Donations Update

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University explains the government's policy on giving the government donations.  Learn about you gifts at  31 USC § 3113

Amazing as it seems, a policy and law is requird for the government to just take in a donation.  One would think they would just add it to the pot, subject to designations on where the money should be spent.  They say the government does get donations.  So showing your  support for Obama’s plans for a bigger government should behoove all liberals to make their donations as soon as possible so opposition to those plans can be quieted.  Do not force the government’s propaganda machine to work overtime, make your contributions so free speech need not come under attack.

The Simple Solution to Our Financial Problems

 

There is a simple solution readily available to the citizens of the United states who think taxes should be higher to pay for the growth of services and government.  Nothing actually is in their way either.  it exists and does not require any congressional action at all.  Just pay it.

Every year the Internal Revenue Service takes in free contributions from taxpayers.  If Warren Buffet is bothered by the fact he pays a rate less than his secretary, he is 100% free to make up the difference.  If all those thinking they do not pay enough just took this patriotic and easy to make option to just pay the difference, or more.  absolutely nothing is stopping any of these people.

The same applies to all who wish to help the government serve the nation and think taxes should be higher.  Take action.  Do not wait for the Congress to act.  Just make that free will donation.  Let the media know.  They will be most happy to praise you and make large how patriotic and proper you are.  The publicity would be priceless.

Once you think of this choice, one wonders why these people have not made use of this option already?

A Thought on the Illegal Immigration Proposal

 

If the proposed illegal immigration package passes as they are proposing, or a similar package, what are the plans to take care of the anger of allowing one group of people to ignore the law?  Maybe the bill should include a “Get Our of Jail Free” card for all citizens.  The Constitution does demand fairness and equality.  All deserve a free illegal move.  Most would just ignore taxes for a time.  One could limit the scope of the crimes, of course.  They also should prepare a statement for teachers on how to teach kids to obey the law while they reward law breakers so.  That could be a tough one.

End of the Road?

 

Have we reached the end of the road?  Long considered one of the ends of the Earth, The French have now invaded Timbuktu and we are helping.  It marks that no place on Earth is beyond the national interests of the powers.

A Thought

 

If you champion the violation of the law by illegal immigrants, how can more law be your answer to any problem, including gun control and mass shootings?  Washington, and specifically the Democrats, think law is the only answer to all.  Yet if law is then all law must receive their backing and support,  You cannot fail to enforce one law, while actively supporting the right of people to violate it, then expect respct for law.  …probably never occurs to the party that they do this.

The Crisis in World Democracy

 

Essential reading to understand our current and future fiscal crisises, and those plaguing Europe, is Michael Lewis’s Boomerang. The underlying crisis of democracy in the current time is well documented if one takes that wider view of the various crisis elements and the inability of numerous countries to deal with them

Lewis visits Iceland, Greece, Ireland, and Germany looking to explain the current fiscal woes of all. While the details are best pursued in the book, the gist of the reading is that so many fail to see that current financial arrangements pushed to crisis by their democratic support, are understood by ffew and created by the many. Each crisis has its groups exploiting the democratic system to benefit themselves, fantastic and unsupportable claims by the many to wealth without work, and oddly, a walrus (aka the Beatles I am the Walrus, who see the crises looming and is totally ignored as a rogue of the crazy variety: until things collapse.

He lays a solid basis for the woes of each country, yet through it all he is really looking at the inability of democratic systems to face up to their costs. His goal is easily to compare these places to the United States. The United States is usually pointed out as being different from these Europeans, but the problem is that the United States is not a model of any particular trouble set, it is a model of a combination of them all.

While the fiscal crisis of 2012 has the focus, the long term solutions are all politicall unacceptable to the sides. SO the nation plunges forward over the big class ahead in the future. A nation unable to set priorities achieves none of them. It fails.

Redistribution and Values Dilemma for Liberals

 

The question liberals must begin to face and answer is if redistribution of wealth is acceptable because of Obama’s belief that it reflects our long term values as Americans, what is the source of those values and are they constitutional as a source of values?

What secular source of values can be cited that all have agreed to in the past that see a societal responsibility exiting for supporting the poor through government? Now remember this must be traditional “American” in nature. It must be long term and agreed upon by the basic membership of the nation. Karl Marx does not qualify. Franklin Roosevelt is too recent.

The problem is no secular source has long term standing and wide acceptance as policy to occupy this position. The source is Christian values. [Of course, Islamic values are even stronger in supporting giving to the poor via the zakat, but this has neither of the factors on its side.] If one just asks the simple question “why” when quizzed about supporting the poor, the values of faith have to be involved. What else carries such a wide charge to people?

All this raises a dilemma for those supporting income redistribution as it must be clearly unconstitutional being based in religion. And, do note they would be the first to want religion separated from government and society.

Being religious and not secular, the Democratic Party is oddly putting Christian values into to play for their own purposes. These are the people least likely to support anything Christina being a part of American life. Indeed the sworn enemies of religion in its totality.

So if the Obama regime continues to make the case that view we must support this given our values, then all those values deserve support or the partial use for this action must be unconstitutional. If supporting the poor is a national value based in faith, then abortion must go, too.