This post was drafted  March 2014, and is posted June, 2014. Although it has some oddball illustrations — like the duckbilled platypus– and it references distraction techniques of cults (which, FYI, you’re in it), below  all that are some references you might want to bookmark re: FMS.Treasury.Gov (excerpt in 2nd box yellow with teal-green border.  This shows combined US government receipts & outlays, by source, in numbers and in a pie-chart, which is easier to remember.

Show your friends reading the morning newspapers about how broke we are. We who?

This is also 7,000 words, and has multiple formats.  [Insert Standard Copyeditor’s/Proofreaders’ Nightmare Disclaimer for anyone who’s expecting a proofread, copyedited vision of perfection.]

I am one person struggling with a free wordpress blog platform.  I compose what I’ve personally investigated and written up, including quotations and evidence from many different sources, and commentary on these, in a triple-view format; sometimes in “Text” (html) mode, others in “Visual” (the post editor).  Neither “Text” nor “Visual” mode bears ANY true resemblance to “Published” (or Preview) mode, either to paragraphing, or even to fonts (typestyles).

However, I do consistently deliver other goods that I know have helped some people not go “bonkers” (nuts) during their custody cases, get them out of trauma mode by giving some objective information (not standard predigested rhetoric) on these operations.

Anyone who doesn’t like this blog, or its format, can go find this information elsewhere [good luck with that…], or if he or she wants this information in a more polished format, hit the Donate button (on the sidebar) to help me overcome the technical (computer) issues through upgraded website, or, if that’s not within your ability range (or wish), consider signing the petition I’ve included on this post so I may do this myself, with my own resources, which the straightforward petition explains.    It can be signed anonymously, although city and state will display.

(Now would be a great time to sign or donate)

Or be patient and understand the purpose of this blog.  It’s not my attempt at an academic dissertation. I have my degrees already.    It’s about laying out some information as a NOTICE that this type of information exists.  And that people who have been badly traumatized can at least reduce their own confusion on cause-and-effect by becoming aware of this information; including WHO designed the family courts, and the programs to be run through them; and how.

Sometimes you just need other information to get your bearings. What’s more, it’s interesting and relevant to all of us where our taxes are being spent, and who’s running our courts.

Sometimes you may think I’m ADHD (the formatting issues don’t help) when actually I’m using a variety of symbols and analogies to describe what I have seen, in detail, over time, and across a wide spectrum of places (states, jurisdictions). If  a certain analogy doesn’t work for you — so what?  Look at the material and figure one out that does.    This time, I used duck-billed platypus.  in other posts, I’ve used Giant Squid (I think it applies), “The Thinker Sitting Over the Gates of Hell” (I don’t even remember why — but it seemed relevant at the time).  I’ve used the analogy of “bait balls” and plenty of references to where on the food chain of the ocean one wants to sit.

You understand things not just by experiencing — but by having experienced them, comparing the unknown to the known and developing a comprehension.  AND, a way to tell others about it.  it so happens I can do this better by phone or in person, than to a broad audience on a blog.  I began writing to compile the information a previous generation should’ve compiled, but didn’t.  I also continued writing to address more than one state — and because to tell the truth, for too many years of the past too many years, there were seasons where I felt my life was in danger.  As a parent, I wanted my kids to know…when they’re ready to hear it.

Updating the Table of Contents post, I just had to say this (what’s in this post). Having said it, I had to then move it elsewhere, as I really do want people to look at the Table of Contents!

Having then moved it, I thought about it some more, added some illustrations and warnings.

        I am fishing for people that don’t want their children, or themselves, to become dinner for a family court professional, judge, social services program, jail, or welfare category; who also want to keep themselves (and their kids) alive and unmolested.  The odds are increasingly NOT in favor of this happening to anyone who doesn’t stay married, and within some marriages (such as mine was) for those who did attempt to stay married.

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I am also doing this while handling an extremely challenging personal situation which feels, in many ways, as if I have tangled with Scientology (people who got out have a lot to teach us stuck in the courts), or the Unification church. ** I can document the Sun Myung Moon influence (since realized it ca. 2010) involved in the family court system, but I am beginning to question if this isn’t simply the United States of America, period; and even moreso in this century.

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The boundary line between collective identity of FAMILY, of CULT, and of COUNTRY (our allegiance to the concept of continuing to sacrifice for the group identity of the USA when, like cults and abusive families, the self-appointed leadership doesn’t even subscribe to it, or display such allegiance) — can be very blurred.

Written in draft March 13, 2014, after which I went public — with my personal situation — on Care2.com This is the aftermath of a domestic violence situation, a family court situation (children aged out) and one of the participants exploited the first, incited (as best I can tell) the second, leaving me now in my THIRD decade of direct abuse by family members — all over a pot of something, and what else “control.”

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

(FOR EXAMPLE, ITS BALANCE SHEET)

If across the US, our independent, and species-survival alertness and thinking has been either disabled, or is being culled [and by personality types, sorted and sifted] for use in the administrative population control professions (the “behavioral change modification” professions which are funded from “on high” (corporations, universities, the US government), and/or the science and technology for yet BETTER population control (and, when it comes to military, systematic decimation of other countries’ populations, while increasing the incarceration rates of our own by the various wars), then I will forget the consciousness-raising herein, and just look for a better place (and that means country) to inhabit.

From “FMS.TREASURY.GOV” that’s a pie-chart of “receipts” for 2013.  In case the link changes, here’s an upload of the same pages.  Take a look!

FMS-TREASURY-GOV piechart + legend, 2013 Federal receipts 10% Corp, 46% Income Taxes, 30+% SocSec-Retiremt Contributions-2

 

Total receipts increased by $324.9 billion, totaling $2,774.0 billion in fiscal 2013. The graph below shows receipts by source.

Translation of “$2,774.0 billion,” other than “a lot” is:   $2,774,000,000,000.  Hundreds, Thousands, Millions, Billions, and another way of putting this would be $2.774 Trillion — that is, for 2013 only, and that’s the federal government of the US, only.  Anyhow click to see what the largest piece of the pie, and the second-largest, is.

And to see more (from 2013), try the “Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays and Balances” website.  Outlays by Function.  Don’t forget the “Dear Citizens of the United States of America” (we’re doing better, but you’re still screwed) letter.

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Commissioner’s Letter (see references to “Deficit”)

What the government means by “Deficit” refers to its own definitions, which, given who is holding most of the assets (and holds the power to enforce more collections, in the form of taxes) — guess who sets the rules unless someone else starts re-setting those rules?  You got it, the government.  How long (as long as this is tolerated by the people).

(This chart is repeated below).

THIS IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF THINKING THAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA ENCOURAGES

Basic media (news) reporting while I’m thankful for it, still induces ADHD thinking also and obviously targets what sells — not public education on matters they should already understand by now, IF our schools were teaching it.  The schools also promote this type of thinking and when it gets too out of hand for classroom control, have been marketing pharmaceuticals (Risperdal for kids being just one).

Right now, this country really does appears to have main-lined and fast-forwarded induced  groupthink, don’t-think, conditioned responses to such that cultic, thought-stopping and hypnotic  practices are the norm, and anyone who unsubscribes becomes target practice. The cult memberships then staff the control institutions – -mental health, prisons, psychological “hygiene” definitions, and schools. I don’t have genuine hope for a national change back to sanity, but I would like to find some people able to engage in “disruptive ideas” that disable the basic decor around here.  Because I’m seeing how this was done, at large as well as to my own family line.  It starts with foolish ideas treated as if they had real substance. First to define the term  oxymoron, from a wonderful resource, “Online Etymological Dictionary”:

oxymoron (n.) 1650s, from Greek oxymoron, noun use of neuter of oxymoros (adj.) “pointedly foolish,” from oxys “sharp” (see acrid) + moros“stupid” (see moron). Rhetorical figure by which contradictory terms are conjoined so as to give point to the statement or expression; the word itself is an illustration of the thing. Now often used loosely to mean “contradiction in terms.” Related: Oxymoron

In other words,  “clearly stupid.”  When people start conversing about “clearly stupid” concepts as if they were genuine, then the people also become “clearly stupid,” which is a grrreat place for being exploited (fleeced).  The argument is going to go nowhere, whether pro or con is argued.

So, a large part of my blog (including the rants) will be challenging the language and terms used to turn Americans (US Citizens) themselves into “oxyMORONS” (MORONS, in sharp, clear, visible relief) to the point that almost any policy could be sold, the audience is ripe for the pickings.

I challenge us to find better terms to speak with — and us them when talking to another, or find another “us.”

When this large school of dumbed-down fish (posing as human beings) does its synchronized swimming routine, they become a cold-blooded species.  They survive at the bottom of the food chain only through numbers.  MANY are sacrificed, but some will survive.  Or, if they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, they will all get hauled in, and some kept as farm-fish for breeding more food for dinner (etc.).

My experience has been that this is most of America, just now. I say this accurately because most of us are hooked into the commerce system that enables people to be used as someone else’s food.

But let me pose this question:

If people habitually take deliberate foolishness seriously, and seriously converse about it – then what are they, if not fools….[In context, here we are talking public policy, reaching out for engagement on the internet], after which, they [and their families, and if this doesn’t cease becoming a public habit, the communities] become someone else’s dinner.

The first person starts, sometimes with a PR budget, sometimes with a professional status to indicate that sense should be coming out of their writings or speeches, and begins fishing for customers.  I mean, not just for sport among friends who know it’s just for: sport, wordplay, for fun, for sharpening the debating skills (love those), and when it’s over, go home (if they have one).

But I mean when it’s not a joke, and this person, the originators, appear to be seriously discussing (first among themselves) and evaluating a ridiculous concept, an oxymoron.   “Is it right, wrong, true, false, middle, tolerable, tastes good, tastes bad — and next thing you know the future customers  take the bait, and show up also  (in short) seriously examining the verbal merchandise.    They discuss this among each other, on-line, and in the “MSM” mainstream print and electronic media.  In professional journals, even before Congressional hearings.  In think tanks, and next thing you know, here’s the accompanying legislation.

[This was quoted on an Exit Page for Scientologists; more below]:

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. ” Noam Chomsky

. . . The one big gift from scientology to ex-members is the gaining of an acute awareness and revulsion to any group, organization, person, or thing that seeks to deceive, manipulate and enslave the minds of men – for profit.

And collectively we are gasping for air.  Why?   Because collectively we (or, our parents, or grandparents) took that bait. 

Some  concepts are so inane, they cannot be  broken down into their components  and instead are simply swallowed whole, it becomes part of the nation’s mindset — and the economy — and policy.  As we continue discussing the rhetoric (bad, good, I can deal with it — it needs to be tossed, what do you think?), we’ve been hooked.  We have begun treating it as if it was a real, live idea, or even subject matter. When it was dangled, dancing and odd before our noses.  

Typically these have two words (sometimes three) per soundbite. Common enough words, it’s the combo that hooks our attention.  Here are some, from this field.   I’m going to discuss and prove that the last two are word-games: one is a complete fiction (which got its primary job done) and the other, larger in scope, is technically correct, but its promotion is to distract from the context.  

You have to read this list, and then go below the photos demonstrating how REAL animals get classified, to get to which two… I have also mentioned in other posts (and will keep mentioning) that within the professions that staff the family and conciliation courts (including LMFT, LCSW, custody evaluators, the mental health, including healing from PTSD & trauma circles), that some are trained in the art of confusion, the purpose of which is to occupy the person’s (subject’s, target’s) mind, and get it to go into a self-induced trance, becoming much more suggestible to influences.  It’s professed and probably believed that this is to let the person draw from their “inner resources” to come to conclusions (connect the dots in creative ways) without the therapist or practitioner directly telling them what to do, or believe (and, hence be liable for it, either).

THE ART OF DISTRACTION

Arnie Lerma of “Lermanet,” in deposition re: (Scientology?): (example of how to change the conversation, yet, he relates fighting “Scientology for 15 years.  He also has two definitions of scientology on this page):

I went to the sources Hubbard stole from, and told people about it now they call me names too…

Did you notice any pattern? read http://www.lermanet.com/scientologyhelp/main.html Support: http://www.Lermanet.com Exposing the CONFrom “Scientologyhelp” page: “…The ex-members of Scientology, once they recover, (which some do) and once they do a core dump and tell about all they witnessed, (some do) have a demonstrated mastery, a competence, of a sorely needed quality in today’s society….”

[yes, they show us how to overcome deception and leave slavery. They are fought, isolated and discredited on the way out, but people do get out!/LGH]

“What works in Scientology? Electricity WORKS!” [Electrical current through the human body has an effect, for sure!] …This was a long explanation, but what do we get from getting people out of scientology? We have a group of individuals have become Houdini’s of all mind traps.. folks who won’t be fooled again. People who can deprogram, People who can spring mental traps.. We create, by freeing someone of scientology, a being whohas the ability to break the strongest slave chains of all. Those forged of lies.

The Real Wall of Fire is Leaving Scientology, Click here if you want to breach the real wall of fire!**

Ex-Scientology Kids Tell their stories LINK   [browse — the phrase “thought-stopping language” comes up over and over:  “The habits of self-censorship, loaded language, avoidance of contrary data, and other thought-stopping mechanisms took a long time to go away if, indeed, they are gone even now.”] A tale of Sexual Abuse – LINK. <=<=<= read!  In case that link is lost or disappears, here’s its upload: If it’s a Cult, there will be This (molestation and its coverup) an ExScientologist Tells

**[I don’t know what the term “Wall of Fire” represents — I’ve not been involved with Scientology– but clicking on it, among tales of people who got out is one woman, born into a Scientology family, who related the sexual abuse (by her stepfather), and discovering that it was known. It speaks for itself. Just remember that in ALL cults there will be similarities, monotonous ones and that this WILL be one of them.  If it’s a Cult, there will be This (molestation and its coverup) an ExScientologist Tells

And while for me, I’m not fully OUT of this other, similar situation, and yes, virtual economic slavery whether or not one buys the verbal rhetoric, is routine (…it has been now over two decades:  Decade 1 — marital abuse and violence, raising children, separating; Decade 2 — the family and conciliation court cult which exists to force (or attempt forced) re-indoctrination of individuals to rcant, repent of reporting, or at least pretend (buy into the pretense) that they were not abused, or battered, or if so, “no big deal.”  These are bread-and-butter of the court system, and it probably wouldn’t do well without (our) participation. I come back for the same reasons — because this one is wider, and deeper than “Scientologists” who, face it, have caused problems on an international scale.  BUT,Lerma here is saying, all they did is borrow from psychiatry, hypnosis and add electricity (basically shrink-wrapped plagiarized ideas and practices!).

PSYCHIATRY, HYPNOSIS, ENSLAVEMENT

This background can be seen in the prominence of experienced hypnotists (training in clinical hypnosis) among some of the leadership of the court leading organization (so they call themselves also), “Association of Family and Conciliation Courts” (AFCC).  For example, Robin Deutsch of Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Or, for example, Nicholas Cummings, who claims to (and I believe probably did) have started the California School of Professional Psychology (4 campuses) in ca. 1969 (after his time at Kaiser Permanente as head of mental health and after bringing over leadership in “group therapy” with a background in the Tavistock Institute, i.e. Michael Balint.  Cummings also has associations with the Milton H. Erickson Foundation.   See 2002 Newsletter (upload, I will also side-bar this)

• 2002 FALL MiltonHErickson Newsltr Vol22-#3~3 (NickCummings Intv pp1,24 SMARTMARRIAGES ad, pg6-Browse!

read interview pp1,24 on how he got started in this field (talking paratroopers out of the door), notice the puzzle-logo ad for SmartMarriages(tr) (significant in welfare/reform, family court matters — this is a hookup conference started in 2000 run for about a decade, to connect grantees with HHS marriage/fatherhood promotion grants.  A big deal as it involved federal policy, TANF diversions, Social Security Act Title IV-A program funding; Title IV-A being “Block Grants to States for TANF (food stamps, cash aid to family).  Purpose 4 was promoting two-parent families.) With its sales page (“Pioneers of Psychotherapy — only $1,650 for the DVD set, however most are only $59.00 (how much does a DVD cost to produce, once the material is recorded or written? Major markup.  Where are they expecting psychotherapists would have this much cash lying around to invest in such DVDs?) Look what fields Milton Erickson came from, and the trauma it came out of (polio). Hypnosis is all natural, normal, and of course positive:

Hypnosis is a natural and very normal state of mind in which the body experiences physical relaxation while the mind remains clear. In this state of awareness, the subconscious mind becomes open and suggestible. Hypnosis provides an easy opening to facilitate positive changes to take place.

Trance associated with religious worship (dance, art, incense, sometimes pharmaceutical helps (natural) music, etc.) is a part of culture historically.  But in this context, and understanding that it’s also a technique used by Ron Hubbard of Scientology, and that the purpose in THIS field is behavioral change, particularly to overcome intellectual or COGNITIVE resistance to change in child custody situations — let’s call it was it is.  Improper coercion without informed consent of the participants.

• mandatory mediation [to increase noncustodial parenting time]
• supervised visitation  [the same groups pushing this protested the word “visitation” and helped set up the “access/visitation” grants which funded “supervised visitation” and several other things.  The word “Visitation” then is clearly, in their view good in some contexts, and bad in others.  Besides which, children are still getting murdered in or around their “supervised visitation” sessions.  When they aren’t, one of their parents (increasingly mothers’) is being extorted. A better phrase should probably be “a population control business plan.”
• parent coordination
• parental alienation*
• batterers’ intervention [programs]
• fatherhood practitioner [there’s a real reason this one didn’t go through, and isn’t sustainable, without a LOT of Public Relations money, and a lot of that from the federal government!]
• domestic violence (it’s now got so many usages, the phrase means something entirely different, and is meaningless outside its user context.  I believe it should be retired (and, VAWA voted out of existence, and I was battered (assault and battery) throughout a too-long marriage, as well!)

Of course two of my pet peeves in fixingall of the above (without discussion what sport we are in– the fish-farm), are:

• Broken Family Courts (with “flawed practices”), or a Crisis IN the Family courts.
  • [No, the family courts ARE the crisis (the inherent conflict).  They are the crisis between the collectivist language [propaganda] of social welfare and behavioral science (and psychology, etc.) with the language of individual rights, appropriate to a country which refers to itself in terms of liberty, justice, and freedom.  The family courts ARE the crisis (conflict) with criminal law and those things which tell individuals (male or female) to refrain from unethical and illegal behavior, or be punished for it, and especially those things which relate to children (minors).  The family courts are the rejection of objective evidence in courts of law with a goal to ruling based on it.  They are the introduction of thought-crimes, mental hygiene, and presumptive intention to commit “relationship crimes” into what otherwise would be a more rational justice system.  They are also creations of certain sets of people whose historic habits have included chronic tax evasion and dishonesty in reporting, and in general with the characteristics of a cult.  (See this blog!!)  In my informed opinion.

That language, like all the others, IS an agenda, and comes packaged with it.  The flavoring can be sensed in the language, let alone in the context of who’s been speaking it with whom and to whom.  All of these anyone who is willing to look things up, which isn’t rocket science (but does take time and the mentality to do it) can determine. With all those “hooks” now swallowed, sensible, context-based conversation becomes impossible with those who have swallowed them and have been hauled in to these systems.   Where are the people who have figured this out, and wish to speak with each other?  And why are they not doing more about the collective “static” to confront it? 

• think tanks and their “prominent thinkers”

(of course.  Talk about “taking the bait” and ignoring who’s manning the rods and reels!  This is so successful a distraction, flycasting is no longer needed; just a net — haul in the cases by the dozens; extract the children, ditch the non-abusive parent, and sell on the open market.  Meanwhile, the left-behind parents cluster in groups and STILL don’t identify, name, and discuss how to disrupt that fishing industry with any awareness of how it was set up!).

When an idea is so inane it defies description, it fits in no previous classification, it’s the potential duck-billed platypus of the age, except duck-billed platypi (plural?) appear to be alive and real.

They have been observed, and obviously, they have been named, classified sketched, diagrammed, and described.  (Like the platypus at first seemed, my description of them really is a montage (garage sale)  from the various links you see and listed below). They have also been hunted and become a protected species.   I think it safe to say, whether or not you approve of the name “ornithorhynchus anatinus,” they are real, although when the first (Europeans) to discover them and (what else? they’re Europeans!) send back a specimen to the Homeland (Great Britain), it was thought to be a hoax.  Do you think it’s a hoax?  Consider how odd:

Also, …

If you thought this was a cute and cuddly Australian animal,

well, you are only half correct. The male platypi have a hollow spur about 15 milimetres in length on the inside of both hind legs. This in turn is connected to a venom gland, and the platypus uses this spur to defend itself against predators.

Amazing Fact: The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog, or cause excruciating pain among humans.

…The Platypus has a wooly furred coat and range from 30cm to 45cms in length and the tail about 10 to 15 cms. The wooly furred coat actually has three different layers. The first layer keeps the animal warm, by trapping air, the second layer which provides an insulating coat for the animal, and lastly the third layer of long flat hairs to detect objects close by. These creatures weight on average between 1 to 2.4 kilograms. They have an average lifespan of 12 years.

[unless they are eaten, formerly? shot for their pelts or (to be stuffed and studied?), or polluted out of their waterways/LGH] 

Think, half the size of a house cat.  What’s more, “Its bill (shaped like a duck’s bill) is sensitive to touch, flat, soft and rubbery with many nerves. The bill has nostrils for breathing that can be closed when they go underwater.

The above information was last sighted at: australianfauna.com, blueplanetbiomes.org, Wikipedia.org/Platypus (and “…/Gouverneur_John_Hunter), TheBigZoo.com/Animals, and of course, the most convincing photo, where else but from National Geographic (with photo credit, above). In addition the almost frightening, annotated diagram of a platypus, and the cute-cuddly photos, were from Glogster.com/Janethluna/platypus-3/.. (and a string of characters probably identifying my computer or janeth’s glog). However that text came from Australian fauna — I told you it was a collage!

Based on the available evidence, I’m going to go with, platypi are odd, but they ARE real.  They are a part, though not a central, part of our world.  They signify the possible, the offshoot from mainstream which can survive; and even be seen, touched, obviously someone has dissected a few, some people have been poisoned by some males in mating season, photographed, fed, are teatless, egg-laying, carnivore, electro-receptive, diving, mud-digging, mostly solitary oddball small mammals.  They are so oddball, that homo sapiens (who are prone to sorting, labeling, and name-calling their mammals, not just their own kind) gave them their own species to inhabit, not knowing quite where else to file them.

Like this, a lot of my blog, after enough “investigating” took place,  is simply defining terms.

Yes, players (names of groups and their leaders) of course and looking into who started these courts and how — but essentially, I came to understand a lot of terms according to their usage and decided that the basic common terminology to use was economic (corporate structure, or if government, then governmental structure).

The alternative is confusion, and keeping “Us and Them” lists of named groups or their famed professionals that I know, elsewhere, away from the target audience, consider both sides of the “Good Guys/Bad Guys” rhetoric they sell, to be a collegial “Us” and the people they are targeting to support their movements, the real “Them.”

The ultimate “them” from the point of view of Corporate + Philanthropic (through nonprofits, institutes, etc) + Government, is the public:  individual wage-earners and taxpayers.  Because guess who supplies LESS of the federal receipts, each year, than corporations (and of course governments don’t tax themselves) — corporations, or individuals?

And here’s the proof:  from the *.gov’s a bit hard-to-find declaration:

From “FMS.TREASURY.GOV” here’s a pie-chart of “receipts” for 2013:

Total receipts increased by $324.9 billion, totaling $2,774.0 billion in fiscal 2013. The graph below shows receipts by source.

Translation of “$2,774.0 billion,” other than “a lot” is:   $2,774,000,000,000.  Hundreds, Thousands, Millions, Billions, and another way of putting this would be $2.774 Trillion — that is, for 2013 only, and that’s the federal government of the US, only.  Anyhow click to see what the largest piece of the pie, and the second-largest, is.

And to see more (from 2013), try the “Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays and Balances” website.  Outlays by Function.  Don’t forget the “Dear Citizens of the United States of America” (we’re doing better, but you’re still screwed) letter.

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Commissioner’s Letter (see references to “Deficit”)

What the government means by “Deficit” refers to its own definitions, which, given who is holding most of the assets (and holds the power to enforce more collections, in the form of taxes) — guess who sets the rules unless someone else starts re-setting those rules?  You got it, the government.  How long (as long as this is tolerated by the people). This “Financial” report doesn’treflect all the holdings of the US Government, because it’s not, from what I can tell, the “Comprehensive” Annual Financial Report (“CAFR”).  I was looking for that USCAFR when I found this:

Citizens’ Guide: Where we Are Now (Sept. 30, 2013) The Citizen’s Guide (Guide) to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Financial Report of the U.S. Government (Financial Report) summarizes the U.S. Government’s (Government) current financial position and condition and discusses key financial topics, including fiscal sustainability. This Guide and the Financial Report are produced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in cooperation with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Secretary of the Treasury, Director of OMB, and Comptroller General of the United States at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) believe that the information discussed in this Guide is important to all Americans.** Comparing the Budget and the Financial Report The Budget of the United States Government (Budget) is the Government’s primary financial planning and control tool. It accounts for past Government receipts and spending, and presents the President’s proposed receipt and spending plan. The Budget compares receipts, or cash received by the Government, with outlays, or payments made by the Government to the public. An excess of receipts over outlays is called a budget surplus; an excess of outlays over receipts is called a budget deficit. The Financial Report of the United States Government focuses on the Government’s revenues and costs (what came in and what went out), assets and liabilities (what it owns and owes), and other important financial information. The Financial Report compares the Government’s revenues (what the Government has collected and expects to collect, but has not necessarily received), with its costs (what the Government has incurred, but has not necessarily paid) to derive net operating cost.

** it’s what they do NOT believe important to all Americans that I’m most concerned about…

{“The Charts” start on page “i” and as they’re far more colorful than I can produce here, why don’t you take a look.  Chart 4 particularly shows us what the authors of this report believe it’s important for all Americans to know (don’t forget the footnotes, i.e., the fine print, though!)}

Chart 3 shows that the largest contributors to the Government’s net cost in FY 2013 include the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Social Security Administration (SSA), and DOD. The bulk of HHS and SSA costs come from major social insurance programs administered by those agencies (e.g., Medicare for HHS, and Social Security for SSA). While much of DOD’s total costs relate to military operations and personnel, the majority of DOD’s more than $200 billion cost decrease in FY 2013 was attributed to changes in cost estimates related to its Military Retirement Fund and post-retirement health benefits programs.

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What We Own and What We OweChart 4 is a summary of what the Government owns in assets and what it owes in liabilities. As of September 30, 2013, the Government held about $3.0 trillion in assets,comprised mostly of $1.0 trillion and net property, plant, and Beyond these assets, other significant resources are available to the Government, including stewardship assets, such as natural resources, and the Government’s power to tax and set monetary policy.

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The $19.9 trillion in total liabilities is comprised mostly of:

(1) $12.0 trillion in federal debt securities held by the public and accrued interest2 and

(2) $6.5 trillion in federal employee and veteran benefits payable.

The Government also reports about $4.8 trillion of intragovernmental debt outstanding, which arises when one part of the Government borrows from another. For example, Government funds (e.g., Social Security and Medicare trust funds) are typically required to invest excess annual receipts in federal debt securities issued by the Treasury Department, thus creating liabilities of the Treasury and assets of the trust funds.

Again — it looks to me like Social Security and Medicare have excess annual receipts.  Rather than return them to anything resembling the people, they are used to BUY US Treasury debt.  Go figure.  Then they have to compare those both and come up with a figure.

These respective amounts are included in Department of the Treasury and investing agency financial statements, but offset each other in the preparation of the Governmentwide consolidated financial statements, and thus, are not reflected in Chart 4.

{{Footnote 2 defines this debt, and who is the “public” . Interesting….}}

2 Debt held by the public and accrued interest, as reported on the Government’s balance sheet, primarily consists of Treasury securities, net of unamortized discounts and premiums, and accrued interest.

The “public” consists of individuals, corporations, state and local governments, Federal Reserve Banks, foreign governments, and other entities outside the Federal Government.”

Love that all-inclusive (almost) definition of “the public” when it comes to who’s in debt…If language becomes meaningless within or across groups, then those groups cannot and will not have the organization or cooperation to withstand being, well, colonized.

What gets lost in translation when the term “Faith-based organization” is mainstreamed?

FAITH-BASED _______**, an OxyMoron, no matter what noun you fill in the blank with (organization, corporation, partnership, etc.).    

Regardless of what anyone may personally believe about God, or religious (=/= “faith-based”) corporations, or organizations — the government’s own grants database PROVES that they have (HHS, a major grant-making agency of the United States of America, of the federal government,  has)no workable definition for it, either.  It’s not a category on their database.  

If it was definable — it’d be in there as a category and measurable.  That it’s not is not an oversight — it’s intentional. It is a deliberate systems-change by Presidential executive order…

However one aspect of “faith-based” the government appears to take seriously is that IRS specialty exemption.  The public doesn’t get to see the 990s of any church or other group which has filed as “religious-exempt.”  I think it is this quality, among others, which has enabled the direct infusion of public funding into, for lack of a better word — places where it can and will be virtually untraceable, at least by the public.

Which is the whole point, in my opinion.  “Faith-based” organizations, not including the ones that incorporated specifically to take advantage of the new, presidentially-favorable climate towards their kind, tend to be churches, synogagues or mosques, and primarily when it comes to this type o grants, the first.

Again, here’s the link to the HHS Organizational Chart .  Notice the CFBNP (Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) is organizationally is under the Secretary of HHS office (along with several others).  While you’re there, explore http://www.hhs.gov/About pages and notice how many operations come under this major grant-making federal agency called “HHS.”  I also have an example at the bottom of this post (added August 2014) of a group which may or may not be “faith-based” but is definitely taking healthy marriage grants….

It took an Executive Order (2001) to get  the phrase “faith-based organization” legitimized and it will take rescinding that Executive Order (and shutting down significant businesses based on HHS grants combined with specialty tax-exempt status, which religious organizations have here) to stop violence against women and children, and the coverup of child abuse IF that is a genuine public goal.

Obviously between former President G.W. Bush and current President Barack H. Obama, that’s not going to happen in the near future.  The name of the Office changed slightly.

I think it’s up to US (“the People” or at least enough of “the People” to say, “enough of that nonsense!” and then pull the plug on funding it. Oh– I forgot, you paid upfront when you filed your income tax returns, and/or when you got a paycheck, or purchased anything that was taxed, or made contributions to the Social Security programs.  You helped sponsor a faith-based (religious exempt) organization, including the kinds that endorse exclusion of women from preaching and teaching, those that cover up domestic violence, and those that coverup child abusers among their ranks — saying, “we are our own communities and above the law, and have a spiritual connection,” while ALSO saying, “BUTTTttttt…. we want to keep our religious-exempt status, clergy/pastor housing-allowance write-offs, and we don’t want to be subjected to showing our tax returns, our “990s” like NORMAL nonprofits… I personally think this goes along with claiming that Jesus is both God and Man, i.e., in a triune godhead, without being able to prove it from the scriptures (absent deletions, out of context, additions, and in particular inaccurate paraphrases, or simply alleging it’s true in a historic context of burning at the stake, or forcing out of town/ex-communication, etc.  those who say it isn’t.  The kind of “reasoning” process  you might know to watch out for when dealing with lawyers, but forget to when with religious groups….) it’s like wanting to have one’s cake and eat it too. Then again, it’s not much easier to prove “there is no God,” apparently.

The most direct proof that the designation “faith-based” has no measurable (at least that the public is supposed to be able to track) meaning other than cronyism is that it is not a measured term in the HHS grants database,  there is no field referring to grantees (recipients) (primarily “organizations” in other words) which contains a sortable category “faith-based.”  From TAGGS Data Dictionary:

CFDA meaning, what category of federal (domestic) assistance (Grants) are we talking about? There is no “faith-based” category, hence how can anyone measure the income and outgo to faith-based organizations (whatever they are).

RECIPIENT Code — there are about two dozen database fields listing, obviously, who gets the grants.  Where you might expect “faith-based” to show up would be, Type, Class, Category or such.  OK, I’m a member of the public, and I want to pull up a list of all the faith-based grantees.  Can I sort on that category and do it?  Good luck!!

   Or can you tell if it’s a faith-based organization by:

Or, perhaps?

Check any of those and see, at the HHS Grants Database “Advanced Search” site and look at the Grantee [“recipient”]  Type and Grantee [“recipient”] Class fields (drop-down type menu.   As the TAGGS “Help” and “Definitions” site doesn’t tell us this, I’ll be helpful and mention that “Recipient” on that site translates, apparently, into “Grantee” on the search site.  Nice coordination of terms, there…

It will look something like this.  Although we are in Year 2014, and “Faith-based” was main-lined ca. 2001, do you see a category called “Faith-Based”?  I don’t.  If you do, let me know! (On HHS site, there are scroll buttons, these are alphabetical and you can sort on them.  That said, the HHS TAGGS base is corrupt anyhow (I have a blog on this in the works since October 2013).

HHS GIVEAWAYS, GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS

WRITTEN OUT:

If there are “faith-based-grants” and HHS doesn’t want it measured just which ones they are, then it’s for a reason, wouldn’t you say?

I think another translation according to usage is needed.  From observation, I think “fees for friends” and “donate to entities which don’t have to file tax returns, even as nonprofits” is a good start.

[8-29-2014 update:  Just an example (one of plenty!) From 2006-2010, $5.4 million of HHS “healthy marriage” grants were given — gifted — donated– to a business entity “Foundation for a Great Marriage” in Wisconsin (Susan Dutton Freund), apparently to dispense relationship advice.

Wisconsin doesn’t record “dbas” on its business search site, but the “Give” page confirms that “smartrelationships.org”

Give

We can’t do what we do without you!

Although we do our best to function like any Fortune 500 company, we are a small staff of six people who depend on you to keep food on our tables and the lights on in the office.***

Please consider making a donation by clicking on the button to the right. (Note: you will see our legal corporate name, Foundation for a Great Marriage, on the donation page. Rest assured that you will be giving to Smart Relationships, and your transaction will be marked as such.)

Alternatively, if the spirit moves you, a check in the mail would be lovely.

Our mailing address:##

1496 Bellevue St, Suite 502
Green Bay, WI  54311

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{{From “about us” page:}}
Smart Relationships is a dba name of the Foundation for a Great Marriage, Inc., a non-profit organization headquartered in the ‘cheesehead’ capitol of Green Bay, WI. Our president, Susan Dutton, is Green Bay’s only Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach.

Susan and staff are also family life coaches. Our calling is to help you achieve your highest potential in both business and personal relationships. Success in life, however you define it, is related to social and emotional intelligence much more than to IQ.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At our core, human beings are relational. The cure for our ailing world is to raise our collective personal and relational maturity. This is within the reach of every man, woman, and child.

##Same street address, Suite 101C, is a Etienne Pait (minister, author, healer, intuitive and Teacher of God) and his “Flowing Spirit Wellness Center”

As minister, healer, author, and intuitive, Etienne has dedicated his path of service as a compassionate Teacher of God. His love and caring approach, as the bridge uniting his heart with his fellow souls’, serves as a beacon of light, fount of wisdom, intuitive knowingness, and symbol of truth for those of the willing. Etienne is devoted in assisting others to discover Self-Awareness and Self-Realization by the sincere intention of answering the two primal questions, “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?” The earnest desire to answer these questions does not enhance the world that didn’t work but reveals a new world that does. While on the journey in discovering these two answers, Etienne assists souls in remembering their goal, purpose, and unique function so as to live life more Joy-Fully – as an expression of Life Itself.

Along with ACIM (“A Course In Miracles“).  Different suite# and I’m sure business entity of course, but seems to be  in the same ideological vicinity.

Searching by Street Address: SAME (exact) suite#, however shows, under League of Wisconsin – Municipalities, Engineers -Products and Services, as a Green Bay office of “the Cedar Corporation.”

Cedar Corporation

www.cedarcorp.com

Menomonie Office
604 Wilson Ave.
Menomonie,WI 54751

Phone: (715) 235-9081

Fax: (715) 235-2727

Contact: Wendy Sander, AICP, Planning Group Director

Madison Office
2820 Walton Commons West, Suite 142
Madison, WI 53718

Phone: (608) 249-5046

Fax: (608) 249-5824

Contact: Dave Sauer, PE, Project Mgr

Green Bay Office
1496 Bellevue St., Suite 502
Green Bay, WI 54311

Phone: (920) 491-9081

Fax: (920) 491-9020

Contact: Thad Majkowski, PE, Project Mgr

Description: Municipal engineering, architecture, planning, environmental services, land surveying, landscape architecture, economic development, water resources, GIS and mapping, and structural engineering.

Area Served: Northwest Wisconisn.

I don’t know who the “League of Wisconsin Municipalities” (or, the Cedar Corporation) is, but it seems interesting that a HHS grant for $5.4 million over a 5-year period which Recipient is somehow marked “Welfare Department”  has gone to a “dba” for a foundation with a related street address.

The League of Wisconsin Municipalities Conduit is a political conduit to support candidates for state office that support municipalities and stand for local control.  Municipal officials, staff, and all supporters of local government are invited to make deposits into the League’s conduit.  Our conduit is open to everyone.  All individual contributions to the conduit are combined and disbursed to candidates for state office.  The League’s conduit must obtain an individual contributor’s specific authorization before transferring any funds to a candidate for state office

The “about us” page also mentions Ms. Freund lost her husband and the love of her life in March 2014. I am sorry for her loss; but that does not change my questioning why such an outfit should have received federal funds which otherwise would go to feed and house needy families, but under these programs go to supplement the personal income or corporate revenues of relationship coaches. If HHS has wrongfully reported the size of these grants, I encourage her to follow up and have the U.S. Department of HHS correct the information on their database — and notify me here. I would also like to see 990tax returns {{and there had better be some!!}} for years 2006-2010 inclusive for the organization. If these HHS grants were indeed received, but such an owner still has her hand out for more, it is no laughing matter. A link to, or grant #, to the specific grants would have been appropriate on the website:

In May of 2005 we started operations as ThinkMarriage.org## under two federal grants. Since then, more than 14,000 teens, individuals, and couples have participated in our healthy relationship programs. We changed our brand to Smart Relationships in 2011 to better reflect the universal applicability of the skills and information we offer.

##”Thinkmarriage.org” may be a website, but I don’t believe it’s a corporate name, is it?  Unless that’s another “dba” tradename, the statement is misleading, inaccurate, or simply false.

*** Maybe in 2014 they depend on the public to keep the lights on — but this could hardly be said in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 or 2010 — of a corporation only formed in 2003! What happened to the $1+ million/year given from public funds those years? Incidentally, healthy marriage funds are sourced from “TANF” (Temporary Aid to Need Families), i.e., Title IV-A funds.

Registered Agent Office	SUSAN DUTTON FREUND 1496 BELLEVUE ST SUITE 502 GREEN BAY , WI 54311 File a Registered Agent/Office Update Form
Principal Office	1496 BELLEVUE ST SUITE 502 GREEN BAY , WI 54311 United States of America

Old Names

Change Date	Name
Current	THE FOUNDATION FOR A GREAT MARRIAGE, INC.
05/11/2005	LAUGH YOUR WAY AMERICA! FOUNDATION, INC.

QUESTION:  Does it look like “Laugh Your Way America! Foundation, Inc.” now “The Foundation for a Great Marriage, Inc.” dba “Smart Relationships” with websites thinkmarriage.org/smartrelationships.org, etc. — has been properly staying incorporated, and properly reporting the $550K/year/grant X 2 grants, from 2006-2010?

Chronology

Effective Date Transaction Filed Date Description 07/07/2003 Incorporated/Qualified/Registered 07/16/2003 01/11/2005 Change of Registered Agent 01/11/2005 FM 17 2004 05/11/2005 Restated Articles 05/17/2005 Old Name = LAUGH YOUR WAY AMERICA! FOUNDATION, INC., CHGS REGD ADDRESS, CHGS PRINC ADDRESS 07/01/2007 Delinquent 07/01/2007 09/05/2007 Restored to Good Standing 09/05/2007 09/05/2007 Change of Registered Agent 09/05/2007 FM 17 2007 07/01/2011 Delinquent 07/01/2011 07/29/2011 Restored to Good Standing 07/29/2011 08/01/2012 Change of Registered Agent 08/01/2012 FM17-E-Form

L048692	LAUGH YOUR WAY AMERICA! SPANISH OPERATIONS, INC. 06 – Non-Stock Corporation	02/17/2011	Administratively Dissolved 03/11/2014
L045781	LAUGH YOUR WAY INTERNACIONAL, LLC 12 – Domestic Limited Liability Company	03/05/2009	Dissolved 12/03/2012
L036574	LAUGH YOUR WAY, AMERICA !, L.L.C. 12 – Domestic Limited Liability Company	06/25/2003	Organized 06/25/2003

Member of the Board of Directors

National Association of Relationship and Marriage Education [=acronym “NARME”/let’s get honest]

2010 – 2013 (3 years) Tallahassee, Florida Area

This national trade association has a mission to foster education for healthy marriages, responsible fathers, and strong families in America. I served as an original founding member of the Board.

That’s not, “imho” a positive connection, considering what NARME is organized to do — run people through classes at public expense, and get grants to fund nonprofits that run the classes.

NARME was formed in 2010 {link to their recent Texas conference} and its leadership knows quite well that their funds come in good part from the $150 million/year diverted from block grants to the states for needy families as a consequence of 1996 PRWORA (Welfare reform) lobbying by certain fathers’ rights groups.  They just don’t care.

NARME leadership also reasonably knows (but anyone can find out by looking — as I have) that MANY grantees “take the money and run” as corporations, meaning, they take that money and let their corporate status slide.  In California, I have even identified one group which took a corporate identity under ONE name (Marriage Mentoring Ministries), got its $50K of “Compassion Capital,” then changed corporate names, and got another about $50K under “Fresno Healthy Marriage Coalition” or similar name.   That charity not having filed properly with California as required to, it simply filed under same exact name — but a new charitable registration — and is now delinquent, having not filed (as I recall) since 2008.  This is easier to show in person than on a single blog — but it is not hard to see.  These are in agreement with the Mike McManus “Marriage Savers” policies and seek to change divorce laws in the US and Canada.  The practices are in my opinion, shameless.    See a list here: (that’s just California).  Notice “Dennis Stoica,” below”

Atwater	California	Signed	Rev. Deanna Rorabaugh	Ariel Dear Family Church
Modesto	California	Signed	Mr. Michael D. Douglass	Advancing Vibrant Communities
Modesto	California	Signed	Joe & Michelle Williams	International Center for Reconciling God’s Way
Davis	California	Signed	Dr. Pete Sabey
Pinedale	California	Signed	Rev. Ron McLain, M.A.	Marriage Mentoring Ministries
Ventura	California	Signed	Rev. Tony Cervero	First Assembly of God
Ventura	California	Signed	Rev. Paul Dugan	Community Presbyterian Church
Claremont	California	Signed	Ken Allison	San Gabriel Valley Marriage Resource Council
Sacramento	California	Signed	Rev. Paul Thompson	Capital Christian Center
Riverside	California	Signed	Brian Park	Bridges Fellowship
San Diego	California	Organizing	Ms. Cathy M. Brown	Marriage Education & Enhancement
Oakland	California	Organizing	Pastor Dion Evans	Chosen Vessels Christian Church
Reedley	California	Organizing	Pastor Ray O’Neil	Mennonite Brethren Church
Anaheim	California	Organizing	Mr. Dennis Stoica	Orange County Marriage Resource Center
El Cajon	California	Organizing	David & Michelle Ready
La Mesa	California	Organizing	Bill & Mary Beth Difley	Skyline Wesleyan Church
Sacramento	California	Organizing	Carolyn Curtis
El Cajon	California	Organizing	Ms. Shirley Alvarado
Tracy	California	Unknown	Rev. Don Higgins	Crossroads Christian Church
Vallejo	California	Unknown	Rev. Al Marks	First Baptist Church

Some people just like to take classes and get certified, and think the rest of us should, too, apparently..  This SmartRelationships person also took certification from an institute whose founder comes from UDenver:

http://www.the-isei.com/meet_our_founder.aspx  ~ ~ http://www.the-isei.com/about_the_institute.aspx

Owner

Dutton Consulting, LLC

July 1996 – April 2005 (8 years 10 months)

I ran a nationwide business, providing consulting and facilitation of strategic plans to businesses, non-profits and churches. I closed it down when I started up a non-profit organization.