My comment to REI

This is my email to REI...

If you are supporting the radical anti-capitalist Wall Street protestors with camping materials, you will lose a great deal of business.  This self proclaimed '99%' is more like 9% of the US population.  Most Americans do not support this movement.  Your company is successful because of a free market economy- this group is looking to destroy that very system.  If you intend to provide such items to these radicals, I will do whatever I can to bring your support to the attention of friends and family, and ask them to do the same.    I think you'll find most Americans want no part of this revolution.  Please reconsider your support of these grossly uninformed useful idiots.  Thank you.

This is their response... (thank you REI)

Good Day Stacy,

Thank you for contacting REI and for giving us the opportunity to provide accurate information regarding the co-op's giving efforts. We have not directly supported the Occupy protests.  In fact, REI supports nonprofits dedicated to conserving outdoor places and promoting volunteerism.  We do not accept unsolicited requests for donations.

A story in the Washington Examiner (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dc-occupiers-convene-plot-stay-winter) posted erroneous information on Tuesday, October 25 that REI supported the Occupy protests. REI Public Affairs spoke several times with the reporter to indicate no REI store has supported the Occupy protests in Washington DC or other cities across the country.  She posted a new and accurate story yesterday afternoon (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/patagonia-rei-deny-helping-occupiers)

Again, thanks for the opportunity to connect directly. We welcome you to forward this email to your friends and personal network.

Will P

REI Online Customer Service

Tea Time at the State House

Judge Napolitano

Great turn out!

Peaceful protesting

Our little patriot

Thousands...

Our message to our leaders

She likes what she hears...

An American Anthem

Let's get it started!

Our militia

Reception with Judge Napolitano

It's time for tea once again! An estimated 10,000 Ohioans stood on the statehouse lawn to peacefully protest the expansion of our federal government and support a resolution to assert states' rights (via the 10th Amendment). Andrew Napolitano, a Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst and New Jersey Superior Court judge, inspired the crowd with his nonpartisan view of our government's assault on the Constitution, citing both the Patriot Act (under a Republican president and Congress) and the current efforts of this Democratic president and Congress. He encouraged us to remain engaged and hold our leaders accountable, ending his speech with a quote from the honorable Thomas Jefferson, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny." Other speakers touched on the 2nd Amendment and issues concerning our state, such as the proposed income tax increase. Here's our local media coverage:

Columbus Dispatch:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/08/02/tea_party.ART_ART_08-02-09_B3_1GELDJE.html

10tv:
http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/08/01/story_issues.html

nbc4i:
http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/hundreds_assemble_at_statehouse_for_tea_party/20232/

abc6:
http://www.wsyx6.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.oh/2abe266b-www.wsyx6.com.shtml

tea'd off!

Twas the day after tax day, and throughout the US,
Tea party protesters were learning about mainstream media BS.
They portrayed us as ignorant, angry, racist, extreme,
while most of us are just trying to live our American dream.

We’re mothers and fathers and hard working voters,
And we organized this ourselves, without wealthy promoters.
In fact, most of us had never done this before,
We’ve been the silent majority, but we can take it no more.

We protested poor representation and out of control spending,
From a government whose power seems never-ending.
We’ve sent letters and emails and called and faxed,
Begging them to stop, as we’ll be further taxed.

We can’t spend our way out of this crippling mess,
As our government takes more, the people have less.
They use tax dollars to bail out those “too big to fail,”
While trusting tax cheats to fix it, who should be in jail.

They’re passing multi-billion dollar bills they don’t even read,
Full of pork barrel spending and programs we don’t really need.
They assume we don’t care or understand what they’re doing,
But it’s obvious now, there’s a peaceful revolution brewing.

For we’re looking for honest representation,
Good people who know their place in this nation.
Put politics aside and defend the Constitution,
Don’t worry about wealth and equal distribution.

The government works for us, and they need to remember,
Or in 2010 some will learn that November,
We’ll no longer tolerate their progressive plans,
And we’ll put our country into much better hands.


http://www.cafepress.com/shakshirts

Transparency in government?

http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg115.htm

So the skinny on the Chrysler deal is this:

UAW was owed $6.5 billion; after the restructuring, they will receive $4.6 billion+ note at 9% interest
UAW will also receive $600 million in legacy costs from Diamler
UAW will have 55% equity in Chrysler
and the UAW will have authority to place a director on the board (total number of directors on board = 9)

Tax payers are owed $4 billion from TARP... after restructuring agreement, we will receive... NOTHING
Tax payers also owed $300 million in fees... after restructuring, we will receive... NOTHING
According the the chapter 11 bankruptcy agreement, the tax payers will give an additional $3.2 billion, and if Chrysler does not file chapter 11 again, we will give them an additional $4.7 billion
Tax payers will have 8% equity in Chrysler
US government will appoint 4 of the 9 board of directors

Canada was promised 20% continued production in their country
They get 2% equity in Chrysler
And they get to appoint 1 director to the board

SECURED creditors get little if anything...

Cerberus held $500 million in 2nd lien debt
Cerberus owned 81% of the company
Cerberus owned the Chrysler Headquarters in Auburn Hills
Cerberus has agreed to WAIVE all of this for.... NOTHING!!!

So, Chrysler will be run by 2 governments and a union (sure to be a success) and a heavily secured creditor gets nothing? Are you kidding? Is this administration the mob?
Next up, government run health care, government run student loans (direct lending instead of bank loans secured by government... and "public service" for loan approval), cap and trade/green energy (economics professor from Spain, Dr. Gabriel Calzada-, reports for every "green job" we create, we will lose 2.2 other jobs. “the U.S. could lose 6.6 million to 11 million jobs while it creates three million largely temporary ‘green jobs.’”

Thomas J. Pyle of the Institute for Energy Research adds:

“As this study makes clear, Spain has spent billions in tax payer resources to subsidize renewable energy programs in an effort to jump start its ailing economy – and what they’ve gotten in return are fewer jobs, skyrocketing debt and some of the highest and most regressive energy prices in the developed world."

So we potentially lose 6-11 million jobs, but we gain 3 million...let's celebrate! Never mind Spain's unemployment rate is 17.5% , so we should definitely jump on green/clean energy during a recession... sounds a lil' like the $3.4 trillion dollar budget... oh, but, wait, they're cutting $100 million! Okay, you didn't buy that? They'll up it to $17 billion (announced today). Great fiscal policy!!! If our family budget well exceeded what we could afford and I agreed to cut out my morning coffee, we'd be on par with the government cuts.
But Michelle has great arms... lets focus on that... the media loves those arms.

God bless Ed Barnett! (*he speaks for a lot of us!)

Dear I.R.S.

I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost.

I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fishing license tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax, luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33 percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal excise tax, telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle license registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can't recall but I have run out of space and money.

When you do not receive my check April 15th, just know that it was an honest mistake, Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles Rangel, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex congressman Tom Dascle and of coarse, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties, and no interest,

Ed Barnett
Witchita Falls

Czech President Warns of A Prolonged Recession

Don't endanger free markets, Czech president warns
09 Mar 2009 22:10:54 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Claudia Parsons

NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) - Massive government spending and tighter regulation would prolong recession, Czech
President Vaclav Klaus said on Monday, as he urged U.S. President Barack Obama not to endanger the free market economy
in his response to the financial crisis.
In a speech at Columbia University in New York, Klaus, a former Czech prime minister who championed the free market
after the fall of Communism 20 years ago, said he never expected to see such extensive government intervention again in his
lifetime as he now sees around the world.
"I am therefore convinced that fighting for freedom and free markets, something we always appreciated here in this country
(the United States), remains the task of the day," Klaus said.
One of the world's most vocal climate change skeptics, Klaus said he looked forward to working with Obama, who will
attend an EU-U.S. summit in the Czech Republic in April on his first trip to Europe as U.S. president. The Czech Republic
holds the EU presidency for the first half of 2009.
Klaus, whose position is largely ceremonial in the Czech political system, said he hoped Obama would show "an optimum
mix of continuity and discontinuity" with the policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
"I hope it will include not endangering the basic institutions of the market economy," Klaus said, adding that his own country
was resisting a trend towards massive government spending to stimulate growth.
He said Czech banks were so far relatively unscathed by the financial crisis because they followed very cautious policies in
the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis.
He cautioned against trying to solve economic problems by more government intervention.
"The best thing to do right now would be to temporarily weaken, if not repeal," business regulations on labor, the
environment, social issues and health, he said.
Klaus, who has written a book expressing doubts that climate change is man-made, was in New York to attend a conference
of climate-change skeptics and he reiterated his view that "global warming alarmism" is a major problem.
About 190 nations have agreed to work out a new U.N. climate treaty in December in Copenhagen to step up a fight against
warming that the U.N. Climate Panel says will bring more heat waves, droughts, floods and rising seas.
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There is no evidence of an economy rebounding quickly when Keynesian economics was applied, and the only benefit to expanding government is greater power for those in office. We are on the wrong path. Government is not the answer!

Brilliant!