US Senate Candidate Charles 100%, Appointed Candidate Heller 0%

Silver Senator Note:

Project Vote Smart is the nation's leading non-partisan voter education organization.

It was founded by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, US Senators George McGovern, Barry Goldwater, Geraldine Ferraro, Michael Dukakis, Bill Frist, John Sununu, Charles Mathias, William Proxmire, and US Reps Bill Frenzel, Jim Leach, Barbara Lee, Claudine Schneider, William Lacy Clay Jr, Pat Shroeder, William Clinger, Newt Gingrich, among others.  

In Project Vote Smart's letter to us on 11 April 2012, US Senator Gordon Smith, US Rep Bill Frenzel, MA Governor Michael Dukakis asked:

"Are you willing to tell citizens where you stand on the issues you may face if elected?

They further wrote:

"Though this information was considered by our founding fathers to be essential in our struggle to self-govern, candidates are now heeding the advice of their party leaders and consultants not to provide such information, for fear of opposition research."

Because we represent the majority of voters to support and defend our Constitution, we say, Bring it on...

Click or copy and paste to see the plain uncompromised unvarnished truth at the bottom of the page:

http://votesmart.org/candidate/138402/richard-charles

http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/2291/dean-heller/

                                                       

Richard Charles for US Silver Senator in the News

Las Vegas Review Journal:

Politics | Meet the Candidates | Profile

Election 2012

Richard Charles

Office: U.S. SENATE

Party: Republican
Current occupation: Community Service, Finance, Higher Education (retired)
Age: 61 [62]
Residence: Crystal Bay
Education:
1) Amherst BA,
2) SF State MSc,
3) Stanford Preceptor Appointments by Academic Senate,
4) All Souls/Templeton College Oxford University Sabbatical,
5) Reagan Task Force,
6) GOPAC Campaigns...

Email: silversenator2012@gmail.com

Web: richardcharles.blogspot.com/

Facebook: Richard Charles

Twitter: @RichCharles2012

Candidate Questionnaire

• What are three major things you hope to accomplish if elected?
  
  
  I came out of retirement on Medicare and Social Security at Lake Tahoe to: 
  
  
  A) Return the US Senate to disciplined Constitutional Government, 
  
  
  B) Balance Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches and powers with a more accountable Congress protecting Justice, Life, Liberty, Peace and Prosperity for All Americans, not just Lobbyists and their clients. 
  
  
  C) We return any monies given by registered lobbyists for special interests...
  
  
• Describe your political philosophy?
  
  
  Independent Libertarian Republican US Senator candidate in the thrifty rational Nevada American middle, instead of the expensive far left or extreme far right divide and conquer game.
  
  
  We back the drive to increase Active Voter Registration from One Million to Two Million Nevadans [Early Voting began on 26 May 2012]:
  
  
  http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=71 
  
  
  We share the Silver Senator campaign themes of William Morris Stewart, who unraveled the conflicting Comstock Lode Claims, founded the Stewart Indian School to teach vocational skills to the poor at charitable private expense, used Mark Twain humour to win his Senate Campaign, backed Silver for sound money, drafted the 15th Amendment for fair free voting and legislated wisely for railroads, regional economic development, safe mining practices and land irrigation rights: 
  
  
  http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Stewart.htm http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/nevada/ste.htm
  
  
• Describe your commitment to openness in government. Please be specific.
  
  
  We just returned from our One-Month Campaign Fact-Finding Whistle-Stop Tour in 28 states and 177 cities, islands or towns.
  We used email, our ears and eyes and WiFi to stay in touch.
  We used Email, Facebook, Twitter and Internet for Constituent Concerns 24/7: 
  
  SilverSenator2012@gmail.com 
  Richard Charles Facebook 
  RichCharles 2012 Twitter 
  http://richardcharles.blogspot.com/ 

http://www.lvrj.com/politics/candidates/2012/us-senate/profile/richard-charles-2975

Las Vegas Review Journal:

Meet the Candidates

"Richard Charles - Charles said he was spending one month this spring on a "whistle-stop tour to take America's pulse" as part of his run for Congress. 

A supporter of GOP presidential candidate Paul, Charles said his goal is to support and defend the Constitution and liberty as does the Texas congressman.

He said both the Democratic and Republican party leaders have violated the Constitution by going to war without congressional approval and passing laws that strip terror suspects [citizens] of their rights. 

He also decries expansion of government, which has bloated the federal budget and increased debt [at the expense of our economy].

"My goal is to represent all Nevadan and American citizens, rather than" the political party organizations and "big donor special interests," Charles said.

http://www.lvrj.com/special_sections/u-s-senate-154690595.html 

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100% on Political Courage Test:

http://votesmart.org/candidate/138402/richard-charles 

                                                           

Ode to Chuck Bluth and Nevada Entrepreneurs With Political Courage

Silver Senator Note:

This is a longfellow, with a few good ideas and opportunities for every Nevada voter:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! 

If, by Rudyard Kipling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling


Yesterday was one of those life-affirming days we love and seem to be having more of, as the 12 June 2012 Primary approaches..


By kismet on a trip to Incline Village, we turned on the radio and caught the Jon Sanchez Financial Show earlier than usual at Five PM on KOH AM 780, with Chuck Bluth and his business partner Max Haynes:

http://sanchezwealthmanagement.com/pages/media-2/the-jon-sanchez-show/


Between them, they have a list of successful entrepreneurial companies that could make grown adults blush:


Mr Bluth owned and sold Cal Neva Stateline Casino, Resort and Spa, the former property of Frank Sinatra and hangout of Sammy Davis Jr, Judy Garland, Howard Hughes, the Kennedy boys, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, Will Rogers, George Whittell Jr of Thunderbird Lodge with his Lion Bill making trips in the darkness on the yacht and The Rat Pack, local Lake Tahoe Colour at its best.

http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20090313/NEWS/903139989


http://thunderbirdtahoe.org/gallery/index (Select Lodge and Yacht.)


One of the largest owners of NV Residential Rentals, Private Equity (Hard Money) Loans from 8 to 11% for those that cannot qualify for FHA Conventional Loans, an Auto Loan company, and two Tahoe Lakefront Trophy Properties, one of which brought Mr Bluth in conflict with TRPA, who said he owed them $200,000 and $5000 a day for not getting their permits, while spending $200,000 remodeling his home. If memory serves well, a jury trial acquitted him. Mr Bluth also had run-ins with TRPA refusing to let him fully renovate the Cal Neva Property, so he sold it near top dollar in 2005, having bought it as a fixer upper in 1985.

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20040825/News/108250009

http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20050516/News/105160009

After the completion of his Logan Shoals Marina Home on the South East side of the Lake between Cave Rock and Glenwood, Mr Bluth put his 9520 square foot custom materials North Shore home, Chateau Soleil, on the market in 2011 for just under $16 Million.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363580247522552.html 


In the marketing piece by Chase Intl, it was stated:

Bluth specifically chose to establish his business and residency in Nevada where there are no capital gains, personal income or corporate taxes. He believes that entrepreneurs would do well to follow suit with widely expected federal and state tax increases on the horizon. 


Businesses and entrepreneurs need to evaluate and implement proactive financial planning strategies," says Kerry Donovan, of Chase International. "It makes perfect sense for businesses in California, and other high-tax states, to consider moving their corporate headquarters to Nevada. Business owners are realizing this, and as a result, we're seeing an increasing demand for properties...


http://chateausoleillaketahoe.com/ 


Any of these tax breaks might bode well for Nevada in 2013, when the lowest Federal Income Tax Bracket is increased 50% from 10% to 15% and payroll taxes revert and increase, despite copious lip-service about protecting the middle-class and our economy:


http://taxes.about.com/od/Federal-Income-Taxes/qt/Tax-Rates-For-The-2012-Tax-Year.htm

With thirty-two years in licensed Insurance, Real Estate or Securities, if not dispensing tax advice, I related to Mr Bluth's entrepreneurial stories of real estate cycles, stating in the Jon Sanchez interview that the one in the Seventies was much worse than now. 

(The Eighties, when I was named Co-Executor and Trustee of a Portfolio of Tahoe Income Properties in 1979, was tough decade too for middle range properties.)   

Mr Bluth founded a medical device company in 1978, about the same time I found funding and helped write the business plan for a medical device company, the second fastest growing Inc 100 company IPO in 1983, acquired in 1987 and take private in 2007 for $11.4 Billion.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=7621301

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=47066145


Thus Mr Bluth had my full attention talking about the residential real estate cycle (that officially peaked in 2006, according to Case Shiller):


http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/SPCS20RSA?rid=199

I received my share of blame, doubt and scorn telling family, friends, classmates and former clients the Real Estate market was topping at that time and earlier, just as I had told them we were going into a secular (long-term) bear market in stocks in the Jubilee year of 2000.

I had sold my home with a nice capital gain, put things in storage in Nevada, and was sitting in cash and silver for a rainy day to buy. It was tough to be homeless without income.


When I heard Mr Bluth saying he thought the real estate market had bottomed, something I have been saying this year, with this chart, I perked up:

http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/A-Forecast-For-Real-Estate.pdf

(Martin Armstrong, the very successful proprietor of Princeton Economics, was a Grimm Once Upon A Time style political prisoner for 12 years by a Manhattan Judge related to the Bush Family, who locked him up 7 years without a trial for contempt of court.

The Rogue Judge forced a confession plea bargain under duress in solitary confinement and a near-fatal attack without proper medical treatment by a violent inmate deliberately placed in his cell.

The Judge sentenced him without credit for time served, to another five years in Federal prison, without Constitutional due process, before he was finally removed from the case after a media uproar.

The Judge's thin claim was Mr Armstrong did not cough up his life's work of financial software and gold relics for an alleged Ponzi scheme leading to the loss of Japanese Republic Bank Client Funds.

This was yet another parallel to our Innovest Software with Stanford Capital which earned us a going-over by Merrill Lynch's Compliance Department after almost ten years as a loyal employee before Wall Street Firms started converting client funds and keeping them.

The interesting Martin Armstrong questions were why Hong Kong Shanghai Bank paid off all the Republic Bank claims when it took the bank over, why the founder of Republic Bank died in a mysterious Monoco Penthouse fire shortly thereafter, and why the charges against Mr Armstrong were not dropped after full HSB restitution): 

http://www.martinarmstrong-movie.com/ 


Mr Armstrong was released from prison on good behaviour, only after we and a member of US Congress got involved. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong

It is worth noting a current Supreme Court member reviewed the Kangeroo Court Armstrong case as an Appellate Panel Judge and upheld it:

http://www.examiner.com/article/famed-economist-martin-armstrong-released-from-jail-according-to-sources#print 


"This imprisonment without trial is one of the most aggregious (sic) acts any court has administered against one of its citizens." 

For a fascinating first-person instructive narrative of what actually occurred:



http://www.scribd.com/doc/56804421/Martin-Armstrong-Biography-May-2011



Fast forward back to Mr Bluth's RE experience: 

Diane Sawyer carried the story on National News last night (24 May 2012) that national mortgage rates hit a forty-one-year record low at 3.78%. 

Of course, this was not the first time National News announced record mortgage rate lows, that may go lower with another global stock market crash and debt defaults in an election year like 2008:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/158383/abc-world-news-with-diane-sawyer-mortgage-rates-fall-to-low 2:27

Mr Bluth said he began selling his large portfolio of real estate when his tenants could not pay their rent, but qualified for Nothing Down loans on homes they could not afford, thanks to the Home Ownership Society legislated and promoted by previous Congresses and Administrations.

Mr Bluth or his business partner specifically cited Barney Frank and Lenders forced by political regulators to make home [liar] loans to unqualified borrowers without documentation. 

Of course the Wall Street Subprime Mortgage scandal heard 'round the world did not hit for another four years in 2008,  but Mr Bluth was at least one Rudyard Kipling Man who had the courage of his convictions to sell when most were buying.

Now, eight years after he began selling real estate, Mr Bluth is again buying real estate, putting his money where his mouth is.

Mr Bluth bought in bulk. 

He bought 52 lots listed at prices up to $125,000 for an average price of  $16,346, plus other parcels of properties, totaling over 100 lots. He has put them on the market for development by contractors, including 2 lots he is donating to Disabled Vets and their families, with brand new state of the art homes built at costs by builders and suppliers.

http://rereno2.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/arrested-developments/ 

This last bit reminded us of founding Aquarius House Inc Crisis Intervention and Emergency Housing during graduate school. It feels good to give.

I am the first to admit forecasting is a hazardous occupation, and past successes guarantee nothing for the future. I admire Mr Bluth putting his money where his mouth is, suggesting Nevada real estate prices are recovering. 

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Conversely, at least one former associate of Mr Bluth whose lender sold their mortgage to a company that returned mortgage payments so they could collect a government payment, believes real estate is headed down for years, if not decades, as shadow upside-down equity foreclosures and short sales come to market. 

Mr Armstrong sees a decline in Real Estate until 2033, after three good years from 2012 to 2015.

Who really knows for sure? 

Three good years from 2012 to 2015 may be baked into the mortgage cake after three years from 2008 to 2011 that more than tripled the monetary base that fuels the money supply and bank lending. 

If employment and interest rates go up for any period of time, banks may be more willing to sell their Municipals and Treasury Bonds to lend mortgages with their cash:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/WSBASE?cid=124


I got so enthused by Mr Bluth's hour-long conversation with Jon Sanchez and Max Haynes, I grabbed an exhausted Brooke after work. 

We headed from North Stateline Tahoe to South Shore Stateline for a late dinner at Mr Bluth's South Shore Stateline Lanza's Italian Restaurant (named for the recipes at North Shore). 

Mr Bluth's South Stateline Lanza's added popular menu items and is now renamed Sul Lago Ristorante, Restaurant on the Lake. It was complete with a Litho of the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, on the wall by a nice Bar with the Baseball Game on TV.

There was another parallel: helping start the Greenhouse near Harvey's Nevada South Shore Stateline in 1976. 

We had a nice dinner and service for $60, and enjoyed talking with Hostess Erica, Waiter Dayne and Chef Jimmy to get the rest of the story:



http://www.yelp.com/biz/sul-lago-ristorante-stateline


On the 45 minute drive home, Brooke, who works at the 5-Diamond 20,000 square foot Ritz Carlton Highlands Spa with saltwater pool, said Mr Bluth had given her a container of his Cal Neva Spa Mud made from a Nevada Salt Flat, after she worked on a family member. I tried it last night on some insect bites and it worked to stop the itching:


http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/LakeTahoe/Spa/Default.htm

http://www.gotahoenorth.com/pdfs/NorthLakeTahoe-Conference-Planning-Guide.pdf


So what we are talking about here, with perhaps too much personal detail, is really the same issue Sophocles immortalized in Antigone, what Soviet emigre' Ayn Rand novelized in 1957 with Atlas Shrugged:

http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates017.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged 


We are talking about the on-going struggle for balance and growth between the State and the Individual for Justice, Life, Liberty, Peace and Prosperity, the dynamic battle between Government and the Productive Entrepreneur.

For the last generation, government grew faster than the economy and population, with lowered living standards the result. 

As Chef Jimmy at Sul Lago Ristorante put it, he began cooking for $10 an hour forty years ago, and still makes $10 an hour, despite much higher costs for living.

Mr Bluth's partial victories over an over-zealous Tahoe Regional Planning Authority showcased the eternal struggle between those that produce and those that take.


Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo came at it from a slightly different angle and emphasis with The Godfather Trilogy, re clandestine mafia families that gradually took control of government:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfather_Trilogy 

Most of us active registered voting citizens suffered government taking over our lives and fortunes so effectively, gradually and subtly, that many of us may not even realize today that far less than half of US citizens pay income taxes via coercive government red tape and taxes to support the rest.

Producers support far more than half of our population today, with ineffective unproductive government education, food stamps, health care, jobs, tax subsidy, welfare-bought votes for something for nothing to the population at large, including illegal aliens, 30 multinational corporations and foundations that paid no taxes, some corporations even getting refund checks.


http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/03/news/economy/corporate_taxes/index.htm


It is worth remembering Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1 of our Constitution, in prescribing the Power of Congress, (not the Courts or President) To lay and collect taxes, writes:

all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html


Today, with more than $119 Trillion in unfunded government mandates for Medicare, Pensions, Prescription Drug Benefits, Social Security and Welfare, the upside down government budget situation may not last too long before blowing up:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 


It is worth noting in 2012 under the President's budget, individuals pay $1.165 Trillion in income taxes, $841 B in payroll taxes that decrease take-home wages, and corporations pay $237 Billion in taxes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_federal_budget


Let us add on to taxes the invisible tax of inflation, really around 10%, according to ShadowStats:


http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

No wonder de facto unemployment is 28.27%, with only 58.5% of the civilian population employed. So many people dropped off government income rolls:


http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/cwcs-projects/defacto


Meantime, homes are the most affordable in years, with payments lower than renting.

It is worth recalling it takes 1.3 jobs to buy a house, while building and buying houses creates many new jobs for each house. 

We see the Nevada parking lots at Home Depot and Lowes are getting busier.  
 
Meantime, on a national scale, unfunded government unfunded liabilities of $119 Trillion dwarf current government revenues of some $2.24 Trillion, working out to $1,047,165 of unpaid government bills facing each taxpayer. 



http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Doing simple division suggests it could take 53 years for taxpayers to pay those unfunded government mandates at present revenue rates.

53 years to pay government IOUs is true only if unfunded mandates do not grow as fast as they have for a generation and Federal Government stops spending the Social Security Payroll Tax funds faster than they come in.If not, then it takes longer on paper. 

Will the next generation stand for government destroying the economy with debt?

Taxing productive members of society 100% cannot pay the $3.5702 Trillion Federal Budget.

Here are the numbers and simple math ignored by media politicians: 

113,655,841 income taxpayers who earned a median income of $23,535, can contribute only $2.674 Trillion (113 Million x 23 Thousand) to government spending. 

In other words, taking 100% of taxpayers' income could run the government for only three quarters of the year or Nine Months. Just the facts m'am:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_federal_budget


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States

So where does the rest of the money come from to run government nowadays?

It comes from a unique arrangement the private Federal Reserve Bank shareholders receiving 6% dividends from the US Treasury at Taxpayer expense worked out at Kekyll Island behind closed doors and passed on the eve of 1913 Christmas Congressional Recess when Representatives and Senators had already left for home.

The Federal Reserve issues fiat dollars backed by interest-bearing debt created out of thin air. 

The debt service and repayment is charged to the US Treasury, which oversees the IRS, which charges taxpayers for that debt interest or repayment, despite being headed by a Secretary who cheated on his taxes.

The last time the Federal Debt was paid off was when Andrew Jackson was our 7th President and closed the National Bank:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson



(When Hamilton and other representatives of European Private Central Banks like the Bank of England tried to foist their usury scheme on the American People, it was repulsed by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and other patriotic Presidents.

In 1914 a Princeton President named Woodrow Wilson signed it into law. 

Then he took the USA into World War I, which increased debts so much for the Americans and Germans that it led to Hitler, Hirohito, Mussolini, Stalin and World War II after FDR repudiated the Constitutional legal tender of Gold. 

As an important clue for today, Congressman Charles August Lindbergh, father of Garden City to Paris Aviator Charles August "Lucky" Lindy, the Lone Eagle, opposed the Federal Reserve Act and entry into World War I:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_August_Lindbergh


His aviator son Lindy, a US Army Reserve Officer Medal of Honor recipient, and inventor of the Heart Pump and Rocket Researcher, accepted with Henry Ford the Commander Cross of the Order of the German Eagle and provided the USA with military intelligence during his heroes tour of German and Soviet Aircraft factories. He told FDR Germany was gearing up for war, but advised him through British Ambassador Joe Kennedy to steer clear and let Germany attack communism in Asia and the Soviet Union:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

After his infant son was kidnapped and murdered, he opposed the USA entering a European War. He and his family fled to England and Il Illiec off the coast of Brittany, France, until recalled as a Colonel in the Army Air Corps by the Chief of Staff.  In 1939 after Hitler violated the Munich Pact, the Lone Eagle wrote in a Reader's Digest article:

"Our civilization depends on peace among Western nations... and therefore on united strength, for Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection."[8

Although FDR never restored his Colonel Commission, after Pearl Harbor Lindy helped Henry Ford manufacture the B-24 bomber and flew 50 unofficial combat missions against the Japanese and improved the performance of the Corsair and P-38 bomber/fighters and their pilots.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

The Silver Senator and Kennedy restored Silver as legal tender, but JFK was assassinated. Gold was not legal again until 1 January 1975 and Silver was not legal tender until 9 Jule 1985, with the first American Silver Eagles in 1986, but I digress and that is another account for our Silver Eagle business.
    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Silver_Eagle )


Today, our largest six Federal Budget items are 

1) Medicare/Medicaid $829.8 Billion year to date, 
2) Social Security $742.9 Billion ytd, 
3) Wars $692 Billion ytd, 
4) Unemployment $381 Billion, 
5) Net Interest on Treasury Debt $225.8 Billion ytd, and 
6)Federal Pensions $213.8 Billion ytd. 


Our US trade deficit, year to date, is $796 Billion dollars, the result of decades of multinational corporations building plants and seeking cheaper labour overseas. But for the first time in a long time, multinational foreign corporations are locating plants and hiring in low-cost states like Alabama and South Carolina. 

Nevada has an able workforce and the US Senators from Nevada can certainly work to increase employment here. 


http://www.usdebtclock.org/#

In a few fast years, the interest on the Government Debt (often miscalled the Public Debt) may exceed all other budget categories, particularly if interest rates rise.


Clearly, the only realistic budget solution to save the day is to cut government spending, as households have to do.

This is something Federal politicians so far have been loathe to do. 

http://www.usdebtclock.org/# should be required reading for all candidates and elected officials.

Instead, politicians believed in a perpetual free money machine, driving up debts for their constituents.

Politicians pretended to fix the economy with borrowed money.

Politicians violated our Constitution with Patriot Act, Indefinite Detention, Federal Trespassing Legislation, while Executive Agnecies refused to enforce the laws and regulations for Life, Liberty, Peace and Prosperity.

We suffered Department of Homeland Security TSA Police State, DOJ Fast and Furious gun-running, Gitmo tap dances, greater temporary spending on "shovel-ready" infrastructure that was anything but, hidden taxes on healthcare with 20,000 new IRS agents, payroll tax cuts that further weakened Medicare, Prescriptions and Social Security and broken promises of the end of foreign depleted uranium wars disabling and killing our youth, the promise of tomorrow.


http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/Wayne-Allyn-Root-On-Obamas-Agenda.htm


The $15.7 Trillion in debts piled up this last generation now exceeds the size of our economy. 

It amounts to $693,249 Federal Debt per American family:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

It is past time to pay the Piper.

Yet Congress for the last three years violated our Constitution and refused to pass a budget, let alone a balanced budget with sound money. Congress has not passed a budget since 2009:


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/16/house-lawmakers-say-no-budget-no-pay/print/

Why are they re-elected?

Lobbyist-owned politicians may think they can inflate their way out of the mess they created, with over $726 Trillion of Credit and Currency Derivatives that dwarf the $72 Trillion global economy ten times.


But most of us in Nevada and America with common sense know better.

Sul Lago Ristorante Chef Jimmy also described what is wrong with American politics in a cannelloni shell:

The D's are too far Left and the R's are too far right. Who is in the middle like Ronald Reagan and Tip ONeill, who worked with each other for different parties?   

We are. We continue to insist we are the Constitutional Candidate who intends to combine the best of both Parties and Independents for All Americans.

We appreciate your support and vote in the Republican Primary on or before 12 June 2012:

Registering to Vote: http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=703

Absentee Voting: http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=77

Early Voting: http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=1089

                                                         

Home Sweet Home

Our One-Month American Whistle Stop Fact-Finding Tour Report

Richard Charles for US Nevada Senator Tues 12 June 2012 and Tues 6 November 2012

Aloha All: 177 American cities in 30 days on Amtrak Rail Passes.

Last night we hugged our beloved animals after a month away on our American Campaign Fact Finding Whistle Stop Tour.

The day we left on the California Zephyr was the first day of actual Tahoe spring temps, where there are two seasons: Winter and Repairs. Despite continued snow skiing, we enjoyed sunny walks on 74 degree crowded beaches with water like glass for paddle boarders and kids braving the 36 degree clear waters.

There’s no place like home.

A month away from monopoly media at 79 and 125 mph on the tracks was a great prescription and recipe for some objective insights meeting America and Americans in 28 states.

We report without reservation that private America and Americans are in much better shape than most government monopoly media present.

Oh, obesity is an epidemic all right.

But higher food prices, death and disease are taking care of that with spiraling government subsidized education, healthcare, military and welfare cost overruns that threaten the collapse of profligate government.

The most serious problem for the future of America and All Americans, remains an armed coercive fiat obese government violating our Bill of Rights, Constitution and Declaration of Independence without voter accountability.

More later, but first, our report on Amtrak.

Amtrak was full occupancy from $4 a gallon fuel.

Amtrak train service employees were mostly busy, helpful, kind and overworked.

A 42-year veteran said they need better training with more qualified personnel and the railroad had gone down hill.

One Amtrak veteran said Amtrak employees could make six figures if they were willing to work themselves into the ground serving the rails.

We saw multiple Customer Service problems on the Texas Eagle/Sunset train.

Abusive impatient ineffective Amtrak personnel harassed and touched passengers in the middle of the night with equipment failures and over-occupied seats and cafe cars.

There was always the screaming child issue that could be met booking private sleeper car compartments most passengers cannot afford. Occasionally an unoccupied sleeper berth presents itself at a discount with much hassle and paperwork for the conductor.

A 24-year Amtrak veteran told us they need with more rest from quick turnaround breaks that dropped from 3 days to 9 hours on some routes, or Amtrak personnel may go postal or flip out in service like overworked airline personnel.

Amtrak has a glaring need for better equipment and maintenance.

We observed backed up dirty toilets, overflowing trash and urine soaked floors, noisy cars and rails with delays for repairs on the Lake Shore Limited, to more wireless needed on other than the Boston to DC and California political corridors, to overpriced inconsistent food quality (paying $30 for a cold hot meal) to bumpy rails, bumpy buses without alignment, balancing and hydraulic maintenance, tight schedules, limited routes, extensive layovers like Chicago, DC and San Antonio.

It appeared whistleblowers got harassed, transferred or removed from work, so went along with bad conditions to stay employed.

The San Antonio River Walk layover from 10 PM to 3 AM was nice, although one passenger was almost robbed outside the train station with a uniformed guard just standing in the doorway.

Despite the automated telephone service named Julie, Amtrak suffers a serious customer relations service problem verbally communicating and keeping published passenger schedules, due to lack of cellphone coverage, freight train right of ways, passenger and rail work delays with padded schedules, with no WiFi on most Amtrak routes.

Coming into Boston with Enterprise meeting us, we were variously told by Amtrak personnel the train was an hour late or an hour early. It turned out to be on time.

This happened on other routes too, with the bus driver from LAX to Bakersfield trains scaring crowded passengers in rush hour traffic to make up a late departure due to a late arrival passenger who could have been left for the next bus.

Amtrak or a private profit company with ample capital could be the future of green US Transportation, with a current cost economy of one gallon of diesel per 468 passenger miles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation

Passengers told us Amtrak beat higher air, auto and even long bus travel costs.

Amtrak scenicruisers and dining cars were a great place to meet and dine with passengers from Beijing, Down Under, England, Europe, Latin America and the Heartland of America, including several Sisters riding the rails and staying at Monasteries, for their bright ideas and perceptions, namely that America and Americans are much better off than most realize.

Of course they casually mentioned their trains run faster and more smoothly at 200 mph.

We saw railroad traffic, tractor trailers and barges on nearby freeways and waterways were full utilization, hauling product and cargo containers from world ports, notably China and Korea.

Amtrak passengers waited on railroad sidings for fully loaded coal, cargo and tanker railcar rights of way to the actual owners of the tracks that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates bought.

There is a clear need for high speed rail dedicated only to American Passengers.

We share a few travel notes before our preliminary conclusions on Amtrak and America:

The gentle motion of the cars with the locomotive whistle far ahead was very soothing, unpleasantly punctuated by bad rails suddenly violently throwing cars and passengers side to side like air turbulence.

Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs became quite the retirement edens with clean air, essential services, interesting activities, new infrastructure and pleasant mountain vista terroir.

The four 14,500 horsepower diesel electric locomotive California Zephyr climb with views over the Rocky Mountains from Glenwood Springs to Rocky Mountain National Park to Winter Park to Boulder and Denver were stunning, including Steep Mountains and Canyons, Bald Eagles, Mountain Goats, Sheep with plenty of fresh water, green and open space to camp, drink, eat, fish and hunt.

In Nebraska we saw Air Force One parked outside Omaha (0 visiting Warren Buffett?) and in Iowa we saw the actual Field of Dreams in Dyersville, not just a movie hit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_Dreams

We saw 28 cities pass by before we transferred to the crowded Hiawatha Commuter Train in Chicago, headed for a Milwaukee and Madison family reunion near Lake Michigan. We enjoyed beautiful weather, friendly people and effective charitably funded Jewish Senior Services, with one 97-year Senior feeding animals from her stroller complaining she had lived too long and was tired of chicken products every meal.

We speed-walked genteel Madison neighborhoods onto the University of Wisconsin Campus, the Frank Lloyd Wright Conference Center on Lake Mendotta, as well as the magnificent state Capitol Rotunda, described by some as second only to DC, which has more statues. Madison, unlike US Congress, protects First Amendment due process rights to peaceably assemble and petition government for a redress of grievances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re6hcOmHpzs 0:18

We enjoyed Milwaukee Brewers game with the California Angels on a rainy day made much better by Miller Park green design, enthusiasm, fan batters’ cages, a Hall of Fame including Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson and baseball commissioner Bud Selig, with the retractable roof where the All Star Game will be played.

We gazed and walked in wonder at the Milwaukee Art Museum triplex on Lake Michigan, highlighted by the magnificent Burke Brise Soleil sunscreen wings, larger than a Boeing 747-400, that open and contract to maintain building temperature or avoid high winds.

http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/mil/ballpark/index.jsp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_Wisconsin

http://mam.org/info/architecture.php

http://mam.org/visit/details/detail_burke.php

We noted in passing politics in once-Blue 0 WI reverted to Ron Paul Red Libertarian Tea Party. Several criminal recall efforts by Media supported Courts and Unions reluctant to face inconvenient economic facts and cutbacks backfired. Flyover country still uses common sense.

http://bit.ly/K1WtsP

We took the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to South Bend, Elkhart, Waterloo, Bryan, Toledo, Sandusky, Elyria and Cleveland, where we stayed at the downtown Residence Inn to meet an Amherst College classmate for a reunion visit at the almost rained-out Indians-Astros game. We enjoyed having Marty, our family baseball fanatic, along for the colour and stats..

At 5 AM we headed to Boston via Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady, Albany, Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester and Framingham, enjoying views of fertile farms near the Great Lakes and Erie Canal, despite horrible tracks, outdated rough railcars and Amtrak personnel scrambling to provide good service.

Some words to the wise:

Amtrak passengers should not drink to excess, fight,smoke on board, swear or make personal calls on cell phones, as everyone in the car can hear, see, smell and suffer. Such offending passengers are detrained before their destination for being intoxicated or smoking.

Amtrak passengers are generally civil and thoughtful.

We enjoyed great visits in the rain in Boston, Cambridge Charles Canal and Martha’s Vineyard at the Mother Church, architectural historical tours and art galleries. 

Our expensive ferry ride past Plymouth Rock from Wood’s Hole and the Vineyard Haven was escorted by mounted machine gun coast guard boats, possibly training for the President’s next family farm visit. Our generous informative hostess came from a MV family dating from whaling in the 1620s, and homes stay in families for generations, true New England Granite Character and grit.

From Boston to DC, a busy Amtrak employee forgot to unload a Brown to Yale student in a wheelchair at her stop, as the nurse meeting her waved furiously. We were able to locate the employee before the next stop with the gratitude of the employee who called us her angels when we said,
 "God is good."


We had great meets at the Arlington Rangers Royals Baseball Game, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort's Smith and Worth for a four-generation Mother's Day and National Cemetery to visit our Naval War Hero Father, the gleaming St Louis Arch over the Mississippi River at Sunset, the San Antonio River Walk and Los Angeles, all of which confirmed our private economy is better off than most citizens and countries depending on big government..

Construction cranes were booming in DC, not exactly an encouraging sign for those who find government already too big and bloated with broken promises.

We were concerned that each Federal bureacracy now appears to have its own police force in conspicuous evidence, confirming DC became a literal police state.

DC men were well-dressed, the women glamorous and traffic choked in a hurry, park lawns poorly maintained, with loud siren escorts of VIP buses and limos on crowded tourist trips to the American Capital area.

The Smithsonian Native America Building was stunning, one of 28 government Smithsonians in DC, yet another conspicuous bureaucracy when taxpayers deserve more economy.

http://www.si.edu/

In DC there appears a statue, monument or plaque for almost every special interest.

We noticed one visual fact in DC that spoke volumes about the vital need and way to restore Balanced Constitutional Representative government in our Capital:

There is a popular urban myth that no building in DC may be taller than the Capitol Building on The Hill that Houses Congressional Representatives under the Statue of Freedom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Freedom

The original DC architect, Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, put our Congressional Capitol on The Hill at the center of the DC quadrants and boulevards, with the Supreme Court and White House to the side, perhaps for this reason:

Washington, DC is supposed to serve US citizens, not the other way around like now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol

Perhaps 2012 citizen voters will take note and vote for the US Silver Senator to restore our balance of powers from the present top-heavy Executive and Judicial Branch.

Certainly that is our intent in standing for office out of retirement.

Meantime, Amtrak is a lesson in microcosm for big bloated Federal government in America.

More Amtrak subsidies are supported by the Las Vegas Casino Lawyer Democrat US Rep incumbent running for Nevada US Senate, impressed with her Dialysis Chain husband receiving government contracts while traveling on high speed trains in Asia, perhaps another trillion dollar boondoggle of American taxpayers.

We found compelling evidence Amtrak should be privatized for profit and free market efficiency.

Amtrak costs are rising severely with poor service.

A friend of ours literally stopped the train from San Francisco to Boston for hospitalization from Amtrak food poisoning.

Amtrak government subsidies enable costs and inefficiencies that run out of control like government subsidized education, healthcare and military war-profiteering.

Amtrak did not become self-sufficient or reliable as repeatedly promised.

Leland Stanford and EH Harriman would not recognize or own Amtrak today.

As one Amtrak passenger enjoying a comfortable long haul private rail car for $325 observed:

Were Amtrak a service company, not a protection racket set up to bleed government money into padded contracts, it would have the imagination to operate similar excursions.   

http://www.trainweb.com/amplan/hilites.html

http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/523907.html

http://www.newgeography.com/content/001872-amtrak-fails-to-weather-the-storms

America cannot afford Amtrak and other unprofitable boondoggle debts as it is.

Perhaps it is time for America’s government monopoly titans to stop encouraging still higher taxes for more failed government taxpayer subsidies.

Perhaps they can fund the necessary rail infrastructure to bring America into the 21st century with dedicated green rail travel.

In pre-revolutionary prosperous Charleston historic district and on the harbour tour, we previously noted the need for more character rather than more cash in Federal Government.

We are dedicated to that cause.

There is a simple prescription for weight loss: Eat Less.

There is a simple prescription for better government: Spend Less.

The last time we retired government debts was our Seventh President, Andrew Jackson, who took on the corporate banker hydra:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

The last time we had sound money, liberty and profitable rails was William Stuart with Mark Twain, the Silver Senator:

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Stewart.htm

For us, it is now or never.

We pray we citizens care enough about our future to take the time to forward this to all family and friends to register Nevada Republican by 22 May 2012 to get out the Primary vote for better candidates with the General Vote for government reform on Tuesday 6 November 2012:

http://nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=703

http://nvsos.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2029

Otherwise, it’s more of the same government failures and shortcomings at consumer, future generations and taxpayer expense.
 

                                                          

Honesty, Integrity, Moral Authority and Quiet Leadership

In Charleston's Historic District, on our America for Americans Whistle Stop Tour, we sat down on a tree protected bench in Washington Square, founded in 1881 and funded by a committee headed by Palmetto Native General Westmoreland. 

Our wish was rest and respite from the heat and humidity in the so-called High Season, before July August heat and humidity drive even the locals to air conditioning.  

Charleston is where Comic Pundit Stephen Colbert grew up in a white waterfront mansion, according to Harry, the accomplished Spirit Line Harbour Tour Guide.

Next to the bench was a beautiful larger than life John Michel sculpture of America's first President, with thoughtful inspired inscription that described General and President Washington as a man of Honesty, Integrity, Moral Authority and Quiet Leadership that promoted the best of competing philosophies that united different interest groups. 

The Washington Inscription, Marker and Statue is some 966 miles from Boston, which gets credit for educational diversity, religious tolerance and a Tea Party, in fact after Charleston. 

Washington, less educated or talented than many, earned the sobriquet as our Founding Father. 

As previously posted, GW serves as an inspiration to the Silver Senator and 2012 voters, tired of partisan politics and intending to elect leaders who represent, serve and unite them.

http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=47791