Ron Paul Interview with AARP - Nov. 2011

Hope everyone can see this interview. we can make a change.

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Ron Paul Inteview with Concord Monitor - 2011

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it discusses economics, international policy, the middle east, war, and why we should End the Fed

What will 1 trillion dollars in cuts mean to US?

Ron Paul is proposing a 1 trillion dollar cut in Federal Gov. spending in his first year as President. In the debates and in subsequent interviews, the media personalities and debate moderators show a lack of basic economic understanding. They ask, “what will happen to those people who will lose their Gov. jobs?”. Dr. Paul’s budget cut jobs, not thru mass firings, but thru a hiring freeze. What the media doesn’t seem to understand is that in order for a Government to spend money, it must first take it from someone who produces goods and services. Obama spent 1 trillion dollars in stimulus that went to special interests (political supporters) and the populous saw none of it. In addition, the way in which he chose to do it ADDED 1 trillion to the money supply (and our debt). President Paul’s 1 trillion dollar stimulus would go directly back to the tax payers (aka the citizens) and would do so by cutting expenses. What is implicit in the cuts but isn’t said is, THERE WOULD BE A ONE TRILLION DOLLAR “STIMULUS” GIVEN (BACK) TO THE ECONOMY EVERY YEAR THERE AFTER. One Trillion dollars in the private sector will create enough jobs to absorb all the Gov. bureaucrats, all the graduating college students, plus all of the 99% protestors combined. It would create prosperity for all. But first we have to give up on the idea that Government knows best how to take care of US.

War, Money, and the Federal Reserve

No Fed Reserve = no WWI = no WWII = no Vietnam = no cold war = no middle east conflict. One can not wage war with out men and money. To acquire the men, the gov. institutes a registration, from which it can instigate a draft. This implies the gov owns its citizens. (When Lincoln tried to instigate a draft in the Civil War, there was a revolt by the people and it was crushed.) Where does the money come from then? WWI, the War to End all Wars, the the largest conflict up to that date, began in 1914. Upon review of the history of war, the Union instigated fiat money (Gov. issued paper currency) to fund the war. To pay for this, taxes were levied. In 1913, one year prior to WWI, select congressmen passed the Federal Reserve Bank act which allowed the Gov to print money (in direct conflict with the Constitution). This allowed the powers that be to create the money needed in a democracy to fund war. (Dictators control their banks, and so they "always" have the money to attack their neighbors) This allows Govs to grow and to reward their supporters (think 'too big to fail'). With the inflation of the currency the labor needed to earn a specific sum of sound money (money that can not be created without labor) is diluted (when you add water to concentrate, it is diluted), prices increase, (there is more "koolaid" in the jar to support higher prices) and the people unknowingly pay a hidden tax (thru higher prices) to pay off the created political currency. The Constitution was created to protect our Liberty. To protect our freedoms, we must come to the defense of the Constitution. Sound money = smaller government, more prosperity, and no war = support of our troops. To find out more, visit the Austrian School of Economics, Mises.org.

Christmas 2010 II

Down at the Grans this holiday. It is becoming our tradition. Nice to have parents to visit (both mine are long gone).

That being said, I'd like to get away from it all for the holiday.
The tv, the phones, the internet *gasp*, and live in a "different time".

Looking thru the National Geographic laying about the house, the stories are now more and more reporting not new discoveries of new animals, but of declines and "crashes" of species populations.
the tiger...
bats...
bees...
human population of 7 Billion.
when I was born (40 years ago) we had crossed over 3 Billion, by the time my daughter is grown and ready to have a family of her own, we will be at 9 Billion...

The way we are headed, we are not going to be able to sustain civilization as we know it.

Pinned down

Who am I?

I work for a man my age who clearly knows who and what he is.
He knows his priorities, how to present him self, his thoughts, and has focus.

I have to learn from him what I can while I have the time with him...I have been in this business long enough to know nothing is forever.

self reflection...

I have a friend who has the energy, drive, and passion to be constantly on the go.
She loves what she does and who she does these things with, to, and for.

What do they know that I don't?

THOUGHTS

Didn't trim the trees as the city would like and they fined us.
also threatened a lien if we didn't pay..

pissed off for days...

will choose to look at it differently.

I control my philosophy,
the way I look at things..

be great full i have a tree they could complain about.
be great full to have a house they could lien,
great full we have the money to pay it.

great full pennies are legal tender,
and
great full my wife has a wicked sense of humor...

Great full

Great full to have a job,
Great full to have a job I like,
Great full to have a job where I am learning.
Great full to have a job where I am stretched.

Great full to have a home to go too,
Great full to have more than enough food on my plate,
Great full to have a plate on which to put said food.

Great full to have my family,
Great full to have a healthy baby girl,
Great full to have a girl,
Great full to have a wife who loves (and puts up with me)

Truly spoiled am I.

clingy

baby c goes to daycare.

understandably she's clingy on the weekends...

can be over whelming at times...

Really C... can I please put you down?

I GOTTA PEE!

Christmas 2010

A little over a year ago, we had to move back into the "old house".

Baby C is walking, talking (as clearly as a 19 month old can), and getting into everything.

The three projects I've been working on for Large ISD is coming to an end.
We've hired a full time sales man to work the market for us.

Office Christmas party is next Thursday.

I really like this office an hope to continue with them for some time.
Learning quite a lot.

Facebooking now...steals time from here...

In the last 8 months or so on facebook, I've had three friends pass, including my cousin.

And this last year has flown by...

good news!

Today it snowed! 6 plus inches. The most snow I've ever seen here in North Texas in the 35 plus years I've lived here.

Zelda is loving it and so am I.
The nice thing, the sad thing, is it will all melt, and we won't have to deal with weeks of slush and grit.

***
We were foreclosed back in November, but they rescheduled the sale from the first of Dec. to the first of Jan. Who knows why...
Anyway, we just heard from the attorney that the investor who originally provided the loan bought the house.
That investor would be Fannie Mae, bailed out by us.
Shame the lender, Suntrust, wouldn't work with us to refinance the loan so we could stay in the home.

Anyway.
We no longer have the debt on our books.
***

More good news.
Zelda was offered a job with a new company. She is now making more $$$ than she ever has.

Down side is baby C has to go to day care.

Time to get our debts paid off and back on track with our goals.

double dipping

Our last house was 180k.
With the interest on the mortgage, it would have more than double the total amount we paid over the life of the mortgage.

Add to that that the taxes were 4k a year and we would have paid yet another 120k over the life of the loan.

Currently the house is on the market for 135k for short sale.

180x2+120 = $480 and the (135k) house is yours! (for only 4K additional each year)

Never again...

Puzzles

In the cupboard next to the guest room at my grand father's house was a little game. It was one of those puzzles made of little plastic tabs that slid past each other vertically or horizontally in a single plane and they had numbers on them. There was one tab missing and the object was to mix the numbers up and then by sliding the tabs, put them back in numerical order.

Zelda and I are now playing a variation of that same game. Now it's not with numbers, but with moving boxes, and they playing grid is now the rooms of our house. Unfortunately, the missing tab is the space in our house, and we seem to have too many tabs for the board.

We have offers of help from friends to come slide those boxes.
That and help us purge.

Life has been stressful, but it is still good.
***
In Nov. the bank sent us the Foreclosure letter, scheduled for Dec. 1.
We moved.
A week later the bank sent a "we have moved your foreclosure out one more month".
(Along with a "I have been trying to reach you" letter. No name or signature attached to the letter. Just " I have been trying to reach you".)
This week we received a letter from the bank telling us that the cancellation of our insurance on the other house is a breach of contract. (Like our not paying since April wasn't?)

The bank bailout should have been thru the government paying off all the mortgages in America. We'd then have all that extra money to buy things with, some security, and the banks would have not profited.

Anyway...

Granddad's puzzle was much easier...

Christmas Bonus

Call me jaded.

I was fortunate enough to get a very generous bonus this year.
After taking out 10% for savings/investment and another 20% to pay towards our bad debt, the balance will all go to Uncle Sam in taxes.

How'd that happen?
***
That would be because I WORK for someone else for my living instead of having my money work for me. Nor do I have a business anymore to bring in passive income.
***
One day the politicians are going to wake up one morning to find their heads on pikes.

Until that day happens, I'm going to sock away 10% to savings and investment.
***
Time to write my thank you note to my current employer for the job and timely bonus check.

Back in the old house

Boxes everywhere, can't find stuff.

The job interviews that Zelda had, were promising, but at the last moment a woman with experience on the software the position required was hired instead.

It has been quite the psychologically downer.
Being back in the old house with two income streams, and with the ability to car pool to boot, we were dreaming about all the things we could do. Pay down our bad debt, put a way savings, pay our house taxes, and now we have to try something different.

Turns out the bank decided to give us one more month on the old house, but they never contacted us. We received a letter three days after the original dead line for foreclosure informing us that the bank had tried to contact us by phone, but could not get thru. We never received the messages, and none were received on my cell.

What number did they call?

optimism... and a plan to resolve...