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The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner,
think about what they are saying and whether you want them spending YOUR money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency
did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked the earth on two feet.

E.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

With those thoughts still fresh in your mind let’s take a look at New Orleans.
It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS
to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number… what does it mean?

A.
Well… if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)you each get $516,528.

B.
Or… if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C.
Or if you are a family of four your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D.C., WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH OUR MONEY?

Yes, a billion is an enormous number, especially when talking about our dollars.
With that in mind…

Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal?,

3.69 TRILLION

TRILLION. I guess there will have to be a whole other post about that number…sigh

One quick example:
One trillion dollar bills laid end-to-end would stretch from
the earth … to the sun … and back … with a lot of miles to spare.

Moving on…

That is just the beginning. He and his co-conspirators have MUCH more planned.
Don’t get me wrong, Republicans are guilty too, which is why I vote Libertarian.
The Democrats however intend to take the huge overspending and
grow it to the point that capitalism and the free market cease to function.
Then of course they can point to the catastrophe as reason to abandon
the Constitution entirely and take over completely.

No more individual rights and self determination, just government and serfs.

serf
–noun
1.a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord,
commonly attached to the lord’s land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
2.a slave.

Where does that astronomical amount of money come from our government spends?
Here are some sources. There are some state taxes thrown in here but you get the idea.

Accounts Receivable Tax

Accumulated Earnings Tax

Ad Valorem Tax

Alternative Minimum Tax Alternative minimum tax

Aviation Fuel Tax A

Building Permit Tax

Capital Gains Tax

CDL License Tax

Cement and Gypsum Producers License Tax

Cigarette Tax

Coal Severance Tax

Coal Gross Proceeds Tax

Consumer Counsel Tax

Consumption Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Corporation License Tax

Court Fines

Customs Duty

Dog License Tax

Double Tax Double taxation

Electrical Energy Producers Tax

Estate Tax, Inheritance Estate Tax,

Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax

Fishing License Tax

Food Service License Tax

Fuel Permit License Tax

Gas Guzzler Tax

Gasoline Tax

Generation-skipping Transfer Tax

Gift Tax

Gross Production Tax

Hospital Facility Utilization Fee

Hunting License Fee Tax

Inheritance Tax, see Estate Tax

Inventory Tax

IRS Interest Charges Tax

IRS Penalties Tax

Kiddie Tax

Land Value Tax

Liquor License Tax

Liquor Tax

Local Tax

Lodging Facility Use Tax

Luxury Tax

Marriage License Tax

Medicare Tax

Metal Mines Gross Proceeds Tax

Metal Mines License Tax

Miscellaneous Mineral Mines License Tax

Miscellaneous Mines Net Proceeds Tax

Nursing Facility Bed Tax

Oil and Natural Gas Production Tax

Parking Meter Tax

Payroll Tax

Professional Privilege

Property Tax

Proxy Tax

Public Contractor’s Gross Receipts Tax

Public Service Commission Tax

Public Utility Tax Public utility tax

Real Estate Tax

Real Estate Transfer Tax

Recreational Vehicle Tax

Rental Vehicle Sales Tax

Resort Tax

Resource Indemnity and Groundwater Assessment Tax

Retail Telecommunications Excise Tax

Road Usage Tax (Truckers)

Sales Tax

School Tax

Self-Employment Tax

Service charge tax

Septic Permit Tax

Severance Tax

Social Security Tax

State Income Tax

State Unemployment Tax

Statewide Emergency Telephone 911 System Fee Tax

Surtax Tax – Extra tax

Tariffs – A tax on imports. Needed to protect all the industries we used to have.

Telephone Federal Excise Tax

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

TDD Telecommunications Service Fee Tax

Tobacco Products Tax (Other than Cigarettes)

Toll Road Fee Tax

Toll Bridge Fee Tax

Toll Tunnel Fee Tax

Tonnage Tax

Traffic Fines

Trailer Registration Fee Tax

Use Tax

Utility Tax, see Public Utility Tax

Vehicle Registration and License Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Watercraft Registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Wholesale Energy Transaction Tax

Workers Compensation Tax

Obviously that is only a partial list and new taxes are added constantly.

We left British rule to avoid so many taxes. The difference here is that
WE CAN VOTE THE MEN AND WOMEN RESPONSIBLE OUT OF OFFICE.
The problem we have now is apathy.

None of those taxes existed 100 years ago
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt.
We had the largest middle class in the world,
and kids were raised by family, not day care.

What happened?

The same thing that always happens in societies if the
population lets their representatives think they are rulers.
Those in office funnel the productivity of the people to pay themselves,
build their bureaucracy, and sustain the cycle.

Stay submissive, keep quiet, look away, and your hard earned freedoms,
and money will continue to disappear at an ever faster rate.
Keep quiet long enough and our republic will become just what
early Americans fled Europe to escape, and founded this country to avoid.

Get involved. Speak up. VOTE. Educate yourself. See what you can do
to keep history from repeating itself. This time we have no new continent
to move to. Antarctica is vacant but personally, I don’t like the cold.

Save the country we have so we don’t become another tragic period in history.

Thank you for your time.
The fact that you read this far down the page shows that you care.
That is a start…