"The Government"... they love to TAX & Censor US...A!!

Okay... here's the latest on our Government B.S... in a few words that sum it all up, "Working Class Hero".

"There's room at the top they're telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill, if you want to be like the folks on the hill." - John Lennon

Now... lets get strated, from my understanding most European Governments offer their citizens "FREE" education & health care. If that's not enough most European Citizens have almost half the year off in "Holiday/Vacation" time, which by the way is PAID FOR BY THEIR GOVERNMENT! And yes FREE Weekend phone calls anywhere in the world! And the internet..., yes, for the most part it's FREE as well! Yes they do pay 40% or so in taxes, however, don't let that fool you!!!!

Take your Income Taxes paid to your Government for example, then add in all the Sales Taxes you pay, all year long on almost EVERYTHING you buy, now property taxes, then add in the cost of all these services which are listed above that other Governments provide to their citizens, which are included FREE in other countries to every tax paying citizen.  Then, you must take into consideration the amount of "Holiday/Vacation" time OFF they receive that you don't!  Did I mention that the Danes are some of the happiest people in the entire world!!!  They rank #1.  In California that's "Numero Uno".  The USA, well... we rank #21 on some site and on Wikipedia I found we were ranked #114!  So, your guess is as good as mine.  However, I can tell you it feels more like #114 to me.

I would imagine that the average American citizen, at the end of the day, when it has all been added and then subtracted from their income, is actually able to say they received 20-30% at most! Of their gross income earnings! And that doesn't include living expenses! Gas, food, utilities, repairs... etc. Americans are NOW some of the poorest people in the world on average. And the ones who aren't are the ones who figured out how to play "The Game".

I would expect many of them are POLITICIANS... in one way or another.

After all they "GET" us coming and going! When you purchase a home our Government takes as much as 30% of what the seller received for the home in TAXES!  And it doesn't stop there!  Nope!  Think about the taxes the Broker pays on their commission & the Real Estate Agent, yep, they have to pay taxes on their commission as well!  And... when you own a home, you pay property taxes, for LIFE! Then when you decide to sell a home, that you "OWN" and just happens to have to sit on top of Government land, as Americans can NEVER own LAND!  EVER!  Our Government takes as much as 30% of your earnings from that property which you just sold.  Yep... when I grow up I want to be the Government!  I would have it made!

Now, let me back up a bit, some of you are asking yourselves if my last statement is true about not ever owning the land our homes sit upon or the vacant land we just purchased and thought we owned outright?  Yes, it is true!  You can never OWN LAND in the USA, when someone purchases land, so to speak, or a home, they are actually purchasing the "Right" to use that vacant land and or or land which the home sits on top of, for as long as they wish to "Pay Property Taxes" (every year, for life and beyond).  Even though you have paid for the "structure" that sits on top of your rented Government land, you are still TAXED for ever on the assessment of the structure as well as the land.  And that's not all!!!

The good news from my understanding, is that the home is yours!!! You can take it with you and stop paying taxes, as long as you have somewhere you can place it that isn't upon LAND!  Your children get to continue the tax payments throughout every year of their lifetime, as long as they own the home which you gifted/leave to them.  Yes... the State "GETS" you, the City "GETS" you, and ultimately our Government "GETS" you every time.

Now back to the Censorship!

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia website this morning: "SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.

Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they will fatally damage the free and open Internet."

Call your elected officials...
Tell them you are their constituent, and you oppose SOPA and PIPA.

I just just took some time out of my morning to write three senators who will probably can my statement and add me to a "Bulk Mail" list where I will continue to receive piles and piles of scrap paper asking for donations and support from every US politician from now until I die.  Yes, I wrote to our senators, who I have absolutely zero faith in: "I oppose SOPA and PIPA. And political B.S. Tell your sheep more of what we want to hear. So they can continue to fill your pockets!"


"The Government... they love to TAX & Censor US All." - Richard Peacock


"A working class hero is something to be... If you want to be a hero well just follow me." - John Lennon

Moving right along... Today's Economy.

It never ceases to amaze me, just how much speed we have picked up on the way down this recent landslide of major economic issues... I find it amazing just how fragile the structure of the economy actually is. And just how the media and information play into the recipe for this "Perfect Storm"... "Recession... turn Depression". I have always followed how easily swayed the stock markets are and how they are entirely driven by information and media. But to see just how an entire countries economic situation can be brought down first hand by such... well... that is something I don't think anyone of us would have thought we would have seen in our lifetimes! Not after the 1930's depression and all our experience with what created it! Not after all we have achieved, invented, learned, constructed and over come! Not to mention how much this entire situation has affected the structure of most of the worlds economic situation and how they depend on the US for so much! I wish everyone could take a step back and analyze the situation which they are now in, a situation which was created by EVERYONE'S recent and current actions/reactions stemming from the semi-recent news that we are now officially in a recession. In fact I wish that the group of individuals employed by our US government, who are and were responsible for the analyzation of our economy within our US government, would have done their job period. I am sure a government job is not unlike so many of the jobs in any business or office facility. I am also quite sure that with so many Americans out there who are just showing up to a job to mearly collect a paycheck, and then going home for the day without actually spending time doing any actual work and actually working harder not to get their work done and find ways to keep busy through out their work shift with e-mail and socializing with whom ever is around their work space etc... I know the way it works... lazy managerial types giving you the old "Just handle it, so I don't have to, and if I have to handle it, then, your going to take the fall for it" attitude. I am sure our US government works quite the same way for lack of a better word. Whomever was and probably still is in charge of the analyzation of our economy's trends and the analyzation of action and re-action of economic situations etc... should have seen this ENTIRE situation coming, I mean with all the ill choices that were done through out this past 5 to 6 years, someone was overseeing most of this "Legalized Gambling" which was being done with loans around our US of A! If our US government would have done it's job and for seen the tragedy which lie ahead, maybe we would have been able to dodge this "imaginary bullet"! Of course we are in a recession and heading for a depression... everyone is told to stop spending and save your money for the coming recession... then, the government tells them they want to create an economic stimulus! Okay, so now you want me to start spending again? Then, we are told to "save for hard times ahead"... Okay... now that we have created a nice healthy dose of confusion, and most everyone has stopped going about their normal daily, weekly & monthly spending habits! Now all we have to do is wait... and it could not have been timed more perfectly! Wait for all those mortgages to balloon in payment, and let's get started with this recession just before Christmas, that way we can maximize the effect that the lack of spending will have upon most every business down the chain... it will be at a time which most business rely on to turn a profit... okay, now, let's review... our recipe for the "Perfect Storm"... "Recession... turn Depression"

1. Tell the people we are headed for recession.
2. Tell the people we are in a recession.
3. Tell the people they need to save their money.
4. Tell the people they need to spend their money.
5. Give hundreds of billions away to large companies, banks, insurance companies & vehicle manufactures.
6. Wait for the companies which rely on the consumer to spend their money to start to fold.
7. Give more money to big business and wait a bit more for the out of work employees which rely on their jobs which folded to stop paying their bills & best of all stop paying their mortgages.
8. Take their homes from them and let the homes sit vacant, and become vandalized, because that makes perfect sense, now doesn't it? Not getting what you want in mortgage payment? Cut your income out all together! Why continue with the same mortgage payment that filled your pockets so nicely at least until this "imaginary recession" has subsided.
9. Don't tell them that most of this economic hardship has been created by the power of "word" and the way information spreads like a wild fire! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Now the rich can become richer and the poor can become poorer.

And oh yeah, by the way... we are now officially in a depression.

-Richard Peacock- March 21,2009