2/1/10 Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk: Spending Freeze Not Likely
http://www.house.gov/paul
http://CampaignForLiberty.com
Last week politicians in Washington made a few things clear about how they really feel about the state of the union. First, they are beginning to hear the growing discontent with the size and scope of government and the broken promises that keep piling up. Certain events in Massachusetts recently made that statement loud, clear and unavoidable. In the face of those events, the powers that be made the determination that some populist rhetoric was in order, and the idea of a spending freeze in Washington was proposed, albeit with several caveats. These caveats to the proposed spending freeze ensure that we are not at any real risk of actually doing anything about spending.
First of all is timing. It wouldnt go into effect until 2011, which allows plenty of time to increase spending levels quite a bit before they are frozen. If the administration really understood and cared about our spending problems they would not freeze spending a year from now, but cut spending immediately and significantly. But, spending cuts almost never happen in Washington, and they are not likely now or a year from now if the politicians have anything to say about it.
The second caveat is the huge areas of the budget that are shielded from this freeze. The entire State Department budget is exempt, as are all entitlements, all military industrial spending and almost all foreign aid. Fully 7/8 of federal spending is excluded from this freeze, and some areas to be frozen were actually set to decrease, which means a freeze actually guarantees a higher level of spending.
Especially insulting is the idea that in spite of our own fiscal problems at home, taxpayer dollars will continue to be sent overseas in the form of foreign aid where it often does more harm than good. When need is demonstrated to Americans and they can afford it, they can be counted on for a tremendous outpouring of private, voluntary charity to worthy aid organizations, as we recently saw in Haiti. By contrast, government-to-government aid is taken from the poor by force and too often enriches the corrupt. It is counterproductive and wasteful. But the idea of eliminating, freezing, or reducing foreign aid is not up for serious debate any time soon.
The third caveat is what is included in the freeze that would make it politically impossible to pass Congress, for example air traffic controllers salaries, education, farm subsidies and national parks.
I do not necessarily want a cut in spending in this country – I just want to change who does the spending. The spending should be done by the people who earn the money, if they choose, and on what they choose, without any government interference. That is what makes the economy work. Politicians should stick to the very limited roles given them by the constitution instead of allocating such a sizeable portion of our capital and intervening through regulations and tax policy. But because politicians have disregarded the constitution, and the people have no idea what rule they will break next, there is already a very real spending freeze underway in this economy, by the people. If government would stick only to what it was authorized to do, and leave the rest to the people, most of these problems would resolve themselves.
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2 WD SA Findings Straight Talk to Strengthen Delivery Part 2 0f 2
This is the second of two parts and summarises the findings of The Water Dialogues – South Africa process, and is based on the synthesis report of the same name. Produced by Liane Greeff with editorial support from Mary Galvin, the Coordinator of The WD-SA.
The Water Dialogues-South Africa (WD-SA) is a national multi-stakeholder dialogue process and research project analysing the role of the public and private sectors in the delivery of universal water and sanitation in the country. See: http://www.waterdialogues.org/south-africa/
The aim was to examine how the choice of water services provider from public to private– affected the delivery of water and sanitation in very different municipal contexts. Were they able to deliver effective, equitable, and sustainable water supply and sanitation, provided affordably to all? These chapters are based on the DVD entitled ‘Enhancing Delivery through Dialogue’ which captured the process, and outcomes of The Water Dialogues South Africa, and visited six of the eight case studies where in-depth research was undertaken.
All music provided by Roy MacGregor. Filming was undertaken by both Roy and Liane, and photographs came from a broad range of sources who are credited at the end of the video.
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Mama Talk To Your Daughter , Sweet Home Chicago – Magic Sam
Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Magic Sam
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues – A Musical Journey (Disc 4)
Sweet Home Chicago
Magic Sam
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Sam
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Magic Sam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel “Magic Sam” Gene Maghett (February 14, 1937 December 1, 1969) was an American blues musician. Maghett was born in Grenada, Mississippi and learned to play the blues from listening to records by Muddy Waters and Little Walter. After moving to Chicago at the age of nineteen, he was signed by Cobra Records and became well known as a bluesman after his first record, “All Your Love” in 1957. He had several more hits and became very popular. He was known for his distinctive tremolo guitar playing.[1]
Life and career
After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1950, his guitar playing earned bookings at blues clubs in Chicago’s West Side. Sam recorded for the Cobra label from 1957 to 1959, recording singles, including “All Your Love” and “Easy Baby”. They never appeared on the charts yet they had a profoud influence, far beyond Chicago’s guitarists and singers. Together with the records of Otis Rush (also a Cobra artist) and Buddy Guy, they made a manifesto for a new kind of blues.[2] Around this time Sam also worked briefly with Homesick James Williamson.[2] Sam gained a following before being drafted into the Army. Not a natural soldier, Sam deserted after a couple of weeks’ service and was subsequently caught and sentenced to six months imprisonment. He was given a dishonourable discharge on release, but the experience had undermined his confidence and immediate recordings for Mel London’s Chief Records lacked the purpose of their predecessors.[3]
In 1963, he gained national attention for his single “Feelin’ Good (We’re Gonna Boogie)”. After successful touring of the United States, UK and Germany, he was signed to Delmark Records in 1967, where he recorded West Side Soul and Black Magic. He also continued performing live and toured with blues harp player Charlie Musselwhite.
Sam’s breakthrough performance was at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969,[4] which won him many bookings in the United States and Europe. His life and career was cut short when he suddenly died of a heart attack in December of the same year. He was 32 years old. He was buried in the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
His guitar style, vocals and songwriting ability have inspired and influenced many blues musicians ever since. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues dedicates the band’s performance of “Sweet Home Chicago” to the “late, great Magic Sam”.
In 1982, Sam was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
The stage name Magic Sam was devised by Sam’s bass player and childhood friend Mack Thompson at Sam’s first recording session for Cobra, from an approximation of “Maghett Sam”. The name Sam was using at the time, Good Rocking Sam, was already being used by another artist.[5]
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“Magic Sam had a different guitar sound,” said his record producer, Willie Dixon. “Most of the guys were playing the straight 12-bar blues thing, but the harmonies that he carried with the chords was a different thing altogether. This tune “All Your Love”, he expressed with such an inspirational feeling with his high voice. You could always tell him, even from his introduction to the music.” [2]
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The 20 Greatest Blues Albums Of All-Time (29 April 2007) —
The Blues are the foundation of almost every important musical genre of the 20th century from Jazz to Rock to Soul to Funk to Hip-Hop and beyond. As Willie Dixon so eloquently put it, The Blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits. Here are 20 Blues albums that should be a part of any serious music collection:
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McCain’s samsung sch-r451c with straight talk wireless review
samsung sch-r451c with straight talk wireless review
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Kind words from Arizona senator John McCainKamelle Toe – Dolly Parton – Straight Talk
Kamelle Toe gives it to us straight(ish) for FREQUEENCY at The Odyssey Nightclub
June 9, 2009
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Presidential Debate 1: John McCain vs. Barack Obama
First debate between the 2 Presidential hopefuls.
Starring Jason Kelley and Phillip Wilburn
Written by
Jason Kelley Matt Manser Tom Repetto and Phillip Wilburn
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1/25/10 Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk: Legalize Competing Currencies
http://house.gov/paul
http://CampaignForLiberty.com
Much has been made recently about the supposed economic recovery. A few blips in a few statistics and many believe our troubles are all over. Of course, they have to redefine recovery as jobless to account for the lack of improvement on Main Street. But the banks have money, Wall Street is chugging along, and the administration would like to get on with other agendae.
They have even set up a commission to investigate the crisis as if it were all in the past.
The truth is that Americans are still losing jobs, the Fed is still inflating, and more regulations are in the works that will prevent jobs and productivity from coming back. We are on this trajectory for the long haul. The claim has been made many times that this administration has only had a year to clean up the mess of the last administration. I wish they would at least get started! Instead of reversing course, they are maintaining Bushs policies full speed ahead. They are even keeping the Bush-appointee in charge of the Federal Reserve! They are not even making token efforts at change in economic policy. And for all the talk of transparency, we hear that some powerful senators will do all they can to block a simple audit of the powerful and secretive Federal Reserve.
We have been on a disastrous course for a long time. The money supply has doubled in the last year, our debt is unsustainable, the value of the dollar is going to continue its drop, and those Americans who understand where we are headed feel helpless and held hostage by foolish policy makers in Washington. When the bills finally come due and the dollar stops working we are in for some real social, economic and political chaos. That is, unless we take some major steps now to allow for a peaceful transition in the future. These steps are laid out in my legislation to legalize competing currencies.
First of all, no one should be compelled by law to operate in Federal Reserve notes if they prefer an alternative. We should repeal legal tender laws and allow Americans to conduct transactions in constitutional money. Only gold and silver can constitutionally be legal tender, not paper money. Instead, it is illegal to conduct business using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve notes. Simply legalizing the Constitution should be a no-brainer to anyone who took an oath of office. Consequently, private mints should be allowed to mint gold and silver coins. They would be subject to fraud and counterfeit laws, of course, and people would be free to use their coins or stay with Federal Reserve notes, as they see fit. Finally, we should abolish taxes on gold and silver, which puts precious metals at a competitive disadvantage to paper money.
The Federal Reserve is a government-sanctioned banking cartel that has held far too much power for far too long and is in the end stages of running the dollar into the ground, and our economy along with it. The very least Congress can do, if they are not willing to abolish the Fed, and perhaps not even conduct a serious audit of it, is to allow citizens the freedom to defend themselves from being completely wiped out by their monopoly power.
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For Straight Talk can i use my old phone that im using now or do i have to buy a straight talk phone?
I was thinking about switching to straight talk but i want to use my old phone can i?
Unfortunately at the moment we are stuck with the phone they provide 
if you are going to get one I recommend the Samsung R451C (it has a qwerty keyboard) review below