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An Ode to the Protection Racket

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Political theater and an odious ode praising some local Arkansas state legislators. February 5, 2017

State Rep. Matt Pitsch, a double-dipper and big government disciple apparently thinks the Arkansas Legislators’ protection racket needs some greasing.

In today’s edition of the T.R. , Rep Pitsch politically massages himself, State Senator Jake Files, State Senator Terry Rice, Rep. George McGill, Rep. Charlotte Douglas, & Rep. Justin Boyd.

Out of the six, two are betrayers to their constituencies; that would be Sen. Files & the author, Rep. Pitsch.

When the matter of SJR8 comes to a vote, fondly called Tort Reform, pushed by Republicans for at least 10-12 years, and if passed would destroy Amendment 7 of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights which guarantees the right to trial by a jury of one’s peers, and place that right in the hands of politicians, in this case, those owned by nursing homes, hospitals, medical practices & corporations. A vote FOR SJR8 is a declaration of war against the lives of their Arkansas constituents and overtly giving the finger to our Founding Fathers.

Rep. Pitsch, a double-dipper & a champion of big government. He is employed federally by RITA and the state as a Representative. Where do you believe his allegiances lie? There is room left for his constituents. At the end of his first term he was chosen as the Speaker of the House for his second term which indicates he cut a huge number of spurious deals.

Pitsch alluded to Sen. Jake Files only in terms that Files is Chairman of the Capital’s Senate Revenue Tax Committee. “That means simply he has the opportunity to oversee every dollar the state spends.” What irony. The Senator and a companion recently bankrupted a Fort Smith city project in a cash grant awarded them in the amount of $1.08 million and other financial considerations that were awarded to them for the construction & completion of an 8 field softball complex, replete with amenities. No mention if City Manager Carl Geffken and the City Directors are going to audit Files & Webb, a must. And Files is the Official in charge of spending all state tax dollars!

Files also borrowed some $30,000 from a state lobbyist to cover a hot check and he also tapped what I believe came out of the General Improvement Fund a while back for $1 million plus directed to the nascent Marshal’s Museum (promoted as a “private endeavor”), and the list of nefarious financial ventures (multitudes of failed corporations) continues…all smelling like quid pro quo.

The question in my mind regarding Pitsch & Files, are the voting citizens in their respective districts that stupid?

The jury (non-legislator) is still out on Rice, McGill, Douglas, & Boyd’s stance on the freedom killing Republican Tort Reform bill SJR8. And of course the other two mentioned will fall into this category.

Pitsch’s column is titled, “Area Sees Vital Shift in Leadership”. Other than political massaging and an attempt at cover-up, please tell me Rep Pitsch, why do you feel it necessary to praise yourself and the other 5 in your article, particularly in view of your constituency sell-out? Smells like the proverbial protection racket.

Joe McCutchen
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City Politics, Forced redistribution

Marshal’s Museum Miasma

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Article in today’s TR: U.S. Marshal’s Museum CEO: “The Time is Now”. October 28, 2016

Revelation in the article: the future U.S. Marshal’s Museum will be a National Museum, so says the TR twice. Translation: the national government ( taxpayers) will take over and fund this proposed Monolith, originally billed as a private undertaking.

Taxpayers have already been forced to sink millions into this White Elephant which, when all the fluff is distilled off, this endeavor is a new age Urban Renewal project that taxpayers are subsidizing to revive private downtown properties and increase their value. The principal recipients of this scam are Griffin, Sicard, and their sycophants.

Let it be said, the U.S. Marshal’s deserve no edifice honoring them and the U.S. Marshal’s agency. Short term—the last 3 decades have been an embarrassment and Marshals have sent a shrill note of fear…look no further than Wednesday October 26, 2016 in the matter of Ryan & Ammon Bundy & families in Oregon.

The Bundy’s & friends were exonerated in a federal court and Bundy’s attorney after the decision was thrown to the floor by 6 U.S. Marshals and tazered. These 6 brutes should be placed in the hole and the keys thrown away. This is just one instance of the U.S. Marshal officers acting in an uncivilized manner. The U.S. Marshal’s Service has become a reprehensible collection of U.S. government policing thugs.

The whole Bundy affair, ending with multiple policing agencies in Oregon shooting a patriotic, law-abiding American rancher-businessman LaVoy Finicun from Arizona 6 times in the back. His corpse was returned to Arizona in handcuffs!!

Observe the conduct of other U.S. government agencies, i.e. the FBI.

Joe McCutchen

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City Politics, Forced redistribution, Political Correctness - The Destroyer

Cronyism vs. philanthropy

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When bureaucrats & politicians determine they can game the system, it’s deuces wild. 10/16/16

Pertaining to the Chaffee Crossing’s River Valley Sports Complex, the TR today wrote that Republican Senator Jake Files is partnered with Lee Webb, Jr. on the plan (complex).

Precisely what is meant by the word “partnered” in this context?

City Manager Geffken said “the project is philanthropic”. How so, when the promoters have spent none of their own money and why are they bestowed ownership of the hugely expensive project?

Democrat Webb and most particularly state Senator Jake Files have no doubt colluded with the Arkansas State General Assembly to funnel 2 million dollars or more taxpayer dollars into the Marshal’s Museum crowd, i.e. Griffin & Sicard.

The city of Fort Smith has given $1.6 million (taxpayer dollars) to Files & Webb toward their project, the National Guard has donated $1 million (taxpayer dollars)& others are giving “in kind” donations—meaning they very likely are aligned for some kind of pay-off, or is the last group mentioned just “making a difference” or “giving back” or some other PC phrase? Therefore, Geffken is describing this taxpayer thievery as “philanthropic”.

The TR story printed that it was going to cost another $4.5 million to complete which in government jargon translates into another $2 million or so tacked on.

The story concluded that “Senator Files would not make any money off the sports complex”. (???) This is a pretzelized statement. Files & Webb own the operation, so the TR states in murky terms, and they have been involved in this project for at least 5 or more years & Files will not be compensated??? It seems obvious that in all likelihood this is a payoff by the city and the MM crowd to Files for his milking the State Legislature for the MM for $2 million (taxpayer dollars) or more for a project billed as a private enterprise.

The Sports Complex is no doubt a 501c3 or will be, that will be run by Files & Webb as officers and their handpicked enablers with inflated salaries, absent accounting oversight to the citizens for their millions of taxpayer dollars awarded to Files & Webb without their knowledge or permission.

Files’ statement that he will not make any money off the complex, further stated “The money it generates will go back into the operations of the park, which a non-profit board will oversee”. Non-profits are anything but non-profit, for the most part taxpayer subsidized without appropriate oversight. For Senator Files to state that the money the park generates will go back into the operations of the park is simply a falsehood and the FS city government is corrupt to the core for allowing such an enterprise to take place unless it is completely owned by the city & county or if Files & Webb purchase the enterprise in a legally fiduciary legitimate manner…their money.

I would pose the question to Geffken, since when is taxpayer dollars, taken by force, & redistributed to two politicians; in this case Lee Webb, Jr (D) & Jake Files (R) translate into philanthropy?

Crony political patronage and beyond.

Joe McCutchen

Asa Hutchinson, city government offenses, City Politics, Cultural Marxism destroying United States, Education Morass, Forced redistribution

Government faux pas

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January 12, 2016

Are “we the people” being snookered another time by the Fort Smith city establishment?

Something does seem to be agog.

A year or two ago, without warning, citizens were told by various members of the city establishment that the police & fire retirement funds were in short supply. All these utterings showed no signs of concern or emotion. These same sentiments have been put forth on any number of occasions without a modicum of explanation. Were the funds misspent, allocated to other departments, or gross incompetence?

Then comes an edict from the Nationalist government, more commonly referred to as the Federal Government, that orders the city of Fort Smith to spend at least $600 million to upgrade its sewer and waste water systems, accompanied by a $300,000 fine, all of which should have been accomplished 2 decades ago and the funding was available. Followed on the heels of these travesties and almost in unison, no explanation by appropriate officials, the prompt exodus of decades old employees City Manager Ray Gosack followed by City Financial Director Kara Bushkuhl.

After a year or so, still no explanations from the City Directors or Mayor pertaining to the Fire & Police Pension Funds! Publicly, there have also been no reactions from Police Chief Kevin Lindsey & his band or the City Fire Chief and his crew. If there really is a shortage in the two retirement funds, why are the victims so composed?
Maybe, because there is no shortage.

You see, the city of Fort Smith and all cities are for-profit corporations. In the case of Fort Smith insiders will exclaim that Fort Smith is not a for-profit entity and remember citizens all local governments are controlled from on high, in this case Little Rock, D.C. & the United Nations, e.g. Lindsey and his band of merry men belong to 2 international policing organizations who set the protocols for the FSPD, not we the people who pay their salaries & perks.

Pension fund accounting (and others) are required by government to project out 35 years ( government safety net) to satisfy all projected payments to participants (in this case police & fire) with what they will be paid at TIME OF RETIREMENT. They use Max-projections.

Example: employee making $50K today at retirement, after pay increases, projected inflations, etc. will be making $185K, additionally: governments DO NOT ACCOUNT for the projected income for the fund out 35 years in full. They redact much.

Here’s the crux: based on the new accounting, the pension fund that may have been 150% funded today, in the snap of a finger, could now be adjusted to being 60% funded (40% underfunded). City governments may project whatever financial position referencing pension funding they wish. Additionally, they use Liability Accounts, Enterprise Ops & NGO’s.

It appears the city has not prepared a financial statement since 2011.

Most local pension funds/systems are strictly Participatory. What that means is the employee does not own ONE CENT of the retirement fund; they just have a ticket to ride under the contract terms.

The local government owns 100% of the FUND BALANCE. Now if the employees owned 100% of the balance, what the accounting used by local governments would be 100% fraud and an indictable offense.

If the employees owned all their retirement funds (and they should) when they retired they would receive hundreds of thousands of dollars and most of these funds are so huge there would never need to be any more contribution.
The Fort Smith city government is a pay/play pal like the Fort Smith City School Board where the transparency window pane has been blacked out.
Notice: when you ask a City Board member, a State Senator, a School Board member they always plead ignorance (“I don’t know”), which some don’t, but that’s their crude way of being evasive, i.e. not answering the question.
So you must know that Lindsey and all the rest know there is no real pension shortfall, but perhaps they do not know the devils in the details.
More reasons to impose term limits on all politicians and bureaucrats.

More pertaining to the Fire & Police Pension Funds: Times Record 1/11/16…Acting City Manager Dingman, “Our particular issue is based on the amount of funding we haven’t put into the past”. An open honest statement that past & present City governments failed to recognize the oncoming pension shortages, demonstrating gross incompetence or ………???

Now our alleged “public servants” are pushing for issues & taxes that have been previously turned down by the voters. The Board and others are assiduously exerting effort to resuscitate the moribund Civic Center & the “prepared food tax”, and no doubt increase their bloated administrative numbers.

I have written rather extensively on at least 2 occasions that the only means to subdue this tax eating piranha is to implement Zero Budgetry immediately.

If you do not understand the mechanisms involved in implementing the accounting measure of Zero Budgetry log on to the website arkansasfreedom.net and search the term.

One of the finer points of Zero Budgetry is that it demands each government department head indelibly justifies & anticipates every expense of his or her department each and every year for their upcoming budget. Some departments could actually show profits. A loose governmental budgeting process is the formula that allows government to make tax pincushions out of citizens…raising taxes. Zero Budgetry is a must.

Examples of non-essential spending: Trails; sharrows; quid pro quo softball complex which could & should generate hundreds of thousands of dollars for taxpayers; a strict bidding process for city equipment; $777,000 for Convention Center; cancel Delta Dental’s bribe of F.S. officials to mass fluoridate pristine drinking water; cut all financial assistance to the stated private enterprise project known as the Marshal’s Museum; terminate downtown Urban Renewal for private property owners; utilize competent negotiators in construction projects, e.g. the recent $2 million cost overrun in the Waterpark; reduce the bloated F.S. city work force by eliminating duplication & non-essentials; discontinue taxpayer subsidized services to illegals and numerous 501c3’s, 501c4’s, & NGO’s like Frontier MPO; The city’s lavish spending on multi-ladder fire trucks, high dollar SUV’s, pickups, flatbeds, etc.

The Fort Smith School district is spending 10’s of millions on programs for illegals that range from infants to able-bodied adults. Gov. Hutchinson, this past week, made another one of his self-serving political statements regarding the newly minted 220,000 Arkansans presently enjoying Obamacare, i.e. the Private Option, compliments of the producing taxpayers. Hutchinson fails to identify these 220,000 as mostly young, unmarried, unemployed males. Notice these faux compassionate souls are most always on the tax teat, i.e. welfare/government check themselves. In Hutchinson’s case he is recipient of at least 6 welfare/taxpayer checks in his mailbox monthly. Remember when he had compassion for illegals when he was the U.S. Drug/Border Czar and “worried about illegals ability to sleep for fear of deportation”, similar to Superintendent Gooden referring to illegals when he said “we’ll take all we can get”. Never mind the cost to our beleaguered middleclass and the destruction of our language, borders and culture.

The principal constitutional functions of the city are fire, police, streets, water, and waste water sewerage control, not entertainment.

It seems the city’s priorities have long gone astray for the benefit of a few.

Joe McCutchen
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Forced Multiculturalism for Profit

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It must be true. (Reported in today’s Times Record) October 21, 2015

While on his hands & knees Richard Griffin’s new bag man Mitch Minnick speaking to the Fort Smith Mayor & Board of Directors was “begging”….”Please pass the Capital Improvement Plan” worth $1.1 million. Of course, the CIP is HUD.

Minnick continued speaking & claimed the Housing Authority has a mission mandated by the State Constitution to provide housing for those in need.

Tell us Mr. Minnick, in what Article & what Section the Arkansas State Constitution mandates housing for “those in need”? Since the Mayor & City Board did not question Minnick’s Constitutional claim, are they complicit or ignorant?

“The Ft. Smith Housing Authority is in some type of partnership with the city of Fort Smith”. “Some type” of partnership certainly deserves some detailed questioning. The city of Fort Smith has way too much money and in fact if there is a shortage in police/fire pensions, $500 millions in EPA federal demands to rehab the sewer department, $300,000 in fines, etc. it is all due to gross misapplication of funds.

Now the crux of the matter: HUD, (in this case to be enforced by Richard Griffin & his new man Mitch Minnick) recently finalized a rule that will force local communities to build “evenly distributed neighborhoods based on income and race”. Translation: the goal is impregnating predominantly white neighborhoods with minorities, which is HUD’s & their players’ “multicultural, politically correct dream”, i.e. destroy Western Civilization for profit.

In 2012 HUD dispersed about $3.8 billion of these grants to almost 1200 cities. Question: Did the Fort Smith city government take some of the HUD bait? If so, our city government will now need federal approval so they will meet government’s racial guidelines.

The question was asked, “What about local jurisdiction over zoning matters?” HUD’s answer was “Forget about that”.

Another forced takeover of private property rights by the ever corrupt federal government. The above has nothing to do with housing discrimination, which has been illegal since the 1960’s.

Not everyone can afford to live in every community due to high demand for housing in certain areas. Home values are determined by market forces, not racism.

Every evil act by government involves three classes of people sucking up welfare…minorities and deadbeats on the low end, politicians & bureaucrats on the high end. Nothing being done to protect and save the rights of middleclass America who are the foundation of this nation and create 67% of jobs. Yet we continue to allow these avaricious slovenly takers to destroy our freedom and property rights.

Joe McCutchen
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With No Accountability, There is No Hope!

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“City Studies Revenue Sources” Headline Times Record, September 23, 2015

There is a solution to “shortfalls”, but not with this City Board of Directors running things, they are equally as incompetent as is the Fort Smith School Board.

So where did the money go, and Gosack/Bushkul? More than ample funds have always been readily available for legitimate & crucial spending purposes, such as streets, sewers, pension funds, etc.

The Board must immediately lay out in dollar terms just what the yearly costs are for funding the police/fire pensions, how much the city is in the arrears pertaining to said pensions and what the approximate dollar amounts will accrue in the next 20 years.

The Board’s solution, as with all government operations, is for more and more new tax burdens to be saddled on city residents instead of dealing with problems created by this & past administrations
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Here is a recent example of the gross incompetence and/or stupidity of the Arkansas State & Ft. Smith city governments. During the month of August, 2015 there were created in Arkansas 2,885 new jobs, 1,885 of the new jobs were government jobs. This is exactly what citizens have come to expect from corrupt governments. For those who are victims of the Benny Gooden School of logic, that’s approximately 2 government jobs “created” for every one job created in the private sector. Who pays? This exemplifies all government entities.

The obvious immediate first step is to take an economic machete to pensions and all other 30+ city departments—every one of them.
It is printed daily in the Times Record that the Directors are having “study” sessions dealing with the shortages in Fort City government, e.g. a $500 million EPA mandate, a $300,000 fine, $770,000 yearly bankrupt Convention Center, $250,000 yearly vulgar giveaway to the Mayor, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, dropped into projected Marshall’s Museum, Homeless Campuses, bikeways, non-profits, ad infinitum. Notice while millions in “shortfalls” are being decried, there are countless new projects being proposed; Trails, Sharrows, Wayfinding Signs, et al.

Government budgets have 3 basic purposes: to mollify the sheeple, to separate citizens from their property, and to raise taxes. With that said budgets are mind games, meant to bring in additional revenue.

Politicians and bureaucrats are big on words & phrases used to lure non-thinking citizens into government economic tax traps, e.g. “choose to publish”, “generally accepting”, & “so on”. Using some of Gooden’s recent phrases pertaining to his $4.2 million budget INCREASE for next year in addition to his $150 million budget…he describes as “unremarkability”, “ordinary”, “public good”, and always “it’s for the children”.

THERE IS A SOLUTION to government pillaging of we the people’s private property, it is called ZERO BASED BUDGETRY”.

ZERO BASED BUDGETRY…means every government department, e.g. fire, police, streets, parks, libraries, sheriff, county judge, et al. DOES NOT BEGIN WITH A BUDGET WITH BUILT-IN INCREASES YEAR AFTER YEAR, IT MEANS EVERY SINGLE EXPENSE HAS TO BE ANTICIPATED AND ACCOUNTED FOR THAT YEAR AND THAT EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR BEGINS WITH REDUCING THE OUT-GO. WITH COMPETENT MANAGEMENT THERE ARE SOME DEPARTMENTS THAT COULD ACTUALLY INCREASE REVENUE. (SOME DEPARTMENTS ARE CERTAINLY NOT NECESSARY WITH DUPLICATION OF DUTIES & PERSONNEL & SOME CALLED ASSISTANT, DEPUTY, & VICE MUST GO.) Every official asking for increased taxes should be recalled.
The Fort Smith city government is in the process of laying more unbearable tax burdens on city residents. Something is desperately wrong inside this behemoth. It is either corrupt to the core, incompetent or any number of other unsavory possibilities.

Unfortunately F.S. City Mayor and Board of Directors do not have the political will or courage to open up the city financial cancer for public review and corrective action

As long as citizens remain politically disengaged the condition will exacerbate.

Joe McCutchen
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Liberty Snuffed

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September 12, 2015
The dictionary defines Dictatorship as a “form of government where political authority is monopolized by a person or political entity, and exercised through various mechanisms to ensure the entities power remains strong. A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism, in which politicians regulate nearly every aspect of the public and private behavior of normal people. Dictatorships and totalitarianism generally employ political propaganda to decrease the influence of proponents of alternative governing systems, as is the nature of nationalism of any governing system.”

Sound familiar? It should, because that is indeed what we have here in the cities, counties, states & federal government of the USA. Examples? Must pay for government licenses/fees/taxes to drive a car, to “own” a car or a house, to possess firearms, to use your property, to subsidize public schools (even though you have no child in school), whether or not you can utilize rain water, dictates deadly “smart meters” & fluoride, how much water in your toilet, what kind of light bulb you may use, wearing of seat belts, forced subsidizing of illegal aliens… the dictates are much too long to list, but you get the picture. Liberty snuffed.

The point is simply this, the government and most influential institutions are run by Cultural Marxists of varying degrees (whether they acknowledge it or not) who are choking the life out of any semblance of rugged individualism, merit, honor, self-reliance, hard work, truth, facts, courage, etc. because those are values held by Western Civilizations which are an anathema to Collectivism. Collectivism in all its forms (Fascism, Socialism, Communism/Marxism) relies on dependence, despises merit, worships egalitarianism, idolizes central government (Santa Claus with a machine gun) that robs the makers to give to the takers (politicians, bureaucrats, deadbeats, etc.), appeals to those seeking unearned rewards, rules through fear of force (weaponry & the “justice” system) and thereby controls every aspect of individual citizens lives.

“IT” utilizes many methods to attain its goals…the Cultural Marxists invented the most reliable, diabolical, successful philosophical method of all—much better than rifle barrels—infiltration of all important institutions with what they called “Critical Theory/Political Correctness” which simply means to vilify, criticize, demean all unwanted Western virtues through the inventions of Sexism, Feminism, Racism, Ageism, affirmative action, quotas, “hate” speech, pitting faction against faction, race against race, ad infinitum… all meant to break down every aspect of Western Civilization…attack, attack, attack.

The recent rampages, looting, and savage behavior are a direct result of the use of racism accusations against whites meant to enrage ignorant, exploited blacks. The lack of real justice only serves to fuel the fires of racial divide and violence.

Normal hard working, taxpaying citizens are being flushed down the toilet of Totalitarianism. They are not consulted by their “public servants” about decisions affecting their everyday lives and pocket books. They are treated as peons, used & abused…and there is no recourse because of the circle the wagons protection racket in which the “leaders” have refuge…no one in government will hold any of their “own” accountable or punishable. Observe objectively your own community, state, nation.

Turn out the lights, the party is indeed over.

~Barbara McCutchen
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Incumbency breeds arrogant corruption

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All governments will have their way—be damned with, “we the people” & the Constitution—the Constitution is supposed to be the government but is filled with so-called Public Servants who unfortunately & in actuality are self-servers. July 22, 2015

Incumbency breeds arrogance, corruption, crime, and force, but you would never know that by the institutionalized ignorance of the voting public’s record on incumbency and double down re: bureaucrats. Actually, there is no difference between a bureaucrat and a politician; I note this for I.D. purposes only.

Before the matter of this screed, is it ironic; is it coincidental; or some other reason that former City Manager Ray Gosack and the Director of Finance Kara Bushkul resigned within days of one another other? Did their hasty departures have any bearing on the $1/2 billion EPA mandate, the $300,000 EPA fine, or the shortage of the Police & Fire Pension Fund, the 30 year $600 million misapplication of monies specifically dedicated to streets & sewers? Note the current pitiful condition of streets & sewers.

Now, back to the topic at hand: examples of government having its way—be damned with the people.

I. The cowardly, deceptive Issue 3, initiated, orchestrated & passed in the Arkansas General Assembly principally by Republican legislators that extended term limits under the guise of an “Ethics” bill. What a disgusting collection of palookas.

II. This same bunch, the Ark. Gen. Assembly, this year in another cowardly deceptive maneuver insured we the people would be burdened with Obamacare until the state/nation collapses under the financial weight of such stupidity, but not limited to.

III. Fluoride—Sodium fluoride is a drug/medication/poison that requires a physician’s prescription for human use. Additionally, mass medication of the poison sodium fluoride is an existential threat to the long-term health of human beings. What is the authority for the Governor, the legislature, and the F.S. city government to practice medicine without a license? This is only a thumbnail description of fluoride.

The Delta Dental insurance company and the Ark. State Assembly of 2011 passed an illegal, unconstitutional legislation. When any legislation is passed that is unconstitutional or poses a threat to the quality of life of a citizen in any manner, they are in no way obligated to adhere to any part or the whole of the legislation. On this chord public officials swear to uphold the Constitution.

Law is a weapon, law holds only value to those who create it to extort and control.

Fort Smith city voters, as has been reported many times, turned down the issue of fluoridation twice, in the 1970’s and 1992 but have contemptuously failed to resonate with the current F.S. City Board of Directors.

Former Fort Smith Manager Ray Gosack, the Board of Directors, & the Mayor cut a contract with Burns & McDonnell for $249,000 for fluoride engineering services and a $1.5 million with Goodwin & Goodwin for fluoride feed services. These exorbitant expenses came after Delta Dental Insurance bribed, coerced or made a quid pro quo deal that sent $2 million to the Board of Directors…all in the face of the glaring alleged financial deficiencies in the city of Fort Smith.

What was the source of the $1,749,000 that the F.S. City Board paid for the above services?

Of course, city government will bloviate that it’s Arkansas state law and they have to abide. The Board’s defense is a Constitutional lie, followed by the fact that they did not have to accept Delta Dental’s $2 million bribe.

IV. More corruption guided by Ft. Smith’s Superintendent Benny Gooden, undergirded by his compliant F.S. School Board.
Five members of the F.S. School Board, accompanied by Gooden, in a secret pre-planned meeting to produce unanimity (the fix) to purge all references to the Johnny Reb Mascot, the beautiful song Dixie, and all things Southern without any knowledge or conversation with Fort Smith citizens, more specifically those who have had a relationship with Southside High.

Then there is the matter of cost, which certainly no citizen knows and is doubtful the administration knows, but for sure it will be 6 figures at least. All the while, Gooden is pushing for a $70 million tax increase.

Incumbency breeds ownership in the minds of the occupants of any given political/public service institution. Incumbency is a political curse and in all cases “we the people” are considered nothing more than a collection of pinheads by incumbents. For instance, Gooden has been around for 30+ years and Board member Rick Wade for 20+ years. Coercion and force is the name of their game, as with all pols.
Public School Superintendent Benny Gooden and Police Chief Kevin Lindsay to name two, are wards of national and global unions and other special interests, while citizens have long since been excised from the equation. There is no “local” control.

V. Days after Fort Smith voters turned down a 5% shell for a Trail System came a clamor from 2 NGO’s (Non-governmental Organizations) and the newly hired Parks Director whining “we need more trails” and oh yes, more funding! Never do they abide by the wishes of “we the people”.

VI. Urban Renewal revisited—the downtown renovation society, that would be Sicard, Griffin, and others, have reinvented & reignited the 1960’s Urban Renewal program. Urban Renewal simply defined: taxpayers fund the redevelopment of private property in urban and downtown areas.

Are any of the aforementioned statistics relevant to the taxpaying citizens of Fort Smith or will it continue to be “business as usual”?

Joe McCutchen
P.S I recall Mayor Sanders marveling in the Times Record what a wonderful job former City Manager Ray Gosack had done.
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The Road to Serfdom

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WE THE PEOPLE…MARCHING DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM. June 11, 2015

Police & Fire pay raise.

Facts state all government entities are paid far more than equivalent employment in the private sector and every government entity is represented by a union & all joined inextricably at the hip.

Government salaries of comparable positions should never be higher than the private sector which subsidizes them.

Ray Gosack & Richard Jones are quoted in the T.R. June 10, 2015, three, at the very least two, disingenuous statements. Jones, “Since 2006 Fort Smith’s pay for police & fire has lagged behind comparison cities”. Jones, “In 2014 Fort Smith’s pay was nearly 13% behind”. Jones, everything & everybody are not equal.

Gosack,” Without cost of living or market adjustments (oh wow), our pay plan stays stagnant while other cities around us, we’re comparing to, are moving their pay plans along”. Just what is a pay plan??!!

“Comparing” is the same dishonest psychology that politicians & bureaucrats use to make We the People feel guilty for not sacrificing ourselves for more government & its employees.

What Gosack & Jones are doing is trying to compare apples to oranges. Here’s the Marxist mentality again—every city in this case is equal, with no regard for demographics. Additionally, because city claims they need a raise is no foundation for the city to be automatically given one—try that with your boss in the private sector!

Demographics must be the determinate—population size, sex, age, marital status, numbers of children, education levels, economic factors, and a series of others, none of which are being considered by Gosack & Jones. And local private sector salaries should specifically thrown into the mix.

Who exactly is Jones comparing Fort Smith with? Here are the comparison cities Jones cited and their populations.
1. Little Rock—198,000
2. Springfield, Mo—160,000
3. Tulsa, OK—617,000
4. Okla. City, OK—399,000
5. Hot Springs, AR—35,000—since the 1940’s Hot Springs has grown by 3,000. Fort Smith’s population is 89,000. Hot Springs is a tourist city and both residents and visitors are taxed to the hilt.

Note the disparity in population numbers. There is no commonality whatsoever between the cities. It is absurd and slaps the taxpayers of Fort Smith trying to use this mechanism for an excuse for a pay raise.

Divulge to the citizens and let us observe the following areas regarding pay and perks of city employees. List each pay grade beginning with the entry level up to the highest, citizen contribution to their healthcare and the cost of their healthcare, same for dental, pensions, pay allowances, paid time off, paid vacations & length, sick days, holidays, free days, and not to mention, government employees have 100% job security—as opposed by the private sector.

Gosack & Jones offer no justification whatsoever for any type of pay raise. Government employees are not an endangered species. Let them absorb the same standards that are observed by the private sector and if they are not happy there are always those willing to fill their slot.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Still waiting to hear what the cash reserves are for the city of Fort Smith!

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Must War be our only souce of jobs & exports?

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REPUBLICAN ARKANSAS GOVERNOR ASA HUTCHINSON LOBBIES FOR MORE UNCONSTITUTIONAL UNDECLARED WARS.

Lockheed dangles the bait (a bribe)—an $87.1 million bait. May 24, 2015

The callous Arkansas branch of the national War Party (Republicans) will snap it up, hook, line & sinker!

Giving some thought beyond the bait, the Governor is lobbying for more undeclared wars resulting in more murdering of innocent children, women and men, wholesale destruction of other sovereign nations which offer no threat to the U.S. by the U.S. government in its eternal quest for global hegemony/supremacy under the aegis of fighting the phony “wars on terror”. The murdering of innocents by mad dog snipers, drone pilots, strafing, torturing and other real acts of terrorism classified by military commanders and DC neo-cons as “collateral” damage of non-combatants, and the public yawns and/or cheers.

Elected pathological elites are detached from reality—note the verbal and voting record assaults by U.S. Senators Boozman and Cotton. Recently, Friday, both voting to reauthorize the Bush II freedom-killing Patriot Act…Boozman for the third time and yesterday, Saturday, both voted for Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Act, a pact that will further destroy middleclass employment in the same manner NAFTA, GATT, etc. has done. Conservatives, you say?

Essentially, Arkansas citizens are conferring their approval for electives to lobby for more preemptive wars, for any number of reasons; malaise, ignorance, silence, self-service and/or political party commitment.

Look passed the possibility that acceptance of the bait will create 600 jobs, think what the bait contains, its cost and what it really means…the manufacture of 55,000 Joint readiness vehicles. Can you envision the ramification of 55,000? That alone is a proclamation that telegraphs to everyone who is willing to exercise a thought process, there is absolutely no plan for the DC & state governments (lobbying) to pursue, initiate, and/or negotiate peace agreements/treaties. Their battle cry is “Eternal War for Eternal Peace”.

The Dept of Defense & military commanders have ordered on multiple occasions thousands of mechanized vehicles and other equipment to be left on the battlefields resulting in said equipment falling into the hands of ISIS, jihadists, Al Quada, etc. Purposely?

Here is Gov. Hutchinson’s statement that is no different than betting “on the come”, “An $87.1 bond issue to help Lockheed land a military contract that COULD bring 600 jobs to southern Arkansas”.

Lockheed is the largest munitions manufacturer in the world, has mountains of DC lobbyists, accompanied by huge controls over the U.S. Congress. Lockheed NEEDS NO HELP from the Arkansas State Governor & the General Assembly to secure the aforementioned contract in money or political influence—the fix is in. Follow the money! Bribery is the sinister means of doing government business & “favors” follow.

The national Republican War Party is desperately campaigning to increase next year’s defense budget from $57 Billion to $67 Billion…a criminal financial ($18 TRILLION debt) and military effort by any standard and the six towers of corruption from Arkansas are right in the mix. All clamor for more funding…lest you’ve forgotten, these are taxpayer dollars.

Lockheed has yearly cost overruns that total in the billions subsidized by citizen taxpayers, e.g. the F-35, unsafe to fly, regular fires in the cockpit, a failed massive computer system, & pilot helmets that are dysfunctional.
It is stated that the $87.1 Billion payback will take 15-20 years.

Let’s keep them Wars agoin’, it’s good business! Yes, it is for corrupt politicians that are inextricably coupled to the military/industrial complex and through citizen ignorance, have allowed these brutes who have corrupted our Republic to languish in the halls of government their entire lives. Again, gross stupidity.

Have any of you given thought to the terrible price the U.S. and its so-called adversaries have paid thus far by the misadventures created & orchestrated by 2 former and 1 current American presidents & their neo-con handlers—Clinton (the Balkans); GW Bush (Iraq & Afghanistan—-he passed the unconstitutional freedom taking Patriot Acts nullifying the 4th & 10th Amendments, all built on lies & more lies, all the while plans for invasion of Iraq were fashioned in the 90’s, and known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine that simply states “We (the U.S.) shall have no rival and will use any force necessary to insure victory”….observe the blood and treasure wasted during the last 14 years.); Obama (Libya, overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine, the multi-attempts to overthrow Assad in Syria (the only bastion for Christians in the Mideast), illegal immigration that has changed the face of Western Civilization forever, NSA/global spying, and soon to be Jade Helm—pitting citizens against the U.S. military. The aforementioned 3 were & are enemies of civilized society.)

The aforementioned presidents should be tried for high crimes. Recall Bush stating the Iraq invasion would be a cakewalk, followed by some years later on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, “Mission Accomplished” & his memorable reference to our Constitution as “just a G.D piece of paper”. A high-born thug.

I quote highly decorated Marine Major General Smedley Butler from a speech he gave in 1933, “I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the Bankers. There are only two things we should fight for, one is the defense of our homes and the other is THE BILL OF RIGHTS.” “War for any other reason is simply a racket”.

Obviously General Butler’s words have no meaning for Gov. Hutchinson who has been ensconced his whole adult life in big government; a big government man will never go against the government/military/industrial/banking cabal.

From Hutchinson’s past government role as titular Administrator of the DEA, the question must be posed—are there any lingering or current relationships between Lockheed-Martin & Hutchinson?

Joe McCutchen

P.S. irony—the same day Hutchinson bloviated about Lockheed came a story by John Lyon of the Ark. News Bureau which stated “Arkansas ranks 51st in food security, 48th in income level, 20% of families earning income below the poverty level”, etc. etc. yet they are expected to supply tax dollars and young unsuspecting people to serve as cannon fodder for the elitists in their political war atrocities. ONWARD TO WAR WITH AN $18 TRILLION FOXHOLE BUDDY! KILL, KILL, KILL.
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