All of America is riding a sinking
ship as the Titanic of taxes kills
off the American way of life, one
family at a time, and there is no
more telling time when this is
true than during periods of war
involving the U.S. military and
largely mobilized by NATO and the
foreigners who do not live here.

Real estate mortgage scams, gasoline
and home heating, disability processing
delays, fires and weather killing off
farms, and bridges falling into
the river from the stupidness of
government. You name it, we've
been there, and make no mistake
about it Americans are catching
hell in every direction.

The international beggar community
has to be backburnered at some
point, especially during war periods
that we are relentlessly sucked
into through the revolving doors
of NATO and the U.N.

I propose 3 solutions to rescuing
America's great national financial
crisis, and this would be aside from
my first choice to have a "perfect
world" government that only
QUALIFIED people occupied.

1. Convert the use of America's
military to a "subscription" basis
just like a magazine subscription
would operate. Stop giving foreign
countries free and open access
to the use of our military everytime
they themselves are complete and
utter failures in running their
own countries. We really do have
to put an end to the relentless
machinery of screwups and blunders
without limits only to turn around
and call in U.S. troops to fix
everything. Let the beggar nations
pay yearly into a military fund,
and shoulder the costs as part
of their "membership" to access
our military when trouble brews.

2. A complete and automatic shut
off of all world aid from American
money during the time that our
troops are deployed on foreign
soil by the hands of NATO or the
United Nations. This will allow
money to be diverted to the Troops
instead of accidentally funding
sympathetic nations to our enemies
of war. Let it be written that
from the very day that Congress
approves a deployment of Troops,
all world aid is shut off and
then diverted to the Pentagon
for their needs to complete missions.
This will also have the side effect
of forcing NATO and the U.N. to
almost never call upon our forces
unless it is truly necessary to
solve international problems.

3. Bring a complete END to the free
corporate WELFARE given out to
non-profit organizations, who have
multi-million dollar budgets.
The New York State Bar Association
here in Albany is one of the
wealthiest operations I have
ever seen, holding prime real
estate in a historic district
retrofitted with expensive solar
heating (probably paid for by
public grants), and let's face
it ---- I have never known the
lawyer community to be the national
Icons of poverty now, have you??
Why are these places given
"tax exemption" does anybody know?
The same would be true for election
campaigns. $8 million, $15 million
Jesus just how many MILLIONS does
it take to get some poor fool
elected over another poor fool
and why oh why is all of that
completely TAX FREE ?? If you even
have $1 million at your disposal,
then what exactly is the purpose
of that budget NOT paying any
property taxes whatsoever? Why
are private citizens eating the
costs of all this? These are fair
questions to examine, and I say
REMOVE and HALT tax exempted
statusing for all non-profits
with budgets exceeding $1 million
dollars. Later on, we may even
have to lower that and say
budgets exceeding $500,000. DUH!

Yes this is my own offering for
the fixes of the American consumption
crisis and these are real beauties
for sure to consider. There are too
many "blank checks" in place where
the money is going straight down
a RatHole while the Joe Troops coming
home from Iraq are chewed up and
spit out in bankruptcy courts
for no other reason than answering
the honorable call of duty.

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UPDATE NOTE: SEE BELOW
THIS BREAKING NEWS STORY.

Ex-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press

Last updated: 3:12 p.m., Wednesday, January 16, 2008

WASHINGTON -- A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying -- money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987.

He could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

The charges are part of a long-running case against the charity, which was formerly based in Columbia, Mo., and was designated by the Treasury Department in 2004 as a suspected fundraiser for terrorists.

In the indictment, the government alleges that IARA employed a man who had served as a fundraising aide to Osama bin Laden.

The indictment charges IARA with sending approximately $130,000 to help Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whom the United States has designated as a global terrorist. The money, sent to bank accounts in Peshawar, Pakistan in 2003 and 2004, was masked as donations to an orphanage located in buildings that Hekmatyar owned.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying -- money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987.

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