Hey Everyone,

The Second Bandon Marsh Expansion Meeting at The Barn
Presented by the opposition to this federal land grab
Everyone is welcome

Saturday April 21, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.
We have some important updates and of
course we want to catch-up with everyone.  
 
This is a public meeting and everyone is welcome.   
 
The Bandon Community Center otherwise known as “The Barn” 
1202 11th Street Southwest,
Bandon, OR
 (541) 347-7426‎ 
 Google Map
 
There is a Steering Committee for the No BME non-profit group.   Anyone who is against the Bandon Marsh Expansion is more than welcome to get involved and help form an opposition to this government expansion.
 
Most meetings are on Wed at 6:30 pm.  
 

Contact:
Rob Taylor
 541-347-9942
 Email:  [email protected]  

Oregon’s  Economic Outlook Slips Again in 2012
by Steve Buckstein Monday, April 16. 2012

Hit hard by the national recession, Oregon lawmakers started the regular 2011 legislative session―and then the new shorter annual 2012 session―with calls to create jobs. By the time those sessions ended,  little had been done to encourage job growth in the state. And virtually nothing was done to address the major factors that determine the state’s Economic Outlook, as identified by the national organization of fiscally conservative state legislators, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).


Every year since 2008 ALEC has compiled and reported on the 15 policy variables influenced by state legislatures that appear to signal the economic outlook of the states. These variables are:


• Top Marginal Personal Income Tax Rate
• Top Marginal Corporate Income Tax Rate
• Personal Income Tax Progressivity
• Property Tax Burden• Sales Tax Burden
• Remaining Tax Burden
• Estate/Inheritance
Tax Levied?
• Recently Legislated Tax Changes
• Debt Service as a Share of Tax Revenue
• Public Employees Per  10,000 of Population
• State Liability System Survey
• State Minimum Wage
• Average Workers’
Compensation Costs
• Right-to-Work State?
• Number of Tax Expenditure Limits

Oregon ranks 4th in taxing working-poor families

A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities called “The Impact of State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families in 2011” examines the effects on citizens of the 15 states who still impose income tax on those at or below the poverty line.

Oregon ranked 4th in a study by financial website 24/7 Wall St. naming the top ten states who tax their poor the most.  Ahead of Oregon is Hawaii in 3rd, Illinois in 2nd and Alabama in 1st.

The federal poverty line is currently set at $23,018, giving Oregon the 18th largest population living in poverty, reported as 14.6 percent. 

According to 24/7 Wall St., a family of four in Oregon living off the lowest taxable income, $20,200, or 88 percent of the poverty line, will pay $274.  A family of the same size making $28,773, or 125 percent of the poverty line, will pay $869, then ranking Oregon third in the country.

-- Melissa Walther

Related
Links:
Huffington Post:  The 10 States Taxing The Poor Most:
24/7 Wall St.
About 24/7 Wall St.

And Bandon citizens want to increase taxes for an unneeded pool.  These people are not playing with a full deck. 

With lax oversight, mismanaged Oregon towns veer toward insolvency
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2012/04/with_lax_oversight_mismanaged.html


This is why going into debt at this time should be criminal for these cities.  Bandon just increased its maximum indebtedness for its Urban Renewal agency.  Eventually this money has to paid back and there is no guarrantee that the investment in government redevelopment will ever pay off. 

Why is Bandon Marsh Refuge Considering an Expanded Boundary?

The Need for Conservation
The fish and wildlife resources within the lower Coquille River estuary are of local, national, and international importance.  Although greatly diminished, the Coquille River system supports economically and culturally important runs of threatened coho salmon, chinook salmon, chum salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout, and Pacific lamprey. This estuary is also an important stopover area for fall and spring migrant shorebirds and waterfowl.
However, this estuary has suffered the highest percentage loss of tidal marsh habitat in Oregon. Approximately 95% of its tidal marsh habitat and 93% of its forested/shrub wetlands have been lost, resulting in impacts to this hydrologic system, its habitats, and the estuarine-dependent fish and wildlife populations that use this area.

Exploring Opportunities to Conserve and Protect Wildlife and Habitats
Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge or NWR), established in 1983, conserves 889 acres of land in fee title ownership within an approved refuge boundary of 1,000 acres,  representing a valuable contribution to the protection of fish and wildlife in the Coquille River estuary. In September 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service or USFWS) received approval to initiate a Land Protection Planning (LPP) study to investigate the possibility of expanding the approved refuge boundary of Bandon Marsh Refuge to meet the needs of fish, wildlife, and public recreational use. Refuge boundary expansion would contribute to achieving the Service's mission and the Refuge's purposes by: 

• Enabling the restoration of tidal marsh, forested wetlands, and riparian
  corridors.


• Providing high quality habitat for shorebirds, waterfowl, salmonids, and
  other fish and wildlife.


• Allowing for expanded wildlife-dependent recreational opportunities on
  public lands.

Protection and restoration of lower Coquille estuary habitats would also contribute to the recovery of listed species and other species of conservation concern.

In early November 2011, the public was invited to participate in the planning process. Preliminary alternatives detailing how the refuge would be managed during the next 15 years were developed as part of the Refuge's Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) process. However, in early February 2012, the Service made the
decision to separate the CCP from the boundary expansion study. This schedule change allows the CCP to continue on pace and meet the Congressionally mandated due date while allowing more time for thorough analysis and study of the LPP range of alternatives. As part of our LPP process, which will include additional
opportunities for public involvement in fall 2012, we will continue to discuss important issues and opportunities with the area's landowners and the greater community. Draft alternatives, which will include a No Action alternative, are tentatively scheduled to be presented in fall 2012. For updates on this planning process, please join our mailing list and bookmark this site. 


Land Protection Planning Quick Facts

Please click on a Quick Fact for a more detailed explanation.

• To facilitate the completion of our CCP and better address concerns related to our preliminary land protection alternatives, we are conducting the LPP process separate from our CCP.


• The LPP study area is approximately 4,500 acres. However, priority habitats are limited to about 2,180 acres of bottomlands and adjacent  forested habitats within the lower Coquille estuary below river mile
  10.4.


• No lands outside of the study area are being considered for inclusion within the proposed expanded boundary.


• The USFWS is gathering information on potential economic and ecological impacts to be evaluated in the LPP. The results of this analysis will be made public.


• Landowners in the study area and in the LPP retain all private property rights, and will not be subject to additional regulations or any searches for threatened or endangered species.


• It is the USFWS's long standing policy to only acquire land from willing sellers. Eminent domain (condemnation) is very rarely used by the USFWS,  and we would need a compelling reason - such as a request from the landowner to clear title - to use it to purchase land for the refuge.


• If the LPP is approved and the Refuge boundary is expanded, landowners within the boundary wishing to sell their land to the USFWS may do so at a price based upon an appraisal if funding is available. Landowners within an approved refuge boundary are under no obligation to sell their land to the
  USFWS.


• In order for the USFWS to add lands to the National Wildlife Refuge System, the land must be within an approved refuge boundary.


• Under the Refuge Revenue Sharing Act, the USFWS makes annual payments to the county to offset lost property taxes.


• Funds used to purchase land do not come from federal, state, or local income taxes.


• USFWS considers hunting, fishing, wildlife observation and photography, environmental education, and interpretation to be appropriate uses on a Refuge, and will permit these activities where they do not interfere with or detract from the Refuge System's mission or a Refuge's purpose, or cause
  safety concerns on neighboring lands.


• Neighboring lands will be protected from changes in flooding patterns that result from habitat restoration activities on Refuge land.


• Public comments and questions are welcome throughout the process.

COOS COUNTY BOARD OF  COMMISSIONERS
 Tuesday April 17, 2012

 Starting at 9:30 am  
 
People need to arrive early if they intend on speaking.   
 The Owen Building  
 201N Adams St, Coquille, OR 97423
Google Map
 
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MEETING.  
 The commissioners are discussing the Urban Renewal Initiative.  We need as many people as possible to attend this meeting and ask the commissioners to put this measure on the Ballot.  If enacted, it would give voter control over the county’s Urban Renewal Agency.  That UR district is controlled by the Port of Coos Bay and their members are appointed by the Governor, which eliminates the representation of the tax payer.   
 
Here is the agenda
 BOC Agenda  

Here is the contact info for the commissioners. If you cannot make the meeting you can still voice your opinion by sending an email or making a call to the commissioners.   
  
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
 Phone:  541-396-3121 ext. 225 
 
Commissioner  Bob Main
[email protected]  
  Phone:  541-396-3121 ext 770

 
Commissioner Fred Messerle
 [email protected]  
 Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 247


 Commissioner Cam Parry
[email protected]  
 Phone: 541-396-3121 ext 281


  For more info contact:


Rob  Taylor
 541-347-9942
 Email:  [email protected]



Below is the Discussion Request from Commissioner Parry.  

tea party demonstration at the JoCo Courthouse

Monday, 4/16, JoCo Courthouse on 6th Street
4:00 - 6:30 pm

Four years ago some 1200 of us gathered in a tea party demonstration at the JoCo Courthouse and protested against the direction the country was headed.  Inside that courthouse local government heard us and shuddered.  We sent some 50,000 protestors to Washington and the reaction was completely different. Obama yawned. Pelosi derided us as “astro turf.”  We flexed our muscle and in 2010 made our presence known in the House of Representatives and fired Pelosi.  This year we need to finish the job and fire Obama and Reid.

At that first tea party the word I constantly heard went something like this.  “I have never been a part of a protest before.  But this is too important.  I had to join in.”  Do you recall hearing that?

Nothing has changed.  This year is more important than ever.  This will be the most important election in our history.  We are at a crossroads.  We will either continue down the road to one-world communism or we will re-establish ourselves as free and independent individuals operating in a free market filled with individual opportunity. 

This isn’t about us.  It is about the legacy we will leave our grandchildren. 

This election can be won.  Our voice can be heard.  Let us show you how.  Be there Monday.  For our country, for our future and for our grandchildren.

Jack

California’s New Land Use Planning: No More Back Yards!

California is the cutting-edge state. Close to bankruptcy, the state’s urban planers are ready to begin the implementation of a truly utopian project: to get Californians to live like Swedes live in Sweden. Like sardines.

 New rules in the San Francisco Bay area will no longer allow developers to build communities with fewer than 20 houses per acre. This is five times the present ratio. This means condos and apartments and duplexes. The planners will cut off development outside of existing cities.

 Only 3% of houses will be allowed beyond this urban zone in the Bay area.  Two-thirds of the housing will be multi-family: duplexes and triplexes and quads, where poor people live today. In a democratic push, these central planners will make sure that middle-class people will live in these units, too.


In Southern California, over half of all new housing will have housing choices limited to transit villages. These will be at least 30 housing units per acre.


Why? Because it takes a village to raise children. It takes lots transit villages to keep them as children.

 Over two-thirds of all regional new housing will be in condos and apartments by 2035.


How can this be? The environmental movement, silly.

A law was passed in 2006, the Global Warming Solutions Act, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Then, in 2008, came the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act. This has been interpreted by
the land use planning boards as mandating most new development to be close to downtown, to discourage automobile use.

Europe has been doing this for 50 years. There has been a war against suburbia.

People are more easily controlled when they are in well-organized, centrally planned living quarters.


These laws will hike the price of existing single-family properties.To pay for them, ethnic groups that accept three families — “cousins” — living in a single-family home will be able to buy them. Zoning laws do not apply to
cousins.

 The cost of living for young families will skyrocket. The exodus will continue. People who like homes for one family — no “cousins” — with back yards will move out.


Alternatively, the laws will be repealed, the planning commissions will be disbanded, and the free market in housing will be restored.

 Don’t plan on it.
  
Continue Reading on online.wsj.com



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planning

Check out this story of a city overspending its budget and most of the expenditure was from government redevelopment.  Then the city hired a lady from Curry County to run the city.  I guess they do not know that Curry is bankrupt due to people like the manager they just hired.  Its like watching crazy people bang their head against the wall......

"Then Couch said the city had misspent $2.5 million in development charges between 2004 and
2008. Such fees, paid by contractors, are restricted for improvement projects outlined in a city plan. Under Oregon law, cities must repay misused system development charges within a year of discovery. "


Here is the link to read more:
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2012/04/molallas_new_city_manager_wres.html

20% of Oregonians are on food stamps       
 April 10, 2012         
Oregon Needs Food Stamps.

 More than one out of five people in Oregon are on food stamps, says a new  report from the state Department of Human Services. Just don’t call them food stamps: a footnote in the report informs readers that that’s passé: “The Food Stamps program name changed to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
on January 1, 2010.” Snap.

 Twenty-two percent of Oregonians received joint state-federal aid from SNAP  in January—a number up about 6% from the previous January. But the number of SNAP recipients is expected to grow another five percent before summer  officially begins in June. That pattern is a break from past seasonal patterns, which saw higher demand for food stamps in the winter ease during the summer months when people went back to construction and farm jobs.


In January, every part of Oregon saw increasing demand for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance. Even though the official state unemployment rate has finally dropped below 9% to hit 8.8%, many of those new jobs probably don’t pay  an awful lot. In any case, a family of four can make as much as $3,554/month and still qualify for some subsidized food. And, in fact, children under 18 make up more than 37% of benefit recipients. However, senior citizens are signing up faster than any other demographic, partly because the state is advertising
heavily to them through churches and other non-profit organizations.

One last  growth factor: five hundred Oregonians are running of out unemployment benefits
each week. Many of them may need nutritional assistance as well.


For more, go here

Feds Spend $133 Million to save $280,000 a Year
(Maybe)
Written by Gary North on April 11, 2012

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/04/11/feds-spend-133-million-to-save-280000-a-year-maybe/

Friends,
I think it important that we spread the word about injustices perpetrated by government against innocent individuals. If we don't realize what is being done it will be easier for them to continue their crimes of darkness.
Jay
-----
 
 
naturalnews.com printable article
Originally published March 29 2012

 
City of Roswell, GA, bullies Andrew Wordes to death over his backyard chickensby Ethan A. Huff, staff
writer

(NaturalNews) An innocent man who had legally been raising a few dozen chickens and other small birds in the backyard of his suburban Atlanta home is now dead, following a crusade of terror perpetrated against him by the
City of Roswell in Georgia. Andrew Wordes, who died during a recent raid on his property in which county marshals tried to illegally evict him, was the obvious victim of a rogue state gone mad -- and his blood is now on the hands of the Roswell City Administrator, the Roswell City Council, and the Roswell Police Department, all of which robbed from Wordes his property, his livelihood, and ultimately his life.

See the NaturalNews infographic timeline of events that documents the escalation that ultimately led to Mr. Wordes'  death:

http://www.naturalnews.com

Wordes had long raised his small poultry friends in the backyard of his one-acre property at 335 Alpine Drive in Roswell, Georgia, sharing eggs, chicks, and friendly words of wisdom and encouragement with his neighbors and with local schoolchildren all along the way. Wordes was very active in his local community, having organized a  North Georgia Pet Chicken "Meetup" group, and founded a chicken breeding club.  His friends and neighbors described him as a generous, kind, and loving man who was always willing to lend a hand, and who would have given you the shirt off his back if you needed it.

But Wordes met his unjust fate on March 26,  2012, after roughly four years of enduring illicit and seemingly-endless abuse, bullying, threats, and unsubstantiated legal action taken against him by Roswell  city officials with an apparent axe to grind. And after losing his birds, his freedom, his entire life savings, his property, and his livelihood as a result of the City of Roswell's sadistic war against him, Wordes ended up losing his
life as a result of an explosion that occurred during the final eviction raid carried out by Fulton County marshals.

 City of Roswell targets Wordes for standing up for his rights, identifies his property on planning map as future 'green space'The saga allegedly began in 2008 when a disgruntled neighbor of Wordes reportedly complained to the city about Wordes  raising chickens, button quail, and other small creatures in his backyard. The City of Roswell responded by issuing Wordes a citation for his chickens, even though the city's Code of Ordinances specifically provisioned at the time that  property owners on less than two acres of land could legally raise chickens and swine.

With the help of Roswell's Mayor Jere Wood, a lawyer friend of  Wordes who also raises chickens himself, Wordes was able to get the citation issued against him dismissed in court. But the firestorm of childish retaliation
and rage that quickly ensued as a result of Wordes standing up for himself and  his rights, rather than apitulating to the city's tyrannical and mindless  demands that he get rid of his chickens, will likely go down as one of the most tragically absurd abuses of power in the history of local government.

After it became clear that Wordes was not about to let the City of Roswell trample all over him and his rights, several city officials allegedly kicked their vendetta against him into high gear, not only to forcibly have Wordes' chickens removed, but also to seize his property right out from under him. After failing twice to get Wordes nabbed for their made-up code violations, the City of Roswell actually rewrote the law to prohibit residents
from raising more than six chickens in an effort to seal the deal.

But even this failed, as a judge later ruled that Wordes, who had been in his home for more than a decade raising chickens, would be "grandfathered in" under the  old provisions which allowed for residents to raise backyard chickens. So the City of Roswell switched gears again and began to play even dirtier by getting
Wordes' arrested for petty violations, and proceeding to reclassify his property on their long-term planning map as future green space.

You can view the City of Roswell's 2030 Comprehensive Plan, which demarcates Wordes'
property as future "Conservation Area or Greenspace"
here:  http://www.roswellgov.com/index.aspx?NID=893

So it appears as though the City of Roswell used the supposed neighbor complaint as an excuse to pursue Wordes' property for the purpose of eventually turning it into parks and green space. This would explain why the city failed to properly maintain storm water infrastructure near Wordes' property, which resulted in his
property becoming severely flooded at least a dozen times, and eventually uninhabitable.

City of Roswell refuses to submit Wordes' request for FEMA assistance following severe flooding, issues citation when he attempts to protect his homeNot only did the City of Roswell fail to abide by legal guidelines that required it to maintain storm  water infrastructure around Wordes' property, but the city added insult to
injury by refusing to file paperwork to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management
Agency(FEMA) following a flood that caused severe damage to Wordes' home,
which is also located on a floodplain. As a result, he had no means by which to
fix the damage.

And when Wordes attempted to protect his property from
future flood damage by grading his land with a Bobcat, which he borrowed from
his friend Mayor Wood, the City of Roswell actually had the audacity to issue
Wordes a citation for grading his land without a permit, and for having too many
cars on his property at the time.


City of Roswell Code Enforcement Supervisor violates law by contacting Wordes' mortgage holder, coercing her into selling mortgage noteFrom this point on, City of Roswell officials began harassing Wordes, and the local police department began to
surveil his house on a regular basis, watching closely for anything that might
be considered a violation. In the process, he was pulled over and even thrown in
jail on numerous occasions.

In violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and several other laws, Roswell Code Enforcement Supervisor Vicki  Barclay (http://www.roswellgov.com/index.aspx?NID=94)
allegedly called Wordes' mortgage holder, an 80-year-old woman, and coerced her
into selling Wordes' mortgage note for 40 cents on the dollar to another
mortgage holder by threatening to issue liens, citations, and grievances on the
property if she failed to comply. Barclay is the same city official who had
illegally tried to issue Wordes a citation for his chickens from the very
beginning.

Having failed at all other attempts to seize his property, the City of Roswell then filed a zoning violation against Wordes claiming that his property was a "nuisance." The city also filed a 55-page civil lawsuit against  Wordes, which conveniently denied him the right to a city-funded public defender  who was supposed to represent him in legal dealings involving the  city.

Even with former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes on his side, Wordes was rapidly losing the ability to fend off these ravenous wolves in the City of Roswell government that were hellbent on forcing him off his property for their  own devious purposes.
And Roswell City Administrator Kay G. Love (http://www.roswellgov.com/Directory.aspx?EID=3),
Roswell City councilmember Becky Wynn (http://www.roswellgov.com/directory.aspx?EID=6),
Roswell City councilmember Rich Dippolito (http://richforroswell.com/about-rich.php), and
Roswell Code Enforcement Supervisor Vicki Barclay (http://www.roswellgov.com/index.aspx?NID=94) all
played a key role in making this happen, according to accounts.


Wordes' home vandalized, chickens poisoned while he attends political rallyThe madness did not stop
at Wordes' property, however, as even his animals eventually got caught in the
fray of the City of Roswell's campaign of terror. According to reports, Wordes'
home was vandalized in 2011 while he was attending a local political rally, and
when he returned, he found that his animals had also been poisoned. Roughly
one-third of his animals, which included turkeys, chicks, and adult chickens,
ended up dying as a result of this poisoning.

Wordes filed a police report in response to these crimes, but the Roswell police department never pursued the case, and it was never determined who committed them. Consequently,
Wordes lost a significant portion of his income and livelihood as a result of
the mysterious deaths, which made his already-burgeoning financial problems even
worse.


City of Roswell jails Wordes for 99 days, proceeds to evict him from property using phony foreclosure noticeAfter
attacking him from practically all angles and nabbing him for every single petty violation they could think of, the City of Roswell finally ended up jailing Wordes for a whopping 99 days. And immediately after Wordes was jailed, the City of Roswell issued a public press release letting the public know that Wordes' house was now "vacant," a purely vindictive move that had terrifying consequences.

Within just a few hours of the announcement, Wordes' house was vandalized and looted. Even though the City of Roswell promised to keep an eye on the property after issuing the press release, criminals were somehow able to steal Wordes' firearms and weapons, ammunition, and other valuables, which put the entire community at risk.

During this time, Wordes was refused the ability to proceed with the bankruptcy filings that would have halted the illegal foreclosure on his property which, conveniently for the City of Roswell, was moving forward during his time in jail. As pointed out by Maggie West Bean writing for Examiner.com, the foreclosure paperwork was not even legal to begin with, as it lacked necessary information proving its validity (http://www.examiner.com).

After finally being released, Wordes was left with an uninhabitable house and property, no more animals, no more money, and a pending eviction notice illegally issued by the ruthless criminals at the City of Roswell. Throughout the process, Wordes was denied all his rights to defend himself, denied his right to defend his property against illegal foreclosure, and denied his right to pursue any sort of justice in the matter.

During a February interview with Rusty Humphries, a radio
talk show host on WGST 640 in Atlanta, a desperate Wordes explained his dire
situation at that point, and issued one of his final pleas for help. You can
listen to that interview at either of the following two links:
http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D0Md7aIudZE

You can also read a post written by Wordes himself back in 2009 here:
http://www.backyardchickens.com


After being denied the ability to fight back against illegal foreclosure, county marshals swoop in on Wordes' property to evict him, culminating in his deathAt the end of his rope and facing insurmountable and unrelenting oppression, Wordes' final hours were spent in his unlivable home, where Fulton County marshals staged an elaborate demonstration of police state force by illegally raiding Wordes' property.

According to reports, the standoff concluded when Wordes finally told television reporter Mike Petchenik, who he had called to the scene by phone, to have the marshals leave the property. Moments later, an explosion
was heard, and Wordes' house became engulfed in flames.

When it was safe to go inside, responders found a body inside the home, which was later identified as being that of Wordes. And though the incident appears to have been a desperate suicide, which is how some reports categorized it right off the bat, others are worded as to leave room for the potential possibility of foul play.


City of Roswell must be held responsible for its crimesWhile it has not yet been determined whether Wordes' death was a suicide or a murder, it is clear that the City of Roswell has a whole lot of explaining to do concerning its role in the escalation of this situation over the past four years.

As usual, mainstream media reports about the saga fail to mention how the City of Roswell committed numerous criminal acts in its illegal pursuit of Wordes, or how the city is now officially lying, on record, by claiming that it played no part in working behind the scenes to transfer Wordes' mortgage and foreclose on his property.

Nevertheless, the truth must come out about this case, and those involved in perpetrating it brought to justice. And this, of course, will  start with a full investigation into the dealings of Roswell City Administrator
Kay G. Love (http://www.roswellgov.com/Directory.aspx?EID=3),
Roswell City councilmember Becky Wynn (http://www.roswellgov.com/directory.aspx?EID=6),
Roswell City councilmember Rich Dippolito (http://richforroswell.com/about-rich.php), and
Roswell Code Enforcement Supervisor Vicki Barclay (http://www.roswellgov.com/index.aspx?NID=94), as well
as Roswell city attorneys and the Roswell Police Department, in the case.

It is unfortunate that NaturalNewsonly just now learned about the Wordes saga after the man's death, as it may have been possible to help him earlier on by raising awareness about the injustices being perpetrated
against him. But at the very least, we can all fight for justice now by banding together to make sure the facts come to light, and the criminals involved punished for their crimes.

The case also serves as a reminder to others who might be enduring similar harassment to speak up now about what they are going through. The reason why news sites like NaturalNews,
InfoWarsand others exist is to draw attention to issues like this, and to
bring what goes on in the darkness to light -- so if you or somebody you know is
facing similar harassment by city officials, tell us about it!

Also, be sure to read the following memoriam written by Glenn Horowitz at American
Daily Heraldabout the Wordes case. Horowitz was personally involved in
trying to help Wordes in years past, and has put together an excellent summary
of the events that took place over the last four years:
http://www.americandailyherald.com

See the NaturalNews infographic timeline of events that documents the escalation that ultimately led to Mr. Wordes' death:

http://www.naturalnews.com


Sources for
this article include:

http://www.americandailyherald.com

http://www.examiner.com

http://airbornecombatengineer.typepad.com

http://www.backyardchickens.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D0Md7aIudZE

http://theperspicaciousconservative.com/2012/03/26/its-not-over/

DeFazio wades in 

U.S. Rep Peter DeFazio has been an important friend of the Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge. So his pointed questions about a proposed expansion  should signal the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to step carefully.

Just last year, the 4th District Democrat was an honored guest at a ceremony  dedicating more than 400 acres of reclaimed intertidal marsh on the north bank  of the Coquille River. The marsh expansion was Oregon's biggest wetland  restoration, thanks in large part to DeFazio's influential support. An  observation deck bears his name.

 DeFazio didn't flinch from mentioning that happy ceremony in his recent  letter to Fish and Wildlife. He expressed surprise to hear the feds would  consider a far bigger expansion of the marsh 'before examining the impacts of  the recently completed restoration."

That's a good point. The timing creates an unfortunate impression of a  voracious bureaucracy. Before fully digesting a 400-acre increase, Fish and Wildlife is gazing hungrily at 4,500 acres more.

 DeFazio raised other good questions as well:


• Officials say they'll only buy land from willing sellers. Will they provide
  a written confirmation that they won't use eminent domain to force land 
sales?


• How will officials evaluate which land to buy?


• Even if the expansion exclusively involves willing sellers, how can the 
sellers' neighbors be sure their own land won't be affected?


• And how will changes at the marsh affect recreation in and around the 
refuge?


The congressman isn't the first to ask these questions. Local citizens have  rallied to oppose an expansion of federal land ownership. But DeFazio's letter commands attention on his constituents' behalf.

 Though his questions are careful and polite, they put federal officials on  notice that rural Oregonians are skeptical about expanding the fed's local  footprint.



Read more: http://theworldlink.com/news/opinion/editorial/defazio-wades-in/article_8c9d4a3b-1d54-51b9-a277-0a275eb36350.html#ixzz1rl0L2TPH

Laughing In The Face Of Goliath: The Virtue Of Fighting Back
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/484-laughing-in-the-face-of-goliath-the-virtue-of-fighting-back

April  9, 2012
The Origins of  Entitlement
By Robert
Samuelson
 
WASHINGTON -- Would Franklin Roosevelt approve of Social Security? The question seems absurd. After all, Social Security is considered the New Deal's signature achievement. It distributes nearly $800 billion a year to 56 million retirees, survivors and disabled beneficiaries. On average, retired workers and spouses receive $1,839 dollars a month -- money vital to the well-being of millions. Roosevelt would surely be proud of this,
and yet he might also have reservations. Social Security has evolved into something he never intended and actively opposed.

It has become what was then called "the dole"  and is now known as "welfare." This forgotten history clarifies why America's budget problems are so intractable.

When Roosevelt proposed Social Security in 1935, he envisioned a contributory pension plan. Workers' payroll taxes ("contributions") would be saved and used to pay their retirement benefits. Initially, before workers had time to pay into the system, there would be temporary subsidies. But Roosevelt rejected Social Security as a "pay-as-you-go"  system that channeled the taxes of today's workers to pay today's retirees.  That, he believed, would saddle future generations with huge debts -- or higher taxes -- as the number of retirees expanded.

 Discovering that the original draft proposal wasn't a contributory pension, Roosevelt ordered it rewritten and complained to Frances Perkins, his labor secretary: "This is the same old dole under another name. It is almost dishonest to build up an accumulated deficit for the Congress .. to meet."

 But Roosevelt's vision didn't prevail. In the 1940s and early 1950s, Congress gradually switched Social Security to a  pay-as-you-go system. Interestingly, a coalition of liberals and conservatives  pushed the change. Liberals wanted higher benefits, which -- with few retirees  then -- existing taxes could support. Conservatives disliked the huge surpluses  the government would accumulate under a contributory plan.

 All this is well-told in Sylvester Schieber's  "The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System." Schieber probably knows more about American retirement programs than anyone. He
has advised the Social Security system, consulted with private firms and written widely on the subject. His book shows how today's "entitlement" psychology dates  to Social Security's muddled beginnings.

 Millions of Americans believe (falsely) that their payroll taxes have been segregated to pay for their benefits and that, therefore, they "earned" these benefits. To reduce them would be to take something that is rightfully theirs. Indeed, Roosevelt -- believing he had created a contributory program -- said exactly that:

"We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral and political right to collect their pensions. ... No damn politician can ever scrap my Social Security program."


What we have is a vast welfare program grafted onto the rhetoric and psychology of a contributory pension. The result is entitlement. Unsurprisingly, AARP's advertising slogan is "You've earned a say"  on Social Security. The trouble is that contributions weren't saved. They went  to past beneficiaries. The $2.6 trillion in the Social Security trust fund at  year-end 2010 sounds like a lot but equals slightly more than three years of
benefits.


With favorable demographics, contradictions were  bearable. Early Social Security beneficiaries received huge windfalls. A  one-earner couple with average wages retiring at 65 in 1960 received lifetime  benefits equal to nearly 14 times their payroll taxes, even if those taxes had  been saved and invested (which they weren't), calculate Eugene Steuerle and Stephanie Rennane of the Urban Institute.

 But now, demographics are unfriendly. In 1960,  there were five workers per recipient; today, there are three, and by 2025 the ratio will approach two. Roosevelt's fear has materialized. Paying all benefits
requires higher taxes, cuts in other programs or large deficits. Indeed, the burden has increased, because it now includes Medicare, which is also viewed as an entitlement.


Although new recipients have paid payroll taxes higher and longer than their predecessors, their benefits still exceed taxes  paid even assuming (again, fictitiously) that they had been invested. A two-earner couple with average wages retiring in 2010 would receive lifetime Social Security and Medicare benefits worth $906,000 compared with taxes of $704,000, estimate Steuerle and Rennane.


By all rights, we should ask: Who among the elderly need benefits? How much? At what age? If Social Security and Medicare were considered "welfare" -- something the nation does for its collective good -- these questions would be easier. We would tailor programs to meet national needs. But entitlements are viewed as a higher-order moral claim, owed individuals based on past performance. So a huge part of government spending
moves off-limits to intelligent discussion.


We can only imagine how Roosevelt would view  this. He consistently advocated a fully funded Social Security and used his second veto on a 1942 tax bill that delayed higher payroll taxes. But Congress  overrode the veto, and Roosevelt was consumed by World War II. 
  
 
Copyright 2012, Washington Post Writers
Group

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Hi Rob,
Just looking through some of my notes and came across this at the University of Oregon.  This will be an up hill battle. http://pppm.uoregon.edu/grad/crp.  This is one of the  places government gets it experts. 
Stack Deck!
Cheers Tressa

CG912Project Members and friends,

April 6 Good Friday

 Greetings, 
 It’s time to throw down the  gauntlet. 

There are appeals being  prepared to stop the nonsense of the U. S. Forest Department’s attempt to close  the roads.  Many of you have seen the erosion of our rights. We see it the  newspapers and GRIP Productions NW, LLC, the production company for the  I Spy  Radio Show has worked with grassroots organizations to expose the  agenda of  the radical left, including many shows on the devastation of what the far left  environmentalists have done to destroy our freedoms.  
 
We’ve hired land-use and  cattle-grazing rights attorney Karen Budd-Falen, who has been fighting the 
environmentalists and taking the battle to courtrooms and Congress.  
 
Why appeal?  The appeal  process at this stage is important because if the U.S. Forestry Department  declines a petition, no matter how many signatures it has, the fight stops right  there. However, an actual filed appeal provides the ability to move forward to  fight the battle in federal court, should the Department decline the
  petition.  It is also important to have as many support documents in this first appeal as possible.  

If you were one of the  original 6,000 petitioners opposing the closures before the latest round of outrage we would  like to invite you to be listed on our appeal.  As we said, the appeal is  made stronger with more support documents and the petition can be added to the appeal. This may give you standing to help with the fight if  it should go to federal  court.  

  
 Also letters  and e-mails can be attached to our appeal that specifically explains  your use of  those roads, from logging to recreational to getting to your favorite camp  grounds.  Those letters will also all be attached to our appeal.  So  send us a one or two page letter that you’d like attached and we’ll be sure to  have that done.  

  
This will  obviously cost money to file the appeal and we’d appreciate any donations to  stop the abuse of property rights. If everyone who signed the petition sent just one dollar or more, that would go a long way to cover the legal fees to file the  appeal.  

Donations  may be sent to GRIP Productions NW, 1740 Shaff Rd #226, Stayton, OR 97383.  
Letters can be sent to the same address or can be sent by e-mail to [email protected].

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