Now where is that sub-section for the Tinfoil?

[Gainster]

Money

Western governments appropriate around 35% of their citizens’ earnings in the form of taxes – of one sort or another. But did you know that the numerous regulations and red tape that they also impose on businesses means that goods and services cost around 13% more than they would otherwise do?

In other words, western governments confiscate about 50% (not 35%) of their people’s purchasing power.

Printing Money

Printing money is what governments do (with the aid of banks) in order to con billions of dollars out of the people without them noticing.

Here’s how part of the scam works.

Imagine that you want to be the mayor of the town and that you have to convince the people to vote for you to get the job. So, most secretly, you print some money with your printing press that you hide in your garden shed. And you use this money to pay some of the town’s labourers and some of its businesses to build a new bridge across the river.

“Hurrah!” shout the voters. “What a wonderful man you are! You bring us such beautiful gifts. We shall vote for you!”

But what they do not realise fully is that it is they who have paid for the bridge, and it is they who have actually put their backs into building it!

You did nothing.

By printing the money to pay for the bridge, and putting that money into general circulation, you have simply devalued the money in everyone else’s pocket to exactly the same amount as the cost of the bridge.

The people paid for the bridge with their own money, and with their own sweat.

But you get the credit for it!

Neat, eh?

In the real world such political shenanigans lead to something called inflation. The money in your pocket, the money that you earn, and all the money that you have saved are simply devalued by this inflation.

In fact, it is just a well-hidden form of tax.

It eats away at your money, bit by bit, but over the years it amounts to a very considerable sum.

And most of the electorate does not really notice it happening.

What a great scam!

In the very early 1970s, here in the UK, old folks whose life savings amounted to, say, £20 000, could have bought a whole four-bedroomed house in London! Ten years later (and assuming that they invested this cash in a deposit account) they would have been lucky to have been able to buy an apartment less than half the size.

Basically, those old folk were just robbed of nearly half their life savings – often made throughout 40+ years or so of work.

And what could they do about it?

Nothing.

The central banks are also part of the scam.

So, let us go back to the town where you have just successfully been elected the mayor.

Hmm. Somehow you’ve got to make some money for yourself.

So you say to your brother, “I know what we’ll do! You print the money in your garden shed, and lend it out at interest to the townsfolk so that you can make a profit. And I’ll get a piece of the action!”

“What a good idea!” says your brother.

So he prints the money (devaluing everybody else’s) and he makes a profit from the interest by lending it out to the people – i.e. from the very money that he actually stole from the people in the first place by devaluing their currency!

But you want a piece of the action too!

So you go to your brother and say to him. “Please Brother. Print some money especially for me, because I want to build a new hospital to sucker the electorate into voting for me again. Oh, and by the way, I would also like to propagate a war to help my friends in the oil and weapons industries. I will definitely need some money for that too.”

(e.g. USA The US government also provided a $3.8 billion loan to Poland, on very favorable terms, to finance the purchase of 48 F-16s, which are manufactured in President Bush’s home state of Texas.)

“I can print as much money as you like!” chirps your brother most happily. “But I will charge you a little interest on the deal.”

“That’s fine by me,” you reply to your brother. “Why the Hell should I care? After all, it is not my money that I will be using to pay you back the interest. It will be those suckers who voted for me who will have to foot the bills. Besides which, I’ll probably be doing a different job in a few years time – probably in the very oil and weapons industries that I have supported most handsomely with the money that you created. And so it will be some other mayor who will end up having to pay back all the debt. In the meantime, however, I also get the credit for building the hospital!”

It really is a terrific scam.

And it cost you nothing!

You and your brother created nothing – except paper – but you managed to spend a whole fistful of money, earn interest on it, and then, to top it all off, you manage to get elected into office by convincing the people what a jolly good fellow you are.

This is like sneaking into the back of people’ houses, stealing some of their money, and then popping round to the front door and offering them a free gift if they vote for you – or offering them a loan with the money that you have just stolen from the back of the house.

But it’s their money. It’s what they worked for.

But your government does this sort of thing all the time.

It steals your money by printing money.

And so it is that both central banks and governments are in cahoots with each other to take, by stealth, money from the people (printing money ->inflation -> devaluation of their currency) and to earn profits (from interest) on the basis of the money (equal to the devaluation) that they have sneakily stolen from the people in the first place. And then the government gets your votes because you have not seen what the politicians have been doing behind your back.

To get some idea of just how much larger than even this is the racket, bear in mind that if you take out a typical long term loan to buy a house or a business, the amount that you pay back in interest alone is usually much greater than the cost of the building that you are actually purchasing.

Putting this another way: The amount of blood, sweat, tears, effort and work that you have to endure in order to pay off the ‘interest mongers’ and the ‘money-handlers’ is actually much greater than that required to purchase the building.

In other words, you will spend more of your years labouring to pay off the people who did nothing but lend you the money for the property than you will spend paying off the people who actually sweated away to build it.

The bricklayer gets a dollar, but the bank gets three!

What kind of system is that?

And when you think of all the millions upon millions of properties and businesses around the world that are bought in this manner, you can surely see that we are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars every year going to those groups who create and build, well, nothing really.

They do nothing but lend you the money.

Well, OK. The above is an oversimplification because in dynamic economies people do need to be able to borrow money if they are going to jump on the housing ladder or set up new businesses. And borrowing mechanisms need to be put into place – and paid for.

Nevertheless, a significant percentage of the world’s transactions is based on money that the banks and the governments in cahoots together simply created out of thin air – thereby devaluing (stealing) your money in the process.

And an example of the long term consequence of engaging in this sneaky form of theft can be seen right here …

 

[Gainster]

USA Social Security, Medicare: those two programs alone have created a $25 trillion unfunded liability. The people hoping for those benefits have to pray the taxpayers will continue to be chumps. That’s how all chain letters work. Sheldon Richman

Now, not only does the government sneak in taxation by printing money, it also does its best to conceal what it does with it.

As just one example of this, every year, here in the UK, the Inland Revenue sends me its tax bill. It tells me what I have to pay and how this amount has been calculated. I am told that for seven years I must keep all my receipts and any documentation relating to my incomings and outgoings, just in case the Revenue decides that it wants to look at them.

But how come they don’t send me a breakdown of what they’re doing with my money?

For example, if I pay £5,000 in taxes, I would like to know how much of it is going on education, how much of it is going to pay for defence, and how much is going toward social security benefits.

Breaking down my £5,000 into 15 or 20 areas like this would empower me. It would empower everyone to know where their money was going.

By doing this, taxpayers could see, every year, what went up and what went down. They could see how much they paid for this and how much for that. They could then vote at elections with more knowledge about the issues and so they would come to better conclusions.

And this would be such a simple thing to do! A tiny little subroutine in the Revenue’s computer program could easily apply the relevant percentages for government expenditure to everyone’s tax invoice and print out the figures showing people where their money was being spent.

So why doesn’t the government do this?

When people hear our politicians talking about millions spent here and billions spent there, it doesn’t mean anything to them. The numbers are too large and everybody pays different amounts. And so the taxpayers learn nothing about what it really means to them.

The government could solve this information deficit within a month. A few lines of computer program just before the invoice is actually printed, and away we go, it would print a simple breakdown for all of us. People would then know where their money was going.

And this really would inform and empower them.

£1342 for education. £746 for defence. £1768 for social security benefits.

But, knowledge is power – which, presumably, is why the government does not want to give people such information.

Did you know that ’services’ like those provided by lawyers make up part of a nation’s Gross Domestic Product?

Yep: The more lawyering that there is, the better does a country appear to be doing.

And yet, the amount of legal activity going on within a country is partly a measure of how much its people are involved in fighting with each other.

The greater the number of legal disputes, the higher is the GDP!

Further, for example, the necessary legal costs – e.g. as imposed on businesses by government – actually get counted in the national statistics as a sign of wealth!

What a con, eh?

Of course, the same is true with regard to, say, the expense of using accountants. For example, if you have to pay $500 to an accountant to sort out all your tax details, then this $500 is not counted as being part of your tax burden – which, of course, it is – but it does count toward the GDP.

And, further, businesses and corporations also have to pay huge amounts to lawyers, accountants and various bureaucrats who deal with all the red tape, and you, as a customer, have to foot these bills.

All these extra burdens are forced on us by governments. But they do not count as ‘tax’. They count as wealth.

You see. If the government itself did all the jobs that it insists have to be done by citizens, then citizens would have to pay for this through the tax system. And taxes are high enough already. The people might object! But by forcing citizens to pay professionals who work outside of government to do these enforced things, then the government does not have to raise taxes at all. Indeed, it cleverly shifts what are, in fact, governmental burdens forcibly imposed upon citizens, into what appears to be extra wealth!

Other burdens such as monetary fines (e.g. for parking illegally and for speeding) and the costs incurred because of certain regulations (e.g. pertaining to buildings and, say, the money that employers have to pay to women who take time off work as a result of pregnancy) also do not count as ‘tax’, but given that these expenditures are imposed by governments, and that they have to be paid for by the consumers, they most definitely should be.

For example, a recent study showed that goods and services provided to consumers in western countries cost about 13% more as a result of government ‘red tape’.

This 13% should count as ‘tax’ – but it doesn’t.

It was also recently reported that the average US taxpayer spends 28 hours per year dealing with matters related to tax. This 28 hours per year is more than three working days. And yet, once again, the monetary value of this is not added to the figures when working out the burdens forcibly imposed by the government on its people.

Indeed, when government-imposed burdens are taken into account, ‘tax’ rates in the western world are nowadays hovering around the 50% mark – and much higher in some places.

But, back to the legal profession.

The legal profession is a very powerful and influential ‘organism’.

The activities of this organism mostly reflect the levels of disharmony and dispute that exist within a country. It is in the interests of this ‘organism’ to increase the levels of disharmony and dispute throughout the country. And, unsurprisingly, because of its huge power and influence, it is extremely successful at doing this.

Indeed, the simple creation of a single law – regardless of its merits – just about always gives lawyers and government workers more power, more jobs and more wealth.

And, in America, the profession providing the biggest monetary contribution to the Democratic Party is – yep, you’ve guessed it – the legal profession.

Well. What a surprise, eh?

And guess from which profession most politicians are drawn.

The law.

Yes indeed. The politicians and their cronies are a group of people who benefit hugely from the creation of more and more laws, increasingly complex rules, regulations and red tape and, also, from what is best described as ‘disharmony’ – e.g. the higher the divorce rate or the crime rate, the more do they profit.

Bankers: Some quotes by people who knew what they were talking about. …

“The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating.” Thomas Jefferson

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”
Thomas Jefferson

“You (International Bankers) are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out. If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” Andrew Jackson

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” James Madison

“Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” James Garfield

“I am afraid that ordinary citizens will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.” – Reginald McKenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank in London.

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen…At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties.” John Hylan, New York City Mayor, 1922



http://www.angryharry.com/esPrintingMoney.htm

 

[christopher]

“You (International Bankers) are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out. If the American people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.” Andrew Jackson

Not much has changed since then has it.

 

[Gainster]

Not much has changed since then has it.

HR 1207 my friend!!!!!!!

 

[Gainster]

“Democracy Is Dead… Politicians [In] The White House, Senate And Congress [Are] Mere Puppets, Pawns For The … Oligopoly”

Washington’s Blog
Thursday, Sept 3, 2009

Guess who made the following statement:

We refuse to believe in this new Orwellian America. We prefer the world of
magic, myth and illusion.

Democracy is dead. Oh, the illusion will be kept alive in our history books,
in the rhetoric of politicians, in the manipulated minds of America’s 95 million
Main Street investors. The propaganda machine works. Like a child’s fairy tale,
democracy has been deeply imbedded in our brains for decades; we prefer
believing old, familiar stories. They comfort us, even when no longer true. The
real democracy, what so many fought and died for since 1776, is dead.

Lobbyists now run America, own America, rule America. Forget the 537
politicians you thought we elected to the White House, Senate and Congress to
run America for us. No, they’re mere puppets, pawns for the “Happy Conspiracy,”
an oligopoly, plutocracy, cabal, monopoly all-in-one — a private club of
America’s richest few on Wall Street, in Washington and in Corporate America.

Voters and elections are irrelevant. Lobbyists decide what’s in the best
interests of this elite club…

Most voters are destined to live in denial, trapped in mind-numbing illusions replaying over and over as they sit passively, dazed … they aimlessly drift, unaware of how lobbyists rule America, how lobbyists help the “Happy Conspiracy” rob them blind. ..

Stop kidding yourself. Wake up, you’re in denial, in fantasy world, dreaming of a new “American Democracy.” Wrong, you no longer live in a democracy. Lobbyists run Washington.

Do you think an anarchist or a hippie or a Venezuelan citizen or a radical alternative blog wrote it?

Nope.

It was an American investment advisor, who writes a regular column on one of the most popular financial news sites (owned by Dow Jones), MarketWatch columnist Paul Farrell.

The Founding Fathers would not recognize modern America.

 

[Gainster]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/msnbc-h...of-crazy-person-taking-out-the-president.html

 

[Ollie]

We should have a national referendum and kick all the current politicians from state level up out of office and start over.

 

[Gainster]

We should have a national referendum and kick all the current politicians from state level up out of office and start over.

www.kickthemallout.com

 

[searcher11]

international bankers(corrupt sobs) like bilderbergs, rothchilds, rockerfellers, and all of those slime bag hoodlums, control all aspects of financing that is "big" in the NEW WORLD ORDER proposed by barry o., and a lot of u.s. politicians looking out for OUR interests taafj

 

[Wolfrun]

The real answer is of course, term limits but how in the world do we get it through congress no matter which party is in power?

 

[Gainster]

The real answer is of course, term limits but how in the world do we get it through congress no matter which party is in power?

That is so true Wolf! Here is a nice little leak that slipped out http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_leaked_ethics_report

 

[Gainster]

the DC Crooks get rich on our backs

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/graph_of_the_day_for_october_3_1.html

October 30, 2009
Graph of the Day for October 30, 2009
Randall Hoven

"Most middle class adults agree with the old saw that the Republican Party favors the rich while the Democratic Party favors the middle class and the poor. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) middle class survey respondents say the Republican Party favors the rich, while nearly two-thirds say the Democratic Party favors the middle class (39%) or the poor (26%)."

- Pew Research Center, based on polling in January and February 2008.




The 20 Richest Senators in 2007


(Minimum Net Worth, Midpoint Estimate, Maximum Net Worth)




Source: OpenSecrets.org.



Political Contributions by Industry in 2010 Election Cycle as of Sept. 25, 2009




Source: OpenSecrets.org.

 

[Gainster]

Gore strikes again

October 30, 2009
Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
Marc Sheppard

The scariest story told this Halloween week had nothing to do with ghosts, goblins, or zombies, though it was certainly dripping with huge gobs of Gore. In fact -- the most terrifying words screeched in the past seven days came from the master of environmental horror himself.


According to Arab Internet services company Maktoob.com, our favorite greenhouse gasbag spent Tuesday afternoon outlining the reasons why attendees of the Leaders in Dubai Business Forum must change their wicked gas-guzzling ways:


“The North Pole ice cap is 40 percent gone already and could be completely and totally gone in the winter months in the next 5 to 10 years.”


Such thaw, cautioned Gore, “could increase sea levels by 67 metres” and that “each one metre of sea level rise (SLR) is associated with 100 million climate refugees in the world.” That’s up a full 47 meters from the already horrifying predictions he’s made previously.


Incidentally, a climate refugee (or “environmentally induced migrant” as the UN would prefer we refer to them) is a person forced to move to a new country by global warming related environmental disasters. Where the whacky climate refugees per meter SLR figure came from is anybody’s guess.


Anyway, if my math is correct, the 2007 Nobel laureate effectively predicted that by 2020, the oceans could rise 220 feet and 6,700,000,000 people will be forced to wander the planet in search of a less soggy domicile.


And the journey won’t be easy, what with much of the planet underwater and its entire population -- which Gore’s 6.7 billion amounts to -- vying for whatever dry land remains available.


But before we pack our tents, inflatable rafts, and foreign-language dictionaries, let’s take a closer look at the green messiah’s figures.


Gore states that the North Pole ice cap is 40% gone. Is that Goracle-speak for the fact that according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2007 arctic sea ice extent was 40% below its 20-year mean? Perhaps. But if so, it seems he somehow forgot to check back recently, or he would have noticed that the ice began recovering in 2008 and is now at about 32% below that same average.


And had he been aware of these recent recoveries, would he have nonetheless forecasted that winter ice will be gone in 5-10 years – once again unveiling his utter buffoonery?


For starters, the controversy over arctic ice has been of whether or not it may vanish in summer months. Ice extent variance is a seasonally cyclical phenomenon, retreating in summer and recovering in winter.


Yes, there have been alarmist projections of ice-free summers occurring as early as 2020, but even those predictions were recently walked back in a report from UK’s Met office, which confirmed the ice to currently be in recovery and predicted that “the first ice-free summer [is] expected to occur between 2060 and 2080.”


More importantly, even should the highly alarmist Met’s highly unlikely 50 to 70 year predictions come true, melting sea ice has little or no effect on SLR as it displaces an approximately equal weight of sea water in either physical state.


Perchance the climate expert/horror master conflated the floating polar ice cap with the land-based Greenland ice sheet. Easy mistake -- the latter is way up north and the Met does predict it holds enough water to effect 7 meters of SLR should it disappear. Of course that’s only a fraction of Gore’s figure, but we’ll cut him some slack for rounding. Ah, but there’s another problem -- according to Met, even “if man-made emissions are not controlled,” Greenland melting “would take a few thousand years.”


Perhaps that explains why Gore stands alone even among climate-hysterics in his gargantuan sea level numbers.


His co-Nobel awardees at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) maintain a midrange prediction of 1.26 inches per decade. And even his fellow uber-alarmist James Hansen is only predicting 1.5 meters SLR by 2100!


Now, I must disclose that these quotes come from one source and one source only, as media coverage of Tuesday’s event appears to have been somewhat sparse. But Maktoob Business is a major player in the region, and the author, Shakir Husain, boasts rather impressive credentials. Add Gore’s large on shock-value, short on facts style, and I’m inclined to believe his words to be as reported.


Language issues? Perhaps -- that’s why I’ve contacted Mr. Husain for further confirmation and will update this entry should I receive relevant advice.


Meanwhile, it appears that even faced with the reality that the public’s disbelief in his hilariously impossible doomsday scenarios has likely played a major role in cooling the fear of the threat of global warming, Al Gore nevertheless did what any waning master of horror would do – ratchet up the terror.


And that’s not likely to please more moderate anthropogenic global warming believers. Just today, Britain’s Timesonline reported that “senior scientists” are quite concerned that such exaggerations from clueless politicians and activists undermine the efforts of serious researchers to get the word out:


“Excessive statements about the decline of Arctic sea ice, severe weather events and the probability of extreme warming in the next century detract from the credibility of robust findings about climate change.”


So the incessant, insidious bloviating of the Gorebotic greenhouse gasbags might help impede drastic and disastrous action where no action at all is what’s desperately needed? Both in Washington and in Copenhagen?


Speak out, Al Gore. And Barbara Boxer. And John Kerry. And Henry Waxman. And Ban Ki-moon. The lot of you!


Speak out loudly. And speak out often.


One thing we can agree on – the future of the world as we know it may just depend on it.

 

[H2SNOW]

isn't it nice when everyone wakes up at the same time .....ahhhh stretch yawn

 

[Ollie]

It's just the last dying attempt of a washed up hasbeen to remain relavent and to get cap and trade thru.
Gore, like gas, when passed will wrinkle a few noses and be gone.