August 07, 2004
Sunken Whiskey
Food, booze, and carousing. What else is there to life? Why, doing these things in new and unique settings! Heinold's Last Chance is about as unique and unusual a place to imbibe as could be wanted. Heinold's, stationed at the end of Jack London Square, is positively ancient. So much so that it's bent, slanted, and off kilter no matter where you sit. Wait... Strike that. Heinold's isn't bent, it's warped. The bartender's a sweet chap in a dapper outfit, and the bar is usually packed with Amtrak workers bitching about the ineffectiveness of their organization, and the long sordid tale of this bar's past is laid out on a sheet of paper at each table. Complain all you want about the commercialization of Jack London Square, Heinold's Last Chance is reason enough to sell your soul every day after work.
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FANS O'FREEDOM grassroots USA are communicating to prosper one another!
Would you please forward this immediately throughout the USA; then freely advertise and publicize it ASAP!!!! FANS O'FREEDOM are seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Your quick and thorough follow-through, calling, and connecting at every level matters greatly.*
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
FAIR FLAT-RATE FORMULA FOR TAXES
A BETTER BUDGET
EQUAL TAXATION UNDER THE LAW
sustainable, sound, real, viable, bipartisan, common ground
The formula for taxation should be the same for all citizens. Equal treatment under the law includes equal taxation under the law; not the same amount, but the same rules apply to everyone, naturally.
Everybody should have an equal opportunity to acquire wealth and to live well. Public policies should strengthen families, and assure equal opportunities for all citizens.
So that we the citizenry can all see what we are doing with our public funds, effective now, the United States should set one formula to tax everyone at the same rate, 15% of profits only; and stop every other tax, user-fee and toll. 15% of profits is plenty for responsive, frugal government.
We citizens should not pay to use publicly-owned parks, beaches, school buildings and grounds, or any public asset. Meeting Minutes and other public information belongs to the people and should be free always. The broad public interest is served by citizens seeking out public information.
Under the legislature's oversight and careful accounting practices, let's allocate our public funds from the 15%-of-profits-flat-rate tax as follows:
.05% for the federal government;
.05% for the state government;
1% for local government;
1% for new roads and bridges;
1% to maintain existing infrastructure, air, water and a wholesome environment;
1% for hospitals, libraries, and schools. We local residents set policies, of course. THE TRUTH IS FREE! (We invite you to look and see http://www.americademy.com.)
1% for police, jails and justice;
1% to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, help the truly needy; and
3% for the military, veterans and their families.
5% the legislature should allocate to other essential projects in the broad public interest, such as research and development, foreign aid and, first of all, paying off debts. FANS O'FREEDOM urge the legislature to pay off debtors ASAP, STOP wasting money, and STOP borrowing!!!
Candidates can win our votes by suggesting specific cuts, eliminating waste and lowering the 15% tax on profits.
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One important function of government is to maintain borders. FANS O'FREEDOM urge the body politic to endure no half-citizen-status nor slave status for anyone ever!!! Every American citizen is free and shall be perpetually free forever!!!
WHY ONE FLAT-RATE TAX?
FAMILY FIRST. Dad or Mother should be able to afford to stay with the family as much as they choose to. Children need to be at home full time in order to learn unique family values and consistently bask in a parent's love. Life takes on special savor when a child is born.
Since public policies should strengthen families, and assure equal opportunities for all citizens, leaders should encourage and facilitate adoption. Let's make it easy for the people to do what is right.
One salary should support a family.
Taxing workers tends to slavery.
Only before she starts a family, or after her family is secure should a person save for a business, if she chooses to create one. Only after our family business makes a profit should we the people contribute to the public purse. NO PROFITS, NO TAXES!
Any worker who wants to donate to his government is always free to do so; but taxes should never again be withheld from a paycheck. The money belongs to the earner until he spends it as he will.
Government has a natural interest is fostering healthy businesses and in pruning away failed experiments. We urge every American to help shrink government and enlarge paychecks!!!
George Elliott, editor, FANS O'FREEDOM, Pacifica, California
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Attention Administrator, Facilitator:
Thank you for providing space where citizens can exchange ideas and compare perspectives regarding public policies. "All of us are smarter than any of us."
Thank you for considering and sharing this plan which we believe is in the broad public interest. We hope you agree that every American has a right to look at it, and that you will pass it on today to as many as you can.
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As a Country, let us think again about SPAM. We FANS O'FREEDOM believe that one man's SPAM is another man's bread and butter! "Better to hit delete than knock a man off his feet!" The internet is free and must stay that way in perpetuity forever!!! We users can raise standards by refusing to open wasteful or harmful messages.
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FOLLOW-THROUGH
PUBLIC INFORMATION RE ELECTIONS
FANS O'FREEDOM are reaching out across the Country with letters to U.S. Representatives and Senators such as Don Nickles, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, Senator Rick Santorum, Senator Lindsey Graham, Joshua Bolten who is part of the President's team, and state elected representatives who are working on the Country's budget.
If the people approve a plan to tax everyone by one formula, it will work for good for business, good for families, good for the Country.
If anyone can suggest a tax formula that is better, simpler, and that would tax individuals and families less, we invite lively debate. We invite every candidate for political office to support equal taxation under the law, and to comment on setting taxes at 15% of profits only.
Social Security, Medicare and Medical should each be kept in an account by itself. Private insurance may be the best choice for some people. FANS O'FREEDOM urge insurance companies to make a better plan and offer than FICA, Medicare or MediCal, and to publicize their proposals.
Let us never lose sight of the fact that the only real social security is a good, loving family, the bigger the better!
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*Ben Franklin in Paris, a hit Broadway musical...captured our feelings exactly. Franklin travels to France to enlist support fo the American Revolution. But he learns that if he accepts an offer to go to London under safe conduct, he may be seized and executed anyway. The play ends with Franklin pondering what to do, and trying to imagine Americans two hundred years hence:
I wonder how I'd find them then--those Americans to whom the name American will not be new. Will tey love liberty, being given it outright in the crib for nothing? Will they know that if you are not free, you are, sir, lost without hope, and will they who reaped that harvest of ideas be willing to strive to preserve what we so willingly strove to plant? That all men are created equal! And are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.
And would they die for it? That's the question one finally has to ask oneself. Would I die for it! And the answer one has to say---is---yes, sir, I would!
That made a tremendous impression on me. It summed up succinctly why I was going to Vietnam. It had nothing to do with careerism. It had to do with ideals.
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This excerpt is taken from
Schwarzkopf, General H. Norman, The Autobiography, IT DOESN'T TAKE A HERO, written with Peter Petre, a Bantam Book, paperback, 625 pages; ISBN 0-553-56338-6, quotation from pages 118, 119.
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