You Pay Whaaaaaat With Your Taxes?

     

I am a "Public employee"...The community I work in pays $27 per Household (3-7) people for services per year.  So, if there's 4 people per household, that's about $6.75 per person per year and that's less than 50 cents per month!  That sure as Hell ISN'T Paying Anyones' Salary, let alone for "services".



As for my "Pension", we have an Employee Owned Pension Plan, which I contribute to, but my Employer Does NOT.  They do, however, from time-to-time try to "borrow" from My Private Pension Fund, but they sure as Hell don't own it...nor do the "tax payers" of which I am one. Not to mention Every-Single-One of my family are Tax-payers as well!


How about looking at the waste of funds that go to the salaries, perks, health insurance packages & pensions of the City Council, Board of Supervisors,  Mayors, & State & Federal Legislature...all the while they waste our taxes and still take "contributions" & "gifts" from Big Business & Mega-Corporations.

How about the "bail-out" funds for the banks, oil companies, the oil spill clean-up for which BP should be paying, the $$$ we pay Blackwater, the $$$$ we give Senior non-citizens for Medicare & Social Security (into which they have NEVER paid a penny), $$$$ for a war in the Middle East where we have No Business being, $$$$ for terrorism against Palestine (whose land it was to begin with)?   HUH?   This is what your taxes are really paying for.......


Please STOP the BS & the Lies..... Open your eyes people, put the responsibility where it belongs, with those who supposedly represent us, but instead choose to represent the special interest groups who pay them behind our backs.....So keeping that in mind......My employer Does NOT pay into Social Security for me, I had to get another job (self-employed) for that and pay into it Myself. 

Speaking With Our Heart: E;ders' Meditation: March 3, 2009

".the voice and the heart are not working together."

--Barney Bush, SHAWNEE

We can say any words we want with our voice but we cannot hide the true meaning and the true spirit behind the words. The true meaning is always understood. The voice is heard in the physical world, but the meaning is transmitted in the spiritual world. if our voice says one thing but the heart is saying something else, it's the something else that is heard. It is said that the truth will set you free. Reaching the truth means your voice and your words will be in alignment with the heart.

Great Spirit, let my tongue, speak the truth today.

It's amazing how true this is in everyday life...there are so many people who are "nice and smiling" when they talk to you, but you know they have ulterior motives.... It's like working with a pack of hyenas.

Then there are those, who can not even say what is in their hearts...they can't talk about matters of the heart...they hide in silence, they suffer in silence, and they allow love to pass them by.

We have to be open hearted, we have to come from love..we have to remember we are all interconnected. When we hide our love, when we hide our hearts, not only do we ourselves suffer, but so does everyone we come in contact with and the people they come in contact with...and so on...it's a chain....

This is something I am working on, because when I "see" peoples motives (and I do), I try and protect myself by closing my heart...and in the end I hurt myself.

Truth: Elders' Meditation: February 2, 2009

"You can't just sit down and talk about the truth. It doesn't work that way. You have to live it and be part of it and you might get to know it."

--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE

We all read books that have much information in them. Often we pick up on little sayings that we remember. Inside of us is the little owl, the owl of knowing. It talks to us- guiding us and nurturing us. Often when we get information, it's hard to live by, but it's easy to talk about. It's living the Red Road that counts-Walk the Talk. If we really want freedom in our lives, if we really want to be happy, if we really want to have peace of mind, it's the truth we must seek.

My Creator, help me in my search for the truth today.



So, for me, it's like this way... You can lie to those you come in contact with, and they will Never (maybe) know. You can lie to yourself, but eventually those lies will turn on you and bite yer bum...but you Can NOT lie to Creator.

Lying takes so very much energy, and then you have to remember whom you told what... and your life it becomes all twisted and like a nightmare.

Lying, it causes so very much hurt, to others and to yourself. It can destroy you and your loved ones and your relationships with others.

Truth, when presented in a brutal manner can hurt as well, as can the absence of words, those things hidden by silence and/or omission.....but honesty, presented w/ empathy and caring for another person's feelings... well it is a healing thing.

We owe it to ourselves, our loved ones and the world at large to be honest in our lives. Everything would be so much easier if the lies ended.