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Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... April, 2012
4-1-2012 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie; Meg33, Friends

Posted on 03/31/2012 10:08:43 PM PDT by JustAmy




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To: stephenjohnbanker

Amen! And just look at their retirement and health benefits
and then compare what We The People get on retirement and/or health care? There’s no fairness in this world!!


821 posted on 04/20/2012 6:26:55 PM PDT by jaycee ((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.")))
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To: left that other site

And you’re still funny even with white knuckles!!!!


822 posted on 04/20/2012 6:28:47 PM PDT by jaycee ((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.")))
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To: jaycee

LOL! :-)


823 posted on 04/20/2012 6:31:34 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: jaycee

” and then compare what We The People get on retirement and/or health care? “

Why they never leave!

Remember Anthony Weiner? His own party had to push him out!!


824 posted on 04/20/2012 6:32:57 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: jaycee; stephenjohnbanker

“Term limits are crucial”!!! YES!

Our fossil RINO incumbents are as bad as the demonic-rats, given that they cross the aisle to vote with them on important legislation. They need to be ousted and replaced with TEA Party patriots.

I think the Marxist will get a second term IF Romney is the nominee, so I’m continuing to pray for Divine Intervention, and a bloody “all-in” floor fight at the convention. Time for TEA Party Patriots and all conservatives to put an end to this corrupt and stacked GOP-E nominating process.

Party unity, pffft.

God bless and Keep you, sweetest FRiend and I won’t dare to call you “sweet” SJB, but God bless and Keep you too!

P.S. I promise to send Charlie’s column to my family in E-mail.


825 posted on 04/20/2012 6:35:38 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Lady Jag

LOL..Perfect Lady Jag!


826 posted on 04/20/2012 6:37:59 PM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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To: left that other site

Just thankful to God you are safe!
(((HUGS)))


827 posted on 04/20/2012 6:39:39 PM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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To: jaycee

It’s a great column..Had to share it.


828 posted on 04/20/2012 6:46:08 PM PDT by MEG33 (O Lord, Guide Our Nation)
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To: onyx

May God bless us all.....and keep us!


829 posted on 04/20/2012 6:46:17 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
AMEN! Thanks, SJB!
830 posted on 04/20/2012 7:42:10 PM PDT by jaycee ((("His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.")))
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To: Jim Robinson; JustAmy; Billie; MEG33; jaycee; dutchess; GodBlessUSA; deadhead; LUV W; mathluv; ...

Freep mail me to be on or off the Daily Bread ping list


Investment Advice

April 21, 2012

“I want to help you invest wisely in your future.” That’s what the financial advisor said as he began his talk about investing in 401(k)s and retirement funds. He wanted his listeners to continue putting money in the stock market during all the ups and downs of the economy because historically a good return will eventually occur.

God wants us to invest wisely in our spiritual future as well. Through the ups and downs of life’s circumstances we should continually invest in a “spiritual account”: our character. The apostle Peter tells us to be diligent about character development (2 Peter 1:5-11). After we trust in Christ for salvation, we are to invest these qualities into our character: faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love.

The future returns on our investment in character will be godliness (vv.5-7), fruitfulness in the knowledge of Jesus Christ (v.8), assurance of our calling (v.9), and victory over sin (v.10).

Investing money in retirement funds can be profitable, but investing in our spiritual lives offers the best kind of return for our future!

Let us grow up into Christ,
Claiming His life and its powers—
The triumphs of grace in the heavenly place
That our conquering Lord has made ours. —Flint
Now is the time to invest in eternity.

Read: 2 Peter 1:1-11

If these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. —2 Peter 1:8
Bible in a Year:
1 Chronicles 24-26


831 posted on 04/21/2012 5:19:47 AM PDT by The Mayor ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat" — Ronald Reagan)
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To: jaycee

but those special interest groups are the ones writing the laws....along with the sen/con aides, the actual ones who are supposed to be writing the laws, do not, nor do they read what has been written in their names.


832 posted on 04/21/2012 6:40:32 AM PDT by GailA (Any congress critter or president who FAILS to keep faith with the Military, WON'T keep faith with U)
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To: jaycee

“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

James Madison 1788 - Federalist No. 48


833 posted on 04/21/2012 6:46:16 AM PDT by GailA (Any congress critter or president who FAILS to keep faith with the Military, WON'T keep faith with U)
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To: jaycee; All
When Charlie retired i remember reading his last column. I cut it out and kept it is a drawer. Still there, I suppose. FULL OF TRUTH!

Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... April, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012 6:05:34 PM · 801 of 833
jaycee to JustAmy; MEG33; GodBlessUSA; yorkie; Kitty Mittens; Billie; Mama_Bear; LUV W; Lady Jag; lonestar; ..
I posted this again because the other one was on the last page and I was afraid people wouldn’t go back to read!

545 people

This is the problem!

My personal comment. I have always believed our problems
were not “Just one Parties, one person’s, one President’s” issues/decisions.

It was associated and
created by “Politicians” as a group.

Read all the way through. This should be on the front page of every newspaper.

Charley Reese’s Final column!

A very interesting column.. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL
Be sure to Read the Poem at the end.

Charley Reese’s final column for the Orlando Sentinel...
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It’s a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren’t so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he’s fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me
to my doom...’

When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell ‘politicians?’

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!

GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!

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Seemingly they have the medias, TV, radio, newspapers, Books, Teachers!!!,Movies,etc., that effectively keep us from seeing the root of the problem from the millions that believe and

How to make a new shift and start from scratch. Once we were independent, we each had to make our own way, form groups or die. Look at the third world countries. The masses eke out a bare existence, there are some that seem to own it all, have it all, and care not for others distress. God help us all. We have all turned to our own way. Forgive us LORD. in Jesus name I pray. amen.

834 posted on 04/21/2012 9:28:09 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: geologist

Amen!


835 posted on 04/21/2012 9:49:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: jaycee
Thank you for that Excellent Post, Dear Jaycee!


836 posted on 04/21/2012 10:04:46 AM PDT by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: oldteen
(((((It's been Awhile Since I've Seen you, Dear Teenie!)))))
I Pray All is Well.


837 posted on 04/21/2012 10:32:19 AM PDT by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: The Mayor
Life itself, and time are gifts we each receive from God, how to use our life, our time is for us to learn. What is more wise than the WORD of God? NOTHING. How much time do we spend immersed in the Word of God. What better use for our time? We are too caught us in entertainment and nonsense. I am speaking for myself here.

Forgive the misuse of our assets, gifts, words, energies, turn our hearts back to thee, LORD, in Jesus name I pray. Amen,

838 posted on 04/21/2012 10:51:24 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: JustAmy; All; FRiends; everyone
(((((Sending Saturday Hugs to Everyone)))))



839 posted on 04/21/2012 12:33:32 PM PDT by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: jaycee

Thanks very much for the ping/post (800 & 801), jaycee! OUTSTANDING!

A great day to all of the fine folks at Amy’s Place.


840 posted on 04/22/2012 5:17:05 AM PDT by PGalt
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