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is the irs legitimate?
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april 2013 • #143
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A Letter froM the puBLISher
Now I may not be considered the most bleeding heart of neo-conservative liberal libertarian, but I have to admit after reading the headlines for the past month: here we have an American President who is ready to recalibrate the way we use our federal moneys, and use them for peaceful operations of reconstructing our own nation and maintaining a standard of living and continued job creation for folks that call this place home — and he’s met by a bunch of transparent zealots whose only objective seems to be stockpiling the military industrial complex.
Making no mention of the trillions our nation spends on things that go “kaboom,” they dictate a status quo that only fuels the frustration of returning veterans, who may be realizing upon return their service was in vain.
The world, as democracy has inspired and proved, is not wont to be forcibly occu- pied, but rather, if the rationale is straight and true, possibly ideologically occupied. if we can create the most peaceful, intelligent country on earth than we must be doing something right, and the world will follow without the prod of the rifle.
We don’t need to keep making the financial pots of these corporate giants bigger by gains realized with the desecration of human life, but by the uplifting of Ameri- can life. These same corporations who would build an annual $1.4 trillion offensive initiative based on bombs, drones, and fighter jets could readily retool their factories to make the solar panels, wind farms, and free energy we require to keep us out of combat territory in the first place.
The technology is there for a better world, a world without hunger, a world without poverty, a world without geo-political engineering, and it starts with America First.
here’s to good reading! Charles Seiverd • charles@thenoise.us
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