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TAX DEATH & TAXES TREND

There are only two guarantees in life: death and taxes. Taxes during your lifetime. Taxes after your lifetime. The whole cycle of life is becoming one large circle of taxation. As we Americans gather all the paperwork to file the dreaded 1040 by the April 15th deadline, we have little time to pause to reflect on the fact that the U.S. government has now surpassed 1.3 times the United States' total Domestic Gross Product (DGP) in deficits. That is debt. That means that if every single dime of collective wealth, products and services, generated by this nation for an entire calendar year, went directly to the US Treasury to pay down the US government debt obligations, we taxpayers would still not pay it off. We'd still be in a hole, a deep hole. A sinkhole that grows by hundreds of millions of dollars a day. It is totally out of control, like a runaway locomotive running at top speed toward the washed out bridge over the canyon gorge.

The government has gorged on the cheap dollars, easy debt markets for so long, that many politicians only solution to the debt problem is to borrow more money to meet current obligations. Of course this is insane. The people who brought this monetary nuclear holocaust to our doorstep are the brainless zombies who think they have the solution to their self-promoting problem. Insert old adage here: you get what you pay for. A wooden nickel politician will get you in a shell game every time.

But the federal government problem is not the only one. More than a dozen states are running huge deficits. Several states, including California and Illinois, are so underwater that the state controllers cannot pay the state's daily operating expenses. Those states are financially bankrupt. Billions in debt. In most cases, with no one out of the huge problem of pork spending that they created during the alleged good times. Now, in a recession, their mistakes have been multiplied by ten fold. And the local government leadership solution to these fiscal nightmares? You guessed right: borrow more money, start new spending programs - - - spend our way to prosperity.

It takes ten private sector jobs to support one government job. If the private sector is not creating or maintaining high paying jobs, then it takes twenty-five low paying or part time workers to support one government job. What is the number one employer in the past year? Government jobs. How can we afford them with allegedly official unemployment levels at more than 11 percent (real underemployment at 20 percent)? The answer is simple: we cannot afford them.

So the final solution is to tax the public more and more. For each tax dollar taken, that means one less dollar to be spent in the private sector. The private sector contracts, so there are less overall income to generate tax dollars. This leads the politicians to raise taxes because they are not getting enough tax dollars, which further weakens the private sector; creating a downward spiral of hard times. When it gets really bad, the IRS will have to start generating more audits to squeeze every nickel from the Average Joe.

Government agencies will soon push taxpayers to electronically file. Why? It is so they can receive your tax dollars faster. Desperate money junkies need their fix NOW!! Also, putting your private financial information in the cloudy hands of the IRS can lead to easier money tracking, more audit paperwork, and worst of all, government data mining your information for secondary marketing sales.

Federal agencies want to know more and more about your cyberlives. Search engine data can be traced through the Google or Yahoo servers. Your electronic purchases can be traced through intermediary credit processing sites. Just as the walls of communication have rapidly crumbled, so has the ability to peel away every layer of personal privacy.

There are numerous bills in Congress, tied to financial reform and health care legislation, which would give the US government unprecedented real time access to your personal bank accounts under the guise of collecting your fair share for government programs. Big Brother not only wants to watch you, it wants to own you and all your personal accounts and information.

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THE WHETHER REPORT

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STATUS

* Educated Guess

* Possible

* Probable

* Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

* Doubtful

* Vapor Dream

* Educated Guess

* Possible

* Probable

* Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

* Doubtful

* Vapor Dream

* Educated Guess

* Possible

* Probable

* Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

* Doubtful

* Vapor Dream

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iTOONS

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LIT FOR TWIT BARFERATURE

A recent study confirmed that young people no longer long-form blog because of their closer tie to their smartphones. They communicate now as quickly as possible. As we have mentioned before, the whole 140 character messaging limitation of Twitter has fostered the ill of people unable or unwilling to make comprehensive sentences for their text messages. Other critics have thought the issue of the character restriction has spawned a generation of grammerless acron-text smiths who have lost the art of word imagery. But it also made some scholars think they could tame the Twitter message beast by concentrating a story into 140 characters or less. Well, that is a challenge which we decided to take to this page. Instead of merely stringing words together, we decided to blend graphics to the twitterature structure to create the mosaic form of new expression we call BARFERATURE.

Our third BARFERATURE story board is called: BAD BREAK .

SHE WAS HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK.

SHE LEFT HER LAB TO GO SMOKE ON THE ROOF.

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE NANOBOT MONSTERS FOUND HER.

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iPAD PODCAST

WE thought there was no need for Apple (Computer) to eat its own product lines by introducing a small computer, like a netbook or a tablet. Tablets have been around for a long time. They have never taken off like they were intended, to replace paper and a clipboard. Bar code scanners took care of inventory on-the-go controls. Cheap netbooks cut into the introductory lap top market. But Apple went ahead and announced its new tablet sized device: the iPAD.