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Mission Impossible: Replicant Money Saves the World

October 9, 2008 By 5 Comments

 

Gayle Plato-Besley

With the tune from the ol’ Mission Impossible show replaying in my head, I had the craziest idea.  I know how to save the world.  Well I think I can save the fiscal world.  I am the Pied Piper of punditry, the Wilma Wonka of wonkery– just follow me, for I’ve got the golden ticket Charlie:

As the rescue, bailout, savior dollars flood the street, we all look for ways to throw more liquid onto the flow.  We need more cash.  But, as soon as a government starts to print the bills, the inflation rockets.  It’s just not a good idea ever.  Economic strength is built on the age old Econ 101 reality- SCARCITY.  The less you got the more you want. Simple.

So how do we pump in the funds and not weaken the value of the dollar?

Imploding Money.

Yes, Mr. Phelps, you’ve an actual bill that looks like all others.  It has a value and will be useful like all money.  But mixed in the paper we know are replicants we don’t.  They’ve a life span of five years.  Once the bell tolls, the money dissolves in your hands.  So, the actual bill will literally leave the system one day like a sweet lover in the night. No number on the bedside–just the memory. 

Yet, if you are smart and check for that bill- knowing the intricate nuances evident, you can turn it in before it’s destruction, and replace it with a normal piece of fiat currency. A da Vinci Code of the bill’s cypher is obtainable.

You might be able to keep the bill too, if you know how to stop the harmless but destructive chemical reaction.  Some will do just this, and the bills become highly collectible.

Now,  enter the fiscal Blade Runner.  While we know there are dissolving bills out there, waiting to trick us and die, we also have been told, that there is a secret.  There’s a code within the code  and if you know how to find it for a small number of the replicant dollars, you will wind up with a miraculous bill.

A very small percent are like winning lotto tickets.  If you can turn off that dollar bill, and  get it to stay active- to live, YOU WIN.  If you happen to be the lucky one to get the golden ticket- that $5, $10, or even a $20, will be worth 100,000 times its face value upon the fifth anniversary.  On it’s twentieth anniversary, it’s worth one million times the face.  Like Harrison Ford’s Decker, you must find the replicant with a switch off and a future. Hold it close and it will grow in value.

You know, I hear it constantly: the economy is imploding. Our money’s value is shifting all of the time anyway.  Why the heck should Henry, “Lurch” Paulson, a bunch of acorn dropping squirrel-like democrats, and the entire lot of sniveling congressmen and senators  have any say in my economy? I played by the rules, and they gave spa pedicures to cloven hoofed insurance devils.

Let’s make the money work for us–literally. 

Crazy?? Maybe I saw Blade Runner too many times?  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Are the androids going to run the country while I am offered up to be the slaughtered sheep?  Hardly.  I’m not ready to be the mutton in the stew, and if we don’t get really creative, our way of living will be thrown back to an agrarian or barter system where we are all the herders.

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The Angry Americans

October 9, 2008 By 6 Comments

Now THAT’S  what I’m talking about!

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It appears that the sleeping giant is waking.

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Shadegg Lights Up the Lines!

October 9, 2008 By 26 Comments

I was privledged enough to participate in a massive conference call to Republicans this evening sponsored by John Shadegg. I was able to express the frustration that many of us feel about the GOP not fighting back hard enough against these Democratic nobodies. Many other callers expressed the same.

If you were on the line and did not get to voice your question or comment, please feel free to leave it here and the Shadegg campaign will most certainly here from you.

Finally, I urge you to get out and work for these candidates! If you want to keep your taxes lower. If you don’t want an extremist pro-abortion Democrat. If you don’t want Democrats to socialize the economy and hand out your tax dollars to their friends, Then you need to get involved NOW!

Our Republican candidats need your volunteer help in their campaign offices. They need your help out in the field and they need your financial support to help get their ads up on the air. Put a yard sign in your yard. Put a bumpersticker on your car.

Fight for them and tell them to fight for us!

Here is each of their campaign committee’s websites:

Sydney Hay – CD-1
http://sydneyhayforcongress.com

Trent Franks – CD-2
https://www.trentfranks.com/

John Shadegg – CD-3
http://www.johnshadegg.com/

David Schweikert – CD-5
http://david08.com

Jeff Flake – CD-6
http://jeffflake.com

Tim Bee – CD-8
http://www.timbee.com/

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Senator Chuck Gray Recommends

October 9, 2008 By 5 Comments

Conservative Republican and Senator Chuck Gray of District 19 usually puts out a fairly good conservative overview on the ballot measures. Here are his recommendations:

Many have requested my opinion on the ballot initiatives. That’s all this is – my opinion. Hope it helps.

Chuck Gray

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Senator Chuck Gray’s 2008 AZ Ballot Proposition Recommendations

Summary:
Vote “YES” on all 100 series
Vote “NO” on all 200 series
Vote your conscience on Prop 300

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Details of Propositions and My Recommendations:

Proposition 100 – YES
Protect Our Homes Initiative
(Stops future taxes on real property sales)
Explanation: Proposition 100 would amend the Arizona Constitution to prohibit the state or any county, city, town or other political subdivision of the state from directly or indirectly imposing any new tax, fee or other assessment on the sale, purchase, transfer or other conveyance of any interest in real property (such as homes and other real estate). This proposed measure would not affect any tax, fee or other assessment in existence prior to this year.
Recommendation = YES

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Proposition 101 – YES
Health Care Freedom of Choice
(Ensures that Arizona citizens will continue to have the right to choose their own health care plans and services. In other words Government can’t tell you where to go for health care.)
Explanation: Proposition 101 would amend the Arizona Constitution to provide that:
1. No law shall restrict your freedom to choose a private health care plan or system of their choice.
2. No law shall interfere with your right to pay directly for lawful medical services.
3. No law shall impose a penalty or fine, of any type, for choosing to obtain or decline health care coverage.
4. No law shall impose a penalty or fine, of any type, on your participation in any particular health care system or plan.
Recommendation = YES

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Proposition 102 – YES
Marriage Amendment
(Provides that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid as a marriage in this state)
Proposition 102 would amend the Arizona Constitution to provide that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.
Recommendation = YES

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Proposition 105 – YES
Majority Rules Initiative
(Prop 105 would require that any ballot initiative that increases taxes, or requires a spending obligation, be approved by a majority of the registered voters in the state. This makes it tougher to pass taxes and other fee increases at the ballot.)
Explanation: Proposition 105 would amend the Arizona Constitution to provide that an initiative measure that establishes, imposes or raises a tax, a fee or other revenue or mandates a spending obligation on a private person, a labor organization, other private legal entity or this state shall not become law unless the initiative measure is approved at the election by a majority of registered voters in the state.
Recommendation = YES

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Proposition 200 – NO
Payday Loan Reform Act
(A “NO” vote will have the effect of capping interest on payday loans at 36% starting in 2010. The 36% cap will become law automatically in 2010 UNLESS Prop 200 passes. Prop 200 will stop those caps from becoming law.)
Explanation: Proposition 200 was written and put on the ballot by the Payday loan industry. The legislature refused to allow the industry to continue charging interest rates as high as 400% and in some case higher on loans after 2010. Prop 200 is the industry?s attempt to write their own law and to override the current AZ Consumer Loan Act cap of 36% APR which will begin to apply to payday loans in 2010. If passed, Prop 200 would stop future caps on payday loan interest rates.
Recommendation = NO

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Proposition 201 – NO
Home Owners Bill of Rights
(Construction is one of Arizona’s largest industries and out of state lawyers know it. They have been trying for years to more easily sue homebuilders. This makes construction in Arizona a goldmine for attorneys.)
Explanation: Prop 201 does the following:
1. Mandates a ten-year transferable warranty on all new homes.
2. Any “prospective” buyer can sue- (you don’t even need to buy a home to sue under this Act.)
3. Forbids mediation, homeowners must hire an attorney and go to court.
4. Builders will not be able to make immediate repairs, forcing buyers to court and wait years for court decisions before repairs can be made.
5. Eliminates the current “loser pays court fees” statutes, encouraging lawyers to go to court and making them the only winners in the process.
6. Too many other negatives to list.
Recommendation = NO

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Proposition 202 – NO
The “Stop Illegal Hiring Act”
(It’s deceptively named – It would gut the current Arizona Employer Sanctions Law and make it almost impossible to stop illegal hiring through prosecution by state officials.)
Explanation: Prop 202 does the following:
1. Prop 202 requires Arizona to wait until the Federal Government has taken action against an employer before the state takes action.
2. Exempts thousands of Arizona employers by requiring Arizona officials to use of the same Federal standards of proof that have not worked in the past.
3. It eliminates the “Silent Witness” portion of the current law. All complaints regarding employer illegal hiring must be written and signed. This stops employees from reporting violations anonymously.
4. It imposes an impossible standard of proof. High-level managers who are not officers or owners could hire illegal aliens with impunity, and would not face any enforcement.
Recommendation = NO

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Proposition 300
Legislative Salary Recommendation to increase Legislator salaries from $24,000 to $30,000
(Putbon the ballot by a commission NOT by the legislature.)
Recommendation = N/A

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The new Andrea Dalessandro

October 9, 2008 By 18 Comments

Question: When do you know that a Democrat’s campaign is in trouble?
Answer: The candidate buys a new, more politically correct car.

     Shopping mall developer Jim Pederson did it when he was behind Jon Kyl in the 2006 U.S. Senate contest. Pederson had been cruzing around town in a Lincoln Navigator SUV. He wanted to burnish his green image so he went out and bought a Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Nice effort but the trick did not work and Pederson lost the election. After his loss he was spotted motoring around in an S-Class Mercedes.

     Andrea Dalessandro had been driving around in a German made Audi A6, not too green there. So she went out and bought a VW Jetta TDI. We will acknowledge that the car is a sweet ride but we are not sure it will help her flailing campaign. Republican nominees Frank Antenori and David Gowan are still driving around their same U.S. made vehicles, not needing to remake their image in the middle of the campaign.

     As much as the Democrats love to hate Wal-Mart, it was interesting to see that Andrea is spending her taxpayer campaign funds at Wal-Mart, a Super Wal-Mart no less. Not once but twice.

     On another LD 30 note, Antenori blew off the Tucson Citizen and still ended up with their endorsement. The paper totally dissed Gowan, who did bother going to the editorial board interview.

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Arizona Deficit Ratio 2nd Only to California

October 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Arizona state budget crisis is the second worst in the country as a percentage behind California, according to this article http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/105909/States-That-Can%27t-Pay-for-Themselves .  So the best ideas the governor can come up with right now are selling the state lottery that we’ve already borrrowed money against, increased photo radar revenues, and selling the state tobacco settlement share.  Our budget debt ratio is absurd at nearly 20%, I wonder when she’ll start suggesting that we should properly inflate our tires then charge for the air to do it as a way to bring her fiscal irresponsibility under control.
Tim Nelson thought of the day:  Is this the type of fiscal responsibility that the Democratic candidate for the  Maricopa County Attorney’s Office would bring from his experience in the governors office?
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The Democratic Corp Comm Team: “Very Costly to Arizona Ratepayers”

October 9, 2008 By 5 Comments

The so-called Solar Team of Sam George, Paul Newman and Sandra Kennedy is finding itself increasingly at odds with its Democrat base.

First, Democrats are remembering that Sam “George” – once known as Sam Vagenas – was investigated for forging documents in the 2002 governor’s race, in an attempt to smear then-Attorney General Janet Napolitano. They are recalling his efforts to get pro-marijuana initiatives on the ballot – proposals which would have required DPS to hand out pot for free and would have allowed dealers to give pot to our kids. Yes, our kids.

Amazingly, Gabrielle Giffords and Harry Mitchell have endorsed Sam “George” for the Corporation Commission. “George” has contributed thousands of dollars to their campaigns, but we’re sure that has nothing to do with the endorsement (he also donated $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in 2007, and oodles of cash to other Democrats in Arizona and elsewhere).

Democrats will also not easily forget the “Team’s” attempt to knock off the ballot fellow Democrat Kara Kelty with intimidating phone calls to voters who signed her petition, and an army of high-powered attorneys.

Kennedy and George are, moreover, embarrassing the party by dodging subpoenas, as the Phoenix New Times documents here:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-09-18/news/sandra-kennedy-and-sam-george-used-the-clean-

elections-system-to-their-advantage-so-why-was-it-so-hard-to-get-team-solar-to-talk/

To make matters worse, Newman and Kennedy have stated their support for carbon taxes – even as our utility bills are on the rise.

The Left is recognizing that carbon taxes hurt the poor and are hardly “pro-consumer,” as the “Solar Team” falsely claims to be. Recently, Niger Innis, National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, blasted carbon taxes as “immoral”: “Virtually every study done by virtually every economist has found the same thing: Raising the cost of energy by putting a tax on carbon will raise the cost of energy, of food, of almost all goods and services by a huge amount. In the U.S., energy bills for the average citizen may easily double. Some studies show costs going up two, three, four times what they are now.”

But that’s the ultimate goal of the “Solar Team”: Make carbon-based sources of energy so expensive that we are forced to use renewable energy almost exclusively. As Kennedy told the Arizona Daily Star, a carbon tax “will help solar and renewables while hurting coal and natural gas.” Yep, “hurting” the cheapest form of energy – coal – is her goal. A goal which would dramatically hurt the poor, the elderly, and all consumers in Arizona.

The “Solar Team” wants most, if not all, of our energy to be derived from solar power – right now (as Kennedy put it, “We should do nothing but solar”). Never mind the costs to consumers or the technological challenges or the immense transition costs. Never mind that coal produces the majority of our energy in Arizona and shutting down coal-fire power plants would mean a huge spike in our electricity bills. Robert Robb has rightly called them the “Solar Only Team.” Robb has said that “the Democrats’ hostility toward other sources and their faith-based belief in the rapidly declining relative cost of solar might prove very costly to Arizona ratepayers.”

Of course, if you believe that climate change is worse than the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, as Sam George does, then no price is too small to pay. You will recall George’s comment in the East Valley Tribune on September 15, 2008. Climate change, he said, is “a real crisis which is greater than any war.”

The radicalism of the “Solar Team” cannot be overstated. Sonoran Alliance will continue to update its readers on their latest ideas on raising the cost of energy, even as the mainstream media fails to do so. After all, the “Solar Team” would agree that sunlight is a great antiseptic.

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