the Big Mattress - Freeform Interactive Radio on the Net

Duane,

You are nearly as big an asshole as Charles. He doesn't have the excuse of being as stupid as you are. Since when do either of you object to a group of Americans peacefully protesting a government policy? Even if these "tea parties" are organized by a group with an anti tax agenda, that's how most protests are organized. At least this one is attended by REAL middle class people, not indegents brought in to inflate the numbers. Anti-war, the million man march, earth day, anarchists at the G20 all get fair treatment. Everybody has right except taxpayers.

Jay, you have no clue. Duane is a way bigger asshole than Charles. I know them both.
"REAL" middle class people make more than 200k a year?
What planet do you live on?

Do we really think that all of "tea party" protesters make more than $200,000 a year? You can reject a tax policy on principle even if it does not affect you directly or at that moment. Everybody who is a "pro-choice advocate" isn't a pregnant woman who wants to abort her child.

The people who can't accept taxpayers complaining about a tax policy are so simplistic. You can certainly make the point that higher taxes, at higher levels, or at any level are good economic policy in a deep recession. Others are trying to make the point that it is a bad for the economy and the country as a whole. Why are people attacking the right to be heard or the way this is organized instead of the issue itself. They want in invalidate the opinion of everybody who diagrees with them or watches Fox news. This sounds like the early days of any totalitarian control.

This class warfare is getting out of control. The hate for the excesses on Wall Street has now spread to anybody who is just doing well. Even people who make over $200,000 have a right to speak up.

People are dreaming if they think only the those who earn more than $250k will be taxed. There are many different ways to tax people, but history has proven one of the best ways to charge for the trillions of dollars in bailouts pocketed by the banksters will be through inflation on the masses. Inflation is a tax on everyone because inflation destroys the buying power of your currency. The USD is a fiat currency that exists only because of the ability and force of government to tax its people.

-------

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

Alan Greenspan
[written in 1966]

Alan Greenspan also wrote:

"....the gold standard is incompatible with chronic deficit spending (the hallmark of the welfare state). Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes..."

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/money/metalmoney/gold-efreedom.html

-------

Those who don't mind the government redistributing wealth in this way may not realize that the power which controls the country is no longer in the hands of the people. It is being tranferred to the government. This system no longer reflects what the designers of our US Constitution had in mind when it created a Republic of free people.

Unfortunately, once empowered, governments then morph into other kinds of political states.

Some think America is headed toward fascism:

http://www.infowars.com/celente-america-lives-in-a-fascist-state/