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Happy Inauguration

It's amazing what is happening with the Obama citizenship issue. If he is not a Natural Born Citizen he cannot become president. There have been numerous lawsuits and no one will supply any proof. I heard that one court said that it is up to the voters to decide and they have spoken at the ballot box. That's insane.

There is one more new one that just came to my attention. At Occidental College in L.A. has been served with a demand to produce records of Barack obama's attendance to determine whether he was registered as a foreign national.

The man cannot be a Natural Born Citizen. if he were, he would spend the pittance to produce the records. The only reason he would spend the amount of time, effort and expense to keep evidence out of the public eye is that it is incriminating.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86325

Of course the MSM (Main Stream Media) is all but ignoring this issue. Of course this is their candidate that they managed to slam dunk into the White House. Yes, I know. It was probably planned that way.

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What happened to the Housing Market?

Maybe this should be titled "Why do we have the current econimic crisis?" . Granted, this is just my opinion but this is the way I see it. The problem stems from the fact that we use a fiat currency here. The money is created by the Federal Reserve out of thin air. The individual banks have this power as well but it is limited somewhat. They can create $9 for every $1 they have in their vaults. Naturally this is only paper at the most and accounting entries at the least.

Having said that, this means that the banks want to lend money. That's their business. They try to make the money available as cheaply as possible. When somebody is looking to purchase something and they need a loan, they shop for the lowest interest rate. That's all well and good. The problem arises when people start looking at the affordability of a purchase differently. When people stop looking at the interest rate and what the total cost is and instead look at what the monthly payment is going to be, trouble ensues.

A little over a year ago I was talking with a friend who happens to be a real estate broker. His office is actually one of the largest in this area. I often speak to him when I notice anything unusual in the market. I had noticed that prices of real estate were getting to be unreasonably high. At the time, they were selling like crazy. They couldn't seem to keep many houses "in stock." He didn't seem to think there would be any end in sight. He told me that he was talking with the banks and telling them they would need to start offering forty and fifty year mortgages.

Just imagine that, a forty or fifty year mortgage. No one will ever pay those off. No one will ever own a house. They will pay there mortgage for a couple decades, sell the house and someone else will start paying for forty or fifty more years. The former "owners" will then move into a smaller place, a condo or start renting. Before you know it, real ownership of homes will be a rare exception. Land and houses will be owned by the banks. Now that's a scary thought.

Like I have said in the past, it's not really about money, it's about power. When you can literally and legally print all the money you want, then you want power.

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Quizzes are Back!

We used to have a couple of self examination tests on NoSSN.com They fell by the wayside some time ago. I took a look, found them and put them back up. We have two; "Are you a Victim of the Ministry of Propoganda?" and "How much trutch Do You Know About Social Security?" If you haven't taken these tests you should. It's fun to find out how much you know.

It's very slick how they work. They are all multiple choice questions. You fill them in and submit the form. Immediately your results are tabulated and e-mailed to you. The results include the scores and comments on your answers.

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The British Want their Guns Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTq2NEUlhDE

I love the guy in the hat in this video. Very smart man. It seems the government is taking away all the guns from the citizens. Six years ago they took all the handguns and destroyed them. Now they are taking all guns. Of course you can still buy one on the black market. There will always be a black market or a grey market. If there is a need, it will exist. So what is a law abiding citizen to do? rely on 911? By the time they get there your brains may be splattered on the floor in little bitty pieces. The only way to fully protect anyobdy is with their own secret service. That's just not practical. A Colt 1911 is far more cost effective.

You won't see this story on the MSM either. It's too foretelling of what may happen here. I think it should. I'm just wondering how far the American people can be pushed. Now, half or over half of the avergae worker's pay is taken from them. More and more laws are infringing on our lives "for our own good", Rights are eroding away on nearly a daily basis. We have a president who wants nothing more than to redistribute the wealth to make us "more equal", How much longer? What will it take? Where is the straw that will break the proverbial camel's back? When will people have had enough?

Or will we just roll over and let government give it to us...

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Quote of the Day: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emmanuel, Barack Obama's Chief of Staff

Subject: The politician who loves the crisis

Rahm Emmanuel loves the financial crisis. He sees it as an opportunity. His admission of this fact, which we've used as our quote of the day, is breathtaking. 

Mr. Emmanuel tried to moderate his enthusiasm for exploiting the crisis by claiming that his desire wasn't for big government, but for good government. But has Mr. Emmanuel ever acted as if good government was consistent with smaller government? We doubt it. 

Mr. Emmanuel isn't alone in seeing crisis as an opportunity to make government "gooder" by making it bigger. Donald Rumsfeld famously wanted to exploit the 9-11 attack by "roping in everything," including Iraq. And that is what they did.

One "crisis" event was used to create another crisis. Now it's happening again.

Consider what this means: What do the politicians think of you? They think you aren't wise enough to accept their grand plans for remaking the world, so you have to be scared into doing the right thing. Their grand plans require crisis to be implemented. This way of thinking also implies that only the politicians know what the right thing is.

Your plans and my plans, and all the individual plans of 300 million Americans, must be superseded by the plans of the politicians and their court intellectuals. But what's the likelihood that such a small group of people really knows how 300 million individuals should live -- how their affairs should be regulated and their money spent?

And what happens when they're wrong? If you and I make mistakes in our small plans for our own lives, the consequences effect only ourselves and maybe a few people around us. But when the politicians' grand plans go wrong, millions, perhaps everyone, is harmed in a grand way.

But isn't this very nearly the definition of a crisis -- something that harms everyone?

If politicians have the power to help everyone, then they also have the power to harm everyone. But what they can never have is enough knowledge to predict the full consequences of their grand, universal "do-gooder" plans.

Knowledge is decentralized. All of us have pieces of the puzzle. This is why small, decentralized plans tend to work, creating massive progress from the bottom-up. It's also why grand plans, from the top-down, blow-up.

Here at DownsizeDC.org we think we need to have a few, bottom-up plans of our own. We need to figure out how to stop the politicians from creating and exploiting crises. But, unlike the politicians, our plans must not be grand and universal. They should be humble and flexible, capable of being implemented in small increments.

We can't pretend to know, in advance, all the steps needed to curtail the politicians' power to create and exploit crises. No one one bill, by itself, will stop political opportunism and meddling. But we can know the rough dimensions of what our plan must achieve. Above all, we can be fairly certain of the need to make our ideas heard at the same volume as the grand claims of the crisis exploiters.

Some would attempt to accomplish this from the top-down, by finding a few large donors, and then buying lots of advertising with their donations. But large donors can change their minds or even pass on, and any plan based on them risks a large collapse at almost any moment -- kind of like the plans the politicians prefer. We take the opposite approach . . .

* We want to fund our plan from the bottom-up, with lots of small and average donations, especially monthly pledges.
* We'll then use our success in building this base of monthly pledgers to attract larger donors who will be the icing on the cake, rather than the cake itself.

It's working.

Our ability to attract a stable base of monthly pledgers is what earned us the support of the major donors who gave us the financial lever we needed to pre-fund all of our basic operations for all of 2009.

We're now in a position to spend nearly all the additional money we raise in 2009 to do outreach and recruitment. No other organization I'm aware of is in such a position. Think of what this means to you . . .

Nearly every additional dollar we raise will fund outreach that will recruit new people who will exert more pressure on Congress and fund still more outreach to recruit still more people. We're now at the point where we can create an ever growing spiral of outreach, education, recruitment, and direct pressure on Congress.

Already this month, we've added a couple of new pledgers and raised more than $1,200. This money is accumulating, and will soon amount to something that can accomplish something. Here's what we need to move forward EACH MONTH this year: 

* Just $6,000 a month (beyond reoccurring pledges)
* Just 20 new monthly pledgers each month -- less than one a day

This message is going out to more than 24,000 people. These targets seem quite doable.

We'll be presenting the first phase of our outreach plan to you in just a few weeks. We anticipate investing $50-60,000 throughout this year -- eight to ten times what we've spent on direct outreach in our four year history. Could you help make this happen by making . . . 

a) a generous one-time contribution or,
b) becoming a monthly pledger

The size and impact DC Downsizers can have is a matter of funds. The growth of the army depends on you.

Thank you,

Jim Babka
President
DownsizeDC.org, Inc.        

P.S. This afternoon (Friday) Jim Babka is scheduled to be on Straight Talk w/ Jerry Hughes on the Accent Radio Network. Details are available in this October DownsizeDC.org blog post.

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