Senior Tax Professionals Career Guide and Counseling

Question: do you think that in government cabinet positions the major roles should be held by professionals? Do you think the problem at the moment, is the country is run by professional equivocators and pontificators. would it is better having MP's represent the countries wants and needs and have a professional work out the details. E.g. the populous want different farer taxes, wouldn’t the best person to work this out be a senior accountant in charge of the exchequer. An ex educator in charge of schools etc... or are you happy with the status quo and believe the current system of government to have minor flaws but at the same time be the best system for the country? "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" M.T.K.

Answer: No - this is the whole point of representative democracy - anyone (few exception - bankrupts) can stand for parliament and offer to represent the people of the nation - do you wish for a situation where they say, not enough A levels, so you can't stand? That is not democracy - it would increase the class divide. As has been mentioned, is a huge number of accountants, lawyers, etc employed by the civil service to be experts on the functionality of any one government policy, and then to inform the minister of the available options open to them.

Question: Should I take a 2 or 3 year accounting program? I live in Ontario, Canada. I'm 27 and am currently an insurance professional (management level), but with the economy/industry tanking the way it is I've been thinking about a career change. I'm looking into accounting. I think I'm going to go to college for a Business - Accounting diploma and then get my CGA. My local college offers either a 2yr or 3yr program. (Students in the three-year program complete a field placement at a local business.) 2yr - Employment Opportunities: -accounting assistant -accounts receivables/payables clerk -cost accounting clerk -junior accountant 3yr - Employment Opportunities: -accounting manager -internal auditor -senior accountant -tax accountant/auditor -treasurer -financial analyst Should I do the 3 yr program or just the 2yr and look for a job (seeing as I already have a lot of general business exp)? All answers greatly appreciated, especially from those with experience in this area. @ alwaysundersiege - I was a P&C Underwriter for many years before moving into a management position. Yes things are pretty tight insurance wise in Ontario right now, but part of it is a normal cycle it might be better in a couple years.

Answer: In all honesty, I think the 3 year education would be better for you. You're probably going to find it easy with your background, and I'm sure you want a comparable income and want to be challenged with some of it. I'm taking a business minor so I know there are differences between some of the managerial accounting and the cost accounting. You obviously need to know the basics to understand the harder stuff. With your experience you should be able to easier accept and understand the managerial stuff too. I'm having a difficult time trying to grasp some of the concepts because I have never managed anything at all. Is the insurance industry that bad? I wanted to be an underwriter in a year or so. Best of luck to you! *I still see the 3 year option as the better of the two. Thanks for your response too, I really appreciate it. I hope I find something when I look for a job.

Question: Do you think it is hard to own a hangun in my country? Requirements to Possess New/Transfer Firearm (Individual) An individual must be a Filipino citizen, at least 21 years of age, of good moral character and qualified to posses/own a firearm. Application form must be properly accomplished, signed by the applicant and duly notarized. The following forms are to be strictly complied with before submission: Forms to be accomplished Duly accomplishes Firearm License Application (3 copies duly notarized w/ CTC No.) PNP Form No. 2 (Application for Regular License) Information Sheet Affidavit of No-Pending Case Drug Test Gun Safety Seminar with OR Neuro-Psychiatric Test with OR DI/PNP Clearance Police Clearance (Place of Residence) Mayor's Clearance (Place of Residence) Court Clearance (Place of Residence) Ballistics/Stencil Report PNP Form No.12 (Permit to Purchase Firearm and Ammunition) Firearm License Fee (EO256) and Surety Bond Firearm License Card Fee P150.00 Deed of Sale or Affidavit of Transfer (For Transfer Firearm) Three (3) 2x2 and two (2) 1x1 ID pictures with signature Proof of Citizenship for Foreign Sounding names (Birth Certificate, etc.) Other documents required FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL Certificate of Employment Income Tax Return duly notarized by BIR representative FOR PROFESSIONAL Photocopy of PTR for the current year Income Tax Return duly notarized by BIR representatives FOR BUSINESSMAN Business Name Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Statement FOR PROPRIETOR / OVERSEER / ADMINISTRATOR Treasurer's Certificate showing value of agricultural land Income Tax Return duly notarized by BIR representative FOR SENATOR / CONGRESSMAN Appointment Order FOR OFFICIAL / EMPLOYEES OF THE SENATE / CONGRESS / APPOINTIVE OFFICIALS Copy of appointment from the Civil Service FOR PROVINCIAL OFFICIALS / EMPLOYEES Copy of appointment from the Civil Service or Oath of Office FOR SENIOR CITIZEN Letter request addressed to C,PNP (Attn: C,FED) Proof or document showing that applicant is under actual threat or his life is in imminent danger Xeroxed copy of renewed Firearm License Xeroxed copy of expired permit (for Renewal) Medical Certificate - attesting to the applicant is fit to possess, handle and carry firearm Senior Citizen's ID Card PTCFOR ID Card Fee - P150.00 FOR AFP / PNP / BJMP PERSONNEL Latest Enlistment/Re-enlistment/Appointment/Abs… Order for those in Active Service or Retirement Order for Retirees

Answer: i wont claim to know the state of the bureaucracy in the phillipines, but to me in the US, that just sounds like a lot of "rubber stamping", although significantly more rubber stamping than we have here, and thats a good thing considering the only living target a hand gun will ever have is a human being, whether in malice or self defence. edit: i guess i didnt really answer the question. while it looks like an awful lot of paper work, i still dont think it would be that hard to obtain a handgun legally in your country. i definitly would be able to accomplish all those things (except being a citizen of the phillipines ^_^) again, i wont claim to know anything about the phillipines, but i would also contend that most of the crimes this "hoop jumping" is meant to prevent are committed either with unregistered or otherwise illegally obtained weapons.

Question: How's this for running the Government? Every individual or entity is to be taxed 50%. Everyone will be entitled to a university education, medical care, and child care. Individuals who are found guilty of mismanaging government funds shall be put to death. Everyone must serve in the military after high school for a year, before going to college. Every bum, hobo, professional welfare recipients will be forced to work for a living. If not, they will be deported to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean or to the nearest body of water deep enough to swallow them. Senior citizens will be provided care, meals, and housing. All guilty criminals shall be put to death---so no more jails. What else? Yes, you can spend the rest of your life flipping burgers. But keep in mind, you won't have an iPhone, a BMW, a nice house, Rock&Republic jeans, and other nice things. And another thing, you will be looked down upon because flipping burgers is all you are good for. If you can live with that, hey, more power to you!

Answer: I will pass on that socialist society. Our system is fine like it is.

Question: How do I obtain information regarding overseas employment incld'g Dubai UAE? Prof. Civil Engr. and Bldg. Supt I am a Professional Civil Engineer with some 26 years experience in the field as Sr. Project Manager, Project Executive and Sr./Project Superintendent from Illinois, USA. I have worked on all the largest Building projects in Chicago as well as several Nuclear Plants. I am looking for a senior position directing/managing and superintending large groups of tradesman or professionals in the construction of any kind of building, convention center, hospital, airport or transportation facilitiy overseas. Including and especially Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where there appears to be a building extravaganza. What kind of yearly salary can be expected? What are the living conditions like while working there? How long does the avreage person stay there? What are the tax rules and consequences? Who are the biggest and best constructors there? What about passports and visas?

Answer: Hi, I am an Electrical Engineer, working as Projects Controller in UAE. With your type of Experience, I think, US is the best place. UAE, particularly Dubai is becoming a concrete Jungle with tall and colorful buildings to reside and run your office show. Its mearly a show bizz and no big Industrial development. Yours is sort of Industrial construction Experience which can be used else where. Dubai and Abu Dhabi have big money and they are investing it in Real Estate. Name it, world's tallest, World's costiliest, World's biggest...... (just pride buildings...). I wonder an Engineer with an Industrial touch has nothing to do with much. If you still decide to proceed further, the openings are vast and the salaries are much attractive for seniors like you. To be frank, white skins (American & Europeans, with English) are highly rated workers. They are considered to be people with technology & ideas. (!!??!!). So, best way to enter is to get in to consulting or Project Management Firms. Salaries will be (minimum) 40,000 Dhirams per month plus house plus medical plus car plus club(s) plus Annual tickets to home town.... etc. No wonder, there is zero tax here. Living is equal to NY or any other big cities in the world. But still there are people manage to live with as little as 1000 Dhirams per month all inclusive. Hence labor is not all that expensive like in US cities. 1 USD = 3.67 Dhirams. Living conditions are OK. Little stringent rules, but it affects not much. Here Visas are Employment based. Hence, if you loose employment, you loose living status. Still you have 30 days stay in time to fetch a new job from the date of visa cancellation. Regarding Civil Constructors, you name any big company in the world, they are here. From Parsons to Hyundai... SNC Lavalin to Schlumberger..... Mitsubishi, Proger.... All the MNCs to have a local partners here. So, the names of the companies might look crazy, but he original companies from US and else where are the same here. Of course you need a valid passport to enter UAE and there must be a visa from the sponsoring company (Employer) to work here. For a tourist, US nationals can get their visas on arrival. This is not fit for working. Better to get a job first and moving in. Being a senior person, getting a slot will take a little time. Best of Luck.

Question: Was President Eisenhower a socialist ? In 1954 under Republican President Eisenhower the highest tax bracket was 90%. http://bp0.blogger.com/_5aAsxFJOeMw/R_t1… Obama plans to raise the top rate from 36% to 39%—to where it was in the 1990s. If that's socialism, the USA must have been ultra-socialist in 1954. http://zfacts.com/ [quote] Joe the Plumber Was Duped The tax Joe fears falls only on the likes of Cindy McCain. Cindy has got poor Joe doing her dirty work—protecting the Bush tax cut for millionaires. Bush cut the top rate from 39% to 36%. Back when McCain was a maverick he voted against that. But when Obama says to push it back up, McCain calls him a socialist. Obama's just letting the top two tax brackets return to where they were before Bush cut taxes for millionaires and exploded the national debt. Joe is making $40,000. He needs 6 times that before his taxes go up. And even then he'd only pay 3% more on the part of his income above a quarter million dollars a year. If Joe earns a quarter million plus extra and has to pay 3% more on the extra, he'll think he's died and gone to heaven. But Cindy makes over $5 million a year. Joe wouldn't make that in a century -- it would take him 125 years. A 3% tax hike for her would cost her three years of Joe's wages every year. Three is not much out of the 125 she gets every year, but bothers her. Cindy and John McCain say a 3% hike on millionaires is class warfare. But under Republican President Eisenhower, the top tax bracket was 90%, and the rich were still rich -- not exactly class-war refugees. And Eisenhower was no socialist. Now there has been class warfare over the last thirty years and you know who's on the attack. Not Joe the Plumber or even Jill the Computer Geek. They make no quarter million a year. The multi-millionaires have attacked and won. They've gotten their taxes cut by more than half since 1978. And they call anyone who wants to turn the clock back even to 1990 a socialist and a terrorist. Now that's class warfare. [end quote] http://zfacts.com/p/1079.html [quote] Bloomberg Analysis [a top financial website] The company McCain said the plumber wants to buy has annual sales of $510,000, according to an analysis by Dun & Bradstreet. That makes it [very] unlikely that Wurzelbacher's purchase would give him a taxable income of more than $200,000 -- leaving him unaffected by Obama's proposal to roll back tax breaks for those earning more than $250,000, said Steven Bankler, a certified public accountant in San Antonio, who counts plumbers and other trade professionals as his clients. Few such small businesses have enough income to be affected by Obama's tax changes, Bankler said. One other problem: he would pay just $773 more in taxes under Obama's plan than McCain's if he did earn an adjusted gross income of $280,000, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, a Washington research group that is critical of high taxes. Earning that much would make Wurzelbacher very unusual among small businesses. According to the Internal Revenue Service almost 95 percent of 21.5 million owners of small businesses who file as sole proprietors had receipts under $100,000 in 2007 [and would get a tax cut from Obama's plan]. Another 4 million businesses organize as so-called subchapter S corporations, according to IRS data; less than 5 percent of them earn more than $200,000. `No Joe Six-Pack' If Wurzelbacher managed to earn $280,000, ``he's not an average Joe Six-Pack,'' said Gerald Prante, a senior economist at the Tax Foundation. [We need a tax foundation to tell us Joe 6-pack doesn't earn well over a quarter million a year??] Bloomberg, Oct. 17 [end quote] wvparanormal -- It's a difference of 3% in the marginal tax rate (39% vs 36%). He would not pay anywhere near $7,500 more. Before I wrote this question, I roughed the difference to be $900: ($280K - $250K) x 3% = $900 more. The $773 difference is from the Tax Foundation, who are critical of high taxes, as I wrote. I think they know a wee bit more than us. censorshipoffools -- But Cindy has hair.

Answer: The only thing that matters in 2008 is the fact, and yes it is a fact, that Obama is a socialist. I don't know where you learned math at, but at $249,999.00 currently and under both plans you would pay $89,994.64. That is until Bush's tax cut expires. Then McCain would extend Bush's tax cut and Obama would raise taxes. At $250.000.00, just $1 more at current rate, tax would be $90,000.00, $5.36 more. Under Obama's plan that $1 would cost $7,500.00 more. $280,000 would cost $100,800.00 currently and under Obama's plan $109,200.00 a difference of $8400.00 Socialism has nothing to do with the raising of taxes. Socialism has to do with taking from those who have and giving to those that have not. It is not only socialism, it is Marxism. To give to those according to need and take from those according to ability. The reason the percentage of small business making more than $250K is so low is because anyone with a business license is considered a small business. That's everyone from someone selling stuff at a flea market or front yard fruit stand all the way up to a C corporation.

Question: When did John McCain officially jump the shark? When he picked Palin? Or when he said he'd fire the head of the SEC even though the president can't do that? When he said he was against the AIG bail out before he approved it When he said the CEO's of Fannie Mae and Freddie ac took millions from taxpayers in golden parachutes when no tax payer money was involved until the 7th of this month LONG after those CEO's were gone Or my fave when he attacked Obama about Raines even though the former Feddie Mac official isn't a campaign adviser to ama and when these facts are public about mcCains campaign? 26 MCCAIN ADVISORS & FUNDRAISERS LOBBIED FOR Fannie Mae Or Freddie Mac 11 OF THEM LOBBY RIGHT NOW SIXTEEN FANNIE MAE LOBBYISTS (SIX CURRENTLY LOBBYING) 1. Wayne L Berman, National Finance Co-Chair* 2. Aquiles Suarez, Economic Advisor 3. John Green, Capitol Hill Liaison 4. Dan Crippen, Health Care Policy Adviser 5. AB Culvahouse, VP Selection 6. Kirk Blalock, Young Professionals for McCain National Chair* 7. Kate Hull, Young Professionals for McCain Fundraiser * 8. Aleix Jarvis, Bundler* 9. Kirsten Chadwick, Bundler* 10. Richard Hohlt, Bundler* 11. Tom Loeffler, Bundler, Former General Chairman, National Finance Chair 12. Nicholas Calio, Bundler 13. Alberto Cardenes, Bundler 14. Michael Kennedy, Bundler 15. Peter Madigan, Bundler 16. Alison McSlarrow, Bundler *currently lobbying (as of 7/31/08, no termination filed) 10 FREDDIE MAC LOBBYISTS (FIVE CURRENTLY LOBBYING) 1. Charlie Black, Senior advisor, Bundler 2. Bill Timmons Sr., Senior advisor for transition* 3. Carlos Bonilla, Former Economic Advisor* 4. Mark Buse, Senate Chief of Staff 5. David Crane, Senior Policy Adviser 6. Al D'Amato, Bundler* 7. Melissa Edwards, Young Professionals for McCain Fundraiser* 8. Susan Molinari, Women for McCain Steering Committee* 9. Juleanna Glover Weiss, Bundler 10. Don Sundquist, Tennessee Co-Chair *currently lobbying (as of 7/31/08, no termination filed) Producer if you can't read the list and relize McCains cooked as a candidate you're brain dead Trek Trek you're what's wrong about our Country----- lazy thinking Aj why are so many on McCains staff then idiot

Answer: I think the 'fundamentally sound' did it in for him

Question: Liberal media is just follow the leader, all the same? RUSH: After the joint press conference with President Bush and Karl Rove, it's over, and Bush is making his way to a helicopter or wherever, and Bill Plante of CBS shouts out, "If Rove is so smart, how come you lost Congress?" They can ask whatever they want, but you know, had I been there, had I been in the press corps, you know what I would have said? "Hey, Plante, if you're so smart, how come Katie Couric is doing the CBS Evening News?" Ingrates. I tell you, this is Rove derangement syndrome. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. Drive-By meanness is over the top on Karl Rove. The vitriol and hatred was just dripping from Drive-By coverage last night. The level of meanness that you will hear in their voices is staggering. We have Terry Moran of ABC, Chris Lehman of Congressional Quarterly -- this is a montage coming up -- Chris Matthews, Jessica Yellin at CNN, David Wright at ABC, James Moore at PMSNBC, David Gergen, David "Rodham" Gergen from... Well, he rotates. I guess he's at TIME now, but he goes from the Kennedy School to Newsweek to CNN to wherever. Jim Axelrod of CBS. Dan Abrams of PMSNBC. They're all talking here about Karl Rove's departure. MORAN : Divisiveness! Anger! Ruthlessness! That's what you call "Rovian politics." LEHMAN: The news to most Americans here isn't so much that Karl Rove is leaving, as that Karl Rove has a family. MATTHEWS: He was knighting the guy, and he said he was going to take care of this bum. YELLIN: The dark prince of the Bush administration. WRIGHT: Many saw his fingerprints in the attack on John McCain's character; 2004 witnessed a similar sustained attack on John Kerry's war record MOORE: There is a certain part of this guy that is pathological. GERGEN: An evil one who manipulated politics... AXELROD: Karl Rove is packing his bags ...and leaving the party in tatters. ABRAMS: If Karl Rove had been a professional wrestler, they might have called him The Constitutional Crippler. RUSH: (laughing) You just have to laugh at this. You get offended and mad at it, but after that, you just have to laugh at it. Chris Lehman is the guy who said, he's from Congressional Quarterly, "The news to most Americans here isn't so much that Karl Rove is leaving, as that Karl Rove has a family." Now, I want to make a point about all this. The only reason these people hate Rove is because he outsmarted them at nearly every turn, and they hate that. You know, power is theirs by birthrate. Rove, in their minds, is the one person that came along and took it away from them and kept it away from them for all these years, and they just despise him. They are the smartest people in the room, and to be outsmarted by rubes like Rove from Texas, and Bush, just offends them all to hell. They're blaming Rove for the swift boat "attacks" now. They're blaming Rove for the swift boat "attacks" on Kerry. Nobody ever disproved any of the allegations made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The problem that the libs have with that is, you don't dare tell the truth about them. That's the violation here. You don't run commercials about the truth regarding Democrats, John Kerry, or whoever. They are immune from this. You have to understand their attitude. They're high and they're exalted. They live on the mountaintop, and they are not to be held accountable, and they are want to be put under scrutiny, certainly not by the opposition, certainly not by conservatives. But the point I want to make here is to show you just how stupid, dumb, uninformed, and forgetful these people are. If Rove was in charge of everything, can we go back to the first month of the Bush presidency in 2001? Does anybody remember the "new tone"? Bush came to town determined to end the bickering and partisanship that had been featured in eight years of Clinton. As such, he let Ted Kennedy write the education bill. He went along with a whole bunch of liberal ideas, courted liberals, had them up to the White House. He brought the Kennedy clan up to watch some movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis or some such thing. He just went out of his way. Do they think Rove was involved in that at all? If they do think Rove was involved in it, do they think it was sincere and genuine, or do you think they were being used? Because I'm hear to tell you that it was sincere, it was genuine. Bush had succeeded in bringing Democrats and Republicans together when he was governor of Texas. He really thought he could do it here -- and Rove was with him in Texas -- and look what it got him! Look what the new tone got him. Look what joining on immigration got him. Look at the way Rove is being discussed today after all of the levels of "outreach." George Bush and Karl Rove do not criticize these people publicly at all. They are not partisan. Most of their Bush supporters wish they would, wish they would fight back, wish they would respond to all of these insulting allegations about Bush lying and people dying and "Bush is Hitler" and Bush is dumb and Bush is a loser. He doesn't talk about the Democrats that way, and neither does Karl Rove. All they did was go out and beat them. All they did was getting Sam Alito and John Roberts on the Supreme Court. By the way, you can talk about Iraq all you want, but that issue, that Supreme Court and getting rid of the quasi-conservative majority and making sure it doesn't grow, that's as much on the minds of people like Chuck "Schemer" as the Iraq war or any other issue is. If they lose the White House again and a Republican president has aim at two or three more Supreme Court nominations, they are dead in the water for a generation or two, at least. Make no mistake about it. Rove and Bush got two guys on the court, Alito and Roberts, but they never talk about the Democrats the way you hear these media people talking about Karl Rove, the way that you hear them talking about George W. Bush. So for them to sit there and say divisiveness, anger, ruthlessness? He was "the dark prince" of the Bush administration? This descends from the hubris and from the elitism and from the arrogance of liberals who believe themselves he above being beaten, of being immune from criticism and so forth. Last night on Nightline Terry Moran interviewed Donna Brazile, and Moran says, "Did Rove play dirty?" BRAZILE: I would say that Karl has gotten away with things that many of us on the Democratic side could never get away with. MORAN: Like what? BRAZILE: Well, for example, we couldn't pit white evangelical Christians against gays. We couldn't pit gun owners against, you know, blacks -- and yet Karl could find a way to pit one group after another. RUSH: Whoa! Normally I have some respect for Donna Brazile, but this is just absurd, to say that Karl Rove and George W. Bush are divisive -- blacks against, what, gun owners? Ladies and gentlemen, page one of the Democrat Party playbook is: Keep people divided, fighting with each other, angry, resenting each other; make sure that there is constant crisis and angst; make sure there is no unity on whatever the issue. Wedge everything. Cause a gap to exist between everything. There's no desire for unity whatsoever, unless their opponents decide to change their principles and drop their principles and join the Democrats. We're listening to an alternative universe here. Here's another one. This is like Mark Halperin. He used to write The Note on ABC's website. He's on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He's also on there with David "Rodham" Gergen. Jim Lehrer asked the question: "Is some of the glow gone, Mark? How would you characterize how this man should be remembered?" HALPERIN: Someone who wanted to bring conservative change and felt that it was more important to win power and try to make conservative change than it was to seek bipartisan compromise. RUSH: Man, oh, man! I mean, if you're talking about the Clintons, that's a brilliant comment. Seek and destroy their enemies is exactly what they do! What is this business of compromise? This guy just makes my point. The clichés that these guys live with! "ssomeone who wanted to bring conservative change, felt that it was more important to win power. More important try to make conservative change than it was to seek bipartisan compromise." When a liberal says, "It's important for bipartisan compromise," what a liberal means is, "You conservatives better drop your principles and agree with us and let us have our way, because your way is conservatism and that stinks and that's a threat to us and you don't even really exist. We not even going to give you the time of day. We're not going to debate you on it because it's an illegitimate way of thinking. We're the majority. We're the smart people. We're the elites!" So Rove, yeah, tried to win -- not only tried, did. You know what's funny about this, in addition to everything I have brilliantly laid out, if they think this has been a conservative administration, whew! Can you imagine what they would do if somebody like me showed up or if somebody like Ronald Reagan came back? If they think this administration has been conservative... Rove and these guys went out of their way, as I say, via the "new tone," to join Democrats in a whole bunch of issues, in a whole bunch of ways. Do you remember the Medicare part B entitlement, this new prescription drug entitlement for the seasoned citizens? Now, under normal circumstances, the Democrats would love that. "Why, that would be great. Why, another government entitlement that we can never change that's it's always going to get more money, and it goes to the senior citizens, and they vote in big numbers!" They hated it. They despised it. You know why? Because it wasn't theirs! They didn't think they'd be able to get credit for it, and they don't want conservatives or Republicans getting credit for big government entitlements. Frankly, we conservatives don't want that kind of thing. I got in a long argument with Tom DeLay about Medicare part B because he insisted that it was not that big of an entitlement, that it brought market forces into prescription prices. He's right about that, but it was still is a new entitlement. It was still something, under normal circumstances, that Democrats would have loved. So who is it that's concerned with the welfare of the people and doing right, or who's obsessed with getting credit and having victory and winning and so forth? They wouldn't join Bush on anything. Other than on those issues where they were scared not to, and the big one being the Iraq war. Now, Gergen was asked a question by Jim Lehrer. "Do you agree with that, David, that all Rove wanted to do, go out there and destroy his enemies?" GERGEN: There are many, many Americans who feel, "Wait a minute, this was not artist of the smear, uh, this is a guy who played politics of destruction. This is a guy who played hardball right from the beginning." RUSH: I swear, folks, it's like when you go read these liberal blogs, these kook fringe Democrat base members, they're all upset because their elected officials aren't mean enough. They're afraid of Bush. They're not attacking. (Laughs) They ought to be thrilled! If that's what they really want, if they just want to be bad-mouthing, if they want their elected leaders just to be bad-mouthing the president, my God! They should be happy! They should be euphoric. That's all the Democrats have been doing. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is our old buddy Howard Fineman, who was on PMS last night saying this about Rove and Bush. FINEMAN: In many ways Bush and Rove have won, because as the Democrats are conceding quietly, if not openly, it's going to be hard to yank all of the troops out of Iraq -- and as the Democrats are showing, they're probably not going to have the guts to abolish George Bush's tax cuts. So in certain respects, Bush and Rove have won. RUSH: Certain respects? Who's been in the White House the last six and a half years? (Laughing.) That's what eats them. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Get this headline from USA Today: "To Democrats, Rove 'More Dangerous' Outside the West Wing -- Karl Rove may be leaving his roles as hard-nosed strategist and bookish policy expert in the Bush White House, but that doesn't mean Democrats can rest easy. 'Karl outside the White House is more dangerous to Democrats than Karl inside the White House,' said Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager. Her view: He'll have lots more free time now to dream up ways to boost President Bush's standing, 'rebrand' the GOP and conquer the 2008 electoral map." Do these guys have it on the brain or what? They are literally, utterly paranoid, obsessed with rage and hatred for Karl Rove, which I'm going to tell you what it all boils down to. That quote from Donna Brazile sums it up for me. They are scared to death of Karl Rove, and they have been for all of these years. When you listen to these people talk about Rove on television, I want you to understand the prism through which they see the man. They are scared to death of him.

Answer: That's correct. If you watch or listen to them all, they all say the same things. As soon as one says something different, they all fallow suit. If you notice, the liberals then make the new points their ralley cries. They claim free thought, but simply repeat what they are told. For example, the NYTimes, last week, published an article stating the Iraq US military surge IS working. Now other liberal media outlets are beginning to repeat the same thing. Why? To both follow the leader and attempt to save the Democrats from themselves.

Question: Tell me is Ted Elden worth learning from... Should I learn from him? I been to his home. He collects and shares lots of information. I was wanting to share it with others because I find his work and understanding of our government amazing. Should I pay close attention to this guy and his work? The Truth will set you Free. Step from deception to a new reality, empower yourself ! www.abodia.com/1/1 13 Sept. 2008 6 pm Gold Dome Lions Club - Shoney's Kanawha City I am Ted Elden, Architect ret., Importer, Photographer, Writer, former member of national architectural organizations, importer, national & international sales. In business, I've sold across the US, and to many foreign countries. I've written 1/2 million letters and mailed to millions. I'm good with language, thinking, logic & computers. I'm both scientific & intuitive. Nationally Published & awarded Poet, Photographer, Graduate Colorado Outward Bounds Survival School Carnegie Mellon University, Blair Academy Prep School, I read 300 books as HS Senior year, I acquired 400 books in recent months. I'm reader ! I'm a member of Charleston Rotary and the prestigious Anvil Club with 3 college presidents, professors, lawyers, doctors. I'm easy to reach or visit any time, near Top O Rock, Verizon- Univ. of Charleston. Name, contact, web at bottom. I've published much of my research at www.abodia.com and have tomes more at my studio. I have found important things, that I'd not known in 50 years, The news hides and confuses information. Those with the best information, lead the best lives. Disraeli You too can have a better life, if you get better information. Much I've always feared, I faced. I fortified myself with knowledge, then acted, I moved towards what I feared. As I learned and acted, the fear and danger disappeared. I've researched: 9-11, Income Tax, Suppressed Medical Discoveries, I can give or show you excellent, clear, factual presentations by national professionals with witnesses, evidence, public records, court cases, Congressional Records. The information is startling to behold, but easy to verify. You only need to consider things you have never seen. I work quickly with ideas, and am deeply skilled in verifying information. News is definitely not your best source of information. Local, contemporary news is usually more accurate than national edited news which was adapted for propaganda by the news owners to aid their interests. Large Global Corporations, like military industrial complex, & pharmaceuticals own and control news; TV, books & movies. I speak publicly around the state to students and civic groups, Our Truth Seekers, meets at Top O Rock monthly for 3+ years, first Sundays from 2-4 pm. Many stay late in the evening. Some come from Huntington, Beckley & Wheeling. Anyone may call me in advance to visit my library - 1000s of incredible documents, eBooks, movies. I'm no one, I'm just a bridge to great people and knowledge that most will never see. Most choose to do what is popular, accepted, profitable, personal - helping theirselves, their families, friends & associates. Few have much regard for the community or the future. In America, all is bought & sold, including information. For a high price, important people and institutions have made persuasive presentations about incomplete information. To win an argument or persuade someone, you list items that favor your perspective. You ignore or hide information that favors a different conclusion. We use to have 1,000s of owners of newspapers & TV, but FCC rules have changed. 9 corporations have bought up 95% of main stream media in America. Sony, Disney, AOL/ Time Warner, Viacom, and others. General Electric owns ABC/ NBC. They only repeat information that helps them. They suppress or ignore information that would compromise their profit centers. GE is major player in the military industrial complex. The news teaches hate, war, conflict, to keep us subdued, yielding taxes and freedom to fight distant threats, which the elite create and exaggerate. I thought government & legislators controlled our world. Wrong ! World wide 10,000 or so people, who own the banks, corporations, military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, news, and the legislators, own the money, most corporations & assets and the main stream media. They are working together for their gain, our loss. They create our world of information & perception, leading us to aid their increase in power and the lessening of our thought, freedom, wealth, health & safety. They are not working for our benefit. To ignore this, hoping that our legislators, courts, President will help us is the great illusion. We have to think, realize what is on going and take positive action, writing letters, meeting & telling others, to Awaken a Sleeping (apathetic - hopeless) America. What every you may have imagined or suspected, I can give or find for you hard evidence. MK Ultra mind control is alive & well, workin

Answer: He sounds a bit like a nut case. Anyone who would count the letters he has written and the books he has bought sound more crazy than knowledgeable.

Question: Learning and spreading truth is the best actions? What do you think about Ted Elden's information here? Do you buy into his teachings? I met him in 2006 and ever since I am determined to help him all I can to help others with truth and more. Is this worth while? It's alot below. Just tell me what you think. Be nice and thanks so much! The Truth will set you Free. Step from deception to a new reality, empower yourself ! I am Ted Elden, Architect ret., Importer, Photographer, Writer, former member of national architectural organizations, importer, national & international sales. In business, I've sold across the US, and to many foreign countries. I've written 1/2 million letters and mailed to millions. I'm good with language, thinking, logic & computers. I'm both scientific & intuitive. Nationally Published & awarded Poet, Photographer, Graduate Colorado Outward Bounds Survival School Carnegie Mellon University, Blair Academy Prep School, I read 300 books as HS Senior year, I acquired 400 books in recent months. I'm reader ! I'm a member of Charleston Rotary and the prestigious Anvil Club with 3 college presidents, professors, lawyers, doctors. I'm easy to reach or visit any time, near Top O Rock, Verizon- Univ. of Charleston. Name, contact, web at bottom. I've published much of my research at www.abodia.com and have tomes more at my studio. I have found important things, that I'd not known in 50 years, The news hides and confuses information. Those with the best information, lead the best lives. Disraeli You too can have a better life, if you get better information. Much I've always feared, I faced. I fortified myself with knowledge, then acted, I moved towards what I feared. As I learned and acted, the fear and danger disappeared. I've researched: 9-11, Income Tax, Suppressed Medical Discoveries, I can give or show you excellent, clear, factual presentations by national professionals with witnesses, evidence, public records, court cases, Congressional Records. The information is startling to behold, but easy to verify. You only need to consider things you have never seen. I work quickly with ideas, and am deeply skilled in verifying information. News is definitely not your best source of information. Local, contemporary news is usually more accurate than national edited news which was adapted for propaganda by the news owners to aid their interests. Large Global Corporations, like military industrial complex, & pharmaceuticals own and control news; TV, books & movies. I speak publicly around the state to students and civic groups, Our Truth Seekers, meets at Top O Rock monthly for 3+ years, first Sundays from 2-4 pm. Many stay late in the evening. Some come from Huntington, Beckley & Wheeling. Anyone may call me in advance to visit my library - 1000s of incredible documents, eBooks, movies. I'm no one, I'm just a bridge to great people and knowledge that most will never see. Most choose to do what is popular, accepted, profitable, personal - helping theirselves, their families, friends & associates. Few have much regard for the community or the future. In America, all is bought & sold, including information. For a high price, important people and institutions have made persuasive presentations about incomplete information. To win an argument or persuade someone, you list items that favor your perspective. You ignore or hide information that favors a different conclusion. We use to have 1,000s of owners of newspapers & TV, but FCC rules have changed. 9 corporations have bought up 95% of main stream media in America. Sony, Disney, AOL/ Time Warner, Viacom, and others. General Electric owns ABC/ NBC. They only repeat information that helps them. They suppress or ignore information that would compromise their profit centers. GE is major player in the military industrial complex. The news teaches hate, war, conflict, to keep us subdued, yielding taxes and freedom to fight distant threats, which the elite create and exaggerate. I thought government & legislators controlled our world. Wrong ! World wide 10,000 or so people, who own the banks, corporations, military industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, news, and the legislators, own the money, most corporations & assets and the main stream media. They are working together for their gain, our loss. They create our world of information & perception, leading us to aid their increase in power and the lessening of our thought, freedom, wealth, health & safety. They are not working for our benefit. To ignore this, hoping that our legislators, courts, President will help us is the great illusion. We have to think, realize what is on going and take positive action, writing letters, meeting & telling others, to Awaken a Sleeping (apathetic - hopeless) America. What every you may have imagined or suspected, I can give or find for you hard evidence. MK Ultra mind control is alive & well, working thru CIA & univer

Answer: Great information. I would break down the information piece by piece!