Prescription Drugs, The Scam Continues
By Ed Henry

With all the fanfare about the new "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003" you don't hear much of anything about the long existing Medicare Trust Fund, the combination of the Federal Hospital Insurance trust and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance trust.

This so-called trust stood at $276.1 billion at the close of fiscal 2003, more than two-thirds of the anticipated $400 billion cost of this new legislation over the next ten years. That would be a pretty good and immediate chunk if only the trust fund were authentic, or something besides a scam.

By now, informed people understand that the federal government's entitlement trust funds are fraudulent, that these so-called trusts hold no viable assets, and in fact nineteen of them make up about forty percent of the national debt. There's nothing positive about debt and those who still believe that these trust funds can contribute to any program haven't read or understood the confessions from the horse's mouth. (Read the rest here)

Saddam's Capture Means Nothing
By Carl F. Worden

So there’s President G.W. Bush on television, trying to be oh-so low key about the capture of Saddam Hussein. You know, it’s all a victory for the Iraqi people, and all that baloney. The problem is that Saddam’s capture won’t make a bit of difference in the coming months.

Saddam was a figurehead of state in Iraq. He appeared to be the dictator; omnipotent, evil and all-powerful – according to the American media – but that never was really the case.

The real Iraqi underpinnings keeping Saddam in power was his Sunni Bathist Party, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Saddam was powerless without them, and it is they, and the thousands of foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq, who are attacking and killing our troops every day. Saddam’s capture doesn’t even represent a speed bump to the goals the resistance fighters in Iraq have planned. (Read the rest here)

The "Gun Issue"
By Ted Lang © 2003

What is it precisely that gives government power over us? Is it the continuous and ongoing enlightenment that is foremost in our minds that we are a government of, by and for the people? Or is it the threat of fees, fines, penalties, punishment, confiscation of property, and even the potential of violence that can be used against our loved ones and us? And cannot this threat simply be summarized by the term “force?” Isn’t that how George Washington summed up government activity?

What do we the people have to counter such a threat of violent force from government, especially a government that has turned as despotic and tyrannical as ours has? More than 50 percent of our earnings are confiscated via various taxes, an amount that would never have been dreamed of by George III of England against whom we rebelled by force of arms to establish our individual freedoms. Today, socialists and communists like Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy, explain that “individualism” is a bad thing that must be “faced down.” (Read the rest here)

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