Government doors stay open. Federal budget compromised.
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No shutdown. Government doors stay open.
Here’s the federal government slant they’d like you to believe. Harry Reid and John Boehner were able to negotiate a budget agreement. President Obama is pleased that government is not forced to shut down.
Mainstream media will be reporting optimistic, celebratory news to show how wonderful it is that the two state-sponsored political parties were able to iron out differences and work together on a federal budget compromise.
Reporting of the truth about the budget, planned to increase the national debt, appears closed, kept from the mainstream.
It is true. The federal budget has definitely been compromised, just as it has been for years. This is planned bankrupting of the economy by budgets in which there are too many extremely expensive funding programs and big government departments that are sacred cows.
The President and Congress are planning to implement another out-of balance budget plan which will further bankrupt the federal government which has grown to 14.281 Billion dollars. The deficit numbers at the US Debt Clock are speeding up!
Much of what you’ve been seeing in the televised news media concerning a threatened government shutdown due to the House and Senate battling over 36 billion dollars in spending cuts, and arguments about whether or not to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood, has been nothing more than theatrics, with all the major players failing to tell the people the ugly truth. The truth is that there will be, (by plan!) no balanced budget. They can’t balance the budget since the federal government and elected politicians want to spend, spend, spend.
All the discussion about withholding funding of Planned Parenthood being a sticking point has very little to do with the proper running of government. It is nothing more than a distraction issue to keep the people divided and bickering rather than demand an actual balanced budget.
Recently, just one day of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles into a distant country (Libya) we weren’t at war with cost about 150 million dollars. Let’s see Congress get real bold and take back the power to start wars rather than serve the beck and call of the UN. It is not just Obama who thinks the President can launch us into wars. George Bush’ simultaneous wars were costing over a billion per month. That is a lot of zeros but it translates to real indebtedness.
A reduction of 37 billion dollars is less than 1% of the spending they plan to do. Double digit percentage cuts were needed. If you and I ran our household economy like this, we would be going deeper and deeper into debt and lose everything. If a small business were to do this, their creditors would shut them down. When deep in debt, the only way out of it is either to drastically increase revenue or drastically reduce the spending. Since the working class is already at the stress point, revenue increases would have to come from those who can afford to pay more by doing away with tax deductions for expenses only the wealthy can afford, such as private jets, yatchs, real estate holdings, and other write-offs that you and I cannot afford in the first place. The idea of reducing spending by getting back to an affordable defense budget and reducing the extravagant financing of the ever-encroaching and developing police state, where cops all look like like SWAT, seems to be sacred cows. To have a military strong enough to ward off all attacks is one thing, but the US spends more on defense than the next 10 countries combined. That kind of budget planning is unsustainable and idiotic.
Anyone who is able to balance their checkbook should see through the magicians smoke and mirrors and know that even if Reid and Boehner sent chocolates and flowers to each other, there is no cause for monumental celebration. An agreement to reduce an already bloated budget by cutting only 37 billion dollars or thereabouts is just a plan to continue in the red and further run up the debt. Does the federal government plan to fix the economy by getting serious about spending reductions? Ever?
If government had to plan to keep all planned expenditures at or slightly below projected revenue levels, double digit percent cuts in spending is required. Even a 10% reduction in spending, or about 370 billion dollars (or half the wall street bailout in 2008 during the Bush presidency), would still not put the federal government in budget surplus mode.
Although the politicians and mainstream media are doing a disservice by not reporting on the stark realities, so visibly displayed by the US Debt Clock, there are some segments of the population who have reason to celebrate. For example, this is very good news for those in the military who were in a panic because they weren’t sure if they would be getting paid, and when they might see their next paycheck. Many low-ranking enlisted personnel in the military live from paycheck to paycheck, and have no savings. They depend on that paycheck arriving on time.
Also celebrating are many government employees including the bureaucrats who have job security unlike anyone in the private sector. When you see agencies such as the NHTSA wanting to send hundreds of thousands of dollars to several states so that they will put up unconstitutional motorcycle roadblocks and hand out safety propaganda literature to promote helmets that are 63% ineffective, taxpayers should wonder how much they pay those statisticians and middle managers who come up with those figures and those ideas.
The federal government is the largest employer in the United States. At the end of the last millenium, during the Clinton administration, there were budget surpluses. The idea of budget surpluses changed drastically to budget deficits under the G.W. Bush administration which ran up over a trillion dollars in debt with invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by sudden massive bailouts of mortgage lenders, investment bankers, and insurance companies during the final months of his failed presidency. The strategies of bailing out the wealthiest entities that are too big to fail was like stabbing a sword into the heart, but not of the wealthy. Instead of paying for their own gambling losses government intervened, forcing payments and indebtedness onto the middle class and the working class.
The Federal Reserve Bank, which is not federal but private, must be loving these out of control spending sprees, as the interest payments on the debt is making them and their few banker friends, many of whom are foreigners, wealthier than over 300 million Americans combined.
So as other news sources will be optimistically posting headlines cheering the fact that the government is open, you have to ask if it is really open government or if we are all being led down the wrong path, by plan. At least it is great to be in America where alternative news media sources are still allowed to rant from a different perspective than the mainstream media.
This is the NC Home editors’ opinion. It is what it is.
admin @ April 9, 2011
Did US Greenlight Saudi to take Bahrain?
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Editorial
Here is a description of the article published in Asia Times, “Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal”, by the writer Pepe Escebar, which is being reprinted across the blogosphere, including here at NC Home, simply because if it is true, our government has a lot of fessing up to do.
In the beginning, there was the great 2011 Arab revolt. Then, inexorably, came the United States-Saudi counter-revolution in a deal where the US gave the green light to Saudi Arabia’s invasion of Bahrain in return for Arab League support for the the Libyan no-fly zone. Revealed is the Barack Obama administration’s hypocrisy, selling a crass geopolitical coup as a humanitarian operation.
The most shocking allegation, if it can be substantiated, is very damning. According to the article, “Two diplomatic sources at the United Nations independently confirmed that Washington, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gave the go-ahead for Saudi Arabia to invade Bahrain and crush the pro-democracy movement in their neighborhood in exchange for a “yes” vote by the Arab League for a no-fly zone over Libya – the main rationale that led to United Nations Security Council resolution 1973.”
Thus, the very serious question, “What if it’s true?”
LIKE IT OR NOT if true, we have to know it and get to the bottom of it.
Well, if it is true, then the people of the United States of America and the world are owed an explanation, an apology, and there are people at the top who are going to have to be held accountable. This is not just serious. This is extremely serious and cannot be overlooked. The closed door backroom deals which we saw so many of during the Bush administration must stop rather than continue under Obama. The potential implications are enormous. However, before we rush to judgment, we need to ask the serious questions rather than turn a blind eye, and we must demand answers.
Editor
admin @ April 3, 2011
Jacksonville Felon Pleads Guilty to Gun Charges
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RALEIGH March 21, 2011
United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that in federal court today VICTOR ALEXANDER HOLT, 25, of Jacksonville, North Carolina, pled guilty before United States District Judge James C. Dever III, to aiding and abetting the unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g).
A Federal Grand Jury returned a Criminal Indictment on January 5, 2011.
On December 7, 2009, police officers were parked near a night club off of New Bern Avenue in Raleigh. Officers heard three gunshots coming from a nearby intersection. Officers pulled behind the vehicle from which the shots appeared to have been fired. Upon activating their lights in an attempt to make a stop, the vehicle sped away. Police gave chase.
During the chase the vehicle drove through a yard on Luther Road. A firearm was tossed from the vehicle into the yard. Officers continued the chase. Eventually, the vehicle stopped and the occupants exited and ran. All were apprehended and police later recovered the firearm.
During the arrest HOLT made statements indicating he had possessed the firearm.
This case was part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods(PSN) initiative which encourages federal, state, and local agencies to cooperate in a unified “team effort” against gun crime, targeting repeat offenders who continually plague their communities.
At sentencing, set for June, 2011, HOLT faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
Investigation of this case was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Raleigh Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney William Gilmore represented the government.
admin @ March 27, 2011
NC bill clarifies roadblocks illegal
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(AMP) Raleigh
If HB 375 passes the NC General Assembly and becomes law, those roadblocks which stop traffic and violate everyones’ rights might become just a bad memory of a state which was rapidly becoming a police state rather than a free state.
House Bill 375 introduced in the NC General Assembly by first-term representative Glen Bradley of Youngsville would clarify that checkpoints are illegal in the state. Law enforcement refers to roadblocks as checkpoints, check points, or safety checkpoints. US Supreme Court has ruled checkpoints are seizures without a warrant and without probable cause, and as such are unconstitutional in violation of the 4th Amendment of the Bill of Rights, but the court specifies there are exceptions which allow police to violate the law in the name of public safety. For example, if police received a tip that there are religious extremists with a bomb on the way to blow up a building, there may be good reason to conduct a roadblock. It would still be illegal, but it would be an allowed exception to the Bill of Rights.
Rep. Glen Bradley explains, he hands out copies of the US Constitution to police when he is stopped, saying the obviously “need them” (to know they are violating peoples’ rights). The US Constitution is law which limits the powers of government in order to preserve the rights of the people.
In the embedded video, Wake County Sheriff Harrison clearly wants to continue the rights violations, and opposes the bill. The Sheriff is in favor of continuing to accept federal funds (which come from taxpayers) to set up checkpoints.
The General Assembly will also review a much weaker bill regarding roadblocks and checkpoints. HB 381 would prevent police from setting up checkpoints in order to profile specific types of vehicles.
Make no mistake about it, those federal funds used to fund states to set up checkpoints do come from taxpayers wallets. The US House of Representatives is currently considering House Resolution HR 904 which would prevent the US Department of Transportation (DOT) from providing federal funds to create motorcycle only roadblocks (MOR).
admin @ March 27, 2011
Find your beat
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nchome.us is creating an independent media network partnership across North Carolina. Many “beats” are available for journalist contributors, and editors.
Every major city in North Carolina will eventually be covered. Each of the major cities in North Carolina will have it’s own nchome.us site. At present, there is a main nchome.us website, and there are also many city.nchome.us websites, already set up and ready to go. All these sites need is reporters/writers/journalists/editors. There are also other sections, such as business, music, politics, US news and world news.
admin @ March 9, 2011
