Remember Tass

I grew up with a Strong Soviet Union. They had one newsmedia, and they called it "Tass."
Tass told the people what the government wanted them to think. Nobody disagreed, nobody argued, nobody protested or else their friends never saw them again.

My GUT tells me when something is wrong.
It was WRONG (in 2008) to bail out those rotten businesses (Too Big To Fail) that were run into the ground by corrupt CPO's. You wouldn't hire a plumber twice if his work made your pipes leak. You'd be HAPPY to un-recommend him...on "Angie's List", or by word-of-mouth.
It is natural and right for businesses and people to rise and fall, if they are not good stewards.

It was REALLY wrong for our government to go off of the Gold Standard in the early 1930's. The explanation that says we don't need it doesn't explain what our paper and metal (not LONGER semi-precious metals, either) is based on today.

It is wrong to spend money like~
...a drunken sailor
...a freshman in college with his rich uncle's credit card
...it's "going out of style"
...you HAVE to buy friends/votes

It is WRONG to carelessly spend OTHER people's money.

It is wrong to tell other people that something is good, when you KNOW it is bad.
(How many REAL Journalists can you name?)

NEXT time you get ready to vote, don't count on any talking heads to tell you what to think. Listen to your "gut". It's the thing connected with you and it has a vested interest in your welfare.

Since WHEN?!?!?, page 6

AND...I want to pursue my Happiness!!!
I don't know about YOU, but I will never feel comfortable again ignoring the government and "pursuing happiness," as is my right in the Constitution. You can't relax with a rapid dog in the room. I think that we are fortunate for a few politicians who woke up their consciences and are not worrying about the consequences. BUT most lose their perspectives when ALL they do is live/work in a political world. Even George Wallace was amazed at how many laws applied to his retirement business--a Bed & Breakfast--laws that HE helped pass.

NOBODY is there to pick up the pieces of your fractured business when you fail. Creditors are there, but they just want their cut of your debt.

LOTS of Americans used to run their own tiny businesses. Lots of Americans used to be self-sufficient. EVEN during the used-to-be-the-worst Great Depression, FDR realized that it would help for people to keep chickens and grow a Victory Garden, so that they could survive.

Do I think it's wrong to work in a city and eat at restaurants? NO!! I don't wanna tell YOU how to live, and I want YOU, my fellow American, to be happy, too.

(...more on "Remember Tass")

Since WHEN?!?!?, page 5

I want my Liberty

MY rights are a bubble around me as far as I can reach. So are yours. It is ALWAYS wrong when my rights tread on your rights. NOBODY in America should EVER have enough power to erase our rights because they are God-given.

I have the right to decide how to use my own rights AS I SEE FIT, and THAT includes to harm myself, AS LONG AS I do not harm anyone else as I do this. (Ya know--I don't have the right to attempt suicide my running my car into yours.)

(...more on Since WHEN, page 6)

Since WHEN?!?!?, page 4

I want my Life back.

I have to live on the edge of a little town where nobody wants to move in order to keep my house and property as I see fit. I truly feel sorry for everybody who is harrassed into being told what to do and how to do with their property.

We would laugh at how ridiculous our country has gotten if we weren't living it. For example, on my Colorado Vacation (beginning of July, 2011) I was dining at a Microbrewery that ships/sells some of their beer locally. When I asked the waiter if I could keep the bottle of summer ale, he waxed on for fully 5 minutes about how it was illegal to see their beer in bottles, and he had been chastened for giving a customer tap beer IN a bottle at the bar, and, (though I had already purchase the product) it was ALSO illegal to let me leave the premises with the bottle. He said I could peel off the label and keep That.

You cannot sell food/products Anywhere with a local/state permit.
...is somebody collecting statistics?!?!?
NO!!! You can't make any buck without the government stealing part of it!!!
There are innumerable examples, and I will keep adding them to this post and other posts--here's the latest I've heard of: A Missouri couple charged >$90,000 as a fine (from the USDA) for selling >$500.00 worth of rabbits in a calendar year.
http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2011/05/20/family-facing-4-million-in-fines-for-selling-bunnies/

The people in charge do NOT respect/follow the law themselves--how about that "No Budget" in Washington, D.C. in 2 1/2 years--BUT, you, the average American WILL BE FINED/JAILED if YOU do not follow any ridiculous law. How about the "Dream Catcher" that an Illinois citizen sent to Hillary Clinton in the late 1990's, and was fined--The FINE for collecting song bird feathers (for the Dreamcatcher) was her thank-you-note.

I AM NOT A CRIMINAL!!!!
http://areyouacriminal.com/

(...more on Since When, page 5)

Since WHEN?!?!?, page 3

LOSS is a part of LIFE


We cannot prevent it by letting our government create a safety net for every aspect of our lives.


When you suffer because of your OWN mistakes, you have a choice to make the mistake again, or change.


On the other hand, when you are forced to wait for the things your want, and make do with what you have, you REALLY value what you get.
(...more on Since WHEN, page 4)


It Is TIME that we demand our representatives have to live/run the government like the rest of us.

Since WHEN?!?!?, page 2

THEFT is our the major American Sin in 2011.


We steal from each other whenever our government gives us something for "free." It's not free, it is the result of another American who paid for it.


EVERY SINGLE TIME.


There are no "degrees" of theft. Somebody isn't better than another because he stole less than somebody else did.


When you steal from another American, you've stolen their property AND the time it took to make/earn it.

Our appetite should NOT be to cheat other Americans by stealing their stuff.

(...more on Since WHEN?!?!?, page 3)

Since WHEN?!?!?

"Democrats say a balanced-budget amendment is a political sideshow that is unlikely to pass..."

Does anybody understand why our Federal Government doesn't have to balance the checkbook? I truly hope that Congress votes for putting a Balanced Budget Amendment on the November 2012 ballot.
We are WWAAAAYYYY Past "what will happen if the government runs out of money." It is OUR money that is taken, OUR money that is handed out, and we do not EVER get to say who gets it.
Charity begins at HOME. I decide who I want to give my money to. That's because I'll know that some thief hasn't taken a cut before it gets to a needy person...IF it ever gets to that needy person.
It is time to clean house. Do you realize that members of the House and Senate, and staffers at the White House all earn MORE now than they did in November, 2010 and more than they did in January, 2009. Do you earn more now? Plus the suburbs of D.C. (where they all live) has higher real estate values than 2 years ago. Is that true where YOU live?!?!?
I know that Marie Antoinette didn't really say, "Let them eat cake." However I'm pretty sure that while she sat in her palace, well fed, while the French people who did all of the work were starving, that she thought of ridiculous solutions. I'm also pretty sure that everyone in the French palace in 1791 NEVER saw the violent revolution coming.
Tommorrow is Bastille Day, and it was 220 years ago that the French people stormed the Bastille prison to show their opposition to tyranny. People inside were imprisoned primarily for freedom of faith (Huguenots) and disaggreements with the government. They never saw a court of law or a defense counsel before imprisonment. The Bastille represented oppression of Liberty, Censorship and Torture. It also represented power of a King on the backs of the people. THAT is how I see our Federal Government in 2011.
NOBODY can work for cash today openly. You cannot hire even a kid to mow your lawn for less than the minimum wage. If you do and he complains, YOU are in trouble with your government. (Remember the grandmother who hired her 2 granddaughters to help in her small grocery store in Chicago a few years back? The girls were happy and willing to help her for pocket change. Somebody--unrelated--complained and a judge ordered her to stop and charged her with fines.)
ANYBODY who runs a business has to pay quarterly taxes at the highest rate in the world, and you will have to provide health insurance for 50+ employees. THAT is an incentive to get machines to do the work for you, and to NOT hire new people. Sounds like the argument between the sun and the wind about who inspires the man to take off his coat.
HALF of Americans share NO tax burden! True, you buy at a store and pay sales tax, but I do NOT see very many Americans without food today, and a third of Americans are making nothing, living in free housing and living off of the rest of us and the money WE pay through our INCOME taxes. There is no good feeling that comes from constantly taking BUT when our government gives you more to NOT work (welfare) than to get off your backside and contribute, people swallow their pride and keep taking. (...more on Since When?!?!?, page 2)

Broke down and bought some "Sevin"

I lost EVERY cucumber, pumpkin and other squash in 2010. THIS year, I'm about to lose two of my 7 zucchini plants to squash bugs--JUST started harvesting, too!!!
I planted white geraniums, jalepeno pepper plants and even transplanted one of my 2 foot Tobacco plants in the bed AND I sprayed with soap and hot peppers, but they're still attacking. Plus, they've started on one of my 10 foot long pumpkins. Sevin was on sale--concentrated--so I'm mixing it up tonight and spraying.
I KNOW that they leave the corn field behind me to feast on my stuff, but I've gotta reduce the population, just like my fly population has been reduced by use Fly Predators for the last 3 years.
I'll let you know how the war goes . . . . . . . . .