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All Americans are aware that the U.S. economy is in a nose dive. An economy that is getting perpetually worse by unethical corporate management and ignorant political governance.

The government continues to spend and legislate ever more expensive programs creating larger debt for all current and future Americans.

There is a way to remedy many of our problems and that is a resurgence of the U.S. manufacturing base.

How do we do that?

Increase jobs. Increase Tax revenue. Decrease unemployment. Decrease costs of government programs.

Here is a little idea of mine.

The surest way to increase tax revenue is to create jobs. Preferably in the manufacturing sector. Read this as what it is BOYCOTT CHINA/INDIA/MEXICO.Create a REAL fair trade program only allowing imports to match export, not including raw materials – all raw material exports should cease immediately – we can do the manufacturing conversion domestically instead and export a finished product

Here is some fun information.

Walmart currently has an ad that claims they save the average US Family $3100.00 per year no matter where they shop.

Now everyone knows that almost everything Walmart sells is made overseas (China) so let us do a little mathematics exercise.

Multiply that $3100 times the approximate 100 million households in the U.S. and you get $310,000,000,000 divide that number by the approximate number of unemployed people in the US which is estimated to be around 7.5 million and you get $41,000+  per unemployed person

Based on this simple math if Walmart were to require everything they sold be manufactured domestically they could potentially create 7.5 million jobs paying on average over $40,000 per year

So if we assume the above is true(Hint:It is), unemployment in the United States and the costs that go with it would be eliminated saving the government(we taxpayers that is) serious coin (about 2.5 billion per week nationwide) and also result in an extra 30 billion in taxes paid into the governments coffers. Combined this amounts to about 156 Billion on the plus side for the government. Almost enough to pay for the cost of how much Obama/Pelosi claim is required to seize control of your health care and regulate how you live and when you die.

So based on my assumptions ending all trade with China will end much of the problems currently facing the US.

Unfortunately the inverse of this math is also true – due to Walmarts solid presence as The Major retailer and the outsourcing habits of this heinous company and greedy, uncaring nature of it’s executives and the  heirs of it’s founder Sam Walton, they will not change. The future will not improve for the U.S. as long as China is our key supplier and as long as corporations practice the near treasonous behavior of outsourcing .

All countries need to be agriculturally, economically, and industrially independent of each other to guarantee that another global recession does not occur.

A few years ago Al Gore was awarded a Nobel prize. This was a nadir for the history of the award. The presentation of this previously prestigious award to Al Gore proved that all one had to do to win the award was to by a hypocrite who was made famous by issuing half truths and hyperbole.

This award was an insult to all who had won or even been nominated before hand.

I thought at the time, that after this low point in the history of the award it had nowhere to go but up. But, my mistake was in forgetting that humans have a knack for surprising disappointment. The recent actions of the Nobel Awards Committee in honoring Barack Obama with the once prestigious award proves that all one has to do to win is Nothing. Isn’t there some famous quote that goes something like “All that is needed for evil to win is for good men to do nothing”. Well it looks like evil triumphs. Not that I am calling Obama evil mind you, but he certainly isn’t a good man. If he were even a half way decent human being he would decline the award and say quite simply “I hope I have the chance to win this again when I have earned it”. Of course we know he would never say that. After all anyone who is so arrogant as to think they can sway the votes of the IOC into choosing a particular city obviously isn’t too in touch with reality.

There were several hundred other more qualified nominees who were over looked but if I think just a little out of the box I can think of one individual far more deserving than Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. That person would be President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yes Mr. Ahmadinejad has an idea for peace that requires the elimination of all Zionists and the entire Zionist state (READ: Israel) and obviously that is unconscionable but you have to admit that at least he has a plan, where Obama has NOTHING. Even the Israeli foreign minister agrees with the Iranian president saying that there will not be peace in the middle east  read the article from the BBC here so if Israel isn’t doing everything possible to achieve peace and Ahmadinejad has a solution that will result in peace than by the demonstrated  criteria of the Nobel committee he should be given the award. After all isn’t any plan regardless of how unethical better than Obama’s NOTHING.

I have to ask . Is the Nobel prize now a consolation prize for ignorant politicians who have already failed or are destined to failure ?

I truly feel sorry for the people of Norway who have been embarrassed by this pathetic lack of judgment of a once august body. Poor Alfred Nobel must be spinning in his grave to see what the heirs to his legacy have done.

We can only hope that maybe someone such as Bill Gates or some other wealthy individual will create an award system of their own design and we can say good bye to the Nobel. Let them put it to bed before they devalue it any further.

Awarding Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize rendered the value of said prize to next to nothing. Awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize literally and inarguably rendered the value of the prize to NOTHING !

I apologize in advance to my readers. This is going to be a long post. It will easily exceed 2000 words so I will try to break it into separate parts to make it more digestible. I’ll try to keep each part organized and relevant although there is a lot of ground to be covered and I do enjoy a good ramble.

Wednesday June 24th, 2009 Barack Obama hosted ABC and a group of health care professionals at the White House. When the meeting was first announced many professional journalists cried foul. Claiming that ABC had become the puppet of the administration and was now taking the same position that Fox News allegedly held for President Bush. Essentially being nothing more than a tool to disseminate the propaganda spewing out of the Obamachine.

I will not rehash the entire conference but I will focus on a few key weak points and also offer arguments, explanations, and a solution of my own. If you did not see the broadcast I suggest you do so, the entire conference can be viewed HERE.

The main focus of the conference is to address the 46 million US citizens who have no health care coverage either due to inability to afford it or due to being denied health coverage as a result of preexisting conditions.

I’ll not argue with Obama on this one, as a US citizen with no health care coverage I absolutely agree something must be done and it is going to take government involvement to get it done. There is absolutely no incentive for insurance companies to improve the health care industry as long as they are making a profit. With the current system being run by private health care insurance companies that are traded publicly on the stock market ensures only that their number one concern is profit. The only way for them to make a profit is by raking in billions of dollars from premiums paid on policies they hold and then not paying out if and when a claim is made. Any time an insurance company pays out on a claim it reduces their profit margin and cuts into shareholder value. Not a good thing for any business.

So the first item on the agenda is to remove insurance companies from the stock market. Yes the stock was originally issued to raise capital and expand their market share but based on the gross wages paid to insurance company executives operating capital is no longer an issue. Now that we have removed these companies from being publicly traded the only profits needed are those to cover salaries. Is this an absolute solution that will reduce the cost of health care ? Absolutely NOT ! All it will do is make it more probably that any medical procedure you require will be covered by your insurer rather than being negotiated endlessly whilst you slowly die only to have the final solution being you are sent to a foreign country for a lower cost of treatment. Perform a search for health care outsourcing and you will see this is already being done to further lower the costs of insurers all the while increasing the ever important bottom line.

Now to discuss some points Obama made and then poke holes in them. DISCLAIMER: Before you get your panties in a bunch these are not exact quotes of what Obama said. I am merely paraphrasing to include specifics that he neglected to mention and to maintain the context of which he spoke. As I stated earlier I agree something must be done and it will take the government to do it.

Obama said: Now some of those 46 million Americans will not be able to afford the policy even at the rates the government would charge and these policies would have to be subsidized

The Hole: Our questions is how many of these 46 million wouldn’t be able to afford it ? Our guess is approximately 45,998,956 can not afford insurance at any price. So your tax burden will rise to compensate for those who can not afford the program. Oh yes, one other detail that was revealed. These 46 million uninsured currently consume 33% of hospital visits.

Obama said: With government involvement we can work with health care professional to improve efficiencies and lower the cost of providing health care. This will also benefit private insurers as their costs will be brought down as well.

The Hole: This is a big one. Obama is obviously viewing things through beautifully rose colored spectacles. Since when has the government EVER done ANYTHING efficiently. Also, the health care industry can just as easily refuse to accept or treat anyone carrying the government insurance card. They can simply refuse to acknowledge the whole program and continue operating as is. The end result is that costs will rise because insurance companies knowing that the government program will not be accepted will realize they truly do have a stranglehold on the industry and will be more likely to raise premiums. Meanwhile it will be tax dollars being used to cover all the uninsured in the way of federal grant money for hospitals who treat uninsured individuals.

Obama said: Any company that does not currently provide insurance to it’s employees would be charged a certain amount to compensate for their not doing so and the employees would be then eligible to enroll in the government health insurance program.

The Hole: If the program truly is cheaper as Obama claims it will be, then what company in their right mind would not go this route, eliminate their current policies and pay a token fee to the government and let employees find their own way through the “governsurance” program ? If it costs less, that increases profitability and improves the bottom line it’s a win-win for any company NOT in the insurance industry. CEO’s just may be able to add a few more million onto their salary packages.

Obama said: Any American who wishes to remain with their current insurance provider is free to do so.

The Hole: See above, if your company chooses to end its contracts with your current provider do you think anyone as an individual could afford the new premiums they would be required to pay ? Simple answer. NO ! You know this to be true if you ever had the pleasure of paying COBRA premiums. No insurance company has ever been more appropriately named. Venomous to say the very least.

Obama said: That the whole cost of the program would be absorbed by taxes only on those earning more than $250,000.00 per year

The Hole: Sunday June 28th it was revealed that Obama is “open” to taxing some employee benefits of those earning less than $250,000.00. Based on the fountain of lies spewing form the Obamachine you can pretty much expect that this will mean the bulk of the cost will be absorbed by people earning between $20,000.00 and $30,000.00. This will guarantee that those tax payers will not be able to afford the independent/corporate insurance plans and will be forced to use the government policies. Imagine that ! Democrats trying to control the health care of independent US citizens. Democrats do not like independent free thinking intellectual individuals.

One of the key hurdles to the program will be establishing the entire infrastructure of a company to handle the newly created policies. It normally takes many years for any insurer to be in a position to handle the traffic of 45-50 million customers let alone to create an entity that could handle that much business on opening day. Interestingly enough, it was reported HERE that AIG (unquestionably one of the worst scofflaws that benefited from government bailouts) announced just 12 hours after the Obama health care summit that they would “spin off”  their profitable insurance subsidiaries into Special Purpose Vehicles by turning controlling interest over to the Federal Reserve whilst reducing their debt to the government (ie- the taxpayers, ie YOU) by $25 Billion dollars. This conveniently puts the necessary infrastructure into the hands of the Obama administration while conveniently saving said administration from having to raise capital (read – taxes) to do so because taxes have already gone up to compensate for the original bailout. In an nutshell honest hardworking taxpaying US citizens are already being screwed by the Obamachine Free Healthcare program to the tune of $25 Billion and it hasn’t even been approved yet. But you can bet that if it goes forward in the manner Obama intends things will only get worse and much more expensive. Don’t believe me ? Just check out the VA health system and you will quickly see that government administered health care is not a good thing. But you know what ? It could be. Read how in Part 2.

One of the current Hot Topics is how Barack Obama wants to regulate executive pay at private companies as stated here in the Chicago Tribune.

The whole concept has capitalists up in arms. Now the Obama administration claims it is only for companies that take federal bailout money during hard times we have to ask ourselves this. Once the government claims a toe hold on some aspect of public life do they ever let it go or do they try to take more ? Democrats for sure are the worst culprits in this type of a scenario, they would love to have every one in the U.S. sucking off the government teat so they can control us as the sheep they believe us to be.

I almost want to agree with the Obama regency that this would be a good policy but you have to wonder just how far could the government push the law. Here’s a fallacious and intentionally hyperbolic possibility. A professional sports team wants to locate in your area, they will not do this unless they get tax incentives and financial assistance to build a new billion dollar stadium. So the government issues a bond and maybe tacks on a half percent to the local sales tax to raise the money. Now officially the sports team has accepted government money so does that mean the government can set all the salaries for the highest paid team associates ? I believe the law would say YES !

Do a quick internet search under Obama Limits Executive Pay and you will get a few hundred thousand hits. Unfortunately many are only discussing the issue and protesting the audacity of Obama to even consider this a viable solution. Although I don’t read anywhere of anyone offering any kind of actual solution. So me being me, here is my solution to the executive pay conundrum.

CEO compensation packages are disgusting, not in the amount of pay but based on pay for performance. Being paid a few hundred million over the course of two or three months whilst driving a companies stock into the toilet is unacceptable.

First of all CEOs and all corporate executives should be prohibited from owning or trading the company stock in any way. I know the concept behind this is that the CEO will perform well increasing stock value and reaping a reward for their actions and in an ethical world this would work. The reality is that execs manipulate the financial reports artificially elevate stock prices and cash in on a bogus wind fall. So the solution is to bar them from being shareholders, they now have no incentive for creative financing.

Next give them a base pay just like any other salaried worker. Say $20,000.00 to $40,000.00 per month. This is something they will earn no matter what and if they turn out to be idiots and can’t perform there is no big payout when they get canned.

Finally, they get the end of the year bonus based on a percentage of taxes paid on claimed profits. This could be any amount theoretically and even vary from 1% to 100%. Example: A company claims $1 Billion in profits of which they pay $300 Million in taxes (combined state and federal) the CEO is then eligible for a bonus equal to a percent of that $300 Million be it the 1% $3 million or the 100% $300 Million.

With this scenario the CEO gets a tidy sum, the shareholders realize growth and the government gets a nice chunk of change as well. Another benefit is that creative accounting practices, devised to claim losses instead of profits to avoid taxes, will go away as the execs will want to pay the highest amount of taxes they can so their own pay packages improve.

This is a very simple solution to a very complex problem and although my figures are purely theoretical, they would work.

thanks for reading and please leave a comment

patriotranter

In the United States property taxes are currently calculated based on how much a home is worth. This is probably the most asinine system that could ever have been put together.

Assessed value of a home is based on an arbitrary number derived from calculations on the size of the home, the size of the lot, upgrades made to the home and lastly how much the home was purchased for. The key problem with this is that just because someone is willing to pay a certain amount for the home does not mean the home is worth anywhere near that amount of money. People willing to pay way more than a home is worth is one of the key reasons the real estate market imploded. Second only to avaricious unethical lending institutions.

If you pay any attention to the news, or if you are a homeowner, something that will crop up fairly often is people suing for unfairly assessed property. Rightly so too because technically property only has value to the people who live on it and those who wish to buy it. But if the government deems that your property would serve the greater good being used in a manner different than which you use it. They (the government) can come in and take your property from you by using the so called eminent domain clause. Now under this clause the government is supposed to buy your home from you at a fair market value, although it must purely be coincidence that what the government decides is fair value when trying to buy your house in no way matches what they decide is fair value when assessing the taxes on your property.

The only fair way for government to collect property taxes should be based on

• The square footage of the lot
• The square footage of structures used for actual residence
• The square footage of structures used for storage

Each of these criteria would be calculated at a different rate. For example you may be charged $.10 for each square foot the lot requires, $1.00 for each square foot of residential structures and another $.50 for each square foot of storage structure (ie. barns, sheds, carports, unfinished garages or basements and such)

Obviously the actual rate schedule would vary per geographical region and actual usage of the property. Although the taxing agency should be responsible for including an itemized report on how your tax dollars were being spent. Including all the necessary municipal functions, Police, Fire, Road Maintenance, etc. Any time the particular government wanted to increase budgets for these agencies they should be required to enclose a prospectus explaining how it would benefit the tax payer, how much it would raise the particular taxes for them and a ballot so the tax payer could vote directly on whether they approved of the new budget or not.

School taxes would be calculated in the same manner but be collected separately for the purpose of a more accurate budget and the ability to keep a more focused eye on how the school district was performing financially and academically.

With a socialized health program the hospital and medical maintenance costs could also be absorbed this way thus freeing the average family of the hardship of dealing with insurance companies and the bureaucrat filth that work with them. I discuss Socialized Medicine elsewhere in this blog

Now if you think that this program is allowing renters to evade taxes you are wrong. Rented properties would be taxed at a higher rate than regular owned properties to compensate for excessive enforcement required at these properties. Every home must meet certain building and livability codes and rented properties are more likely to violate these codes than properties lived in by the home owner. These code violations require more housing inspectors and police and fire enforcement to handle and as such they would be billed appropriately. Higher taxes on rented properties would make it possible to inspect these properties on a yearly basis to ensure they meet codes for health and safety.

Now I know this mini-festo does not cover all aspects of the property tax problem, it is just a simple guideline pointing out that things could be done better than they are now.

If you agree with the idea stated here there is no need to contact me – Contact your local politicians instead and tell them to do something right for a change.

Thank you for your time

PatriotRanter

If you have been paying any attention to the news lately you will see that there are some very serious crimes being committed by teens and young adults. This in itself is nothing new but the alarming trend is that parents of some of these young criminal masterminds are doing what ever the must to cushion the blow of justice being served. Or for whatever other reasons courts are being too lenient in regards to the punishment of these suburban scum.

Two cases in particular come to mind

First lets discuss the so called Barbie Bandits a couple of teenage white suburban middle class girls who robbed an Atlanta bank for some $11,000.00. By all accounts the girls were the stereotypical kids of over indulging baby boomers who can’t seem to withhold anything from their kids and have taken the adage “spare the rod, spoil the child” all too far. These kids get spoiled beyond belief and then all of a sudden they are out of high school and their parents can no longer keep up with their habits soooo…. one thing leads to another, the kids who are living beyond their means and having few if any talents due to the fact that their parents have coddled them their entire lives now start stripping, possibly hooking, and absolutely doing illegal drugs and have little way to legally maintain their spoiled little lifestyles. Now Ashley and Heather (typical suburban spoiled white girl names) have been sentenced and while Heather has been given a whopping 10 years of probation poor little Ashley will actually have to do 2 years in jail (rather than the 10 years typical sentence for this kind of crime). Both these girls are bad news and should be assigned the maximum sentencing. By offering them substantially reduced sentences the judge is only encouraging further crimes and practically telling all spoiled little brats that it is okay to commit felony larceny. Remember people, these girls robbed a bank – that wasn’t the banks money they took it was your money and the judge is telling these kids it is okay to steal YOUR money.

Case number two addresses felonious computer fraud in upstate New York Spoiled boys being spoiled more. Several students at Fayetteville Manlius High School were caught stealing passwords and changing their grades to enhance their educational profile. Of course they are all saying how sorry they were to do it but we know they are truly only sorry they were caught. In an absolutely heinous act the Onondaga County District Attorney has agreed to not pursue felony charges on these spoiled little boys because he doesn’t want them to face jail time. Jail time is exactly what these future ENRON executives need. Arrest them while they’re young and before they get into a position where they can do real harm.

People of the United States, it is high time for us to seriously get tough on crime and that means punishing everybody severely regardless of their social status.

sleep well, if you can

do good – do right

patriotranter 

As all citizens of the United States are aware, the price of gasoline has reached costs that are increasingly troublesome. Many people like to blame the government for these problems and the truth is the government IS responsible for the high cost of oil, but not for the reasons you may think.

You see, the real problem is not what the government has done but what it is not doing. What it is not doing is stepping in and forcibly regulating the prices oil companies are allowed to charge for a gallon of gas.

With many industries, if certain corporate policies are followed that would be detrimental to the consumer the government often steps in and gives said company and ultimatum. You see this most frequently in the Airline Industry. Whenever there is even the remotest talk of a pilot strike the President of the United States simply steps in and forbids such action. Why ? Because a nationwide pilot strike would cripple the nation in such a way as to bring us to a nearly complete and utter standstill.

Now if we take a brief look at some historical data we can see that the government used to regulate many industries specifically the telecommunications industry and once again the airline industry.

With the telecommunications industry it was in 1984 that the government split up “Ma Bell” AKA American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) into seven different entities and began letting independent companies provide the necessary services. Until this point Ma Bell essentially had a monopoly on the primary means of communication for most of the U.S.  The reasons for this divestiture are mainly due to illegal practices by the bell company to stifle competition. (Read the wikipedia article here : Ma Bell Wiki ). Examining todays world, what industry has a choke hold on the American public whilst stifling competition such as power derived from solar, wind or other interesting means. But also a few minutes spent at any shopping mall in the United States will reveal a cornucopia of telephone service providers and the inexpensive plans they offer it is quite obvious that deregulation was the perfect answer. Yes there were some hard times on the road to this point as anybody who tried making a collect call to New York from southern Florida in the late 1980’s can attest to.

With the Airline Industry deregulation took place in 1978 with the Airline Deregulation Act to remove the air transport industry from governmental control and by exposing it to certain market forces competition would bring the prices down and the services up. Those two benefits are now steadily being eaten away by the costs Airlines are forced to pay by the monopolistic behavior of oil companies.

You see deregulation is a good thing when there is a government backed monopoly but when that same monopoly is corporate backed such as the oil industry it only costs more for the consumer.

Face it, you really don’t have much of a choice. You must buy gas. Some claim that there are many ways to reduce your fuel consumption but are there really ?

Lets quickly discuss the falsehoods of carpooling.

A. How many people are there  who not only live near you but also work close enough to your work  to make car pooling actually efficient. If you are at all like me that answer is ZERO.

B. Let’s assume that the above criteria have been met – they live near you they work near you. Now do they work hours similar to yours as well ? I didn’t think so

C. Again, let us one more assume that the above criteria are met. They live near you, they work near you and have a similar work schedule as yours. Now comes the Dagwood Bumstead effect - how many times a month do they either cause you to be late or do they suddenly depart work early due to a family emergency stranding you without homeward bound transportation? I thought as much.

So even though carpooling make work fine for a few hundred thousand lucky groups, for the other two hundred million of us it just DOES NOT WORK. Period. This conversation is over.

Now that we have confessed our need for gas and we have discussed the monopolistic behavior of oil companies lets quickly address a few other issues

First there is Price Per Barrel. Oil companies have convinced the American public that the Price Per Barrel you see oil being traded at is what it actually costs to pump the oil. This is the biggest lie in history. Price Per Barrel is just an arbitrary number created by commodities traders who are hoping that the price of gasoline will continue to rise which it does because the commodities traders have so grossly artificially inflated the Price Per Barrel in their trading. Remove Oil from the commodities market and you will suddenly see the costs plummet because it costs no more to pump and transport oil in todays world than it did in 1992.

Simply put, commodities traders are erroneously speculating that the cost of pumping oil has increased and the amoral oil company execs are cashing in on this fantasy.

If you think the war in Iraq is influencing the cost of oil in any way shape or form you had best think again. You see OPEC could easily increase the flow of oil to the States reducing our costs but they refuse to do so ( CNBC OPEC leaves Oil production unchanged ) Why ? Because these Arabs are making a killing selling us oil that is being pumped by American companies.

Why should OPEC have to increase it’s oil production ? In one word CHINA. China demand on oil has increased dramatically over the last decade and will eclipse US consumption in a few years Resource Consumption US vs China but you see China has a distinct advantage over the US in that it’s oil industry is wholly subsidized by it’s communist government so the gas prices are considerably lower than those in the U.S. You may ask how the Chinese government can afford to subsidize the oil industry and that is yet another simple answer. You the American People are paying for the Chinese to have cheap gas. Every time you shop at WalMart and buy some Chinese made product you are  doing a number of things

1. You are causing the loss of a job to one of your fellow US citizens

2. You are enriching the Chinese government so they can continue to harass Tibet and Taiwan with their military.

3. Due to lack of Chinese pollution regulations your taking yet another bite out of the sustainability of this planet.

4. You are increasing the cost of fuel in the U.S. by making it more affordable in China

Enough about China for now.

Let’s get back on track with US oil companies. If they were truly independent organizations there would be huge fluctuations in the cost of gas from company to company but they always collude to price points within a few cents of each other. If oil and gas were actually expensive as they want us to believe there would not be a huge discrepancy in price from region to region, It would cost the same at every gas station nationwide. Why doesn’t it ? Because oil companies are trying to charge the maximum amount they can get away with and due to geo-economical influences and regional inflation oil companies know they can charge more in California than they can in say Arkansas.

It is high time for the government to step in, analyze the gross and indecent near criminal profits the oil companies are making and set a standard nationwide gas price also eliminating the profits oil companies are reaping and especially those dishonest oil executives

Oil Companies MUST BE STOPPED but it takes you the people to do it

Write your Senators and Representatives in Congress and demand that the government seize control of oil company assets and begin marketing affordable gas

It can be done. But it will take all of us

Good Luck America

patriotranter 

We here in the United States of America have a thing called The Bill of Rights. This document affords us citizens with a few inalienable truths that are presumed self evident.

The second amendment of these rights is the right to keep and bear arms. A direct quote from the document is as follows “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed“

Now lawyers, politicians, and other self serving scum have been debating what these words truly mean for centuries now, and it seems every year you will find some new infringement encroaching the basic verbiage of this amendment. In many states you actually have to undergo an excruciating and invasive application to receive the permission to own and carry a firearm in direct contrast to these simple words “shall not be infringed”

I will gladly be the first to admit that notoriously violent criminals should not have access to firearms BUT I also must stress that there is a very simple way to prevent their obtaining firearms in the first place and I will discuss those methods in a future post.

What I am advocating is the need for our federal government to remove the policing of firearms from the individual states and begin issuance of a Federal Concealed Carry Permit that would allow all us average Joe’s who own firearms to travel where we want in this country with our guns as the Bill of Rights claims we should be able to do.

Now I know that many of you who feel the same way about firearms as I do know in your hearts many of the violent tragedies that have occurred in this nation over the last several years ranging from 9/11 to specific college campus shootings would easily have been prevented if there were a few well armed honest citizens in the vicinity just before those crime were occurring. Those of you who are against firearms simply do not realize the old adage “when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns” is a truism and gets demonstratively proved repeatedly every day. I’m sorry, it’s just the way things are.

The National Rifle Association is the largest most vocal gun lobby group we have and they do some excellent work but they also neglect to look at the big picture. We have a right to our guns. It is time to take action into the hands of the people – that means you and me. Please, if you value your right to own a firearm, write to your congressperson – your representative and your senators, insisting that they pass a National Firearm Concealed Carry Permit and let them know if they fail to do this you will vote against them in future elections. We need to take back our rights and seize our guns.

A great man once said “There comes a time in every patriots life when he must defend his country from his government” . Well gun owners, that time is now.

Life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness, have a great day

patriotranter