Taxation without representation is the start of a steep downwards spiral.

Without representation – meaning we say what happens with our money – we’d be funding programmes that we can’t control.

Gov’t systems, by their very nature, demand control and money, plain and simple. My thoughts here lie in the ‘paranoid fringe’ area, but observation of current events some countries leads me to these conclusions.

It’s all about the money.

Money on its own isn’t evil – the love of money is.  And gov’t systems love money, because of the power that comes with it.

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Please note, gentle reader, that what i write below doesn’t have to be this way.  

I’m writing in the hopes that some will see this,

give a thought to what they support,

and possibly try to keep this from happening.

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If I were an evil gov’t genius, given virtually unlimited funding and an aim for unstoppable control, this would be my mid-to-long-term plan:

1) Prevent those who can’t be taxpayers from being born

(i.e. those with defects) – that’s why birth control isn’t pushed as hard by gov’t as is abortion.

Why spend control money on children who will never financially or ideologically support the system?

  I’d ensure that every baby born is a happy, healthy baby, ready to bring joy to his mother’s house, who will eventually become a cherished member of (gov’t) society.

2) Destroy the two-parent family unit

It’s easier to take control of a family when there’s only one parent of the children.

Divide and conquer.  Very simple.

For families with many parents (i.e. ‘shared families’) where the children live at grandma’s house, cousins’ house, ‘friend of family’ house, or sometimes in a combination of these, that’s ok too.  The key bit is to keep the children’s loyalty off the single family unit.  Especially for families that require gov’t assistance to survive.

Ideally, every family the children live in would be monitored to ensure the children have a solid education in the benefits received by the system.

  I’d ensure every child gets the care they need, even if this means placing a child in another home for a short time.  This way the birth parent(s) can get the retraining they need without endangering the child’s development.

3) Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

The gov’t needs taxpayers.  It needs taxpayers who are conditioned to support the cause from birth.

That’s why it condones people on the dole who have multiple babies and gives them money to raise them in gov’t -sponsored creches and feeds them gov’t-sponsored food (selected for its ability to leave them hungry afterwards, and that can’t be grown/produced without the help of gov’t assistance).

Dependence on gov’t healthcare schemes – now a law, and not just by preference – provides ‘free’ medical care for those on the dole.  It’s easy!  As long as you fill out the right forms, stand in the right line long enough, and come back when you find out the form you filled out at the start of the wait is no longer valid when its your turn at the window.

But those born into this don’t see anything wrong with this.

  I’d ensure that every child has a means to a safe, productive life, with guaranteed education and a way to get the help they need.  Regardless of the situation, they can always reach out to their ‘guardian angel’ who will act on their behalf if they feel threatened or neglected.

4) Remove those from the system who aren’t able to support the gov’t

This isn’t just for those who can’t provide money.  Remember, gov’t craves power.  If paying for loyalty is needed for a short while, then those supporting the cause are immune to corrective action, provided they give voting or public support when this is needed.

Gov’t mandated/sponsored ‘health care’ provides the vehicle for this.

Too old, to cranky, too ‘paranoid’?  Can’t/won’t feed the system because of these attributes?

‘Death by waiting in line’, ‘mental health issues’, ‘national security risk’ labels, in that order, will cure this.

To assist with this, I’d set up gov’t agents to review and monitor sections of the taxpayer base, and question the actions taken.  As and when the ‘offenders’ trip the right programme switches, they will be dealt with accordingly.

  I’d ensure every citizen has a safe and productive environment in which to live, free from the worry that the demands of those unable to assist will prevent them from becoming successful.

5) Buy the votes and set up shop

In the USA, why do we have so many people on the dole who could be working but the gov’t doesn’t seem to care?

At the moment these are bought votes. They are the means to the end – control of individual rights. They support the actions taken by our gov’ts that reduce our access to individual liberty.

This means – and especially means – creating ‘Executive Orders’ that have the force of law, without the legal hassle of going through representatives of the tax base.  This will cover all areas of individual liberty – from where we live, to the schools our children are taught in, to the way we physically protect ourselves and loved ones.

Those whose votes are bought will willingly allow this, by supporting the reps who won’t fight against them, and removing those who do.

It’s not just those who are bought – this includes those who are too fearful to speak out, those who honestly believe that Mankind on his own won’t make the right choices, or those who seek the comfort of someone/something to fix things for them without having to think about the details.

This doesn’t mean just Congress or the House  or the Senate – it means anyone who represents us in gov’t.  Local judges, law enforcement, city officials – they all have  apart to play in this.

In the future, if we allow our rights to be ignored and legally dismissed by executive orders, the folks on the dole will be working too, by force.  The gov’t ‘owns’ their children in school, ‘owns’ their medical cards, ‘owns’ their housing and education and will be demanding recompense for these things. Ain’t nothing free.

 Its a small victory, however.

  I’d ensure the needs of the many are taken care of quickly, efficiently, and firmly.  There are times when we can’t stop and argue about what needs to be done.  Our people expect, no, deserve, a leadership that can take action swiftly and without hindrance.

6) Put a fork in it, time to eat

The rest of us, who’ve been working and paying taxes and generally supporting ourselves the whole time?

By that time, “equal pay for equal work” will be enforced, and taxed heavily. And enforced heavily as well via the tax-paying mechanism and at gunpoint, literally.  In the USA we have the IRS and FEMA to thank for this.

If you don’t think FEMA is something to worry about because it’s only for ‘national emergencies’ think again.

FEMA is part of Homeland Security.

OIG (Office of Inspector General)  is part of FEMA.

OI (part of OIG) is part of OIG.

OI has the authority to investigate Social Security fraud.

OI has recently received, at the request of the SSA (Social Security Administration) approval for the purchase of 174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition.”

This only one department – many others are stocking up as the media stories fed to the public strongly discourage personal gun ownership.  Basically we’re being outgunned and won’t be able to prevent action by force when it comes down to this.  Unless, of course we urge our reps to stop this, and they actually take action to represent us.

Jobs will be ‘graded ‘and we won’t earn more than the pay grade allows.  To move to a different grade will require gov’t approval and review.  If you know someone who has power to move you up a notch (for an under-the-table fee) then you may have a means to make a little more cash at a higher tax rate.

Entrepreneurs – those who now work free-lance or who own their own business – will be subject to heavy fees, taxation at a rate much much higher than the general tax base, and invasive, regular auditing.  This will kill many businesses as the owners decide it’s easier to just fit into a gov’t selected job slot for them, or go to a different country that hasn’t the same regulations.  That’s going to be harder to find as time goes on however.

  I’d ensure that no one is left out of the system.  The days of “owning too much” are over.  I’d ensure every homeless, down-trodden person who looks into the store window and sees the rich get richer will get a fair chance at getting a piece of this pie.  I’d ensure that everyone gets a fair amount of pay for a fair amount of work.  To do this we all have to work together – and to help with this I’ll assign specialists who can guide you on the way to success.

Yep.  That’s what I’d do.

[queue evil laugh]

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This is a nice bit of work a friend of mine found and shared.  It’s clever and even has some funny woven into it 🙂

Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime

My only issue with any discussion of time-travel though involves space.  Not exactly “Space” as we see it looking up at the sky, but space as in, “Hey look there’s a giant boulder in front of me that’s taking up space”.  But actual Space is part of this frustration as well.  I’ll explain why.

In books, movies, even serious discussion of time-travel, every one has a time-traveller disappearing as the traveller starts to travel and then re-appears in the “real world” as time travel stops.

Ok, let’s roll with this idea, and hold that thought.  We’ll use this later on.

Now, if someone travels through time “for just an instant” and comes back, we are shown/told that the person re-appears in the same spot he or she started.

Ok.

And if someone travels for a longer bit of time, he or she may collide upon “re-entry” if something is in the same spot he or she started.  Like if a dog or chair happened to be moved into the traveller’s starting point.  Makes sense if you look at it this way.

Here’s where “Space” and “space” come into play and messes with my head, and temporarily eclipses all the fun in the fiction and discussion.

We’ll focus our attention to what the “disappearing time traveller” means.

Let’s use a specific example.

 

Sally has just used a time-travel device to go back 30 years in time.  She’s a fan of 1980s music and just wants to have fun.

Her friend Bob will wait around for her to return, because he’s not as big a fan of the 80s as is she.  Also he doesn’t like fun, as he’s a grumpy bear.

According to pop culture concept of time-travel, she disappears from Bob’s view.  The assumption is that she’s gone back 30 years to the past, in the same spot she and Bob are located.

Sally walks around for a week or so, admiring the headbands and spiky hair, visits a salon to have her hair style upgraded to the Big Hair look, goes back to the spot where she’d appeared, and uses the time-travel device again to go back to her frowny friend Bob.

From Bob’s perspective, she returns a few moments after disappearing with a new hair style.

They’d been very careful to not return her back immediately or overlapping her departure.  Legend has it that if time-travel entities meet, the world will end or something.  Anyway, they choose to not take this chance.

It’s easy to understand (and visualise) that if something is placed in the location where the person used to be, and the person “comes back” from time-travelling, he or she would collide with that object. Or become merged with it, ala The Fly (hellllppp meeee).

Same logic applies (in this example) to objects that “used to exist” in the spot where the time-traveller going to the past might encounter.

Like if a building used to be at the spot where Sally and Bob are standing, and she were to travel back in time, she’d collide with the building and generally make a mess of things.

These are easy enough concepts to grasp. That’s why pop culture uses these memes.

Now.  Here comes the part that hurts my head and bothers me that no one’s addressed it in pop culture time travel.

Focus on the disappearing act.

Sally “disappeared”.

She “has left the building”, as one might have said a long time ago.

Where did she go?

To the past!  Right.  I got that part.

But I mean physically, where did she go?

She has left our current plane of existence.  Let’s say, for argument’s sake, her physical body moved into another “dimension” during the travelling process.  Which makes her invisible to the viewer or anyone not moving along with her.  And not just “invisible” but incorporeal with regards to our world.

She has left our plane of existence.

Which allows her to move backwards/forwards in time.

But…

…and this is a BIG BUT…

…this also means our plane of existence can move (forwards in time, naturally) in any physical direction it has been moving, without bringing her along with it.

Look at your feet.  I assume you aren’t walking whilst reading this.

Pretty firmly planted on the ground, eh?  Unless you’re listening to music, too , and tapping your feet.

But generally speaking, you aren’t moving much.

Ah but you are placed on the Earth.  Which is rotating.  And if you’re at the Equator, you are moving as fast as 1,070 miles per hour, according to NASA.

That’s just the Earth’s rotation.

The Earth’s speed as it moves around the Sun is about 66,000 miles per hour, according to Universe Today.  Oh, and how quickly is the Solar System and our Galaxy scooting along?  Best to check with Astrosociety.org.

So even when we think we’re sitting still, we’re moving, spinning, rotating.  No wonder some of us are dizzy at times.  me more than most, I suspect.

 

But let’s get back to Sally.

She’s jumped out of our plane of existence.  She was moving along just like Bob was, following along in the astral roller-coaster ride we all are on.  But then she left the ride to travel through time.

Let’s assume (big assumption) that she follows Newton’s 1st Law of Motion.  That she’ll continue to move at her current speed unless an object acts on her – stopping, slowing her down, or speeding her up.

She’s become a drifter, moving very very very quickly in a single direction.

Blame The Vector Principles on this.  But don’t blame the sunshine, moonlight, good times, or even The Boogie.  It’s The Vector Principles this time.

Our physical world can’t touch her.  The floor can’t hold her.

The Earth can’t guide her and very very very quickly, rotates and eventually moves away as it continues its orbit around the Sun.

The Sun, in turn, moves along in its path in the Solar System and scoots out of Sally’s view.

So when she turns off her time-travel machine, she’ll be very surprised to find herself drifting in Space.  It’ll have been 30 years in the past, but physically, she’s a long way from home.

 

And this is why I can’t really enjoy time-travel movies.  It’s that durn Vulcan logic ticking away that butchers Bill & Ted movies.

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