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April 30, 2015 at 10:16 am

Listening to him shows why there is such a problem in Baltimore. He obviously never listens to Fox.
Fox has done in depth reports on the problems in Baltimore, which are mainly caused by Liberal polices and Liberal(Black ) politicians, not only in Baltimore, but in Maryland as a whole.
Most business has left Baltimore and Maryland because of the high taxes and regulation. Baltimore school spending per pupil is the 2nd highest in the country with the worst schools.
Baltimore’s welfare benefits are among the nations highest. An unmarried mother with 2 kids rakes in over $32K/year for doing nothing, beats working.
I could go on and on.
That kid is so ignorant, there is no hope for him and all the others.

April 30, 2015 at 10:27 am

Eric Kirk

You do realize that welfare recipient parents have to work after two years and can only receive five years lifetime total?

San Francisco has much higher taxes and much higher regulation than Baltimore and there are waiting lines for business space.

And yes, I’m sure Fox can be counted on for “in depth” reporting on perceived failures of liberal policies and black politicians. But you certainly won’t see them covering Wells Fargo’s aggressive marketing of sub prime loans which resulted in so many foreclosures it’s devastated the communities there. That (and the crash as a whole occurred because of lack of regulation, not “liberal policies.”

April 30, 2015 at 10:35 am

HUUFC

Mr. Kirk, the mortgage crash was created by the federal government regulators strong arming lenders to increase home ownership by lending money to people that couldn’t pay. The taxpayers took the risk by buying up the subprime mortgages and the lenders, including Wells Fargo, just kept on doing what uncle sugar wanted. Home ownership today is less than it was when the federal government tried to increase it.

April 30, 2015 at 12:34 pm

Eric Kirk

I know that’s been a meme HUUFC, but it’s crap. I found it amusing that the right wing found a way to blame the crash on black people.

April 30, 2015 at 12:36 pm

sky

Kirk,
I didn’t include welfare benefits, if i did the total would have been more.The $32K I mentioned was simply the money an unwed mother 2 receives for having children out of wedlock.
That also does not include the 2-3 free meals a day her children get from pre school on.
It is also interesting to note that in 1960 the poverty rate was lower in Baltimore. That is before the Civil Rights Act and the more than $1 trillion we have spent for the war on poverty.
Wells Fargo is the only major bank that didn’t merge with an investment bank. Clinton’s repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act is which allowed regular banks to merge with commercial banks for the first time in 50 years is the major reason for the mortgage crisis. That and the fact that Clinton stacked Freddie and Fannie with his people when he left office.
Oh, and yes Fox News and Fox Business did cover it, that is how I know.
You do no know this because you don’t watch Fox.

April 30, 2015 at 12:44 pm

HUUFC

Mr. Kirk, reread my post, I didn’t say anything that you implied that I did. Yep it’s crap alright, that the taxpayers bailed out the lenders and nobody went to jail. Because it was all legal. And I agree with sky, how can you comment on Fox News when over and over you have stated here you don’t watch it?

April 30, 2015 at 1:28 pm

Eric Kirk

I haven’t stated that. I don’t watch it often, but I’ve made posts about watching it. I probably watch it more than I’ve watched MSNBC.

And the crash, the toxic loans themselves weren’t the problem – the system could have metabolized them. What happened was that they were represented to investors as beneficial assets and all of the rating outfits (along with that bald idiot on TV who yells) went right along with the ride. When they realized they were on top of a balloon, investors jumped ship across the board. The federal government did not tell those companies to defraud investors, and yes, they broke at least some basic laws.

Sky, poverty was lower in the nation in general in 1960 because we had strong unions, progressive taxation, and high wages with benefits. The economy began to collapse slowly in 1971 when unions were being busted. jobs began to be exported, and neo-liberal policies began to be implemented on a global scale. Since 1971 the American worker has received a real dollar wage increase in very few years, only 2 until the turn of the century (96 and 97). Meanwhile, since Reagan we’ve cut back on social spending and infrastructure spending.

So, yeah, I’m sure poverty was lower in Baltimore in 1960. In 1968 a fry cook could buy a house in some parts of the country. No more.

April 30, 2015 at 1:40 pm

Mitch

$32K per year was a surprising figure, so I checked what the maximum benefit was under Maryland’s Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). Maryland calls it TCA. The max was $624 per month for a family of 3, or about $7,500 per year. SIngle mothers are expected to participate in a “work activity” for a minimum of twenty hours per week, others for 30 hours or more. There is a lifetime limit of 60 months.

Of course, that doesn’t count other available programs. I’d imagine that child care is paid for while the mother is working or going to school, and I’d imagine that people are provided health care and food benefits. Still, it’s hard for me to understand all that adding up to $32K per year.

I’m curious where the $32K per year figure came from. sky, do you happen to know? Thanks.

April 30, 2015 at 1:55 pm

Eric Kirk

It’s probably a totaling of all the possible assistance a family of four could get from government agencies, assuming they know to apply for them all. I also thought that was a bit high, and I would note that it isn’t exactly living high on the hog in any city.

April 30, 2015 at 2:43 pm

Mitch

sky referred to a single mother with two kids, Eric, so that would be a family of three, not four.

Regardless of whether $32K is enough to live high on the hog, it is substantially more than a person makes at the minimum wage, even before taxes are taken; in fact, it is more than two parents would bring in if they both worked full time, 40 hours per week, at jobs paying the federal minimum wage. It is barely less than two full time jobs at the Maryland minimum wage would pay, before taxes, FICA, etc…

So to assert that a single mother with two children is paid $32K by the government to sit at home is to make an assertion that our societal policy is to pay single mothers without jobs more than we insist employers must pay two full time workers struggling to raise a family. If that assertion is true, it is easy to see why it would cause resentment. If that assertion is false, it is important that it be challenged, because anyone thinking the assertion is true would come to conclusions not merited by the actual situation.

Really, it would be nice to have an actual, verifiable fact or two to work with. It’s become a cliche to say that different parties bring different sets of facts to the table, but it seems to be true.

I know we have philosophical differences about the sets of facts we use in reaching our conclusions, but I’m sure we agree that some things, like the minimum legal drinking age in Arcata in 2015, are genuinely knowable, and that it is better to make decisions as a result of known facts than to insist on facts that support one’s pre-decided opinions. Yet the discussions here rarely seem to involve any willingness to work together to come up with a shared understanding of a factual base. I know that’s not for lack of your trying.

I’d love to see, perhaps, you and HUUFC come up with a set of facts regarding welfare expenditures which you both believe to be true. That would be the starting point from which a worthwhile discussion could take place, as an alternative to the existing team cheerleading.

April 30, 2015 at 3:15 pm

Just Watchin

A black kid looking for his 15 minutes of fame. A black mayor, black police chief, black city council, black commander of the national guard, but whites have caused the problems. A MSNBC reporter actually said….” this community was just recovering from the 1968 riots”. 47 years…are you shittin me ?

April 30, 2015 at 3:38 pm

Eric Kirk

Well that’s a pretty cynical take JW, but I guess there’s plenty of cynicism going around.

April 30, 2015 at 3:44 pm

HUUFC

Cynical ? Nope, accurate.

April 30, 2015 at 3:59 pm

sky

The $32k is just for the kids, not the mother.
Also,Kirk, I just just checked on how long you can collect welfare in California. The answer is 60 months, not 2 years. That does require the recipient to do a little but not much. That is just for adults. Parents can collect welfare for their kids for 18 years.

April 30, 2015 at 4:13 pm

Anonymous

“The $32k is just for the kids, not the mother.”

Nice of you to clarify your claim, but even more helpful if you would cite a source that the rest of us could check with to confirm the veracity of your claim. And no, just saying “I heard it on Fox News” doesn’t count as citing a source.

April 30, 2015 at 4:44 pm

Just Watchin

Anon…..you’re right….32k per year is a bogus number. A Cato Institute study in 2013 put the number at just short of $37k per year. Google it yourself if you don’t believe it, dumbass.

April 30, 2015 at 4:58 pm

Erasmus

“My favorite part of the Obama era is all the racial healing that’s taken place.” — A thought circulating on the internet. — No one has quoted the young man’s statement that he wants “the white media to get out of Baltimore.” I don’t think the fellow deserves his moment of glory-seeking.

April 30, 2015 at 5:10 pm

suzy blah blah

-that kid’s eyes are totally bugging out of his head.

April 30, 2015 at 5:18 pm

Anonymous

So your source is a “study” based on laughably bogus methodology….how unsurprising.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/09/03/the-conservative-case-for-welfare-reform-suffers-massive-blow-via-cato-institute-study/

April 30, 2015 at 5:29 pm

Anonymous

The Cato “study” assumes that the “typical” benefit-receiving family receives benefits from 8 different programs, including TANF (“welfare”) SNAP (“food stamps”) Medicaid, housing assistance, WIC, energy assistance, and two lesser-known nutrition programs. But that’s simply not even close to true.

“With less than 10% of SNAP households also receiving TANF, and less than 3% of Medicaid households receiving SNAP, it’s easy to see that Cato’s “typical welfare family” is actually based on an extreme case, not on anything that any of us would consider to be an “average.”

http://authority.scientopia.org/2013/08/21/no-cato-welfare-doesnt-pay-more-than-minimum-wage/

So, make up a bogus “typical” case that is actually an extreme worst case scenario, and extrapolate from there…nice work Cato.

April 30, 2015 at 5:46 pm

Eric Kirk

If you want credibility with me don’t start a sentence with “A Cato institute study…”

http://www.thenation.com/article/167500/independent-and-principled-behind-cato-myth

April 30, 2015 at 5:56 pm

Eric Kirk

Well, I did some research and this appears to be the most objective article I could find. It discusses the Cato study as well as others, and it appears to be a very complicated question even if you assume that every recipient receives every service offered.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/05/grothman-single-parents-welfare/

April 30, 2015 at 5:57 pm

Eric Kirk

Here’s a critique of the Cato study.

http://authority.scientopia.org/2013/08/21/no-cato-welfare-doesnt-pay-more-than-minimum-wage/

April 30, 2015 at 5:58 pm

Eric Kirk

In the meantime, here’s a great article on misconceptions around welfare.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/12/18/3081791/welfare-recipient-spending/

April 30, 2015 at 8:38 pm

Anonymous

Civil war is inevitable.

May 1, 2015 at 6:52 am

Mitch

Eric,

Thank you for finding and sharing the Washington Post article. Although they gave someone’s $35K a “two pinocchio” ranking, which says something about the state of news today, it included valuable analysis, and included facts which surprised me. Here is the critical statement:

But the median welfare package, which would have been the relevant number to use, is about $28,800 — lower than Grothman’s figure.

I think there is something wrong with a system that provides more income or cost reductions to a non-worker (who is not disabled) than to many full time workers, and I can understand why so many people are disturbed by this.

Where I differ with many conservatives is that I feel this mainly demonstrates the injustice of our current minimum wage levels. If the state has determined that someone needs $28,800 (or non-cash equivalents) to raise two children when one does not have a job outside the home, then the state should ensure that anyone working full time outside the home receives more than $28,800 in income or non-cash equivalents.

We have an odd economy where, by design of both the Republican and Democratic party leadership, capital movement is made far easier than labor movement. It seems possible that raising the minimum wage to $15 nationwide would result in further shifts of capital to places where labor can more easily be exploited. It might also reduce the number of jobs in the service economy by making automation more appealing to employers.

I would raise the Earned Income Tax Credit as a start to addressing the situation described in the Washington Post article, so that employers might continue to hire people in situations where they don’t feel the person will contribute to their profit if paid $15 per hour. But I recognize that this is an incomplete solution.

The most straightforward approach to slightly increasing justice for low income earners would be to cease collecting FICA taxes on income until that income exceeds whatever the “single mother and two kids” welfare benefit is set at. To make up the lost income to the social security system, social security taxes would need to be charged not just on the first $118,000 of earnings, but on whatever level of earnings it would take to make the change revenue neutral.

Because the tax is collected from employees AND employers, the effect of this would be to immediately allow low-income workers to keep an additional 6% of their earnings, and allow the employers to keep an additional 6% of the payroll they allocate to low-income workers, preventing an additional 6% raise from impacting the balance between offshore/onshore or automate/employ.

Twelve percent on $29K is about $3,000 — not a huge amount, but enough to substantially improve the life of anyone trying to work and raise a family on that income, which is equivalent to full time work at $15 per hour.

I’ve tried to avoid getting into the larger “income tax fairness” issues, because each side has its own (correct) set of numerical arguments: the right is fond of pointing out the massive share of income taxes paid by the top one percent, while the left is fond of pointing out that marginal tax rates have come down enormously over the past thirty or forty years, substantially eliminating the prior progressivity of the income tax system.

May 1, 2015 at 12:06 pm

Eric Kirk

Good thoughts Mitch. I think part of the disservice in discussing the issue is that whenever you throw out a number like 32 thousand or 35, you’re giving the impression that they’re just being handed cash. They’ve thrown in housing subsidy, which is earmarked for housing. School lunches. It’s not like they receive a $35,000 check to spend as they will.

May 1, 2015 at 3:06 pm

Mitch

Thanks, Eric. I was kind of trying to extend an invitation to some of the conservatives who occasionally post. We’ll see, I guess, if I get anything better than “libtard” in response. Hope springs eternal.

May 2, 2015 at 7:01 am

Henchman Of Justice

Geraldo is…………………A SHILL!

JLM5D

May 2, 2015 at 7:06 am

Henchman Of Justice

HUUFC WAS CORRECT ON HOUSING COLLAPSE, MORTGAGE CONSPIRACY.

somehow, EK finds a black racial argument accusation that was never levied, at least for those people with clear eye vision.

JLM5D

May 2, 2015 at 7:09 am

Henchman Of Justice

The feds dont need to tell banks to defraud customers EK; however, the feds will build an obvious yellow brick road so that the banks won’t ask how.

Willful blind eye politicians. Treason is to be murdered.

JLM5D

May 2, 2015 at 7:19 am

Henchman Of Justice

Baltimore Black people in positions of power and authority could be:

1) Deserving of job or not
2) A shill supporter for white power
3) Brown nosing black people who want to be accepted, so act and do what whites act and do to be one of the gang.

Essentially, with greed, black or any culture takes a back seat when parts of any culture abandon ship for something better for the individual black power figure that would not have been a reality had not a black person tried to be an equal to a white person for the wrong reasons.

JLM5D

May 2, 2015 at 7:30 am

Henchman Of Justice

Mitch, the real problem with the example of $28k, singleother and two lids is this fact:

American society has been set up to ensure that less than a full family unit will suffer as penitence to the creator. Parents who procreate prior to ensuring the family unit is whole shall be given the hardest road unpaved to travel. If women were not so biologically prone to need babies, maybe more women could send off sex with a man who just wants to fuck, not get married or have kids.

Young people having kids at their early age in adulthood is futile in today’s society. Unless a person is well to do, procreation is a death sentence imposed by the system, imposed by “da man”.

JLM5D

May 2, 2015 at 7:38 am

So Hum Gal

Anybody else seen the new Humboldt blog? Local politics of course, bashing our local pols decisions without offering much in the way of alternatives but some of the stuff is pretty funny. Kinda like Tuluwat but better written. At least it seems to be non partisan in it’s attack. Just curious if anyone else has noticed. THCLive.net

May 2, 2015 at 9:05 am

bolithio

^Sky. LOL

May 2, 2015 at 5:19 pm

Not A Native

Ugh, that “new” blog is dreadful IMO. Reading it left me feeling dirty. Worst of the worst angry Tea Party curmudgeon outbursts. At least its logo, “The truth is you should be mad”, reflects a truth: The blog author is indeed mad as a hatter(or maybe that should be hater).

May 3, 2015 at 2:46 am

forestqueen

ARE WE SPEAKING LIFE OR DEATH OVER OUR LIFE THROUGH THE POWER OF WORDS?

Anon @ 8:38 says; “Civil war is inevitable.”
There’s nothing ‘civil’ about war. Cross your fingers that it doesn’t come to all-out bloodshed. The Police State that we’re in puts us on the brink.

It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect the Corporation and arrest code breakers. Sapp v Tennessee 348 So. 2nd, 363 Reiff v. City of Philadelphia, 477 F Supp., 1262, Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice 376 S. E. 2nd 247.

“Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lyin’ big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you got ‘em by the balls.”

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

(I)ncome tax:

“If you examined the 16th Amendment carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment.” U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox (2003).
(Note: the Bill of Rights are Not amendments to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights has its own preamble –fq).

A 1040 form is for tribute paid to Britain. (IRS Publication 6209)

“The tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.”
Flora v US 362 US 145 (1960).

Grace Commission Report: “None of the taxes go to services for the people. Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100% voluntary and your liquor tax is 100% enforced tax. The situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, the same rules just will not apply.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, testifying at the Sub. Ways & Means Committee.

The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the United States government. Even though the “US Government” held shares of stock in the various Agencies. (U.S. V. Strang , 254 US 491, Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239).

Mort-gage Fore-closure:

A mortgage foreclosure is a consent judgment. Most of them are unlawful because you have three days to cancel the contract and the banks do not disclose that. Another thing, under the FDIA (Federal Deposit Insurance Act) under the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), they have to disclose the insurance company information – that is another violation. Any account in a bank is a Demand Deposit Account and it is insured by the FDIA under the FDIC under Title 12. All credit cards are insured. The banks collect the money if you default on the loan. Mortgages are the same thing.

This information is not in the contract. So, it voids the contract. What you do is rescind your contract and ask for your deposit back on the grounds that the contract violates the Truth In Lending under Title 15, Section 2261. Ask for the deposit back. Do NOT call it a promissory note. Call it a deposit. Because that’s what created the money –the Promissory Note. If they do not give you the deposit back, they cannot demand the money. Banks cannot lend their credit, it says that in their charter.
I cannot follow what’s happening in Baltimore, or what Senator (Bernie) is running for office. That’s on the east coast.
Here’s the bottom line. You are not supposed to wait 2 or 4 years for some new politicians to get in office and give you permission to be free. You are not supposed to wait 2 or 4 or 6 years for some court to tell you, “ok, you be free now.”
You are supposed to stand up, resist, refuse to comply and nullify unconstitutional acts – as soon as they happen. (HumCo’s ½% tax).
All the money and time you throw at discussing politicians or whining in court will never ever work – unless you start resisting right here in your state. And, that resistance needs to be your first response, not your last.
Those of you who are AWAKE, this is your call to stand with those who are standing.
Stand up in your community, in your country, for it is at the grass root that change is most effective. Only the People can restore America.

“Fear not, the people may be divided for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.”
President Andrew Jackson.

May 3, 2015 at 8:58 am

HUUFC

Aw come on, THCLive.net was just fine, lighten up and drop the overused term “hater”, liberals have worn it out.

May 3, 2015 at 12:48 pm

Liberal Man On Bike

wow. that man gets it and gets how things will change. and it will change even further for for all of us without another Civil War. this takes time and more lives will be senselessly and unfailingly taken, but things will change for the better. Good try anon.

Thanks for the post EK.

May 3, 2015 at 12:58 pm

Liberal Man On Bike

http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/04/29/the-nightly-show-calls-out-fox-news-for-coverin/203459

May 3, 2015 at 2:17 pm

HUUFC

Media Matters? Please. They called out Fox News for reporting the news. Too bad if liberals can’t take it.

May 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm

forestqueen

ARE WE SPEAKING LIFE OR DEATH OVER OUR LIFE THROUGH THE POWER OF WORDS?

Anon @ 8:38 says; “Civil war is inevitable.”
There’s nothing ‘civil’ about war. Cross your fingers that it doesn’t come to all-out bloodshed. The Police State that we’re in puts us on the brink.

It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect the Corporation and arrest code breakers. Sapp v Tennessee 348 So. 2nd, 363 Reiff v. City of Philadelphia, 477 F Supp., 1262, Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice 376 S. E. 2nd 247.

“Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lyin’ big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you got ‘em by the balls.”

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

(I)ncome tax:

“If you examined the 16th Amendment carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment.” U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox (2003).
(Note: the Bill of Rights are Not amendments to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights has its own preamble –fq).

A 1040 form is for tribute paid to Britain. (IRS Publication 6209)

“The tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.”
Flora v US 362 US 145 (1960).

Grace Commission Report: “None of the taxes go to services for the people. Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100% voluntary and your liquor tax is 100% enforced tax. The situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, the same rules just will not apply.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, testifying at the Sub. Ways & Means Committee.

The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the United States government. Even though the “US Government” held shares of stock in the various Agencies. (U.S. V. Strang , 254 US 491, Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239).

Mort-gage Fore-closure:

A mortgage foreclosure is a consent judgment. Most of them are unlawful because you have three days to cancel the contract and the banks do not disclose that. Another thing, under the FDIA (Federal Deposit Insurance Act) under the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), they have to disclose the insurance company information – that is another violation. Any account in a bank is a Demand Deposit Account and it is insured by the FDIA under the FDIC under Title 12. All credit cards are insured. The banks collect the money if you default on the loan. Mortgages are the same thing.

This information is not in the contract. So, it voids the contract. What you do is rescind your contract and ask for your deposit back on the grounds that the contract violates the Truth In Lending under Title 15, Section 2261. Ask for the deposit back. Do NOT call it a promissory note. Call it a deposit. Because that’s what created the money –the Promissory Note. If they do not give you the deposit back, they cannot demand the money. Banks cannot lend their credit, it says that in their charter.
I cannot follow what’s happening in Baltimore, or what Senator (Bernie) is running for office. That’s on the east coast.
Here’s the bottom line. You are not supposed to wait 2 or 4 years for some new politicians to get in office and give you permission to be free. You are not supposed to wait 2 or 4 or 6 years for some court to tell you, “ok, you be free now.”
You are supposed to stand up, resist, refuse to comply and nullify unconstitutional acts – as soon as they happen. (HumCo’s ½% tax).
All the money and time you throw at discussing politicians or whining in court will never ever work – unless you start resisting right here in your state. And, that resistance needs to be your first response, not your last.
Those of you who are AWAKE, this is your call to stand with those who are standing.
Stand up in your community, in your country, for it is at the grass root that change is most effective. Only the People can restore America.

“Fear not, the people may be divided for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.”
President Andrew Jackson

May 3, 2015 at 4:53 pm

forestqueen

$32 million. A gazillion billion. What matters when you’re discussing a belief system?
(BS = belief system = bull shit). The bottom line? It’s all fraud. All of it.

Stupidity got us into this, why can’t it get us out?

You can continue to struggle in the illusion of the old timeline, clinging to the past and dreading the future, or you can look in another direction.

Queen has a different answer. It is painfully evident who the real “Paper Terrorists” are, and have long been. We don’t make war with our employees (Public Serpents). We fire them and we sue them and we expose them for what they are and what they have done.

May 3, 2015 at 9:31 pm

forestqueen

ARE WE SPEAKING LIFE OR DEATH OVER OUR LIFE THROUGH THE POWER OF WORDS?

Anon @ 8:38 says; “Civil war is inevitable.”
There’s nothing ‘civil’ about war. Cross your fingers that it doesn’t come to all-out bloodshed. The Police State that we’re in puts us on the brink. Police Depts., function 60-70% by way of the victims ‘penalty’ fees collected for vehicle ‘crimes’ in ‘court.’

It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect the Corporation and arrest code breakers. Sapp v Tennessee 348 So. 2nd, 363 Reiff v. City of Philadelphia, 477 F Supp., 1262, Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice 376 S. E. 2nd 247.

“Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lyin’ big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you got ‘em by the balls.”

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

(I)ncome tax:

“If you examined the 16th Amendment carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment.” U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox (2003).
(Note: the Bill of Rights are Not amendments to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights has its own preamble –fq).

A 1040 form is for tribute paid to Britain. (IRS Publication 6209)

“The tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.” Flora v US 362 US 145 (1960).

Grace Commission Report: “None of the taxes go to services for the people. Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100% voluntary and your liquor tax is 100% enforced tax. The situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, the same rules just will not apply.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, testifying at the Sub. Ways & Means Committee.

The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the United States government. Even though the “US Government” held shares of stock in the various Agencies. (U.S. V. Strang , 254 US 491, Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239).

Mort-gage Fore-closure:

A mortgage foreclosure is a consent judgment. Most of them are unlawful because you have three days to cancel the contract and the banks do not disclose that. Another thing, under the FDIA (Federal Deposit Insurance Act) under the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), they have to disclose the insurance company information – that is another violation. Any account in a bank is a Demand Deposit Account and it is insured by the FDIA under the FDIC under Title 12. All credit cards are insured. The banks collect the money if you default on the loan. Mortgages are the same thing.

This information is not in the contract. So, it voids the contract. What you do is rescind your contract and ask for your deposit back on the grounds that the contract violates the Truth In Lending under Title 15, Section 2261. Ask for the deposit back. Do NOT call it a promissory note. Call it a deposit. Because that’s what created the money –the Promissory Note. If they do not give you the deposit back, they cannot demand the money. Banks cannot lend their credit, it says that in their charter.

I cannot follow what’s happening in Baltimore, or what Senator is running for office. That’s on the east coast.

Here’s the bottom line. You are not supposed to wait 2 or 4 years for some new politicians to get in office and give you permission to be free. You are not supposed to wait 2 or 4 or 6 years for some court to tell you, “ok, you be free now.”

You are supposed to stand up, resist, refuse to comply and nullify unconstitutional acts – as soon as they happen. (HumCo’s ½% tax).
All the money and time you throw at discussing politicians or whining in court will never ever work – unless you start resisting right here in your state. And, that resistance needs to be your first response, not your last.

Those of you who are AWAKE, this is your call to stand with those who are standing. Stand up in your community, in your country, for it is at the grass root that change is most effective. Only the People can restore America.

“Fear not, the people may be divided for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.”
President Andrew Jackson.

May 3, 2015 at 9:33 pm

forestqueen

ARE WE SPEAKING LIFE OR DEATH OVER OUR LIFE THROUGH THE POWER OF WORDS?

Anon @ 8:38 says; “Civil war is inevitable.”
There’s nothing ‘civil’ about war. Cross your fingers that it doesn’t come to all-out bloodshed. The Police State that we’re in puts us on the brink. Police Depts., function 60-70% by way of the victims ‘penalty’ fees collected for vehicle ‘crimes’ in ‘court.’

It is not the duty of the police to protect you. Their job is to protect the Corporation and arrest code breakers. Sapp v Tennessee 348 So. 2nd, 363 Reiff v. City of Philadelphia, 477 F Supp., 1262, Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice 376 S. E. 2nd 247.

“Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lyin’ big and getting the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you got ‘em by the balls.”

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer

(I)ncome tax:

“If you examined the 16th Amendment carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment.” U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox (2003).
(Note: the Bill of Rights are Not amendments to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights has its own preamble –fq).

A 1040 form is for tribute paid to Britain. (IRS Publication 6209)

“The tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.”
Flora v US 362 US 145 (1960).

Grace Commission Report: “None of the taxes go to services for the people. Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100% voluntary and your liquor tax is 100% enforced tax. The situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, the same rules just will not apply.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, testifying at the Sub. Ways & Means Committee.

The FCC, CIA, FBI, NASA and all of the other alphabet gangs were never part of the United States government. Even though the “US Government” held shares of stock in the various Agencies. (U.S. V. Strang , 254 US 491, Lewis v. US, 680 F.2d, 1239).

May 4, 2015 at 2:56 am

Liberal Man On Bike

No huf, only the url is media matters as it is hosting and commenting on a clip from The Daily Show’s former Senior Black Coresomdent Larry Willmore who now has his own show.

It doesn’t call out Fox News, it ridicules with calm acceptance and humor what it is – Ailes’ GOP TV using their audiences’ (ie white and aged) intrinsic fear of black males to reinforce a political narrative detached from reality and favoring unregulated free markets at the expense of, well, GOP TV’s viewers.

Viewers like you huf.

May 4, 2015 at 3:16 am

Just Watchin

Not to be off topic but……jonboy, wasn’t there a big GPU open public forum this past week? I haven’t seen anything on it, and I’m sure you had to have been there.

May 4, 2015 at 5:44 am

Liberal Man On Bike

Was there? Seems like there isn’t a whole bunch we on the left can do other than work on un-electing property rights advocates Fennell and Bohn in 2016. That isn’t going to be easy and I won’t count on any Floridian good wishes from you JW. Or is it Matthew Owen – I don’t think you are, but you are the spitting-intertubes-image of what MO would sound like if he were ever to partake in what his wife has called “The Bogs”.

Dubs, I wish I had time to stay focused on the GPU right now. To understand the giveaways that are going on, but sadly I don’t. I’m not going to hold my breath either as no one else does either. It’s a sad state of affairs and it is what a tonne of money will by you – apathy.

Back on topic, the hero’s name in EK’s video is Kwame Rose.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/01/baltimores-kwame-rose-responds-to-geraldos-pers/203497

May 4, 2015 at 10:34 am

forestqueen

~sorry for the duplicate posts. Moderating, not moderating, who knows.

May 4, 2015 at 1:53 pm

Just Watchin

Jonboy….sounds like you didn’t go to the meeting. Talkin the talk, but not walkin the walk? And the surprising thing in the linked article was Kwame Rose saying that he had a job. Not surprising was him saying that he watches TV while at work. He must have a government job.

May 4, 2015 at 2:44 pm

Erasmus

At 1:25 in this video, the attention-seeking young man says “I want the white media out of Baltimore.” The words are very clear. No one on this thread has quoted them. Meaningful dialogue is apparently not even a possibility.

May 4, 2015 at 2:58 pm

Eric Kirk

I think that given the way that the media covered the events, I can understand his frustration with it. The media has been very hapless.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/videos-arrest-baltimore-shows-msm-give-truth/#7KOJLCBLYWED6DVc.01

May 4, 2015 at 4:16 pm

Liberal Man On Bike

Erasmus – the meaningful dialog you are looking for happens every day on radio shows like Bill Bennett or Michael Medved. Intelligent conservative talk. Take a listen.

Of course they will side-step critical information like wealth disparities based on race, extant racism (I noticed you never did comment on the OK fraternity lynching song), and basic political trends like the how the Republican Party’s base is what was once the Southern Democrat.

50 years of a political upheaval continues to this day with Republicans winning national elections by playing the (white) victimization race card. That’s the meaningful dialog we missing.

May 5, 2015 at 3:08 am

suzy blah blah

-Erasmus, it’s a highly intellectual slumming exercise to watch an obsessed egoist strutting around the mean streets of the eastern seaboard’s night with his chest out hollering at Geraldo. Dialog is boring. It just goes around in circles anyway. Suzy can tell you –monolog is more gripping. So just relax and enjoy the latest you-tube star’s 15 minutes of fame. It’s a modern cultural phenomenon. It’s a form of today’s new eloquence of digital equality. We can watch a pop-eyed loud mouth kid yelling partly incoherent and fragmented political talking points from Baltimore, live on our screens in California or upper Michigan. Transferred electronically for our amusement at a low price.

Get with it. It’s 21st century Shakespeare. First he’s yelling, TALK TO ME!, then he’s shouting, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO ME. Very poignant. And you’ve got to appreciate the dialect.

May 5, 2015 at 4:34 am

Liberal Man On Bike

Yes sbb, yes Erasmus.

I suppose, this is another time we will wait for our conservative heroes on to speak out against racism.

“If one doesn’t lay all the blame for the current state of black life in the USA at the feet of white racism, one is immediately put on the defensive. So I’ll lie low, strive to be as unbiased as possible, and join the chorus against true, overt racism when it raises its ugly head.”

-Erasmus

What we can do is dismiss the words and actions of a young man who confronted with mind-blowing societal inequities based solely on the color of people’s skin based on his self-centered faults.

The guy is obviously preening and contradictory after all. That’s a good place to enter the discussion. That’s the ethical/moral failure of our society that needs to change. Dammit pop eyed dude (Kwame) why do you insist on making this about you?

Dammit black men generally, unify your arguments, don’t take advantage of a media outlet taking advantage of bleeding to create a lead (story). Do you really want to fix the racial inequities that exist? Stay with your children and don’t leave your wives, stop shooting each other, don’t run at or from police or watchmen, do all this then you will get what conservative white men (and their nominal hero MLK) get … A society where one is judged by the content of their character.

Black men, ignore those ignorant white privileged children on the Oklahoma bus who sung of exclusion and lynching in 2015, ignore judicial and safety inequities and of course mind blowing wealth and income inequities and how all these intransitive problems are getting worse. Ignore a national winning political movement rooted in the minority political opinions of the sons of slavery.

Black men, U.S. conservatives will continue to lie low maintaining our unbiases, but please know that we will be there with you when your cause is just – and you stop blaming whites for your problems.

At least in theory.

May 5, 2015 at 4:35 am

Liberal Man On Bike

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

May 5, 2015 at 5:02 am

Just Watchin

The dirty little secret that liberals hate to discuss is that when the votes for the 1964 voting rights act were counted, the vast majority of the opposition was from the democrats. It made sense at the time, as they were the founders of the KKK.

May 5, 2015 at 5:48 am

Anonymous

The not-so-secret truth is that now, 50 years later, most American racists vote Republican.

May 5, 2015 at 7:48 am

suzy blah blah

What we can do is dismiss the words and actions of a young man who confronted with mind-blowing societal inequities based solely on the color of people’s skin based on his self-centered faults.

-jon, i’m not dismissing anything. I’m putting it in its true context. He wasn’t yelling for the sake of yours, or mine, or anyone else’s education. He was yelling for the benefit of trying to alleviate his insecurities by bullying a big media guy. That’s all it is. But people like you and Eric want to see him as the gone viral pop-idol winner of the month.

May 5, 2015 at 8:03 am

Henchman Of Justice

POWER – What is that like on a planet of lower population levels?

Interesting mathematics is as population increases, so does all the BS Power tripping.

How to get rid of the BS Power tripping is no closer than decreasing the number. How? Natural Selection by death or birth? If it were easy to do, who wouldn’t just kill the evil people? Of course, the evil tends to use duping excuses and tactics to suggest the ole, “in America, we are to accept different opinions, agree to disagree, one ideology is not above another, etc…”.

Seems to be a mixed message to do the above, even if it means the benefactors get away with cheating and lying on their way to something more than their victims.

JLM5D

May 5, 2015 at 8:07 am

Liberal Man On Bike

And it’s not just racists, most conservatives, like Erasmus are not racist, at least in my opinion (not that they would or should care what I think). They simply do not want to address inequality and how and why we got there. They conveniently want to focus on the diminishingly narrow path to success each individual may or may not have.

There is nothing wrong with focusing on individual paths to success, however we also have to address the systemic inequities that are so frustratingly blatant.

JDubs. The Democrats waved “goodbye” to the sons of slavery and it’s cost them the South ever since. Democrats route to success nationally is incredibly narrow and they’ve depended on either Southern candidates (Clinton and Carter) or identity politics (Obama and Clinton) to win b/c of the courage (or need?) to do what is right.

The Republicans said “hello” * and the South is now their base along with 65% of white males in national elections.

To understand how this was done from before 1965 to 1976 please read Rick Perstein’s “Nixonland” and “The Invisible Bridge”.

And yes dubs, you can say we hate to talk about it, but this liberal and millions of others would like to talk/angrily pound the keyboard all day long on this. The Republicans do have a long, proud heritage on fighting slavery and oppression and pre-1965 the Democrats had a long and shameful one.

Those days are long gone, unless you are now talking about fighting against the oppression/persecution of wealth, Christians, or white men. In short, Republicans have lost the ability to fight for anyone but themselves and have to pull the wool over the eyes of the working class so they also fight for the only real agenda of the Republicans – protecting the “minority” of the American plutocracy.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan's_Neshoba_County_Fair_%22states'_rights%22_speech

“I still believe the answer to any problem lies with the people. I believe in states’ rights and I believe in people doing as much as they can for themselves at the community level and at the private level. I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment”
– Ronald Reagan 8/3/1980.

May 5, 2015 at 8:14 am

Henchman Of Justice

Suzy, Geraldo the shill he is “is used to bullying” cuz he does it often, historically.

Geraldo reaps what he sows too. Geraldo cares for Geraldo first and foremost, everyone else is his career.

Geraldo is a media pimp, likes HIS fame and glory. He is old and past due, he is outdated and merely likes being a street reporter when crowds are huge, not those little interviews on weather or Hollywood or kumbaya moments.

JLM5D

May 5, 2015 at 8:18 am

Dave Kirby

JW…..You are correct but back then the south was still Democrat. This issue did a lot to change that. That same voting block is now Republican or at least white southerners are.

May 5, 2015 at 8:22 am

Dave Kirby

HOJ…Right on…Heraldo is the white version of Al Sharpton ….a walking publicity stunt.

May 5, 2015 at 8:28 am

Henchman Of Justice

Correction – The answer to any problem lies with people Only when a few people exist. More people, more problems, less answers.

Why in America does lmob fall back on people as the solution?

Answer – because the political party system seeks power by vote, businesses by people like profit, tax collectors created by the political system yearning for control to hold power like to tax business, and the citizen slaves provide votes, labor and finances because of greedy consumptive ideologies…..all this suggests liberals, proggies and conservatives are in agreementon how to control while increasing its power to control.

Just because lmob does blue and JW does dark red and EK does medium green does notean their rose ccolored glasses ate not the same make and model for end results. The artful use of words, ugh.

JLM5D

May 5, 2015 at 9:28 am

suzy blah blah

Suzy, Geraldo the shill he is “is used to bullying” cuz he does it often, historically.

-i’ll have to take your word for it HoJ, suzy never watched his show.

May 5, 2015 at 12:47 pm

Henchman Of Justice

sbb,

hoj is not an expert on following Geraldo more than what news forces upon its viewers. Historically, G Shillmaestro has bullied others too, even a tantrum here and there. Geraldo Is a propaganda artist, not a journalist credible in ethics. He makes for a great laugh here and there like All Sharpton does as DK mentioned, which was a great example of pimping media cuz Sharpton just can’t not be popular, like Geraldo. Media changes people into self anointed premadonnas like G Shillmaestro and AllaboutAl Sharper Sharpelton Sharpton.

JLM5D

May 6, 2015 at 4:44 am

Liberal Man On Bike

“I’m putting it in its true context.”

What you might call “true context” I might call framing. We all have our own set of frames to the narratives or myths or Truths that help us explain our perception of reality. I notice yours is heavy on the individual responsibility of Kwame Rose to act appropriately or as he should. My framing is based on our act to act responsibility or appropriately as a society.

From my perspective the “true context” is that Kwame or those like him don’t have the access to equal justice in our @system@ based solely on the color of his skin.

I respect your context but respectfully disagree. I also add that this framing may be one of, if not the, most important differences between teams blue and red.

Oh, and teams blue and red actually changed jerseys on this in 1965 which is partially why I strongly believe people older than me – even by a year – (hi Mitch) will necessarily have a different view of party politics. As JW helpfully points out team blue used to be the party of the sons of slavery – in my lifetime, they never have been and I’ve never had to compromise political beliefs like regulations ensuring people can working for a living wage with, say, access to a voting booth for people of color.

May 6, 2015 at 7:19 am

suzy blah blah

-jon, i’m switching from your game of red/blue politics back to my original topic for minute, okay? Are you ready to listen in that context? Good. Now, once again, looking through the original context, or myth, or meme, or frame, or whatever trendy word you like, i’m going to tweek the lens a bit more, alright? Good.

Now look again: See how the internet and digital world has different areas to go to, Eureka, Pendleton, Laguna Beach, etc. Right? Okay, now can you see how this blog is a lot like Geraldo’s news team? Selecting some topic to visit. In this case it’s a video taken in Baltimore. Now look at the blog’s archives. See Eric, see the many situations he gets himself into. See how when confronted with something he can’t handle he is like Geraldo, the old pro who says nothing. And how the loud mouthed kid is like FQ, sticking her shit in EK’s face, brash, loud, and contradictory. Are you seeing my/the Truth yet? No? That’s okay, i respect that and i give you a lot of respect too. But to finish the analogy, i know it’s hard for people to see themselves sometimes, so suzy will be your mirror now, okay? Good. You are like a young Geraldo –who hasn’t learned to shut up, smile, and walk away yet.

Okay, class is over. You can put your politics jerseys back on.

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