Wow, now if you want to see the BS-o-Meter dance at the max then always turn to Washington.  It's the world's largest BS factory, producing more bullshit than the nation's cattle industry.

In an article on CNN Money entitled:

Washington; Pushing BS to the MAX!

Obama win boosts chances for tax hike on rich

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It won't happen without a fight -- potentially a really ugly fight. And it may even push the country over the fiscal cliff for a time.

But now that President Obama has been re-elected, and Democrats have retained control of the Senate, there's a far greater chance that high-income households will soon face higher tax bills.

Obama staked his re-election campaign and his first term on the issue of asking the rich to "pay their fair share." And he has repeatedly called for the expiration of the portion of the Bush tax cuts that apply to households making more than $200,0000 ($250,000 if married). 

It later reads:

On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner held fast to the Republican line.  "We won't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight," he said. "And we certainly won't solve it by simply raising tax rates or taking a plunge off the fiscal cliff." 

Now let's read between the lies, shall we?

There's a funny little thing called the two-party system - where old cronies act like they're on opposing sides in order to give the idea that you have a choice in the process and that you have someone representing your side of things.

In this case, Obama is trying to appease voters by living up to his promise of taxing the rich.  This is our first piece of steamy fresh BS.  You see... an "expiration of the portion of the Bush tax cuts" is not a rise in taxes... it's getting rid of the ridiculous tax breaks that were given to them by Bush.  It's like the BS they say when the government is balancing the budget by lowering the increase in spending.  It's still spending... it's still an increase, it's just not as big an increase.  So increasing the taxes of the rich is not giving them less of a discount on their taxes.

All this is supposedly to lower the deficit and cut the debt.

Another BS way that they want to do this is instead of raising taxes (which taxes they say go to pay for such things as social services and building roads) they can just cut the programs that the government has to spend money on (like social services and building roads).  Our boy John "The Boner on the Hill" Boehner is the head shill of the House of Representatives.  See old Boner is using a new version of Washington's famous BS catch phrases... stating that ""We won't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight," he said. "And we certainly won't solve it by simply raising tax rates or taking a plunge off the fiscal cliff."  Now "fiscal cliff" is being parroted across the media so fast it could make Boehner cry... which anyone who knows him knows that's not hard to do.  This guy would cry from passing gas after eating a spicy fish taco at a Latin themed fund raiser.  It's probably also due to the stress of having to act like he cares about Latinos.  The only imbalance here is chemical.

Let's see how ol' Boner wants to save money instead of taxing the rich...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  (From the HuffPost)

Highlights of House GOP legislation cutting spending by more than $300 billion over the coming decade.

• Food Stamps – Cuts $35.8 billion by eliminating benefit increases in President Barack Obama's economic stimulus and tightening eligibility requirements. Cuts spending by 4 percent over coming decade.

• Health Care – Cuts the president's overhaul law in several ways, saving $66 billion. Cuts include requiring those receiving health insurance subsidies to repay excess subsidies when their income increases, eliminating grants to states to set up health insurance exchanges and repealing a fund for prevention efforts like cancer screenings and immunizations. 

• Financial Regulation – Repeals several elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law to save $30 billion, including $22.5 billion saved by repealing federal liquidation authority of "too big to fail" banks and other financial institutions, financed by assessments on other large institutions. Also eliminates funding for a new consumer protection bureau and a new mortgage assistance program aimed at helping people modify their home loans. 

• Federal Employee Pensions – Cuts deficits by $83 billion over 10 years, requiring federal workers to contribute more toward their pensions in increments phased in over five years. Workers hired after 1983 would contribute an additional 5 percent for a total contribution of 5.8 percent. Workers in the pre-1983 system – who are ineligible for Social Security – would also pay an additional 5 percent for a total contribution of 12 percent. 

• Medical Liability – Cuts the deficit by up to $66 billion though lower Medicare and Medicaid costs stemming from new curbs on medical liability lawsuits, including a $250,000 cap on punitive damages and protections for manufacturers of medical devices that meet federal safety standards. 

• Child Tax Credit – Raises $7.6 billion by requiring people claiming tax credits of up to $1,000 per child as tax refunds to have Social Security numbers. It is aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from claiming the tax cuts. 

• Social Services Block Grants – Saves $17 billion over 10 years by eliminating the Social Services Block Grant to states, which supports numerous programs, including Meals on Wheels, child welfare, day care for both children and adults and help for the disabled. 

Let's read between the lies for each fo the House's cuts:

Let's start with food stamps, which are actually used by the rich, right?

WorldHunger.org reports the following about food stamps:

In 2010, 17.2 million households, 14.5 percent of households (approximately one in seven), were food insecure, the highest number ever recorded in the United States

In 2010, children were food insecure at times during the year in 9.8 percent of households with children (3.9 million households.) In one percent of households with children,one or more of the children experienced the most severe food-insecure condition measured by USDA, very low food security, in which meals were irregular and food intake was below levels considered adequate by caregivers.

Hmmm... "food insecure"?  ... it doesn't mean "eat too much, get a fat ass and feel insecure in those tight jeans".  See the term used before was "HUNGER" but the government didn't like that term because it created a negative image... I wonder why.

WorldHunger.org tells us:

Background: The United States changed the name of its definitions in 2006 that eliminated references to hunger, keeping various categories of food insecurity.  This did not represent a change in what was measured.  Very low food insecurity (described as food insecurity with hunger prior to 2006) means that, at times during the year, the food intake of household members was reduced and their normal eating patterns were disrupted because the household lacked money and other resources for food. This means that people were hungry ( in the sense of "the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food" (Emphasis added)

So, cut food stamps to people who are hungry.

Next is cuts in health care... this whole thing sucks but the gem is "repealing a fund for prevention efforts like cancer screenings and immunizations".  See, let's not give money to prevent diseases and things like cancer because that would mean less people who get them and hospitals, doctors and big Pharma wouldn't make so much money treating them.

Next up, Financial Regulation... haha.  The kicker on this one is how it also "eliminates funding for a new consumer protection bureau and a new mortgage assistance program aimed at helping people modify their home loans".  So take away the protections of the consumer from getting screwed by big corporations, which costs the consumer more money and makes the corps more money but let's also not help the people get better rates on their mortgages.  Another one that will cost the people more money and make the big banks more money.

Federal Employee Pensions:  Yep, you work for the federal government?  Well pay more towards your retirement now... 5% more.  I wonder if this includes Congress-people, the Supreme Court and lower court justices or even the Pres. 

Next is Medical Liability:   This includes "new curbs on medical liability lawsuits, including a $250,000 cap on punitive damages and protections for manufacturers".  See this means that people who prove to a jury or judge that the manufacturer is at fault and is liable can only receive a certain amount, which is so often nothing compared to either the amount the manufacturer makes or the amount the victim or their family lose.  Again, another one where the people lose and this time big Medical wins.

Child tax credits:  Makes people prove that their children are citizens before they get tax credits.  Although I agree that citizens should benefit from their country's money it's a tough call on whether children should take the hit for it.  I'll leave this one to you folks to decide.

The last one needs no second thought:  "which supports numerous programs, including Meals on Wheels, child welfare, day care for both children and adults and help for the disabled".

So ol' Johnny Boehner, the town crier, and his cronies want to basically bring down the deficit by slashing help for the poor, the disabled, the cheated, the injured, the hungry, the working parent and their children, while simultaneously increasing the profits and protections for Big Medical, Big Pharma, liable Manufacturers, and Banks.

You'll notice that not one of those bullet points included a single cut to military spending or many of the other pits that cost the country the most money.

Is there perhaps another way that the money could be raised to cut the deficit while not slashing social services?  How about we make corporations (many of those that this House legislation wants to benefit) pay their fair share in taxes?  I mean they put people in jail for not paying theirs.  But would making corporations pay their fair share in taxes make enough money to make a difference or be worth it?

Think Progress shows how Citizens for Tax Justice found that:

– Thirty corporations paid less than nothing in aggregate federal income taxes over the entire 2008-10 period. These companies, whose pretax U.S. profits totaled $160 billion over the three years, included: Pepco Holdings (–57.6% tax rate), General Electric (–45.3%), DuPont (–3.4%), Verizon (–2.9%), Boeing (–1.8%), Wells Fargo (–1.4%) and Honeywell (–0.7%).

– Seventy-eight of the 280 companies paid zero or less in federal income taxes in at least one year from 2008 to 2010…In the years they paid no income tax, these companies earned $156 billion in pretax U.S. profits. But instead of paying $55 billion in income taxes as the 35 percent corporate tax rate seems to require, these companies generated so many excess tax breaks that they reported negative taxes (often receiving outright tax rebate checks from the U.S. Treasury), totaling $21.8 billion. These companies’ “negative tax rates” mean that they made more after taxes than before taxes in those no-tax years.

 But you might think... there are a lot more than 280 companies in the states.  Well these are 280 out of the Fortune 500!  This means that more than half of the top 500 companies in the US paid zero, zilch, nada, nuffin, squat, shit-all in taxes.  NOT ONE FRIGGIN PENNY!

Some of these companies got so many tax breaks that they reported NEGATIVE TAXES.  The actually got money from the government.  So corporations not only get no punishment for dodging taxes they get paid to do it!  $21.8 BILLION TO DO IT!

See, $55 billion over 3 years would be $183 billion in 10 years (if their profits stayed the same).  Then take away the $21.8 billion they get paid for dodging taxes and over 10 years you'd have an additional $72 billion.  That equals over $255 billion in the same 10 years.  Hell, just make the rest of those tax dodging companies pay their share and you'll hit that $300 billion mark in no time.

Imagine that... corporations actually pay their fair share of taxes and the poor get to keep their social services!

OH NO MR. BILL!  Says the big Boner on the Hill.  And you don't see Obama suggesting this either.  That's the trick of having a government filled with cronies in a fake two-party con... they fight about the issues they want to and neither brings up the real solutions.  If neither of them are talking about it... it must not be worth talking about...

Makes me think of that ol' saying....THROW THE BUMS OUT!


 Thanks for reading!  :D

Coming next... The Truth About Taxes

From today's Guardian.co.uk article entitled:

BS-o-Meter reads Red Hot BS!

Angela Merkel warns UK will struggle alone if it turns against EU

German chancellor prepares to fight PM over implied budget veto threat as he admits no early end in sight for deadlock. - Guardian Article link

OK, this one really shows you how Merkel thinks that she's the queen of the EU.  She's come along way since George Dubya Bush gave her the ol' "I own your ass" massage at the G8 summit back in '06. (click here to reminisce)

Now she's dictating to the U.K. prime minister, David Cameron (another serial Bull Shitter).

We're right in the middle of some seriously red hot and steamy BS here.

Herr Merkel (a.k.a. "the Merkin") had to say to her supposed counterpart in sunny ol' London town:

As the Guardian reports:  In a speech to the European parliament in Brussels before leaving for London, the German leader issued a veiled warning that Britain would struggle alone.

"I want to have a strong UK in the EU," said Merkel in a question and answer session after her address to MEPs. "The UK was with us when we were liberated from national socialism. We still have British soldiers in Germany. I can't imagine that the UK [would] not be part of Europe.

"I think it is good also for the UK to be part of Europe. If you have a world of seven billion, and if you are alone in that world, I don't think that is good for the UK. So I will do everything to keep the UK in the EU as a good partner, and that is why I'm going to London and I will ask the inhabitants of the wonderful island to reflect that they will not be happy if they are alone in this world.

Now let's read between the lies, shall we?


The Merkin is telling the elected head of a sovereign nation (a constitutional monarchy nonetheless but still a severeign nation) that if they don't do what she says that they'll be all alone in the entire world.  "Rrrrrriiiiiiggghhht".  So Nurse Evil now thinks that she has the power to put the UK out in the dog house?  

Let's break down what she says:

"I want to have a strong UK in the EU,"  translates to "If you're not with me, you're against me and I'll make sure you're no longer a strong UK".

 "The UK was with us when we were liberated from national socialism."  tanslates to "you fought us in WWII and helped get us out of being under Nazi control but we don't really owe you shite-all".  (Does she miss those ol' days?)

 "I think it is good also for the UK to be part of Europe. If you have a world of seven billion, and if you are alone in that world, I don't think that is good for the UK."  translates to "Do what the hell I say UK or you'll be alone, cut off, broken".  Like this nuckin-futs, megalomaniacal Frau Blücher thinks that all seven billion people in the world are with her is a wee tad of a stretch, even for her crackness.

So I will do everything to keep the UK in the EU as a good partner, and that is why I'm going to London and I will ask the inhabitants of the wonderful island to reflect that they will not be happy if they are alone in this world.  This one's beautiful... "I'll do anything... dirty pool included, to make damn sure you do this and that you are a good little "step-in-line" partner and that's why I'm going to threaten and scare the people of your wonderful little island into making you do it or suffer my wrath!"

 Another line from the article reads: "With a strong Europe with 500 million we are in favour of freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of religion and democracy."  It's nice to know that she's "in favour" of such things as freedom of speech, expression, religion and democracy.  Most people might normally say that they "believe" in such things or that they're "founded upon such core human principles" but ... no... she's "in favour" of them.  See the thing about being in favour of something so fundamental to us is that when she falls out of favour with them... well.. then what is she in favour of next?

Let's let her answer that question...

BS-o-Meter: Angela Merkel calls for Eurozone Countries to Surrender Sovereignty

I've been writing this blog for years but only in my mind so it's finally time to "lay it down and smack-em yack-em".  And yes stewardess, I speak Jive!

This blog is dedicated to reading between the lies of the news media and bringing about the real messages (according to Hoyle) that are hidden, in plain site, between the lines. 

To start off I just have to pick this beauty!

From yesterday's Guardian.co.uk article entitled:

BS-o-Meter reads Max BS!

Merkel calls for eurozone countries to surrender key tax-and-spend powers

Prescription aimed at rescuing the single currency is one that other member nations may find hard to swallow. - Guardian Article link

Well, whether they spit or swallow, Merkel and the 4th Reich, will be trying to shove it down their throats at the point of a financial blade.  The only prescription she needs is for some heavy anti-psychotics and maybe a good neutering but that doesn't change the fact that she's really letting this go to her head.

On the BS-o-Meter this one blows the top!

Let's take a look at what Herr Merkel says ("that's no woman, she's a man, man!"):

Merkel called for a major centralisation in Brussels of sovereign national powers in sensitive areas of fiscal, budgetary and economic policies, arguing that action already taken during three years of euro crisis had only left the job half-done. "Stronger economic policy co-ordination will also perhaps be needed in areas that affect the core of national sovereignty. I'm thinking of sensitive policy areas such as labour market and tax policy," the chancellor said. "We need solutions creating a sensible balance between the necessary new intervention rights at the European level and the scope for action of the member states and their parliaments. The European institutions must be strengthened to allow them to correct mistakes and breaches of the rules effectively."

Now let's read between the lies, shall we?

Merkel is telling the leaders of the individual sovereign countries that they need to give up their sovereignty, ergo, their powers to govern, to the EU.  Though it doesn't quite say "giving up their powers to govern" it does take most of the power of money out of their hands.  That's the first step to complete control by the EU Federal government.

Now Brussels being in Belgium, which has already succeeded in removing its constitutional government from its picture, has become the new Federal zone of the EU.  It's kind of like D.C..  See few of you may know this but Belgium is a monarchy... yep, that's right... it's a kingdom (like the U.K.).  It just has (or had) a constitution in place to protect the rights of its subjects.  Well, no government means no elected officials and no power to the people.

Why would Belgium be without a government for 450 days now?  Hmmm... that's another BS-o-Meter chart topper... the point is, as stated above, it's the new D.C. for the upcoming Federal European Nation of States or as I call it - the Onerous Federal Nation of Draconian States (OFENDS).  You know, just like the United States of America... a nation that is getting rid of its constitution as fast as federally possible, the EU is seeking to remove all sovereignty from its member states. 

Herr Merkel wants to put all of the power of taxing, spending and even punishment for not doing so correctly (i.e. in a way that tickles the Furious Fuehrer) into the hands of the European central government.  But who pulls Herr Merkel's strings?  Who pulls the EC's stings?

That's an easy one.  Follow the money!

In the same article we read more of the lies between the lines:

Merkel also called for greater harmonisation in regulation of the financial markets across Europe and supported the contested idea of making the European Central Bank in Frankfurt the new supervisor of the eurozone's banking sector.

If you're not covering your nose by now then you may want to.

The European Central Bank is supposed to become the supervisor of the eurozone's banking... ergo, they become the boss of Europe's money, hence the real bosses of Europe.  Another parallel to the USA... they're primed to step right into the position self-served by the Federal Reserve in the US.

How do they get so many of these countries to accept this BS?

As this is from a timeline posting it may not be live when you click on it but I have to quote one line from it.

And what an exciting day it's been, with the Greek parliament narrowly approving the country's €13.5bn austerity package after a tense vote, a long debate, and occasional moments of farce in the Athens assembly. - Guardian Article Link

 I would say that the poor people of Greece wouldn't quite say it was "an exciting day".

You see that's the trick... Austerity measures, bailouts and sovereign debt.  This is the biggest swindle I've seen pulled (after 9/11 of course).  You see it works like this:

The European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (a.k.a. "The Troika") get together and say, "the private banks in your country (Greece, Spain, Italy, etc) which are having "liquidity problems" require "capitalization" therefore we 3 will lend your government the money that will go to "capitalize" the banks and you, government, will be on the hook for it.  This means that your tax-payers will be on the hook for it because the government can't just print money to cover the debt... Central Banks create money, governments don't.  They use a scam called "Credit Rating" to pull it all off.  You see a country can be solid and have value to its bonds and be doing alright but the Troika call up their financial assassins at Moody's, Fitch and Standard and Poors to cut the rating of the country's credit which makes them less-able to raise money.  This gets trumpeted by the multinational corporate-owned media outlets (parrots, I call them) and people treat that country like a one-legged leper whore. They then come in and offer a "bail out" because its in the interest of all of the EU and you, the country, are pushed, pulled, prodded, and in the end, forced to take it.

The hat trick is that the money at first goes through the government and straight to the banks.  That's right kiddies, it doesn't go to run the country, or to pay for services, or build roads.  It goes to the banks who caused the "crisis" (well, depression) in the first place.  Then eventually, after further payments, the payments end up going right back to the troika as interest payments on the loan.  Yep, I loan you $100 bucks but the interest is so high on it that you can only pay back a fraction of the interest, not touching the principal, and so I loan you another round and 85% of it goes right back to me in interest payments, cuz you gotta pay interest on the 2nd loan too.  The rest of it goes to the banks, the politicians, the private companies... not to the people.

Then they pull this crap about needing to reduce the deficit (this BS deficit just explained) and so the first on the chopping block are social services.  So, the people are on the hook for a loan they didn't ask for, didn't receive, didn't need and their social services are cut, their economy is ruined, their people are more and more out of work, and they're too busy trying to survive that they can't fight back.

Again, follow the money upstream.  It goes right into the coffers of the European Central Bank. 

Therefore when Herr Merkel and the troika of the EC say they want your government's sovereignty, they mean to take it, that is unless they can convince you, as this article says (between the lines), to give it up yourself.

They love it when you give up your rights...willingly!