Category Archives: U.S.

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 23 May 2013. More massive school & health care cuts!!!

In Utah a British Empire owned mining company, Kennecott, laid off 100 employees!  More layoffs are planned.  It’s blamed on a major landslide at the Bingham Canyon Mine, and the price of copper doesn’t justify the expense of clearing the landslide.

In Saint Louis, Missouri, non-profit Lighthouse for the Blind medical packaging company laid off 24 employees.  85% of its business comes from the federal government, specifically the Department of Defense, and those contracts are being cut.

In Oklahoma, the Christian God can’t stop 210 layoffs at the non-profit health care organization known as Saint John Health System!  Governor Mary Fallin is being blamed for refusing to expand Medicaid coverage, and they also blame the Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Act cuts to Medicare/Medicaid.

The McCready Memorial Hospital/Alice Byrd Tawes Nursing Home in Delaware, laid off 18 employees, and turned five full time jobs into part time jobs. It’s blamed on declining customers.

In Connecticut, the Christian God can’t stop an undisclosed amount of layoffs at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center!  It’s blamed on the Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Act!

Want to burn your body fat with a laser?  Too late, the Texas company that sold such a device, Primcogent Solutions, now bankrupt.  Company officials said they were supposed to making money off licensing the use of the fat burning laser, but their investigations showed that the laser was a money losing operation.

Kansas based Cessna Aircraft lays off more employees. One month after offering voluntary buyouts to employees, Cessna officials say they will begin laying off an undisclosed number of employees.  Company officials blame crashing sales on the bad economy.

The Yeager Airport, in West Virginia, could layoff up to four employees, and eliminate three other positions.  It’s blamed on declining customers, and the loss of a route to Florida.

In Michigan, one week after announcing that 70 employees would be let go, Ann Arbor Board of Education gave the axe to 233 teachers!  The school district is short $8.67 million USD!

The Hattiesburg Public School District, in Mississippi, wants to layoff 20 teachers. They’re short $1.8 million!

In Pennsylvania, the state auditor general’s office laid off 67 employees.  The state office is short several million dollars, and they blame it on the governor.  A major east coast convenience store supplier, Cooper-Booth Wholesale, now bankrupt.  Apparently the federal government seized their bank accounts in connection to illegal cigarette smuggling.  In the Germantown section of Philadelphia, the NewCourtland nursing school closed after only three years of operations!  NewCourtland opened the school to provide nurses for its nursing homes operations, but then turned around and sold them off! And 56 employees with the Reading School District could lose their jobs.  The district is short $12 million, and apparently most people didn’t know it: “There’s a train wreck ready to happen, and the school district and the public need to hear it.”-Robert Peters, district CFO

The Elmbrook School District laying off 30 employees in Wisconsin.  It’s blamed on declining student enrollment and reduced government funding.

New York based flash sales website Totsy shutting down(?), after laying off all 83 employees! The company targets eco-freindly moms. Reports say the company burned through investors money as fast as they got it.  It also appears that flash sales websites were just a short lived fad.

In California, 115 years old Clifford’s Jewelry shut down in Chico! The owners wanted to retire, and apparently nobody in the family wanted to continue the business.  Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) closed down in Fountain Valley.  The Sears owned Hardware chain went bankrupt in June. The latest news is that Lowe’s might buy OSH from Sears.

And another Office Depot in Virginia bites the dust!

Another cafe closed in Maine, this time the Coffee Pot Cafe in Lincoln.  The owner blames the bad economy.

In South Carolina, Fred’s retail store closed down in Columbia. It’s the third store to close in the city this year. Since 2008 the company has been shutting down underperforming stores, due to the bad economy.

21 people became unemployed when the 45 years old Bienville Club closed down in Mobile, Alabama.  The owner blamed it on declining customers and increasing rent.  He says the property owner more than doubled the rent!

In Ohio, apparently the privately run children’s social program provider, Children’s Connection, shut down in Mount Vernon. And John Q’s Steakhouse closed in Cleveland. It was originally one of the first Stouffers Restaurants.  The owner wants to retire.

No more Gotham Tavern in Portland, Oregon.

In Hawaii, the Da Kitchen shut down in Honolulu, after only three years in business.  The restaurant owners did not like what the property owners wanted for rent.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

Idaho, U.S.

Pocatello, Idaho, Charlotte Fire 2?

29 July 2013 (21:55 UTC-07 Tango 28 July 2013)/21 Ramadan 1434/07 Mordad 1391/22 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

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Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 22 May 2013. Domestic spy company lays off even more employees!

Shell Vacations Club just put 45 employees on permanent vacation in Illinois.  Company officials say they’re restructuring.  And the Chicago School Board shutting down 49 schools!  They’re $1 billion USD in debt!

And California based domestic data collection and storage company (spying), NettApp, laying off 900 more employees around the World.  This is apparently in addition to the 1400 layoffs they announced just days prior!   Reports say NettApp refused to say how many jobs would be cut in the United States, however, they did say they were hiring 400 people for their Kansas spy center operations!

No more toys for Xmas?  Fisher Price laid off 100 people in Aurora, New York!  Company officials said they were moving production to California.  And Alteva phone company laying off about 20 people at it’s Warwick operations. They’ve been laying off employees since the beginning of the year.

In Ohio, the Fairport Harbor Village Council laid off two employees, and more layoffs are expected: “We have a lot of belt tightening to do around the village. With cuts to the local government funding, a major reduction in property tax evaluation and the defeat of the levy, we are where we are now financially.”-Tim Manross, Mayor

New York based public relations company Weber Shandwick laid off nine employees in Minnesota.  Company officials said it was consolidation of positions, as they expand operations in Europe.

In Mason County, West Virginia, the Felman Production electric arc furnaces at its ferroalloys factory are being shut down.  Employees, including managers, have been laid off.  The company says the price of silicomanganese is too low to justify continued operations.  They hope prices will go up so they can re-start operations.

In Pennsylvania, a Office Depot shut down in the West Goshen Town Center. It was store employees who notified the local news media. And the Christian God can’t stop the closing of the thrift Shop of Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr.  The manager resigned because he was tired of it, and church officials say none of their members want to take over management.

ACO Home, Garden & Hardware is closing 14 stores in Michigan!  They are trimming “underperforming” stores to make their investors happy.  The stores will close when they’ve sold off their inventory.

In Connecticut, the African-American Kente Cultural Center shut down.  The founder is blaming it on many things like competition, decreased revenues, lack of grants, and the existing board of directors want to quit and they can’t find anybody who wants to replace them!

What automotive industry recovery?  Florida based Allied Specialty Vehicles closed their Monaco RV factory in Indiana! 520 employees affected!  The company is moving production of their upscale Monaco recreational vehicle to Illinois.  Also, Allied Specialty Vehicles took over RV production from its competitor Navistar.

In Florida, the China Grill at the Hilton shut down.  The company that owns the restaurant says they are focusing on new restaurant projects.

In Ogden, Utah, two furniture stores, Knight’s Mattress & Furniture and Crown Elite Bedrooms, closed down.  The owners of Knight’s Mattress & Furniture say they are moving to a smaller store in another part of town, as well as focus mainly on mattress sales. No comment from the owner of Crown Elite Bedrooms.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

U.S.

Government Incompetence: FDA admits they look the other way when it comes to imported food! More smoke & mirrors?

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In a round-a-bout rare admission of incompetence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says they’ve allowed poor quality imported food to come into the United States!

Of course this is not new, and led to the creation of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act.  Prior to that imported foods were allowed to meet fewer standards of safety (in reality almost none at all) then food produced in the United States!

But don’t get too excited, under the new rules (which are still under review, by the way) the onus is on the U.S. importer to provide the FDA with ‘documents’ showing the food is safe and is being produced/packaged in a safe way.  In other words, there’s no actual FDA inspection of the foreign foods or foreign food producing facilities (as before).

And just as before, the FDA is not going to investigate food sources (even domestic sources) until after food poisoning cases have been reported.  In fact, the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act directs the FDA to create “third party auditors” to act as “accredited” inspectors.  Those auditors could actually be “foreign government agencies or private companies”!

Sounds like the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act is nothing but smoke and mirrors!

According to the FDA, 50% of fruit and 20% of vegetables consumed in the U.S. are imported.  Now realize there have been several studies that show norovirus is being found in vegetables and fruits, especially those that come from Europe!

 

U.S.

Eugenics Martial Law U.S.A.: North Carolina owns up to forced sterilization!

27 July 2013 (11:16 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Ramadan 1434/05 Mordad 1391/20 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

Officials in North Carolina have fessed up to a eugenics program that ran from 1929 to 1974.  At least 7000 people were sterilized against their will!

The NAZI eugenics program in Germany was simply a copy of what was already taking place in the United States and United Kingdom.  Reports say the U.S. eugenics programs started in some states as early as 1907!  Poor people, mentally and physically handicapped, prisoners, orphans and even children of alcoholics were targeted under a program that got it’s start under Queen Victoria of the evil British Empire.  Documents show at least 60000 people were sterilized in the U.S., 20000 in California alone (and those are the official numbers)!

In North Carolina you could even accuse your neighbor’s daughter of being promiscuous, and that was enough to get her sterilized!

At the beginning of July it was revealed that California was still conducting eugenics in women’s prisons, even though the Golden State officially ended eugenics in the late 1970s.

North Carolina’s elected leaders have agreed to payout $10 million USD to the victims.  The governor still has to sign it into law.  I wonder how many victims have died?  If the governor signs the compensation into law the payments won’t be made until 2015.  How many more victims will be dead by then?

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 17-19 May 2013. Another domestic spy company in trouble? Proof the recession is worse than the Great Depression!

Louisiana based Sandia Drilling, along with its Texas operations, now bankrupt.  The company provides drilling services to the oil industry.

A Houston, Texas, piano dealer now out-o-business, becasue California based Sherman Clay & Company said they are going to focus on other money making schemes and “…end our nearly 143 year run in the piano retail business.”

In Montana, after 90 years of business the Saverud Paint Shop in Kalispell closed down.  Even though the store survived the Great Depression of the 1930s, the current owners, Dale and Wayne Saverud, say this economic ‘recession’ is too much to handle!  And 300 people out-o-work!  A Texas based contract road construction company, Highway Technologies, shut down without notice!  A Montana employee who’d been with the company for 28 years said “My boss said….he had gotten a call from his boss that says today at 5 o’ clock that we were done, everybody. You feel like you’ve been kicked in the stomach.”-Steve Zetterberg

It turns out that Highway Technologies ceased operations without notice and laid off about 90% of its employees country wide!  Bankruptcy is in the works, with no explanation why.

The Eastern Oregon University eliminating 14 jobs and jacking up tuition by 5%.  It’s blamed on declining student enrollment.

In Ohio, the Bedford Public Schools laying off 17 teachers.  It’s blamed on declining enrollment and reduced state funding.  The school district has been laying off employees since 2011.

Yes AOL is still around, but the internet company is laying off about 40 employees from its Patch division.

In California, video game maker, Trion Worlds, laid off 100 employees according to some reports!  Company officials deny the reports, but did say people were laid off as the company moves from launching new games to development of existing games.  And another advertising company getting hit hard.  Goodby Silverstein & Partners laid off as many as 100 people!  Company officials blame it on clients canceling contracts like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

Blockbuster video closed stores in Colorado and Louisiana.  Its all part of the ongoing plan.

In New York, Big Picture DVD Superstore closed in Syracuse.  The owner specifically blamed movies being watched on computers and cell phones.  This was the last video rental store the owner had, after 30 years of operations.  And after more than 40 years of business,  Joe’s Dairy closed down in New York City.  One of the co-owners said they’ve been “burned” by unAmerican corporate America: “We can’t keep up with everybody else. It’s not the way it was when we first opened the store. It was more family oriented. The superstores came into existence and they blew everybody away.”-Anthony Campanelli

In Pennsylvania, the Arcadia Boutique closed. The owners are expanding their other stores.

Several Hooters restaurants closing in Wisconsin.  Its all part of the ongoing plan.

In Iowa, after 40 years of business The Nickelodeon Bar closed forever.  The property was sold to a bank.  And after 37 years Carter Lake Hardware & Variety shut down.  The family run store even had a contract post office.  The family says the economy sucks really bad: “The last five years have been really bad. We weren’t selling enough to go on. We were living from bank deposit to bank deposit. When you can’t even pay yourself, you’re done.”-Barb Melonis

In Hawaii, Sears announced the Kauai store closed.  40 people unemployed.  In Honolulu the GGP owned Sears closed down, 327 people out-o-work!

Party Planner shut down in Webster, Massachusetts.  The owner said after 25 years of running a business that’s almost consumed his life, he wants to retire.  And yet another domestic spying company is laying off employees.  This time provider of open sensor and big data processing systems, software and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications, Mercury Systems laid off 142 people!  Company officials blame it on reduced federal funding.

In Nebraska another nail in the coffin of alternative fuels.  Ag Processing will permanently close their ethanol factory: “It just reflects the general industry trend of difficult economic times for ethanol plants.”-Matt Caswell

Hancock Bank and Whitney Bank have merged and are closing as many as 45 offices across five states, from Texas to Florida, beginning in August.

In Maryland, Comcast will layoff 145 employees in September!  Comcast has been consolidating call center operations and laying off hundreds of people across the country.

What automotive industry recovery?  Harley Davidson motorcycles laid off 140 full time and seasonal employees in Kansas City, Missouri!  Company officials refused to give local news media a reason.  Area Harley dealers told the media that sales are good, so they don’t understand the need for layoffs.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

Business/Economics, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 16 May 2013. Property owners to blame!

Swiss based Novartis Consumer Health laid off 72 employees, and closed 41 open positions in their Lincoln, Nebraska factory.  Apparently these new job cuts are in addition to the 300 layoffs announced in April.

In Kentucky, Jefferson County Public Schools laying off 41 employees.  School officials blame it on declining enrollments of special needs children, and reduced federal funding.

After 37 years of selling teachers their supplies, Teacher’s Delight closed down in Indiana.  The owner says her business was destroyed when school officials began dictating to teachers where they could buy their supplies.  Perhaps school districts are getting kickbacks from certain school supply vendors?  In Bloomington, medical product manufacturer Hartmann USA halting production.  72 jobs affected.  Production being moved to South Carolina.

More advertising agencies making drastic cutbacks. BBDO and Goodby Silverstein & Partners laid off an undisclosed, but “significant” amount of employees.  The U.S. advertising industry is suffering from the bad economy.  After almost 80 years of working together, BBDO just lost their biggest client, Gillette, because of the bad economy!

In Minnesota, Communications Systems laid off 12 employees, blaming it on crashing sales in the fiber optics business.

The City of Hamilton, in Ohio, laid off six fire fighters.

In Nevada, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts laid off four employees.  They’ve been laying off employees since last year.

In Pennsylvania, Susquehanna Bank closing 16 offices!  Bank officials say they are trying to save money, and they blame customers switching to online banking.  The Eastern Dragon restaurant closed in Towamencin Township.  The restaurant is yet another business to leave the failing Towamencin Shopping Village.

In New Jersey, District 611 pizza restaurant closed after only seven months of business!  The owners blamed it on lack of customers, and an unreasonable property developer.  The Endless Vine wine store closed after 16 years of business.  It’s blamed on a death in the family.

In New Hampshire, the successful Saffron Bistro shut down.  It’s blamed on the property owner demanding unreasonable rent!

Authentically Amish Fine Furnishings out-o-business in Virginia, because the property owner jacked up the rent!

In Farmingdale, New York, Whirling Disc Records out-o-business.   Blamed on a death in the family.

In Jacksonville, Florida, the Taco Del Mar shut down after only one year in business in the Golden Oaks of Butler Point retail plaza!  The plaza is cursed with a history of high turn over of restaurants.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

International, U.S.

World War 3, North American Front: Mexico losing U.S. instigated drug war to Knights Templar!

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“I think some areas have been lost….there have been areas that have been abandoned or that have, unfortunately, been won by organized crime.”-Enrique Pena Nieto, Presidente of Mexico

Presidente Enrique Pena Nieto admits that a drug trafficking group, known as Knights Templar, have won the war in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

The loss of the state to Knights Templar took place as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was meeting with her Mexican counterparts.

U.S. President Bush Jr instigated the destruction of Mexico by forcing Presidente Felipe Calderon to launch a full on war on drug gangs, and six years later more than 60000 people have been killed, with no adverse affect on the drug gangs!

The ATF (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) operation Fast & Furious proved the U.S. government was behind supplying weapons and ammo to drug gangs,  as many of those guns were traced to the killings of U.S. citizens with the very guns supplied by the ATF!

But the Knights Templar are not just another drug gang, they consider themselves the legitimate representatives of the people of Michoacan.  Reports say combat in Michoacan has been ongoing for the past week.  Two months ago the Mexican government increased police and military units in the state.   Now entire towns have risen up against the government.  Police report their vehicles and weapons being captured by the revolutionaries.

In 2011 I wrote how the U.S. instigated Drug War in Mexico was nothing more than a Control Through Chaos operation.   It might also be U.S. covert preps for an invasion of Mexico.  In 2012 I pointed out that Reaganite Caspar Weinberger co-authored a book called the Next War.  Mexico was one of the countries he said the U.S. was going to invade, if conditions were just right.  If the Mexican government is truly losing control of states to nationalistic anti-U.S. organizations, then that meets Weinberger’s conditions for U.S. invasion.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 15 May 2013. Another domestic spy company going down? Blue Cross outsources jobs from Idaho!

Rumors that California based domestic spying data collection and storage company, NettApp, is laying off 1400 employees!  Part of the rumors came from former EMC (also a domestic spying company, laid off 1800 employees) employees who said they’ve been hit with thousands of job inquiries from NettApp employees.  The NettApp layoffs are part of the company’s plans to get rid of poor performing departments.  Rumors also say NettApp is laying off employees in United Kingdom.  Also in California, Applebees closed their Arroyo Grande restaurant, Applebees is bankrupt.  The restaurant manager said Applebees plans on closing restaurants in Colorado and New Mexico.  Apparently the Dairy Queen in Livermore closed.  The city of Turlock plans to layoff 19 employees.  City officials say they’re short $1.7 million USD!

The Energizer bunny just keeps losing steam.  Reports that an undisclosed amount of employees at the Asheboro, North Carolina factory will be laid off. Energizer already laid off 100 people at the factory in March!  Advertising agency McKinney laid off 30 people in Durham. They blamed it on the loss of a major client, Qwest, who got bought out by Century Link. Two branch offices of BB&T bank closed in Columbus County.  Apparently the locations were too small townish for the bank, revenues being too low.  For many people they’ll have to drive 20 miles to the nearest bank!  (I say go cash only!)  And North Carolina based pharmaceutical services giant, Quintiles, announced 400 layoffs worldwide!  Interesting because at the same time company officials claim they have 900 positions available?

CPM Federal Credit Union closed three branch offices in South Carolina.  The credit union is “restructuring”.

In Pennsylvania, the PNC Bank closing ten offices in the Pittsburgh area!  They’ve already closed 65 offices, and plan to close a total of 200 offices across the eastern U.S. by the end of this year!  Bank officials claim that most of their customers have switched to online banking.

In Maryland, the First Mariner Bank to close three offices in three cities.  Bank officials said they had to cut costs, and that many customers switched to online banking.

United kingdom based Too Big to Jail HSBC bank laying off 14000 people around the World!!!  Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver is already responsible for killing 46000 jobs and 52 businesses around the World!!!  Gulliver told analysts “We’re not even halfway through unlocking the value in HSBC.”  HSBC has hundreds of offices in the U.S., and owns several buildings in New York.

United Kingdom based Too Big to Jail RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) revealed they will layoff more people around the World (at least 1400), and close more offices.  In 2008-09 RBS got the biggest bank bailout in the World!  They’ve already laid off 37000 people!  RBS operates in the U.S. through Rhode Island based Citizens Financial Group (Citizens Bank and Charter One).

In New York, Ulster County warned employees at the Golden Hill nursing home that layoffs were coming.  The nursing home is being sold!  And the Malone Veterans Affairs clinic being closed down in August.  Apparently it has something to do with the number of veterans seeking help dropping below the magic 700 mark.

In Ohio, Mercy Hospital eliminated 18 jobs, blamed on decreased customers and decreased funding caused by the Obama/Romney Affordable Health Care Act.

Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance laid off 55 people across Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Utah (some reports said 56).  Regence is outsourcing claims processing to a company in New Jersey.

In Hood River, Oregon, CenturyLink closed a call center and laid off 51 employees.  After 40 years of business, For What It’s Worth Records shut down in Clackamas.  The owner doesn’t blame internet competition, because he says he has stuff you can’t get on the internet.  Instead he blames the recent 60% increase in international shipping rates by the USPS.  Most his customers are in other countries. (I can relate to that, and the main streamer news media said the rate hikes wouldn’t affect online businesses!)

In Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Building 19 discount store closed down.  The owners blame the bad economy: “We did everything we could to keep that store alive, but it just didn’t make sense for us. We have people who have worked at that store for 20 years, 30 years, back to the days of Spag’s.”-William Elovitz

IBM laid off 17 contract workers at its Essex Junction factory in Vermont.  IBM is moving jobs to Argentina and China.

In Michigan, New Yorker children’s clothing store closed after 76 years of business!  The owners said their decision to get out of the business is “Just in time.”, regarding the bad economy.  They also blamed unAmerican corporate America for destroying mom & pop operations: “It’s just mom and pop retail. It’s just old time retail. We talk to everybody and try to help them out. We’ve been here a long time.”-Jack Karr

Germany based steel company, ThyssenKrupp, to layoff at least 3000 people around the World, and sell off its Brazil and U.S. steel factories!

In Florida, the city of Vero Beach says it needs to cut $2.2 million from the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, which means layoffs are coming.   Flagler County Schools warned of possible layoffs for 28 employees.  It all depends on voters who are willing to screw themselves by voting for a new tax to support the schools.  In Sharpes, Corky Bell’s Seafood Restaurant closed.  It’s blamed on NASA downsizing at nearby Kennedy Space Center.

The publisher of Parenting and Baby Talk magazines sold out to the publisher of Parent and American Baby magazines.  The result is 65 people lost their jobs.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: New federal tax laws now officially Top Secret!

25 July 2013 (16:25 UTC-07 Tango)/17 Ramadan 1434/03 Mordad 1391/18 Ji-Wie (6th month) 4711

“COMMITTEE CONFIDENTIAL. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION. DO NOT COPY. These materials may not be released to the public from the National Archives or by the Finance Committee prior to December 31, 2064.”-U.S. Senate Finance Committee memo

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee is now classifying any new federal tax codes/reforms for the next 50 years!  This is to satisfy some senators who expressed concern that the citizens of the U.S. would rebel against some of the ‘reforms’, or perhaps assassinate senators, if they knew what those tax reforms entailed.

Also, only 10 senate staffers would be allowed to see the reforms, and only two digital copies will be posted in a password protected server.  Paper copies will be locked up.  All in an effort to keep the names of the senators drafting the reforms secret.

“Plenty of things are classified. But this is different.”-Thomas Mann, congressional scholar