Tyranny by "Required" Survey

Response to the Survey is required by Title 13 Sections 141 and 193 as changed by Title 18*

Person Data (5 persons, max of 12):

Name

Telephone numbers

# of persons

Sex

Age and DOB

Hispanic/Latin/Spanish origin?

Race

Citizen? How obtained?

When came to U.S.?

Attend school or college last 3 months?

-What grade level?

Highest education level completed?

Major(s) of Bachelors Degree(s)?

Ancestry or ethnic origin?

Speak languages other than English?

How well speak English?

Live in house 1 year?

-No – where lived?

Health insurance coverage? Type?

Deaf or difficulty hearing?

Blind or difficulty seeing?

Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions?

Difficulty working or climbing stairs?

Difficulty dressing or bathing?

Difficulty doing errands, appointments, shopping?

Marital status?

-Change in last 12 months?

# times married?

Years last married?

Given birth in last 12 months?

# grandchildren <18 living this house?

Grandparent responsible for basic needs?

-How long?

Served on active duty in Armed Forces?

-When?

VA service-connected disability?

-Rating?

Work for pay at a job last week?

Any work for pay last week?

Location of work?

Mode of transportation to work?

-How many others in same mode?

Time leaving home?

Length of time for commute?

On lay off from job last week?

Temporarily absent from job last week?

To be recalled to work within next 6 months?

Actively looking for work last 4 weeks?

Could have started job last week?

When last worked?

Work 50 or more weeks in last 12 months?

-How many weeks worked?

-How many hours worked/week?

Type of employment?

-For whom?

-Type of business or industry?

-Manufacturing/wholesale/retail?

Kind of work?

Most important activities or duties?

Income past 12 months? Wage, salary, tips, etc from all jobs?

Self-employment income – non-farm?

Interest, dividends, rents/royalties income?

Social Security/ Railroad retirement income amount?

Supplemental Security Income amount?

Public assistance/welfare payments amount?

Retirement, survivor, disability pensions amount?

Other income amount? VA, unemployment, child support.

Total income last 12 months?

Housing Data (for surveyed address):

Type of building?

Decade built?

Month/year moved in?

# acres?

Actual sales of agricultural products?

Business on property?

# separate rooms?

# bedrooms?

Hot & cold running water?

Flush toilet?

Bathtub or shower?

Sink w/faucet?

Stove or range?

Use a computer?

Use a hand-held computer or smart phone?

Use other type of computer?

Access to internet?

-Type of internet service?

# of vehicles?

Type of heating fuel?

Last month electricity cost?

Last month gas cost?

12-month cost of water/sewer?

12-month cost of oil, coal, kerosene, wood?

Receive Food Stamps or SNAP?

Is address part of a condominium?

Address owned or rented?

Monthly rent?

-Include meals?

Estimated resale value?

Annual real estate (RE) taxes amount?

Annual fire/hazard/flood (FHF) insurance amount?

Mortgage on property?

-Monthly payment?

-Include RE taxes?

-Include FHF insurance?

Second mortgage?

-Monthly payment/HELOC loan payment?

Annual cost for personal property tax & fees?

* law.cornell.edu has Title 13 Census. Section 141 concerns decennial census as does 193.

The United States Constitution (the Law) requires an enumeration of the population every 10 years for the purpose of apportioning the House of Representatives.

The Title 18 reference is not specific but would increase Title 13 penalties.

The 4th Amendment to the Law gives the people the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Mandatory Census Bureau Survey

Over the last decade I have had my personal information “possibly compromised” by the Veteran's Administration, the SC Department of Revenue, and the US Department of Energy. This week my wife and I received notification from the US Department of Commerce Director, U.S. Census Bureau that our address had been randomly chosen to receive “a very important national survey, the American Community Survey.”

The Constitution specifically requires an “enumeration” every 10 years for the purpose of apportioning the House of Representatives. The Federal Government has vastly expanded this function to the extent that census information is withheld from the public for 72 years due to privacy reasons. The currently available census data is 1940. The data is in high demand, and computer servers nearly crashed several years ago when the 1940 census became available for the first time.

Businesses and financial markets have come to depend on information collected by the government. At 10:30AM every Wednesday the Weekly Petroleum Status Report is released by the Energy Information Administration within the Department of Energy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the unemployment statistics and the Census Bureau the Gross Domestic Product estimates along with many other measures on a regular basis. All this and more is available to the political party in power on a 24/7 basis. Other agencies like the VA, IRS, HUD, HHS, FBI, NSA etc have much more data on individual Americans. This information gathering costs taxpayers about one billion dollars each year. It is hard to know exactly since the government does not budget and does not use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

As our lives become increasing digitized, it is important to remember that fallible humans are collecting and using this data – sometimes for nefarious purposes. Big Brother is definitely real and active.

Tyranny in America

In 1967 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Attorney General Holder and his boss took the same oath. I meant what I said. Holder has decided which laws to enforce and which to ignore.

Imagine if the ranking lawman in your county decided not to enforce some laws. Suppose the Sheriff or District Attorney decided that rape is just "boys being boys" and arrested no one and prosecuted no one. We would fire them. We are not under Sharia law where a girl who is gang-raped is stoned to death for fornication!

Holder and Obama have done the same with DOMA and immigration laws. Representative Bachman has finally submitted articles of impeachment against Obama. There have been many hearings in Congress about "fast and furious" but no articles of impeachment against Holder.

I understand that neither would be removed from office. Only two presidents have been impeached, and neither was removed from office. Nixon resigned and was pardoned by Ford. The speeches in the House of Representatives are still recorded in the Federal Register for the public to read.

Offenses of government officials against the people should not be ignored. That invites tyranny. In 1986 President Reagan agreed to amnesty for 2.5 million illegal aliens in exchange for a tough immigration law. The law was never well enforced. The result is tens of millions of illegal aliens in our country today. The government has blurred the distinction between those illegal aliens and those who took the legal steps to become citizens and swore allegiance to the United States. The difference is like that between a burglar and an invited house guest!

The Constitution is the Law of our land. If laws are passed by the Congress and President and not enforced, then we are no longer a law-abiding nation. Tyranny will be the result if we who defend the Constitution keep silent.

Skunk Replaces Eagle as Symbol of President

The skunk has replaced the Eagle as the new symbol of the American Presidency. It is half Black, half white, and everything it does stinks.

It is said: If you give a man a fish you will feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime!

New Obama Proverb: If you give a man hope of getting a job, he will vote Democrat for a year! If you give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone, free Internet, food stamps, section 8 housing, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment then Social Security disability for life, free health care and free Medicine... He will vote Democrat the rest of his life and several more times... After he's dead

Government Shutdown "crisis"

The United States is bankrupt. Life goes on as “normal” because there is great flexibility in such a huge economy. There is currently a “budget crisis” and a looming “debt-limit crisis.” These are a problem because Congress and the President planned it. The President sent his budget proposal to Congress in the spring. It was late, but since an actual budget – with 13 separate appropriations bills – has not been signed into law for 4 years - the President's tardiness is moot.

Both parties blame each other for the shutdown. The fact is that they have had over 5 months to debate the budget. The House of Representatives has produced numerous budget bills only to see them tabled by the Democrat-controlled Senate. Since the last budget passed was the Pelosi-Reid-Obama budget, the Democrats are happy to “continue it” with a constant stream of CRs.

The real debate is over the type of government we actually have. The Democrats say that America is a democracy, and must operate by “majority rule.” The Constitution is a “dated” document and is irrelevant now. The Conservatives say that America is a constitutional republic with “limited government.” A century ago, Progressives were successful in reducing the power of the states with the 17th Amendment. Senators had been elected by state legislatures. Now both Representatives and Senators are “popularly elected.” Only their terms of office are different. The problem with democracies is they fail when the people realize that they can write checks to themselves.

Democrats make a heartwarming appeal for the “little guy.” In the 1930s it was electricity and secure retirements for all. From the 1960s to present it was an end to poverty, jobs and promotions through race preference for minorities and medical care for all. For several decades it has been telephones for all. The Progressive “solution” is always according to Karl Marx's philosophy of from those who have; to those who “need.” Marxism fails when you run out of other peoples' money (Thatcher). Progressives believe that individual responsibility and free-markets are wrong. A marriage with husband and wife is wrong because “it takes a village to raise a child.” There is power in the union of workers and in the “collective.”

We have clear examples of implementations of fascism, communism and socialism which failed. Our constitutional republic with a free-market economy has succeeded well. Our forefathers believed in the inherent sinfulness of man/woman, and the need for checks and balances. That rule of law is rarely practiced today.

Why is America Recovering Despite Obama?

Bill Clinton vetoed the fiscal policies of the conservative Congress twice in 1996 before finally accepting the policies. He then took credit for the surpluses that the policies produced.

Some ignorant people will give Obama credit for the current “recovery.” If presented with the facts, then it would be hard to do so. Consider unemployment in Yuma, AZ of 31.8% and unemployment in Bismarck, ND of 2.8% from the BLS report for June. If Obama is responsible for a 7.4% national rate, then he is also responsible for the 31.8% rate in Yuma The real reason is that new technologies in the “carbon-based” industries have given us an energy boom. Obama has been fighting any progress with a carbon tax proposal, huge subsidies to competing energy sources, and delays/prohibitions for obtaining resources from public lands and cheap and efficient distribution methods (pipelines). The oil imports have decreased more than 1 million barrels/day over the last several years (eia.gov). This amounts to money for over hundreds of millions of barrels of oil at $100/barrel which stays in the United States instead of subsidizing those who hate us. Those billions each year compose capital which can be used to create jobs.

Obama has surrounded himself with academics and out-right socialists who favor central planning over free-market economics. They claim that deficit spending (stimulus) by government and tight controls bring the nation out of recessions. The fact is that Hoover and FDR; Bush and Obama both tried stimulus spending and high wages. We know what happens because it has been tried before. Millions of Americans have suffered. The wealthiest period in America was the six years under President Coolidge. We had surpluses every year and individual wealth rapidly increased. Americans borrowed money to invest in America believing the boom would last forever (sounds like house prices never decrease?). Alan Greenspan would describe them as “irrationally exuburant.” The crash came under Hoover who Coolidge dubbed “wonduh boy.” Coolidge had been blamed as a “do-nothing” while Hoover, FDR, Bush and Obama were type-A interventionists.

The reference economist of 1776 was Adam Smith. Twentieth century economists Hayek and Mises saw the flaws in Keynes ideas and their use in Europe. If we continue to ignore the lessons of history, then we are doomed to repeat the mistakes – over and over again! See mises.org (Mises Institute at Auburn University – a kudzu-league school).

Melowese Richardson Convicted of Voter Fraud in Ohio

Last week an Ohio judge sentenced Ms. Richardson to five years in prison for voting 6 times in a single election. Ohio was a critical state in the 2012 Presidential election. If the votes in only 4 states - Ohio included - were reversed, then Mitt Romney would have won. More of these criminals need to go to prison for voter fraud to diminish!