Shell Games, Part 2

Last December I promised in Blog #5 to come back and finish my thoughts concerning shell games. Please re-read that one, so that you can be prepared to follow the next shell game, the United States Government. No matter your personal political stance, the changes in the last two decades in Federal, State, and Local governments have been unprecedented in the 237 year history of our republic. It gives me no great pleasure to write this blog, but here are the facts without the fiction.

1. Government at all levels has become so corrupt that our nation is on the brink of fiscal insolvency. To the average person or small business this means bankruptcy, however to our governments it means print more money to support not only the governmental process, but also to "protect" our way of life by insulating those lending institutions, brokerage houses, insurance companies, automobile companies and anyone else deemed "to big to fail,"from financial distress. 
2. We used to discuss government debt and the uses of our taxpayer funds in the millions and occasionally billions. Now all we hear are multiple billion dollar expenditures. As of this writing we just crossed over 15 trillion dollars in debt.
3. We still spend a billion dollars a month on war, and now we have lost more soldiers in the middle east than people lost in the bombing of the twin towers. 
4. We fund almost every nation on earth, maybe with the exception of China, Taiwan and Switzerland. We fund any "cause" globally and domestically piling on debt that gets sold to our "friends," the Chinese.
5. The International Monetary Fund is propping up most of Europe and South America to the tune of additional billions, and who backs the IMF? The USA, who used to be the "Gold Standard" when it came to fiscal responsibility and personal freedom. Greece needed 45 billion twice in 6 months last year to stay afloat, because they were deemed to big and important to fail. In the last 5 years we bailed out Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. All remain unstable despite the restructuring of their debt, including outright forgiveness of debt in some cases.
6. Domestically we have bubbles bursting like champagne. The technology bubble killed of trillions in wealth, the banking bubble killed off trillions in wealth, the insurance bubble killed off billions in wealth, and finally the real estate bubble dealt the  average citizen another horrendous blow to their collective pocket books, and made banks afraid to lend.

Money grows on trees for everyone, except the ones that really need it, the people. We, you and me, are paying for everything listed above. The trillions taken in income tax pales in comparison to the trillions taken by the sum total of other taxes we pay every day without even recognizing it. By the time you get done with all the government taxes on payroll, then you have to add these 56 other taxes that no one talks much about:

Interesting List of Taxes that exist today TAXES: Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax Capital Gains Tax CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Court Fines (indirect taxes) Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel permit tax Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon) Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money) Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Local Income Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Septic Permit Tax Service Charge Taxes Social Security Tax Road Usage Taxes (Truckers) Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax Road Toll Booth Taxes School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone federal excise tax Telephone federal universal service fee tax Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax Telephone state and local tax Telephone usage charge tax Toll Bridge Taxes Toll Tunnel Taxes Traffic Fines (indirect taxation) Trailer Registration Tax Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax  Yes, I cut and pasted these. You have to see them to believe them. By the time you get done with all the taxes, 70% of what you earn goes to pay some type of tax! All of these funds are collected by either federal, state or local taxing authorities. Then to take it the final step, only 52% of us pay all these taxes while the other 48% figures out a way avoid or skip out on the Uncle Sam. So how does this relate to a SHELL GAME? While this high stakes monopoly game is going on in the US of A and additional countries around the globe, you are distracted and scared to death by the media and the politicians globally that control the game. We are led to believe these days that we still have a democracy, but voting control was taken out of our hands decades ago and replaced by an "electoral college" that equitably selects the President every 4 years despite the last several where Presidents actually lost the popular vote. Congressman get elected and believe they are entitled to a life-long career. Interesting that they call it the popular vote and note the people's vote. That would be rubbing our collective noses in it. We still believe that we have political parties with real differences on how our country should be run...Hogwash, the pundits do nothing but shadow box, never really expecting anything to change, because those in office on all sides of the aisle, all want the same things: Power to control not only our nation, but the power to impose our will on others whether they want it or not. Wealth is strip mined daily out of our economy to line the pockets of politicians at every level. Government lives by the sweat of our brow and more is never enough. Eliminate God from our lives completely under the guise of accommodating the beliefs of others. The erosion has led to our bending to the smallest voice, because we are told that we are racist, ethnically challenged, religious zealots, or worse, because we force out belief system on aliens.  Political correctness has taken the place of hard decisions long overdue such as our borders, our wars, our taxation, our congress, our judicial system and so on... Now that God is on the way out, it's now time to toss our founding principles. It makes sense that these are next because they were based on the laws God set forth in the Bible. We can't pray in school anymore, but 8 million Muslims in Detroit can publicly and privately pray to Allah 3 times each day.  With the systematic extermination of God from of our lives, our value system continues to decay. We are dying a horrible death from inside. Family is old fashioned. Life is about schedules, morning, noon and night. Kids have little to no parental guidance or discipline at home or in our schools from elementary schools through college.  Godlessness is a cancer that has already metastasized into every part of our human existence. It has many different names, but the worship of anything, "in the heavens above or on this earth," except El Shaddai, the creator of all life is not only misguided, it is sin at its core. The Old Testament called evil Baal, Baalim, Lucifer, Satan, Beast, Devil, Beelzebub, ad nauseum. This fallen angel has been working through the ages to win the hearts and minds of as many souls as possible. The execution of his subtle plan lead people astray every day. He knows exactly how to make you change your value system passed down to you by getting you to rationalize and accept his evil in small, bite sized and swallowable doses. After all, the serpent said to Eve, "God didn't really mean what he said. He surely meant for you have the fruit of this tree also. Either that or He does not want you to really be like him." Twisted rationalization in small, seemingly innocuous amounts  soon becomes acceptable, so that we can be perceived as  progressive, and enlightened. God forbid we should have standards or laws that can't be compromised by failed jurisprudence.   God asked King Solomon what he wished from El Shaddai on the day he was anointed King of Israel and Judah. Solomon asked for wisdom to be able to discern the difference between good and evil...May God grant this incredible gift to all of us who believe, so that we don't get caught in the endless snares of the evil one, himself. For those of you who do not yet believe, I pray that your eyes will be opened to His truth, and that your heart and soul be cleansed by the one true God. Please ask Him, because He promises to make you pure again through the blood of His son, Jesus. God bless, now and forever... The Digital Disciple