The Jackuul Blog

I know I said I’d be overhauling the site before I posted again.  I lied.  I’ll overhaul it when I can.

So, in his latest video the idea of a grand rally march on Washington D.C. has come up.  Well… why the hell not?  Let’s get a march going, let’s trample the grass with the “Do not step on” signs.  Let’s show the politicians in Washington D.C. that we are sick and tired of being lied to, manipulated, taxed, and basically screwed with.  Look at the federal government bloat, it’s getting worse than a dead whale – and we all know what happens when they tried to blow it up (Google exploding whale).  It’s stupidity of the grandest scale that the people of this country are being taxed unfairly for things more than half of us did not want. The presidents approval rating is lower than death valley, hanging around 30% or so.  Well, we’ve had presidents in the past who got low ratings for doing the “right” things – but in this instance its basically a lot of people, conservatives like I, and others (those strange people that like socialism, welfare, and taxes)  who are basically saying “YOU SUCK”.

Yes, yes he does.  Abusing the powers of the President of the United States, and overstepping boundaries long held to be standard, while promoting torture… is not the way to make me say “What a wonderful government.” Rather it is a way to make me retch and consider a Canadian Vacation – National Lampoon style if it must be.  I’m sure they’ll love my conservative viewpoints as I bitch about their health system and point out how much their stuff sucks.  Anyways, back on target, point, and watching the nation bankrupt itself.  The key to solving a deficit is NOT increasing taxes, and the way to relieve and stimulate an economy is NOT a temporary tax relief boost.  I don’t want your stinking 800 dollars to expect me to go out and act like a cow and buy the barn full of hay, with my money you already illegally took from me.  I want it all back.  Or, you could end the system of income taxing, cut the spending to cover it, and just do what a normal rational country would do if it had a true self-interest in trade and economic prosperity.  What would that be?

Get out of the world’s business.  Simple.  Troops, home.  Funding to countries, cut.  Keep our cash in our country, and let economics dictate the world’s direction.  If you save two trillion dollars, and then cut a trillion of income, that is still a trillion dollar surplus! It might be 500 Billion.  I don’t know.  I’m assuming based on general numbers.  Here, let me go look it up so someone doesn’t call me a lazy bitchy jerk who likes Ron Paul. The government’s income was roughly 2.568 Trillion Dollars in 2007 (CIA Factbook figures) while its expenditures hit 2.731 Trillion Dollars.  This is 200 Billion roughly in deficit each year, and we have a public debt of 9 trillion dollars.  The military uses about 450 billion a year, and that isn’t counting the current War’s drain.  That number is about a trillion dollars, which puts total spending at 1.5 trillion.   If you account the official budget of 450 billion dollars, and add 50 billion for good measure, we could cut a trillion dollars right there – while maintaining out military.

What about foreign aid? We give countries billions of dollars. How much do we actually pay our government – just from personal income tax?  Well what I have been able to find by going to the IRS website (Satan’s house) 1.236 Trillion Dollars goes to the federal government from just personal income tax.  We need to let them know that all of this massive spending and collection from us is basically killing our economic vitality.  If we cut spending by 1 trillion dollars, and then cut foreign aid, along with pork spending, adding a few hundred billion more, we could comfortably cut the entire income tax system.  Think of the money saved by cutting the IRS itself.  The IRS requested over 10 billion dollars in 2005, and as such would provide a very good savings by eliminating much of the need for it.  What else can we cut out?  A whole lot actually.  What could be saved by demolishing the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and then creating an agency that does all three at half the manpower and less of the in-between that goes on?  What could be saved by a careful review of developer projects that cost us billions and deliver nothing through contractors?  What could we save by… cutting contractors that do not facilitate the manufacture of our hardware and research?  What could we save by having companies finance their own bloody research and then paying them when they deliver something that – this is crazy now – actually works? I understand that testing and revision is a part of R&D – but should we pay for it?  Or should we wait to pay for it until a working product comes out of it.

An example would be… I want a super plane.  Three companies want the contract.  Instead of waiting for a prototype… wait for a finished, working, wonderful machine.  Sure, give them input along the way.  The one that makes the best plane gets reimbursed for all their effort, win the contract, and are happy.  The two that do not have to eat it and try something else.  Will this stifle innovation?  No.  Will it instill ingenuity in so far as to create better products that cost less?  Probably.  Will they complain?  You know it.

A march on Washington could make all of these issues more prominent in the minds of the masses, and perhaps break the shackles of a mass media blackout, and a mass media feeding those TV glued individuals with their daily dose of bull.  I might ramble on, make points that aren’t as relevant to you as to me, and I might seem a bit batty in the head, but who isn’t?  Most of you will agree that spending is a problem, that waste is an issue, that the war is unconstitutional because there was to declaration by congress, and that we’re bleeding out more money than we are bringing in, that the DOE is broken, that the Social Security, Welfare, and other systems similar are broken, and that the FBI and CIA along with the DoHS is redundant and costly.  There is only one person, one candidate with solutions, who will address them.

Ron Paul will.

Let us march on Washington before the convention.

Let us rally and muster what we can.

Let us support Ron Paul to the very end.

Then let us buy bumper stickers that say “Don’t blame me, I voted for Paul” if we don’t win this round.

As Paul said, even if he does not win the nomination the effort is not over to reform the country.

If he ran in 2012 at the age of 76 I would still vote for him.  If he ran at 80 in 2016, my vote is there.  I don’t regard age as a limiting factor, but as a plus.  The older, the wiser.  The better equipped.  At the rate of our medical advancements in healthy individuals Paul could probably see another 20-30 years with ease.

So, in closing on this long rambling post that probably doesn’t make as much sense as I want it to: Don’t switch your votes just because you want to beat a democrat.  Stay with Paul.  To the end.  If it means he loses the nomination in the end, and McCain becomes the choice, at least you have a clear conscience.  Let’s march on D.C. regardless of how it looks.  Regardless of how it comes out.  Regardless if McCain wins.  Send a message, and set the stage for the continuing of the Ron Paul revolution.