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Tax revolt/total recall 2009! NOTE: This is a preface to the blog to quickly explain my political and social standing, to lower the chances of seeming like a blatant hypocrite. If you trust that my viewpoints have been carefully chosen and assmbled, and that after a long explanation not hypocritical then skip the preface and start at the paragraph marked with "THE LOWDOWN ON THE CALIFORNIA TOTAL RECALL 2009"
Liberal and conservative have truly lost their original values since their inception. Conservative now means rich, white, jesus freak, homosexual hating, war mongerers. Liberal now means big government, federal over state and local government rights, gun control, vastly flawed and wasteful social programs (In government run society - I believe certain social programs such as abandoned baby programs, disability for the truly disabled etc. Are morally necessary, or atleast fair. It is food stamps and welfare and low income housing for crackheads with 7 kids and no baby daddy, or scam artists on disability for disorders that they caused, or faked, or exagerated, or those who buy cigarettes and lingerie with their tax funded financial assistance - that gets my goat), and global climate change scare tactics.
Thus when I speak of liberal, or conservative I am using the defenition of the actual words. Not what they have come to represent.
I am a liberal by nature. I believe in conserving taxes, conserving rights, conserving privacy, conserving energy, conserving natural resources, and conserving the constitution/civil rights. So in this sense I am a conservative. But I believe in liberal accepting of minorities, homosexuals, and the disabled. I believe in the liberal use of democracy and the free market. I believe in being liberal on the right to have an abortion (despite what I personally believe about the moral standing of non rape abortions). So in this case I am liberal.
"So what?" you may say. Well that was my long winded attempt at giving you a background on where exactly I stand, and why I may apparently contradict myself at times. It is the terminology and the bastardization of words that makes it hard to blog without sounding two faced. One blog conservative means this, one day it means that. One day I have input on our current system, the next I am speaking of the evils of the system, and eliminating it all together.
If you had all day I could explain exactly where my beliefs come from, how they can co-exist, and why they are not contradictory at all. But to keep this short (or atleast short for me) I will leave you with that general explanation in hopes it will help give my words some more instant validity....So read on!
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THE LOWDOWN ON THE CALIFORNIA TOTAL RECALL 2009>>>>>>>>>>>: If you live in Southern California, you have probably heard of the AM talk station KFI. It has long been associated with conservative, republican, and even the far right conspiracy theorist. Rush Limbaugh being the most prominent example. Tom Leykis used to do a political show on KFI before his LEYKIS 101 days. Tom is a libertarian though, and quite liberal for the station. While the station as a whole and few dj's blatantly associate themselves with the republican party, their point of view politically almost always aligns with the party.
But lately I have seen that the station has seemingly adopted many libertarian values. Specifically since the bank bailout, automobile industry bailout, tax stimulus plans, and large Californian tax hikes.
Two dj's john & Ken, who I have been at odds with in the past on many topics are the figureheads for this new change in values (or this recharging of the original republican party). They are specifically upset at the unfair tax hikes in one of the top highest taxed states in the nation (California), and the so called anti tax/fiscal conservatives who preached against raising taxes, many who signed the anti tax increase agreement, and then passed (directly or by inaction) these tax increases (such as the car tax, supposidely repealed by the governator).
Now where you stand politically, or what you think about the nation and california's insane tax hikes and insanely wasteful spending is irrelavent. It has to do with the principle of the matter.
But just incase you're braindead, Let's give a democrat example to make this easy for you to grasp.
Let's say a DNC candidate was running heavely on the issue of expanding low cost and free health care, and making sure every citizen would have health insurance. They spend the next years and/or months Shaking hands and kissing babies, visiting low income neighborhoods to show "they get us", making speeches left and right, and most importantly, raising funds for their campaign (Because you know these days you have to be wealthy and be able to convince lots of rich people to give you millions and millions of dollars if you want to even consider making a semi-respectable 3rd party run for president..."He who has the gold..", right?)
Now these cash doners (big and small), and campaign volunteers, and pledges for votes are doing what they're doing because of either you're platform, or a political promise of somekind (I.e. A favor here, bending the rules/law there).
Now let's assume that he wins the country's heart, and is elected president. If they then spend the next four years doing nothing about healthcare, and even doing things to thwart healthcare bills.
Is this not something which is wrong? Probably illegal on several different levels such as fraud or verbal contracts breached? Is it not something that deserves a punishment of some kind? Why are politicians seemingly exempt from laws pertaining to lying, fundraising, verbal contracts, fraud, laundering money, etc.?
The reupublican senate had to put three of their party's votes towards the California 2009 budget for the bill to pass. That's exactly what they got...three. It was an admitted strategy of the republican side of the senate to pass the budget, so if it works, they republicans are saints. And if it doesn't work, the vast majority of members of the republican senate are marters for fighting this wasteful bill.
How can this not be punished? If not by law, or by lawsuit, then for god's sake, recall his slimy ass!
Recalls require a certain amount of signatures to move onto it's action stage. For John and Ken's target Anthony Adams it is a 35,000 signature minimum. But to be safe they said during yesterday's "Heads on a Stick/Tax revolt" ummm..."party"...or maybe I mean.."angry mob" or an "organized tax mosh pit"...anyways..at their event they said they want 45,000 to be safe.
I am in many ways anti tax all together, but I do believe in many situations they are necessary to keep the country from going to shambles (a.k.a. Atleast half of the middle east), or being taken over by some little buttfuck country like Laus or Uzbekistan (no offense to the people of either country...but you're not exactly world military powers or anything).
I disagree completely with how taxes are collected, and how they are divided. I believe taxes should be voluntary, and if you don't choose to pay them you can't use the roads, have military protection, or access to 911 or emergency rooms, or disability, or unemployment etc. I also believe there should be tax elections held before it's time to hand over the money to elect the percentage of "revenue" that each program, or whatnot will get. How much for schools, how much for military, how much for social programs? Etc.
I also don't believe the government (primarily the federal government) should have such a personal relationship with the world. The people working in the governent tax department(s) should not have hidden motives driving their work. The taxation portion of a government if it exists at all should not be able to gain directly from their work except for their salary and benefits. In other words, robots.
But anyways, I support the recall of any members of the republican senate who had something substantial to do with passing these tax hikes, after being fiscal...or anti tax, or especially after signing the anti tax pledge. No Republican should be for tax hikes such as these, but especially the ones who's whole shtick is being fiscal, or anti tax...ha! It's like Larry Craig getting caught soliciting gay sex in an airport bathroom. Except these specific politicians we are speaking such as the governator are doing it out in public, more like Larry Craig wearing a rainbow flag shirt and tounge ring to his televised speeches.
This is shameless lying and finacially raping of not only the lower and middle class, but the wealthy who create most of the jobs that all three classes work. This is saying one thing for votes, then using the system for your own gains with no shame. This is how politicians stick out their tounge and give you the finger. This is the politcal equivalent of getting someone a great job, and then, them leaving a bag of flaming human feces on your doorstep, and putting bologne all over your new car. This is the elite spitting on the citizens and voters and tax payers from their fucking golden toilets in the sky, where you crap silver dollars, and instead of galstones, you piss out diamonds, and huge houses, and immunity from laws, and th constitution.
No matter whether you are an anarchist, a libertarian, a democrat, a republican, even a socialist. These taxes are rape, and are not going to be able to do a thing about our economic turmoil. It will only delay the problem, and make it work. Haven't we learned about economic corrections? That pouring money into a raging fire will not put it out.
If you're in california, and especially Assembly man Anthony Adams' district which includes parts of hesperia, redlands, san bernardino county etc. You should go to the john and ken section of the KFI AM website and lend your support of all kinds (signatures, funds, time etc.) To the cause.
This isn't about what you think about the extreme tax hikes. It's about not letting politicians get away with this dogshit politics.
Just remember:
"First they came for the jews and I didn't do anything.
Then they came for the catholic, and I didn't do anything, then they came for the christians and I didn't do anything. And then they came for me.....and there was nobody left to do anything to help me."
With love to my fellow Americans and Canucks, as well as all the citizens of the world's government's abusive , unfair, and criminal behavior.
-TimothyXMcVeigh (A)
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