“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
“For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C

For a vivid description of community renewal fostered by “endless immigration,” see this gut-wrenching article by Victor Davis Hanson:
http://victorhanson.com/articles/hanson121610.html

What is not to like about the latest tax cut / benefit juice – stimulus? It is like a junkie not liking his latest fix. He might admit in a rare sober moment that he should give up his dependency but then he shoots up the next round. So it is with the deficit.

Well, things are holding up relatively well in DC – compare it with California or Ohio or Michigan, for example. Unemployment in Northern VA is 4.8 %.

Bill & Steve – my sentiments exactly. The vote / petitions will never result in any real improvement. Historically, organized crime can only be stopped with force…this mafia is no different.

Knowing that fact, along with how the tax works, how it can be misapplied, and what can and should be done when it has been misapplied is the difference between being an exploited victim of a decades-old scheme that is a national disgrace and being a responsible, grown-up citizen of the Constitutionally-limited American republic that the Founders of this great country established for themselves and their posterity.

I say “responsible, grown-up citizen” because one of the key mechanisms the Founders provided in their federal Constitutional design in order to ensure that the “dangerous servant and terrible master” they were reluctantly creating stayed within its intended limits was leaving control over how much wealth the government could take directly from the citizenry entirely in the hands of each individual American. The Founders relied upon each American to use this control to enforce the limits on our servant government.

This Constitutional mechanism remains intact (the 16th Amendment notwithstanding), and all income-tax-related federal and state laws conform to that mechanism and its purpose faithfully and precisely.

Yet another good one. The part about prayers not working is on the mark.

However, if we keep the Faith and continue praying regardless, God will eventually hear us. In the mean time, the only way I see this communist takeover of America being stopped is that some strong man will rise up amongst the people and bring forth the sword to those who oppress us. I just hope that if this does happen he is a Judas Macabeeus and not a Hitler, Lenin, or Stalin.

Mike Martin
Occupied Sonoma
Land of Moonbeam

Anxiously waiting in the valley locked and loaded.

Actually, this tax and spend mentality reminds me of the 1765 Stamp Act which wasn’t in force too long but other taxes were devised after that.

The only way it will stop is for the American people to rebel and if that entails a 1776 revolution, so be it.