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OUR COUNTRY IS TOO PRECIOUS TO LEAVE IT TO THE BUREAUCRATS, RINO's, TALKING HEADS. REPUBLICANS MUST READ THE 'DECLARATION OF INDEPENDANCE' AND OUR 'UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION..
Sunday, April 27, 2014
A CALL FOR ACTION
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Next Meeting
We had our meeting Wednesday Night, April 23.
Your task for the fourth Wednesday of May is; bring yourself and try to bring two more people to the May Meeting.
The younger the better. Come, with or without.
We are fighting for the future of our country.
Bring young people.
Nuff said?
A friend posted this on another forum. What do you think? Do you agree with any of these?
Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity
10) Only in America ... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
9) Only in America ... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!
8) Only in America ... could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
7) Only in America ... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
6) Only in America ... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.
5) Only in America ... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
4) Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
3) Only in America ... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
2) Only in America ... could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
1) Only in America ... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
Read more at http://www.liveleak....CQ1B4yb8qbEv.99
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/2033684-canadas-top-10-list-american-stupidity.html#ixzz2zo6j8fcm
Canada's Top Ten List of America's Stupidity
10) Only in America ... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.
9) Only in America ... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!
8) Only in America ... could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
7) Only in America ... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
6) Only in America ... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.
5) Only in America ... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
4) Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
3) Only in America ... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
2) Only in America ... could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
1) Only in America ... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
Read more at http://www.liveleak....CQ1B4yb8qbEv.99
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/2033684-canadas-top-10-list-american-stupidity.html#ixzz2zo6j8fcm
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Big Brother's, B.L.M., Are they grabbing again?
Texas officials are raising alarm that the Bureau of Land Management, on the heels of its dust-up with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, might be eyeing a massive land grab in northern Texas.
The under-the-radar issue has caught the attention of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who fired off a letter on Tuesday to BLM Director Neil Kornze saying the agency “appears to be threatening” the private property rights of “hard-working Texans.”
“Decisions of this magnitude must not be made inside a bureaucratic black box,” wrote Abbott, also a Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Copy this link and check it out on Foxnews.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/22/republicans-warn-blm-eyeing-land-grab-along-texas-oklahoma-border/
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Have you noticed Pennsylvania's Primary Adds?
Watch TV and you become glad you are not living in 'Taxilvania'. If they are not spending great sums of money on Primary Election Adds, they all find a target in proposing to spend more tax payers moneys on Education. How much is needed?
Why do these, Democrats find taxes so attractive? What is the 'unknown' to these candidates is how much is already being spent on education. But also common theme is taxing the drillers for 'Fracking'.
But even more fundamental is that if they tax fracking who will pay for the tax. That is correct, the drillers will raise the cost of the product and pass the cost on to the consumers.
There is one candidate who is saying; "- you must vote for me because I am a woman and the government of Pennsylvania is an old boys club."
The Primary costs are telling us there is a fortune to be earned if you became a governor of PA. or any state.
Why do these, Democrats find taxes so attractive? What is the 'unknown' to these candidates is how much is already being spent on education. But also common theme is taxing the drillers for 'Fracking'.
But even more fundamental is that if they tax fracking who will pay for the tax. That is correct, the drillers will raise the cost of the product and pass the cost on to the consumers.
There is one candidate who is saying; "- you must vote for me because I am a woman and the government of Pennsylvania is an old boys club."
The Primary costs are telling us there is a fortune to be earned if you became a governor of PA. or any state.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Real Estate Transfer Tax, Pass on to your Senator & Assembly People
To: Senator Madden, Assemblyman Moriarty & Assmblywoman Mosquers
American Citizens Lobbyist Group
Monday, 4.21.14
Budget Time in
Reduce or Eliminate the Real Estate Transfer Fee
ASSEMBLY,
No. 389 Eliminates general purpose, supplemental and mansion realty transfer fees.
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by: Assemblyman ANTHONY M.
BUCCO, District 25 (Morris and Somerset )
Assemblyman MICHAEL PATRICK CARROLL, District
25 (Morris and Somerset
Co-Sponsored by: Assemblymen Rumana and C.A.Brown
In 1968 the State of New
Jersey
Jarrod Grasso, chief executive of the New Jersey
Association of Realtors, said the fees were “nominal” until 2003 and 2004, when
former Gov. Jim McGreevy and the state Legislature increased them in
back-to-back years.
This nominal fee is no longer nominal. As usual NJ has
some of the highest transfer fees in the country. Instead of being used to
track real estate transactions, the fees now are put into the general fund. These
transfer fees make up the seventh-largest source of revenue for the state.
Sell your home for $300,000 — the median sale price in
the state last month — and you’ll owe the New Jersey
The out of control spending by this
state has led our former legislators to be hoodwinked into driving this fee up
so high that current legislators are saying we cannot eliminate or reduce this
fee because we need it to pay for beach erosion projects.
These funds were not earmarked for beach erosion or for the general fund; they were earmarked for real estate transactions.
Thirteen states have no Real Estate Transfer Fee.
AK, ID, IN, LA, MS, MT, MO, ND, NM, OR, TX, UT AND WY. AZ has a $2.00 fee per transaction.
These funds were not earmarked for beach erosion or for the general fund; they were earmarked for real estate transactions.
Thirteen states have no Real Estate Transfer Fee.
AK, ID, IN, LA, MS, MT, MO, ND, NM, OR, TX, UT AND WY. AZ has a $2.00 fee per transaction.
We have three suggestions.
Reduce the rate significantly, charge a flat fee like AZ regardless of the sale price of your house or eliminate the Fee altogether.
Reduce the rate significantly, charge a flat fee like AZ regardless of the sale price of your house or eliminate the Fee altogether.
And then stop wasteful and unnecessary spending.
American Citizens Lobbyist Group-NJ
Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com
4.21.14, Budget time in Trenton Part 4
The NY TImes is begining to attmpt yo decide who the Republicans will run
JEB GETS FRONTRUNNER SCRUTINY FROM NYT
NYT gives former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., the frontrunner treatment, running a fine comb through the activities of the firms that have paid him to lend them his name since leaving Tallahassee: “…Mr. Bush left public office seven years ago with a net worth of $1.3 million and an unapologetic determination to expand his wealth, telling friends that his finances had suffered during his time in government… Mr. Bush participated in the fevered, last-ditch efforts to prop up Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street bank weighed down by toxic mortgage-backed securities. … And in a stint that could complicate his appeal to conservatives, Mr. Bush serves as a paid director to Tenet Health Care, the giant hospital owner, which supported President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, aggressively encouraged Americans to sign up for insurance under the program and trumpeted the legislation as a boon to the company’s finances…”
THE CANDIDATE WE DEFINITELY AND DEFIANTLY DO NOT WANT
NYT gives former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., the frontrunner treatment, running a fine comb through the activities of the firms that have paid him to lend them his name since leaving Tallahassee: “…Mr. Bush left public office seven years ago with a net worth of $1.3 million and an unapologetic determination to expand his wealth, telling friends that his finances had suffered during his time in government… Mr. Bush participated in the fevered, last-ditch efforts to prop up Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street bank weighed down by toxic mortgage-backed securities. … And in a stint that could complicate his appeal to conservatives, Mr. Bush serves as a paid director to Tenet Health Care, the giant hospital owner, which supported President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, aggressively encouraged Americans to sign up for insurance under the program and trumpeted the legislation as a boon to the company’s finances…”
THE CANDIDATE WE DEFINITELY AND DEFIANTLY DO NOT WANT
Sunday, April 20, 2014
SUING THE I R S, yea , yea , yea!
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
How many workers, Remember my letter form 2-6-14
February 6, 2014
Dear
Editor
Are we
running out of the support for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and
Medicare Part D, Unemployment Insurance? These programs require mandatory contributions
from a population of workers and employers of a number larger than the number receiving
benefits. The Affordable Care Act is similarly based. We need large numbers of
younger and healthier citizens to procure insurance in sufficient numbers sufficient
to support the claims. The total numbers of workers are shrinking as a
percentage of the population. The working population is shrinking because of;
our recession, aging population, and the lower birth rate. The ratio of workers
to non-workers is falling below the sustainable numbers of contributors. The
ACA has been impacted by the lack of enrollees. But the Federal government is spending
tax monies to advertise for enrollees into the ACA. At what cost? Do we think
increase immigration will increase the number of contributors if there are no
increases in employment?
The
impact by the ACA is because working hours are being reduced. The resulting
lower income will lower contributions. Are increased contributions an answer? Our
governments, Federal and State, need to enact steps that improve private
business employment, reduce the assaults on state budgets, and reduce
dependency on government supports. Local governments pay into federal and state
supported plans. Increased employment by businesses will overcome some of the
short fall of the payroll and employer contributions. Increased government
employment will increase our taxes.
Gerald Keer
1010 Merrymount North
Turnersville, NJ 08012
Home 856 228 2123
Cell 609 413 1325
NOW READ THIS
In 2012, according to the Census Bureau, approximately 103,087,000 people worked full-time, year-round in the United States. "A full-time, year-round worker is a person who worked 35 or more hours per week (full time) and 50 or more weeks during the previous calendar year (year round)," said the Census Bureau. "For school personnel, summer vacation is counted as weeks worked if they are scheduled to return to their job in the fall."
Of the 103,087,000 full-time, year-round workers, 16,606,000 worked for the government. That included 12,597,000 who worked for state and local government and 4,009,000 who worked for the federal government.
The 86,429,000 Americans who worked full-time, year-round in the private sector, included 77,392,000 employed as wage and salary workers for private-sector enterprises and 9,037,000 who worked for themselves. (There were also approximately 52,000 who worked full-time, year-round without pay in a family enterprise.)
At first glance, 86,429,000 might seem like a healthy population of full-time private-sector workers. But then you need to look at what they are up against.
The Census Bureau also estimates the size of the benefit-receiving population.
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Tea Party Partiots 5th Anniversary Opening Remarks
Jenny Beth Martin gives the opening remarks, six minutes.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Don't let them raise taxes!!!!
To:
Senator Madden, Assemblyman Moriarty, Assemblywoman Mosquera
American
Citizens Lobbyist Group
New Jersey
Monday, 4.14.14
Budget Time in Trenton Part 3
Monday, 4.14.14
Budget Time in Trenton Part 3
S&P downgrades New Jersey on budget concerns.
The downgrade makes New
Jersey the third-lowest rated state in the country by S&P, trailing only
Illinois and California.
NEW YORK (Market watch) Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
lowered its rating on New Jersey's general obligation debt to A+ from AA-
Wednesday afternoon.
It also
lowered its rating on the state's appropriation-backed debt to A from A+ and
its rating on the state's moral obligation debt to BBB+ from A-, while
maintaining a stable outlook on the state's ratings.
S&P analysts said in a note that the
downgrade reflects a "sizeable structural imbalance" related to the
state's attempts to balance its budget, which the firm believes will lead to
"future budgetary pressures."
The analysts acknowledged the state's economic
environment is generally improving, but won't be enough to offset potential
unfunded pension liabilities.
The downgrade makes New
Jersey the third-lowest rated state in the country by S&P, trailing only
Illinois and California.
The agency previously
downgraded the state’s bond rating in 2011. Each time it goes lower, it drives
up the cost of borrowing for major projects such as schools and roads.
There are only two ways to
balance a budget. Raise revenue or cut spending.
We recommended a 3% cut
across the board two weeks ago.
Last week we recommended
that you cut wasteful spending.
We have confidence in you our legislators, and NJ state workers.
If everyone pitches in we can get this budget under control.
American Citizens Lobbyist Group-NJ
Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com
4.14.14, S&P downgrade.Budget Part 3
Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com
4.14.14, S&P downgrade.Budget Part 3
Thursday, April 10, 2014
The only government department without a military force at its disposal is the military
In Nevada, the department of the interior has its own sniper force training weapons an a cattle owner and his family for filming the cattle grazing.Meanwhile, at Fort Hood, a 340 square-mile base with 56,000 troops on location, soldiers forbidden to carry weapons had to cower in place and wait for the sheriff's office to respond to the latest shooting.
Should you decide to protest this overreach, the feds have an orange fence cordoning off a "First Amendment Area" where Big Brother will let you express yourself.
Read Mark Steyn on this and more at "The First Amendment is Not an Area"
Way of control
Where are the differences?
Numerous Russian
sympathizers living in The Ukraine are organized to support Russia and its way
of governing. The Prime minister is over thrown and Russia seizes Crimea and sets
up a Russian rule of law. Strong arm threats are implemented by stirring unrest
and pressuring Ukraine to bow to Putin and his desires.
Our country passes a law that takes over the major
portion of the economy and issues handouts in the forms of food stamps and
subsidies to the people who cannot afford the new economics or way of health
care. The difference is the lack of obvious strong arm threats to the underprivileged.
Instead we have the strong arm of the IRS pressuring the opposition and trying
to remove their rights to resist Obama and his desires.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Do You Want Relief?
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Our Department of Education
Federal Officials Warn Florida Not to Exempt More Students from Testingby dianeravitch |
Andrea Rediske is perplexed. After the death of her son Ethan, she thought the Florida legislature would pass a law named in his honor as "Ethan's Law" to allow local school officials to grant waivers so that children like Ethan, in medical emergency, would not be required to take the state test.
Then Pam Stewart, the state commissioner, accused Andrea of trying to advance her "political agenda," (Stewart didn't say what that agenda might be other than to protect children like Ethan from being harassed by bureaucrats like Stewart). Then the legislature quietly dropped Ethan's Law and added a few sentences in a general accountability bill that would a hire e the same purpose.
But trouble ahead! The U.S. Department of Education weighs in to warn Florida that if it dares to excuse more than 1% of students with disabilities,the state would not be in compliance with federal law.
So the Federal officials have joined forces with those that believe poor Ethan should have been tested as he lay dying.
What kind of a country is this? Who are these people?
Thank you Jack for this insight
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Catherine Englebrecht's Must See Testimony
See Tea Party activist Catherine Englebrecht's damning testimony on the corruption of the IRS and other government agencies.
Visit her website, King Street Patriots
Party, person and principles
We
often hear people express – ‘I vote for the man not the party’. This sounds
like a noble thought which might leave the speaker feeling above the general
populace. We see people voted into office with a party label attached. If we
consider the purpose of allegiance to the tenets of a party it is that the
candidate pledges to follow the principles expressed by the party. When they
deviate from these principles they become DINO’S or RINO’S. It is very unfair
for politicians to abandon his part’s principles only to align themselves with feel
good positions. If I voted for a candidate and the candidate jumped ship from
the principles pledged, I will feel the person is a liar.
Obama
never lied that he would spread the wealth. He told the truth on that issue. He
lied on many items such as: “Afghanistan was the correct war, or the AFCA will
allow you to keep your policy and doctor, or I will balance the budget by the
end of my first term”. If these are the principles of his party then all the
Democrats should stand in front of him, and live with the pledges made. Myself,
I would prefer a politician that promises no new taxes and does not violate the
promise. Watch the pledges of this season as we see candidates for town councils,
county and congress. Are they consistant with the principles of the party.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
View of NJ property taxes
TO; Senator Madden, Assemblyman Moriarty Assemblywoman Mosquera
American
Citizens Lobbyist Group
Monday, 3.31.14
Budget Time in
High
spending results in high taxes and budget deficits.
Cut Spending.
Across the board spending cuts are the easiest solution
Cut Spending.
Across the board spending cuts are the easiest solution
NJ Worst State for Property
Taxes
* New Jersey – 1.89% average rate on assessed value
This is why NJ ranks at the top of the list for Citizens leaving the state for states with lower property tax rates.
NJ a State With The Highest Taxes
* New Jersey at 11.8% of income
This is why millionaires are leaving the state and taking their tax revenue with them.
This is why corporations are not relocating to NJ. They don’t want to subject their employees and executives to these high taxes.
And some companies are leaving our state.
May 8, 2013
“The Hertz Corporation today announced that the company will relocate its worldwide headquarters toEstero , Florida from Park
Ridge , New Jersey
What is your legislative office doing to reduce Government spending inNew Jersey
The best way to cut Government spending is to start with 3 per cent across the board cuts.
“The arguments against across-the-board cuts are weak, and cuts like these have worked when employed in practice. There is no comparable case to be made for targeted spending cuts. Why? Public choice theory would tell us that all programs in the current state budget are there for a reason. They have constituencies who have put them there, who have expanded them, and who will defend them. This is true in general, but it is especially true at a time of divided government. Divided government reinforces the inherent tendency of interest groups to drive state spending; in a government characterized by split party control of the legislature and the Governor, there are few, if any, programs that do not have political advocates”.
* New Jersey – 1.89% average rate on assessed value
This is why NJ ranks at the top of the list for Citizens leaving the state for states with lower property tax rates.
NJ a State With The Highest Taxes
* New Jersey at 11.8% of income
This is why millionaires are leaving the state and taking their tax revenue with them.
This is why corporations are not relocating to NJ. They don’t want to subject their employees and executives to these high taxes.
And some companies are leaving our state.
May 8, 2013
“The Hertz Corporation today announced that the company will relocate its worldwide headquarters to
What is your legislative office doing to reduce Government spending in
The best way to cut Government spending is to start with 3 per cent across the board cuts.
“The arguments against across-the-board cuts are weak, and cuts like these have worked when employed in practice. There is no comparable case to be made for targeted spending cuts. Why? Public choice theory would tell us that all programs in the current state budget are there for a reason. They have constituencies who have put them there, who have expanded them, and who will defend them. This is true in general, but it is especially true at a time of divided government. Divided government reinforces the inherent tendency of interest groups to drive state spending; in a government characterized by split party control of the legislature and the Governor, there are few, if any, programs that do not have political advocates”.
As more
taxpayers and companies leave the state and less companies and citizens choose
to relocate here the lost revenue will continue to degrade our fiscal
situation. Cutting spending enables us to lower taxes and reverse this trend. State
Governments have core responsibilities. Over taxing their citizens should not
be one of them,
American Citizens Lobbyist Group-NJ
Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com
3.31.14, Budget time inTrenton
Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com
3.31.14, Budget time in
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