Video Courtesy of: Clare St. Gabriel
What is your definition of voluntary? Are your taxes voluntary? This is why we have the problems we have in our economy. People like this and their “interpretations”. Watch this video and then ask yourself is our tax system voluntary?
Here is the Video
Here is an article posted by economist Peter Schiff at Euro Pacific Capital. Peter is the President of Euro Pacific Capital. I think he hits the nail on the head with his commentary about the steps being taken currently to “fix” the Economic problems. I have seen him numerous times on many different financial television shows and he seems to know what he is talking about. His common sense approach is why I listen to what he has to say.
Article courtesy of: http://www.dollarcollapse.com/
From RedState.Com
Now, with time running out on the DC voucher program, and proof in hand of its success, the Obama administration and Senate Democrats actively prevented the public from learning the truth about this program designed to pull poor minority children from failing DC schools until they had successfully terminated the program.
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) attempted to save the voucher program by offering an amendment to the omnibus spending bill that would have removed the provision ending the “D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program” after the 2009-2010 school year. Democrats opposed to That amendment was defeated by a 58-39 vote.
Given a chance to put its money where its mouth is on a program that had been proven to be successful, Senate Democrats and the Obama administration instead chose to hide the evidence of that success in order to push their radical ideology that forces continued failure on poor, minority children and families in order to placate powerful unions and to perpetuate the cycle of government dependency within one of the Democrats’ most sickeningly reliable voting blocs.
You can see the referenced report in full here and also get a summary here.
I don’t know how else to read the substance of this story other than that the democrats care much more about their constituents (in this case the Teacher’s Unions, not people with kids) than actual, you know, parents.
Every year the Citizens Against Government Waste, a non partisan group, releases their ‘Pig Book’ detailing the pork spending. The one from 2008 was just release and you can get the full version in PDF on their website.
You can also search it by State (Florida Projects $382,964,232, Alaskan $379,699,715), by Party (Democrat $5,453,260,079, Republican $4,383,647,314), by Member of Congress (McCain $0, Obama $89,784,790) and lots of other ways. Just another way to stay informed.
Remember, this is last year’s budget and this year’s budget drawfs it.