Note to SC-2 on Tax Reform

You have been in Congress for over 15 years. What specifically have you done for tax reform? I had to declare $11,238 in CODI for Linn Energy, now bankrupt. That is absurd and criminal! Since you voted for funding for Planned Parenthood, Ex/Im Bank and Common Core, making me pay for income I never received makes it even more absurd!

Coming Economic Earthquake

___The federal government blaming the lenders for the “mortgage crisis” of 2007 is like someone throwing cash from a rooftop and blaming people for picking up the money! The Fed maintained very low interest rates far too long. The government threatened lawsuits for racism if minority loans were denied. Presidents bragged about increases in home ownership. The lenders packaged the loans and sold them as quickly as possible.

___Fast forward to 2016. Global interest rates are so low that Japan and Germany have negative interest rates. The Obama Administration's goal is income and wealth re-distribution. Taxpayers subsidize sub-prime lending, forgiveness of debt and HARP loans. Work requirements for welfare have been dropped and the rolls of the non-working have swelled. The divider-in-chief has sown discontent and class warfare and our police are reaping the consequences.

___The stock market is at an “all-time high,” but the value in constant dollars has decreased. It is a financial sham. When this bubble bursts, the effects will be much worse than 2007!

11-year-old Patricia Harrington Fights Crime by Illegal Aliens

___Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez,23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay-shooting champion since she was nine.

___Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

___Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee-crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.

___When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0'Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.

The Progressive Method Explained

___Obama and Clinton both are disciples of Saul Alinsky. In the 1950s and ’60s, Alinsky was a very well-known Marxist/communist community organizer. In his book Rules for Radicals, in which he praises Lucifer as “the first radical,” he explained how to achieve the left’s Marxist/communist goals. The first thing is to divide people by race, sex and culture by spreading hate. He went on to explain that creating racism among blacks was a great tool, and most likely the tool that would help overthrow America’s capitalist government. Alinsky said it was OK to use any means to achieve his goals. He believed it was perfectly OK to lie, cheat, steal and even cause some deaths if necessary.

___If you are caught with your hand in the cookie jar (inciting division and riots), then quickly make a video showing you giving cookies to hungry and needy children.

The Impact of "Extremely Careless" Security

___What is the difference between “extremely careless” and “grossly negligent?” Other than the latter being a felony, I don't know. Obama's DOJ has “cleared” presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton of “criminal charges.” FBI Director Comey said that “criminal intent” could not be proved. Gross negligence in the statute does not require “criminal intent!”

___I held a security clearance for over 30 years. I know our methods to detect and defeat an attack by ICBMs or from space. Even if no operatives involved in human intelligence get killed or tortured when our secrets are disclosed, our technology, if exposed, can be invalidated and rendered ineffective. That will cost the taxpayers billions of dollars for new technologies, and will make us vulnerable in the interim.

___It is my opinion that anyone who has demonstrated “extreme carelessness” with the most-guarded secrets of our nation is unqualified to have a security clearance. Since the President, as Commander in Chief, must be cleared for almost all of our secrets, it is not possible for someone to hold the office without having a clearance.

___In my generation, President Johnson intervened in a civil war in Vietnam. He appointed a former Ford Motor Company executive, Robert McNamara, as Secretary of Defense. McNamara tried to execute the “war” from Washington, D.C. Security was easily compromised and over 58,000 of our armed forces died. He was “extremely careless” with classified information. Many times our troops walked into ambushes and were quickly killed.

___I stated my case in a LTE published only days after the November 2008 election. I told you so!

Congressman Duncan, SC-3, on FBI Decision

___Following the decision by the FBI not to recommend charges against former Secretary Clinton, I am very concerned with the political weight being applied to the scales of justice by the executive branch.

___The blindfold has been removed from the arbiter of the scales of justice, forever tilting the scales of justice in favor of the politically powerful. The blindfold reflected that it didn't matter your race, sex, social status or political affiliation as the facts were weighed in the American justice system. The blindfold kept the justice system from seeing those factors as the evidence and facts were weighed.

___From President Obama giving his opinions on an ongoing investigation, to the refusal to appoint an independent counsel to lead the inquiry, to delays in turning over evidence, to the Attorney General’s inappropriate secret meeting with former President Bill Clinton, this entire process has been tainted.

___The Obama Administration has already taken unprecedented steps to erode the public trust, and unfortunately I see this investigation as just another extension of that poor judgement and corruption.

___Not having access to all the facts, I have no way of knowing for certain whether Secretary Hillary Clinton violated the law. But based on how this Administration has handled this case, I have little faith that this decision was reached completely free of undue political influence.

___Therefore, I reiterate my call for a special prosecutor to be appointed to oversee this investigation. Without taking that extra step to ensure impartiality, the American people’s faith in our system of government will only further erode and Secretary Clinton’s legitimacy as a candidate will forever be in question.

Jeff is a solid Constitutional conservative and patriot.

Brexit and Our Declaration of Independence

___It has been 240 years since English colonists in America declared their independence from King George and Parliament in England. Now the English in England have declared their independence from the European Union with the Brexit vote of 51.9%. In the former it was “taxation without representation.” In the latter it was essentially the same since the United Kingdom's role was minimized as one of 26 member states while being taxed heavily as the second largest economy. Certainly uncontrolled immigration and national sovereignty were major concerns.

___The people's rejection of ruling by distant elites can also be applied to the 2016 elections in the United States. The “less-educated” - according to the WSJ - voted to leave the EU. The Americans who want a change in the political establishment in Washington, D.C. probably have spent less time in the government schools emphasizing “Common Core.” The secular Humanists in universities want to eradicate God, have taxpayer-funded abortion and sex education, have free college and student loan forgiveness, have high minimum wage, have national blessing of the LBGT lifestyle and taxpayer funding for the consequences (HIV, AIDS, Zika, etc). Ignorant graduates when asked to define “democratic socialism” describe “being social and caring about others” instead of the ideology of Marx and Lenin.

___The Progressives want a North American Union with no borders between Mexico-U.S. or U.S.-Canada, unrestricted immigration in the NAU and the Amero as the common currency. They have promised punishment for the U.K starting with “moving to the back of the line” for trade. If anything, trade with the U.K. should be as unrestricted as that with Canada. It was appropriate for Trump to speak on their behalf from the U.K. Our economic relationship should blossom under a Trump presidency. What we both need is another Margaret Thatcher! She was Reagan's mentor and helped to dismantle European socialism. It needs to happen again.