Tag: government

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

MAY 11, 2026

VOLUME 147

RIGHT MINDED COMMENTARY

I finally found my way back to my keyboard. I have spent the past several weeks working on my landscaping after 21 years of mediocre maintenance. I told my wife brace yourself, this is gonna cost some serious money to resuscitate the front and rear gardens. We still aren’t finished, we now have to visit Lowes and spend some more hard earned cash on flowers and shrubs to replace the ones we ripped out. But we are getting lots of compliments for our efforts. However, none of those folks are offering to chip in and help with the expense. Enough with the whining, let’s get on with the article.

TAXES, TAXES, TAXES

This topic has so many facets, I’m not sure I can cover everything I am feeling about this topic. Which is mostly anger, mixed with utter disappointment, and curiosity as to why Donald Trump and his band of merrymen are the only ones seriously talking about tax reform. Every state on the west coast where I have spent the bulk of my life on this planet, are literally tax addicts. The state governments of the three west coast states are taxing folks into the poor house. People are squealing like trapped pigs and they don’t care.

The State of Orgon puts a tax measure on the ballot and the crazy ass Oregon Democrats vote for it. I have lived here 21 years and have never seen a tax measure fail to pass. I literally want to pull my hair out every single time. On the other hand, we have mail in ballots, so one can’t be too sure that it’s on the up and up.

So, why does the federal government and state and city governments need so much of our money? My house is about 2,300 sq. ft on a small city lot, and Marion county thinks I need to pay $6,000.00 per year for the privilege of owning my house. So, basically the county is charging me rent to live in my own house. The city where I live has a population of about 200,000 souls. Roughly about 52,000 single family homes. Just for property taxes alone that’s somewhere around 26 million dollars per year. That’s just for residential dwellings, not counting commercial businesses. The school district operates on a yearly budget of over one billion dollars a year, and can barely produce a literate graduate. The schools never stop begging for money and can’t show any improvement in the education of the students.

Our state roads and highways are better than a number of states I have driven across, but they could be one hell of a lot better. The state is always coming up with more creative ways to pick our pockets for the highway systems. I have heard a lot of chatter in recent years about toll roads. Give me a break, toll roads? Cut out some of the freebies and welfare to able bodied adults and fix the dang roads. We have a fleet of school busses that is massive. Why the hell can’t kids walk to school anymore? Half the kids at the bus stops are fat little rascals, it would be good for ’em. The cost of operating our school bus fleet must be close the defense budget for the feds.

TAX FRAUD

Stop and ask yourself why tax fraud is so rampant. It’s really quite simple. Anytime the government makes a huge amount of money available for any project, the fraudsters come out of every crack and crevice like cock roaches. They know from experience that the government just can’t wait to give that money away, because it makes them the flavor of the month, and it ain’t their money. The realization that the fraud is in the tens of billions of dollars should cause everyone to immediately surmise that we are being seriously overtaxed. You wanna know how I know this? Because the fraud was discovered because it was becoming so blatantly apparent, not because the government was running out of money. Medicare and Medicaid are not going broke due to normal everyday healthcare; they are being gutted by fraudsters. Are you worried your sick family member won’t be able to get hospice care in their final days? You should be, the money is going to build Nigerian mansions, inhabited by rich Somalians.

Local state politicians make it easy for the fraudsters (often illegal aliens) or green card holders to bilk the system, and in turn the fraudsters kick back a portion of that money to the Democrat politician, and it ends up in the coffers of the DNC. This system does not remain static, it grows like a malignant cancer. It’s just another iteration of the NGO’s. The federal government officials are actively involved in robbing the taxpayers. That makes me sick to my stomach that the feds can take everything I own for tax evasion, while they literally wasted the money I gave them in good faith. So, tell me again just how free we are. The freedom thing may be a little overstated.

Gotta run, getting a bit late for the old man. Stay strong my fellow Americans. Stay alert and fight to keep America a Christian Nation. One nation under GOD. Islam does not belong in our country now or ever.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

JANUARY 1, 2025

VOLUME 95

POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE?

Wouldn’t it be nice if each year was somehow packaged so that none of the bad stuff was carried over into the new year, and we indeed got a fresh start so we could try not to repeat last year’s mistakes. Sorry, unfortunately it isn’t that way, and we have to carry last year’s baggage into the new year. My wife often remarks about people moving to a new location to get a fresh start, she says “unfortunately wherever they go, they take themselves along”. So, that said the new year despite how we view it, is likely to be more of the same.

There is a bright side though, ringing in the new year causes us to reflect on our own shortcomings and gives us the incentive to improve. I don’t know about you, but some of my New Year’s resolutions made a profound impact on my life. New Year’s eve 1969-70, I went to a house party and got very, very drunk. To the point I was carried home in my own car as if it was an ambulance. I smoked so many cigarettes that night, along with everyone else, the next morning my throat was literally raw, I couldn’t walk from two sprained ankles from dancing while drunk. That night ended my smoking and drinking forever, 55 years ago today.

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED OVER THE LAST YEAR, AND THE THREE YEARS BEFORE IT?

The answer to that question is things we didn’t think were possible.

  1. I never would have thought it have been possible to rig a national election.
  2. I never thought it would have been possible to elect a president with apparent dementia.
  3. I never would have thought it would have been possible to cover up that fact for four years.
  4. I never would have thought that a man-made virus would be intentionally released on the world for monetary and political gain.
  5. I never thought the American people would have been so eager to give up their Constitutional rights without a fight.
  6. I didn’t think I would ever witness a political party deliberately abandon border enforcement and allow millions of unvetted aliens into our midst.
  7. I didn’t think I would ever witness a complete collapse of the United States military and turn over our weapons to our enemy. A complete and utter surrender.
  8. I didn’t think I would ever see the DOJ, the FBI and the CIA turn on American citizens.
  9. I still can’t believe the government actually created an agency to curb free speech, and openly censor American citizens.
  10. I never thought I would witness blatant political persecution by state and local court systems working on behalf of the federal government to take out political opponents.
  11. I still can’t believe the sitting vice presidents son was allowed to travel the world on a government aircraft, fleecing foreign governments in a “pay for play” scheme, hanging with hookers, doing illegal drugs, transferring a portion of that money to his father and uncle, walked away unscathed, and his father pardoned him, ultimately pardoning himself. It is a huge illegal operation that will go unpunished.
  12. Last but certainly not least, in a last ditch effort to save the party, and stay in power, they invested one billion, twenty million dollars in a flawed candidate that was selected in a rigged manner by the DNC, not the rank-and-file members of the party. I am still stunned that anyone thought the moronic Kamala Harris was presidential material. But then again, she would have been replacing a certified brain-dead old guy.
  13. So, I think the big take away from this, is we learned the Democrats will stop at nothing to gain, and hold onto power, be it outright cheating, or lying, or a combination of both plus a bunch of other stuff.

2025 AND RENEWED HOPE FOR A BETTER AMERICA.

It’s time to purge the scum from the DOJ and the FBI and stop the political persecution of everyday citizens protecting their children from perverted maniac school systems. It’s time to rebuild our police departments and make our streets safe again. It’s time to bring back common sense government. Stop the B.S. regulations on anything that moves. Stop the “green agenda” before it bankrupts our nation.

I’m excited about the new possibilities coming our way. The Democrats almost destroyed our economy, Trump and team have got to start moving fast to get it back on track. Being involved in new construction, I can tell you it is moving at a snails pace right now, and a lot of industries are hurting. I’m confident Mr. Trump and team will be able to resuscitate the business world and get things moving again. Good things are on the horizon.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE