Official report not released yet. Estimates of $4.5 Million would top all the others except the presumed frontrunner and loser
from 2008... co-author of O-HealthCare debacle.
Bush 41 family friend and cohort in crime, Robert Gates has overseen the astounding over- and under-the-table money churn called the Pentagon for over four years
now. Under Gate’s leadership, two wars and two nation-builds
have blossomed and continued to waste billions of US tax dollars, grow the debt, create uncertainty and shortages in global oil markets, and sow hatred, and a third oil and regional basing occupation effort has been launched –
as usual, with neither a plan nor an exit strategy. As the great men in America are measured, in death and destruction, we can count several million displaced, and tens of thousands murdered on Gates’ watch.
Presidential politics being discussed on Judge Andrew Napolitano's show. Congressman Ron Paul and former NM Governor Gary Johnson differ on a few key issues: abortion, closing Guantánamo and the depth to which we should reduce the size of the federal
government.
Making for interesting campaign season as these and others contend for the GOP nomination to challenge BHO
in 2012.
Tell the Karen K campaign who you favor: e-mail info (at) karenkforcongress (dot) com.
It has been interesting and informative to join my friends to watch and learn
from our elected state and federal officials. For the most part, we liked what we heard.
The GOP is on the
attack, as it tends to be when out of power. And the GOP is never better than when it is rediscovering and freshly embracing
its core values, especially those that resonate with voters in the Valley.
Avoiding debt, embracing constitutional
rule of law and living and working free from arbitrary constraints and regulatory interference by Washington are the most
positive talking points. But actions speak louder than words, so we are pushing our incumbents to ACT!
Make April 15 just another spring day? Ron Paul's argument against income tax
Congressman Ron Paul: "Just the method of collection of the income tax has literally
made us slaves to the government by requiring reams of information that would normally be our own business. Then if the IRS
challenges you, you are guilty and have to go to a special tax court to prove your innocence."
Q.If you could make one amendment to the U.S. Constitution, what would
it be?
A. Repealing the 16th Amendment, hands down.This
one change would begin a painful but necessary process of reducing the growth and overreach of the federal government.To ensure state’s rights are a foremost concern for the Congress, and to save many millions of dollars in public
campaigns, I would also like to repeal the 17th Amendment as well, and return the power to Governors and state
legislators to appoint Senators to the US Senate.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
In July 1985 Antony Fisher said: "It was quite a day for me when Friedrich Hayek gave me some advice which must be 40 years ago almost to the day
and which completely changed my life. Friedrich got me started . . . and two of the things he said way back are the things
which have kept the IEA [The Institute of Economic Affairs] on course. One is to keep out of politics and the other is to
make an intellectual case . . . if you can stick to these rules you keep out of a lot of trouble and apparently do a lot of
good."
"People should not judge the quality of this Republican plan by the standard President Obama has set. Everyone
knows Obama is a big spender. Democrats rarely campaign on cutting government. What this budget shows is, Republicans are
hypocrites. They have no intention of cutting the federal government down to size. In 2021, Paul Ryan still wants the feds
to be spending 19.9% of GDP. That's a higher percentage than during Democrat Bill Clinton's second term. In 1997, federal
spending was 19.5% of GDP, and it dropped to 18.2% by 2000. Paul Ryan is worse than Bill Clinton.
"Another
unfortunate but predictable thing about Paul Ryan's budget is that it continues to mollycoddle the Pentagon. Paul Ryan is
the Military-Industrial Complex's best friend. He apparently can't find one penny to cut from Obama's bloated levels of military
spending. Only a big-government Republican could come up with language like 'reinvesting $100 billion in higher military priorities.'
"It's interesting that when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House from 2001-2006,
they did nothing to shrink government, or even slow down government growth. On the contrary, back then, Paul Ryan was busy
voting for expensive foreign wars, No Child Left Behind, and the huge 2003 Medicare expansion. More recently he's voted for
the TARP bailouts and even ethanol subsidies.
There is an old piece of paper (sometimes known as the law of the land, or the Constitution)
that explicitly says the government will not constrain or limit our ability to assemble, to speak, to write, to publish, to
own and bear arms, to receive fair trials, to not be tortured or to be insecure in our persons and property or papers. Yet,
we live in a country with free speech zones, permits to march or demonstrate, state documentation and approval to own and
bear arms, etcetera, etcetera. 90-95% of people charged with a crime never see the inside of a courtroom, much less a jury of their
peers, as charges multiply based on tens of thousands of pages of laws to be broken, juries and judges lean predictably on
the side of the state, not truth, and plea bargains become the popular solution, if unjust, expensive and immoral solution.
The more the state proclaims American freedom, the more it lies, or at least ignores the facts on the ground.
To live free means that you have accepted the truth about human liberty, not just that it is something people of
all ages want and enjoy, but that free societies are truly better than unfree societies. To the extent that liberty is present
in society, we see self-organizing, self-moderating, highly productive and correspondingly, generous, compassionate and fundamentally
peaceful people. Real freedom to think, live, move, produce and trade pushes human beings to be active rather than passive,
because being active in mind and body is rewarded, and being passive in mind and body is less rewarded. Free societies tend
to value all of its members, be they young or old, male or female. In a free society, personal biases and beliefs, subcultures,
native languages or accents are not viewed as barriers to economic or societal acceptance – the members of a society
are instead judged on how agreeably and satisfactorily they live their lives, honor their contracts both written and unwritten,
and produce and trade their goods and services.
A paraphrased sprinkling of Karen's words from the Freedom Phoenix interview:
(no transcript available – listen to the audio for specifics)
If this [US] empire does not collapse on itself, by the time we get to Africa, we will be greeted
by China.
What made all of our staff [in the Pentagon] mad was that we were being
made propagandists. Even though now that the American people know the lies - it still doesn't make a difference.
I don’t use the ‘New World Order’ phrase because it connotes a really aggressive
centrally led threat. In fact, what informs the Neo-Cons ideology is a global view of how things ought to be run. Of course
they would be in charge. Nobody envisions everything being run by anyone other than them. What informs their ideology is the
global interventionist view about what makes the world go around. That being money and energy. They ask ‘How do we get
more? How do we control more of it?’
The neo-cons do not really understand
the US Constitution. They certainly do not get the Founders. These guys – their ideology comes from global
socialistic type movements like Karl Marx. Like Lenin. Most trace their ideology back to early 20th century Trotsky.
They even usurp Red State people who think the Constitution is important. It is just a piece
of paper to these people as stated by Herbert Walker Bush. So while we have lots of potential to change the system, a lot
of people will only declare that the [president] they do not like lies, when in reality they all lie.
All
dictators/empires failed because the people quit believing and they stop obeying. When the CEO of Wal-Mart projects massive
food inflation – and it is Wal-Mart that feeds America – we can count on people finally getting mad. What is happening
overseas hasn’t happened here yet because as a rich country we don’t spend as much of our income on food. But
if we do have to spend higher percentages, then chaos could break out. And if we don’t obey and the lawful political
structure loses its legitimacy, then we will see the separate and unaccountable parasitic political class finally succumb
to the people.
True hope lies with the young people who will become self-educated.
They will have better ideas on how society can be organized. They will gain a better understanding on how freedom really works
and how change can really happen. This will be good for the people, though bad for the empire. We are going broke at home.
Obviously some are enriching themselves. But – especially if food rises in the next four months – we will be forced
to have a real butter or bombs debate.
When I get elected I will be a junior –
practically an alien in the House. So while I cannot pinpoint what legislation I would propose at this time, I can tell you
that for each vote I will hold up my constitution and read the bills before I vote on them. If in doubt, I will call Ron Paul.
Compared to what the party leaders are accustomed to I suppose I will be somewhat stubborn.
Click here to listen to Karen between 3 - 5PM March 31.
Freedom's Phoenix
-- Global Edition "Uncovering the Secrets and Exposing the Lies"
Karen regarding a Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Board:
Jefferson warned against a central bank
of the United States, saying, “I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies;
and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity in the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large
scale.”
An achievable target would
be a defense budget of around $100 billion. That would still be the largest in the world. But the Pentagon’s welfare
queens would have to look for real jobs—not just the vast surplus of field grade and senior officers, but the DOD
civilians, hordes of contractors, and best of all the lobbyists of Gucci gulf.
Interview on Reason TV: First question: You are trying to cut spending by $500 Billion, why are your cuts so small? Watch the video for answer.
My favorite section discribing the political party (dis)functions...
Issues are
more important than party. There are a lot of people out there who want somebody who believes passionately in small limited
constitutional government. People want to be left alone from the nanny state. But they are not all republican, some of them
are independent, some libertarian, some may be Democrats as well.
You see polls where people say
they don’t like the rhetoric or partisanship. What they don’t like is ‘empty partisanship’. They don’t
mind if we disagree on an issue. I don’t think they mind us having a spirited discussion on the issues, they don’t
like us to yell. But what they don’t want is me disliking you just because you are a democrat or a libertarian.
They want me to engage on issues. So it is more important what the issues are than what any party wants.
I agree with the tea party in dishing out equal parts chastisement to both parties because both parties have let us down on
spending and debt.
"Through
income taxes, the government taxes our personal production, only to distribute our hard-earned cash to others (often wastefully).
This is an oppressive infringement on personal liberty and one that we should not passively accept. The idea of abolishing
income taxes is hardly radical. The Founding Fathers did not support them, and they are a relatively new custom in America.
Nevertheless the only politicians who had the backbone to suggest such a policy in the 2008 presidential election were Ron
Paul and Bob Barr."
The Bush buyouts were no surprise, nor should it be surprising that the insanity continues
at home and abroad under Obama. After all, when you join a club, you do so because you like the way it does things and how
it makes you feel, not because you want to make radical changes. Obama's pledge of "Change!" was certainly a cruel
joke on the masses of naïve believers in government who live, like picket-fenced housewives, in a world made substantial
through dreams.
I don’t know how much Rumsfeld talks about
Cheney in his memoirs of the Iraq war years. I do know that long after Cheney and Rumsfeld are paid for their memoirs, we the people are left with a history of lies and
a persistent occupation that makes our own country less safe, less respected, less loved, and way more
broke.
Michael Badnarik is a Constitutional scholar, and the author of Good to be King, a beginner's guide to the Constitution and the Bill
of Rights.
Michael travels across the country teaching his highly acclaimed class on the Constitution to growing
numbers of people suddenly interested in "life, liberty, and property". He is also available to speak to community
groups on a variety of subjects related to private property and individual rights.
Michael was the 2004 Libertarian
nominee for President of the United States, 2006 congressional candidate in Texas, and was recently elected President of Continental
Congress 2009, which met in St. Charles, Illinois to document government violations of the Constitution.
Under Gate’s leadership, two wars and two nation-builds
have blossomed and continued to waste billions of US tax dollars, grow the debt, 
