Calling out to all Illinois commrades! I'm sick of the tax increases. A sales tax increase last year to suport the Chicago CTA, a proposal that made it through the Senate to increase our state income tax from 3% to 5%, an increase on the gasoline tax of an additional 19 cents a gallon, my real estate taxes increase 4.3% over last year because they say my house increased in value????, in a down market, are you kidding me??? Our unemployment is at 9.5%. When does the madness stop? Isn't it funny how we don't get to vote on these issues? Our interests are being served by political crooks. I reached out to my state rep asking if there was a way I could help organize a grass roots coalition to bring back the power to the people. He just laughed at me. I'm mad as hell and want to do something.

Now that we have all become stockholders in GM, Chrysler, financial institutioins and insurance companies, aren't we entitled to a few things as stock holders?
1) annual reports for all of these companies. I like to know how they are spending money. I'm tired of the government and the media being the gatekeepers. I want to see it all in writing.
2) proxy voting rights. As share holders I think we are entitled to attend shareholder meetings or at least send in a proxy vote for anything that needs to be voted on.
3) stock certificates. As a shareholder, aren't we entitled to stock certificates? How do we know how many shares we have?
4) what about the dividends? I'm sure these companies will eventually come out of bankruptcy and eventually turn a profit. Aren't we as shareholders entitled to dividend checks? What is the government going to do with the money?

I'm sure there is a financial wizard out there that can help answer these questions.

You should see what the liberals are doing in the state of Illinois. There ain't a tax here that they don't love. They use fear of cutting budgets for education and health care in order to try to pass a state income tax increase from 3% to 5%. And guess what, we the people don't even get to vote on it. Our education system ranks well below the 50th percentile in the country. Our healthcare is in shambles because every illegal immigrant comes here to live because we've become a santuary state. Our realestate taxes have increased 4.3% over last year...in a down market no less. Roland Buris is a crook, it just took the Blog tapes to bring that out. Oh and notice, how quickly the media have shut down the tie between Durbin and the link to the Obama senate seat pay for play scandal.

Stay with Fox News at 9 Eastern. I do believe Hannity is on at that time.

Do you have a job or do your parents support you? Do you pay taxes? Do you own a home or do you rent? How are you supporting yourself or do you think that's the job of our government, to support you? Are you going to college? If so, who's paying for it? If it's you, do you like that fact that someone that's here illegally gets to go to college, but doesn't have to pay for it? We are sacrificng. The goverment wants us to sacrifice our freedom. Obama is trying to change our constitution. What gives one man the right to decided that our constitution is wrong? Someday when you grow up and take on a profession, do you want the government to tell you how much you can earn? Do you want the government to tell you that you have to give half of your salary to those that live off government subsidies? Please, if anything, talk with your parents. See what they're sacrificing because the government has decided what's "best for them." See what they can't give to you because the government wants them to give it to others.

<DIV>Bwashi,</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Obviously you think because someone (and there are many of us) that feel the way I do, must be a redneck. I am a college graduate, from Missouri (Go Tigers!). I live in the Chicagoland area. There is no Militia. Our motto is to "vote early, vote often," "pay for play." There are laws herethat try todeny our 2nd amendment rights. This state ranks third in the nation in harboring illegals and 49th in the area of low support for education. For your information, we can't smoke here either. That's illegal in every public place in the state. So the only thing I smoke is the venison my husband kills up in Michigan (which is where he's from). That's done on a grill.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Obama was never heard of until his election to the US Sentate. The only reason he won that was becasue the Republicans didn't have a good candidate to run against him. After his election, he was a "no body." He traveled on the taxpayers dime (hmm...sound familiar?) and wrote a book. He did nothing for the state of IL. But since this state is run by the Daley Machine in Chicago, we could expect nothing less.</DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Have you ever heard of the boiled frog mentality? Throw a frog in a pot of boiling water and he jumps out. Put a frog in a pot of water and bring it to a boil and he's stupid enough to stay in. Unfortunately, you fall in the latter catagory.

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So how do we get an amendment to our Constitution imposing term limits on Congress? Congress won't write the bill and they certainly won't vote for it.

9/11 terrorists strike the Twin Towers in the hopes to cripple our economy as well as our nation and resolve. 9/12 it didn't work.
In 59 days the President has suceeded where the terrorists didn't. Our economy is in a tail spin and its dramatically effecting the world. He's closing Gitmo. He suspends the trial of a 9/11 terrorist. He informs the world of when the US will pull out of Iraq. He admits to being of Muslim decent after he is in office. His birth certificate is sealed. He has connections to known terrorists. He is promoting socialism. He's got incompetence running amuck in his cabinet and in Congress. He has taken advantage of the fact that we are not who we were on 9/12. He wants to rewrite our Constituion. There is a Sleeper Cell at work here but we don't acknowlege it because it couldn't happen as an "inside job"...or could it?

Keep your powder dry.