I’m against the $85 billion bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85 billion to American citizens in a “We Deserve It” dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200 million bonafide U.S. Citizens of 18 years of age or over. Our population is about 301 million +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200 million might be a fair stab at the number of adults 18 and up. You divide 200 million adults into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00 per person.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a “We Deserve It” dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25.5 billion right back to Uncle Sam, but it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife would have $595,000.00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?

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This ‘Letter of Apology’ was written by Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman, US Marine Corps, Retired.

It is the epitome of exactly how I feel in regards to the current world state of things. It’s nice to know that there are others out there who share my convictions.

Enough from me, let’s get to the goods.

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After escaping from her overly controlling campaign manager for the evening, Hillary Clinton snuck off to visit a local fortune teller of some fame and repute. In a dark and hazy room, peering into a crystal ball, the wizened, old, mystic delivered some very, grave news. “There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just be blunt. Prepare yourself to be a widow. Your husband will die a very violent and horrible death this year just after you lose the election.” Then the soothsayer looked up and locked eyes with Hillary who was visibly shaken at this dire news.

Hillary stared back at the old woman’s lined face, then at the single flickering candle, then finally down at her own shaking hands. She took a few deep breaths to compose herself…but ultimately, she simply had to know.

She looked back up and deep into the fortune teller’s gaze, steadied her voice, and asked the old lady the big question:

“……Will I be acquitted?”

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Well whaddaya know? I’m a Democrat?!! According to this tool (”tool”, heh heh), I am in alignment on a lot of key issues with presidential hopeful and former senator John Edwards. Who knew? I’ll admit Edwards seems likable enough, but would I actually lend him my vote?

Thankfully, I am relieved of such serious decisions because the rest of you have ruled him out as an option - nice guys finish last ya know. But, like my compatriot here, this tool did make me think about a lot of these issues and about the remaining candidates. I, too, have come away from all this looking to McCain to become our nation’s 44th president, but in all honesty, he’s the “default” option.

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You’d have to be hiding under a pretty big rock not to be inundated with the 2008 US Presidential Election coverage in the media and online. And I’m sure it’ll only get worse as the year progresses.

For those of you who still are wondering which way to go for the upcoming Presidential election, or perhaps you can’t decide between two particular candidates, I found this great tool. Now I’m not advocating you let a piece of javascript decide your vote for you, but this tool is a great way to put the candidates into a context you can use to help decide.

Speaking for myself, Ron Paul is the man that I think has the best attitude and solutions for this country. With few exceptions, like pulling out of Iraq immediately for instance, I find my Libertarian tendencies line up perfectly with Senator Paul’s stance on the issues. However, Paul’s nomination by the GOP is extremely unlikely, so I find myself stuck in trying to make a pick from a selection of candidates I only kinda agree with. I suspect I am not alone in this dilemma.

Without the use of the tool I found myself leaning towards Senator McCain. Unfortunately, the only reason I could honestly give was that something about Romney, Huckabee & the entire Democratic side that I just don’t fully trust. Using the tool helped me see on an issue by issue basis, who I am most in alignment with. As it turns out my gut instincts turned out to be very accurate as far as this tool is concerned. It showed John McCain to be one of the candidates who I still share a good chunk of views with.

While I am still far from a permanent decision, I’ll be honest, this tool has helped me quite a bit in clearing the cob webs, so to speak.

Try it out. See where it takes you. You just might be surprised.

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It seems absolutely incredible to me that in this day and age of information and technology, anyone would even consider censoring public events and knowledge. Apparently, Tim Skubick, site director for Fox News at the Mackinac Republican Conference is caught blatantly telling his camera director not to film any of the Ron Paul supporters.

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I was happy to see this article today in my local paper, The Times Herald Record about growing support for Ron Paul in NY. It is nice to see a little fellowship in my personal quest to help Paul gain the White House.

For me, while I don’t agree with him on all issues, Ron Paul represents something I think our nation is in desperate need of: real change. Over the course of our 200 + year history we have steadily handed over more and more power to the one thing we should be the most suspicious of. What’s even scarier is the number of times throughout our history that the government has simply helped itself to ever growing powers. Sadder still is how we have convinced ourselves that the government “knows best”.

I agree that what Ron Paul is proposing is radical; dismantling the Federal Reserve, the FDA, etc. But radical does not automatically mean bad. I believe those who scoff at his kind of change are really just afraid. They would prefer to keep the status quo and not rock the boat or perhaps they really believe that candidate so and so will be the one to finally do something good for us. Now more than ever I feel like a vote for anyone else, Republican or Democrat, is just another vote for the same old crap…politics as usual.

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I always delight in finding another soul of similar ilk. Today I came across the blog of one J. Todd Ring. Having read only one post I can see already a similarity to myself at least in current political leanings.

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I got a great email form a friend this morning. It had the transcript of a commencement speech that was supposedly given by Neal Boortz at some unknown university or college. I had no idea who Neal Boortz was so a little research revealed that this speech was never actually delivered at a college or university commencement, but rather it was delivered over the air waves on Boortz radio program and it was also printed in his book, “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”.

Neal, a Libertarian, has been a Talk Show Host in Atlanta, Georgia since 1969 and has been syndicated since early 1999, on radio stations from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida. Want to know more about Neal? Check out his bio page here.

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