Independence Day

Well here it is the 4th of July. How quickly we've forgotten what this holiday stands for. Like so many of our national holidays it has become about nothing more than a day off to spend with families, eat, and maybe go to the fireworks.

Independence was about being independent from an oppressive nation. That nation, England, had a King and a general government that felt it could tax the people anything it wanted. The Americas were rich in natural resources and England felt those resources naturally belonged to it. The way these resources are taken is always through taxes. You send people there to work let them keep a small amount of what they work for and take the rest.

The men and women on this continent were forbidden from trading with other countries that might pay them more for their goods. They were forced to house soldiers in their homes. They reached the point where the taxes became too oppressive and the revolt began.

At even the hint of a tax revolt the media starts warning people they should do that or there might be consequences. I can't help but wonder what our nation would be today if the leaders and papers here at given the same advice to the colonists.

We hear about the tea party, but I don't think most understood what really happened that night. We are having tea parties now that I suppose are symbolic but mean nothing to our leaders because those "tea parties" are not really costing or threatening our leaders in any way. They don't feel the least afraid of what they might mean. Maybe they should but be that as it may they are not behaving as though they are the least concerned with the tea parties. When the colonists through the tea into Boston Harbor, it was not a small amount of tea they threw overboard. It was 50,000 pound of tea. An OUNCE of tea today costs about $5-$8. At the cheap end this comes to about $4,000,000.00 in today's economy. This was no small thing!

They were not only telling the King and England that he wasn't going to get any taxes for the tea, they hit him where it hurts, in the pocketbook. This of course provoked a strong reaction from the government, who sent soldiers. They then told the soldiers and the government to forget it that this kind of severe taxes was not going to happen.

Understand before all this happened they tried to negotiate with the King and got nowhere. This is so much like our present day circumstance. At some point it is either going to be time to dump the tea so to speak or just give in to the government demands. Understand I'm not advocating taking up arms. But we can certainly go exempt on our pay checks for 1 month. The amount of loss to the federal government would send a clear signal either give us what we want and stop taxing us so much or you won't get any more.

Yes, there is little doubt if we do this they are going to try to scare us into submitting. At this point our representative elite (Rulers, for they do not view themselves as representatives any more) will respond by sending people to arrest us or they will give us what we want. The question is, "Are the American people up for the challenge?"

It is time we started thinking seriously about how much ground our leaders have gained in taking away our liberties and our money for the sake of spending it on every ridiculous program they can think up.

One example of what our leaders think about tea parties and protests.... My representative (read RULER) Lynn Woolsey like many other representatives got so many calls the day of the vote on cap and trade that it brought down the lines in washington more than once. The ratio was 20-1 against and they ignored those millions of calls saying they were just special interest groups flooding the lines. 10's of millions of calls is not special interest groups, but even if it were it's still 10's of millions of calls and they were ignored.

The senate is getting ready to do the same thing and don't fool yourself if you think they're going to listen to you this time any more than the house of Rulers... er representatives did. What congress is more likely to do is to simply make changes and amendments to what they’re already planning on passing so it makes it look as though they’re fine tuning what the people want and need. The problem is the concept not the execution. This is what congress either doesn't get or chooses to ignore.

This new bill has an amendment in place that will require the "green police" to come to your home before you sell it. If it doesn't meet up to their green standards you will have to make it comply before you can sell it. This potentially could mean you'll need to replace all your windows with new double pane glass, reinsulate your house, change your hot water heater for one that's engery efficient, replace your washer and drier and dishwasher, re-roof your house and maybe even add solar panels before you can sell your house. This will effectively make it impossible for people to sell their homes. This means the governement will be able to tell you when you can sell your home.

If you're fine with this then just let congress go ahead and pass this bill. And this is only one of the things in a 1300 page bill none of our rulers have read all the way through. You ought to be outraged. Our rulers always do all this stuff at the beginning of their terms because they know the American people have very short memories. They plan on getting you all kinds of goodies (read PORK) at the end of their term, at the expense of other people's money through taxes in districts where other representatives/rulers are just starting their terms and ot afriad of what their people will do to them.

They continually play this shell game and so far it seems to have worked just fine. Even though congress as a whole has only an 11% approval rating 95% get voted back in because they give you other people's money at toward the of their terms knowing you'll forget all the damage they did earlier.

I hope there is someone out there that reads this and has enough reach and influence to start a genuine tax revolt. As I mentioned it probably wouldn't take more than a large number of people going exempt on their paychecks for 1 month to send the message. Of course once people realize they're sending the government more every month than they spend on their mortgage they might not want to go back to paying all those taxes.

Think about it. You could pay off your mortgage in half the time. You could buy a new car and still have plenty of money and time to build a nice nest egg for retirement even without social security or at this point I suppose we should call it social insecurity since our rulers seem to feel they can take and use that money as they please and just put IOU's in the money's place because we don't need it yet.