This alone would make this a great article.
MICHAEL M BATES.com: "KIDS GET AN EDUCATION IN GREED" -Column by Michael M. Bates (COLUMN SNIPPET: "Of course, we know the NEA is vitally interested in what genuinely matters: Gun control, nuclear disarmament, multiculturalism, sex education, socialized medicine, racial quotas, abortion, banning tobacco and all the other archetypical items on the Leftist laundry list. The teachers' strike is nothing but a self-serving attempt to squeeze more dollars from taxpayers. It has absolutely nothing to do with improving education. You don't need a teaching certificate to see that.") (103102)
YAHOO! News (AP): "SUV's TORCHED IN PENNSYLVANIA LATEST ECO-TERRORISM CLAIMED BY RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PITTSBURGH - In the latest in a string of vandalism carried out in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, members of the radical environmental group are claiming responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania auto dealership. A posting on the group's Web site said the "attack" targeted gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, or SUVs, in a fight "to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural environment."") (010403)
FBI.gov - WANTED BY THE FBI: "MICHAEL JAMES SCARPITTI" also known as: "Matthew Hill, John Pierce, Ridge and Tre Arrow." (WANTED POSTER SNIPPET: "Scarpitti is a longtime environmental activist with an extensive history of involvement in anti-logging tree sits and other related protests. He is known to be affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which is a loosely organized movement whose stated objective is to stop the destruction of the natural environment and the exploitation of the earth's natural resources through whatever means are necessary. Law enforcement authorities consider the ELF to be a domestic terrorism group. REWARD The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Michael James Scarpitti.") (December 2002)
"FIEDOR REPORT ON THE NEWS A Weekly View from the Middle of an Asphalt Jungle" by Doug Fiedor (ARTICLE NOTE: "By instilling socialism in the United States, the Democrats intend to usurp our freedom.") (102702)
The form of government in the US is fascism. The means of production are privately owned but are highly regulated and subjected to central planning by the state.
Regards
J.R.
Too many Americans can't think their way out of a paper bag. They can't associate historic events to their own selfish desires. They set back and beleive what the hack media and pinko politicos tell them.
Is it any wonder that lawyers are stealing the wealth of the nation, since they make the laws (50+% of federal and state legislators are lawyers); and they adjudicate the laws (Judges are selected and approved and sponsored by the lawyers).
I get in real trouble when I explain to a leech...er...senior citizen that Social Security and Medicare is simply the government robbing and looting my paycheck and others' paychecks and redistributing it to them. Tough luck. The money belongs to me and my family. Seven percent of my income (actually much more if you factor in what my employer is paying as matching "contributions" - what he has budgeted to pay me but has to give over to government robbers) goes directly to these leeches. For me, if you factor in employer matching, that comes to over $10,000 per year that is freakin' stolen from my family and given to some old fart somewhere who failed to budget and plan his finances accordingly.
Take a look at your FICA "contributions" - then double them. That is what is being outright stolen from you and your family. And then go find the part of the Constitution that allows this theft. Don't bother, it is not there.
Man, I'm pissed. Where are the crates of tea to dump, dammit? Where's my warpaint? I'm sick to death of this crap!
Want to get pissed too? Check out this Social Security calculator from The Heritage Foundation and you will see how much you would be able to retire with and leave to your heirs if you didn't have your money stolen from you and flushed down the freakin' retarded Social Security ponzi scam.
For me, I would have around $1million by simply investing the same amount into interest bearing accounts, stocks, and bonds. Then, I would be able to live comfortably until I die and would leave around $800k to my heirs. Imagine the magnitude of the theft that the Federal Government is perpetrating against every working American!
The churches of New Testament times conducted themselves in such a manner. With this big caveat: membership was voluntary.