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How Many Zeros in a BILLION

  

How many zeros in a Billion

This is too true to be funny! 

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in their usual casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR hard earned taxed dollars.

A billion is a really difficult number to comprehend, but here goes:

A.        A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.        A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. 

C.        A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in

       the Stone Age. 

D.        A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on

       two feet. 

E.         But a billion dollars ago was only a few minutes       

       ago at the rate our government is now spending  it. 

While this thought is still fresh in your brain... let's take a real look at New Orleans.

It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division (however, it’s very apparent most of the electorate can’t or won’t or don’t care).

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS (of your hard earned money) to rebuild New Orleans -- again. It’s an Interesting number... What does it mean? 

A.       Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of

New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) would each get $516,528.

B.        Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1,329,787. 

C.        Or... if you are a family of four... your family gets  $2,066,012. 

Washington, D. C < HELLO! >

Are all your calculators broken????

Now Check This Out ----

Accounts Receivable Tax 

Building Permit Tax 

CDL License Tax 

Cigarette Tax 

Corporate Income Tax 

Dog License Tax 

Federal Income Tax 

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) 

Fishing License Tax 

Food License Tax 

Fuel Permit Tax 

Gasoline Tax 

Hunting License Tax 

Inheritance Tax 

Inventory Tax 

IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) 

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) 

Liquor Tax 

Luxury Tax Marriage License Tax 

Medicare Tax 

Property Tax 

Real Estate Tax 

Service charge taxes 

Social Security Tax 

Road Usage Tax (Truckers) 

Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax

School Tax 

State Income Tax 

State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) 

Telephone Federal Excise Tax 

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax 

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax 

Telephone State and Local Tax 

Telephone Usage Charge Tax 

Utility Tax 

Vehicle License Registration Tax 

Vehicle Sales Tax 

Watercraft Registration Tax 

And even More Coming in the new Budget!!! 

And now were looking at TRILLIONS of Dollars, for the Budget, Ever Re-Occurring Deficits, Printing Money for the Ever Continuing Wall St. Bailouts and the Again Ever Continuing Stimulus Bill with more coming --- and

No One in the World Can Comprehend a

TRILLION of Anything! 

And just for your Edification, a TRILLION is 1000 Billion!

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A return of America to the American people

The Following is a Treatise By a Conservatives View Regarding Principles and Declarations and the Steps Deemed Necessary to Assure a Return of Our Federal Government Back to the People

 

 

The Conservative movement and its superior judgment is this Countries only chance to make the changes necessary to bring our Country back to people. The suppression of the Democrat movement to a Socialist system is priority number one to reverse, defeat and stop.

 

The Republican National Committee (RNC) must prioritize its commitments for the 2010 reelection cycle to those deserving and the election of new conservative based Senatorial and Congressional Representative nominees throughout the country. The RNC must change policies dramatically and not contribute or promote to the campaigns of those prospective candidates who do not inspire to the core beliefs of the conservative movement.

 

Constitutional Government provides the opportunity to enact laws and these laws should be intended to encourage the people of the United States to govern themselves. We have lost this focus and we need to get back on tract. Tax burdens need to be assessed that do not stifle labor, yet encourage savings and investments. We (that means the voting electorate) need to dig ourselves out of this terrible entitlement quagmire instituted by past legislatures starting back in the Franklin Roosevelt administration of the do-gooder federal giveaway programs, subsidies and absurd regulations. It is now running rampant and unchecked and it has now taken on entirely new ramifications with the Socialist agendas put together by Obama and the ultra Liberal Power Democrats now in legislative power.

 

Additionally, all present Senators and House Representatives voting records and legislative bill assembly skills should be put under a voter electorate microscope to ascertain the authentic competence of his or her abilities to hold that political office and if deemed not competent should be slated for removal and replacement.

 

This declaration is directed to the electorate of both Parties as these responsibilities are upon both parties but more on the Republicans, as they have not carried out the message that had been our communication statement to the voting electorate starting with, during and after the Reagan years.

 

 

Just for your edification, the founding fathers allowed only landowners to vote, not 18 year olds, not 21 year olds, not even women, and no one voted who didn’t pay taxes as we now allow today (a Democrat vote buying agenda). And now after the last Presidential election it has become quite apparent that 90% of the electorate should NOT be allowed to vote.

 

Too many of the young individuals as well as all the uninformed, uninspired, uneducated, unconcerned, undisturbed, uninterested, unworried, uncaring, indifferent, lazy, and also the unaffected middle and older generations have no concept what the beautiful act of voting is all about. They just vote completely uninformed and vote for their Party representative (that’s a Democratic incase you haven’t got the gist of this piece). And if you still don’t get it, just ask the people with the “purple fingers” who just have received the right to vote after eons’ of dictatorial government, and all thanks to us here in the U.S.A.

 

Remember we, the Conservatives are the true majority not the minority, as the Liberals would prefer all to believe.

 

The following items are not necessarily in order of priority but all are of equal importance to have enacted within the next 4 to 6 years. All the following changes can be assured of implementation by backing Senatorial and Congressional Republican Nominees starting in the 2010 election cycle and these nominees must at minimum agree with the following enactments listed below.

 

 

1.   Congressional Term Limits

·      This will be extremely difficult to enact as the Congress has the sole authority to vote on this type of legislation.

·      Your input to your local delegate by refusing to contribute financially to their campaigns and of great importance also refuse not to contribute to the RNC, this will ensure candidates who will vote positively regarding this matter.

·      Senate Members can serve no more than 2 (6yr.) terms.

·      House Members can serve no more than 6 (2yr.) terms.

·      None can ever rerun for other elective Federal Branch Offices.

·      The President can appoint these past elective Federal office holders to a non-electoral office or position. 

 

 

2.   Presidential Line Item Veto

·      This is truly necessary as a check against the outlandish spending by Congressional spendthrifts (both Democrat and Republican office holders) who are only buying votes with your money for their next elective term.

·      This must be passed again and put again in front of the Supreme Court for a positive order prior to the balance of the Court going back to the Liberal element.

3.   Income Tax Repeal to Change to a National Consumption Tax

·      This would assure that All Residents of the U.S. would pay their fair share of taxes.

·      Deductions for house mortgages, charitable deductions, etc., will continue and will be returned to each taxpayer by the government.

·      Additionally, it will assure that the huge underground cash basis network will also have to pay through their consumption of goods and products.

·      All foreign bound cash payments or bank checks to foreign country recipients will be taxed at the same consumption tax rate.

4.   Actual Time Spent Campaigning for President and Congressional Offices Must be Dramatically Shortened

·      The present campaigning time allotted by our parties must be Dramatically Curtailed and Endorsed to Reduce the Costs Associated with Campaigning for Federal Offices.

·      Today, typical Senatorial Candidates must raise approximately $50,000 to $100,000 each day they are in congressional session for their re-election (and that means they are not conducting the peoples business, that might be good as most don’t conduct the peoples business anyway.)

·      Adjustment of a reduction of monies spent to campaign for Presidential and Congressional Office terms is beyond any comprehensive realism and actuality. 

·      Fairness regarding number of TV spots each candidate can run during allotted campaigning time periods.

·      Each and every over-the-air station must give equal time and time slot for each party representative during the campaigning time period.

5.   501C4’s & Pac type organizations must not be allowed to contribute unlimited sums of money to political campaigns – the monetary limit must be caped at the individual limit.

·      It requires far too much money to run for political office 

      today – as an example; a typical Senatorial race now    

      requires over $50 million and how are would they not be  

      beholding to these financial backers who contribute such

      enormous funds?

6.   The Republican National Committee (RNC) must help select the Conservative representatives throughout the U.S. that can be elected to bring about seats taken away from the Democrats.

·      The only chance the Republican Party has for its future success is to pick a true Conservative in the races against Liberal and now more Socialist Democrats.

·      The RNC should focus on the removal of the three Senatorial Republications who jumped ship and voted with the Liberal Democrats on the Stimulus funding bill. It would be better to lose these seats temporally so these three turncoats can no longer have the privilege to be Senators.

·      Remember and be sure that each nominee knows and completely understands that they are only “temporary stewards of the Country” and as such they must be held to the conservative standards throughout their tenure.

7.   The Health Care System should not be allowed to be converted to a National Socialist Travesty by the President and the Corrupt Democrats to Convert the Best Healthcare System in the World to a copy of the worst European and Canadian systems in existence.

·       How could a Government managed health system do anything correctly, effectively or to judiciously operate efficiently except to increase dramatically the continuing spiraling cost to our Nation. This also will wastefully convert our pharmaceutical industry to a supplier of medicines and the pharmaceutical industry will not continue to spend the money on future pharmaceutical and medical development and investment.

·       The government should not be allowed to interfere or be the liberal reasoning for future health care development.

·       The legal tort system is the largest contributor to the ever-increasing healthcare costs and must be modified or removed to allow the industry as well as doctors, etc. to progress as its preeminent past evolution.

 

And just for the edification of those who don’t remember or who were not around at the time, please do not fail to take into account this; The naming of a proposed socialist health care system after Senator Ted Kennedy is Democrat party politics at its worse, and is being spearheaded by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi the House Leader and Harry Reed the Senate Majority Leader. It’s beyond intellectual capacity!

 

At best this sorry case of a human life form should have been convicted of vehicular homicide or better yet manslaughter. How is it that the official documents and the entire testimony regarding the death, by him, of Mary Joe Kopechne on Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969 were, through his Democrat Party cronies and family influences, put under judicial seal for 52 years (that’s 2021)??

 

He surely did not try to save her, he did even walk across the road to knock on a door to call the authorities or even an ambulance, but instead he merely went home. He didn’t have the gumption to report the incident until the next day. That long night had given him and his buddies plenty of time to realize there was no chance of plausible deniability. That night, he was able to communicate with his lawyers and the phony Democrat leaders and his personal manager about strategy on how to deny the events of the evening. Our leftist media of the time, and even more so today, gave him a virtual free pass by the almost non-existent press coverage of that disgraceful event. Astonishing just Astonishing!!

 

And by the way, now equally guilty are the voting citizens of Massachusetts as they should be totally ashamed of themselves and humiliated beyond reasoning for continually voting this miserable human existence into office and more importantly those Massachusetts Catholic voters certainly should ask “someone” for eternal forgiveness, before their time comes, for their complete lack of judicious evaluation, personal decision and sacrosanct judgment – he and they are an absolute disgrace to all.

 

There are many more positions that need to be looked at and changed and acted upon and these included among others to be; Generational Debt, Education Reform, Excessive Duplication of Government Programs, and we need real change not phony hope we are given by the socialist elitists now in charge. Only the Conservative movement can bring about the changes necessary to rid Washington D.C. of the vermin who call themselves Senators and House Representatives whether they are Democrats or Republications.

 

 

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