The Government Could Track Your Every Move

Obama’s Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood came out in favor tracking and taxing drivers on the miles they drive instead of the amount of gas they consume.

The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is studying ways to replace the fuel tax with a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) program. Currently, Nevada drivers are taxed 54 cents in fuel taxes per gallon at the pump.

The Nevada Highway Users Coalition has announced its support for a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT).

The first phase of the VMT study is being funded by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) and Regional Transportation Commissions in both Southern Nevada and Washoe County. NDOT and Washoe contributed $100,000 each. The Southern Nevada agency contributed $60,000 for a total of $260,000.

The ACLU of Nevada opposes any information collecting method that would threaten individual privacy rights, particularly if it allows the government to create an infrastructure for routine surveillance.

Location-sensing is what GPS does. GPS sensors must know where you are in order to measure how far you’re moving. It would be fairly simple to turn these devices into full-fledged tracking devices. This amounts to a perfect infrastructure for tracking citizens everywhere they go in their vehicles.

According to the Heritage Foundation, a VMT would be expensive to implement because every car would need to be fitted with a device that both records miles driven and transmits the information to a government database.

“This complicated system would cost millions and raise concerns of Big Brother watching our every movement,” the Heritage Foundation said in February 2009. “Americans don’t like paying the gas tax, but they are sure to be even more unhappy having to deal with the administrative nightmare the VMT promises.”

Paul Enos, chief executive officer of the Nevada Motor Transport Association, said there is no need to switch from the current gas tax just to try to capture revenue from hybrid and electric cars.

Those pushing the VMT don’t talk about it much, but it would allow drivers to be taxed at higher rates for using freeways during congested drive times, Enos said.

“It is social engineering at its best; or worst,” he said. “They are trying to change public behavior.”

According to CNN “Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people” Attended the March 27th The Party Express in Searchlight, Nevada

The leftist CNN is once again lieing to the American public. They grossly under-reported the size of the March 27th Tea Party Express gathering in Searchlight, Nevada.

CNN described it as “hundreds of people or at least dozens of people” of people. Many more reliable accounts said that there were at least 10,000 people there. The Mainstream Media is obviously trying to downplay to outrage the American people have for this government.

Check out these photos:

http://www.americanpatrol.com/10-FEATURES/100327-FEATURE2/PHOTOS/100327-Photos.html

http://www.americanpatrol.com/ABP/NEWS/2010-UP/100327-TEAPARTY-NV_/Photos.html

For those of you who do not know, Searchlight, Nevada is where Harry Reid is from. It has a population of less than 1,000.

Scientists Stumped As Bee Population Declines Further

The decline in the US bee population, first observed in 2006, is continuing, a phenomenon that still baffles researchers and beekeepers.

Data from the US Department of Agriculture show a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, following a 36 percent decline in 2008 and a 32 percent fall in 2007.

This affects not only honey production but around 15 billion dollars worth of crops that depend on bees for pollination.

Scientists call the phenomenon “colony collapse disorder” that has led to the disappearance of millions of adult bees and beehives and occurred elsewhere in the world including in Europe.

Researchers have looked at viruses, parasites, insecticides, malnutrition and other environmental factors but have been unable to pinpoint a specific cause for the population decline.

He said the phenomenon probably results from a combination of factors but that the increased use of pesticides appears to be a major cause.

Research conducted in 23 US states and Canada and published in the Public Library of Science journal found 121 different pesticides in 887 samples of bees, wax, pollen and other elements of hives, lending credence to the notion of pesticides as a key problem.

Corruption in Washington

“Elderly Americans must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age.”

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79% Say U.S. Economy Could Collapse

The latest Fox News poll finds that 79 percent of voters think it’s possible the nation’s economy could collapse, including large majorities of Democrats (72 percent), Republicans (84 percent) and independents (80 percent) and majorities don’t think elected officials in Washington have ideas for fixing it.

Just 18 percent are fools who believe the economy is “so big and strong it could never collapse.”

Moreover, 78 percent of voters believe the federal government is “larger and more costly” than it has ever been before, and by nearly three-to-one more voters think the national debt (65 percent) is a greater potential threat to the country’s future than terrorism (23 percent).

Who has a plan for dealing with the economy? Overall, 35 percent of voters have their heads up their ass and think the Obama administration has a clear plan for fixing the economy. This is down from 42 percent last summer (July 21-22, 2009). So, it looks like the American people are beginning to wake up.

At the same time, the number saying the White House doesn’t have a plan for the economy has increased from 53 percent in July to 62 percent in the new poll. That includes almost all Republicans (88 percent), two-thirds of independents (67 percent), as well as a third of Democrats (33 percent).

Even fewer people think Democrats in Congress (24 percent) and Republicans in Congress (16 percent) have clear plans to fix the economy. The self centered Congress just passed ObanaCare which will make the economy worse.

There is a large gap in party support, as Democrats (46 percent) are significantly more likely than Republicans (25 percent) to think their party has a strategy for the economy. That is not too surprising, is it? Democrats lost touch with reality a long time ago.

The national telephone poll was conducted for Fox News by Opinion Dynamics Corp. among 900 registered voters from March 16 to March 17. For the total sample, the poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

“These results reveal a deep anxiety about the fragility of our economy, as voters face continued uncertainty about jobs and an expanding commitment to public sector spending,” said Ernest Paicopolos, a principal of Opinion Dynamics.

Three in 10 American voters (30 percent) say they are comfortable with the size and unconstitutional role of the federal government right now, while 65 percent say the government has become too big and “is restricting American freedoms.”

Sizable majorities of Republicans (84 percent) and independents (74 percent) think the government is too big, while just over half of Democrats (51 percent) are okay with the size of government. Of course that is to be expected. Democrats are socialists. A socialist never thinks the government is too big.

I do not like it Uncle Sam

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November 11, 1965, LZX-ray, Vietnam.

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Patrick Henry’s Speech 235 Years Ago & Obamacare Signed on Same Day !!!

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Rebellion In America Heats Up As 5th State Exempts Guns

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