{"id":471,"date":"2009-01-08T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2009-01-08T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:59:00","slug":"bait-and-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/bait-and-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bait and Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As usual, the Federal Government (and their True Masters) have bungled the entire operation beyond belief and then pretends to ride to the rescue.<\/div>\n
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Prediction for 2009. You’re going to hear a lot about two things:<\/div>\n

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A) How urgent and quick action on the part of the Feds has saved us all from a grim situation (but actually just revved up the printing press and signed papers forcing the actual producers to pay real wealth to do it).<\/div>\n

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B) How the common man needs to band together and take care of himself and fellow man.<\/div>\n
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Hey, here’s an idea, how about you LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE. How about just a lot of B and none of A.<\/div>\n
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Don’t get me wrong. I think some taxation is all right. I do think that the Federal Government is approximately eight times larger than it should be. States should have more power. I have no problem with taxation at the state level. As a small businessman, I have had a good experience with State, County, and City level. The closer things get to the individual, the better-managed things tend to be. Just my experience. <\/div>\n
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Here at Blue Table Painting we paint three armies a month, send them to Washington and get almost nothing<\/em> in return. We have been told that the money is being held in trust for future return and security. I do not believe it. I think it is tantamount to robbery.<\/div>\n
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How about you congressmen and senators start obeying the Highest Law of the land for a change. No one gave you permission to print trillions of dollars for whatever you please. I’m not buying it.<\/div>\n
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Of course, it’s easy to believe in the goodness of the common man and the strength and ability of local community when I live in Utah Valley. I live and breathe the actual reality of the goodness of my fellowman. In my ward, we take care of each other.<\/div>\n
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There is at least one bit of good news: Congressman Jason Chaffetz arrived at the capitol.<\/a> One down, two hundred to go.<\/div>\n
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Drain the swamp! Vote Independent!<\/div>\n
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Don’t get me wrong. I am very optimistic. Not so optimistic that I think that we’ll get a demi-god like Ron Paul in 2012. The electorate is not nearly informed enough (yet) for something so fantastic beyond belief.<\/div>\n
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Second prediction: Obama is going to do a good job. I don’t agree with everything<\/em>, but I think he will do respectably. (I mean, after Ron Paul, nothing looks quite as good) I do respect Obama as a man. He will be a relatively moderate president, more than people are expecting right now.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, the Federal Government (and their True Masters) have bungled the entire operation beyond belief and then pretends to ride to the rescue. . Prediction for 2009. You’re going to hear a lot about two things: A) How urgent and quick action on the part of the Feds has saved us all from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}