The writings of a self-proclaimed modern day patriot…

House Resolution 5741

To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and
42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed
services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense
and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the
uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements
of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.

It is here. At some point, I was expecting the government to step up and make service mandatory. The draft was too inflammatory as far as political correctness goes. But “serving your country” in other ways will be construed as patriotic and American. Well here it is.

The sponsor of the bill probably won’t shock you.

Charles Rangel

Charles Rangel
Democrat – New York

That’s right! The same guy who has lied about owning property abroad to avoid taxation and who is now under investigation for tax fraud amongst other things, he is proposing that if you’re between 18 and 42 years of age, you should be required to “serve” your country in some form or another. Doesn’t that just sound like liberty incarnate. I, for one, would love to serve this guy! He seems like an honorable, moral, freedom loving guy. I’ll serve two years being watchdog of crooked Senators and Congress-critters. How about that?

Leading By Example

With the deficits growing incredibly and federal debt predicted to cripple our country within the next few decades, it isn’t a big surprise to see tax hikes and tax dodgers in the news. Unfortunately, we’re all even less surprised to see that it is our elected “leaders” who are doing the tax dodging. Enter John Kerry.

John Kerry

This is one tax hiking politician. Now he’s also caught dodging taxes from his home state of Massachusetts. Kerry bought a foreign made yacht for $7 million then used Rhode Island’s repealing of the excise tax to save him $70,000 a year. When pressed about the issue, did he stand up and face the question like a man of honor? I’ll let you guess.

Just remember, while jobs are disappearing, and politicians are spending more and more money that’s not theirs (taxing us), that isn’t even ours (via the printing press), and that will be paid back by our children (trillions of new debt has been created by these thieves in D.C.), we should at least be able to hold them to the standard they’re creating via legislation. But as it turns out, Kerry is doing the same thing you would expect a citizen to do when hit with ridiculous amounts of idiotic taxes. He’s hiding and dodging so he doesn’t have to pay them.

So this leads to a questions… What do the D.C. politicians expect the people to do when they start upping the taxes to pay for all the legislation they passed?

Failure of Media

This is just a single instance of the failure of the media. It isn’t mean to just condemn one news outlet but to bring attention to logical thinking when it comes to reading the news.Wikileaks Somehow, the releasing of 10,000s of documents related to the wars ongoing since 2004 is a nightmare. How it may be a nightmare for those trying to deceive the public, it is the truth or at least closer to the truth than the public has been told. Never, regardless how painful and ugly, can the truth be a nightmare. The truth just is. The distortion of the truth to continue an agenda is a nightmare. Regardless your view of the wars, I’m sure you’d agree that the truth is always more powerful and warranted than lies.

Let’s just hope that the truth isn’t ignored.

Here’s a link to the documents in question on the NYT.