"French" Is Bad For Your Wealth

Time and time again. Throughout all recorded history. When socialism is put into place in a country, it impoverishes that country.

Part of the socialist doctrine is to TAKE from the value producing members of society and give it to the unproductive members of society (under the guise of democracy). That this will remove all incentive for the unproductive to get off their butts and be productive, as well as teach the productive to not be as productive, totally escapes the socialist.

Well, in a move that any person with half a brain can see as the epitome of stupid, the French head lying bastard (Jacques Chirac) has proposed a World Tax to help fight poverty.

In the beginning - to try to win favor and lower resistance, knowing once it is in it can encompass more things - he wants to tax arms sales and some financial transactions.

Of course, like all such previous proposals, the idea is to tax things most people have no dealings with, or would even like to be taxed. And what better things to tax than high-priced weaponry and billion dollar financial transactions.

And just like times of the past, the tax, if it was allowed, would slowly spread. Smaller financial transactions. Then ALL financial transactions. Smaller arms deals. Then deals that weren't arms at all. And before too long, we would be the tax slaves of the United Nations.

And we all know the United Nincompoops canNOT be trusted with any money whatsoever. Look at the Iraq food for oil thing. And how about the U.N. giving tens of millions of dollars every month to the Palestinians via Yasser Arafat.

And seeing as the countries which are most impoverished are socialist countries or those under dictatorships, those in charge of the countries would just get richer at the hands of the rest of us.

Screw that!

I conclude that Chirac has totally lost his marbles to even contemplate such a move. Unless, of course, it is to get people distracted and talking about it, in the hopes of forgetting about some bad thing the French are doing somewhere. (And the French always seem to be doing something questionable without being held accountable - setting off nukes, blowing up ships in New Zealand harbors, selling arms to Iraq, raking money out of the Oil for Food program - which went through French banks - and so on.)

It is interesting to note that Chirac has joined up with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to push for the tax. Hey, didn't their entire country go bankrupt a little while back. Yeah, no wonder he wants free money given to him. Fucker.

And also interesting the declaration is signed by 110 countries, who really really want us productive countries to consider the report. I bet they do. And I bet they are all countries with socialist leaders or dictators like Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

What I do find funny is that the U.S. delegation said, "global taxes are inherently undemocratic. Implementation is impossible." I find it funny because if a global tax is undemocratic, doesn't it also mean taxes imposed on you by the country you were born in or make your living in, are also undemocratic?

I bet Chirac's proposal would also see this tax be stored in French banks - like the U.N.'s food for oil money was. And that THAT is the real reason Chirac wants it. His country could make billions with the money in their banks and use it on the short term money market before it went to U.N. uses.

Of course! That's it!!! Now that the U.N. oil for food thing is finished, France's cash cow is gone. This is Chirac's way of getting free money into their bank system again. It's so obvious now.

People called Chirac a worm. I consider that an insult to worms.

I Am Not A Criminal. Why Do You Treat Me Like One?

The U.S. Paranoia knows no bounds. And the land of the free is becoming (has become?) the land of the not free at all.

Starting today - Thursday 30th September, 2004 - visitors flying into the U.S. who normally would not require a visa (such as those coming from Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia and 23 other countries), will be treated like a criminal and have their mug shot taken as well as fingerprinted.

Imagine someone comes to your place of business to give you money - lots of money every day for a few weeks. Instead of rolling out the red carpet, you treat them like a convicted criminal. Because THAT is what the U.S. and its Dept of Homeland Security is doing.

The people on the inside (U.S. citizens) don't know much about it. After all, they aren't photographed and fingerprinted when they arrive in other countries. They still think they are free. But they are inside the prison looking out. And as long as they have MTV and the ballgame to watch, they are happy in their confinement. Happy to tell the rest of us to go jump, it wasn't us who was attacked on 9/11.

To that I say, and it wasn't us who attacked you on 9/11 either.

Let's face it... everything the Dept of Homeland Security does is just another name for Big Brother Is Monitoring Your Every Move. And 9/11 is the excuse being used to grab away our freedoms.

I would like to visit the U.S. I really would. But I'll tell you (and you can pass this on to your tourism boards and congressmen), having my mug shot taken and being fingerprinted upon arrival just turns me right off. And I don't care it only adds 15 seconds to my arrival time. It's the principle of the thing.

I can hear the whiners now... if you have nothing to hide it doesn't matter. Fine then, you go and install cameras throughout your house and hook it up to the FBI. Hey, if you've got nothing to hide it doesn't matter, right?

What's that? You won't do it?

Figured as much.

But hey. At least I still have the right of refusal to exercise. My right to refuse to enter the U.S. because I don't want to play the Dept of Homeland Security's game.

I feel sorry for those in the U.S. Without realizing it, they are becoming just like the U.S.S.R. used to be... a country closing itself off from the world. We used to laugh and be appalled at how the U.S.S.R. "monitored" people coming in. And now the U.S. is doing the very same thing - just with more advanced technology.

It's amazing what paranoia can do. "Reds under the bed" has been replaced with "Osama Bin Ladens in the closet."

Black Bastards

Listen very carefully to the news and you sometimes here it. The govt mentions it often. And always in a bad light. They call it BLACK. So it must be bad, right? Really bad.

I am talking about The Black Economy. The economy where ordinary citizens commit sacrilege by dealing in CASH. Where they pay for things in cash and sell things for cash.

The govt doesn't like it when people do this. So they call it The Black Economy - in an effort to give such dealings a bad feeling about them. Almost as if anyone who deals in cash is dirty. Or somehow guilty of some crime.

Crime? Hardly. The only thing they are guilty of is conducting business without the govt sticking its nose in in the middle of the transaction.

Most people who deal in cash actually report their cash dealings. But that doesn't stop the govt trying to paint it in a bad light. To give it a bad name.

Why does the govt do this? Because it thinks it is missing out on tax. And as far as the govt is concerned, what you earn is not all yours. As far as the govt is concerned, you owe the govt a part of ALL the money you earn no matter what. And the govt doesn't trust you to report all your income when you deal in cash. (That's why it is "law" that your tax is taken out of your pay BEFORE you get it - they don't trust you to pay them if you get the money first.)

If they could, the govt would outlaw cash all together. Force everyone to deal in electronic means. But the govt is stupid. They think this would stop people trading without declaring it for tax. But the govt is wrong. Because people would find other ways to do business. Maybe they would start swapping gold coins again - like they used to in the past. Or maybe something else. Whatever it would be, it would be mutually agreeable to those taking part in the transaction.

The govt also doesn't realize - or maybe they do but ignore it - that if someone has done something for cash and not declared it, they have more money to spend. When they spend that money the govt gets its tax. If the govt had been able to tax the cash income, the person would have less money to spend and wouldn't buy as much. Which would deprive the govt of the GST. By allowing people to keep more money they spend more - most do not have the financial skills to not spend money - and thus the govt gets more tax than before.

Russia discovered this very thing when it lowered income tax to a flat 13%. The people now had more money to spend and they did. So much so that Russia's economy booms while the rest of Europe doesn't. Russia collected far more tax than ever collected before. So cutting income tax actually increased the amount of tax taken into the system.

But then again, who said it is really about tax. Maybe it is really about control. For if you have more money to spend, maybe you might break free and vote with your feet (move to another country that taxes you even less).

Whatever. Next time you hear the words "Black economy" realize you are hearing govt propaganda speak about the most harmless of things - people conducting business with each other by using cash.

The Beast

There is something wrong with the world. Like Neo, from The Matrix, I do not fit in like other people. Because I see so much silliness. So much unthinking. Almost drives me nuts. But I get by. I have no other choice. Butting heads with the beast just hurts your head and annoys the beast.

Most people do not feel about the beast like I do. Many (most?) like the beast. They want the beast to exist and to "give" them stuff and to "provide" for them.

Me? I just want the beast to leave me the heck alone. It's not a big ask, really. It's just a small thing. But that bastard beast just won't.

Everywhere I turn it wants a piece of me. Half the money I spend on gas goes to the beast. I can't even blow my nose without the beast getting a slice of the action.

And you can't talk to the beast. It hears what you say, gives a glib answer back and then ignores you. Tells you you are free. If you don't like it you can change your vote. Or write a letter to a small beast who may act on it if, in its infinite wisdom, it thinks your letter needs acting on. Otherwise your letter goes in the round file.

The beast takes and takes and takes. Takes your money. And takes your stuff. Today your stuff could be fine. But tomorrow the beast could change its mind and want your stuff back.

The beast wants to keep track of everything you do. How much money you make. What you spend it on. Where you spend it. It needs this info to control you and to make sure you are paying your fair share - of course, the beast is the one to determine what is fair.

I just want to be left alone to get on with my life. The beast won't let me. Those who love the beast also won't let me. And they don't want to hear any talk of the beast just going away. They want the beast. The beast gives them things. It doesn't matter that the beast takes those things from me and then gives it to them. They think this is fair too.

They have a baby and the beast gives them $3,000 - after it takes that $3,000 from me first. Why is it fair that I give $3,000 just because someone else wants to have a baby? They are the ones having the baby. Let them look after it with their own resources instead of taking the fruits of my labor.

The beast forces me to play its fraudulent election game. Choose between Beast Leader # 1 or Beast Leader # 2 to rule over you and take your stuff. And if you do not we will punish you.

And listening to the different Beast Leaders tell me how much they will take from other people and give to me if I vote for them, fries my grits. I don't want the beast to take from other people and give to me. I don't want the beast to take from me and give to other people. I just want the beast to leave me alone. I don't bother it, I want it to not bother me.

Why can't other people see the beast for what it is? I know other people do. But why are those people so few in number?

The beast has brainwashed the masses. And they like it. They like getting something for nothing - without ever realizing that it is all an illusion. The beast, like the emperor, has no clothes. And is, in fact, like the scare monster in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer... only three inches tall with a squeaky voice. Like the Wizard of Oz - all smoke and mirrors and loud speakers.

The beast, like giant squid, knows only two things... to feed and breed. It takes ever more and more frequently, while growing itself and spawning ever more offshoots of itself. The beast is insatiable.

Scotty, if you can hear me, please beam me up because this planet has become a prison planet and it sucks.