Lettre à l'Amérique, d'un Français qui a vu la fin du film.
Vous vous croyez encore le dernier pays libre. Vous l'êtes pour l'instant. Je vous écris depuis un pays qui l'était aussi, et qui a signé sa reddition sans qu'un seul coup de feu ne soit tiré.
En France, l'État capte et redistribue 57% de tout ce que la nation produit. Cinquante-sept pour cent. Arrêtez-vous sur ce chiffre. Pour chaque unité de valeur créée par un ingénieur, un ouvrier, un fondateur qui a risqué sa peau, plus de la moitié transite par une main qui n'a rien bâti. Ce n'est pas une ligne budgétaire. C'est une hypothèque permanente sur l'existence des gens.
Et voici ce que personne ne vous avouera : ça n'arrive jamais par la révolution. Personne ne vote pour le déclin. On vote pour la compassion, pour la sécurité, pour la justice, pour la planète. À chaque étape, on troque un morceau de liberté contre une promesse. Et les promesses sont toujours belles. C'est ça, le piège.
Le collectivisme d'aujourd'hui n'agite plus le drapeau rouge il a compris que ça ne se vend plus. Il a appris à parler la langue du soin. ESG, gouvernance, conformité, « responsabilité » : ce sont les mots nouveaux d'une très vieille idée. L'idée qu'une élite éclairée sait mieux que vous ce qui est bon pour vous, et qu'il faut donc lui transférer, ligne après ligne, le pouvoir de décider à votre place. Ce n'est pas un complot. C'est pire : c'est un consensus. Personne ne se cache. Tout se fait à visage découvert, applaudi, subventionné.
Hayek l'avait écrit il y a quatre-vingts ans : la route de la servitude est pavée de bonnes intentions et de planification centralisée. La France a marché sur cette route en souriant. On a nationalisé le risque, socialisé l'échec, taxé l'audace, et administré tout le reste. Résultat : un pays magnifique qui ne construit plus rien, qui gère sa décrépitude avec une élégance funèbre, et où le jeune le plus doué rêve d'une seule chose partir. Beaucoup atterrissent chez vous.
L'Amérique a encore ce que nous avons perdu : le réflexe de bâtir plutôt que d'administrer. Le fondateur y est un héros, pas un suspect. La réussite y est une preuve, pas une faute à expier. C'est votre trésor. Et un trésor, ça se perd sans qu'on s'en aperçoive un formulaire, une agence, une « bonne cause » à la fois.
Alors ne cherchez pas d'ennemis cachés. C'est inutile et c'est indigne de vous. Regardez plutôt le chiffre. Regardez la France. Chaque point de PIB que vous laissez glisser vers l'État est un point de liberté qui ne revient jamais.
La liberté ne meurt pas assassinée. Elle meurt anesthésiée, sous les applaudissements.
Ne signez pas. Construisez.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.
I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
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This whole Joe Kent thing makes no sense. America doesn't only go to war when it faces a threat. We defend freedom; and genocidal victims all over the world look to us to save them. That's what makes us America and not North Korea. DUH.
Well, well, well…
Was his name really Barack Hussein Obama — or was it Jean Paul Ludwig? Let me explain.
After digging through records and old documents, something strange surfaced: the Social Security Number 042-68-4425, the one linked to Barack Obama, was originally assigned to a man named Jean Paul Ludwig — a French-born immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1924. He was reportedly given that SSN in March 1977.
Now here’s the kicker: Ludwig spent most of his adult life in Connecticut, which explains why his SSN begins with 042 — a prefix reserved for Connecticut residents.
Obama? Never lived or worked in Connecticut. So why would he have a Social Security number tied to that state?
It gets even more curious. Ludwig reportedly passed away in Hawaii, where Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, just happened to work in the probate office of the Honolulu Courthouse — with access to files of deceased individuals and their personal records, including unused Social Security numbers.
The theory is that Ludwig’s death was never properly reported to the Social Security Administration, likely because he never received benefits. That meant his number sat dormant — and accessible.
Some believe Dunham may have quietly found a number that belonged to someone long gone — someone not receiving benefits — and handed it off to her grandson, whose citizenship status has long been questioned by skeptics due to connections to Kenya and Indonesia.
And that’s just the beginning. If Trump — or anyone else — ever pushes past the birth certificate and straight into the mystery of this SSN, it’s going to be chaos. You’ll see heads spin on the left like never before. Because you can debate birthplaces all day long, but using a Social Security number that wasn’t assigned to you? That’s fraud.
This isn’t about politics. This is about the law — and the truth.
Let people make their own decisions, but they deserve to know.
If you’re reading this and just shrug it off? Then maybe you’re okay with being lied to. But if not, spread the word.
Because justice for this country is long overdue.
In God We Trust.
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I woke up out of a dead sleep witb these thoughts.
Hang the keys up bro! You had a good ride.
There's no humanity left in trucking. It used to be about the guy that had to go through all the stress for what that load paid. Now, it's about the stress that same guy has to go through to make ends meet while getting paid pennies on the dollar.
Its watching brokerage firms become multi billion dollar firms while you struggle to pay off a $1500 repair bill.
It's watching truckstop after truckstop pop up price gouging the trucker from the fuel pumps to $10 a gallon windshield washer fluid while offering you a food choice of a roller dog, subway, or McDonald's.
It's having some young cocky employee of a broker calling you at 2am to get your location waking you up from a dead sleep and then mocking you because you're crabby.
It's being harassed by the DOT at scales because you hit one of that states nuclear potholes and it knocked a marker light out.
Its sharing the roads with third world people who have no business driving a bicycle let alone a semi and they have zero value for human life.
Its having to deal with people in the public who treat us as an inconvenience rather than a necessity and cut us off just to hit their exit because they feel their time matters more.
It's having to use truckstop showers that still have pubes on the floor from the previous guest.
It's having to deal with regulations that were made up by a pencil pushing punk bureaucrat who tells me that im not safe to work more than 14 hours a day because he's unable to.
It's being treated like a child because you have allowed children into an adult profession and they ruin it for the adults and rather than punish the children who make mistakes, you punish the adults who know better.
It's wanting to park for the night closer to your destination but you don't risk it because you know the parking will be non existent.
It's being told you have lane restrictions in certain states because those states think your time don't matter.
It's watching your health deteriorate over time because of the nature of your profession.
It's having to miss weddings, funerals, birthdays, and every important life event because you already committed to a couple weeks worth of loads.
It's having to make do in a bucket or garbage can at a shipper/receiver because they've held you up for hiurs and offer no restroom facilities.
It's waiting 12 1/2 hours to get loaded than run the load through the night straight through to deliver the load on time only for the receiver make you wait an additional 8 1/2 hours to unload you and then be told "we'll give you $340 for your time." (I lost a load because of that)
It's breaking down and having roadside price gouging you because they know you have no other choice.
It's being held up at shippers/receivers because no English speaking truck drivers can't understand basic instructions or they park in everyone's way because they have no common courtesy.
It's watching non English speaking truck drivers park at fuel pumps and go in and take a shower.
It's dodging bags of human feces in parking lots because the 3rd world is too lazy to bring that bag to a garbage can.
I could go on and on but ladies and gentlemen this is a pretty good crash course of what we deal with out here to bring you your conveniences.
The trucking industry, much like this country is no more. Greed and corruption is destroying this country and the trucking industry from within.
It's time to take our country back or lose it forever.
~written by The Disrespected Trucker ~
🚨 While the world panicked about the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia already had a backup plan.
A 1,200 km pipeline across the desert
Persian Gulf ➝ Red Sea
Built in 1981 to bypass Hormuz entirely.
Now running at full capacity.
Up to 7 million barrels of oil per day flowing west.
(Amir Tsafarti)
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I’m so done with Hannity interviews. He gets really good guests, but I'm always yelling at the TV, would you please let the man or woman answer the freaking question. Geez!
I've been fueled by Marlboros and high rev coffee for the last 39 hours.
Made it home awhile ago. Now its Marlboros and Buschlight.
These last 39 hours brought me back to when we had professional drivers who knew their limits.
We had sensible regulations and common sense.
What we didnt have was the government riding our ass and micromanaging our every move.
We didn't have a bunch of low IQ morons operating 80,000 lb missiles.
We had folks that could run their rig for 24-36 hours straight on occasion and be the safest drivers on our roadways.
We didn't have the accidents back in the day because we all ran CBs and kept each other alert.
We'd run from North Dakota to Texas in one shot full of coffee and smelling like an ashtray.
We were the angels of the highway.
We stopped and helped each other.
We stopped and helped broke down motorists.
We didn't have cell phones and Netflix.
We had respect. We had pride. We had a work ethic second to none.
We were the original AMERICAN TRUCKER!!
It's been stolen from us and those of us left, want it back.
This isn't the same America i grew up in!
We need to Make America Great Again!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
MSG Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient for actions during Operation Gothic Serpent in 1993. He was killed and ripped into pieces by Somalis, who used his arm to beat CWO Durant unconscious. I went through RIP and deployed multiple times with his son. Remember who you are, American.