Health Care and the IRS?

We've all heard about the passing of the Health Care bill, but has anyone stopped to look at the price tag associated?

According to the information stated in the health care bill, the Internal Revenue Service will be placed at the head of this Operation. They will be in charge of ensuring that every American citizen either has health insurance, or pays the fee for a lack of it. First, we'll start with the prices Congress has put down on paper and stated to the public. Every American citizen will be taxed under this bill; if not directly, then for their lifestyle. Those who are considered "rich" by the US government will be taxed a total of 6.15% of their gross annual salary. Thats 2.35% for medicare part A. That tax is already in existence but will be raised by .9% by the bill. The rest comes from a new tax imposed by the bill which will, for the rich, total up another 3.8% of their annual salary. It may not seem like much, but lets take the example of a family which makes $250,000 a year. They will pay a total of $15,275 a year just for health care. Now lets add the 33% in income tax which is already in effect. Thats another $82,500 per year. Now take that total of $97,750 and add whatever state taxes may apply (which is usually a semi-large amount). Does it seem fair that these people should have to pay so much simply because they made smarter decisions and planned their future for success early on?

Next lets think about those who have decided not to get the health care insurance because they feel they cannot afford it or, God forbid, exercise a natural right to choose for themselves. They will be charged a maximum of $750 a year per person. Now it seems very reasonable considering that a "rich" family pays over $15,000. . . but that $750 isn't the point. The IRS has been given "complete authority" over the taxation of health care insurance. This means that not only can they have an almost singular decision on raising taxes when the bill expires, but they can form other taxation around this device. Because you have to prove to the IRS using previous tax statements that you have paid your health care insurance tax, you must have all taxes paid in order to pay the fee. Let's be honest, some people just don't have the money to pay the IRS and will amount massive debt which is eventually paid off when they reach that "American Dream" of wealth. But for those who can't pay it, too bad. Now you are officially being black listed in regards to paying that fee which, if put off long enough, will quickly end with jail time and even greater debt. Sigh... Does anyone else notice these things?

Most people who oppose the bill are worried about longer lines in the emergency room, and they're 100% right. You will be given a sub-tax which is determined by your lifestyle. This includes things such as daily calorie intake, weight, amount of soft drinks ingested on a daily basis, risky hobbies, etc. But what it also includes is staying healthy in regards to regular check ups and taking an assortment of pills to make you live longer. This means more patients in the doctors office every day. It'd be fine if we weren't currently experiencing a shortage of doctors, caused by the rapid decrease in pay due to medicare insurance. To explain; most doctors don't currently accept government issued insurance because they can't trust Big Brother to pay on time. So when almost all of America is on government insurance (because they will slowly force out private companies with taxes stated in the bill) we will see an even sharper decline in the number of doctors coming out of med school.

So, the general consensus is thus:

-Higher Taxes

-Increased number of jailed citizens for tax evasion

-Less doctors

-More patients to overwhelm the already overwhelmed doctors

-more government control

-a deprivatization of the health care industry

-and decreased pay for doctors

..... God Bless America

God Guides Us

I just had a spiritual experience. I'll walk you through the previous night and today.

Last night I was considering dropping out of high school and getting my GED at the suggestion of many, including my father and mother. It brought me to tears thinking of how low I had sunk to consider such an option. I'm struggling in school and have no idea where my life is going. I am lost. I had a conversation with my best friend which convinced me to get my standard diploma no matter what. The GED is not an option anymore. I would feel so low.

My mother calls literally seconds after I say goodnight to my best friend and tells me how much she loves me and that she will stand beside me in anything I do. She sounds drunk. I'm worried she has attempted suicide again but I trust in God to watch over her. If she is meant to die this night, he will guide her to his throne. I spoke to my sister Jessica and tried to calm her down, for she had the same fear as I did.

I attempted to sleep but struggled. I pray many times and demand that anything which means to harm me leave my body and soul in the name of Jesus Christ. My sleep paralysis was acting up. I could not approach sleep without visions of demons, shadows, pain and death. I felt as if my soul was being ripped from my body. I awoke in the morning, once again, ice cold and sweating heavily. I felt so drained all night, as if something was feeding on my very soul. At 6:30am my father called me and he tells me of the things my mother has said to him. He's looking to complain to someone and as always he chose me to vent to. But she has been tormenting him in a skitzophrenic fit, and this means she has not committed suicide.

I do not want to go to school. I cannot look into another persons eyes today. I cannot pretend to be human today. But i drag myself along to the city bus stop. I get on my first bus and arrive at meadowood mall. I then continue on to citicenter in downtown reno. On my bus ride I am thinking of my life. I think of how much I hate myself and who I am. I hate myself because I have no direction. Because I don't know who I am. I am ashamed of myself. I feel like giving up. But I also think of the one girl who matters most to me, and what she thinks of me. She makes life worth living. Love makes life worth living.

I got on the bus back to meadowood, the rapid. Then I took the 56 to south meadows. I return home and go to my room. I attempt to sleep because i feel like giving up on myself. I just want to be a lazy bum the rest of my life. I put on some music and lay down. I experience a sleep paralysis attack. As my soul feels as if it is being ripped from my body, I hear shine by collective soul. The moment I think of Christ, it stops. I felt at ease. I felt closer to God than ever before in that one moment. I suddenly had an urge to pray. So I prayed for strength, guidance, protection. And above all else i prayed that God would send aid to those I love and direct me in my life.

I suddenly knew what i needed to do for my life. I need to finish school. I need to be a respectable person. I need to train, for what i do not know. But I trust the calling I have been given. I need to train and take care of my body. I need to increase my physical fitness. I need to concentrate on the scripture and help those around me. I need to prepare because something is soon to come. I must educate my mind in the knowledge of men and my God. I need to prepare my body for physical trials.

I believe God has sent me a message. I believe God is attempting to prepare me for something. I intend to do God's will.

A simple step to solve national debt

Basically, as of 23 Dec 2009 at 12:25:09 PM GMT, the US National debt is at $12,105,315,434,607.98. For those of you who can't put this number into words, (which I hope is none, but with American citizens I wouldn't be surprised) our national debt is at twelve trillion one hundred five billion three hundred fifteen million four hundred thirty four thousand six hundred seven dollars and ninety eight cents. If this startles you... well then you haven't been watching the news nearly enough in the last two years.

It seems there is no hope, but the truth is there are steps we can take to solve this crisis. The problem is that no politician is willing to give up their power, or that of the federal government for something they will not experience the benefits of in their lifetime. I beg of you, answer me this. Why are we not selling the federal land???

As of September 16th of this year, the federal government owns 28.6% of the land in the United States of America. That's 650,322,000 acres of land that the federal government owns. About 603,000,000 acres in the western states alone.

So why doesn't the federal government sell their land? Most of it is BLM land, over half of which is not used in any way for profit and simply sits untouched. But if we were to sell that land to the private sector, not only would it take away a portion of the national debt, it would boost the United States economy at both the state and national levels. We would be selling it in all sizes because the little man deserves a chance too. But our main buyer would be large corporations. Now as much as it pains us to deny money, we must deny purchase to any company which is not American based. This will ensure that we are helping our own economy with a circulation which proves the United States government is a separate financial entity that the United States public.

Now suppose there are those who cannot afford to buy the land, but have an aspiration to grow and sell crops. We could give these people federal land grants which would allow them to use the land in exchange for a discount on crop sales to designated companies. How we would determine these companies is simple. We would have to create a bureau to handle all transactions, upkeep, etc. Lets call it the Federal Bureau of National Land Transactions. How would we ever fund such a bureau without wasting the taxpayers money? We would have an investment plan set up for companies. This would have several divisions depending on the land use and intent such as agriculture, preservation, etc. So lets say a company wants a discount from the Agricultural business men which received the federal land grants. They simply invest, bi-annually, into the bureau suggested. In this way, we could have a multitude of private companies keeping the Bureau which will systematically take away power from the government, give it to the people, and solve a portion of our national debt, afloat.

Not only would this be eliminating portions of debt, it would stimulate our economy by investing in private businesses instead of government bureaucracy. It would take the financial power the US government has over the American businessman and weaken it, strengthening those who chase after the American dream. It would allow the public market to sky rocket and trade would be unrestricted. Trade would be regulated by Darwins rule. For this reason, companies would systematically lower their prices, making the cost of living in the united states go down. How can we ensure that the prices will not go up? Simple laws of nature and economics. If prices begin to steadily rise on something, less people will buy it. To compensate, they will either lower their prices and survive, or raise them once again and lose all business entirely.

Is it just me... Or does this seem simple?

Strict Government

Strict government rules in the same way Satan does. Before you laugh and say "he crazy" (you're free to after), please read on.

Satan's method to rule is in direct contrast to that of Gods. Satan, in the original interest of doing good, intended to force human beings to do what is right and to do Gods will. But God knew that we deserve to posses free will and the ability to choose our own path.

Because Satan was the most prideful of all Gods angels he rebelled when his plan was not accepted. Those who agreed in enslavement for the greater good followed Satan to be ultimately banished. It was then, when Satan was banished by God, that his intent of doing good was turned to a hatred of those humans which received free will and of course the servants of the Lord who gave it to them.

The government constantly attempts to gain control. Why is this? Because when you control every aspect of a persons life, you can force them to say, behave and do what you wish. Now I'm not saying the government is some type of evil which is trying to corrupt us all. What I'm saying is that a governments intent, in general, is to create a society which is perfect in all ways and to ensure the tranquility of all citizens. But when human continue to fault governments naturally attempt to take control. How can a man be shot if we restrict trade on guns? How can marijuana reach the streets when we give life sentences to those who sell it?

The reason why this route will never succeed is simple. You cannot go against Gods will. He has a master plan which only He knows. To attempt to defy this plan is an indirect act against God. We should be as Christ and accept Gods plan above all things; but instead we are like Satan, defying the will of God because our trust is falsely placed in our own ignorant solutions.

When we begin to systematically remove the restrictions on the various aspects of our lives enacted by the government, then we will become closer to God and true happiness. The Lord is, by our standard, in all ways perfect. So is it really intelligent to ignore the consequences of structural differences outlined in the Bible? Satan wished to control the masses, and force them to do good. This ended in an eventual plunge into evil intentions and wrongful ignorance. The Lord intends for us to have free will above all things, and not only has his intention overcome all others, it is the way of peace and harmony.

To limit the power of the government is to follow closer the structure of the Lords creation.

Music

Music is defined as artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.

Music is so much more than this. Though it is an indirect communication skill, it is in my opinion, the most powerful and easily utilized communication tool man has ever known. When we speak to each other, we are simply using our most basic communication skill in order to stimulate the auditory senses and recognize a combination of sounds, forming thoughts which have been trained to appear by various connections made in the brain over time.

To have a reaction to the stimulation of language, we must first train our brains in a way which it can recognize the stimuli being presented. Over time, our brain will stop making connections as easily and it becomes harder to learn new words and languages.

But music is consistently stimulating the brain in various ways. Consider a child in his mothers womb; the child comes into this world knowing his/her mother. Why? Because it recognizes her voice, which it has been hearing for months. The words are of course foreign because other senses are required to make necessary connection resulting in a understanding of the language. No, the child recognizes the tone and pitch of his mothers voice. This is because the human brain is designed to respond to these two things, as well as repetition and inconsistency.

In fact, we all subconsciously realize this. When you are sad, you find yourself naturally listening to sad music. When you are about to play a sport like football, you're likely to listen to metal or something else with a hard, fast beat. When you're happy you are likely to listen to bright optimistic music. This is no coincidence, because your mind recognizes that it is by stimulating these emotions through music that we can understand them more fully and recover or benefit from them more quickly.

But there is more than emotional response to music. It is the most powerful communication tool currently available to man. If we were to harness the signals which various notes, tones, etc. send to the processor which is our mind then we could create a whole new language. But this language would not form thoughts, it would simply embed them in the mind as if they had always been there. You would simply know the information being presented to you. Imagine, a subconscious stimulus which could result in discoveries such as learning Algebraic equations in minutes. No this is not some schoolboy dream, it is a reality of unlimited potential. If we could train the minds of the masses simply by transmitting different auditory signals to the brain, then we could eventually achieve an end to illiteracy, non-education, and many of the worlds pressing problems.

When everyone on the planet has superior knowledge, and those naturally mentally fit are even more superior, then we would have a mass population of problem solvers. The educated man is a man of purpose, who wishes to help others because he realizes the benefit a healthy society has to his own life. Now, we as human naturally have free will, so it's not like we would be brainwashing people. We would simply be transferring information to them. It is up to them how they intend to use it, and what it is they intend to do. Could we transmit a falsehood? Yes unforitonately we could. But before such an action could ever occur we would of course, as is custom of curious beings, transmit total and unquestioned truth. An educated community would realize the damage falsities would have upon themselves in the end, because yes, when you damage a community in which you are a part you damage your own ability to function.

Once we grasp the true potential of this God given information transmission system, then we can access the depths of the knowledge which was bestowed upon us. It is in ignorance that we ignore the most obvious stimuli available in our current existence. But when we finally breach the dam which holds back such advancement, the incredible information revolution will flow upon us like a coming flood.