Saturday, October 31, 2009

City of Tucson says that ALL WHITE MALE OWNED BUSINESSES ARE 5% BETTER THAN WOMEN AND MINORITIES and they also said a few other things yesterday

The City of Tucson does the following according to a few City of Tucson employees that were at a round table event yesterday:
1.  the City of Tucson has a budget for buying homes for sale
2.  the City of Tucson gives advantages when picking a vendor if the vendor is woman or minority owned by reducing the Woman/Minority bid by 5% before comparing it to a white man's business's bid.
3. classes and services are reduced in price or given for free if someone says they cannot afford to pay the price.
4. The budget is down currently but they hope it to be back up soon.

Response to 1: I don't think the city should be involved in the housing market by buying houses, which would artificially inflate the prices of houses by buying houses and I don't know what they would do with these houses that would be inline with what they should be doing.  They should reduce taxes instead.

Response to 2: This is lame.  We should have an equal playing field.  We shouldn't give preference to any ethnicity or to any group.  I think everyone should compete on their own merits.

The city is 'insulting women and minorities' by saying that ALL WHITE MALE OWNED BUSINESSES ARE 5% BETTER THAN WOMEN AND MINORITIES.  And to even the playing field they need to adjust the numbers.

Response to 3: The city should not give away stuff for free.  If someone can't afford the published price tag then they should not buy the service.

Response to 4: They should be looking for ways to reduce spending and taxes and not looking to increase their spending.


Reasons

I feel like the economic strain could be highlighted as:

lack of integrity:
- governmental leader's lack of desire to get out of debt
- - who else can go into hysterical debt over nonessentials?

greed:
- government intervention in the industries that are now having problems
- - we have COUNTLESS and COMPLICATED taxes that are nearly impossible to count and be aware of. Without knowing WHAT exact PERCENT we pay, how can we clearly argue that it is 'too much'. With 99.99% (if not 100%) of Americans not knowing what 'total percent' they pay in taxes, how can we say '55%' is too much.
- - - regardless of whether everyone in Congress (who votes a bill in) reads a bill, most americans are definately not reading the legal verbage of the taxes and laws that our government has accumulated.

lack of intelligence:
- extra high taxation on those that are doing well and in a position to create jobs
- - while illegal aliens pay no taxes and take advantage of those that do pay taxes

encourage lack of intelligence in others:
- special financial assistance for select groups that do poorly or that have the politician's ear/pocketbook

Thursday, October 29, 2009

AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions

AP Photo I have heard that $512,000 (per job) of stimulus money has been used so far to create 30,000 jobs.  They didn't even create 30,000 jobs according to this article.
 
 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.

Ed DeSeve, serving as Obama's stimulus overseer, said the administration has been working for weeks to correct mistakes in early counts that identified more than 30,000 jobs paid for with stimulus money. He said a new stimulus report Friday should correct many mistakes an Associated Press review found that showed the earlier report overstated thousands of stimulus jobs.

"I think you'll see a pretty good degree of accuracy," DeSeve said in an interview.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs downplayed errors in job counts identified by the AP's review, telling reporters, "We're talking about 4,000, or a 5,000 error."

The AP reviewed a sample of federal contracts, not all 9,000 reported to date, and discovered errors in one in six jobs credited to the $787 billion stimulus program - or 5,000 of the 30,000 jobs claimed so far.

Even in its limited review, the AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions; jobs credited to the stimulus program that were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs that were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.

For example:

- Some recipients of stimulus money used the cash to give existing employees pay raises, but each reported saving dozens of jobs with the money, including one Florida day care that claimed 129 jobs saved.

- A Texas contractor whose business kept 22 employees to handle stimulus contracts saw its job count inflated to 88 because the same workers were counted four times.

- The water department in Palm Beach County, Fla., hired 57 meter readers, customer service representatives and other positions to handle two water projects. But their total job count was incorrectly doubled to 114.

Those errors were included in an early progress report on the stimulus released two weeks ago that featured numerous mistakes, including a Colorado business' claim that its stimulus contract created more than 4,200 jobs. TeleTech Government Solutions actually hired 4,231 temporary workers for its stimulus project, but most of them worked for five weeks or less and the others no more than five months, company president Mariano Tan said.

The short-term positions should have been reported as 635 full-time, 40-hour-a-week jobs under the government's method of calculating stimulus work, Tan said.

The AP's review sampled some of the contract data reported on the government's Web site, recovery.gov, that serves as the official accounting of stimulus data. The review focused on the most obvious cases of jobs wrongly tied to the stimulus because of record duplications or misinterpretations of how the jobs should be counted. In some cases, businesses reported short-term projects with large job counts, which appeared inaccurate in the records. The AP contacted businesses to discuss their jobs reports and confirmed the errors.

Some businesses actually undercounted jobs funded with stimulus money, the AP's review shows, because they reported only new jobs created, not existing jobs saved. But by far the most reporting errors were found in the number of jobs credited to the stimulus.

Gibbs said that early data couldn't be reviewed as carefully as new data will be. "Three days after the data was received, it was required to be put on the Web site," he said.

The Colorado business' job count, along with many others, has been corrected, Gibbs said, and will be updated in Friday's report.

"We disputed, as the AP disputed, the report that came in that calculated a number of jobs but didn't accurately account, the way we account for, a full-time, yearlong employee as being a job," Gibbs said.

His comments during his daily meeting with reporters came hours after the White House issued a midnight press release complaining about the AP's review of jobs the government credits to stimulus spending.

DeSeve, who criticized the AP's review as misleading, said the administration is aware of problems with the early data. Agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said.

"As a result, whatever problems the early and partial data had, the full data to be posted on Friday will provide the American people with an accurate, detailed look at the early success of the Recovery Act," DeSeve said in a statement the White House issued just after midnight Thursday.

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Associated Press writer Philip Elliott contributed to this report.

Government HealthCare Summary


Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Ruling supports corporate tuition tax credit

Update: According to IBE this corporate tax credit is for C-Corps and not LLCs.

Read more here:  http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/146336

Please donate to Cornerstone Christian Academy in Northwest Tucson (my daughter Kaylie attends there) and I have 2 more children that will attend there when they are old enough.

If you would like more information on how to donate, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Jacob Lorion Barr
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Monday, October 26, 2009

The Government Can




Bread of deceit is sweet to a man;
 but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 20:17

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Income Slave Tax

The income tax for those who report all earnings is making the honest slaves of the federal government. The deceitful don't care about laws and probably make opportunities to not pay income taxes (by working off the books in cash). Because evil is evil because they don't care about laws/truth. I am sick and tired of paying soo much in taxes.

If our taxes go up 3 percent more, I think it will be 2% cheaper to stop working and lounge on the California beach. I am sick and tired of paying the government more than what I pay on my mortgage and more than what I spend on my family! They take more than any other entity in my life.

debt, the tool of slavery

I received the following from my friend, Mark Stone, this morning and I would like to share it:

It is not our taxes that make us slaves, it is our debt. The borrower is the slave of the lender. That is how the enemy keeps God's people in economic bondage - by making them dependent on banks and loan companies for cash - not by raising taxes. It is God's will for his people to live debt free.

However, It does not happen automatically. You have to make a decision to stop doing things the world way and commit to doing things the Kingdom way ( according to God's word ).

!. Ask the lord to forgive you for racking up so much debt. House note, car note, credit card debt, etc.

2. Determine in your heart that you are never going to borrow money again no matter how much pressure is brought to bear against you to do so.

3. In the same way that you made the Lord Jesus your savior, make him your provider. Believe in your heart that in Christ you have unlimited resources and confess with your mouth that the Lord Jesus Christ is your sole provider.

4. Ask the Lord to break the yolk of economic bondage off of you and put his yolk of economic freedom on you in it's place.

5. Earnestly seek the Lord to supernaturally pay off all your existing debt. See Luke 18 : 1-8. The keys here are be persistent and stay in faith. Also pray that he will keep you debt free from now on.

6. Finally give the Lord a shout of praise. Don't wait, praise him now! In a spiritual battle your praise is a weapon.

With regard to your bill, I am sorry to be taking so long to pay. I confess that it has not been a high priority for me, but today I am raising the priority level to my highest level. My plan is to put a check in the mail to you by this Friday.

Have a blessed day!

Mark

My Reflection:
My dad instilled a fear/disgust of debt in me that I have appreciated to this day.  I have avoided car debt and credit card debt (Thanks to my dad.) since college.  I currently have an operational business debt that comes and goes each year along with a sizable house debt.

The business debt will be paid off in January of 2010 but the house debt has been a bear to make progress on.  However my goal/position is to aggressively pay off the house debt.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Vote to Overturn the 16th Ammendment

The federal government has seized too much power from the people and from the states.

I think we need make the opportunity to vote to overturn the 16th ammendment and bring more power back to individual states.

Wouldn't it be convenient to only have to travel to Phoenix to make a trip to our local state capital to make our voices heard. Traveling to Washington D.C. is too far and our voices are not heard.

What if each state had it's own income tax rate? This would bring 'competition' (a free market idea) to 'income tax'. States that want to attract good businesses may reduce their income tax rate and states that want to spend money on health care, large statues and expensive special interest projects may have more taxes and a higher income tax rate.

The federal government could get a percent of what the states bring in, to pay for the military, interstate highways, national parks and veterans health care.

Local state governments should take care of everything else.

Sincerely,

Jacob Barr
iRapture.com

P.S. Here is a video definately worth watching.. It is incredibly relevant today.