of authority. Many of the beliefs he espoused were deemed by large segments of the country to be socialism. Under his leadership national unemployment almost reached 10%. Through government intervention he revived the auto industry. He led the country during one of the greatest recessions it had ever seen. He eventually saw the people get back to work and the factories were flourishing. On his rise to power it was unearthed that he was born in another country. This fact was largely ignored since he had, by this time, gained control of the media through his charismatic ways and it just didn't matter………

His legacy is a blemish on mankind to this day……….



His name is; Adolf Hitler NOT Barak Obama. Are you suprised that they have so much in common? Are you worried that while you read this you were thinking I was talking about President Obama? You should be.

 

Muslims ARE Exempt From Paying For Healthcare!

Healthcare Turned On It's Head

The left managed to quiet this tidbit because the people making the accusations didn't do their homework and couldn't back their claims since the verbiage they were referring to didn't exist and wasn't in the document where they were referencing. I have taken the verbiage straight from the law itself and have included the link for you to read yourself. Subsection (a) referred to below is the section taxing people for not having health insurance. This is an exemption for people who have a religious objection to health insurance. The only religion I have heard of that declares this officially is the Muslim faith. They don't believe in gambling or risk taking and therefore, paying for health insurance or the applicable tax for not being insured are against their tenets. I guess other religions that are against gambling could conceivably use the same argument. Quite frankly I think this should be grounds to have the law overturned by the Supreme Court since it is not uniform in its application and exempts a very small portion of the population. Anyway, read and share so this makes the rounds. This one they can't shoot down as right wing conspiracy theories since the idea came straight from the law itself and you just can't make this stuff up!

http://housedocs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf

Item (5)(a) line 25 on page 299 through line 10 on page 300

A Prayer

May God the Almighty continue to protect our freedoms by swaying the hearts of every God-fearing soul and those who have forgotten who He is, to the cause of securing our rights by voting for the man who can and will lead this country back from the brink of self-immolation. We must not give in to the belief that we are inferior to anyone. We may have much to do to be a more righteous people but we can and will if as we continue as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I pray that we may seek guidance and strength each day regardless of the outcome and may God always watch over this land from sea to shinning sea. AMEN! 

 

Consequences of Today

I haven't posted in awhile due to the belief that not many are paying attention and it seems that other media sources seem to say what I am thinking rather well. For some reason I am wanting to bring to mind the concept of consequences.

Obama the Great: King Poser of the West

This basic idea is somewhat missing in today's society to the point that people actually have crying fits or get angry, sometimes even violent when they have to pay the price for their decisions. This creates a world where everyone is afraid to say anything for fear of upsetting someone around them. Right now this is on my mind because of what we as a nation have done to ourselves. We allowed ourselves to be duped by a poser because he was telling most people what they wanting to hear, "I have hope for you, the government will take care of you, if I am elected I will solve your problems, I will get us out of this recession". What has happened is things got worse.

This man never intended to help us become a stronger nation, from the get go he has wanted to redistribute all that America has to the rest of the world since in his ideology America had stolen everything from the rest of the world anyway.1 Well, how many countries did we help by rescuing the world during WWII? We even went into Japan and rebuilt the country after being forced to fight a war with them that we didn't want. Once we were done they owed us an awful lot of money that we forgave. How about the billions we send in foreign aid around the world? As a country we have taken the least from the rest of the world and given the most. The resource that has been the least appreciated and yet has been the most costly is the precious blood of American men and women in the battle for freedom around the world. So the viewpoint that we owe the world for all of the riches we have accumulated from our own industry, altruism and natural resources is sophomoric and represents a complete lack of understanding of the overall picture. Even the idea that the white man owes the black man something for all of the work they did as slaves can be debated by the fact that America was the first country that fought and died for the rights of all of its citizens to the point that we had a civil war over the issue.2 Freedom and equal rights for all are concepts that started in the US and have slowly crept around the world. Even after Britain and America had abolished slavery the African's were busy selling their brothers and sisters to other peoples for fun and profit. One of the biggest perpetrators of slavery in this world was and probably still is the people of Africa, although China has made huge inroads at being the biggest villain in the story.

This idea that Americans are arrogant stems from the fact that we love the world to the point of giving our lives and/or the lives of our fathers or spouses or sons or daughters for it and we feel that perhaps we have a little bit of a right to feel at home elsewhere and expect a little tolerance when we visit elsewhere.

Anyway, back to subject of consequences. Now there are people who are afraid that if the man they want to ask to fix things is elected we will see riots and other violence that has no place in the political process. There are blatant threats of this in public communications and even deaths threats against a presidential candidate which, by the way, are not being addressed or investigated as they would have been if they were against Obama while he was running for president.3

Anyway, this is what happens when people find the easiest path and are content to live it. Childhood is where the education needs to change. When I was a kid I knew the consequences of my actions and I could choose which consequence I wanted. In many cases it was to do as I was told and have the ability to go play or other activities or to be grounded and/or otherwise punished. The important point is that I was allowed to choose and I was taught that the result was something I chose when I chose my actions.

 

Children arguing with parents and adults is common place today. 

The modern child thinks it is okay to argue with a parent or adult. Today children are taught they can change consequences. As a result they cheating is okay as long as they don't get caught, they even think they can break the law and not be punished, afterall they see it on TV all of the time.

The difference is that the Lindsey Lohan's of this world have more money to stem off the results for a longer period of time and money influences other people who believe consequences should be subjective. Eventually, consequences will always find us.

Well, I believe I have expostulated long enough I hope that someday we as a people will rediscover our moral compasses, dust them off and find North again.  

Out of the Mouths of Babes

A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different.
Little Johnny said, 'Because I'm not an Obama fan.' ...

The teacher asked, 'Why aren't you an Obama fan?'
Johnny said, 'Because I'm a Libertarian.'
The teacher asked him why he's a Libertarian.
Little Johnny answered, 'Well, my Mom's a Libertarian and my Dad's a Libertarian, so I'm a Libertarian.'
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, 'If your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?'
With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, 'That would make me an Obama fan.

Teenage Boy Scout Denied Organization's Top Rank Because He's Gay

I believe in tolerance. Tolerance does not mean acceptance or conformance. EVERYONE knows the policy against homosexual lifestyles beliefs, etc. within the BSA. Telling them they must change to show tolerance is ludicrous. This young man is now being held accountable for his actions. That is something this country is sorely lacking today; acceptance of consequences. This is a quote from the article that most of the complainers seem to have missed; "This scout proactively notified his unit leadership and Eagle Scout counselor that he does not agree to scouting's principle of 'Duty to God' and does not meet scouting's membership standard on sexual orientation," The BSA adroitly made this statement. "Agreeing to do one's 'Duty to God' is a part of the scout Oath and Law and a requirement of achieving the Eagle Scout rank." How can you expect to be awarded an honor from an organization that you purposefully told you don’t believe in the principles for which they stand? Additionally, and even more to the point, why do you even want to be given that honor if you don’t believe in what it stands for? Lay off haters!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/05/162371701/teenage-boy-scout-denied-organizations-top-rank-because-hes-gay

 

Chicago Tribune: GM Losing $49k per Volt

This is government involvement at it's best. The free market would never maintain a product that has a net loss for the producing company. Of course Obama touts this as a success!
 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-gm-losing-up-to-49000-per-volt-20120910,0,5279427.story

Redistribute the Wealth

I wouldn't put this past him after all he needs to indoctrinate them young!

 

To My Eternal Companion In Life's Travels, With All My Love

Brain Humor

Rock and Roll does it again!

During WWII Britain had signs saying, "Keep Calm & Carry On," and various other slogans along the same lines. These signs were posted just about everywhere to encourage the citizenry through dark and troubled times. Finally, someone placed an additional phrase that I think should be the new slogan which I think is a message for the ages.

Math Test... Nuff Said!

YES WE CAN! ... Raise gas prices that is.

Okay, so this is one that enervates me to where I must write about it. Now this may have occurred back in like February but a recent share of the cartoon below re-sparked my anger and now that I am blogging about issues of the day here I go:
The energy secretary of the United States, Steven Chu, actually said that the goal is to get gas prices to the same level as the European communities.* His idea and the 'progressive' line of thought is that more expensive gasoline will wean America off of oil. The foolishness of this idea is astounding. Firstly, in order for that to even come close to working everyone in the U.S. would have to live within a 5 - 10 mile radius of a major city to be able to use public transportation, otherwise they would have to use their own vehicle, thus continuing our dependence on oil. We have a lot more land to travel across to get our produce from point A to point B in this country than they do in Europe. The absurd notion that we can function that same way as most of Europe is astounding. I will stop with this first step and won't even continue trying to come up with a plan where raising gas prices would even come close to working because it is a waste of time and effort. Until we have alternate fuel sources that are viable and economical we have to use oil. Case closed by sheer impossible logistics. The clip I have linked to here has a great comment; "When you are literally doubling the price of gasoline how does that strengthen the economy?" A great question to which Steven Chu and Mr. Obama have no answers. Watch this; Steven Chu said what?!?

Obama as Robin Hood?

The current administration is trying to portray Obama as Robin Hood. The problem is that people seem to have forgotten the story of Robin Hood. He was against unjust and grossly high taxes and took the money from those imposing them and gave them back to the poor. The taxes that were being collected were from the poor not the rich. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood

Taking The Bull By The Horns

I read this timeline and although it is meant as a cartoon it has some enlightening facts. It was seven years from the time Romney left Bain Capital till Joe Soptic's wife died of cancer. Mitt had rescued the Olympics and became governor of Massachusetts by the time she died. How on earth that can be blamed on Romney you got me. Read the timeline and enjoy the mild joke.

Prove You're Not An Idiot

I wonder how many people did vote for Obama because they wanted to be a part of electing the first African American in history. Hopefully the peer pressure will get to them again and they will now vote against him because they feel the need to prove they aren't idiots. Voting Obama back in just might be the worst thing that could happen to this country since... well I can't think of anything that really compares. If he makes it back into office he will have free reign to finish his promise to  "fundamentally change" America as we know it.

Five times more people on disability now than four years ago.

When people pay more and more in taxes then they can't find the hope in life of being able to someday get ahead. It is taxes that are breaking the will of the nation and watching where that tax money is going that is making us angry.

Word to your Teenager

This says it all. I remember doing all of these things growing up. I don't think I was bored much when I was younger. Yet that is the biggest complaint of teenagers today.

Society

Once upon a time man lived in various caves and only maintained his family unit. As his family got larger some of his kids or grandkids moved out to find their own cave because the home cave was too crowded. This process continued and became more complex until at one point people decided to form cohesive units for protection and to help them be able to more effectively hunt and gather. These cohesive units had rules to live by either spoken or unspoken. If one did not like the rules they might argue to change them or leave with like minded people and start their own unit. In today's lingo we would call this a society. The problem that has come upon us is that people want to force their ideals on the societies they live in and rather than forming their own community or finding communities of like mind they attempt to force their opinion on the rest of society. What they claim is that they like being with this society so why should they go elsewhere. If they like their given society then why don't they see how the ideals they propose will change that society into something completely different from what it is and therefore why don't they just go elsewhere and live with like minded people. An example is homosexuals trying to force themselves on the majority of communities in which they currently live. If they like all of the liberalness they are trying to force on people then rather than wasting their energy they could simply live in say, San Fransisco. Of course this is not where they want to live because the prefer the society they are in because it isn't quite so extreme. What they don't see is if the people where they live accept their ideals to the degree they want then their current society would 'evolve' into one like San Fransisco. Once things deteriorate to that point they then move to find another community to corrupt. Society only exists when the majority rules but doesn't oppress and the minority is left free to leave if they don't like things the way they are. If society has to answer to the minority then gradually the cohesion that made the society will dissolve and a crumbling society is all that is left. In order to keep a society strong the majority needs to rule, careful to allow others to live their individual lives differently as long as it doesn't infrige on anybody else living their life. 

Sailing on the USS America

 Build a bigger ship to be able to hold more water.

Second Ammendment

Even the Dahli Lama thinks you have a right to shoot back!
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010515&slug=dalai15m0

A Begining

Well, I have decided that I would like to start some rational discussion on issues of the day. I may offend others by having a different opinion and since that can have an unfortunate social and career impact I have decided to do this in an anonymous fashion. I will stand by my thoughts and if at some future date my financial well being is not dependant on someone who may have differing political / ideological beliefs I will be happy to make myself known. In the meantime please find my most recent thoughts listed in the comment section on the article I am linking to here;

http://www.thenewsguard.com/news/article_459be210-db81-11e1-a8c2-001a4bcf887a.html
('Dr. Bob' set to leave Samaritan)