patriot

AP ENTERPRISE: Federal tax revenues plummeting - Yahoo! News

All of this because they refuse to relegalize hemp. Good idea to spend more while losing money.

Change I can believe in.

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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

Center

The cause of all this is because they didn't legalize hemp? Quite a stretch, even for yahooka.

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"As an organizer I start where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be." - Saul Alinsky

bizong

Reading articles of such nature makes me quite anxious. Does it really pay to be informed? 1.8 trillion? snap rizzles & a half.

Center

^It only pays if you can put it into effective action with the end beneficiary being yourself.

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"As an organizer I start where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be." - Saul Alinsky

patriot

We could be making 50,000 different products out of hemp which means most of us willing to work would be working on far less toxic products including fuels to power our society. We live in an income tax based government which continues to shoot itself in the ass everyday.

When jobs are shipped overseas, tax base is lost. I am laughing about this because they continue to use our tax dollars against all of us. I have no sympathy.

I grew up in the dinosaur age of the 1960's. I watched as people worked everyday as we were energy independent. Everyone had good money and the economy was flourishing. Nixon sent Kissinger to the Saudis in 1971. Why, I don't really know except he was a huge asshole who threw the report to relegalize marijuana in the trashcan.

The Kissinger deal created a "gas shortage" and there were lines at the pump. I pumped gas in those days so I saw it firsthand. The price doubled quickly and the country went into a "recession." People lost their jobs. The money began flowing out of the country for energy.

I really didn't realize what had truly happened until 1991 when I first read The Emporer Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer. Even though I was a long time smoker, I had no idea of the true reality of the whole conspiracy against hemp. I figure things out very quickly for myself though which many of us either cannot do or just plain don't want to do. I tried to get them to sign petitions in 1992 and they ran away. We only got 15,000 signatures out of the 50,000 needed and miserably failed to make the ballot.

If they had listened to myself and many colleagues then, we would be energy independent again today with far less pollution. Many industries would be totally different. Farmers would be growing hemp crops and reaping the rewards. The wood pulp paper industry would have been replaced with hemp paper. Plastics, hemp seed oil, food products, replacng the coal industry, and yes, oil. We would all be working, which is really what most people truly want to do. Life would be very enjoyable instead of the armpit we live in today.

Listed on my signature is the quote from our current stupid asshole this country elected for a president. He is so far off base he really doesn't have a clue. He sells all of us out as have all the presidents since Woodrow Wilson. Nixon was horrible. Reagan put the forfeiture and seizure laws into effect. Daddy was former head of the C.I.A. which works with drug cartels in many countries. No fear of arrest for them as the D.E.A. has the same power, so they just bust the ones who don't give profits to the C.I.A. This falls under racketeering-RICO statutes.

You should know most of the rest. Clinton should have sold Dubya out by relegalizing in his last year in office. Al Gore was expected to and actually did win the election. Dubya stole it. He gave all the money to the Saudis through the oil prices which broke the back of all of the industrialized world. Michael Moore showed everyone what he and Daddy would do if re-elected.

I do not make statements that are uninformed. I have been doing this for many years. So, there is no stretch at all. I suggest you do more research. We didn't have the internet when I started.

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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

Center

Your missing my point.

The CAUSE of the falling tax revenues isn't DUE TO never legalizing pot. If your claiming it IS then couldn't we replace pot with many other things the the government could legislate to bring in revenues?

I know I'm just parsing words here, but I feel it needs to be stated.

However, as a means to increasing revenue your completely right.

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"As an organizer I start where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be." - Saul Alinsky