When you hear about all the people who lost much of their life savings due to the recent stock market crash, and you didn't have your savings in the stock market, you might be prone to say, "There but for the grace of God go I." I say, "Where were your representatives?" We saw them hurriedly bailing out the culprits on Wall Street, actually sweeping their own misdeeds under the carpet, on the taxpayers backs. America's taxpayers are looked upon as fair game. The help they promised to the economy has not materialized. The vast amount of the nation's sweat your representatives gave Wall Street was a pig in the poke. Clearly, they took the American taxpayer.

On grace, John Newton, a British seaman, was bad. He was put ashore in North Africa. He later became a sea captain plying the slave trade. One night in a terrible storm at sea, Newton received God's grace. He became a minister of the gospel. He wrote the words to a favorite hymn, Amazing Grace: "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. . ." I had a similar experience in a terrible storm at sea, at the helm of my sloop, Bold Venture.

I'd already had a bigger than life calling. When I read Edward S. Corwin's The ‘Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law, I saw the light. I bought the book in a second hand lawbook store. At the time, it was out of print. For one dollar, I bought the most valuable book I own. It saved my life.

I had planned to take the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to court for violating my constitutional right to exist on the fruits of my own labor. At the time, my business enterprise and my marriage were both on the rocks. The IRS and my ex-wife were working out a plan that would put me on the street.

According to my astrologer, the planets were lined up in ways favorable to me and unfavorable to my ex-wife and the IRS. I won; they lost. It ended with my going to sea for two years. I was "reborn" at sea.

I had acted as contractor in the building of my home. One of my carpenters had a drinking problem. He didn't show up for work on lots of days. He had a wife and three children, and one on the way. He was receiving subsidized housing, food stamps, and Medicaid. While I waited for my divorce, my wife and son lived in the home I built. I took an entry-level job to survive. I couldn't pay the rent on my take home pay. I came home from work and found myself locked out. At the time, the IRS was mistakenly demanding that I pay tax I didn't owe, and had illegally frozen my rightful refund, all with the nod of the same representatives who bailed out Wall Street. Down the street from my pad, there was a mile long food stamp line. The same representatives were buying the votes of the needy with my withholding tax.

For eleven years, I fought a legal battle with the IRS. In the end, I took the court record to The Palm Beach Post, who investigated and printed a front page story. The IRS admitted that it had been wrong from the first. There was not one peep from anyone about it. I sent the story to my representatives in Washington. Only Sen. Bob Graham replied. He sent me a government document which stated that the IRS is permitted to use "Draconian" methods in the collection of income tax. When I tell this story, I get this response: "I'm sorry." It is not there but for the grace of God go I, is it? It's I don't want to hear about this, isn't it?

In Black's Law Dictionary, America's makers and keepers of the law can read, under the word "lawful," that "legal" is the form of the law; "lawful" is the substance of the law. The IRS did nothing illegal. Hitler was legal. You hear your representatives say, "I'll done nothing illegal." They are saying, I don't want to hear about it, aren't they?

In the Bible, under Gen. 1, 26 and 27, we read, "And God said, Let us make man in our image. . . So God created man in his own image. . ." In whose image is Uncle Sam? In whose image is President Barrack Obama, who has repeatedly said that he is going to remake America? The America Obama is about to give you is a Cuban style socialist dictatorship. You don't want to hear about it so you quit reading anything I write, right? While things are getting worse for millions, I'm still waiting to hear from you why everything is in divine order for me.

I took this picture in Colorado years ago, during a time that we were RV vagabonds. It's a natural highway leading to a hole in the clouds. It was an omen of what was to come. The stars say that I should spend time in the woods or at the sea shore, where I can get in touch with my inner self and my deepest thoughts because my destiny is to use my mind. Presently, I'm living in the tall timber near Mt. Hood, retired and government entitled. I'm not waiting for the undertaker to haul me away. I'm earning my keep. Actually, I'm self-employed doing what I do best: expressing my thoughts to a world in need of seldom thought answers.

We may be our brother's keeper, but the Higher Law of nature clearly implies survival of the fittest. Surely we don't think we can keep others if we can't keep ourselves. We humans don't live by the law of the jungle. We are created with reason, logic, and an awareness of vastly more than other life forms. Writing my thoughts gives me the sense of worth one needs to survive. Everything happens for a reason. My life is in divine order.

Being dependent on others creates co-dependency. For those dependent on others, and the same for the control freaks running the world out there, life doesn't appear to be that good. It seems that we're meant to be self-possessed, not dependent on others; not hogs. Beware of those who want to help people with other people's money. The hogs line up at the trough leaving many a runt squeezed out.

For the first forty-nine years of my life, I was not in control of it and didn't know what to do about it. As a consequence, I found myself without my business enterprise, without a wife; forced to make a drastic change. Oh how we hate change! I was having a repeating dream of flying on the back of a giant bird through a narrow, winding canyon, terrified. I couldn't see around the bends.

Flying blind was the symbol. It's fraught with danger. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The big change materialized. I purchased a live-aboard sailing sloop I named Bold Venture and set sail on the South Atlantic Ocean-went where the wind took me. Wouldst thou know the mystery of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers comprehend its mysteries. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The inexplicable occurred while I was at sea. It caused me to see the light, to discover the real me. For the first time in my life, I became captain of my ship.

After two years at sea, I returned to a career job in Portland, Oregon. The mystery continued. I found the right mate for me. On our first date, a hike to Multnomah Falls near Portland, nearby Mt. St. Helens erupted. The eruption of a volcano is a symbol of immortality. Out of calamity comes hope and renewal. In the legend of the phoenix, a bird, after 500 or 600 years of life it immolates itself on a pyre. From its ashes springs a new cycle of life. From the moment I met Karen, my wife of 26 years, I had the feeling that I was meeting an old friend I'd not seen for a very long time.

Indeed, there is mystery in our lives. On our first date, Karen said. "I want our relationship to be platonic." She doesn't know why she said that. Fifteen years later, a friend did a computer generated astrological compatibility printout for us. In it I read, "The platonic thing was there from the start, and there is a sense of the brother and sisterly between you. Even if lovers, you will always be first and foremost, good friends."

The current economic situation in America brings to mind my own situation prior to my rebirth at sea. Everything is pointing to the end of an era. It's in the future, the same as in the past, when we depend on the most favorable outcome we can conjure up, for instance, spending a trillion dollars to stimulate economic growth, it causes a collapse from its own weight. Those who look externally to the most favorable outcome for their answers are dreamers. They always lose. The innovative, those who look within for their answers, grasp the opportunity and prosper. It is written in the stars. I hate to spoil millions of people's hopes and prayers, but it is legendary that no matter how much money and power exerted, we can never start with a desirable outcome and force the pieces to fit.

I entered my tag word "Gaia" in search. Although over 4,800 blogs appeared mine did not. The first on the list said, "Understanding our purpose in life and creating a vision allows us to determine the general course for our life's journey. Once we have some clarity about our purpose and our vision, we can navigate day-to-day."

The planet Earth, you need to know, including America, does not belong to the mechanical men now running the world. Man belongs to Gaia, a self-regulating organism.

Yesterday's blog "On Myths and Legends" had the tag phrase "our brother's keeper." I entered it in search. Sixty-seven blogs appeared under our brother's keeper. Mine was not one of them.

Gaia's management should either change the name or stand accused of hypocrisy.

The man of the year, just elected U.S. President Barrack Obama, in a televised speech last night, referred to my ideas as "the same old tired ideas," and his ideas new. He has referred to his ideas as those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. President elected in 1933, during America's Great Depression. Roosevelt's "New Deal" law called for government grants in aid to individuals. New Deal law was ruled unconstitutional. President Roosevelt threatened to double the number of justices on the Supreme Court, appointing activist judges who agreed with New Deal law; that is, judges who believed the Constitution should be interpreted in light of today's needs, more particularly the powers that be needs.

The "new" idea is interpreting the law in light of today's needs. The "same old tired ideas" is interpreting the law according to the original intent of the Constitution. On the "new" idea, Justice Brandeis, a Roosevelt appointee, put it this way: "Property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end." On the "old idea" the means to the end is work and pay. In the "new" idea, the end justifies the means. It has never worked. You can't conjure up a desirable end and force all the pieces to fit. We humans do not have hive mentality. As a being of Power, Intelligence and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which may make himself what he wills. James Allen, As a Man Thinketh.

President Obama is pushing his economic stimulus package. It will grow caretaker government, in fact, more than any piece of legislation in U.S. history. Every dime of the money will be borrowed, almost a trillion dollars, more money than the entire economies of most nations. What a burden to impose on future generations! Indeed, Obmama's is a new idea-spending America's way out of an economic meltdown. The economy is the source of wealth. Goverment spends money. I'm for spending money to make money; that is, to create jobs. President Obama has declared that he is going to remake America, and now we know how he plans to do it: purely and simply by making as many of us dependent on him as he can. He has the support of the masses, who want cradle to grave security.

Having lived in an environment that makes society responsible for the individual's welfare; that is, under New Deal law and individual grants in aid, the "new" idea that government has a duty to the individual, the masses don't realize that the economy, not government, creates wealth. You don't take money out of the economy and redistribute it according to political whim and grow the economy. The current economic meltdown is the result of government ripping off the economy for the sole purpose of buying votes.

If President Obama's economic stimulus package becomes law, the borrowed money will be printed with nothing to back it but the American people's promise to pay it back. Nice work if you can get it. The present generation of takers would like to pass the burden of paying back the loan on their children and grandchildren. America's government has passed off the pyramid game idea of "pay as you go." Obama's "new" idea is the old shell game.

With a trillion dollars of monopoly money fed into the economy, to be sure, there will be a temporary boost, followed by runaway inflation, leaving future generations with an astronomical debt. Obama's "new" idea of remaking America is tantamount to bankruptcy and socialist dictatorship. It's as old as the hills. Do I want Obama to fail? You better believe I do.

My last post, "On Caretaker Government" carried the tag phrase, "the old shell game." Amazingly, Gaia's search didn't find my "On Caretaker Government." It found 48 other blogs. It found my December 27^th post, "New Rules for the New Economy," before Gaia's management eliminated my tags from Gaia's search.

Gaia's management team don't like what I write. They control whose tags are active. I'm against their knight in shining armor, Barrack Obama. I won't give him a chance because I know he is a lying con artist.

My prompt for today's blog was the woman who gave birth to Octuplets. She is now being deluged with offers for book deals. There are many ways one is permitted to use America's system for personal gain, but this one takes the cake.

My issue today is whether the individual is ultimately responsible or society is ultimately responsible for our lives. It goes without saying that we can't be free to do our own thing and at the same time make society responsible for our well-being. Many Americans don't know this.

Having said this, more than half of the American people are receiving some benefit from big government. I'm one of them. I'm receiving Social Security benefits and veteran's benefits. I'm a disabled veteran of World War II.

I agree with progressive liberals that it is not for any of us to say whether or not the irresponsible should or should not be helped. I go further, to say that nobody should be left out in the cold. Why are they? With intelligence, the irresponsible can be properly dealt with. Never accuse progressive liberals of being intelligent. They allow some irresponsible people to live on the street, others-some of them millionaires-to receive benefits, such as the corporate bailouts. We've the news is that $78 billion dollars of corporate bailout money is missing. I wonder how many jobs that money could have provided. Too bad that I don't have a public voice. Not one peep from Obama. It happened on George Bush's watch. What's going on? I would see that we get answers for the missing money.

In America, we, the people, have turned freedom into the worst of circumstances. We've allowed our government to get out of control. As a result, our economy is sick and our national debt is soaring. We are now looking at a $800 to $900 billion pig in the poke nobody can say will work to jumpstart the economy. The cost is astronomical and every dime of it will mean a government I.O.U. against America's future taxpayers. President Obama says, "we will make mistakes." It's after me, the future. Let the future take care of itself. Yes, Obama won, but do we let him do whatever he wants without a question? Obama is a lying fraud.

Were we personally responsible and free, we would not be in our present difficulties. The nation is divided, the government in disorder. According to Obama, if we don't do something by February 16 we face a disaster we may never pull out of. Obama's enormous spending bill is a hodgepodge of arbitrary numbers: totally unfocused, a tidbit here, a tidbit there. Nothing at all would be better than Obama's economic stimulus package. Leave the present leadership be and within two years America will be bankrupt. Industry will be nationalized. Not counting me, I'm entitled, workers, too, will take what government gives them, whether their work is good, bad, or indifferent. The same as no one has the right to say someone is irresponsible, government has no legitimate right to entitle people to anything. If people can't or will not cope, they should be made wards of the state, and submit to being managed.

Due to the fact that everyone with a public voice is in the establishment rut, we hear no reasonable answers for the cure. The only way to avoid the loss of personal liberty is for the American people to take stock of the current situation and make demands that can work. I'm offering a plan that will work. Obama says he's going to remake America. Obama's plan is no better than the rest of the tired old remedies. His is a revised "New Deal" remedy. The New Deal didn't work. It kept America in the Great Depression from 1933 until America entered World War II in 1941.

I'm reading from a front page story in The Palm Beach Post, dated December 1, 1986. The headline: TAXPAYER WAGES 11-YEAR FEUD WITH IRS. "Joseph W. Smith, Jr. (that's me) is convinced he'll never have any peace as long as he's a taxpayer and Internal Revenue Service exists. He's driven by an 11-year feud with the IRS over what turned out to be erroneous assessments on his 1973 and 1974 federal income tax returns." The article goes on to tell about the IRS admitting that it was mistaken in numerous collections, including going to my bank and stripping me of every cent in my account; that is, my rent and grocery money. I was living from hand to mouth. The IRS admitted that it was wrong to freeze me tax refund. Because of that wrongful act, I was locked out for non-payment of my rent.

The article reported: "The problem started in 1975 when his return was audited." I'd had a bigger than life calling. My spiritual guides were directing me. I had written Attorney General William B. Saxbe a letter claiming federal income tax was an unconstitutional fraud. I took my letter and the record of what followed to The Palm Beach Post. The story on the front page of a large newspaper got not one peep from anyone.

Every once in a while Congress makes a big fuss over the IRS' abuses, to let us know our representatives are working for us. The dumbed down American people accept it. Congress has yet to do anything to stop the IRS abuse of taxpayers.

What does Gaia's management team know? America's worst enemy is not abroad. It is Federal income tax and the IRS. The government's purpose of this lawless juggernaut is to suck up our national energy and redistribute it according to political whim. Little by little, America's politicians-Republicans and Democrats-have manipulated Federal income tax to give themselves the power to not only control the American people but the whole world. Most of the blame for the current crises is due to "me-too" Republicans. They have been riding in the rumble seat of the Democrats' scheme, and giving the voters a song and dance.

Obama's economic stimulus package was a staged event to hoodwink the American people. The Senate was to run the cost up and then compromise to favor the Republicans-in a bipartisan effort. They had the three Republican frauds needed to ram the bill through in their pocket all along.

Over and over, we hear, "we won the election." The best thing that could happen, as far as the winners of the election are concerned, is for America to go bankrupt. They would then be in total control. What else would cause them to come up with their arbitrary spending bill, the biggest ever, and cram it down our throats before we've had a chance to discuss it? Yes, "we won the election," and we are losing the war.

There is no hope for the Obama cure because our attention has been diverted from the cause, Federal income tax, to a pig in the poke. The cure is doing away with Federal income tax and the IRS, replacing these traps with a tax on spending.

To find a cure, secondly, we should realize that we are personally responsible, not society, for our success or failure. We should realize, at the same time, that we are our brother's keeper. Nobody should be left out in the cold. And who are we to pass judgment? Those who won't or can't cope, should be placed in a structured environment where they can be properly dealt with, depending on their problem. They should be wards of the state and not privileged to vote. The Democrats could not win any election without the votes of government dependents. Only the personally responsible citizens should be allowed to vote. After all, it's their money that is being spent. Workers make the economy, not government dependents. Obama's "economic stimulus" package is a hodgepodge of welfare state spending. It makes no sense to pick the pockets of future taxpayers to buy the present support of the irresponsible. In America, where everyone is allowed to vote, the election winners are the champions of the irresponsible. It's the old shell game. President Kennedy had you answer: "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."

I listened to President Obama's speech in Elkhart, Indiana. The President readily admits mistakes are going to be made. It is not realistic to believe government has the right answers. Realistically, the individual has the right answers for an economic recovery.

Airline Captain "Sully," hero of the day, when interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes," said it was intense concentration, that saved all 158 lives on his plane. If one wing was slightly down when it went into the water the plane would be spun and broken up. Everyone's life would have been lost. Captain Sully said he had to keep the nose slightly up, the speed as slow as possible and still maintain flying speed. All of his flying experience was for this moment, said he.

When he lost power on both engines, he went into shock. He was 2,000 feet up. He had to decide whether to try to make it back to the runway from which he departed or crash land in the Hudson River. He said he made the right choice. The other choice was problematic.

During my two years at sea, I encountered a violent storm. My challenge was keeping my 37 foot sailboat upright. Too close to the wind and it would get behind the sail. The sail would slam across decks and likely take the mast down. Too far off the wind and the boat would be knocked flat on the water. There was very little room for error. It took intense concentration for six hours. When it is a matter of life and death, it is mind over matter. My three sailing companions called it a miracle that we were saved from a watery grave. How many times do unsung heros perform miracles? We don't give the individual the credit the individual deserves. Dependence on government has dumbed us down.

In a crises situation, government itself mindless, government is the result of millions of minds and a consensus of opinion, President Obama inherited a problem that has been building in momentum for decades. Instead of a hodgepodge of spending aimed at stimulating the economy, why not pay off everyone's home mortgage, or give every family a new energy-efficient automobile. No question about it, it would stimulate the economy and would not cost anymore than the President's complicated plan. None of the expensive options addresses the question of who is going to pay for it. It is saying let the future take care of itself.

The mistake was made when Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the government had a duty to the individual. It sent the wrong signal to the American people. Necessity is the mother of invention. The best government can do for the individual is to provide equal opportunity. That's a laugh. Equal opportunity requires regulation, which has always been lacking. Political expedience is the reason for the crises were suffer today. I have only to refer you to Martin Luther King. Enough said. I'm amazed when I see how black leaders look and act today. When I was a boy in the South, they were all the N word-subhuman and cursed by the Creator. It is a bitter pill we swallow that brings the American people to this point. Don't let that distract you. We are all in this together.

The economic crises of the 1930s was purely and simply due to the lacking in government regulation. The proper fix was vastly more spending on America's infrastructure, starting in 1931. It was lowering interest rates. Government is a slow learner. The Fed raised interest rates and cause a radical stock market adjustment to become a depression. The problem was the American people looking to government for answers, for allowing government to put its energy into increasing the momentum of the welfare state-dependence on government. When you sit in the bleachers and watch the action, what do you expect? You are going  to always be a day late and a dollar short. That's Barrack Obama. For twenty years, he listened to Reverend Wright's vituperation and ended with his head in La La Land. The best answer now is to let the economy, not government, fix the problem. With friends like Washington's politicians, who needs enemies?

We don't need tax refunds. The first thing we should do is to demand of our precious keepers in Washington that Federal income tax and the IRS be eliminated. Government has no business meddling in the individual's private financial affairs. Government help on mortgages is a nitwit's approach. What about those who could afford their mortgage? Is that equal opportunity? Realtors are taught "caveat emptor." Let the purchaser beware. You gotta take responsibility for your mistakes, folks; quit asking for a handout. It would save hundreds of billions of dollars per year in costs, not to mention the cheating it would eliminate, to place the responsibility on the individual and eliminate income tax. Income tax should be replaced with a tax on spending. No worry if CEOs payed themselves excessively. It's so simple it is ludicrous. If they wanted to live like kings, let them pay a king's ransom in tax. If they wanted to invest their money, fine. No problem. The things that provide a standard American living would not be taxed at all.

President Obama says if we don't accept his stimulus package millions of more workers will lose their jobs and the situation will be out of control. An uncomplicated solution is transparency. Obama's solution is a government shell game.

The vastly better solution is to faze out government entitlements. Government entitlements tell the people that they are incapable of coping; they must have cradle to grave government security. Government entitlements are a pyramid game that will ultimately bankrupt the nation, morally, spiritually, and fiscally. The situation was out of control when President Obama's mentor, President Roosevelt, took charge. He didn't end the depression. He caused it to linger for years with his piddling answers. World War II ended the depression. The war could have been averted had Roosevelt talked the American people into spending the same money building the infrastructure. But no, Roosevelt squandered America's resources with individual grants in aid.

Coupled with the elimination of Federal income tax and the IRS, a great stimulus to the producers of wealth, the economic engine would fire up. Instead of saddling future taxpayers to an impossible tax burden, millions of jobs would be created. Wasteful, incompetent, government would be replaced with a radically downsized government.

Hey, its no skin off my nose. I'm government entitled. Go ahead with Obama's plan. Leave the future to carry the burden. I won't be around.

Please take note that my tag phrase, "government shell game," in Gaia's search, of the first 10, six being my blogs, this blog is not one of them. Gaia's management is responsible for this. Without notice, I've been removed as a Gaia Ambassador.

My father was one of General Pershing's 100 heros during World War I. He won the Distinguished Service Cross. He failed to keep the faith. He later let alcohol take control of his life. America's leaders failed to keep the faith. I was in World War II. I was not a decorated hero, but I kept the faith. My life is in divine order.

The high priest of nowheresville, the highly skilled, Harvard educated Barrack Obama, Gaia management's hero, is currently an American hero. He will fail. He demonstrates that he has failed to keep the faith. He does not know himself or the people he represents. America was born out of a belief that "all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." Is that not the exact reason that those leaders who came before Obama failed? America is not nowheresville!

Airline captain "Sully," who saved 158 passenger lives, represents thousands of unsung American heros, some of whom made the supreme sacrifice for their American beliefs. Captain Sully says it took intense concentration to crash land in the Hudson River and to keep the plane from breaking up and killing all the passengers. During my two-year sabbatical at sea, I encountered a violent storm. It took intense concentration to keep my 37 foot sailboat upright. My sailing companions said it was a miracle. It made a remarkable difference in my life.

I don't know if Jesus ever lived (I'm not a Christian) but I know his message lives on. The high priest of Jesus' day was responsible for his crucifixion, by reason that Jesus turned over the moneychangers' tables in the temple. Jesus' message was really that in each of us lives a higher authority than man's authority. What Captain Sully and I both learned from our experiences was that we each have in us superhuman power when the need arises.

Gaia, the name the ancient Greeks gave to Mother Earth, is defined in Webster's as "a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model." Self-regulating, yes, but like all else, regulated by the Higher Law of the universe. Turning to "logos" in Webster's: "the rational principle that governs and develops the universe (in Christian theology) the divine word or reason incarnate in Jesus Christ. John1:1." The Higher Law, we observe, holds that no thing or life ever achieves perfection. For perfection says no movement. Without movement, nothing exists. There is a beginning and end of the smallest excitation, of the solar system, of galaxies. There is, however, the state of all things and life that is everlasting.

Turning to soul in Webster's: "the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical," in view of the present circumstances, questions arise: Are we self-regulating organisms or mechanical men jumping through Obama's hoops? Is Gaia's management arguing with Webster's definitions?  We see here the division that threatens America.

When we ask government if UFOs are real, the government: What UFOs? We're supposed to think UFOs are a military secret-classified. I have a question. Are we supposed to think that something or someone from somewhere else is something we don't need to know?

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist, coauthor of Crash at Corona: The Dennitive Study of the Roswell Incident, author of Top Secret/Majic: Operation Majestic-12 and the United States Government's UFO Cover-up, is one of those people like me who does not trust those who know more than the rest of us about UFOs.

The so-called Roswell, New Mexico incident happened in 1947. Over the years, UFO researchers have gathered enough information to prove UFOs are real. Why do those in the know still refuse to divulge anything? Friedman says there are two reasons: People with high-level clearance don't tell others because they don't want to put themselves at risk of being kidnaped and tortured. Also, they don't feel that highly classified information should be distributed to people who don't have a specific need to know.

Friedman came upon information of a committee of 12, named Majestic-12, President Truman picked to investigate the Roswell crash and to recommend the action to take. The members selected were all high ranking military people and other notable scientific authorities. Friedman thought hard about the top secret information he received and wanted to be sure the information was not a forgery. There was one name on the list of 12 that troubled him, Dr. Donald Howard Menzel, who was known to be totally skeptical on extraterrestrials. He often publically debunked U.F.O.s.

Friedman was asked to speak on UFOs at Harvard. Menzel was a professor of astronomy at Harvard, so Friedman personally invited Menzel to listen to his talk. Menzel told Friedman he wouldn't listen to him. This further aroused Friedman's suspicions. He did a thorough check of Mentzel's background and found that he was living a double life. Menzel had testified about UFOs before Congress. Friedman found proof in the Air Force files that Menzel had a copy of Project Blue Book Special Report 14, which he never mentioned in any of his three books.

Friedman asked himself why a Harvard professor of astronomy would be in a high-security-level position, and on a committee with such as directors of the CIA, the Secretary of Defense, the head of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development, the guy in charge of the Manhattan Project, the builder of the atom bomb.

Friedman found that Menzel was in danger of losing his high-level security but was finally approved of by the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. Why did he have clearance in the first place? With a great deal of effort, Friedman found that Menzel was in correspondence with President Kennedy. Privately, Menzel did a lot of highly classified consulting work for federal intelligence agencies, primarily with the National Security Agency (NSA), and for more than thirty corporations on such matters as radio wave propagation, cryptography, and apparently , alien interstellar spacecraft. None of Menzel's biographies tell of his close connection with intelligence agencies.

It comes to my attention that extraterrestrials might find our speck of dust on the outer edge of our galaxy by radio wave transmissions.

It bothered Fiedman that Menzel, a UFO debunker, belonged with other high level authorities in Majestic-12. He asked a Harvard professor who knew Menzel well how he felt about Menzel's double life. His answer: "He would have loved it. He would have been in the biggest story of the century and he could show how smart he was by pulling the wool over everybody's eyes!"

It further comes to my attention that this kind of thinking goes with the territory.

The Northeast is well known for thinking itself the intellectual hub of the universe. America's Northeast is the offspring of England's Nabobs, the imperialists who supported England's control of India. Barrack Obama, a guy who didn't know who he was, found himself at Harvard and afterward went to South Chicago to practice how to gain control.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of Northeast's intelligentsia. He was president when America went to war against Germany and Japan. John F. Kennedy was one of them. He was president when America went to war against North Vietnam. George Bush senior was one of them. He was president when America went to war against Iraq. George Walker Bush, one of them, was president when America went to war against Iraq for a second time. By learning how to take control, by stealing the energy of the taxpayers, America is now the number one imperialist nation in the world. Naturally, other nations would like to dethrone America. Osama bin Laden has said he is against American taxpayers, who finance his enemy. Who needs enemies when we've got friends in control like the above named?

It doesn't take a brain to observe that basic to life is the drive to survive and advance. The object is to know more than the life bent on surviving by feeding on you. You want to gain control at whatever level you happen to be. It's a basic drive in all sentient beings It remains to be seen what Harvard educated Barrack Obama will do, but in all of the economics and taxes involved, hoodwinking is involved big time. In order to get the biggest U.S. spending program ever passed, it took many secret meetings of the instigators. No question that high rollers, bankers, and politicians are making out at the expense of the taxpayers. We don't need to know, they say, about the Black Budget-no telling how many billions of tax dollars going to secret projects, such as those at Area 51. Of the few who know it all, they wouldn't want the public to know, would they, if they are wheeling and dealing with extraterrestrials? Do we not need to know? There is abundant evidence that the government coverup is much more than one might suspect. Knowing more than anyone else about UFOs could mean control, and exactly what visitors from elsewhere would want. Why would they go to the likes of you and I?

George W. Bush doubled the national debt. Obama's plan will double it again. Welcome to Rothchild, the biggest center in the world's financial markets. The same stockholders in the private corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States, are stockholders in Rothchild. Rothchild banking interests finance corporations and governments all over the world. War, when governments borrow vast sums of money, is Rothchild's greatest source of profit. It is easy to imagine Rothchild banking interests' thinking. The biggest story of the century, extraterrestrials, shows them how smart they are in pulling the wool over everybody's eyes. Wouldn't this be the kind of Earth beings extraterrestrials would go to, the smart people who control the world? I think we need to know.

The American people picked a leader who campaigned on the promise to remake America. He didn't say how. In less than a month after President Obama took office, Congress produced and passed a massive spending program. The document, over 1,100 pages, including various ways of spending over $800 billion didn't just happen. It had been in the making a long time. Nobody has read the document, but the Obama support is hopeful that it will jumpstart the economy. It may not be perfect, they tell us, but it is better than nothing. We don't need to know about UFOs. We don't need to know about how our money is spent. It's a done deal now, so all we can do is wait and see.

The great majority of American people don't look before they leap. They trust that authority knows better than they know. A study of history reveals that more times than not authority is wrong.

In Time-Life Books, The Divine Campaigns, on The Road To Compostela, since the ninth century, Compostela (Santiago in the Spanish language) had claimed possession of the tomb of Saint James, the Apostle. He had returned to his own land to die a martyr, "but his body had been miraculously transported to northern Spain in a ship built of stone. . . The remains of the saint were said not only to possess the power to slay Muslims but to work wondrous cures for many diseases. The remains drew pilgrims from as far away as Scotland."

"Although worn out by weeks of toil, all who entered Compostela would make immediately for the cathedral" The gold and silver fittings and the alter, built above the sepulcher of Saint James, saw humanity surging, so eager to touch the precious relics "that individuals risked being trampled to death in the crush," related a witness. "To commemorate their experience, the pilgrims collected scallop shells from the nearby beach where the body of the saint was supposed to have landed in its miraculous stone ship. According to one legend, the shells were associated with Saint James because a knight emerged covered with them after riding into the sea in his eagerness to greet the vessel." The pilgrims wore them on their journey home.

Here's Time-Life's account in their history of the world from The Norman Conquests.

"In the early morning of Thursday, September 28, 1066, the inhabitants of Pevensey on the coast of southeast England witnessed an extraordinary sight. Seaward , belled out by the strong southerly wind, was a wall of sails-the familiar sheet sails of square-rigged, open decked Viking raiding vessels. But the people hold enough to remain longer soon realized that this was no mere raid. The 700 ships slowly bearing toward them contained a veritable host of warriors and their groom, attendants, servants, carpenters, and engineers."

At its head, on board his flagship Mora, was William, thirty-eight years old, duke of Normandy, and claimant to the throne of England. His gamble paid off. Within three months of landing at Pevensey, the victorious duke was crowned William I at Westminister Abbey. He remade England in the Norman image.

"On an April day in the year 1127, a glittering company assembled on the broad open ground called the Sands, just west of the town of Bruges near the North Sea coast. From manor houses on the surrounding plain, from fortresses towering over the gray estuaries, from the rich abbeys of Saint Bertin and Saint Omer, nobles and churchmen had gathered to do homage to William, the new count of Flanders."

"A notary named Galbert of Bruges stood by to record the words and deeds of this solemn ceremony. One after another, in a sequence prescribed by rank and dignity, the men laid aside their swords, uncovered their heads, and knelt before the count, who asked each one the same question: "Do you wish, without reservation, to become my man?"

"The count enclosed the hands of the petitioner between his own and sealed the compact with a kiss on the lips. Then he motioned for an attendant to bring forward a jeweled casket holding the relics of the saints-fragments of bone, nail parings, ringlets of hair-sacred objects on which each nobleman swore his oath:"

"I promise by my faith that from this time forward I will be faithful to Count William and will maintain toward him by homage entirely against every man, in good faith and without any deception."

"Count William was empowered because Charles, the Good had been murdered by his enemies while attending mass. In a matter of months, William, too, would be dead: done in by Flemish rebels."

"In those dismal days of feudal Europe, the lord of the land held absolute power. He could flog hapless peasants into obedience, hang them when they committed crimes or disobeyed him and his rules. The lord and master could withhold their right to marry. Those who had strength and fighting skills, and the financial wherewithal to arm themselves, were treated with more respect. They became the warriors and vassals of the lord."

"On foot and on horseback a steady stream of peasants and villagers crowded the rutted roads into the small German town of Juterbog." From Time Life's The European Emergence, it was not livestock or farm produce that they were coming to buy. The celebrated Dominican priest, Johann Tetzel, had set up shop in the marketplace, his rostrum surmounted by a great cross, which was decorated with the arms of Pope Leo X. Tetzel's credential, a document of authorization from the pontiff himself, lay on a gold-embroidered cushion."

The Augsburg Banking House of Fugger superintended the chest into which the faithful would be invited to deposit their florins. With quaking voice, Tetzel:

"How many mortal sins are committed in a day, how many in a week, how many in a year, how many in a whole lifetime? They are all but infinite and they have to undergo an infinite penalty in the flaming punishment of purgatory. And yet in virtue of these confessional letters, you shall be able to gain once in a life, full pardon of these penalties." (Such a deal. It included dead realitives.)

On that April day of 1517, Martin Luther, a 33 year-old lecturer in biblical studies from the nearby University of Wittenberg stood listening to Tetzel. Luther labeled the Church's selling indulgences the worst thievery in history. He complained to the archbishop. Little did Luther know that the archbishop paid the pope for his high rank. He borrowed the money from the Augsburg Banking House of Fugger. Part of the proceeds went to the Banking House of Fugger in payment of the loan.

Physicist and astronomer Galileo (1564 to 1642) posed a challenge to authority. Galileo proved that the earth circled the sun but authority said he was wrong, condemned him as a heretic, and imprisoned him in his own villa for life. Galileo sneaked his theories out. They were published in France. There followed an age of enlightenment. Sir Isaac Newton established unbreakable laws of motion. Einstein added relativity.

And now science is about to tell us why everything is as it is. Will that change the way the masses think? I don't think so, not if the prophets are right. The masses will directly or indirectly cause their thoughts to make the prophecy come true. They will blindly follow authority to the war to end all wars.

With the end for the blind being led by the blind, there will be a new beginning for those with the need to know.

A universe that has only matter cannot have consciousness and cannot have will. Every event in our lives is recorded. We are not here because we're here. We sidetrack exploration and control of our own nature. We predict the future by limiting the possible, by filtering out what we choose not to believe. When pieced together, a story is told about us we don't know. Writing my thoughts on my Gaia Blog has revealed much about me I didn't know. Taking consciousness from my tag browser, I read:

"The future is stored in our thoughts. Whether to understand the interconnection of will, to understand the most basic facts in quantum theory, or to discover the beginning of the Big Bang universe, each path leads to the fact that there must exist a supreme Consciousness out of which everything springs."

"In November 2008, Saturn and Pluto are in unfavorable alignment. Distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas spent 30 years studying the archetypal patterns of human history and the alignments of the outer planets. He found a consistency. He predicts that for the next 3 to 4 years we should expect turmoil in the world."

"It is not due process of law (governmental fairness) for government to decide who should have what, for government is people with the power to rob Peter to pay Paul. What we've gotten is a nation as divided as it was prior to the Civil War, and now economically melting down. Congress and the President looked the other way while lenders, borrowers, and packagers of shaky loans brought about a loss in the trillions dollars." Both Democrats and Republicans helped it happen. It's the pot calling the kettle black.

The big spending, politically expedient Bush Administration doesn't seem to have done anything right. Little wonder that the fully culpable Democrats have taken control. Alas, in less than a month, the Democrats have produced an 1,100 page trillion dollar "economic stimulus package," counting the interest on the borrowed money, nobody has read. It's loaded with Democrat wish list programs. The Democrats admit it isn't perfect, but better than nothing. The Republicans now see their mistake and are united against the Democrats. The plot thickens. The future looks very bad. What does my written thoughts reveal?

"In February 1995, the discovery of the theorized "top quark" was a big day for quantum physicists. The top quark, an essential in the construction of matter, was a giant step forward. This quark, which no longer exists in nature, played an essential roll in the primordial past. In the world of particle physics that even quantum physicists don't fully understand, this elusive giant (about the size of a gold atom) is extremely short-lived, but held to be of great importance to matter's early construction. The top quark, the "top kick" of the atom's organization, came along after physicists had struggled for considerable time to fill a hole in the standard model they envisioned for atoms. Knowing what controls atoms, a standard model predicting that three generations of quarks should exist, each one containing two different quarks."

"In September, 2008, the Large Hardron Collider (LHC) was fired up. It is a buried 27-kilometer ring in the countryside near Geneva, Switzerland, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. High-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams will be smashed together in search for signatures of supersymmetry-including the origin of mass. We're not far from knowing what the universe was in its beginning, from the perspective of the microcosmic, when is was one or two millionths of a second old, when it was one entity, before there was mass."

Quantum mechanics is close to discovering why everything that is is. It ought to make a huge difference in the way we think. But will it? We can wonder.

"Julian Huxley, in his essay, The Future of Man, explains our increasing purpose with this thought:"Man's exploration and control of external nature has outdone his exploration and control of his own nature." "And God said, Let us make man in our image." (Gen.1:26) In a comment from JM, "Do we think ? Or are we being thought?" This reminds me, the existentialist philosopher Nietzsche wondered if God made a mistake in creating humans or did humans make a mistake in creating God.

"Louis Pasteur said, ‘chance favors the prepared mind.' In all things, subatomic particles, aspects of the physical, quoting Evan Harris Walker, it has only been with the advent of quantum theory that we have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter. . . Consciousness, the substance of this new-found reality that defines the observer, has fundamental existence. It is the quantum mind that is the basic reality. . . Perhaps, too, we have seen something more than all of this. . . We have seen that the universe springs from every thought of God and matter from the very existence of the mind. We have looked to find reality. We have been beyond the open door."

"The only way to what we all want doesn't have a chance. If we want to know how something works, we examine the parts. We're examining the finished product and tinkering with it. It continues to run worse and worse. We don't have good sense to junk a contraption that long ago outlived its usefulness."

If history is any judge, it won't be the masses that turns the tide. It will be the innovators, those who imperfectly seize the unknown. Success is infectious. In the past, momentum has preceded significance. Momentum is mindless. The New Deal is the Bad Deal. In the future, significance will precede momentum. In spite of the momentum of the Bad Deal, more gives more. Each successful startup attracts other startups.

"The only way we have a chance for peace and prosperity is to not be distracted from that goal. We need to admit to the fact that while we control bits and pieces, which we use in a futile effort to control man, we don't control the universe. It's in defiance of the Higher Law, the belief that our human existence is due to our reason and logic; we don't let the law of the jungle control us if we choose peace and prosperity. If we accept this idea, then there is no such thing as the supernatural. It's all natural law. The supernatural, in a word, "we don't have the foggiest idea," Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are left out of the equation of peace and prosperity. The supernatural brings into play the thought that we are each self-determined and personally responsible for our lives."

Who is it who knows the mind, who looks at reality, who has found the open door?

"Although we are not consciously aware of it, our reality begins with subatomic particles. We don't know this world. It doesn't behave like our world. Subatomic particles know the world of atoms. Atoms know the world of molecules. Molecules know the world of living cells. We don't know any of those worlds. We don't think about our heart beating and breathing. We think by and through our state of consciousness."

"Bell's theorem adds a new dimension of understanding we do not yet have thoughts or words to express. Science has now discovered faster than light speed in communicating subatomic particles, the basic building blocks of the universe. Everything we think is about to be replaced. . . when the self within us is seen as infinite and everlasting, when the spiritual part of us will overcome our preoccupation with the material, when the universe is seen as more than the sum of its parts, when there is no limit of our awareness."

My friends, don't make yourselves victims of circumstances. . . "I stopped on the road in front of my spread for a last look at the cattle grazing, the barn I built, the large home I built. It was a tough call to drive away from everything my 49 years had built. Everyone who knew me thought I'd lost my mind. At first, it was very hard. For a time, I thought I was going to end on the street. In the end, I conquered the forces of nature at sea. In the end, I found the most valuable thing in my life: love and marriage. So now I ask you: What would my life have been had I not found the courage to act when I discovered the truth? We possess powers most do not dream."

It takes a mind to be aware. "A mind" is really a state of awareness. "A state" does not have boundaries. We limit our state of mind. We hear only what we want to hear. Recently, I experienced a lengthy power failure. Were it not for my portable generator, I wouldn't have had lights. I ran an extension cord from the generator into the house. I had a light and TV. I couldn't cook on my electric cook stove. My generator soon ran out of fuel.

I live five miles out of town. I didn't have chains for my car. There was a foot of snow on the road. I couldn't eat out or buy fuel for my generator. A neighbor came to my rescue on the fuel problem. I lived on munchies for a couple of days.

The inconvenience made me think about America's pioneers. They had to provide for themselves. Until we're left without, we don't think about how dependent we are on society. I'm 70 percent deaf, retired, and living on government entitlements. What would I do without my entitlements? I can't get a job. I wouldn't be able to pay the mortgage on my home or buy other necessities of life. I depend on the taxpayers. The present taxpayers depend on future taxpayers. How convenient! Let the future take care of itself.

I was self-employed. My pay was not withheld. I had to write a check for the taxes I owed. Some years I made little profit. Some years I made a lot of profit and paid a lot of tax. I would have preferred to have saved the huge tax I paid for my retirement on the years I made a lot of profit. I didn't have the choice. The majority vote was for redistribution of the wealth of the nation.

I could have lived a modest life and saved until I could pay cash for everything. Credit was made made very easy for me. I borrowed and lived well. Government taxed me (the rich) more, borrowed from the people, and gave to the needy. The needy naturally grew in number as did need. Borrowing kept the pot boiling, especially on homes, and borrowing increased.

Requirements for a loan fell to nothing down. Incomes were not checked. Lenders were making a killing in fees. They told people to lie about their incomes; the price increase on their home would take care of everything. Politicians applauded the fact that people who could not afford a home were literally given a home.

Tomorrow could take care of itself. The price of homes skyrockeded until the day of reckoning arrived. The money ran out. The price of homes fell. People couldn't pay their mortgages. The taxpayers were forced to bail out irresponsible lenders. Help is on the way for those who can't pay their mortgages; that is, help from the taxpayers. To be fair about it, why doesn't the government just pay off everyone's mortgage. It wouldn't cost as much as is going to be spent in the so-called stimulus bill.

America's voters have not been thinking, not since Franklin D. Roosevelt became president-Roosevelt, who historians rate just behind Abraham Lincoln! Before the Great Depression, America's rate of unemployment was the lowest in the world. For every year that Roosevelt was president, America's rate of unemployment was higher that Europe's rate of unemployment. Roosevelt's answers for the Great Depression didn't work. World War II ended the depression. Based on Roosevelt's answers, the Democrats, led by President Obama, have now obligated the taxpayers with the biggest government single bill of spending of all times. It's aimed at stopping an economic decline and growing unemployment.

Who is this Barrack Obama so many trust? From his own auto-biography, he's someone who did not know who he was in his formative years. Although he came from a dysfunctional family-white mother, black father who deserted him a couple of days after Obama was born-raised by his white grandparents, he decided to be an "Aftro-American." He'd never lived like an Afro-American. It's like me, a native American, deciding to be a Chinaman. Obama's grandmother financed him to a Harvard ducation-Harvard the intellectual capital of the world. This nobody from nowheresville, now an intellectual, Obama continued his education in South Chicago, with Reverend Wright's vituperation against whites for guidance. Obama has disowned all of his former cronies, and now claims to be everyone's President. He pushed his 1,100 page "stimulus" package, got it passed without being read, and calls his administration transparent.

From a campaign of platitudes-nothing definite-in less than a month after taking office, he has unified the Republicans against him, most economists say his plan will not work, his support is leaving him, and he and his fellow Democrats say his plan is not perfect, but better than nothing.

"Better than nothing," the usual Democrat's chant; better in the short term; let the future take care of itself-hey, we've got to do better than that. Five hundred years ago, western authority placed Earth at the center of the universe, and themselves as God's vicars. The people had nothing to say about their fate. Presently, we've got the kind who either can't or will not think for themselves, and Obama, thinking himself at the center of it all. We've got Obama, the caretaker. We're turning back to the Dark Ages.

Our world is becoming too fast-paced for the self-serving thinkers in control of America. In short order, America will find herself at the bottom of the heap.

The light at the end of the tunnel is the cutting edge of science. Within the next five years, a new telescope, soon to be rocketed into space, is going to prove that intelligent life must surely exist on millions of planets in the universe. We've learned that the timespace universe is not fixed. There is such a thing as time warps. Furthermore, if it were possible to travel through space at the speed of light, one could depart, travel for a thousand years without aging a day, and return to Earth a thousand years later. Without time and space there wouldn't be a future and a past. Science now theorizes the universe is multidimensional. There is a dimension of infinite possibility. What we observe becomes our reality. Science expects to soon know what the universe looked like a few nanoseconds after the "Big Bang." Instead of knowing what is and how it works, we will know why it is and why it works. It will radically change our lives.

Getting back to the subject, our self-imposed limited awareness-taking it all for granted-we can't any longer afford it.

I'm told that Pakistan and Mexico are the two most unstable nations in the world. Mexico could be taken over by drug cartels, Pakistan by the Taliban. We are not about to win the war on terror. It's getting worse, for a very good reason. The United States, the most powerful nation in the world, prides itself as being the moral authority for the world. It comes from America's Judeo-Christian heritage. My moral authority comes from within. I know right from wrong. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You can do whatever you want as long as you don't impose on my right to do the same. I presume Jesus would have said the same.

Christians came later. Like George W. Bush, Obama's a Christian. With that in mind, is it good for the nation for Obama and the Democrats to look for and kill Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Pakistan? Most Pakistanis loath and despise the United States.

Did America's moral authority know best when it claimed that black people could be owned by white people, the same as cows and mules-that God cursed black people? And how about native Americans?

We're talking about America's authorities, of course. America's pioneers looked within for their answers. America was the most admired nation in the world. The current moral authority-America's intellectually elite claiming to know what is best for us-is not necessarily so.

In the October term, 1980 (Case Number 1570), in the Supreme Court of the United States, opposing the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, I, Joseph W. Smith, Jr., Pro Per, appeared to claim: (1) the taxing authority was so arbitrary and wanting for classification as to question whether the exaction was not simply a confiscation of property under the guise of tax; (2) whether the court below neglected its judicial function in summarily affirming the United Tax Court's decision, having disregarded the questions put to it in a manner in conflict with applicable decisions of this Court; and departing so far from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding when two parties are in equity before the law; and having so far sanctioned the departure by three lower courts-their erroneous decisions pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 7421 and 28 U.S.C. 1346, and pursuant to State v. Rossi 43 A 2d 323, 71 RI 284; (See Reasons for Granting Writ), and regarding respondent's conspiracy to defraud petitioner, pursuant to the provisions of 26 U.S.C. sections 6213, 7605(db), 6402(a), 6512(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954-as to call for an exercise of this Court's power of supervision.

In more simple language, the IRS was lawlessly taking my property. Without a word, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed me.

In The Palm Beach Post, Monday, December 1, 1986, on the front page of the Local News, this headline appeared: "Taxpayer wages 11-year feud with IRS."

"Holger Euringer, IRS public relations officer in Jacksonville, said last week that the agency had been wrong all along and that Smith soon would receive a letter of apology from the IRS district director. . . We're very sorry and we apologize. We did not intend in any way to harass or intimidate him, but I can see why he might have that impression."

After the Supreme Court dismissed me, I filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court (my third complaint). The court ordered the IRS to refund, with interest, the money confiscated. I was paid five months after the court order, and one day before the court was going to hold the United States in contempt of the court's order.

"On Nov. 5, the IRS issued a notice to Barnett Bank of Palm Beach saying it wanted the $960 in Smith's bank account because he owed $961.70 on his 1974 return. Euringer said the Nov 5 bank account levy was a mistake."

Under "Reasons for Granting the Writ," quoting Roosevelt, "While it isn't written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation. . .The balance of power between the three great branches of the Federal Government has been tipped out of balance by the Court in direct contradiction of the high purpose of the framers of the Constitution. We have reached the point where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court."

"Justice Brandeis and some of his brothers would reason: "property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end."

The means is justified by the end. Too bad for taxpayers. The Supreme Court didn't want to hear otherwise.

In my case against the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Under "Property Rights, a Higher Law in Question":

"This Court's test as to a right is whether the right at issue is ‘of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty,'" by reason that neither liberty nor justice would exist if such a right were sacrificed. . ."

"A tax to promote the general welfare cannot wrested out of its setting and legalized by ignoring its purpose as the mere instrumentality for bringing about a desired end." U.S. v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1, 61 (1936)

The question remains, and is still unanswered. Does Barrack Obama have the authority to wrest the general welfare of the American people out of their Constitution and legalize his spending bill as the mere instrumentality for bringing about a desired end, keeping the IRS in mind and its lawless operation?

If there is anyone left in Washington representing the American people, let him step forward and tell it like it really is. We've legalized a mafia type of government.

The astrological zodiac has Earth at the center of the universe. Galileo proved that incorrect 500 years ago, or did he? Until recently, it was believed that the Milky Way galaxy was the whole universe. Today, there are hundreds of billions of galaxies. Our star, the sun, is big enough to hold a million Earths. There are more stars in the universe than all the grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. Within each grain of sand are millions of atoms. An atom consists of a nucleus and electrons surrounding the nucleus. Within the nucleus are quarks. It is theorized that within quarks are "strings." A string, microcosmic to the microcosmic, is indivisible. A string, like a violin string, vibrates.

Every single "thing"(string) in the universe has its vibration. An atom is 99.999 percent space. Why is anything seen solid? The reason we touch a solid object is because the electrons surrounding atoms resist each other. Einstein's basic formula for the universe was: energy equals mass times speed squared. Great! Numbers represent vibrations. Ancient astrologers used numbers and geometric patterns to determine both the characteristics of people and the aspects of matter. Where did Einstein learn this basic formula.?

What we see and touch is nothing like it really is. Einstein proved that light is the ultimate speed. At the speed of light, time stands still. Through telescopes we see the light of galaxies thousands of light years away. We are looking thousands of years into the past. There are "black holes," where not even light can escape magnetic pull. Everything surrounding a black hole is pulled in and ceases to exist, at least as far as we know in our space-time consortium. Science has proved that there are time warps. Time and space are not fixed. You can be at one time here, another time there. Science has now proved, in Bell's theorem, that photons, once connected, remain in instant communication even if light years apart. The universe is more than the sum of its parts.

So, from the astrological zodiac, astrologers have pegged me. There are too many coincidences to call it coincidence. Based on the movements of the heavens, Nostradamus is famous for having predicted the future. The Mayan calendar, based on the movements of the heavens, along with other prophecies, predicts the end of the world in the year 2012. Richard Tarnas, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian, demonstrates in Cosmos and Psyche the existence of consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history.  Looking within, I'm at the center of the universe, in touch. Looking externally, I'm an insignificant speck.  

In "World Wars, Cold War, and September 11," Tarnas writes, "while the Uranus-Pluto periods consistently coincided with widespread revolutionary upheaval, intensified emancipatory impulses, and radical cultural innovation, the successive quadrature alignments of the Saturn-Pluto cycle coincided with especially challenging historical periods marked by a pervasive quality of intense contraction: eras of international crisis and conflict, empowerment of reactionary forces and totalitarian impulses, organized violence and oppression, all sometimes marked by lasting traumatic effects."

"Both the First World War and the Second World War began in precise coincidence with virtually exact hard-aspect alignments of Saturn and Pluto. . . The most recent Saturn-Pluto alignment occurred in precise coincidence with the events of September 11, 2001 . . ." The facts don't back the establishment's ideas. According to Tarnas, the next hard-aspect Saturn-Pluto alignment began in November 2008, and would remain an influence for the following three to four years. The prophecies tell us that the end of the world, at least as we know it, occurs in 2012, wouldn't you know while Obama is president? At a time like this, the best we can do is to elect Barrack Obama. His term of office will end in 2012. Obama has stated many times that he intends to remake America. From his Harvard image, continued in South Chicago, the most corrupt political climate in the United States, Obama's so-called transparent government has not started transparent, not with an eleven-hundred page package costing $800 billion, every dime of it borrowed, and no time given to read it before passage. Hello! What happened?

At this particular time in history, science is close to knowing what the universe looked like at the moment of its birth, close to finding the missing link. We can predict that the missing link will make everything we know now obsolete. Good riddance!

Astrologers maintain that at the moment of our birth, we are given certain characteristics. The right-to-lifers, based on religious teaching-that is, blind faith-say that we are humans from the moment of conception. A house isn't a house when the foundation is in place, is it? There's no house. Take the props away and it falls flat on the ground. It's no house, is it? At the moment of my birth, Saturn and Pluto were in their most favorable alignment, a "trine." Astrologers say that when Saturn and Pluto are trine (quoting from Astrologer's Handbook ) it means the natives have "the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized, enabling them to use these laws consciously or unconsciously. . .They are able to work slowly and make fundamental and irrevokable changes in their own and others' lives." The faithful above mentioned, those who insist we are human from the moment of conception, with no basis, would say this is nonsense.

Quoting Astrologer's Handbook under "Saturn trine Pluto," "Often there is a sense of destiny or a peculiar karmic mission which they must fulfill. . . In the chart of an average person this aspect will not be strongly marked unless Saturn or Pluto is angular and unless other planets tie into the configuration in a significant way." My astrologer said the configuration of my chart matched the most notable psychics in the world. You are invited to check me out. Looking at my chart, dated July 28, 1975, Birth Data: Date: September, 17, 1925; Time: 4:51 PM CST; Place: Houston, Texas; 29N46, 95W22; Sidereal Time 16:15:24. Were my characteristics determined at conception my characteristics would have been different. They would not match who I am.

The events of my life line up with astrological predictions, not with the faithful. One of the faithful told me God never speaks to physics. Another told me I was a secular humanist, someone who promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrine. I say do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If you knew the story of my life, you would know that I found the real me at sea. You would know that my life now is as good as it gets. I look within for my answers. The faithful look to dogmas and doctrines.

At the moment of my birth, the sun rose on me in Aquarius. Astrologers say I'm Virgo with Aquarius rising, a voice of the future. America was born Aquarius. Abraham Lincoln was born Aquarius with Aquarius rising.

In America's Declaration of Independence (from England), it is written, "That to secure these Rights (my God-given rights), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Governments."

When the Declaration of Independence was written and signed by America's forefathers, the vast majority of the American people were satisfied to remain under England's rule. It was at great sacrifice and determination that the few who wanted independence from England won America's independence. I believe that man is the lord of his own thoughts. If we all believed that, we would live together in peace. There would not be any wars.

This brings us to the current hard-aspect alignment of Saturn and Pluto, Barrack Obama, his so-called stimulus package, and the end of the world prediction in the year Obama leaves office. We are in a transitory period, according to Tarnas, on page 209, at "the end of an era: ‘The end of innocence,' the destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence, decadence, naivete, denial, and inflation."

We are entering the Age of Aquarius. Jeanne Avery, an astrologer and member of the International Transactional Analysis Association, which promotes a sophisticated theory of personality, motivation, and problem solving, in The Rising Sign, under "Aquarius Rising," wrote: "Aquarius is the sign of the water-bearer to humanity. When this sign is on the ascendant, the individual has a unique approach to life that makes him somehow ‘different' from other people. . . He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer. He may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries."

As I mentioned, the vast majority of the American people were loyal to England (that would have been largely the people of the northeastern United States) when the Declaration of Independence was written and signed by America's forefathers. At the time, in imperialist England the aristocracy advocated government control over the economy. Coincidentally, the three Republicans who voted with Obama's, Pelosi's, and Reid's economic stimulus package, the intelligentsia of the Northeast, who think in terms of government control over the economy, they said, "This is the best we can do." In other words, they know better than we, the people, know how to spend our money.

In America's beginning, she was the envy of the world. People beat a path to her shores, asking only for an equal opportunity. The intelligentsia wants a welfare state. The missing link is the Higher Law, background of America's Constitution. The replacement is law in light of today's needs, which began with the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is claimed by the intelligentsia to be the third greatest president, following George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Little do they know. This folly will end with Barrack Obama. The new beginning, to quote my guru, Evan Harris Walker in The Physics of Consciousness, is when it is known that in the fabric of reality, "matter, objects-a physical domain exist that is governed by immutable law. But these laws leave open a range of happenings that are left to the selection of the mind. And behind this selection is the will. . . Within the power of our will lies the power to do essentially anything. . . This is the collective will of all sentient beings with the power of determining the state of all events . . . a unity of nature, all things being aspects of the mind." In Washington D.C. is the wise in the ways of the world (after me, you come first).

I call them redistribution freaks. They called me a "Fifth Amendment freak." Do we need these all-wise people leading us? Heaven forbid! We are not meant to be trained animals jumping through hoops.

Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall and all the kings men and all the kings horses couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

We're leaving the Age of Pisces. I read that "Understanding is a most appropriate keyword for this gentle, affectionate sign. Easygoing and generally accepting of others around them, Pisceans are often found in the company of a variety of different personalities. Their willingness to give of themselves emotionally lends to an aura of quiet empathy."

We're entering the Age of Aquarius. I'm Aquarius rising, with a message. I read that I may be "a forerunner in setting style, discovering new methods, and showing the rest of humanity the way." I may be "a chance-taker . . .willing to let go of the trunk of the tree to walk out on the edge of a limb. He knows where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit. He is not one to hide his light under a bushel." Little wonder that the end of Pisces would be in conflict with Aquarius. Gentle, go-with-the-flow people hate change. Obama's change is the same old deal, the "New Deal." Only Obama's is double time.

The light at the end of the tunnel is the scientific understanding of how and why it all comes together. It's just about to be discovered. But the big news today is Piscean tunnel vision. Let us discuss it. A couple of thoughts for those gentle, affectionate, easygoing and generally accepting folks. "Judge not lest you be judged." "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Is this the right way to think? This thought: "Go the extra mile." Hey guys, you don't continue down a road that leads to your demise. Something is missing here. Someone is not thinking.

This thought: If you look like a duck and walk like a duck, you are a duck. No way! Be kind to our web footed friends. Ducks make duck sense. If you look like an imbecile and talk like an imbecile, you are an imbecile. Nobody in government has ever thought better than you for you. The door swings both ways. It's always better for the one doing the best thinking.

Case in point: The 1,100 page "economic stimulus package" just signed by Barrack Obama, to avoid an economic "disaster," said Obama, was printed up, handed out at midnight, and voted on a few hours later-before anyone had read it. Many times Obama has said he wants transparency during his administration.

We are told the said stimulus package is not perfect but better than nothing, meaning we dare not try to make it any better. Three Republicans, all imperialist nabobs of Northeast, voted for it, saying, "This is the best we can do." Right! We must avoid economic disaster (at all costs. The package is loaded with liberal pork) Under the New Deal, it's pay as you go. We leave it to the future to pay. My father paid a total of less than $400 for his old age security. He received a monthly check for 27 years, a 4,000 percent profit on his investment. Today's investors in their old age security will realize a negative return on their investment. Who is doing the best thinking, the taxpayers or government?

Let the facts speak for themselves. We are entering the Age of Aquarius. Man was created with unlimited conscious awareness, and placed in an environment that demanded expanding awareness. We are about to discover the how and why of everything. In the meanwhile, the train has left the station with the biggest con game of all times. Being Aquarian, were I not to make a negative judgment on the Democrat's spending package, I'd be an imbecile. Were I to make a positive judgment, I'd be an imbecile. If I were to make no judgment, I'd be an imbecile. So much for judge not lest you be judged. If you are Picean, lagging in Aquarian awareness, if you are not already, you are certain to become a runt sucking hind tit.

Historians give George Washington credit for being America's number one president. He won American independence from England. At the time, the majority of the American people were loyal to England. Being independent changed the way Americans thought about themselves. Historians give Abraham Lincoln credit for being America's number two president. At the time, there was great division in America. Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator. He, too, gets credit for changing the way Americans think. Historians give Franklin D. Roosevelt credit for being America's number three president. Roosevelt took office during America's Great Depression. Roosevelt gets credit for rekindling hope in America. That's not the full story.

Before the Great Depression, Americans demanded that government stay out of personal lives. Roosevelt caught Americans at a weak moment, when pain was acute. He convinced the American people that government had a duty to the individual. Roosevelt: "While it isn't written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation." Roosevelt: "The balance of power between the three great branches of the Federal Government has been tipped out of balance by the courts in direct contradiction of the high purposes of the framers of the Constitution."

The Supreme Court's test as to a right, before Roosevelt, was whether the right at issue was "of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty," by reason that neither liberty nor justice would exist if such a right were sacrificed. A Roosevelt appointee to the Supreme Court, Justice Brandeis,  had this to say: "property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end." Keep Brandeis' idea in mind.

After Roosevelt's election, for eleven years America remained in the Great Depression. Her unemployment rate was higher than Europe's. America's depression ended with World War II. The American people were put back to work building weapons of war. In the interim, while there were public works projects, there was redistribution of the wealth-the duty of government to help the needy with individual grants in aid. Dependence on government was building throughout the depression years.

I came home from World War II to a booming economy. The duty of government prevailed. Redistribution of the wealth continued and grew to astronomical proportions. The right to property was replaced by dependence on government, the engine of enterprise diminishing, and all the time the power to control the individual growing with elected representatives. Power is mindless. The current economic crises is the consequence of mindless power.

The answer the Federal Government gives the American people, based on Roosevelt's duty of government philosophy-the "inherent duty of government"-is the biggest government spending of all times, the Federal Government content with letting the future take care of itself. We're looking at tax tyranny.

What's the answer? Quit giving full attention to the symptoms of the problem Roosevelt created and look at the cause, the government stealing the individual's independence. Look at the cure, George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's legacy-individual independence.

The economy produces wealth. Government spends. It's a gross distortion of the truth to say Barrack Obama's "economic stimulus package" is to create jobs. The prime motivation is to increase dependence on government.

Am I right or wrong? What was the Court's position when Roosevelt told the American people the Court was in direct contradiction of the high purposes of the framers of the Constitution? The court's position: "A tax to promote the general welfare cannot be wrested out of its setting and legalized by ignoring its purpose as the mere instrumentality for bringing about a desired end." US v. Butler. Justice Brandeis: "property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end." Thus, Roosevelt's philosophy: The means is justified by the end. Is that right? It's the philosophy of every tyrant who ever lived.

In Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, he identified due process with the doctrine of vested rights drawn from natural law. The father of modern law, Cicero, made his distinction in "right reason"-common law-in, "We are born for justice, and right is not the mere arbitrary construction of opinion, but an institution of nature," hence his statement: "the laws are the foundation of the liberty which we enjoy; we are the laws' slaves that we may be free." Is Roosevelt right or is Cicero right?

In the "Bill of Rights," in Amendment Five, we read that the individual may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. From Roosevelt's legacy, the powers that be have granted the IRS the authority to take every cent of the worker's property-leave him on the street. The only recourse the worker has is to prove the IRS wrong in court. I attempted that. I was told I was a "Fifth Amendment freak." No court in America would hear my case. The Palm Beach Post took my case. The IRS admitted on the front page that it had been mistakenly taking my property for 11 years.

We constantly hear about the need of government to do something to avoid an economic disaster. Why don't we hear about the case of the worker being deprived of his right to exist on the fruits of his labor? We're being brainwashed. Roosevelt's legacy is a virus eating away at independence, personal responsibility, and self-reliance. Someone once said, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. I suggest that you read my yesterday's post "The light at the End of the Tunnel."

The next great change of thinking, now in its embryonic stage, is known by myself and a growing number of people all over the world. Roosevelt's legacy is prefaced on external authority. The change will be from external to internal, to our internal source of power. All things are subject to the Higher Law-We create our reality.

Not many people, from the looks of things, seem to know that the same as with all external authority, religious, government, scientific, opposing internal authority; that is, my personal management, we can't eliminate the Higher Law of the universe.

From time immemorial, survivors have looked, not externally for their answers, but within.

In real estate, the pros have this rule: caveat emptor-buyer beware, in light of the circumstances, most interesting. To their great financial advantage, mortgage brokers, lenders, and politicians teamed up to con the home buyer. They devised a scheme to put people who did not have the down payment in a home. The idea was to artificially run the price of the home up. The buyer would then have the down payment. Barney Frank was all for it. The poor would be in a home. George W. Bush was all for it. The economy would get a boost. The resourceful would be asked to bear the burden. America's leaders encourage Americans to do unto others before they do unto you.  We Americans are so lovable. Why doesn't everyone want to be like us?
Alas, somebody had to pay. Those who saved for their down payment on a home saw their savings shrink due to inflation, and the rising price of homes made them always out of their reach. Now that the balloon has burst, the above named political do-gooders and colleagues who managed the scheme are scheming to bail out everyone involved, again at the expense of those who saved. TThere are taking us  coming and going.  They want to keep the artificially priced homes high.  Consider the message they are sending.

The schemers' ace in the hole is printing press money-workers' promise to pay. Workers promise to work to pay all debts public and private. For political reasons, elected representatives print money, hand it out to non-workers, and tax workers. This is what you call "pay as you go to the dogs." Again for political reasons, elected representatives print more money than work pays, to water down the money in circulation. They give non-workers cost of living increases. Once again conning workers, they pay a hidden tax in their watered down money.

If you are indebted, your debt remains the same. Your watered down money pays your debt. It's an incentive to be in debt, but not so much that you can't pay. Money is paper representing workers' promise to pay. The United States has now run indebtedness up to a point that future workers can't pay the debt. This means more and more printing press money, more and more government assistance. We know from history what happens. First anarchy, then tyranny.

How do we avoid the inevitable? If you think you are going to lose your freedom, you are right. If you look to the future, "Them that's got shall get." Communication between computers, the relentless connecting of everything is causing sudden shifts, ripping apart established ways of creating wealth, preparing the way for the emerging economy. Called jelly beans, billions of specks of thought are being implanted into everything we make. We are also connecting them up. Most manufactured objects will be linked by infrared and radio, creating a wireless web vastly larger than the wired web. All of this put together means more and more for less and less cost. A success explosion in a network economy is the Internet itself. Indeed, my thoughts here are going into the minds of people all over the world. Think of the vast difference in just fifty years ago.

In the past, the momentum of an innovation marked its significance. Things are moving very fast now. The significance of the innovation now precedes the momentum. Success is infectious. It feeds on itself. Lower fixed and marginal costs and rapid distribution all make the new emerging economy vastly superior to anything we've experienced in the past.

The very best gets cheaper each year. This rule of thumb is so ingrained in our contemporary lifestyle that we bank on it without marveling at it. But marvel we should, because this paradox is a major engine of the new economy.

Who could formerly stay in business and give away its most valuable product? Microsoft gives away its Web browser, Internet Explorer. The average worker today lives better than royalty did a hundred years ago. Why do you feel that we need redistribution of the wealth?

The fate of individual organizations is not dependent entirely on their own merits, but also on the fate of their neighbors, their allies, their competitors. If we're not in this together, forget it. What wrong with free enterprise? New niches pop up. Competitors sprout beneath you and gobble your spot up. One day your are king of the mountain, and the next day there is no mountain at all. Workers in the new economy are all entrepreneurs. All transactions and objects will tend to obey network logic. The new economy is turbulent. Rather than trying to optimize solutions, our ability to solve our social and economic problems will be limited primarily by our lack of imagination in seizing opportunities-by submitting to tyranny.

The United States, in desperation, is using the taxpayers despitefully in its attempt to cling to the past. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Quoting Franklin D.Roosevelt, the instigator of "New Deal" law, "While it isn't written in the Constitution, nevertheless, it is the inherent duty of the Federal Government to keep its citizens from starvation. . .The balance of power between the three great branches of the Federal Government has been tipped out of balance by the Court in direct contradiction of the high purpose of the framers of the Constitution. We have reached the point where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court."

Justice Brandeis and some of his brothers, saviors of the Constitution, would reason: "property is only a means. It has been a frequent error of our Court that they have made the means the end." The means is justified by the end-is that not leaving America's children behind?

In The Palm Beach Post, Monday, December 1, 1986, on the front page of the Local News, this headline appeared: "Taxpayer wages 11-year feud with IRS."

Due process of law means that before government may take a person's property, he shall be heard in a meaningful way in a meaningful place. The Federal Government has expediently given the Internal Revenue Service the authority-often mistakenly-to take a worker's property and leave him on the street. The only recourse the worker has is to petition the U. S. Tax Court, or file a complaint in the U.S. District Court. It takes years to be heard. The tax code is thousands of pages of ambiguities. It's lawyer gamesmanship.

As for the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment and my petition to the Tax Court, my complaints to three U.S. District Courts, my appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and my Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States, quoting The Palm Beach Post, "Holger Euringer, IRS public relations officer in Jacksonville, said last week that the agency had been wrong all along and that Smith soon would receive a letter of apology from the IRS district director. . . We're very sorry and we apologize. We did not intend in any way to harass or intimidate him, but I can see why he might have that impression." The IRS mistakenly put me on the street in the name of tax. The courts refused to hear the case.

Quoting The Palm Beach Post, "On Nov. 5, the IRS issued a notice to Barnett Bank of Palm Beach saying it wanted the $960 in Smith's bank account because he owed $961.70 on his 1974 return." This was money I used to buy groceries and pay rent. Quoting The Palm Beach Post, "Euringer said the Nov 5 bank account levy was a mistake." For eleven years, in spite of my asking to be heard in a meaningful way in a meaningful place, America's system of justice allowed the IRS to take a worker's property by mistake. Is this not leaving America's children behind?

Before New Deal law, the Supreme Court's test was whether the right at issue was "of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty," by reason that neither liberty nor justice would exist if such a right were sacrificed. Not so now. Quoting Chief Justice Earl Warren in Flast v. Cohen (1968), a taxpayer case, "Additional uncertainty exists in the doctrine of justiciability because that doctrine has become a blend of constitutional requirements and policy considerations. And a policy limitation is ‘not always clearly distinguished from the constitutional limitation. Barrows v. Jackson 346 U.S. 249, 255 (1953)"

"The ‘many subtle pressures' Poe v. Ullman, 367 U.S. 497, 508 (1961) which cause policy considerations to blend into the constitutional limitations of Article III make the justiciablity doctrine one of uncertain and shifting contours . . ."

Did you know that by policy the makers and keepers of the law in the United States have given themselves the authority to freely grab a person's property. There is no recourse. The courts refused to hear me. The IRS walked into my bank with a printed form. It didn't even include a signature. The IRS handed the form to a teller. The teller gave the agent every sent in my account. No question was asked. I was not informed. I had no chance to challenge the seizure. It's all in the record. By court policy, is the United States not leaving America's children behind?

Thomas Paine stated in his pamphlet Common Sense (1776): "For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other."

With Paine's thought in mind, America's forefathers wrote the U. S. Constitution, including the so-called Bill of Rights, measures essential for the preservation of a scheme of ordered liberty-"of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty" (332 U.S. 456,65 n 28 quoting 302 U.S. 319, 325). In the Bill of Rights, under Amendment V, "no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Without due process, the individual's rights have no practical meaning.

America's economy is melting down. With credit exceeding the limits, although admittedly not the perfect answer, the American people are being asked by their government to give a trillion dollar bailout, a new debt heaped on old debts, a chance to work. Are we not being asked to leave our children and grandchildren behind the eight ball?

Is it simply a matter of who won the election? I don't think so. In West Va. State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 638, "The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials . . ." In Flast v. Cohen, Justice Warren: "As we understand it, the Government's position is that the constitutional scheme of separation of powers, and the deference owed by the federal judiciary to the other two branches of government within that scheme, present an absolute bar to taxpayer suits challenging the validity of federal spending programs. The Government views such suits as involving no more than the mere disagreement by the taxpayer ‘with the uses to which tax money is put.' According to the Government, the resolution of such disagreements is committed to other branches of the Federal Government and not to the judiciary. Consequently, the Government contends that, under no circumstances, should standing be conferred on federal taxpayers to challenge a federal taxing or spending program. An analysis of the function served by standing limitations compels a rejection of the Government's position."

The taxpayers in Flast v. Cohen were judged to have standing to challenge a federal spending program. The gist of standing is whether the party seeking relief has a personal sake in the outcome (Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 2043). The taxpayers in Flast were not seen to have a personal stake in the outcome.

The Fifth Amendment has not been repealed, but as far as the ordinary taxpayer is concerned, it has been expediently sidetracked. Despite all of our wisdom and knowledge, our children are being left behind. Due to an excessive tax that forces both parents to work, children don't have the care, attention, or schooling I received in my youth-before New Deal law. Today's children don't have the personal responsibility, the self reliance, or the incentive to succeed. Their God-given rights have been politicized. They don't have the good schooling I had. They are being left with a tax burden they will not be able to pay. For shame, America.

"The Zaadz Secret"

(My original post, May 1, 2007, views 1,162)

I've a big mouth. I love to expound on quite provocative stuff, just asking for a fight. My Zaatz friends have made me more aware of our inner connections, one with another, have made me aware of our protective love for one another. What is international terrorism but people who have lost their love of humanity? What is our message but self acceptance?

First, we must accept ourselves. I marvel over how much my Zaatz friends have convinced me that my thoughts, although they may differ with others, are accepted. I'm accepted! What a change! What a change it would make in the world if people could only feel accepted.

We know people who don't feel accepted. If we invite them to be one of us, we are not asking them to join a doctrinaire organization. I've learned here that we can retain our individual beliefs and still have much in common with the other members, from all around the world. When you think about it, its an amazing thing. I've volunteered to be a Zaatz ambassador. I can still expound my beliefs, and the Zaadz belief.

What Zaadz is doing, actually, is proving my position, albeit expanded. Put the individual in control of his or her life and the world will thrive in peaceful coexistence. External authority controls when we don't feel inwardly in control, when we feel our individual thoughts are not acceptable. The media, part of the authoritarian establishment, brainwashes people into the belief that they are not capable of controlling their lives. We at Zaatz have a powerful means, of one on one communication, to push our view of an individually acceptable human fully capable of controlling his or her life.

When the family was the cornerstone of American life, we grew up and became personally responsible, self-sufficient, innovative individuals. With big government, big business, and media hawkers in control, optimization the controlling factor, we are made to feel immature and in need of external control. We're in a new age, folks. Innovation is taking over the world. One can be king of the mountain today and at the bottom of the heap tomorrow. You better know this and be inwardly secure. My friends, you are on your own in the emerging world, co-equal in the creation of our future.

This from a young Indian woman to this octogenarian American by email. "You inspire me. You are so young at heart. I look within you, praying to see my own reflection. I invite myself to be the beautiful aliveness I witness in you. Thank you for being here where I can witness a glimpse into your journey."

As a Zaadz ambassador, I say to the American people, and to all the world, we invite you to join us, to believe in our Zaatz creed: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

I've not changed my views since May 1, 2007, but it is obvious from the number of views of my blog that the Zaadz view has significantly changed. What a difference 22 months has made in the membership's willingness to let the future take care of itself.

The dean of American economists, Milton Friedman, a firm believer in the free market, had a big problem: Keynesian adversaries. Lord John Maynard Keynes, openly homosexual, a British aristocrat, an economist, who was widely acclaimed by America's intelligentsia, wouldn't you know had an alternative idea of the way things ought to be, government intervention in monetary policy to mitigate the adverse effects of recession.

A most amazing story! I came home from World War II to America's boom times. We were on the road to the American Dream. But God forbid America from going back to a free market economy. Don't you know that it was the free market economy that caused the Great Depression? The intelligentsia knows so much more than people like me. The idea was firmly intrenched that it takes government intervention in monetary policy to mitigate the adverse effects of recession. After the war, government grew by leaps and bounds. People became more and more dependent on government. The American Dream fizzled.

Free market advocates maintain that it takes a strong central bank to properly regulate the flow of money and keep full employment. Keynesian advocates thought it took strong government intervention to keep the economy going. By the 1970s, Keynesian policy had given America double digit inflation. The Nixon Administration invoked price controls, which left thousands of small business either taken over by the giants of industry of closed down. Clearly, government intervention was not working.

By the 1990s, even left-of-center politicians, like Clinton, came to respect the central bank's mastery of the money supply. Clinton didn't go for government intervention. By the end of the Clinton Administration, government was taking in more than it spent. The 9-11 event had a disrupting effect on the economy. In order to avoid a recession, Bush, one of the intelligentsia, intervened. Bad news for the economy, Bush had weekly conferences with the Fed's chairman. By the end of Bush's second term, he had doubled the national debt, and had put excessive pressure on the Fed to keep a sound monetary policy. While Bush was at the helm, lending went hog wild. When the cat is away the mice will play. The discombobulated Republicans got exactly what they deserved, but did the American people in Obama? Did Obama lead the American people down a garden path?

Lenders make their money by lending. Their greed is an outrage. In order for the central bank to keep the money supply flowing smoothly, it takes more than printing money. It involves credit, which the central bank does not control. While Bush was out to lunch, the economic balloon burst. Banks quit loaning money. People quit spending. Unemployment soared. Why bail out the banks? Why not let the free market take control?

With a free market economy, very painfully the situation would return to normal. President Obama says his government intervention answer is not perfect but better than nothing; it's a chance we have to take to avoid an economic disaster. Why don't we wait and see if it works? Why would it work now when it never has worked before? Why is it better to let our children and grandchildren pay for today's mistakes?

Leaving it to the Pisces mind-set-the Gaia management mind-set-based on external authority, the majority of the American people dependent on big government, this time of disenchantment, the end of an era, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, in my February 21^st post, "U.S. Government Money Management," you learn how a growing minority is thinking. We are not going leave a Pisces legacy of poverty and tyranny to our children.

In the external world we're leaving, what comes around goes around. Not so in the Age of Aquarius. The immutable laws that control the physical universe, in our future-internal and all based on living experience-left open to create, we, the people, with the soul potential for humanism, individualism, for granting equal opportunity, tolerance, broad-mindedness, imagination, our world will make a quantum leap forward. Our children will live beyond the Pisces imagination.

Love is an often used word in the Gaia Community. It means profoundly affectionate.

It is said that God loved us so much that he sacrificed his only son. In the Book of Job, we find that Job was prosperous, had a wonderful family, had everything a man could want. Job was tempted by Satin. He gave up everything he held dear for his love of God. Why would an intelligent man do such a thing? In the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve disobeyed God, after which they saw their naked bodies and were ashamed. Why would intelligent people be ashamed? They covered their "private parts" with fig leaves. God saw them wearing fig leaves and knew they disobeyed him. Strangely, God placed a curse on them and all the men and women to follow. The moral story of man, The Holy Bible, is filled with holy wars, all over God's will. Does this God love us?

In Greek mythology, Prometheus loved man so much he wanted man to have something no animal had. He stole fire from the gods, which brought the wrath of Zeus down on him. Does God not like his creation of man? It seems in these stories that God wanted us to be like animals, without morals.

I guess I don't know God, but could I love anyone else if I didn't first love myself? In 1973, I had "a calling." I found a cause to fight for bigger than my own personal desires. I claimed that the fruits of my labor were first for taking care of my needs. The IRS had the idea that the fruits of my labor was their's for the taking. The IRS' cause was to take from me and give to others.

Lack of love of self comes out as envy and hate for those who have. These folks vote for politicians who advocate taking from those who have and redistributing it to those in need, the takers thinking of themselves as good and loving, those who have greedy and hateful.

The problem we face in America is looking for external fixes, failing to explain the nature of people. Consequently, America is fast turning into a nation of goof-offs, without the foggiest notion of the cause or the cure. Politicians address the symptoms of the problem they created. They can't take enough from the taxpayers to hand out so Secretary of State Hilary Clinton went to China with her hand out. Who would have thought the greatest nation on earth would be going to China for help?

A Gaia member who, in her message obviously fears death, thinks we may be about to become physically never to die. Quoting Deepak Chopra, she wrote that Karma is being replaced by Grace.

Deepak Chopra, pointing to the wisdom of the ancient sages of India,

and to the "the totality of what is,"our place in the creation of the universe:

I'm under the control of infinite organizing power. To correct the wrongs of a past life, I was born Virgo with Aquarius rising, the water-bearer to humanity. Astrologer Jeanne Avery says I may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries.

Karma is the idea that we come back to correct the wrongs of a past life. Grace is God's forgiveness for our wrongs. Looking back, I found a bigger than life calling. I cut loose and went to sea. After two years at sea, I returned captain of my ship. A very strange thing happened. By chance, I met my fourth wife, Karen. She was like meeting an old friend I'd not seen for a long time, perhaps from another life. For the first time in this life, I found love. By cutting loose, everything should have gone wrong. Everything has gone right.

Astrologer James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy, for $25, sent me an informational audio tape on my astrology, as follows:

"We are going to take a look at two key aspects of your astrological data, your Sun sign and your Moon sign. We are going to talk about them archetypically. The emotional issue is pointed out by your Moon sign-how this feels as you go through life-talk about your Sun sign-again archetypically-how you naturally uplift people, to give you some good information as you try to find out what your spiritual mission is."

"We have a new image of what it means to be a human being, how to think of ourselves as growing, evaluating, understanding, that we can connect with our God-self energy. You grow in a Virgo way. Virgo is that part of us that is oriented toward conscientious work. At first unconsciously-and everyone has a different way of reacting-the object is to bring into consciousness the reactions and determine whether or not the reaction is mature or immature-when we can step back and look at our higher self, when need becomes strength."

"The Vigo ego integration with higher self, and the higher self perspective is going to be defined along the lines of the Virgo archetype, which is, of course, our need for organization: to be effective, to be conscientious about making things better."

"We all start at immature levels of ego functions. We have a sense of security based on how much we feel in charge of our lives. We want to keep the idea that things are going fine. We have goals we want to achieve. We need to manipulate things to keep everything just right. We need to keep this allusion for security purposes. If new information comes in, we can act defensively. We don't want information that rocks the boat."

"What happens is that this allusion, based on security control, has to shift to our inner connection, our God-self force that gives us a sense of well being no matter what's going on out there. We have to make that opening on the inside."

"As you get in touch with your inner energy and start to get in touch with your higher self, you will be guided into how to find that true work expression. It will be shown to you intuitively. This becomes the way you uplift everyone who comes into your life. When you evolve into your higher self you energize those who cross your path. This becomes your greatest talent."

It seems that we keep coming back with a mission. If we don't look within and find ourselves, we could end on that bridge to nowhere, our lives wasted.

P.S. Let's be the change that changes the world.

President Obama's speech last night informed us that he is aware of our economic woes, and that we can overcome the problem. He spelled out his plan. Obama is like Moses leading the Children of Israel. It reminds us of the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. The almighty authority, like President Obama, provided Adam and Even with all of their needs. They were not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They were to live with the protection of God's love. They were disobedient. The almighty authority placed a curse on Adam and Even and all who followed them. The only way out of the curse we learn as children is to confess our sins and live blessed lives in the love the almighty authority bestows upon the obedient. I don't believe a word of it. I look within for my answers.

When I was a child, I was taught this prayer:

How nice it would be if we could simply recite a little prayer and life would wonderful. I wasn't born to believe it. I was born to question everything, for I've an Aquarian soul. Since Adam and Eve, we've gone through the twelve ages of childlike obedience, jumping through authority's hoops. We've left the Age of Pisces, which began with the birth of Jesus. You recall that authority crucified Jesus.

The Age of Pisces has for its symbol two fish swimming in opposite direction. It reminds us of present day America. Alas, I've questioned the American establishment ever since I can remember.

It won't work for children and immature adults who depend on authority, but I have a plan that will work for present day adults. We've entered the Age of Aquarius, the symbol of which is the water-bearer to humanity. My plan, coming from an Aquarian soul, and I'm far from alone, calls for beginning now to make everyone personally responsible for his or her life by reducing the size of government to a fraction of its present size. Rather than put money in government's pocket to buy the votes of those dependent on big government, my plan would put money in the individual's pocket. My plan calls for the reestablishment of the free market economy. Let the law of supply and demand work without government interference. Whereas President Obama's plan for the immature would spend us into poverty, with money in the individual's pocket under my adult plan, the individual would spend his way into prosperity. Incidentally, isn't it ironic that President Obama sent his Secretary of State to Communist China to beg for money to finance his plan? Birds of a feather flock together.

The Aquarian nature: inventive, spontaneous, original, unique, independent, the forerunner of style setting, discovering new methods, and bringing back information that has been lost to civilization of centuries. The Aquarian is a chance-taker. He knows where the fruit grows. He's not one to hide his light under a bushel. As we are now aware, we are great in number.

President Obama's plan merely addresses the symptoms of the problem. The first step for a cure is to do is to do away with the income tax and the hated IRS. The income tax has outlived its usefulness. It is corrupt. It is now a tool to rob the poor and aid the rich. The income tax should be replaced with a tax on spending. The second step for a cure, simultaneous with the first step, is to entirely faze out government entitlements. Those joining the work force should not have one dime withheld from their wages for government entitlements, nor should they receive government entitlements, for the simple reason that they should not be encouraged to depend on government. No one paying for government entitlements now should receive government entitlements before age 70. Within 30 years, government entitlements would be history.

Government entitlements haven't been around that long. When I was a boy, the family was the cornerstone of American life. Think of life without government entitlements. Mature adults know how to teach their children. When I grew up, I had a caring mother at home to guide me. Government entitlements should be replaced with a structured environment for anyone who either will not or cannot meet their adult responsibilities. Immature adults, now increasing by leaps and bounds, thanks to government entitlements, should be made wards of the state. They should not have the privilege of the vote. It makes no sense to allow immature people who depend on government the privilege of voting into office politicians who rob the responsible in order to buy the vote of the irresponsible. President Obama's plan calls for placing an enormous tax burden on future parents. It's the old shell game. The responsible know that future adults should be left with the fruits of their labor to properly care for their children. Under President Obama's plan, future parents will be tax slaves, their children, as well.

Speaking from the soul of an Aquarian, President Obama's plan is bucking the tide of change. It is a hopeless waste of America's energy.

Following up on "About our Souls," we are witnessing the economic effects of a lacking in government regulations. Greed has taken over in the public and private sectors. But, hey, America is a government of the people, for the people; that is, groups of people, some progressive liberal, some conservative. There is a great division of thinking at this time. President Obama says he is everyone's president. Some of what he says is for progressive liberal groups, some for conservative groups, in other words, double talk. A house divided cannot long stand. One could assume it would be better if we were all of the progressive liberal mind-set, which is the majority view, the assumption being that with everyone thinking alike, President Obama's economic stimulus package would work. Think again!

My question: What put us here? Movement. Everything in the physical universe moves from its beginning to an end. A state of perfection would not move. Therefore, perfection does not exist. We are here to make things better. Since we're here for only a brief moment, we can do only so much. What if we mess up? What about Hitler? Did Hitler get off the hook when he killed himself, or does Hitler now exist in a state of eternal torment? Not if God loves his creation. I would think God would give Hitler the chance to right his terrible wrongs. The word for this idea is Karma. Since there is no such thing as perfection, I would say we all come back to correct our wrongs. But who am I to say? Who is anyone to say?

Who is anyone to say who or what God is? The argument is the single-most cause of suffering and death on this planet. Based on movement-we are moving from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius-moving from past ages of authoritarian rule, from wars, death and destruction, as though we were immature and needed to be told what to do, moving to an age of self-government. I maintain that we are going to discover who we really are. If we could look at our future, I say we would be astounded. We would find that we are capable of being anything we want to be. We would cease making ourselves victims of circumstances in need of help from authorities. If we knew who we really are, we'd be part of the action. We'd never look to external authority for our personal answers.

These are my thoughts. They are based on my personal experience. They are not shared by many Americans. Most want to remain in a government created hothouse. Most Americans fear letting nature take her course. They want government intervention. Coincidentally, I was born at a time and at a place that made me an Aquarian soul. When I was age five, I set out to see the world. The cops found me three hours later talking with a yardman. For the past thirty-four years, I've been a rolling stone. I've finally come to rest in the tall timber thirty miles east of Mt. Hood, Oregon. I spend much of my time now in contemplation.

According to astrology, I was placed on Earth at this particular time with a message. I take it that now is the proper time to deliver it. I've nothing better to do with my time. I've been provided with a computer and the Internet. While the world's authority is leading us to annihilation, millions of individuals are being connected through computers and the Internet, keeping in mind our purpose in being here is to make things better.

We've finally arrived at the Age of Aquarius, an age that will see us taking charge of our personal lives. Little wonder that this is a time of turmoil.

Speaking in terms of the predictable; that is, in the time-space consortium, this period will last three to four years. So much for the present unfavorable alignments of the planets. We live in a state of being-without limits. We may vote ourselves into oblivion. The universe would not miss us. After all, we're a mere speck of dust on the outer edge of our galaxy. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies. It is all up to us wether we remain physical. In any event, we would keep our eternal state of being. Who knows where our next physical appearance would be.

With everyone for himself, we are sitting here at the threshold of lives we cannot imagine, afraid to move into our next phase of evolvement, just sitting here with the sword of Damocles hanging over us. What is it going to be, history written in the rocks or self-made images of God? I can't believe that the planet Earth, a million-to-one odds of being supportive of intelligent life, after the millions of generations of life it took to get us to this point, that we are going to just sit here and let mindless, self-serving authorities bring an end of us. I believe we, as individuals, are going to close ranks.

Do you vote to let your children and grandchildren pay for your extravagance? This is not due process of law. It is legalized robbery. Don't forget that the U.S. Constitution is the people's constitution. We, the people, had the guts to stop black slavery. Do we have the guts to stop tax slavery. We, the people, must now use our Constitution to stop this madness.

Following up on "The State of Being," the "Higher Law" is the "letter of the law," the form of the law, and the "spirit" of the law, when we talk about "spirit," we're speaking of man's soul. "Legal," the form of the law, "legal" is a construction of the law. Without a foundation, namely, the "spirit" of the law, you've got a house built on sand.

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines soul as our immaterial essence, our animating principle, or actuating cause of life. Our cause of life, associated with unlimited awareness potential, has progressed over the ages. The ages are associated with movement, astrologically defined as the movement of star constellations. We're now moving from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, an age of high tech, an age of rapid change, an age of uncertainty. In the physical universe, what comes around goes around. In the Age of Aquarius, we, individually, choose what is to be. Anything is possible.

With anything is possible in mind, getting back to the law, America's courts, in keeping with today's rapid change, have changed the Constitution from its original intent to "in light of today's needs;" that is, naturally, the people's needs, not the needs of the powers that be. As it turns out, it's the fox watching over the henhouse. Mention natural law to a politician. It's like throwing holy water at the face of the devil. Case in point: In Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 (1968)

Flast at 98: Chief Justice Earl Warren for the Court: "As we understand it, the Government's position is that the constitutional scheme of separation of powers, and the deference owed by the federal judiciary to the other two branches of government within that scheme, present an absolute bar to taxpayer suits challenging the validity of federal spending programs. The Government views such suits as involving no more than the mere disagreement by the taxpayer ‘with the uses to which tax money is put.' According to the Government, the resolution of such disagreements is committed to other branches of the Federal Government and not to the judiciary. Consequently, the Government contends that, under no circumstances, should standing to be conferred on federal taxpayers to challenge a federal taxing or spending program. An analysis of the function served by standing limitations compels a rejection of the Government's position."

Chief Justice Warren was speaking to the case of some taxpayers who petitioned to be heard on the constitutionality of the State of New York expediently forking over taxpayer money to church schools, allegedly in violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
Flast at 99: "The fundamental aspect of standing is that it focuses on the party seeking to get his complaint before a federal court and not on the issues he wishes to have adjudicated. The ‘gist of the question of standing' is whether the party seeking relief has ‘alleged such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy as to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.' Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 204 (1962)

Flast at 105: "We have noted that the Establishment clause of the First Amendment does specifically limit the taxing and spending power conferred by Art. I, section 8. Whether the Constitution contains other specific limitations can be determined only in the context of future cases. However, whenever such specific limitations are found, we believe a taxpayer will have a clear stake as a taxpayer in assuring that they are not breached by Congress. Consequently, we hold that a taxpayer will have standing consistent with Article III to invoke federal judicial power when he alleges that congressional provisions which operate to restrict the exercise of the taxing and spending authority. The taxpayer's allegation in such cases would be that his tax money is being extracted and spent in violation of specific constitutional protections against such abuses of legislative power."

The taxpayers in Flast were granted standing, due to something that might be determined in future cases. Their cause was ruled against by reason that the amount of money, when spread out over all of New York's taxpayers, was not enough of a violation to warrant the Court's rejection of the tax. The Court recognized that we don't have perfect justice. The court can't be asked to judge on every penny of tax money spent. What about every single taxpayer being wronged by the tax collector? Should every wronged taxpayer be heard? Perhaps not, but how about all taxpayers? What if all taxpayer are being unconstitutionally robbed of thousands of dollars, simply because not one is being heard?

When Congress and the President pass legislation that will cost every federal taxpayer thousands of dollars, and said legislation will reward the irresponsible and penalize the responsible, not only do the taxpayers have standing to challenge taxing and spending, but the letter and the spirit of the law assures them of justice. The trouble is that not all taxpayers are demanding justice, and the one demanding justice is not being heard.

In my case before the Supreme Court, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue lied. My case was not heard. It was heard by The Palm Beach Post. A front page story appeared in which the IRS admitted that for 11 years it had lawlessly confiscated by property. I got what was mine back but in the meanwhile the IRS put me on the street. The taxpayer is automatically guilty as changed.

I don't jump through authority's hoops. One and all, in my view, authorities are placing the public's needs secondary to their own. If this is truly a government of the people, for the people, it takes personal involvement. I spent an estimated 2,000 hours in legal research on my taxpayer case. I'm not a lawyer. I was guided by those who came before me. After the fact, after my cause was brought to the attention of The Palm Beach Post, I was proven right and the tax collector wrong.

America's future is up for grabs. I'm no longer a taxpayer. I'm 83 and one of the government entitled. This is no longer my fight. I'm offering a little of what I learned about the law for whatever use the taxpayers may find in it.

Continuing with the Higher Law, and common sense, the progressive liberal mind-set envisions the kind of a world it wants. Does it make common sense? It differs in my mind-set in that instead of starting at a beginning and building toward an end, the progressive liberal believes in forcing all the pieces to fit. In other words, the progressive liberal believes the end justifies the means. I'm not like Rush Limbaugh. I don't hope Obama fails. I'm dead certain Obama's idea of the world is not what I want. On the other hand, to the progressive liberal, "Obama's cool. Give it a chance to work." Sorry guys! It is impossible to comprehend eight trillion dollars. I'm an ant looking at an elephant.

One month after Obama took office, angry taxpayers are marching in the streets. It's all "boring" to the arrogant liberal Democrat Senator Bob Graham. It is not arguable that since Obama took office the division in America has increased. A house divided cannot long stand. Maybe that's what the progressive liberals want, an end to the America we know and revere. Did Obama really "inherit" a problem or is he addressing a symptom of the problem Roosevelt created. I'd like to make clear that the progressive liberal poses no threat to me. I'm government entitled. I've retired from the big city and high crime. I'm far away from the open border with Mexico. Turning loose killer terrorists isn't my problem. They are not likely to set off a dirty bomb near me. I've retired to the tall timber.

Nothing takes the place of experience. I've not been reeducated in a modern school of higher learning. Young people have no idea of what my world was like in my youth. I lived through the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Obama's mentor, was president for 11 years of depression. He didn't end it. World War II ended the Great Depression. Before the Great Depression, the Federal Government was a small fraction of its present size-something way out there. Roosevelt brought the Federal Government into everyone's living room with his Fireside Chats. Millions of desperate people placed their hope in Roosevelt. Millions of desperate people today place their hope in Obama.

In those days long ago, it took only one worker to support a family. My father was never without a job. We were not desperate when I was a boy. I didn't know the meaning of the depression. Obama calls my early life experience a "catastrophe." I disagree. I call Obama's plan for us a coming catastrophe. The family was the cornerstone of America. Workers paid no tax on their incomes. We didn't have government entitlements. When the money ran out, the old folks came to live with us. When my aunt's husband died, leaving her with three children, my dad gave her money to help out.

In my youth, we didn't have homeless people standing on the street corner with signs. We had homeless people knock on our door offering to work for something to eat. My mother always fed them. We called it faith, hope, and charity. It never occurred to us that anyone was government entitled to living expenses and health insurance the taxpayer paid. Until Roosevelt took office, we never dreamed that the government was duty-bound to keep us. As it turns out the fraud of everyone's future, every generation receiving less and paying more, get over the idea that the money you pay is there for you, all you have is government I.O.Us, add to Obama's eight trillion dollar notes of indebtedness, he's going to hand out, and you get the picture. What happens when the nation's debts can't be paid. America becomes another banana republic.

During the terrible depression days, my mother was a member of the Parent Teacher's Association. She was always there for me. My school was well disciplined. You got paddled if you got out of line. The crime rate was a fraction of today's crime rate. The divorce rate was a fraction of today's divorce rate. When I was a boy, I was taught respect for authority. Politicians didn't have the money to buy the multitudes' votes.

Whenever anyone looks deeply with focused investigation, significant fraud and abuse is observed. Justice Jackson: "It will be a sad day if the good will of the people toward their taxing system is frittered away in efforts to accomplish by taxation moral reforms that cannot be accomplished by direct legislation." In Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. Co. V. May 194 U. S. 270, Justice Holmes speaking for the Court, "A tortured construction of the Constitution is not to be justified by recourse to extreme examples of reckless congressional spending which might occur if courts could not prevent expenditures which, even if they could be thought to effect any national purpose, would be possible only by action of a legislature lost to all sense of public responsibility." The American people sat in the bleachers and allowed all of this to happen.

Roosevelt's legacy wound up letting the horse out of the gate. Personal dependence on government has been growing like Jack's beanstalk. Being free has taken on new meaning: eight trillion bucks in deficit spending. You bet! "Something has to be done." Imagine that! Buying the irresponsible's vote becomes tax slavery for those to come. It tops all that has gone before. Where's the beef? Indeed, I've lived and learned. Obama may be cool, but pray tell me, is there any reason left to respect authority? In my day, Obama would have been judged a slick con artist selling snake oil remedy.

Government spends and prints money. The economy produces wealth. We've now a government managed economy. The money printed is notes obligating the taxpayer, a growing liability. When I collect my government entitlement, government's hand is quicker than the eye trick, which allows me to purchase my needs, the notes government gave me become a taxpayer liability. Besides watering down the money supply with printing press money, the same as a tax, those cool cats in Washington give me cost in living increases. It's nice work if you can get it. Oh! By the way, government entitlements are pay as you go; that is, you pay me more than you are going to be paid when you become government entitled. Thank you very much. Government entitlement is a pyramid game. Think on it-eight trillion dollars of borrowed money to be distributed by your government according to whim. It's far more than all the money the so-called rich could pay back if every cent of their incomes were taken in tax. How would you like to see your government take 95 percent of your pay? Face the fact that your federal representatives are egomaniacs. They belong in the nuthouse.

We've gone through age after age of authoritarian control. The universe, we now learn, besides being immutable laws that govern movement, Sir Isaac Newton's contribution, has within it an element of uncertainty, Werner Heisenberg's contribution. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle was the forerunner of quantum mechanics. When you want to know how something works you take it apart. That's what quantum mechanics does with the physical universe.

We now know for sure that there is more than one dimension in the universe. By observing a dimension of infinite possibility, science has discovered, we create reality. If we don't observe ourselves, but allow others to observe for us, thereby creating their reality, then would it not be correct to say we rob ourselves of what is rightfully ours' to use as we please? In my view, we were created with the intelligence to take care of our own needs. What's the difference in asking your neighbor to help you financially and asking our agent, the federal government, for help.

What makes Obama capable to determining what every man, woman, and child in the United States should have? You Obama supporters are heading the world to a self-fulfilling prophecy: The Battle of Armageddon.