Sorry IRS and Social Security Administration, You've Been Voted Off

The other day I had a tax question. I first tried to look it up on the IRS website...but I needed further explanation. So...I called the IRS...or that's what I thought. It turns out that I actually called a call center that just looks up IRS rules and reads them to you verbatim. You can't actually call the IRS. They are untouchable, unreachable. These call center employees aren't CPA's, don't know what the tax codes mean, and haven't been trained in tax law, or in how to interpret the tax codes, or anything to do with the IRS other than reading to you verbatim, so unless you're entirely illiterate...they are unable to help you.

I also asked if I could talk to one of the auditors who would inevitably end up calling me anyway after I've done my taxes wrong. Nope.

They kept forwarding me from one department to another but none of the departments knew anything about how different laws are interpreted. So, I am unable to get explanation. All I can do is submit my taxes, probably wrong, and get audited, and then end up paying the proper taxes and additional fees and interest. Quite the racket.

My sister hit a similar road block with the Social Security Administration. She is handicapped, as is her husband, so she had been receiving Social Security. Each time her husband got a job or lost a job, they had to report it. Which they did. Unfortunately, it took the Social Security Administration a few years to process everything so when they did...they came back to her and told her she wasn't eligible for the money they had given her the last few years and they wanted it back. So now, my sister, who is on a tight budget anyway, is expected to immediately come up with $6500.00 and pay it back. Obviously that was impossible. She tried numerous times, as did my mom, to call and explain what had happened. They even drove down to the building to talk with someone...but the only people they were allowed to talk to in person or by phone were people who set up payment plans for paying it back. So now her credit is all messed up and she will be paying $35 a month for the next 16 years to correct not her oversight, but the Social Security Administration's oversight. Again, what a racket.

So here we have two examples of organizations who have grown too big, and too powerful, to serve the people, which is what any government organization should do.

So in order to get back to serving, from today forward the only tax will be a sales tax, that is weighted more heavily on recreational things and less so on necessities of life. There will now be only a limited IRS to collect the sales tax...so there is a big financial savings to the country right there.

We will also be reorganizing the management of the Social Security Administration so that the people on a local level have all the authority to make changes on the accounts.

And as far as the IRS and the Social Security Administration go, there will be no post audits, they can check info when it is submitted, and if they miss something, too bad, it can't be fixed retroactively, but only as far as future interactions.

Power to the People!
Serve the People!
Long live America and Liberty!

Yours truly,
The King

Illegal Aliens? Who's your daddy?

I have heard a lot of complaints the last few years about illegal aliens and the heavy cost that they are on our society. I hear the same arguments over and over. And yet, the more of them I meet, the less I understand the problem. I have know a lot of illegal aliens, most of them hispanic. I have attended church services done in spanish to a hispanic congregation where almost all in attendance were illegal. I have been in these peoples homes, volunteered in scouting programs with their youth, and have yet to meet even one who is not an upstanding, faithful contribuitor to our American society. I knew a Doctor from Guatemala who was working as a welding lead at a production facility but had sacrificed the life he could have led in Guatemala for what he believed were better opportunities and circumstances for his children. He did not mooch off our society in the least and has raised up 7 children who are all, also great contributors to our society. All the illegals I have met would fit this attitude and character discription perfectly. So why would we want to send them out of our country. We should be begging them to stay.

I know there are some illegals who do bring with them crime and mooching off society but I believe they are few and far between. I feel we would be better off to make them all legal and then we can monitor them the same way we do the rest of our citizens and arrest the trouble makers...then we can send them back to where they came from.

But in addition to that, maybe we should start kicking normal American citizens out of the country and revoking their citizenship if they cause problems. Surely any American Citizen with multilple D.U.I.'s would be a good candidate for deportation. Golly, half our politicians would be good candidates for deportation. We could empty out our entire prison system of any one who is a repeat offender. We could drop them off in the middle of the Sahara, or maybe in the middle of the Amazon, Maybe we just drop them off at an outpost in the Antarctic to fend for themselves...and of course revoke their citizenship so they can't just make their way back. I think that is a much better route, deport the actual problem causers, instead of the good, honest, hard working illegals.

Then we could also make the system a lot less burdensome and a lot less costly for those who try to come legally.

And I just have to ask everyone here, Who's your daddy? Don't we all decend from emmigrants at some level...so why are we so determined to keep others, who are exactly like our forfathers, from coming to our country?

I say come one, come all! Let's make this country stronger by welcoming strong, hard working individuals.

A Hardy Welcome,
From The King

A Question For All Of You?

I have been pondering a lot lately why there are sad, or depressed people in America, or for that matter in much of the world. I have had the opportunity to know of some people who are born with certain defects, or who are possibly born into a terrible family situation, and I can see how they could get down on life. Then I look around and see 99% of the rest of us who have it pretty darn good. So, I ask myself...and now I ask you...why are so many of these people who have it so good, sad or depressed or angry? It seems to me that the majority of the world should be able to be pretty darn happy, pretty much all the time.

I think that a big part of what happens are expectations. We think we deserve or are entitled to something that perhaps we see others have. Or we expect others to treat us in a certain way, or expect others to act a certain way. We expect a lot out of life. Too often we expect perfection. Now I'm not against having goals or hope...I just think we shouldn't get to where things become expectations. Hope and goals help you progress and grow. Expectations just leave you disappointed and depressed. So keep your hopes up...but lower, or even lose, your expectations. Accept people for who they are, try to understand their background that led them to act or to treat you the way they do, and love them. Accept life as whatever it may be and enjoy it. Accept yourself for who you are, and enjoy being you. Smile. Be happy. Enjoy Life.

From here on out, lets just be happy and enjoy whatever circumstances come our way.

As always,
Yours truly,
The Happy, Accepting, no expectatious King

Time to Shovel the Manure Out of the Stall

Imagine we have a stall in our barn where we keep our cow. We put nice clean straw on the floor to make our cow comfortable. Our cow does some biiiiiig poopies. The straw gets dirty. So we put new clean straw on top of the poopies. Now you would think the cow would try to keep her new straw clean but noooo...she does more poopies on top of the clean straw. The old poopies are still under the straw so now the straw is getting dirty from both sides...so we have to put clean straw in sooner than before. Before long you have a deep pile of straw poopie that just won't stay clean so you have to shovel all the straw and poopie out, and start back with a clean stall.

That is how government works. It isn't a clean easy job...because there are so many different people and variables...it will always be a little messy. But if we leave the same people in office, and then just add a few new ones each election, the new guys quickly become soiled by the veterans and the system that is in place. In America, with each election, we have been putting a little, tiny bit of new clean straw on top of a big pile of old poopie for just over two hundred years. Our clean straw quickly becomes part of the big pile of poopie. Now it is time to shovel out the stall...We are going to have an election where there will be no incumbants, and no one who has held public office before can run for office this round. Every person from local officials up to the president of the United States will be some one who is new to politics. We will be starting with a fresh clean stall. Mmmmm...doesn't that smell nice. No more poopies.

Now that's what I call change. The change that has been happening in American politics is just a label change. Republican, then Democrat, then back to Repulican, then back to Democrat...different labels...but the same pile of poopies. This time we won't change the label...we'll change the poopies.

Have fun with the new changes,
Your's always,
The King

Restrictions on Electronics

Alright, I don't like governmental bodies getting involved in day-to-day activities...but, since they are...let's equalize it. The government closely watches healthcare, financial groups, food and drug, and the automobile industry...but for some reason, the electronics industry is allowed to put out on the market any half-baked idea they've come up with, even if it isn't completely developed or functional. Come on people. This has got to stop. If you want to sell a product, make it work first. Be ethical. Think of the end user. Let us not be selfish. I could put a car on the market today that runs on dirt...the problem is, I don't know how to make it acutally run. So obviously, I don't try to sell it. So likewise, if you have an electronics idea...like most of the computers today, figure out how to make it work more consistently before you put it on the market.

Thanks for your support,
The King

A Stabalizing Hand, Not a Hand-out

So many of the charities, and programs today, especially those ran by governments, tend to give hand outs to people. They make the people dependent on them instead of helping the people to become strong and self-sustaining. They pick the people up and carry them over the bumps that lie in life's paths and make the people weaker. What we really need is programs, policies, and charities that just give a stabilizing hand, but allow people to continue to grow and become stronger on their own.

I would like to share with you two of these that I support whole heartedly.

1. The Central Asia Institute: https://www.ikat.org/
This is a group that build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is fighting the war against terror in a much more peaceful and, I believe, sustainable way than the governments. They are teaching the girls as well, which is something that had been neglected for some time. In just a few short years they have noticed amazing growth and advancement in some of the small mountain villages...not because a different culture was taught to the kids, but just because they were given knowledge and not left ignorant. It gives these children and their families hope in life, a reason to live and something to look forward to. And this they have done with a small amount of money. If they had the funds available for building, that governments have used to destroy, I believe the middle east and central Asia could be on their way to a whole new peaceful existence...something they haven't had in centuries.

2. The Smile Train: http://www.smiletrain.org/site/PageServer
This is a group that teaches Doctors in countries around the world to do a cleft pallet repair surgery which enables an otherwise normal child to have a normal life, in place of a life of shame and abandonment. They then fund those doctors to be able to provide the surgery free of charge to the children in need. They are affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in an incomprehensible way.

I urge everyone to support these causes that help people and societies to grow and develop much more than they ever could have on there own. Not leaving them dependant on others, instead encouraging Independence.

Thanks for your support,
The King

A New Variation On An Old Sport

I had the privilege of witnessing the invention of a new, All American Sport...or at least the improvement on one. Let me start by describing the competition:
Rugby: Full contact/no pads/very cool
Football: Full contact/some pads but hard hitting/still cool
Hockey: Full contact/some pads but serious body checking/still cool
Soccer: Limited contact but still fast paced and with some body checking/still cool
Basketball: Limited contact but still fast paced and some bullying for position/still cool
Golf: Well, there's really no hope for that...it's not even really a sport, I don't think
Baseball: Lots of fans, lots of potential, but way too slow, and I hate to say it, but somewhat boring, (sorry baseball fans, no offense meant, keep reading), /rates right up there with sitting on a rocking chair on your front porch/not bad...but not cool

So the other night I notice two amazing athletes, Alex John and Tristan John. One of them picks up a bat and ball. Oh...so they're going to play a boring (sorry again baseball fans) game of baseball. NOT SO! They are going to play...Get ready for this...Drum roll please..."FULL CONTACT, TACKLE, BASEBALL!!! Sweet! What a game. Now that rivals any other sport out there.

They start by backing away from each other about twice the distance they can hit the ball...then, the guy with the bat and ball hits the ball towards the middle. Then they both run at full speed and dive on the ball, or on the opponent if he got there first, or if you're getting there at the same time you just throw yourself at the ball and hope for the best...OUCH! Then you wrestle around for a minute and the first guy to get to his feet with the ball gets to be the next to bat. It is a great sport and easily expandable to any number of players. You can even play teams or all-against-all. Try it at your next get together...it is sure to be a real crowd pleaser!

Enjoy playing the New American Pass Time,
FULL CONTACT, TACKLE, BASEBALL

Yours Truly,
The King