I am in 100% agreement with this.  Please pass this link to every person you know and let them read this:

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This idea sounds just crazy enough to possibly work, so naturally it won’t be given serious consideration.  How great is our bureaucracy!!

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.

Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a, We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bona fide U.S. Citizens 18+.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.

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 $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.

A husband and wife has $595,000.00.

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

Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.

Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads

Put away money for college - it’ll be there.

Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.

Buy a new car - create jobs

Invest in the market - capital drives growth.

Pay for your parent’s medical insurance - health care improves.

Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else.

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back.  And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 (’vote buy’) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it.

Sell off its parts.

Let American General go back to being American General.

Sell off the real estate.

Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.

Sure it’s a crazy idea that can ‘never work.’

But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion.

We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington, DC.

And remember, the Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh…I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards,

Birk

T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic

PS:  Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it’s either good for a laugh or a tear or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85 Billion!!

(A Message received from The Zolad)

How To Save the Government $5 Million:

A president’s pension currently is $191,300 per year and ends when they turn age 80.

Assuming the next president lives to age 80. Sen. McCain would receive ZERO pension as he would reach 80 at the end of two terms as president.

Sen. Obama would be retired for 26 years after two terms and would receive $4,973,800 in pension.

Therefore it would certainly make economic sense to elect McCain in November.

How’s that for non-partisan thinking???

First off… WHO IS JACK WHEELER?

Jack Wheeler is a brilliant man who was the author of Reagan’s strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union with the star wars race and expose their inner weakness. For years he wrote a weekly intelligence update that was extremely interesting and well structured and informed. He consults(ed) with several mega corporations on global trends and the future, etc. I think he is in semi-retirement now. He is a true patriot with a no-nonsense approach to everything. He is also a somewhat well known mountain climber and adventurer.

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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.

What he isn’t, not a genetic drop of, is ‘African-American,’ the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn’t a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.

Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

It’s something Hillary doesn’t understand - how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white.

Thus Obama has become the white liberals’ Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.

Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.

His candidacy is ridiculous and should not be taken seriously by any thinking American.

Pass this on to every thinking American you know!

Just received this email today.   I know we have two evils to vote for coming in the next election.  As much as many of you  dislike McCain, he is the lesser of these two evils.

The writer of this essay is Jerry Molen, an Academy Award winning Hollywood Producer, who produced Jurassic Park , Hook, Rain Man and many more classic movies, and who won the Academy Award for
Schindler’s List.

Jerry is one of the very few conservatives in Hollywood but wants to include Democrats.

He says:

We are about to make the Mother-of-All-Mistakes, because the Republican Party gave us no reliable alternative. If the conservative movement does not rally behind the only alternative left to us, this country will become a true Socialist State within the next two Presidential terms.

Ladies and Gentleman, this is the most grave situation this nation has faced in my lifetime.   We just experienced an over hyped, outrageous primary election season that has left me wondering where the heads of our citizens are hiding .. Must be someplace where the sun doesn’t go very often.

At one time in my life I was a determined, dedicated and ever-loyal registered Democrat. Then something happened.  Lyndon Baines Johnson, that turned my life around and gave me pause for the veracity of a party that lives and feeds off of the most unfortunate among us. Some of them are in their positions in life by their own choosing, others by outside circumstance. But always, always there was a door open to them, to reach for new heights, achieve new goals, change their lives for the better.  Similarly, there have always been the bottom feeders, doing what they could to take advantage of those who had not or have not seen better days, nor realized that they in fact were the masters of their own destiny.

These unfortunates had come to believe that they were dependent on people in Washington, who would look out for and take care of them. They waited and still wait for all those promised freebies.

Most people don’t reflect upon the fact that the Democrats ruled Washington for over 40 years; it wasn’t until 1994 when the so-called Gingrich Revolution changed  but only for a while. These same people do not realize that it was the Democrats who created the failed policies of the entitlement programs that are now falling apart before our eyes.

Do not think I find the Republicans blameless in all this. They, too, suffer from the ego and greed built into our system.  But in the past few months I have listened with growing horror to the railings of the left, calling for yet more giveaways, more promises of a proverbial free lunch. What sums up my feelings, why I am appalled by those in political power is contained within a quote by basketball legend and talk show host Charles Barkley. ‘Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years…and they are still poor.’

Now, with our elections, come yet more new promises of change we can believe in, for the future.  But if you really, I mean REALLY listen to what the new messiah is asking for, it is not change of policy or change for the better.   This is a warning that he wants our change.  And the change you will get will not be the change you expected or wanted.  I leave you my predictions of what  will happen if the junior Senator from Illinois becomes President especially if the House and Senate are veto-proof Democrat.

1) Strict gun laws, though he promised he would not.

2). In God We Trust will be removed from all currency.

3). He will renege on his pledge to Israel and leave them to the wolves
of  Islam.

4). Hillary Clinton will be named to the Supreme Court.

5) Tax rates will surge to the highest  levels in 30 years.

6. Capital gains tax will be at least double current levels.

7) Retired Army General Wesley Clark will be named Secretary of Defense.

Our borders will be open to all comers especially from the
Middle East and South America.

9). Amnesty will be granted to all illegals in the U.S, regardless of status or even gang membership (think MS-13).

10). Our presence in Iraq will come to an abrupt end with tragic results to their citizens and devastating consequences to our military.

My predictions will not sit well with some people.  The best we could hope
for is that I am wrong.

Any bets?

I was forwarded this email that was supposedly said by Ben Stein.  Sounds interesting.

My  confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my  ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit  when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas  trees..  I don’t feel threatened.  I don’t feel discriminated  against. That’s what they are:  Christmas trees.

It  doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me.  I  don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a  ghetto.  In fact, I kind of like it  It shows that we are all  brothers and sisters celebrati ng this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother  me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near  my beach house in Malibu .  If people want a creche, it’s just as fine  with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I  don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians  like getting pushed around for being Christians.  I think people who  believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.  I  have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist  country.  I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being  shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way:  where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we  aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?  I guess that’s  a sign that I’m getting old, too.   But there are a lot of us who  are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the   America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we  send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:  This is not  intended to be a joke;  it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you  thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the  Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this  happen?’ (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and  insightful response.  She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by  this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our  schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our  lives.  And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly  backed out.  How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His  protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of  recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.  I think it  started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few  years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said  OK.  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.  The  Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor  as yourself.  And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock  said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little  personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr  Spock’s son committed suicide).  We said an expert should know what he’s  talking about.  And we said OK.

Now we’re asking ourselves  why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know  right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their  classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long  and hard enough, we can figure it out.  I think it has a great deal to do  with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for  people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell  Funny  how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.   Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like  wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think  twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles  pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in  the school and workplace.

Bill Phillips spent nearly 50 years in the US oil and gas industry; most of his career was with the Phillips Petroleum Company.  Bill is a descendant of Frank Phillips.

Frank Phillips, along with his brother Lee Eldas (L.E.) Phillips, Sr., founded the original Phillips Petroleum Company in 1917 in Bartlesville, OK.  Do you remember Phillips 66 gas stations?  Phillips Petroleum Company merged with Conoco, Inc. in 2002 to form the current Conoco Phillips Oil Company.

I think that you will find Bill’s thoughts and facts very revealing, very compelling and very difficult to argue with.

May 28, 2008 “Big Oil”

Did you know that the United States does NOT have any big oil companies.  It’s true: the largest American oil company, Exxon Mobil, is only the 14th largest in the world, and is dwarfed by the really big oil companies–all owned by foreign governments or government-sponsored monopolies–that dominate the world’s oil supply.

With 94% of the world’s oil supply locked up by foreign governments, most of which are hostile to the United States, the relatively puny American oil companies do not have access to enough crude oil to significantly affect the market and help bring prices down.  Thus, Exxon Mobil, a “small” oil company, buys 90% of the crude oil that it refines for the U.S.  market from the big players, i.e, mostly-hostile foreign governments.  The price at the U.S.  pump is rising because the price the big oil companies charge Exxon Mobil and the other small American companies for crude oil is going up as the value of the American dollar goes down.  They will eventually bleed this country into printing even more money and we will go into runway inflation once again as we did under the Carter reign.

This is obviously a tough situation for the American consumer.  The irony is that it doesn’t have to be that way.  The United States–unlike, say, France–actually has vast petroleum reserves.  It would be possible for American oil companies to develop those reserves, play a far bigger role in international markets, and deliver gas at the pump to American consumers at a much lower price, while creating many thousands of jobs for Americans.  This would be infinitely preferable to shipping endless billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venezuela to be used in propping up their economies.

So, why doesn’t it happen?  Because the Democrat Party–aided, sadly, by a handful of Republicans–deliberately keeps gas prices high and our domestic oil companies small by putting most of our reserves off limits to development.  China is now drilling in the Caribbean, off Cuba but our own companies are barred by law from developing large oil fields off the coasts of Florida and California.  Enormous oil-shale deposits in the Rocky Mountain states could go a long way toward supplying American consumers’ needs, but the Democratic Congress won’t allow those resources to be developed.  ANWR contains vast petroleum reserves, but we don’t know how vast, because Congress, not wanting the American people to know how badly its policies are hurting our economy, has made it illegal to explore and map those reserves, let alone develop them.

In short, all Americans are paying a terrible price for the Democratic Party’s perverse energy policies.  I own some small interests in tiny, 4 barrel-per-day oil wells in Wyoming.  We have 14 agencies that have iron-hand jurisdiction over us.  If we drop any oil on the ground when the refinery truck comes to pick up oil from our holding tanks, we are fined.  Yet down the road the state will spray thousands of gallons of used oil on a dirt road to control dust.  When it rains that oil runs into rivers and creeks.  Yet a cup of oil on the ground at our wellhead is a $50,000 EPA fine plus additional fines from state regulating agencies.  They treat oil as if it were plutonium that has the potential to leak into the environment.  We are fined if our dirt burms are not high enough around a holding tank, yet the truck that picks up our oil runs down the road at 60 mph with no burm around it.  People wonder why there is no more exploration in this country.  It’s because of the regulators; people who have lived their whole lives doing nothing but imposing fines on small operators like us for doing mostly nothing.

So, America, enjoy your $4.00 per gallon gasoline.  Your dollar is now worth 0.62 Euro-Cents.  The lack of American production of GNP, the massive trade deficit (as labor markets have moved overseas to fight insanely high union imposed labor costs in America) and the run away printing of money (backed by nothing of value here in America) has caused the dollar to become more worthless on the international market.  And that’s where our oil comes from.  It’s paid for with dollars that become more worthless everyday.  If we had just kept par with the Euro we’d be paying $62 dollars per barrel for oil (42 gallons) o r about $1.50 instead of $2.50 a gallon for crude oil.

What the US government also does not tell you is that it is the leaseholder and royalty recipient of most oil production and receives 25% of the gross oil sales before we pay for electricity to lift the oil and propane to keep the oil-water separators from freezing in the winters.  We pay a pumper to visit each well everyday plus we have equipment failures all the time.  We pay for that out of our 75% of gross sales.  The government does not share in any expenses to run any production well.  So, if the Big Oil Companies are making record profits, then so is the federal government from it’s 25% tax on every molecule of oil sold to a refinery in this country.  Why isn’t the government on the stand for “Record” profits?

What you don’t see is this 25% of the sales price of crude oil being siphoned away by the government.

That money, plus the road taxes, state taxes, etc amounts to over $1 per gallon of gasoline you are buying, while the governments only admit to about 50 cents per gallon.

To all you Democrats, when you go vote for your candidate, a blazing liberal like Barrack Hussein Obama or Hillary Clinton, just keep in mind that their liberal spending habits will further decrease the value of the American dollar on the world market and your gasoline costs will hike even higher.  As they introduce more give-away programs, raise taxes on everyone to pay people not to produce or work, your dollar will continue to dwindle on the world market and you will be paying $10.00 per gallon at the next election.  Cheap hydrocarbon fuel is all over.

Enjoy!  Enjoy the fruits of your decision to elect these folks when you are there in that voting booth and you stab your pin through a Democrat’s name.

William “Bill” Phillips