Scott D. Tetramer
What Is Happening To America
Mon Oct 27 00:52:55 2003
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What Is Happening To America
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The American people are afraid of their government, sounds ridiculous but the things working class Americans do and say make it obvious. I talk to people every day who don't trust their government and feel they are being taken advantage of by our government and the influential people and corporations who buy our representatives through campaign contributions as well as the lobby in Washington DC. If people believed they could call their representatives with the expectation of getting anything done in reference to their concerns they would call but how many people make that call? The number of registered voters who actually vote is a good indicator as to how many people really believe in our government and if it really represents the people.

I've had this web site on the internet since October 2002 and not one person besides myself has posted an idea, agreed, or disagreed with ideas I've posted. People tell me I'm going to be audited!

If we continue to let corporations buy our representatives through campaign contributions and the Washington lobby we may as well sign our pay checks over to the government. According to www.ntu.org  individuals pay 36% of gross income to taxes, the first 2.5 or 3 hours of every working day goes to taxes. I suggest everyone who reads this keep a copy and years from now when your kids and grandkids ask how it go to the point they have to work the first 4 hours of every day to pay taxes you can show them this and explain how you were to busy working the first 2.5 hours of each day to pay your taxes to do anything about it.

According to www.pogo.org  In 1940 US companies paid approximately 50% of taxes and individuals paid the other 50%, now US companies pay a little over 13% and individuals pay just over 86%. If this is true any raises individuals have received from 1940 to present have been offset by the increase in taxes which was directly influenced by campaign contributions and the lobby.

The reality is that companies such as Enron and World Com who give millions of $ in campaign contributions to the Republican party and to hedge their bet the Democratic party {before elections} and continue throughout Washington through the lobby in return for political favors. Many companies paid little or no tax and in some cases received money in tax return. Individual American taxpayers covered the taxes these un-American companies cheated their way out of paying which in turn holds the economy down because as individuals we lost spending power and just the opposite of President Bush's tax cut plan has taken place.

American people spend the first 2.5 hours of each day working to pay their taxes but won't spend 15 minutes to vote or write their representatives knowing it doesn't matter because their representation has been bought. people will ask their representatives for money for education, health care, and you name it but still don't understand.

Our economy is failing yet the people of America sit by and wait for the economy to turn around based on our presidents tax cuts. How can the economy turn around by giving the tax cuts Bush proposes on the federal level when most every state in the nation is raising taxes to cover state budget deficits? Contradicting Bush's tax cuts by raising taxes at state levels shifts the burden and does nothing to bump the economy.

NAFTA and all the offshore US companies who we as consumers support through purchasing their products, our increased taxes which they managed to avoid, and jobs they take from the American taxpayer which in turn adds to the taxes we as American taxpayers who remain here absorb is another example of why the Average American taxpayer and the US economy lose. NAFTA is given credit for creating jobs, how many Americans lost a $15 an hour job that went to Mexico and now work two $7 an hour jobs and twice as many hours to support their family and pay the taxes these companies avoid by moving out of the United States?

9/11 and illegal immigration is another example of our government selling us out. I was told by my father in law that when he was stationed in Arizona in the early fifties our government used to round up illegals and haul them back to Mexico on a bus but by the time the bus got back those illegals were already back. The same thing happens today which can be directly related to 9/11, the excuse that there are to many miles of border to patrol is a foolish lie and a poor excuse at best. Corporations have been buying our representatives, promoting illegal immigration, breaking unions, and taking American jobs for years. Not only has this led to American taxpayers losing jobs, our economy failing, but Americans have died {9/11, WTC}.

Love it or leave it should be rephrased to love it or lose it!!! If we as Americans don't come together and do something about our government accepting money in return for political favors the American taxpayer will continue to prostitute themselves out at the expense of family and disgrace the memory of so many who fought and died so we could be free. If the average American who makes $10 an hour could cut the time spent working to pay taxes from 3 hours a day to 2 hours a day they would keep approximately $2400 a year. Compare this to Bush's tax cuts and keep in mind the tax increases within the state you live. That's spending power and a boost to the economy rather than another lie from anther politician who represent the corporation who contributed to the un-American practice of buying the representatives of the people!!!

I'm writing this on 5-26-03, Memorial Day like so many US holidays mean very little. If we continue to do nothing about these un-American corporations and misrepresentatives of the United States of America we may as well line up at Arlington and take our turn at pissing on the graves of all the brave men and women who died, apparently for an ungrateful nation.

Supportthevets.com points to how we allow our government to make retired and disabled veterans forfeit their military retirement or disability pay to cover health cost. This is another example of the gratitude we show to the people who made America the greatest country in the world.

The following are some web sites every American should see. I suggest the education system throughout America use www.nextrevolution.net  and these taxpayer advocate sites to bring all Americans together and not only turn the economy but put government back to work for WE THE PEOPLE.

LOVE IT OR LOSE IT!!!

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Enron, Worldcom, and all the other corporate giants that own the politicians that the American people think they voted into office to represent us are proof enough. Corporate reform or talk of it was only to silence the American public who all to soon forget. Employees at these companies weren’t the only ones to lose, anyone with investments in the stock market lost. As far as money lost in the stock market, it was never really there. If your stock looked fantastic it was manipulated to do so and if you never cashed out you never really lost anything, it was never there.

The fact is our politicians have been bought off from campaign contributions and special interest to the point they couldn’t reform corporate scandal without incriminating themselves. The past ten years have been a LIE!!!

The Clinton years were all a lie and now the Bush Administration is covering with the war on terrorism. How many $100,000 campaign donors stayed at the White House when Clinton was in office? How many will stay in our White House while Bush is in office? How much $ did Enron and all the others give to Republicans and to hedge their bet, the Democrats?

How does America compare to Enron and other corporate failures?

A: How far in dept. is America compared to Enron? Who were Enron’s creditors? Who are America’s creditors?

B: Who walked with all the money from Enron and other corporate scams? Who is walking away with all your tax dollars? Like Enron and employee 401K Congress is spending Social Security.

C: Politicians are accepting money from campaign contributions & special interest on top of their pay check from Americans with retirement and health care while the average American goes without health Ins. and retirement {Social Security is spent as a hidden income tax while taxpayers are given tax relief?}

D: Didn’t evidence of people warning Enron top executives come out with corporate scandals? We hear the same warnings everyday about government and our politicians, you’re reading one right now.!!!
Our Government is failing!

Vietnam is all but forgotten, all that remains is a wall which government uses to manipulate the truth. Most of the people who go to fight Iraq weren’t even born when Vietnam took place and the rest forget.

Why were we really in Vietnam? When I was 15 and thought I’d have to go our government said it was to fight communism. Why would we care if communism took control of a dirt poor third world country? Why would we send our young to die for something that could only burden a failing communist movement.


Were we fighting communism or financing it? 58,000 Americans died in front of weapons bought from communist countries like the USSR. The USSR went broke about eleven years ago and would have gone broke years earlier if North Vietnam wouldn’t have spent billions of $ on weapons which were used to kill Americans.


Our government lied all throughout the Vietnam conflict, wasn’t even declared war. A government of the people, by the people lied and sent American people to die for reasons still unknown. Now President Bush would send Americans to die in Iraq to fight a war his father should have finished while he was in office. Our government is still misleading the people!!! I once read an editorial stating Richard Nixon got us out of Vietnam. The reality is that thousands of young Americans demonstrating against the USA being in Vietnam along with four dead students at Kent State in OHIO got us out of Vietnam! The youth of the 21st century will have to lead the way, it’s their future. Their time is here and now, history is repeating itself !

Failures by our Government
Vietnam, 58,000 dead, how many wounded and left behind?

Gulf War never finished, Saddam in control and terrorist killing Americans for the past ten years!!! 9-11

Social security, hidden income tax! Politicians have retirement while spending taxpayers SSI!

Social Security faces cash deficits in 2016! Benefit reduction or tax increase needed beginning in 2001!

Social Security insolvent in 2038! WWW.GAO.GOV !!!

Medicare-Medicaid! Rip-offs! Medicare Hospital Insurance insolvent in 2029

Health Insurance, we buy our politicians Insurance but taxpayers do without!

Education in America!

Prescription drug cost! Rip-offs!

Economy failing while rich corporations buy our representatives! Stock market a lie!

Politicians on campaign trail while on our time raising money for Republicans and Democrats!

Who represents Americans? Taxation without representation!
3000 Americans die in 9-11 terrorist attack which should have been prevented!
National Commission CO-chaired by Gary Hart published in 1999 warning of attack such as 9-11! www.nssg.gov

Task Force on Homeland Security Imperatives chaired by former U.S. Senator Gary Hart.

{U.S. far from ready to deal with terrorist attacks!}10-25-02 A full year after 9-11!

USDA! FEPP wasting million of $! Farm subsidies!

FAA! Failed Security! Evidence of failures every day in the media a year after 9-11!

CIA! Failed homeland security!

FBI! Failed homeland security!

INS! Terrorist, Illegals! Bush gives Amnesty to illegals after 9-11!

IRS! GAO reports billions of $ lost revenue! www.gao.gov !

NAFTA! U.S. jobs going out of the country, how many Americans have been laid-off or face layoff?

Trade Deficit!

If all the people who fought and died so we could be free knew we would do nothing while government sold out to the rich and stuck it to the American people they never would have sacrificed as they did. The monuments we build to pay tribute pale in comparison to the disrespect we show by doing nothing while our government destroys this nation. A flag on a car antenna after 9-11 is all patriotism means in America in the 21st century. We are not a grateful America and it won’t be long before we have exactly what we deserve unless we put government in it’s place!

We need to send a message to Terrorists. They don’t need to destroy America, the rich who buy our politicians and our so called representatives are doing it from right here in the America!!!


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