"We Are Going to Make Mistakes"

I was a combat infantryman in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. For doing the wrong thing-the German people following Hitler's lead-I witnessed Nazi Germany flat on the ground. It made a lasting impression. The pie in the sky people envision is often crap.  I was in Germany for one reason: victory! During World War II, the American people were all intent on victory.  Killing innocent people was no consideration.  All Germans were guilty of the sin of allowing Hitler to lead them.  Justice was served. The German people paid a high price. 

Those who put Obama in office are absolutely ecstatic.  Sorry about this, but we've aIready made too many mistakes.  We're paying a price.  

President Obama on inauguration day say, "Rest assured, we are going to make mistakes." That made an impression. Something's going on in Obama's mind and I think I know what it is. I recall Bush senior telling the voters "no new tax." In campaigning, politicians say what they know the voters want to hear. President Obama knows very well that he can't give everyone what they want. The American people have made many mistakes. America is divided. Obama's look of self-confidence is misleading. Obama is not sure of the present course. Now that the buck stops on Obama, it do make a difference. There are many considerations on the table With all that Obama promised, it will either be more tax or printing money and watering down the money in circulation, the same as tax. Health care for all will be socialized health care, and those who need it the most waiting in a long line. I don't think Obama can turn water into wine. By the time Obama has been in office four years, what he said before taking office will be ancient history.

I left the service with my ears ringing and gradually lost 70 percent of my hearing, at which time I applied to the Veteran's Administration for financial help on the basis that I was permanently unemployable due to a war related injury. My claim was approved. I'm government entitled to taxpayer help.

One of the mistakes President Obama will be making is continuing with Federal income tax and the IRS. As an entry-level worker, the IRS "mistakenly" put me on the street in the name of Federal income tax. They admitted the mistake on the front page of The Palm Beach Post, after 11 years of continuing mistakes. Working people don't have the chance of a snowball in hell against the IRS. The IRS is as close as we can get to the Nazi Gestapo. Compare government entitlements with workers being robbed of their existence. It's a mistake and no excuse for it.

The Nixon Administration's unconstitutional price controls changed market conditions. I, along with thousands of other small businesses, due to price controls, was driven out of business. It was not reported but I know Nixon's price controls were designed by big business. I was in the lumber business and a member of an independent lumberman's organization. Weyerhaeuser was a special kind of member. They paid most of the cost, and for a purpose. In the name of my independent lumberman's organization, Weyerhaeuser helped the Nixon Administration establish the prices on number. During price controls, Weyerhaeuser shipped 90 percent of its production overseas. The smaller mills depended on government timber, which was not price controlled. Weyerhaeuser bid up the price of government timber and either forced smaller mills out of business or bought them out. I depended on small mills. Price controls put me out of business. When I started over as an entry-level worker, the Federal government robbed me of my existence. Had the Federal government been limited to its original intent, as an entrepreneur, I would have never needed a handout from the taxpayers. There's nothing wrong with a free market. The fault is in market manipulators. The price of oil is a good example. Political expedience is the reason that the free market is flawed. It would not happen if the voters knew what is going on.

The voters don't know that the current government flim flam is a repeat of the past. Obama knows and he admits mistakes are being made. The Federal government is bailing out big business, we are told, to save the economy, while small businesses by the ten of thousands close their doors. Get real! Small business hire more help than big business. None of the bailout money is going to create jobs.

President Obama was voted into office by America's majority-who feel that government help is an essential. The feeling started during the Great Depression, which ended 65 years ago. The need for government help, a self-fulfilling prophecy, has grown into an unaffordable cost.

In Mike Huckebee's Do the Right Thing, which includes doing away with Federal income tax and the IRS, replacing the income tax with a tax on spending, he writes about "the hard working middle class" (HWMC). "These are not people who are looking for government or for others to pay their bills or to give them unearned income. They are simply people who work very hard and are living on the edge each day." President Obama, on inauguration day, referring to these people, called them"amazing." President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your government can do for you; ask what you can do for your government." He talked the talk but did not walk the walk.

Huckebee wrote that the HWMC are not defined by race or place so much as by grace and face. "They might be white, black, brown, or yellow. They might live in the South, the Southwest, the Midwest, or in the suburbs of a major city, but they probably don't live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan."

"Folks in the HWMC most likely go to church, mow their own lawns with a push mower, own one suit (for church, funerals, and weddings), and clip coupons for grocery shopping. . . They have a long list of things they would love to have, but know they probably never will because they have kids to feed and educate, and having a new bass boat or truck is probably not as important as making sure their kids have their teeth fixed."

The last thing these folks need is the IRS and Federal income tax against which they have no defense. In a tax on spending, the necessities of life should be exempt. The HWMC should be encouraged to prosper. Federal income tax keeps them humping to exist. If and when they prosper, if they wanted to live like kings, they could afford to pay a kings's ransom in tax. After all, a lot of people go into making the prosperity for one. Years and years of federal finagling, leaving a federal tax code so full of ambiguities that it takes a tax lawyer to figure it out, leaving Federal income tax favoring the rich and penalizing the helpless HWMC, why keep it? It has outlived its usefulness.

We should shoot for the most we can get out of a free market economy, by creating an environment most adaptable to human beings: the more one puts out, the more one is likely to receive. With a tax on spending, the more one spends on himself, the more the tax; the more one invests in the economy, the better the economy.

America's government over the years has turned from regulator into opportunist, or redistribution agent for the national resources. Our sweat is being redistributed according to political power. The runts are squeezed out. It's tantamount to slavery.

Government's proper role is that of regulator of a free market economy.

From where I sit, retired and provided for by the taxpayers, happy am I for my personal good fortune. If the American people want to walk the Yellow Brick Road, I'm asked, why do I worry? Let the future take care of itself. What made President Obama say, "rest assured, we will make mistakes." He's crawfishing, letting us know he's going back on his campaign promises. He has children. I have children. We both want the best for them.  I hope he's going to do the right thing.