Government Bungling - Again!
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Posner writes that "the seeds of failure were sown repeatedly in almost 20 years of fumbled investigations and misplaced priorities." Perhaps 9/11 could have been prevented - hindsight is always easy. However, it is clear that our technological prowness notwithstanding, the U.S. did make a number of serious errors.

Several examples were given about Arab enclaves within the U.S. openly fomenting anti-Israel and anti-U.S. hatred. Brooklyn and Detroit were cited; one multi-award-winning journalist was invited to some of the meetings and created a PBS program on the topic. Unfortunately, little attention was paid by law enforcement or political leadership. As a result, they failed to "connect the dots" between various terrorist murders within the U.S. and simply assumed they were all/mostly the work of individuals acting alone.

Barney Frank also earned coverage in the book by sponsoring an amendment that prohibited using terrorist organization membership as grounds for denying visa - one had to have committed terrorism acts.

As for Condoleezza Rice's assertion that "no one could imagine terrorists flying an airplane into a building," Posner relates how specific plans to crash planes into CIA headquarters and another unidentified D.C. landmark were found in a Manila terrorist's laptop and corroborated by one of the individuals.(Such evidence needed to be taken seriously as those involved were building bombs to assassinate the Pope and simultaneously blow up several 747s). Also, French authorities had told the U.S. of a foiled attempt to fly a plane into the Eiffel Tower.

Interminable infighting between the CIA, FBI, NYPD, State Department repeatedly harmed terrorism-fighting efforts, and was well covered by Posner. One suspects that much more would get done if fewer agencies (and Congressional restrictions) were involved.

Posner also covered the alleged offer by Sudan to turn over bin Laden - supposedly we declined because we didn't think we had anything to prosecute him with at the time.

Then there was the Phoenix memo and the Minneapolis FBI plea to get a court order to look into Zacarias Moussaoui's computer. (Phoenix had 8 agents assigned to terrorism, and 60 to drug cases.)

The "Bottom Line:" Why are we paying untold billions for such moronic government? Why bother to vote (both Democratic and Republic administrations made major errors)?
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Astonishing information showing how inefficient the Government and Military who showed no concern to the request for more equipment and personnel were needed. Then to blame the CO's of the Army  and Navy for the attack. The to go out on the limb for MacArthur and fawn all over him. Mac should have been Court Marshalled. It also points out the Media trying to paint pictures that the Government wanted the American people
to see.
75 years later and we still see the same thing going on. What a shame!
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This download came complete with a backend to allow HACKERS to high jack the Turbo Tax and file fraudulent tax statements with the IRS! Not only that, but they also hacked the credit card used to pay for the damn thing!

Last time Turbo Tax and Last Time Amazon! Never Again!
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Ok, first off taxes are politics plain and simple. Taxes are power, taxes are leverage,and the tax codes are so convoluted that they don't make sense. Do you know how much you made last year? Do you know how much in taxes you paid or did you get a "refund"? Did you know that "withholding" was a temporary measure during WWII and then the goverment just decided not to rescind it? If you were given a tax assessment at the end of the year you'd be up in arms! Think corporations don't pay enough taxes? They don't pay ANY TAXES, they pass them on to you and me!

Enter the fair tax. A Consumption tax that makes so much sense, that the ONLY reason it is not adopted by politicians and the like is the loss of power and control. WAKE UP for goodness sake! Read this book, light a fire and spread the word! You need to say "enough is enough" and not vote for ANYONE who does not support this!
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A Great Read
Unbelievable the lies she encountered from this administration!  And what is just as bad is the help this Administration is getting from the media in covering up the fraud and incompetence.  One cannot help but feel sorry for Americans held captive by an incredibly biased media!  Can we survive two more years?
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I get the popular notion of the 2 party system not serving the people. Easy enough. But I disagree that it is dysfunctional and broken based upon that observation. It's a case of using the wrong data to come to a conclusion that, while is true in one sense, doesn't mirror the rest of the picture. And I have proof.

In the fall of '08, when Lehman imploded only months after Bear, everyone panicked. Obama, Kerry, McCain,... Dems and Repubs... they ALL urged us to welfare the devils on Wall Street. Then a curious thing happened.

Congress voted -- OVERWHELMINGLY -- NO!

Then an even more curious thing happened; a mere 4 days later, Congress said YES!

Imagine: FOUR DAYS! SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY BAZILLION BUCKEROOS -- THE LARGEST WELFARE-- PAYOUTS IN HISTORY -- TO CRIMINAL CLOWNS THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS.

Four days. That's hardly dysfunctional; au contraire, that's HYPER-EFFICIENT.

So let's not get it twisted; this two-party ping pong that entices us to get all worked up in the matrix, it's an evil clown show, like the giant wizard head projected to get your attention away from what's going on behind the curtain.
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This is how the American government really works. The R and D are in reality a two headed monster. Only a purging and revolution will change America.
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Mark is a liberal, but rarely lets his personal bias show.  This is the dirty Inside of Washington DC, the nation disgrace, oops I mean capitol.  Catty...true...what you were afraid was the truth.  If you think government sucks, this is the confirmation!
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Revenue Neutral!?

NOPE

"Fair"!?

NOPE

Likely to pass!?

NOPE
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An eye-opening expose ... and an abdication of Constitutional responsibility from Congress to a private bank operating under the public perception that it is a governmental agency. It is not!
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A stunning condemnation of rogue elements of the CIA.  Hopefully the truth will out before all of us who remember are gone.  The government is supposed to release 3,600 additional documents in October 2017 UNLESS agencies object to the President.  Of course they will.  See whowhatwhy.org.  RIP Mark Lane and thank you for pursuing the truth from the beginning.
779801
This shows the plan for a planned famine, not real indeed.  By lying about facts over the years the government is whittling down our surplus to nothing.
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I think he is spot on!  Government over regulation stifles innovation and creativity.  His big starting point for change is term-limits on congress.  This would help with new ideas and fresh solutions instead of entrenched politicians constantly preparing for the next election to stay in power.
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Ok, so they give the excuse that the US Government bought out the entire first printing.  OK.  Its their perogative.  If thats all it is then why is the kindle version redacted.  This is freaking frightening.  I would have expected this under George Bush.  But under touchie feelie BHO administration, I would have expected better.

Shoot, this was going to be the ONLY way that his admin might be better than the previous.  And he doesn't even get that.

What happened to the first Amendment?  We have Government coercing a private entity to not print or even publish electronically certain material.

Don
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Glenn Beck's latest book correctly points out that the American nation is facing a serious fiscal crisis.

The problem is that Beck's "solution" is to follow the policies of the very people who got us into this mess in the first place.

America's fiscal disaster began under Reagan, who inherited a $700 billion deficit from Jimmy Carter and turned it into a $3.7 trillion deficit. George W. Bush in turn inherited a surplus from Bill Clinton and managed to double the deficit to about $10 trillion.

And yet, incredibly, Beck says America's best hope is to continue to embrace the fiscal insanity of the Reagan/GWB years with more of the same: tax cuts for the rich.

In one sense, one can't blame Beck (who, after all, made approximately $100 million last year).

But I do find this book creepy in that Beck just simply makes up his own reality: a fun-house distortion of history in which the GOP is the "party of fiscal responsibility." One wonder what parallel universe Beck is living in.

Oh: and as far as cutting the budget, Beck has no problem with gutting every domestic federal program (regardless of how popular these are with the majority of the American people).

Medicare? Yes, let's gut that program. No problem! Yeah, right.

To any politicians who seriously considers following Beck's advice and who wishes to remain in office, I say this: good luck with that.

Oh, and while Beck is swinging the axe and gutting every federal program around, he still has no problem with the U.S. spending trillions of dollars on reckless and foolish wars.

It's genuinely bizarre how Beck can claim to be a fiscal conservative, while he remains a big supporter of things like Bush's disastrous $3 trillion folly in Iraq. People like Beck always find trillions to lavish on the Military Industrial Complex, even as they claim to be fiscally "conservative."

But if Beck and his supporter really think they can ever succeed in the road to political power by backing things like Medicare cuts, then they are delusional.
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Another lesson in government ineptness and the culture of nepotism at the very highest levels. This very small group of people control our very existence!
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This is from the old days when the USA was a Republic, before it was transformed into another failing Socialism experiment.  It is great of course, but no one in government knows about it.