Wayne Allyn Root Complements Mit Romney on His 15% Tax Rate and Is An Advocate of A Zero Capital Gains Tax Rate

Wayne Allyn Root is one of the most dynamic, charismatic, colorful, passionate, fiery, and outspoken Libertarian-conservative political personalities in America today. He is a best-selling author of 7 books, a FOX News Channel regular guest, and a national media star.

I met Wayne in 2010 and now connect with him at least monthly for an in-depth discussion on restoring the vibrancy of the US, business success and his positive addictions that are the core of his vitality and success.

Wayne’s most recent editorial published in Forbes online (Click Here)  is a clearly factual representation on two very important points:

1. The capital gains rate of 15% paid by Mitt Romney is available to everyone

2. The lower the capital gains rate, the greater the incentive to invest.

3. The greater the investment in companies and innovation, the higher the rate of growth in jobs.

In very recent discussions with business owners and entrepreneurs, it has become very clear to me that most do not really understand the fundamentals of capitalism…not communism, not socialism, but capitalism. Join me in help America stand up for capitalism..the right of all to create value through innovation, creativity and hard but fun work. The right to follow the entrepreneurial dream without a huge tax and regulation penalty imposed by a socialistic mission by the government.


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Unemployment Is Actually 15.6 % …Far Worse Than The Official Rate …As Reported by Newsmax

…When the December 2011 unemployment rate was released,  I didn’t  have the data to support my view that there was no way the unemployment rate was actually 8.6%.  All a rational person has to do is pay attention to related  economic information.  The gross distortion in the more accurate rate vs the rate published  by the media   results in people thinking the economy is much better than it is. It is insane we continue to allow our governmental leadership to be staff by people who simply do not understand that private enterprise creates jobs and our current government prevents jobs creation by a continual increase in rules regulations and taxes. 

For a  list of news stories reported today by Newsmax including Story Number 4 ….this one, please visit http://news.newsmax.com/?Z6ORXNfFA4IJuc9IOykUtBE7kXrexLU1Z )

The detailed report follows:

Unemployment Far Worse Than Official Rate

The method used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate the official unemployment rate understates the real unemployment problem by a significant margin.

The official rate stood at 5 percent in January 2008, shot to a high of 10.1 percent in October 2009, and came down to the current rate of 8.6 percent — still 3 points above the 1948-2007 average of 5.6 percent.

“Unfortunately, the reality is even worse than these numbers suggest,” according to American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Aparna Mathur and Matt Jensen, an economic researcher at AEI.

In an article on the RealClearMarkets website, they point out that the BLS defines the labor force as those who are employed or those who have actively looked for a job within the past four weeks. The rate calculation therefore excludes workers who have stopped seeking work, and employees who settle for part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time employment.

But the Bureau of Labor Statistics also publishes an alternative measure of unemployment, referred to as the “U-6 rate,” that includes those who have looked for work in the past 12 months and those who work part-time even though they would like full-time jobs.

“The U-6 rate offers a clear picture of how precarious a situation we are in,” the authors declare.

That rate has moved from 8.8 percent in December 2007 to 17.4 percent in October 2009 and 15.6 percent last November. So the gap between the official rate and the U-6 rate is a hefty 7 percentage points.

Also, more than 5.7 million Americans have been out of work for more than 27 weeks — 43 percent of all unemployed.

“The tremendous increase in long-term unemployment is one factor driving the unprecedented disparity between the official measure of unemployment and the alternative measure,” the authors write.

Expectations of higher tax rates and uncertainty over new regulations are encouraging businesses to hold off hiring full-time workers and instead offer part-time and temporary jobs, they say, adding: “The main challenge facing the Obama administration is to improve the employment situation. An easy way to start is by restoring faith in the economy and providing certainty about the future in the minds of consumers and businesses.”

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Relationship Capital and Leverage

Relationship Capital

The value of the relationships you have and are developing is relationship capital.  This is the single biggest reason for my career moving forward again in 2009 after being stalled for a number of years. It was late summer 2009 and I had successfully launched an on line membership site using social media marketing. However, financial prosperity was not developing as I preferred. I reflected on my situation at that point in comparison to those periods in my career when I was “on my game” and doing very well financially. I identified personal contact with highly successful people as being the difference. In 2009 I was connected with a large group of people online. However, my personal connections were largely dormant. I made a commitment to  reestablish a vibrant network with successful people….I visualized that already being in place. Several weeks later, I received a phone call from a person I didn’t know. However, I spent time with him and that one call led to an acceleration of my business and real estate coaching career. Most importantly, it led to a rapid acceleration of my network with successful people.

The door was opened and I worked it very hard and still do today. The relationship capital continues to get stronger because I focus on bringing as much or more value to the relationship as I gain from it. In the Universe it is called the Law of Reciprocity.  You may be familiar with “what goes around, comes around” or what you send out comes back to you. Personally adding value to another is my greatest reward. Just yesterday I received an email thanking me for the work we did in 2011. The person said he would have most likely lost his business had it not been for our relationship and our coaching.

This is so important I am modifying one of the chapters in The Book on Business Profits which is in development. In this message I will share with you several key steps you can take to build your relationship capital in a major way even if you are in a situation with very limited financial resources.  Relationship capital extends to our personal lives as well and that is a subset for a future article.

Leverage

Leverage is a term that is not well understood in the business sense. I summary, leverage is where you focus on where your talents are best used and work with others who have complementary skills for work that is  needed in your business. For example, in the  real estate investment business there are just several key categories of activity including: finding the deals, renovating the properties and sourcing the funding. Some people are very skilled with building and repairing.  I can assure you I am not one of those people so I find those with that skill set.  One important point if you are responsible for your business…you cannot leverage the responsibility for being the leader. If you don’t want to be a leader then you probably are best served working on someone else’s team or for a company. There is nothing wrong with being a team member or working for a company. I held a number of those positions and those experiences contributed to my growth and development.

Five Steps To Developing Relationship Capital Right Now Even If You Are Not Connected With Anyone Successful and Have Very Limited Financial Resources

1. Network Marketing or MLM – I am a major advocate of quality companies in this industry because of the network you can build and the training you will receive for very little money. The one principle that took me many years to learn was to market those products that many people are already buying and using. With that criteria in mind there are primarily two businesses I suggest everyone take a close look at because you will benefit greatly from using the products and they are easy to suggest to others.  Both of these businesses have greatly enhanced the incentives to getting started right now.  They are:

a. Send Out Cards – I love this as I can send cards more economically sitting in front of my computer than I can going to the store, picking out a card, writing a note, addressing it and mailing it.  You can get started in this business as a business owner for about $300. Imagine that for $300 you can be in business and if you don’t want to be in that business, people will love getting cards from you. Sending cards is the number one tool in my view for building relationship capital following a personal meeting. Click Here Now for More Information

b. Organo Gold – Amazing health benefits just by drinking what most people are already drinking…coffee , tea, hot chocolate. This article will be on line for a long time. Right now and for the next 60 days I know you can join this business by acquiring a special gold pak for $500. That is how I joined the company nearly a year ago. Gold members are positioned for maximum compensation. Normally a gold pak is about $1,200 which is still a deal but $500 is better. Click Here For More Information

c. Coaching – joining a coaching program is much more than having an expert help you. The right coach will help you build relationship capital. You will be hiring an expert which takes funds. Personally I have my next level of coaching expertise identified and will hire that person as soon as possible.

d. Leverage your time and skills with people who have funds to put to work. For example I would love an energetic person to introduce Organo Gold to every independent coffee shop in my market and help charitable organizations understand how this product line can help them raise sizable funds. I am prepared to sponsor them, and help them with some expenses like the cost of samples and gas for their car.  In the real estate business, we are always looking for people who want to learn real estate investing and want to become an apprentice with us.  They need to be able to fund their personal  expenses for 4-6 months.  There are other ways to leverage once you start thinking in terms of what you can bring to the table in terms of time and skills and combine that with a deal partner interested in putting their money to work. Note if you are in the situation of limited funding it will require  alot of work to find a person who will work with you and support your plan.

e. Network business events, training events, charitable events, political fund raisers, social events and more.

Summary – Relationship Capital is key to your success, Leverage is key to you optimizing productivity and performance.

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Steve Pohlit

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One Dollar’s Worth

One Dollar’s Worth
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The United States One Dollar Bill.
Take out a one dollar bill, and look at it.

The one dollar bill you’re looking at first came off the presses
in 1957 in its present design.

This so-called paper money is in fact a cotton and linen blend
with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it.

It is actually material.

We’ve all washed it without it falling apart. A special blend
of ink is used, the contents we will never know.
It is overprinted with symbols and then it is starched to make
it water resistant and pressed to give it that nice crisp look.

If you look on the front of the bill, you will see the United
States Treasury Seal.

On the top, you will see the scales for a balanced budget.
In the center you have a carpenter’s square, a tool used for an
even cut. Underneath is the Key to the United States Treasury.
That’s all pretty easy to figure out, but what is on the back of
that dollar bill is something we should all know.
If you turn the bill over, you will see two circles.

Both circles, together, comprise the Great Seal of the United
States. The First Continental Congress requested that Benjamin
Franklin and a group of men come up with a Seal. It took them
four years to accomplish this task and another two years to get
it approved.

If you look at the left-hand circle, you will see a Pyramid.
Notice the face is lighted and the western side is dark.
This country was just beginning. We had not begun to explore
the West or decided what we could do for Western Civilization.

The Pyramid is un-capped, again signifying that we were not even
close to being finished. Inside the capstone, you have the all-
seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. It was Franklin’s
belief that one man couldn’t do it alone, but a group of men,
with the help of God, could do anything. “In God We Trust” is on
this currency, but that phrase was added in the 1950s during the
Red Scare.

Prior to that, none of our paper currency had that phrase.

The Latin above the pyramid, Annuit Coeptis, means, “God has
favored our undertaking.”

The Latin below the pyramid, Novus Ordo Seclorum, means, “a new
order has begun.”

At the base of the pyramid is the Roman Numeral for 1776.

If you look at the right-hand circle, and check it carefully,
you will learn that it is on every National Cemetery in the
United States.

It is also on the Parade of Flags Walkway at the Bushnell,
Florida National Cemetery and is the centerpiece of most heroes’
monuments. Slightly modified, it is the seal of the President
of the United States, and it is always visible whenever he
speaks, yet very few people know what the symbols mean.

The Bald Eagle was selected as a symbol for victory for two
reasons:

First, he is not afraid of a storm; he is strong, and he is
smart enough to soar above it.

Second, he wears no material crown. We had just broken from the
King of England.

Also, notice the shield is unsupported. This country can now
stand on its own.

At the top of that shield you have a white bar signifying
congress, a unifying factor. We were coming together as one
nation.

In the Eagle’s beak you will read, “E Pluribus Unum”, meaning,
“one nation from many people.”

Above the Eagle, you have thirteen stars, representing the
thirteen original colonies and any clouds of misunderstanding
rolling away. Again, we were coming together as one.

Notice what the Eagle holds in his talons. He holds an olive
branch and arrows. This country wants peace, but we will never
be afraid to fight to preserve peace. The Eagle always wants to
face the olive branch, but in time of war, his gaze turns toward
the arrows.

They say that the number 13 is an unlucky number. This is
almost a worldwide belief. You will usually never see a room
numbered 13, or any hotels or motels with a 13th floor.
But think about this:

13 original colonies,
13 signers of the Declaration of Independence,
13 stripes on our flag,
13 steps on the Pyramid,
13 letters in the Latin above,
13 letters in “E Pluribus Unum”,
13 stars above the Eagle,
13 bars on that shield,
13 leaves on the olive branch,
13 fruits,
and if you look closely, 13 arrows.
And, for minorities: the 13th Amendment.

I always ask people, “Why don’t you know this?”
Your children don’t know this, and their history teachers don’t
know this.

Too many veterans have given up too much to ever let the meaning
fade. Many veterans remember coming home to an America that
didn’t care. Too many veterans never came home at all.

Share this page with everyone, so they can learn what is on the
back of the UNITED STATES ONE DOLLAR BILL and what it stands
for. Otherwise, they will probably never know…

~Author Unknown~

Steve Pohlit
International Business and Real Estate Investment Coach 

The Ant and The Grasshopper..Modern Lesson

THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper, Two Versions:

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

You Are Responsible For Yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving..

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not EasyBeing Green…’

Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper’s sake, while he damns the ants.

President Obama condems the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight..

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper!

Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.

Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway

Steve Pohlit