A Night at the Lone Star Film Festival

At last evening's film festival gayla, I met Ruth Buzzy, the beautiful wife and daughter of Ed Bass, came across Billy Bob Thornton, who looked like Dracula as his thin-as-a-bone greenish suite passed in the ballroom at the Ft. Worth Convention Center, eyes covered with dark round glasses even after the sun had gone down some time ago.  The film legend, Robert Duval, crossed my path twice on Thursday, but I gained not much more than, "Where's my seat?," out of him.  Old and rickety, he was in no mood for chat.  Together, he and Billy Bob Thornton moved on Ft. Worth's fast-developing-into-a-big-league film festival like two hookers there long enough for the trick and full payment.

Billionaire Ed Bass's graceful daughter is in high school, she told me. When I posed, "It must be an interesting life," she replied, "Yes, it is sometimes," as she gazed across the room, clearly contemplating the meaning of the Bass name and all it entails.

The high point of the evening was when the producer of The God Father told the audience of probably 400 how he convinced three mafia bosses to come to his office and read the script for the movie, as they had reservations of Italians being negatively portrayed.  When they arrive to the office, they didn't get past the first page with their limited attention span for reading a 150 page script and gave him the green light on just liking him.  He had stood down three mafia figures by simply threatening to make them read.

The most friendly of the bunch was the cigar-toating, Kinky Friedman, who assured me that his plans include a serious run for the Texas governorship in the near future;  although, I'm not sure how a man on record with so many comedic twists and limited economic credentials will become a serious political candidate.  After all, everyone knows from Governor Perry that even a 2.5 GPA in Agriculture gets you laughed off the stage these days.

I met the Mayor Pro-Tem of Ft. Worth and his lovely wife.  While he couldn't tell the difference between Keynesian-Marxism and the Austrian school of economic thought, he does have a business background he related, "with 3,500 former employees."  I offered him a smile and a narrow pass on having the credentials for being a politician.

I met a fellow named, Fred Disney, a film festival board member who assured me that the Disney company doesn't send him any stock, as much as he would like to have some.  He is a fine fellow with gray hair and a disposition that would lead one to believe he to be the head of the company in that film gayla context.  I told him I'd be doing a Google search on him, and it turns out that he's just a good old boy from the neighborhood.

Finally, the kindest soul of the evening was a fellow named, Billy Schafer.  As we shook hands upon his entrance into the room, I noticed a finger or two missing on his right hand;  yet, he plays the guitar, I understand.  He was highly regarded by every star and every guest in the room, as they awarded him this or that.  Not that I don't like frivolity, but out of the 75% of the people I shook hands with in that room, he and Ed Bass' daughter were the only two non-frivolous things about the evening, one from billions of dollars and the other from the wrong side of the tracks.

Gene Chapman
TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com

The Two Pressing Questions that Drive Me

1)  What makes people buy or sell specific financial instruments (i. e. stocks, insurance, etc.)?

2)  What makes people accept or reject slavery?

My Three Pronged Attack on the Personal Income Tax

A friend of mine called last evening to catch up on events.  I told him that I was continuing my education in three areas of interest and that all three had to do with countering the IRS/ Central Bank and its personal income tax, property tax and social security numbering system of enslavement.

I told him that I'm not going to be an economist, as Calculus III is going to be beyond my math ability.  When he told me that he was thinking of tutoring math, I begged him to go get a Ph. D. in Economics so that he could help us get to the "big boy table" with Bernanke (Federal Reserve Chairman).  I explained that the Keynesian-Marxist means well in their desire of doing the most good for the most people but that we Austrians need numbers of intellectuals to meet them point-for-point on the various media available today and in the coming years.

Both Irwin Schiff and Peter Schiff have a BS in Economics, but that just gets us to the complaint window.  We need Ph. D.'s to get us past that window into the room where leaders make policy.

My plans are to continue toward a J.D. (law) and a Ph. D. in Finance with motion picture production going on along the way, everything having to do with the mission of the Tax Honesty Movement.  I encourage everyone in the Tax Honesty Movement to push those who can to get a Ph. D. in Economics, however.  This is where the future hope of saving America and the World from slavery resides.

Gene Chapman

EU Proposes Financial Services Tax

Forever, I've supported a move away from slave-based taxation policy (i. e. personal income tax, property tax) and the dynamics that support such taxation (i. e. social security numbers and the like).  Consequently, I have no problem with a tax on financial transactions that do not include the above issues.

As I come nearer law school each semester, perhaps the issue will be resolved before I am even a lawyer.

Proportional Representation: The Overriding Principle to Vote

I plan to vote for candidates who support proportional representation this November, as my university studies indicate that representative democracy is most undermined when votes are circumvented to a winner-take-all system.  When the minority is not represented, then the minority is not represented.

Mr. Romney: China is not the Enemy

Recently, I saw Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the U. S. presidency, propose that China needed a Cold War response to presumed currency manipulation by their government.  I suggest that the Chinaman is not the enemy of the American and that their government is not the enemy of the U. S. government.  Everyone means well for their families and no harm to other countries.  We must rather look into each issue like a surgeon with a scalpel.

The conflict American's feel with China is that China has been violent against its citizens with the assumption that the individual the property of the state; thus, the individual is treated as the property of those in power, rather then the governing official being the servant of the people.  gkchapman2012athotmail.com/

Out of Hospital

Well. I spent the 22nd of August going through the Emergency Room at a hospital in Lufkin, Texas.  I'm to see my family doctor today to see whether I'll be driving trucks soon.  Vertigo, they call it.  It's like being sea sick on dry land.  I thought I was having a stroke of an aneurism.