Aptos psychologist: Will Sam Farr tear up his socialist card?

 

Will  Rep. Sam Farr tear up his socialist card?
Will Rep. Sam Farr tear up his socialist card?

 

Sam Farr is one of seventy plus socialists elected to the United States Congress.  Below is a letter to Sam from a citizen in his district:

Sam, tear up your socialist card.  Our nation is at a crossroads.  The 2012 elections will be about ideology.   Will American slide further into socialism?     Or will America return to  the conservative values of our Founding Fathers and Mothers?

Socialists  typically  believes that government is the solution, that everything good comes from government and that all belongs to government who  dispenses it wisely. Socialists believe that government creates jobs and wealth.

Conservatives believes in limited government, that federalism rightly limits the powers of each branch of government,  and that under God individuals have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — with the least interference as possible from government.

Sam,  please support and vote for fiscal responsibility.

Just as families must live within their means, so too  must nations.  Look at Greece.

If a family overspends by $5,000 it cannot start next year’s budget with an increase of 5 K.  The same  goes  for nations.  Therefore Sam ,  please vote to stop all automatic government increases.

All families must live on a budget.  So must America.  Yet months and months go by and the Democrats refuse to make a budget.

Sam, Please  change your ways and support and vote for a balanced budget.

When a family’s income drops their expenses too must drop.  The same for nations.  Growth is flat.  We must cut government spending.   How?

Sam, please support and vote for substantial cuts and no increases in taxes.  How?  Read what Paul Ryan wrote as to how to make substantial fiscal changes.  They make sense.

Why wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on Obama-Care.  De-fund it now. If the government has the power to require every citizen to purchase  X,  then there is no limit to  what the government can require.  That is precisely the path of socialism  that lies ahead.

So, again  I ask  Sam Farr:  Will you tear up your socialist card?  And, join a tea party or start one?  America is at a crossroads, right?  

 letter  to Sam Farr from  Cameron Jackson, Monterey Bay Forum, POB 1972, Aptos, CA 95001-1972

email address:   DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Firenze Sage: Obama’s tax on Christmas trees … so more people buy more trees

 

Obama tries to tax Christmas trees
Obama tries to tax Christmas trees

President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.

 
In the Federal Register of November 8, 2011, Acting Administrator of Agricultural Marketing David R. Shipman announced that the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board.  The purpose of the Board is to run a “program of promotion, research, evaluation, and information designed to strengthen the Christmas tree industry’s position in the marketplace; maintain and expend existing markets for Christmas trees; and to carry out programs, plans, and projects designed to provide maximum benefits to the Christmas tree industry” (7 CFR 1214.46(n)).  And the program of “information” is to include efforts to “enhance the image of Christmas trees and the Christmas tree industry in the United States” (7 CFR 1214.10).
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This is the most perfect example extant of what governments do to waste our time and money.
” Gee ma I saw an ad about something called a Christmas tree. Can we get one…can we…can we…”

Late bulletin:  Cancelled for now. 

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Firenze Sage: In case of a [bioterrorist] emergency…[$255+ a pop for untested vaccine enriches Obama donor]

$250+ per shot of for an anti-terrorist  vacine enriches Obama donor

The Department of Health and Human Services has signed a no-bid  contract  with Siga Technologies for as much as much as 2.8 billion  dollars’ worth of a high priced drug,  for a terrorism threat that may not exist. 

 The drug’s effectiveness is unknown because it cannot be tested on humans.  The threat it is intended to counter is an attack based on Smallpox (which has been eradicated and  “is known to exist only in the locked freezers of a Russian scientific institute and the U.S. government.”)

A large stockpile of effective and inexpensive smallpox vaccine already exists. The new drug is intended to be used after exposure to smallpox in the event of a bioterrorism attack.
Even if the threat were real, and the drug actually effective, the expensive (estimated $255 per dose, a price that bears no relationship at all to production cost) stockpile only has a shelf life of 38 months.

By coincidence, Siga is controlled by Billionaire Democrat mega-donor Ronald Perelman.
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So to summarize:  An untested, possibly fatal drug will be bought for billions of dollars from an Obama supporter to fight an unproven threat which will have to happen within 38 months so the drug’s effect,whatever it is, doesn’t expire.

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Firenze Sage: OWS schizophrenic about Wells Fargo


The Occupy Oakland protesters who picketed a downtown Wells Fargo Bank last week, breaking windows and spray painting messages, deposited $20,000 at another branch Wednesday.
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Maybe they don’t know what a credit union is?

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Why 6 and 1/2 MILLION $ bonus pay to top officers at Freddie for “performance pay”…

Why $6 million in bonus pay to five top officers at Freddie? Non-sense!

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator for Fannie and Freddie, approved $12.79 million in bonus pay after 10 executives from the two government-sponsored corporations last year met modest performance targets tied to modifying mortgages in jeopardy of foreclosure.

The executives got the bonuses about two years after the federally backed mortgage giants received nearly $170 billion in taxpayer bailouts — and despite pledges by FHFA, the office tasked with keeping them solvent, that it would adjust the level of CEO-level pay after critics slammed huge compensation packages paid out to former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and others.

Securities and Exchange Commission documents show that Ed Haldeman, who announced last week that he is stepping down as Freddie Mac’s CEO, received a base salary of $900,000 last year yet took home an additional $2.3 million in bonus pay. Records show other Fannie and Freddie executives got similar Wall Street-style compensation packages; Fannie Mae CEO Michael Williams, for example, got $2.37 million in performance bonuses.

Including Haldeman, the top five officers at Freddie banked a combined $6.46 million in performance pay alone last year, though a second bonus installment for 2010 has yet to be reported to the SEC, according to agency records. Williams and others at Fannie pocketed $6.33 million in incentives for what SEC records describe as meeting the primary goal of providing “liquidity, stability and affordability” to the national market.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67292.html#ixzz1cQFNnCAA

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Aptos Psychologist: Obama bites holes in Bill of Rights. Especialy 10th. Citizens lose out.

Obama bites holes in Bill of Rights, especially Tenth
Obama bites holes in Bill of Rights, especially Tenth

How has Obama, who taught Constitutional Law, most harmed the U.S. Constitution and thereby weakened the rights of average American citizen?

Obama knows the Constitution — he taught it — and Obama has sought to weaken the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Think about the Bill of Rights.

Obama’s policies have harmed the First Amendment (speech) the Second Amendment (right to bear guns) and probably the greatest harm done has been to the 10th Amendment — that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution are reserved, respectively, to the states or the people. Think about that: All powers not granted to the federal government belong to the People — you and me. What a huge right.

Attack on the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms.

In the news today, Diane Feinstein, a Democratic Senator from California, and long time supporter of Obama’s policies, now supports much stricter gun control laws. [By the way, for years She carries a gun in her purse]

Why does Democrat Senator Feinstein now support stricter gun control? Because Senator Feinstein thinks that guns can get into the wrong hands too easily. That is true, especially if the U.S. government, under the auspices of Obama’s Justice Department, smooth the way to put guns into the hands of Mexican criminals.

Fast and Furious, under the purview of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, sold guns to Mexican criminals so they supposedly could trace the cartels to see where the guns went. That was the theory.

The Mexican drug cartel used the guns and the end result was a lot of people got killed.So now the Obama government, which sold the guns to the outlaws, wants to restrict the right of American citizens to keep and bear arms.

Obama, who thinks government is the answer to every problem, want control of guns to reside in the hands of government.

Restriction on freedom of speech:
In Obama’s State of the Union address — with the Supreme Court sitting front and center — President Obama castigated the Court for extending freedom of speech to include corporations and unions. Corporations no longer have to have PACs in place when they make a political contribution. Corporations and unions now have full political rights.

Obama first tries to get a law passesd, If that does not work then he uses regulations to get the same results. Overriding all is Obama’s faith that governmnet is the answer and that citizens need to be controlled.

In less than one year citizens have the right to choose: more of Obama’s version of Hope and Change or? What do you hope will change after the next election?

I hope that all the regulations put in place the last 3 years are put on HOLD. Let’s wind back the tape. What say you?

DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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Do you trust your government [when SF tap water stinks]? asks Firenze Sage

Instead of smelly tap water in San Francisco, pass the...
Instead of smelly tap water

Just because your tap water stinks and tastes bad doesn’t mean it is dangerous to drink, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission says after dozens of people complained about a musty aroma and odd flavor.

There is blue-green algae in the water, but not enough to cause any health problems, according to Andrew DeGrace, the water quality division director for the commission.
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Thanks Andrew, but pass the Perrier says FirenzeSage48@gmail.com

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Time to tell OWS and Uncle Sam (Obama): Bring back the gold standard! Stop printing money!

The Gold Standard can stop Uncle Sam Obama from printing MORE money!
The Gold Standard can stop Uncle Sam Obama from printing MORE money!

What is the underlying cause of the world financial crisis?

Per the WSJ, it was the breakdown of the postwar Bretton Woods monetary system and the unleashing of fiat currencies and central-bank printing presses.

In 1971, the Nixon administration killed the gold standard. In the early 1980’s, financial deregulation removed barriers to unlimited amounts of credit.

Uncle Sam went from a hard money regime to one where money became purely paper.

Today, there are no restrictions remaining on the power of governments to finance unlimited debt.

Banks can create credit seemingly without limit. Central banks have become the real power in the world economy.

So let’s go back to what worked — the Gold Standard.

DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

See The Vatican’s Monetary Wisdom by Robert A. Sirco in The Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2011

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Firenze Sage: Uncle Occupy [Wall Street] needs you …

OWS cooks protest saying only brown rice for next 3 days
OWS cooks protest saying only brown rice for next 3 days

The Occupy Wall Street New York volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.

For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

Organizers of Occupy Portland say they fear as much as $20,000 donated to the group through a PayPal account has disappeared.

They also say the group’s finance committee has hijacked the demonstration’s Internet domain name and filed for incorporation against the wishes of the group’s decision-making body.

And in Oakland…. Tuesday’s removal of the OWS camp saw mass arrests but was largely peaceful. A downtown march later in the day, however, turned into a protracted street confrontation between protesters and police officers from more than a dozen agencies who set off tear gas and used shotguns to fire projectiles designed to inflict pain but not cause serious injury.

Police said they had to protect themselves from protesters who hurled rocks, bottles and paint.
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A day in the life of the righteous.

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Firenze Sage: [Venders complain about] San Francisco occupiers

San Francisco venders complain about OWS

Dozens of the 200 or so campers in Justin Herman Plaza ambled off toward Third Street to protest President Obama’s visit. Others cooked up lunch for the homeless people who compose the majority of the camp. Still others lounged or napped among the 50 tents, tarp-covered rest areas and patches of grass.

A committee of protesters met in the morning to plan. The camp intends to stay while members try to rein in littering, outdoor bathroom activities and the like.

Among those complaining to the city about the camp are vendors who operate as many as 175 sales booths across the plaza from the protesters. They say campers are stealing scarves, jewelry, chairs, tools and other items.

“Thefts from our booths have gone from once a month to every day since that camp went in,” said John Tunui, who manages the booths.
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