Friday, February 26, 2016

Fed Financials: Support Silver Senator 2016 Here Now

US government releases 2015 financial statements



US government just published audited financial statements this morning, signed by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.

These reports are intended provide an accurate accounting of government finances, just as any big corporation does.
US government’s financial condition declined significantly from the previous year.

For 2015, US government reports $3.2 trillion total assets.

This includes everything from financial assets like bank balances to physical assets like tanks, bullets, aircraft carriers, and the federal highway system.

Curiously, the single biggest line item among these listed assets is the $1.2 trillion student loans owed to the US government by the young people of America.

37% of US government’s total reported assets are student loans, now considered one of the most precarious bubbles in finance.

$1.2 trillion is similar to the size of the subprime mortgage market back in 2008. 

Student loan delinquency rates are rising, now 11.5% according to Federal Reserve data.

So much of the federal government’s asset base is tantamount to indentured servitude as young people pay off expensive university degrees that barely land them jobs making coffee at Starbucks.

On the other side of the equation are a reported $21.5 trillion in liabilities, giving US government an official net worth of negative $18.2 trillion.

This is lower than last year’s negative $17.7 trillion and $16.9 trillion the year prior.

Each year these financial statements are audited by the government’s in-house agency known as the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

All big companies publish financial statements reviewed by an independent audit firm.

Auditors are a critical component of the financial reporting process.

It’s their responsibility to make sure shareholders and the public can have confidence in financial statements.

When Apple publishes an annual report, auditors go through all the assets and books of the company to make sure management accurately represents the company’s true condition.

When an auditor issues a failing grade, or what’s known as a qualified opinion, there’s hell to pay.

At the very hint of impropriety a company’s stock price tanks immediately. People get fired. SEC investigations are launched.

Based on US securities law and section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act from 2002, senior executives face criminal charges if their companies receive a failing grade from their auditors.

Year after year the GAO gives the federal government a failing grade in its audit report of America’s financial statements.

In this latest report, not only did GAO chastise the federal government for its “unsustainable fiscal path”, they stated US federal government consistently failed to prepare “reliable and complete financial information– both for individual federal entities and for the federal government as a whole.”

Department of Defense, Department of Housing Urban Development, and Department of Agriculture were all singled out for their failure to prepare complete and accurate financial statements.

This was corroborated by a report published last year stating, the Defense Department somehow “misplaced” $8.5 trillion of taxpayer money over the last 20 years.

GAO cited other material weaknesses in government reporting of supposed cost reductions in Medicare and Social Security.

In all, the GAO calculates US government financial uncertainties total $27.9 trillion, suggesting government’s true financial condition may be far worse than reported.

Bottom line– if this were a private company, Barack Obama and Jack Lew might be wearing dayglo orange jumpsuits in court while facing felony fraud charges.

It’s not just the $18.2 trillion in negative net worth. 

Or the $41+ trillion (by their own calculations) in the Social Security shortfall.

It’s the fact that they can’t even stand in front of the American people with an honest accounting of how pitiful the financial situation really is.

The government of the United States is totally, desperately, hopelessly bankrupt. 

US government becomes even more insolvent with each passing year.

Nearly every single dominant superpower throughout history was eventually consumed by unsustainable finances.

In their decline from power, bankrupt governments relied on a simple playbook to try to maintain the status quo by every means available.

They went to war.

They destroyed freedom. 

They imposed a police and surveillance state. 

They seized assets and wages. 

They waged campaigns of violence and intimidation.

They imposed capital controls. Cash controls. People controls. Whatever it took.

This time is no different. 

The finances of the US government are clear, as is the trend.

We’re not talking about what ‘might happen’ or ‘could happen’. 

We’re talking about what IS happening.

This is not a risk consequence free environment.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Accountability, Apology, Responsibility: Support Silver Senator 2016 Here Now

The South Carolina Democrat Primary is Saturday 27 February 2016 

http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-presidential-primary-schedule-calendar/2016-south-carolina-primary/ 

The outcome could be an upset.

Here is the issue: (Video disappeared)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4I0Xj-2wUQ 4:56 



https://youtu.be/dwnDkUCI-rM 3:46

Here another video link with a viewer comment 
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bit.ly/1TcL5Ac   4:56



Leftist hypocrites like Hillary Clinton have successfully exacerbated and exploited racial tensions for a long time, and it serves them right to be hoisted by their own petard.


And here is the relevant comment and call to action by Activist Tim Black:

https://youtu.be/pE6KedYBBFE 5:16

Not everyone recalls the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was also the longest-serving US Senator, one of many Democrats that opposed desegregation and civil rights imposed by the federal government with an 83-day filibuster against the Constitutional Civil Rights Act. He also opposed the Constitutional Voting Rights Act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd  


It is well beyond time for US to take back our destiny and replace the Warfare Welfare Party by electing Constitutional Freedom, Peace and Prosperity Independents.

We the citizens of Nevada and the United States of America are done paying for unconstitutional government.

Fellow citizens, our mutual prosperity depends upon due process, free economy, free elections, free speech, integrity, legal protection of liberty, life, property and self-defense.

Therefore we are the leading US Nevada Constitutional Independent Candidate for liberty, life, peace and prosperity.

We are not funded by special warfare welfare interests with anti-American conflicts of interest.

Thus we count on your self-interest and support now to win Independent Constitutional Representative Leadership for you and yours from 2016 to 2022:

Let's feel free to cancel paper propaganda, cut cable umbilical cords, eschew social media espionage, stop the cheaters, turn off TV brainwash, to think for ourselves, our business, our family, our freedom, our friends, our community, our country, our property, our state, our power.

Let's give, get out and about, to help US win freedom, peace, prosperity and American values.

Thank you.

Richard Charles
SilverSenator2016@gmail.com
PO Box 1018
Crystal Bay
Nevada 89402-1018

(702) 569-9493

Now is the Time



Wednesday, February 24, 2016

HRC Backed by Major Republican Donors: Support Silver Senator 2016 Here Now

Hillary Clinton Is Backed by Major Republican Donors



Eric Zuesse


An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romney’s campaign were already donating more to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign than they had been donating to any one of the 2016 campaigns of — listed here in declining order below  Clinton — Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore. 

Those major Romney donors also gave a little to two Democrats (other than to Hillary — who, as mentioned, received a lot of donations from these Republican donors): Martin O’Malley, Jim Web, and Lawrence Lessig. 

(Romney’s donors gave nothing to Bernie Sanders, and nothing to Elizabeth Warren. They don’t want either of those people to become President.)




In ascending order above Clinton, Romney’s donors were donating to: John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush. 

The top trio — of Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — together, received around 60% of all the money donated for the 2016 race by the people who had funded Mitt Romney’s 2012 drive for the White House.  


So: the Democrat Hillary Clinton scored above 14 candidates, and below 6 candidates. 

She was below 6 Republican candidates, and she was above 11 Republican candidates (Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, and Jim Gilmore). 

The 6 candidates she scored below were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, and John Kasich.


This means that, in the entire 17-candidate Republican  field, she drew more Republican money than did any one of 11 of the Republican candidates, but less Republican money than did any one of 6 of them. 

So, if she were a Republican (in what would then have been an 18-candidate Republican field for 2016), she would have been the 7th-from-the-top recipient of Romney-donor money.


Therefore, to Republican donors, Hillary Clinton is a more attractive prospect for the U.S. Presidency than was 64% of the then-current  17-member Republican field of candidates.


Another way to view this is that, to Republican donors, a President Hillary Clinton was approximately as attractive a Presidential prospect to lead the nation as was a President Graham, or a President Kasich — and was a more attractive prospective President than a President Lindsey Graham, a President Rand Paul, a President Carly Fiorina, a President Chris Christie, a President Rick Perry, a President Mike Huckabee, a President Bobby Jindal, a President Rick Santorum, a President George Pataki or a President Donald Trump.


To judge from Clinton’s actual record of policy-decisions, and excluding any consideration of her current campaign-rhetoric (which is directed only at Democratic voters), all three of those candidates who were in Clinton’s Republican-donor league — Graham, Clinton, and Kasich — would, indeed, be quite similar, from the perceived self-interest standpoint of the major Republican donors.


As to whether any one of those three candidates as President would be substantially worse for Republican donors than would any one of the Republican big-three — Bush, Cruz, and Rubio — a person can only speculate.


However, the main difference between Clinton and the Republican candidates is certainly the rhetoric, not  the reality. 

The reason for that Democratic rhetoric is that Ms. Clinton is competing right now only  for Democratic votes, while each one of the Republican candidates is competing right now only  for Republican votes.


Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric is liberal, but her actual actions in politics have been conservative, except for her nominal support for liberal initiatives that attracted even some Republican support, or else that the Senate vote-counts (at the time when she was in the Senate) indicated in-advance had no real chance of becoming passed into law. 

In other words: her record was one of rhetoric and pretense on a great many issues, and of meaningful action on only issues that wouldn’t embarrass her in a Democratic primary campaign, to attract Democratic voters.


In terms of her actual record in U.S. public office, it’s indistinguishable from that of Republican politicians in terms of corruption, and it’s indistinguishable from Republican politicians in terms of the policies that she carried out as the U.S. Secretary of State for four years. 

Her record shows her to be clearly a Republican on both matters (notwithstanding that her rhetoric has been to the exact contrary on both matters).


In a general-election contest against the Republican nominee, Clinton would move more toward the ideological center, and so also would any one of the Republican candidates, who would be nominated by Republican primaries and so running against her in the general election, to draw votes from the center as well as from the right. 

The rhetorical contest would be between a center-right Clinton and a slightly farther-right Republican; but, at present, the rhetorical contest is starkly  different on the Democratic side than it is on the Republican side, simply because the candidates are trying right now to appeal to their own Party’s electorate (Democrats=left; Republicans=right) during the primary phase of the campaign, not addressing themselves now to the entire electorate (as during the general-election campaign).


Only in the general-election contest do all of the major candidates’ rhetoric tend more toward the center. 

The strategic challenge in the general election is to retain enough appeal to the given nominee’s Party-base so as to draw them to the polls on Election Day, while, at the same time, being close enough to the political center so as to attract independent voters and crossover voters from the other side.


A good example of the fudging that typically occurs during the general-election phase would be the 2012 contest itself. 

Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney drew closer to the rhetorical center during the general-election matchup; but they were actually much more similar to each other than their rhetoric ever  was. 

(After all, Obamacare was patterned upon Romneycare.) 

During the general-election Romney-Obama contest, Romney famously said that Russia “is without question our number one geopolitical foe, they fight for every cause for the world’s worst actors.” 


But, now, as President, Obama’s own National Security Strategy 2015  refers to Russia on 17 of the 18 occasions where it employs the term “aggression,” and he doesn’t refer even once to Saudi Arabia that way, even though the Saudi royal family (who control that country) have been the major funders of Al Qaeda, and though 15 of the 19 perpetrators on 9/11 were Saudis — none of them was Russian — and though 92% of the citizenry in the nation that the Saud family owns and whose ‘news’ media and clerics drum into those people’s heads the holiness of jihad, approve of ISIS (which the Saud family prohibit inside Saudi Arabia even while supporting and funding the jihadists in Syria and elsewhere), and though the Sauds as the country’s leaders are using American weapons and training to bomb and starve-to-death Yemenis. 

Instead of calling the Saudi regime “aggressors,” we supply arms to them, and cooperate with them against their major oil-competitor, Russia. 

(For example, we arm the Saudi-funded jihadists that Russia is bombing in Syria, because Syria is a key potential pipeline route into Europe for Saudi oil and Qatari gas, to replace Russian oil and gas in Europe. 

So, we support the jihadists, even though Obama’s rhetoric opposes them — and even though Obama [allegedly] killed Osama bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda was funded mainly by the Saud family and their friends. 

Hillary Clinton is even more hawkish against Russia than is Obama. 

She would be even better for Republican donors than Obama has been.)



Romney could have said the same, if he had been elected. 


The reality turned out to be far more like Romney, than like Obama’s campaign rhetoric had ever been. 

Similarly, on Obama’s trade-deals (TPP, TTIP, and TISA), he has been very much what would have been expected from Romney, though Obama in the 2008 Democratic Presidential primaries had campaigned against Hillary Clinton for her having supported and helped to pass NAFTA. 



What Hillary’s fairly strong appeal to Romney’s financial backers shows is that the wealthy, because of their access to leaders in government, know and recognize the difference between what a candidate says in public, versus what the winning public official has said to them (in private) and actually does  while serving in office. 

They know that she keeps her promises to them, not  her promises to the electorate.


Hillary Clinton is a good investment for a billionaire — even  for the 70% of them who are Republicans. 

And, based on those 2015 donation-figures, it seems that they would prefer a President Hillary Clinton, over a President Donald Trump. 

However, their three favorite candidates, in order, were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. 

But, in a Clinton-versus-Trump contest, Hillary Clinton would likely draw more money from Republican mega-donors than Trump would, and, of course, she would draw virtually all of the money from Democratic mega-donors. 

In such an instance, Hillary Clinton would probably draw a larger campaign-chest (especially considering super-pacs) than any candidate for any political office in U.S. (or global) history. 

Hillary Clinton would almost certainly be the most-heavily-marketed political product in history, if she becomes nominated and ends up running against Trump.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of  They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of  CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/02/hillary-clinton-backed-major-republican-donors.html

It is well beyond time for US to take back our destiny and replace the Warfare Welfare Party by electing Constitutional Freedom, Peace and Prosperity Independents.

We the citizens of Nevada and the United States of America are done paying for unconstitutional government.

Fellow citizens, our mutual prosperity depends upon due process, free economy, free elections, free speech, integrity, legal protection of liberty, life, property and self-defense.

Therefore we are the leading US Nevada Constitutional Independent Candidate for liberty, life, peace and prosperity.

We are not funded by special warfare welfare interests with anti-American conflicts of interest.

Thus we count on your self-interest and support now to win Independent Constitutional Representative Leadership for you and yours from 2016 to 2022:

Let's feel free to cancel paper propaganda, cut cable umbilical cords, eschew social media espionage, stop the cheaters, turn off TV brainwash, to think for ourselves, our business, our family, our freedom, our friends, our community, our country, our property, our state, our power.

Let's give, get out and about, to help US win freedom, peace, prosperity and American values.

Thank you.

Richard Charles
SilverSenator2016@gmail.com
PO Box 1018
Crystal Bay
Nevada 89402-1018

(702) 569-9493

Now is the Time

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Trump: Support Silver Senator 2016 Here Now



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WUVP6l9Das 12:27












Let's feel free to cancel paper propaganda, cut cable umbilical cords, eschew social media espionage, stop the cheaters, turn off TV brainwash, to think for ourselves, our business, our family, our freedom, our friends, our community, our country, our property, our state, our power.

Let's give, get out and about, to help US win freedom, peace, prosperity and American values.

Thank you.

Richard Charles
SilverSenator2016@gmail.com
PO Box 1018
Crystal Bay
Nevada 89402-1018

(702) 569-9493

Now is the Time