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ACTUAL PASSPORT APPLICATION LETTER SENT BACK TO STATE DEPARTMENT
THIS IS PRICELESS: ACTUAL PASSPORT APPLICATION LETTER SENT BACK TO STATE DEPARTMENT.
Dear Mrs. Ms. Or Sir: I’m in the process of renewing my passport and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a cable TV from them in 1987 (28 years ago), and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? Ever heard of computers?
My birth date you have in my social security file. It’s on EVERY income tax form I’ve filed for the past 30 years. It’s on my Medicare health insurance card and my driver’s license, it’s on the last eight damn passports I’ve had, it’s on every stupid customs declaration form I’ve had to fill out before being allowed off the plane for the last 30 years. And it’s on all those census forms that we have to do at election times. Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother’s name is Maryanne, my father’s name is Robert and I’m reasonably confident that neither name is likely to change between now and when I die.
Between you an’ me, I’ve had enough of this bureaucratic bullshit! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my #*&#%*& address. What is going on? You must have a gang of bureaucratic Neanderthal morons working there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? And “No,” I don ‘t want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a damn whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I’d sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now because I have to go to the other end of the city and get another #*@&#^@*@& copy of my birth certificate to the tune of $100. Would it be so difficult to have all the services in the same area so I could get a new passport the same day? Nooooo, that would require planning and organization. And it would be too logical for the @&^*^%@% government.You’d rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off. Then, we have to find some asshole to confirm that it ‘s really me in the damn picture – you know, the one where we ‘re not allowed to smile…Hey, you know why we can’t smile? We’re totally pissed off!
Signed - An Irate Citizen.
P.S. Remember what I wrote about getting someone to confirm that the picture is me? Well, my family has been in the United States of America since 1776. I have served in the military for something over 35 years and have had security clearances up the ying yang. However, I have to get someone important to verify who I am – you know, someone like my doctor … WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA! And you assholes want to run our health caresystem? What could possibly go wrong?
A new word for our current form of government…
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A VERY, VERY GOOD new word… CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION!!!!!!! |
Paul Ryan? Who is he?
Paul Ryan? Who is he?
Well, recently learned that Congressman Paul Ryan,
Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney’s
pick for the next Vice President of The United States.
What are we to think of this selection? He’s not a
graduate of Columbia University. He’s not a graduate
of Harvard. He wasn’t selected as the President of
the Harvard Law Review. He didn’t get a special free
quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university
and, instead, had to work his way through Miami
University of Ohio. For God’s sake the man drove the
Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited
tables another!
One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he
went in to wake his father up and found him dead of
a heart attack. He didn’t write two books about that
experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at
an early age, never having the luxury to pursue
youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution.
Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his
grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer’s, into the
household and served as the primary care provider
for his grandma. His grandma wasn’t the Vice
President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer
nothing in return, except the element of “need”.
Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami
University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist
in Wisconsin Senator Kastin’s office. The job must
have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as
a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a
“token honor” position at the University of Chicago
and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.
When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin
to run for Congress he didn’t demonize his opponent
and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited
until the standing Congressman vacated the office
before seeking the office. In Janesville, Wisconsin
they don’t have a big political machine to promote
you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan
had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and
listen to his future constituents.
After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn’t
triumphantly march into Washington, buy himself a
Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to
rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his
Congressional office and used the house gym for
showers and a fresh change of clothes.
Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to
Janesville. He lives on the same street he lived on
as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight
other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the
local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings
and other civic functions.
For those who can’t make those public functions,
Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it
into a “mobile constituent office” and drives around
to meet with those who need his help and attention.
No, I don’t know if we can vote for a guy like this.
He doesn’t have a regal pedigree; he’s Irish for
God’s sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize
two months after getting elected. No one threw
flowers or got “chills down their leg” as a he took
his seat in Congress.
What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he
has had the nerve to write the House Budget for
three years in a row. He’s is brazen and heartless
in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion
dollar reduction in federal spending over the next
ten years! The House passed his budget three years
in a row and three years in a row the Democratically
controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house,
without ever proposing a budget of their own. What
is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5
trillion dollars from the budget where would the
President get the money to give $500 million dollars
to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for
bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal
aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to
claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits,
even for their children living in Mexico?
I don’t know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He
keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps
wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions
in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people
look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The
guy’s no fun at all!
Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone
spoiling the party by showing folks the bill and
demanding fiscal responsibility!
Well, I know I do.
From an anonymous email.
Audit of the Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trillion in Secret Bailouts
The first ever GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year. Jim DeMint, a Republican Senator, and Bernie Sanders, an independent Senator, led the charge for a Federal Reserve audit in the Senate, but watered down the original language of the house bill(HR1207), so that a complete audit would not be carried out.
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Ben Bernanke (pictured to the right), Alan Greenspan, and various other bankers vehemently opposed the audit and lied to Congress about the effects an audit would have on markets. Nevertheless, the results of the first audit in the Federal Reserve’s nearly 100 year history were posted on Senator Sander’s webpage earlier this morning.
What was revealed in the audit was startling:
$16,000,000,000,000.00 had been secretly given out to US banks and corporations and foreign banks everywhere from France to Scotland.From the period between December 2007 and June 2010, the Federal Reserve had secretly bailed out many of the world’s banks, corporations, and governments. The Federal Reserve likes to refer to these secret bailouts as an all-inclusive loan program, but virtually none of the money has been returned and it was loaned out at 0% interest. Why the Federal Reserve had never been public about this or even informed the United States Congress about the $16 trillion dollar bailout is obvious – the American public would have been outraged to find out that the Federal Reserve bailed out foreign banks while Americans were struggling to find jobs.
To place $16 trillion into perspective, remember that GDP of the United States is only $14.12 trillion. The entire national debt of the United States government spanning its 200+ year history is “only” $14.5 trillion. The budget that is being debated so heavily in Congress and the Senate is “only” $3.5 trillion. Take all of the outrage and debate over the $1.5 trillion deficit into consideration, and swallow this Red pill: There was no debate about whether $16,000,000,000,000 would be given to failing banks and failing corporations around the world.
In late 2008, the TARP Bailout bill was passed and loans of $800 billion were given to failing banks and companies. That was a blatant lie considering the fact that Goldman Sachs alone received 814 billion dollars. As is turns out, the Federal Reserve donated $2.5 trillion to Citigroup, while Morgan Stanley received $2.04 trillion. The Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank, a German bank, split about a trillion and numerous other banks received hefty chunks of the $16 trillion.
When you have conservative Republican stalwarts like Jim DeMint(R-SC) and Ron Paul(R-TX) as well as self identified Democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders all fighting against the Federal Reserve, you know that it is no longer an issue of Right versus Left. When you have every single member of the Republican Party in Congress and progressive Congressmen like Dennis Kucinich sponsoring a bill to audit the Federal Reserve, you realize that the Federal Reserve is an entity onto itself, which has no oversight and no accountability.
Americans should be swelled with anger and outrage at the abysmal state of affairs when an unelected group of bankers can create money out of thin air and give it out to megabanks and supercorporations like Halloween candy. If the Federal Reserve and the bankers who control it believe that they can continue to devalue the savings of Americans and continue to destroy the US economy, they will have to face the realization that their trillion dollar printing presses will eventually plunder the world economy.
The list of institutions that received the most money from the Federal Reserve can be found on page 131 of the GAO Audit and are as follows..
Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000)
Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000)
Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000)
Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000)
Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)
Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000)
Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000)
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)
JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000)
Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)
UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)
Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)
Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000)
Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)
BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)
and many many more including banks in Belgium of all places
View the 266-page GAO audit of the Federal Reserve (July 21st, 2011):
Sources:
US Government Accountability Office (GAO)
FULL PDF on GAO server.
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