Tax Day Protest Rally!

The Historic FairTax Sponsored Tax Day Protest Rally! The biggest Tax Revolt event in American history, The most important since the Boston Tea PartyThursday, April 15th 11 am – 1 pm FREEDOM PLAZA Pennsylvania Ave. between 13th & 14th Streets Washington, D.C. Master of Ceremonies: Ken HoaglandFairTax National Victory Campaign Chairman Chairman, Online Tax Revolt Featured Speaker Radio Hall of Fame Talk Host Neal Boortz

Also Featuring:

Freedom Works Chairman Dick Armey U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss Tea Party Express Leader Amy Kremer  Congressman Steve King Americans for Tax Reform, President, Grover Norquist

Come and Help Take Our Nation Back! It is historic, it is on this Tax Day, Thursday, April 15th, and it starts with the Online Tax Revolt Rally on Pennsylvania Avenue at 14th Street between the White House and the Capitol next to the I.R.S. Building from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm. The second major event of the day is the Freedom Works Tea Party Rally at the Washington Monument from 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Ken Hoagland and Neal Boortz will also appear at the Freedom Works Evening Rally with the Featured Speaker Dick Armey Come Join Fellow Patriotic Americans Take Our Nation Back There is no cost for this event. For more information please go to www.onlinetaxrevolt.com If you cannot make it in person, you can still be there and support the cause! It is not too late!

President Obama Back to School Event

Maybe I am starting to feel better, but I am actually glad the President is giving this speech. In fact, maybe more presidents should address the students to instill in them the great need to work hard and achieve their goals. A president can do that and not be political. We need to be more proud of our heritage and our nation. We are not perfect but we have had some great moments, and that is what our education system should remember.

Yes, we have made some mistakes, but mistakes change us, and our nation usually changes for the better.

Here are the prepared remarks of President Obama today for students. At least the President can still invoke the name of God in the classroom! But I digress...I think it is a great speech. Too bad the pointless and useless Department of Education got in the way:

Arlington, Virginia
September 8, 2009

The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.

I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.
Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."

So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.

Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked a lot about responsibility.

I’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.

I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve.

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.

And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.

Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.

Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.

And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.

Now I know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.

I get it. I know what that’s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn’t fit in.

So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I’m not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.

But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.

Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right.

But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.

Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.

I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was three. He’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer – hundreds of extra hours – to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he’s headed to college this fall.

And then there’s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods, she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of gangs; and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.

Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren’t any different from any of you. They faced challenges in their lives just like you do. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.

That’s why today, I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education – and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.

Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

No one’s born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work. You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song. You’ve got to practice. It’s the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust – a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor – and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.

And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.

The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.

It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.

So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?

Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Predicted Deficit Spending By Obama, Stop the Bleeding

If you haven't seen it on a chart, here it is (source)


It is time to stop the bleeding, sign the petition here: Balance, Cut, Save

America's Health Care Town Hall

As a supporter of Karen Handel, I wanted to let those of you in Georgia who read this blog know that she will be at the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta from 1-4 PM for America's Health Care Town Hall. If you want to volunteer for Karen, go here: volunteer

To learn more about this fantastic event, check it out here: Town Hall
They have a great line up of speakers. Enjoy your Saturday!

Georgia Town Halls

Rep. Hank Johnson will be holding a town hall meeting in Clarkston on Monday.

Rep. John Lewis is holding a telephone conference with constituents.

David Scott will be at Mundy's Mill High School at 10:00 AM on 08/15/2009.

Some representatives, like Tom Price and Jack Kingston, have already held their meetings.

So far these are the only ones I can track down. If you want to find out if a town hall meeting is being held in your area, Tea Party Patriots has a list for Democrats and Republicans. Get involved and have your voice heard.

But, be respectful, courteous, and follow the rules of your meeting. Voices cannot be heard in the midst raucous debate. Be firm, and come with answers as well as questions. Let them know what you expect and let them know why you are against or for this proposal. Use wisdom.

If you know of other meetings, please feel free to list them here.

FairTax 101 with Radio Icon - Neal Boortz

If you are looking to hear answers to all kinds of questions about the FairTax, Neal Boortz will be hosting a one hour special about it on the radio on August 5th, 2009, at 11:00 am Eastern time.

You can go hear to hear it live.

During that hour he'll cover the following:

• A brief history of taxation, including how politicians used wealth envy to sell the people on the income tax.
• Who developed the FairTax idea, and why
• How the FairTax works, and how it makes payment of federal taxes essentially voluntary.
• How the poor are completely protected from paying any taxes at all to the federal government under the FairTax
• The role the FairTax could be playing today in bring our economy back to health.
• The current status of the FairTax in the Congress.
• Answer questions from listeners and respond to the most common objections.

Your Government Protectionist at Work

The American Family Association does not clarify that heterosexuality is normal in this list. Left undefined, many people will try to use this bill to justify any immoral sexual act. The list given is a list of all "sexual orientations" that can be classified as "protected" in the Hate Crimes bill.

From the AFA:

The Hate Crime law, S.909 (and HR1913), will make 30 sexual orientations federally-protected. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has published 30 such sexual orientations that, because of Congress's refusal to define "sexual orientation," will be protected under this legislation. These 30 orientations are listed in the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which is used by physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and psychiatrists throughout the U.S. It is considered the dictionary of mental disorders. Those 30 sexual orientations include behaviors that are felonies or misdemeanors in most states.

Among those sexual orientations being protected by S.909 (and HR1913) are these:

Apotemnophilia - sexual arousal associated with the stump(s) of an Amputee
Asphyxophilia - sexual gratification derived from activities that involve oxygen deprivation through hanging, strangulation, or other means
Autogynephilia - the sexual arousal of a man by his own perception of himself as a woman or dressed as a woman
Bisexual - the capacity to feel erotic attraction toward, or to engage in sexual interaction with, both males and females
Coprophilia - sexual arousal associated with feces
Exhibitionism - the act of exposing one’s genitals to an unwilling observer to obtain sexual gratification
Fetishism/Sexual Fetishism - obtaining sexual excitement primarily or exclusively from an inanimate object or a particular part of the body
Frotteurism - approaching an unknown woman from the rear and pressing or rubbing the penis against her buttocks
Heterosexuality - the universal norm of sexuality with those of the opposite sex
Homosexual/Gay/Lesbian - people who form sexual relationships primarily or exclusively with members of their own gender
Gender Identity Disorder - a strong and persistent cross-gender identification, which is the desire to be, or the insistence that one is, or the other sex, "along with" persistent discomfort about one’s assigned sex or a sense of the inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex
Gerontosexuality - distinct preference for sexual relationships primarily or exclusively with an elderly partner
Incest - sex with a sibling or parent
Kleptophilia - obtaining sexual excitement from stealing
Klismaphilia - erotic pleasure derived from enemas
Necrophilia - sexual arousal and/or activity with a corpse
Partialism - A fetish in which a person is sexually attracted to a specific body part exclusive of the person
Pedophilia - Sexual activity with a prepubescent child (generally age 13 years or younger). The individual with pedophilia must be age 16 years or older and at least 5 years older than the child. For individuals in late adolescence with pedophilia, no precise age difference is specified, and clinical judgment must be used; both the sexual maturity of the child and the age difference must be taken into account; the adult may be sexually attracted to opposite sex, same sex, or prefer either
Prostitution - the act or practice of offering sexual stimulation or intercourse for money
Sexual Masochism - obtaining sexual gratification by being subjected to pain or humiliation
Sexual Sadism - the intentional infliction of pain or humiliation on another person in order to achieve sexual excitement
Telephone Scatalogia - sexual arousal associated with making or receiving obscene phone calls
Toucherism - characterized by a strong desire to touch the breast or genitals of an unknown woman without her consent; often occurs in conjunction with other paraphilia
Transgenderism - an umbrella term referring to and/or covering transvestitism, drag queen/king, and transsexualism
Transsexual - a person whose gender identity is different from his or her anatomical gender
Transvestite - a person who is sexually stimulated or gratified by wearing the clothes of the other gender
Transvestic Fetishism - intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing
Urophilia - sexual arousal associated with urine
Voyeurism - obtaining sexual arousal by observing people without their consent when they are undressed or engaged in sexual activity
Zoophilia/Bestiality - engaging in sexual activity with animals

To protect a "sexual orientation" under S.909 (and HR1913) - while leaving that term undefined -- is to protect this whole range of bizarre sexual behaviors. It is to normalize by federal law what are still considered to be mental disorders (paraphilias) by the American Psychiatric Association.

A Voice of Hope

Tax Day Is Here Again - yelp!

I turned in my taxes several weeks ago. Yesterday, I received my first return. I am still waiting on the state.

{sarcasm warning} For a million other people, however, there is a scramble to get their taxes done, as if April 15th just appeared on their calendar yesterday. I hate it when annual days sneak up on me, don't you? I mean whoever expected April 15th to appear on April 15th. Like Christmas. Who would ever think that it appears on December 25th, and I have a year to get ready for it and save for it? And July 4th on July 4th? {sarcasm end}

Well, if you don't have you taxes done, you still have time. Limited time, but time.

The big news for the day are the over 500 tax rallies being held throughout the United States. If you have a chance, then drop by one near you. I hear of numerous ones in Atlanta, GA, Loganville, GA, Columbia, S.C., New York, New Jersey, Texas, Sacramento, CA, and countless others. I name only the ones I have heard about but you can go here to see if there might be a rally near you: Tax Day Tea Party

Consider the FairTax as you file or watch others panic to file today. If the FairTax passed you would not have to keep this day on the calendar. In fact, April 15th would become just another day to enjoy life instead of creating undue stress and depression.

Besides,

• With the FairTax you decide when and how you will pay your taxes.
  
• With the FairTax everyone will get a very fair tax prebate so the poor would no longer pay taxes and the wealthy would not feel left out.
  
• With the FairTax, pork barrel spending would have to end because Congress would actually have to pay attention to the budget or face the voters.
  
• With the FairTax, Congress will actually have to cut spending and "try" to become more fiscally responsible (or is that an oxymoron).
  
• With the FairTax, the IRS will be abolished (or you could turn them into hounds to go after black market cheats).
  
• With the FairTax, Congress will be held to a set tax maximum (23%). They will not be able to raise taxes at will.

Go to a rally today and let your voice be heard. Sign the FairTax petition.

Here is a song by a great American - Lloyd Marcus

Tax Rallies Throughout America

There are tax rallies throughout America this week. Atlanta will host Hannity and friends on April 15th at the Georgia capitol.

Whether your rally cry is for the Fair Tax or for a Tea Party make a difference in your town!

Do you have one you wish to highlight? Leave your comments........

• April 11: Join Neal Boortz in Jacksonville, FL for a FairTax "Save the Nation" Rally
• April 15: Join Neal Boortz in Columbia, SC for another FairTax "Save the Nation" Rally
• April 15: Sean Hannity will be at the Atlanta Tea Party

The Indecency of FOX Programming

As popular as FOX News has become, their network programming has become completely immoral and outright disgusting.

For example, recently the cartoon aimed at adults but rated for ninth graders, Family Guy, aired an episode about the injection of the "gay gene" into the primary father character. I don't watch the show. Supposedly it gets very crude and disgusting from that point on. I am surprised many homosexuals don't take offense to the crude display of immorality in this one.

I am so disgusted by what has been reported I can't bring myself to even write out what occurred. If you are that curious, be warned you may lose your lunch: AFA Report "Family Guy"

I hope you click on the link at the bottom of that page and send an indecency report to the FCC. FOX needs to be held accountable for what they show at prime time. Parents, I would ban that station for viewing. We as Christians have to take a stand or as the song says, "It's a slow fade..."

Stand up for decency in programming.

The 50 Day Prayer and Fasting Challenge

The fifty day challenge was born of a desire to see our nation return to its roots – trust in God to bring us security and to prosper our people:

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14

Our land needs a healing from the sin it carries everyday: injustice, death, hatred, greed, lust, and more. Everyday, as we try to engage in life, we wade through the musty smell of the sin which we have perpetrated on our land including polluting our resources, denying help to those in need, and becoming overly judgmental.

However we ended up in this situation does not matter, what matters is returning to humility and to prayer and to seeking the face of God while turning away from these sins that sicken the heart of God and that damage our relationship with Him.

In the midst of this economic downturn, I fear how readily our nation has turned towards our government for help and how readily our government rejects turning to God. There was a time in our nation when our leaders would call the nation to prayer and fasting, but the day has past.

We have made an uncomfortable bed in our pride and greed. We as a nation must return to God and seek Him and find out His desire for us.

We really need to turn to God now:

• To restore our passion for His creation as we seek new ways of becoming environmentally conscious without sacrificing the health of our citizens
• To renew our desire to help the poor and restore the exploited
• To let the heart of God capture our hearts as we seek to rid ourselves of sinful desires that have slowly eroded our ability to govern ourselves
• To begin acting with wisdom remembering that God does not give us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)
  

What we need are fifty days of fasting and praying. Each day will represent each state. In fact, we should have each state hold a fast so that each day is covered. For example, people in Georgia cover day one, Alabama covers day two, Florida day three and so on until all fifty states have participated in the fast and have prayed.

If you like this idea, email your friends and leave your comments. Maybe we could start this by March and even get government officials and others to sign on. Thanks!

More information is being compiled and should be released tomorrow!

The Trance of Socialism

If you listened too closely to President Obama's press conference, then you may have been in danger of hearing the faint yet hypnotic call of socialism coming from his words. I was blessed to have two children who needed to be put to bed at that time so I caught bits and pieces. I think this aided by immunizing me from some of the words.

Most of what I heard was, "Blah..blah...Government....Government...blah...blah....Government really good, individuals can't do things without it ....blah...blah....blah.... Government..... blah....blah...baseball....blah.... Government good, individualism dangerous....blah...blah....." and so on and so on.

I could not believe my ears. Here was the President of the United States and he was championing government intervention as if the American public did not have answers and were totally helpless peons.

I heard that we had to spend money now because this was the only hope for America. I heard how pitiful the situation was and how the dangers of not acting immediately (with a cool head) would plunge us into the dark ages - NEVER TO RECOVER!

Where is the hope? Where is the responsibility? What would have happened if we had a President who came out and told us the truth and poured on a little medicine - "Get your house straight and then we will talk business!"

The problem will never be solved by socialist ideals! Our problem comes from believing that debt living is the only way to live. Our problem comes from a government that would rather spend money unfettered and without consequence instead of balancing its own budget and putting away its own emergency fund and paying off its own debt.

Who do they put it on? Us! Rightly so, I should add. We continue to put the same irresponsible political figures back into office, and now they respond in an emergency, not with a plan to get us all out of debt and recover hope, but the only way they know how - throw money at it and see if it will leave us alone.

I am angry and upset. Maybe that is why this tirade is is emerging. Thank God for cooler heads like Next Gingrich. Listen, there is still hope but we have to continue to put pressure on the legislature (you know the group that is supposed to be in charge of spending) and demand a real recovery package!

Here is a new solution being sent out by American Solutions:

1. Payroll Tax Stimulus. With a temporary new tax credit to offset 50% of the payroll tax, every small business would have more money, and all Americans would take home more of what they earn.
   
   
2. Real Middle-Income Tax Relief. Reduce the marginal tax rate of 25% down to 15%, in effect establishing a flat-rate tax of 15% for close to 9 out of 10 American workers.
   
   
3. Reduce the Business Tax Rate. Match Ireland’s rate of 12.5% to keep more jobs in America.
   
   
4. Homeowner’s Assistance. Provide tax credit incentives to responsible home buyers so they can keep their homes.
   
   
5. Controlling Spending So We Can Move to a Balanced Budget. This begins with eliminating Congressional earmarks and wasteful pork-barrel spending.
   
   
6. No State Aid Without Protection From Fraud. Require state governments to adopt anti-fraud and anti-theft policies before giving them more money.
   
   
7. More American Energy Now. Explore for more American oil and gas and invest in affordable energy for the future, including clean coal, ethanol, nuclear power and renewable fuels.
   
   
8. Abolish Taxes on Capital Gains. Match China, Singapore and many other competitors. More investment in America means more jobs in America.
   
   
9. Protect Our Right to Vote in the Workplace. We must protect a worker’s right to decide by secret ballot whether to join a union.
   
   
10. Replace Sarbanes-Oxley. This failed law is crippling entrepreneurial startups. Replace it with affordable rules that help create jobs, not destroy them.
    
    
11. Abolish the Death Tax. Americans should work for their families, not for Washington.
    
    
12. Invest in Energy and Transportation Infrastructure. This includes a new, expanded electric power grid and a 21st century air traffic control system that will reduce delays in air travel and save passengers, employees and airlines billions of dollars per year.

Go to American Solutions and sign on to this plan: American Solutions

Democrats Ready To Embrace Anti-Christian Stimulus Clauses

As seen in two articles online (Article 1 - Article 2), I have found that the Democrats have buried in the bogus "stimulus" plan clauses that hamper and seek to remove Christian groups from having any access to public sites that receive federal funding.

I thought this was a "spending bill", not a bill to attack the Bill of Rights!

The Democrats in Congress are betting that we will not read this legislation and that the ground swell will be too little too late. They may be right.

I have been opposed to this and the previous bill from the beginning. All we are doing is stimulating debt instead of dealing with the problems and seizing the opportunity to enact governance that will benefit the future instead of just patching the present.

Senator Kerry responded to another today that we are in a recession now and 10 years from now doesn't really matter. His response was to a comment on how a Congressional oversight committee found that this stimulus package will cause another recession ten years from now.

Plug and patch. Real leaders do not plug and patch. The Democrats are passing this off on the future when their "reigns" in office will not be affected.

All of this is like flushing money down the toilet.

They are plugging up the holes with newspaper hoping the water will stop seeping through. There are bigger needs that need to be addressed and all they are concerned with is how posterity sees them.

The Do Anything Congress

This do anything approach will harm our nation in the long run.

• We are passing down debt to the future
• We are pushing off Social Security and Medicare reform - with the passage of this bill we will no longer have the means necessary to fix these problems because we will be spending all our money correcting this mistake
• We are sending education down the tubes because the root of this problem began when people stopped learning how to effectively manage money (instead we teach how to let money manage them - debt spending to their rescue)
• We are trying to save a broken tax system which even the highest of PHD's have a difficult time agreeing upon its interpretation
• We are pushing religion out of the picture because it holds people to account and many democrats hate accountability
• We are telling the uninsured that they don't matter because we continue to enact legislation that doesn't help them get good health care, only very marginal care
• We are still sending billions of dollars overseas to pay for oil because we are so in love with an unbelievable climate spiel that doesn't add up. Should we protect the environment? Yes - sensibly.

The love of money is the root of all evil. $1 Trillion dollars is more than enough to purchase Walmart, Microsoft, and numerous other mega-corporations. "Throw money and hope it gets to where its needed", says the President!

Oh yeah, and don't forget to continue to throw junk legislation in the stimulus bill that absolutely has nothing to do with spending or economic aid, and don't forget to rid the world of those evil accountability seeking Christians.

Do You Want To Act?

Here is what you can do: Call the Congressional phone lines and keep them tied up with your demands to stop this bill. We need good, honest legislation, not this deceptive piece of trash making it way through the Senate (see here: A Viable Alternative For Economic Stimulus). Act now and make a difference.

This site, Congress.org, will help you find a list of everyone who represents you on the federal and local levels.

Have fun, and have a great weekend!

Merry Christmas

Have a safe and wonderful Christmas holiday and a fantastic New Year. Great things are ahead when God is in it!

OPEC to Cut Production

Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump say it best - when oil prices go up, wealth goes down and vice versa.

Just look what has happened over the past several years. Oil prices have steadily risen faster than our economy could cope and helped lead to our decline in wealth.

Our government has had years to deal with this problem (since Jimmy Carter in the late 1970's, so almost 30 years), and instead, they sit on their laurels just getting wealthy at our expense. And instead of coming up with answers and being leaders, they have decided to throw money at the problem makers which has increased our national debt so much that my children's children will be paying for this mess.

Enough is enough.

The Picken's Plan is a a great place to start when dealing with our oil dependency. Mark my words, OPEC is already trying to outmaneuver us. They are already looking at how they can buy out our alternative fuel sources so that when oil is no longer economically feasible they will not lose money.

We must act now!

The Picken's Plan puts us in the driver's seat. It is a simple plan to get our larger vehicles and many of our smaller vehicles on natural gas in order to put money back into our economy while we shift our attention to developing more alternative fuel sources such as wind power, solar power, and other viable and renewable sources of energy.

We have to stop giving foreign entities, who would rather have our nation fail than survive, our money! Iran wants our wealth not our help. Saudi Arabia wants our wealth not our survival. Venezuela's nut cased leader wants our demise regardless. Russia wants us to suffer so they can again regain superpower status.

We need to act now and start contacting President-elect Obama's transition team and energy moguls. They need to hear from us, and here is how you can get involved:

Tell a Friend

Become a District Leader or Join a Group in Your Area

Check out were your representatives and Senators stand and contact them

Thanks and let's get to work!

Say No to the Bailout

To get to the point, I hope Congress does not act on the 700 Billion Dollar bailout. Instead, I would rather they change the mark-to-market accounting law and to extend insurance but extend no loans.

To get more details and to contact your representatives and the Finance committee check this out: How We Can Clean Up a Lot of the Economic Problems

See The Presidential Candidates Live Tonight

I think is will be a great opportunity to see each candidate answer questions about certain topics that matter without debate. You will get to hear from each of their hearts.

Each candidate will have a questions period in front of a live audience. Each candidate will have separate times on stage - neither will know the questions. Pastor Rick Warren will be asking the questions. Here is information about the event:

All general admission tickets have been distributed. Please watch the event live online, on KDOC, Fox News, or CNN.

At the candidates’ request, this two-hour event will be held in a non-debate format, and will be open to all media. Both candidates also requested that questions be posed exclusively by Warren rather than by a panel or members of the audience. Each candidate will converse separately with Warren for approximately an hour, beginning with Sen. Obama, as determined by a coin toss.

This historic forum will be the only joint event for the two, and the last public appearance for either candidate prior to the two-week hiatus during each party’s national convention.

Due to Secret Service mandate, tickets will be required for the event in the main auditorium, but the program will be broadcast live in multiple venues on the Saddleback campus, as well as on several national broadcast networks and online. It will also be streamed live on www.SaddlebackCivilForum.com.

So don't miss it!

Values Voters Summit

Here is a link to the Values Voters Summit. It will be held September 12 - 14 in Washington D.C.

Watch the video and look at the list of invited speakers and the list of those who have already committed. The committed are already a fantastic line-up: Dr. Bill Bennett, Lou Dobbs, Chuck Colson, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, Mitt Romney, Tony Perkins, Micheal Steele, Alan Sears, and more.

Register now while seats are still available.

There are a lot of people with a lot of questions about the FairTax. Most of us have little time to invest in research so I want to do you a favor. I want to know what questions you have about the FairTax. I want to save you some time and do the research for you because I believe that you will not be the only one who has the same question.

So post a question in the comment section or email me.

David@grace-sales.com (business email)

Thanks,
David