This'n'That; November Seventeenth #1: Taxes

A Tax, Inclusion Plan For Consideration
    "Clown Prince" obama has been whining--at least for the past four years--about ridiculous tax increases.  Ridiculous, because of the dismal economic performance since his immaculation; ridiculous because of the continually upward trajectory of federal spending, again, since the royal immaculation.  The 'cheese' with the aforementioned whine would be inclusion of the "taker-class" into the mainstream of American life.  They--the "taker-class"--includes roughly 47.6 Million food stamp recipients as well as Cleveland's "obama-Fo" lady.  Inclusion would allow the "taker-class" to participate in the--albeit, dismal--economic ups-and-downs of the governance of the country.
    Here's the plan:  Rather than "Clown Prince" obama's plan of punishing the success of the "maker-class;" those evil rich guys and gals--in obama's top 1%--who in 2009, paid nearly 37% of all personal income taxes to the U.S. Treasury, my plan includes everyone, 18 years and older!  Let's start with the basic premise that government--at every level--has no money that was not first TAKEN from an individual, a business or some other trade action, through the confiscatory tax system.  Then we have all those who pay confiscated funds into the treasury: 

• The top 1%:  paid 36.73% of their income, and
• The top 5%:  paid 58.66% of their income, and
• The top 10%: paid 70.47% of their income, and
• The top 25%: paid 87.30% of their income, and
• The top 50%: paid 97.75% of their income, and
• The BOTTOM 50%: paid 2.25% of their income

in the form of federal personal income tax receipts collected.  When the current U.S. workforce (143.5 million souls) is compared with current total of U.S. taxpayers (114.7 million souls) the total is a negative 28.8 million souls who escape--for whatever reason--paying, to use a "Clown Princely" phrase, their fair share.  The vast majority of said 28.8 million souls--by definition--can only be considered members of the "taker-class."
    The "taker-class" are those souls who:

• enjoy low-interest student loans;
• enjoy various government educational grants;
• enjoy low-interest refi home mortgages;
• enjoy federal subsidies to purchase desired auto models;
• enjoy welfare benefits;
• enjoy Medicaid benefits;
• enjoy federal heating assistance benefits;
• enjoy federal multi-year unemployment benefits;
• enjoy Department of Agriculture food giveaways;
• enjoy the free "obama-Fo" benefits,

and on, and on, and on!!
    For these 28.8 million souls to have a feeling of inclusion, my plan would assess a $50.00 annual tax for each benefit enjoyed.  As an example:  If a student is receiving low-interest student loans and federal educational grants and welfare benefits and Medicaid benefits, that student would owe a total, annual federal tax of $200.00, over-and-above any tax they've been assessed through actual employment.  With the assumption that each "taker" enjoys an average of three benefits (at $50-per), those souls would be contributing over $4.32 billion to the federal treasury, and enjoy the feeling of helping to support "Clown Prince" obama's socio-fascist deficit spending schemes!!  Obviously, 'enjoyment' is the right word: they voted for all the free-stuff that obama used as payment for said vote!!
    Now for the travesty of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)!
Dozens of examples of fraud have been uncovered in which the IRS has paid over One-Million-Dollars to a single taxpayer.  The worst is a U.S. taxpayer who claimed 27 dependents (all of whom resided in MEXICO and included neices, nephews and cousins!) and was allowed an EITC of $1.4 million.  Continuing my proposal, all previous EITCs would be allowed, but only to reduce the taxpayer's liability to ZERO; no one would 'profit' by claiming dozens of fictitous 'dependents.' 
    In 2009, the report:
The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration: A Study in Fraud, Abuse and Liberal Activism
by Edwin Rubenstein was released and from which I quote:

• "The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the  United States--and the most illegal-immigrant friendly.  In 2007, more than 23 million households received more than $47 billion in the EITC payments."
• "Between one-quarter and one-third of all EITC clais were 'improperly paid' according to the General Accounting Office.  The EITC--like most of the tax code--operates on the honor system.  This is very difrferent from welfare and food stamps where applicantsw are interviewed and required to present proof of eligibility."

    Is more proof needed that the entire IRS system is a sham?!?
The best solution to the built-in fraud is a national sales tax on the purchase of all NEW items--but only after the current tax code is completely SCRAPPED!!  But.... that's a discussion for another day!
Your thoughts....??
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; May Eighteenth #2; Another Putz-ism!

"C. Ellis" Blathers On For Confiscatory Taxes!     
    Eduardo Saverin dun' pissed off C. Ellis Schumer, The Putz of Park Avenue!! Mr Saverin--who expects to receive $3++Billion from the Facebook IPO--has renounced his U.S. citizenship to live and work in Singapore--where he's been since 2009--but 'The Putz' ain't buyin' it!!  'Putzie' is saying that the renounciation is for tax avoidance, even though Mr Saverin has stated he's going to pay all applicable taxes on his U.S. earnings and investments.

    'The Putz' is proposing that a more confiscatory tax rate apply to those who renounce their citizenship, with the IRS as the sole determinant of who's guilty; who's not.  This future 'putz-ism' will levy a 30% capital gains tax on expatriates' U.S. earnings and capital gains.  Said 'putz-ism' requires:
....the IRS to determine whether individuals with a net worth of at least $2Million, or who have an income tax-liability of at least $148,000, renounced their citizenship for tax avoidance purposes.

....if the IRS determines that tax avoidance was a main reason for renouncing citizenship, that person "will be barred from any type of re-entry into the United States" as summarized and provided by said 'Putz of Park Avenue.'

   If I read C. Ellis Schumer, The Putz of Park Avenue, correctly....
In essence he's saying that our labor-value; our earning power is actually owned by the communists in the owe-bama government.  
We're only allowed to exercise them in return for satisfying the increasingly confiscatory taxes impressed upon us.

    I'm sure The Putz of Park Avenue modeled this concept after the property tax legislation that's active in every villiage, town, county, school district, fire district, water district, sewer district in every state in the union.  This concept actually is more akin to NEVER OWNING--regardless of a mortgage, or lack thereof--but renting your property for the taxes due to the aforementioned political sub-divisions.  Try not paying your taxes and said 'owner' will kick your ass to the curb, legally and WITHOUT RECOURSE!!
[This is where I wonder why those owe-bamacRATics of metropolitan New York City and environs, continue to re-elect The Putz of Park Avenue!!]
Til Nex'Time....
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-17/schumer-proposes-tax-on-people-like-facebook-s-severin.html
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/30/2012-10274/quarterly-publication-of-individuals-who-have-chosen-to-expatriate
www.fubowear.com
www.fredstates.com

This'n'That; May Eighth #2; Speaking of 'Indianapolis'

Illegals Claim Billions While owe-bama Whines!
    While "Clown Prince ZERO-bama, the Narcissist" is running around the country whining about the $4 Billion in LEGAL TAX DEDUCTIONS claimed by the nation's oil companies, the illegal aliens are claiming $4.2 Billion in IRS  FRAUDULENT REFUNDS!!  So.... that's an annual net loss of $200,000 and doesn't reduce the gas pump-price one-dam-dime!!

'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Arschloch!?!

    What's happening is the illegal aliens (committing a fraud most Americans won't do!) are claiming dependent children--still living in Mexico or other home countries--on their income-tax returns.  In two cited cases, the fraudulent returns are netting $10,300 for nine nieces and nephews; $11,000 for seven nieces and nephews, who've NEVER BEEN TO THE U.S.!!  In anonymous interviews, some illegal aliens admitted they actually send most or all the additional IRS payments to help support the claimed 'nieces and nephews' actually living in their home countries!!

'Splain to me again why YOU elected this Arschloch!?!
Til Nex'Time....
(Part One:) http://www.wthr.com/story/17861738/will-lawmakers-act-to-close-tax-loophole-for-illegal-immigrants
(Part Two:) http://www.wthr.com/story/17798210/tax-loophole-costs-billions
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"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; April 21st

A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince;" 04/21/2012
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption

March 17, 2012
[Corrected to:]
April 21, 2012    Hi, everybody. As I’m sure you’ve noticed over the past few weeks, the price at your local pump has been going up and up. And because it’s an election year, so has the temperature of our political rhetoric.  What matters most to me right now is the impact that rising prices have on you. When you’ve got to spend more on gas, you’ve got less to spend on everything else. It makes things harder. So I wanted to take a minute this weekend to explain what steps my Administration is taking when it comes to energy – most importantly, producing more of it while using less of it.  The truth is: the price of gas depends on a lot of factors that are often beyond our control. Unrest in the Middle East can tighten global oil supply. Growing nations like China or India adding cars to the road increases demand. But one thing we should control is fraud and manipulation that can cause prices to spike even further.
[What I'm not telling you: You have me to thank!!?!!  I'll continue to try to convince my subjects that everyone but me; every country but mine; every reason but mine, is responsible for America's astronomical rise in fuel prices.  As I--your exalted ruler--may have mentioned previously, gas prices have gone from $1.83 at my immaculation to the current $3.87; an increase approaching 120%!!  The primary causes are my non-existent domestic energy policy relating to fossil fuels as well as my socio-fascist mindset of pricing said fossil fuels out-of-existence!!
    George Soros as well as other members of the Bilderberg Group are urging me to hammer the incorrect concept of 'oil speculators!'  While I--your exalted ruler--continually whine about them, no one has pointed to an individual or group as actual 'oil speculators.'  I--your exalted ruler--could drop the gas prices by 18-cents per gallon with a stroke of my pen, temporarily staying the federal fuel price.  But.... why do that?!?  It will not follow the aforementioned mindset!!]    For years, traders at financial firms were able to game the energy markets, distort the price of oil, and make big profits for themselves at your expense. And they were able to do all that because of major gaps and loopholes in our regulations. When I took office, we did something about it.  The Wall Street reforms I signed into law are helping bring energy markets out of the shadows and under real oversight. They’re strengthening our ability to go after fraud and to prevent traders from manipulating the market. So it’s not just wrong, but dangerous that some in Congress want to roll back those protections and return to the days when companies like Enron could avoid regulation and reap enormous profits, no matter who it hurt.  What’s more, at a time when big oil companies are making more money than ever before, we’re still giving them $4 billion of your tax dollars in subsidies every year. Your member of Congress should be fighting for you. Not for big financial firms. Not for big oil companies.
[What I'm not telling you:  Lies, more lies and dam' lies!!  Sorry folks, I--your exalted ruler--don't think there's room for a single "Clown Prince" truism in this week's blather opportunity!  Aside from my blather in the negative, commodities traders perform a vauable service for the wholesaler and the largest of fuel consumers.  They establish prices of some commodities where none previously existed.  They provide regional, national and international prices of the more common commodities, rather than 'one-price-fits-all,' which would be my regime's approach.  That 'Enron' reference:  what'a stretch that was!  Enron was nothing more than a "Bernie Madoff-esque scam," not at all common, although the regime would like to see more.  We--socio-fascists in the District of Corruption--consider scams of that type to be private sector wealth re-distribution, and while they take the socio-fascist 'out-of-the-loop' they do accomplish the owe-bama Regime's monetary objectives!  
    One of the grandest, most outrageous lies Soros and Bilderberg want me to promote is the 'subsidies for Big Oil!'  What's going on with 'Big Oil' are not "subsidies" by any stretch of the imagination!!  This $4 Billion I--your exalted ruler--keep whining about is nothing more than LEGAL tax deductions written into the current IRS Code!!  My use of the words subsidy, subsidize and subsidies serve no other purposes than to constantly vilify 'Big Oil' in the public eye as well as continuing to promote my "class warfare" campaign platform!!]
    In the next few weeks, I expect Congress to vote on ending these subsidies. And when they do, we’re going to put every single Member of Congress on record: They can either stand up for oil companies, or they can stand up for the American people. They can either place their bets on a fossil fuel from the last century, or they can place their bets on America’s future. So make your voice heard. Send your representative an email. Give them a call. Tell them to stand with you.  And tell them to be honest with you. It’s easy to promise a quick fix when it comes to gas prices. There just isn’t one. Anyone who tells you otherwise – any career politician who promises some three-point plan for two-dollar gas – they’re not looking for a solution. They’re just looking for your vote.  If we’re truly going to make sure we’re not at the mercy of spikes in gas prices every year, the answer isn’t just to drill more – because we’re already drilling more. Under my Administration, we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years, that’s a fact. We’ve quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs to a record high, that’s a fact. And we’ve opened millions of acres on land and offshore to develop more of our domestic resources.  Those are the facts. But we can’t just rely on drilling. Not when we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil, but still only have 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. If we don’t develop other sources of energy, and the technology to use less energy, we’ll continue to be dependent on foreign countries for our energy needs. That’s why we’re pursuing an all-of-the-above strategy. As we develop more oil and gas, we’re also developing wind and solar power; biofuels, and next-generation vehicles – and thousands of Americans have jobs right now because of it. We need to keep making those investments – because I don’t want to see those jobs go to other countries. I want to create even more of them right here in America.  And after three decades of inaction, we raised fuel economy standards so that by the middle of the next decade, our cars will average nearly 55 miles per gallon. That’s nearly double what they get today. That means you’ll only have to fill up every two weeks instead of every week. And that will save the typical family more than $8,000 over the life of the car – just by using less gas.  Combined, these steps have helped put us on a path to greater energy independence. Since I took office, America’s dependence on foreign oil has gone down every single year. In 2010, for the first time in 13 years, less than half the oil we used came from foreign countries.  We can do even better. And we will. But what we can’t do is keep being dependent on other countries for our energy needs. In America we control our own destiny. So that’s the choice we face – the past, or the future. And America is what it is today because we have always placed our bets on the future.
[What I'm not telling you:  Furthermore, I--your exalted ruler--actually expect Members of Congress to stand up for the American people BY STANDING UP FOR 'Big Oil;' for keeping the fuel prices from rising any faster than I--your exalted ruler--can make them rise.  To vote a change in the IRS Tax Code as it relates to the 'Big Oil' tax deductions is a complete disservice to the American consumer by creating instantaneous gas-price increases!!  Almost by definition, any and all corporation(s) pass all increases onto the consumer.  That's just the nature of business; complying with the corporations' fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders!!  
    Fact-checking as proven the 20%-2% statistic is but another in the long line of my blatant lies!!  The blogosphere were the fact-checkers; the national pamphleteer 'corpse'--at George Soros' direction--has 'decided' to not to comment in any manner.  So long as he allows me, I--your exalted ruler--intend to use "20-2" as long as it plays into my "economic-warfare" plans.  With respect to fossil fuels, why does anyone subscribe to my version of logic?!?  If more drilling won't solve the nation's energy problems; why drill at all?!?  That's just nuts; just more of my bullshit!! 
    At some point-in-time, fuel efficiency will have reached it's upward limit.  The government socio-fascists can continue to demand higher-and-higher mpg results, but at some point these demands can not be met.  Already, the auto manufacturers are putting occupant safety on the back burner.  Have you seen some of these "shit-boxes" the consumer is expected to embrace as the next generation of vehicles?!?  They're little more than plastic coffins, ready to implode at the slightest provocation!!  So we've reached the upward limit of the "steel-to-plastic" conversion in these "shit-boxes;" do we have technology on the horizon to increase mpg results, 'mechanically?!?'  Again, I--your exalted ruler--think--privately--we've reached the limit there, as well.
    The primary reason we've cut back on the use of foreign oil?!?  Do you really want to know?!?  I--your exalted ruler--had absolutely nothing to do with it.  The reason we're using more domestic oil is that more-and-more drilling permits issued by that evil President George W. Bush are coming to fruition!!!!  Simple-as-that!  Evil triumphed!!]

This'n'That; December Second #1; Your Retirement?!?

How Many Know owe-bamaKare Can Raid 401k?
    I know, I know!?!  Most of you are saying "surely, I jest!"  Nay Nay, pray tell!!  While casting about the internet for information concerning 401ks in general, my mandatory withdrawals in particular, I discovered what's referred to as the "Capps Law."  The "Capps Law" is named for a miscreant federal legislator: one Lois Capps an owe-bamacRAT representative from the fascist State of California.  She succeeded her miscreant husband Walter Capps, after he kicked-the-bucket!
    Remember when the miscreant owe-bamacRATics held a strangle-hold on the congress?!?  Remember when the same group of miscreants pushed owe-bamaKare through the congress--in the 'dead-of-night'--against the will of nearly two-thirds of the population?!?  Therein contains the "Capps Law!"  Said law is written in the usual legalese, thus nearly indecipherable.  Rather than me regurgitating the information I've discovered, the reader should check the URLs I've found.  Said "Capps Law" is well hidden, so well that i've been unable to locate the actual portion of owe-bamaKare that contains said law!!
    If anyone knows the URL which contains said "Capps Law," please let me know via a comment to this post.  Thanks in advance!!  Here are the URLs I've found:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65447235
http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1107REMCAPVD/EREMM781/PR [audio]
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1609823/pg1
http://www.city-data.com/forum/retirement/1351774-anyone-hear-capps-law-what-may.html
http://downdirtyword.blogspot.com/2011/07/capps-laws-tax-regulate-meddle-pry-and.html
Til Nex'Time....

This'n'That; October Third #3; THE Plan!

The Cain Tax Plan:
    I like it, thus far!!  The personal income tax provisions of the Herman Cain '9-9-9' tax plan is the first--seemingly--workable plan that treats everyone equally.  Equality--particularly in this regime--has consistently waned during recent decades.  The Cain Concept melds well with my principle of "no representation without taxation!"  Under the current system, those 'riding in the wagon' overwhelmingly vote for the candidate who promises to increase their benefits or at least maintain the current rates.  The Cain Concept taxes everyone equally, no matter their source of income-even those 54% who consistently 'ride in the wagon.'  If--after a presidential win--Herman Cain can combine his tax plan with and honest, complete and fair reformation of the America's vast entitlement system.... what a boon to the national treasury, for the national economy!  Just imagine: 
The IRS Form 1040 would be reduced to a post-card!

    On the 'national sales tax' side of The Cain Concept, the sales tax would hit low-and-middle income earners the most; how hard depends if consumer staples like food, vehicle fuel, prescriptions et al, are exempted.  While The Cain Concept concentrates this sales tax on new sales, it's unclear how used items would be treated.

    The United States is one of several countries at 35%, ranking second behind Japan who's corporate income tax rate is 40.69%.  The Cain Concept's 9% corporate income tax rate represents nearly a 75% rate reduction-a concept completely foreign to the ruling class of both parties!  The 35% rate is actually artificial; there are many exemptions, credits and deductions which allow qualifying companies to pay far less than the prescribed 35%.  In any case, America's corporate income tax is fictitious at best; the taxes are passed onto the consumer in the form of increased wholesale and retail prices.

    In any case--with any hidden, unrealized faults--I like the concept!  This is the first time, in my lifetime--including the "Ronaldus-Magnus" Era--that the federal government will have reduced all tax rates with the citizen, the taxpayer in mind.  This will be the first time that true fairness and equality will have been injected into the federal tax structure.  Those 'riding in the wagon' should--and under The Cain Concept, will--be on equal footing with the 46% of American of working age who do pay income taxes.
Til Nex'Time....
[Illustrations: www.fredstates.com]
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/sep/26/facts-about-herman-cains-9-9-9-tax-plan/

This'n'That;October 20th

Have Ya Ever Been on Social Security? I now am on it..... having started it several months ago at the "grand ol' age" of 62. There's a well hidden secret about it. My cash benefit is just under $1k/month. Last month I get this form to fill out. They wanna know-by the month, how much I've been earning at my regular job. That's when I find out that the Social Security Administration restricts my non-SS earnings to less than $14k/yr. I've been paying into the system since I was 15 years old, when I started picking potatoes and hand-setting type at a newspaper.....THAT'S 47 YEARS !!! IS THAT STUPID, OR WHAT??? With the Democrats in power and they-the party that never has found a tax they couldn't increase or a "give-away" program they couldn't fund/start-they should want me to work as much as I can!!!! The more I work, the more tax money they can piss away!!! My increased labor means increased payments to both the IRS and SSA!!! WHADDA BUNCHA IDIOTS!!!!! Wanna Know More About ACORN?? Originally, their philosophy was to promote their cause[s] on a national or global level. They've since changed their focus to the local. The change has proven to be ingenious!! The political culture of cities tends to be further to the left than the nation as a whole, thus less resistant to ACORN's views. City and county legislators as well as local and regional reporters tend to be less sophiisticated than their national counterparts, hence slower to grasp ACORN'S level of radicialism. The local business communities are generally disorganized, the membership focused on world and national affairs rather than the trivial details of local, regional politics. With this local view, ACORN has managed to have laws enacted by local governments that the federal government would only laugh at and "shoo them away." ACORN's strategy seems to be that if they can get enough idiotic laws enacted in enough communities, they essentially will have a "national policy." Mitch Klein, a top ACORN organizer working with the Baltimore chapter, perfected it's in-your-face aggressiveness. He had underlings: ***Pile garbage in front of City Hall to protest the lack of services in poor neighborhoods. ***Bring huge inflated rubber sharks to disrupt a bankers' dinner. ***Stage a profanity-laced protest infront of Mayor Martin O'Malley's home. "They unloaded a busload of people shouting some pretty ugly things and scared the daylights out of my wife and kids" the angry Mayor complained. "I thought it was a pretty cruddy thing to do." ACORN is unapologetic about its tactics. "We're up in their face," an enthusiastic representative said. [Despite-or perhaps because of-the intimidation, ACORN still gets $50,000 a year from the City of Baltimore to provide housing counseling to the poor.] This belligerence increased both membership and donations at the Baltimore chapter. These increases have been instrumental in ACORN's clout at city council meetings. ACORN has successfully changed Baltimore's City Charter-redefining city council districts in ways the activists believe will make it easier to gain more control over the council. Much the same thing has evolved in the City of Sacramento, Ca., and the California state government. This chapter now has a $300,000 annual budget and has become a force in California state politics. ACORN recently pushed through legislation that makes tenent evictions more difficult. The facts are out there......... I could go on and on with references of ACORN's "heavy handed" tactics........... but what's the use?? I doubt that anyone will be able to break through "the fluff" Recent ACORN Abuses It seems that ACORN has registed the ENTIRE DALLAS COWBOYS active roster to vote......not once, but TWICE!!! Once in Nevada Once in Missouri Idn'nat special?!?!?! It seems that ACORN registered so many questionable voters in Ohio that it flooded the system!! Ohio's Secretary of State sued to get out of verifying each of 200,000 questionable voter registrations. One court gave her a date to have it done, she appealed. The next court told her she didn't have to do it!! I guess we'll be thanking O-bomb-a for the eventual fall of this, the longest lasting democracy [actually a representative republic] in history!!! What do O-bomb-a and Osama have in common?? ***They both have friends who bombed The Pentagon !!! Oh......Before I Forget Again.... For those who aren't in the Rochester, N.Y., or Salt Lake City, Ut., radio markets you probably won't know Bob Lonsberry. I listen to practically every broadcast. In Rochester at least, Bob is a celebrated radio talk show host with WHAM [1180AM] radio, where he does three hours a day [11AM-2PM, eastern]. In Salt Lake City, he broadcasts on KNRS [570AM] radio 5AM-9AM, mountain time. He also writes a daily column for his website which usually concern local [both radio markets] or national interests/concerns. At least in Rochester, he does a daily podcast [called the "Bobcast"] which deals with almost anything. Anyone who likes to listen to an intelligent, insightful individual, ya gotta check Bob out!!! www.wham1180.com www.570knrs.com www.lonsberry.com ...And Another Personality.... The Rochester radio and print market is home to several professional, semi-pro and amateur sports teams as well as hotly contested college and high school rivalries. The guy that keeps all these teams sorted out, the public informed is Bob Matthews. Bob has a pretty full workday; He's a sports reporter for the D&C, writes a sports blog for the D&C, hosts a two-hour sports call-in show on WHAM [1180AM], 6PM-8PM. He also is a contributing sports columnist for the Gannett News Service. http://php.democratandchrolicle.com/blog/sportsx/ www.wham1180.com matthews@democratandchronicle.com I'd like to quote a portion of Bob's Sunday column: Brown Set The Stage For Davis To Win Heisman Davis in turn blazed a trail for future black recipients of the prized trophy. Jim Brown helped Syracuse University recruit Ernie Davis. I wonder if Brown helped Davis become the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. Davis is getting some long overdue recognition with the release of The Express, the movie about the life and times of two-time All-American who died at age 23 of leukemia before he could play in the NFL. Brown, who played nine stellar seasons with the Cleveland Browns and arguably was the all-time greatest NFL player, played three seasons at Syracuse. He didn't win the Heisman Trophy and didn't receive nearly as many votes as he should have in his 1956 senior year, possibly because he's black. Brown rushed for 986 yards in only eight regular season games, scored 14 touchdowns, kicked 22 extra points and intercepted 3 passes that season. He led the nation in Yards-per-carry [6.2] and had seven 100-yard rushing games. With a bowl bid on the line in the season finale, he scored an NCAA-record 43 points in a 61-7 victory over Colgate. But Brown finished a distant fifth in Heisman Trophy balloting. He was first in the East [there were five regions] and fifth in the South, but received only 118 first-place votes for winner Paul Hornung of Notre Dame. SU was 7-2 that season, including a 28-27 loss to TCU in the Cotton Bowl. Notre Dame was 2-8 and outscored 289-130. Hornung threw 3 TD passes and 13 interceptions, averaged 4.5 yards per carry and kicked 14 extra points. Some observers said he won the Heisman for career achievement. Hornung had a Pro Football Hall of Fame career with the Green Bay Packers, but he was no Jim Brown. No one was-including the three other players who outpolled him for the Heisman Trophy in 1956 [ Johnny Majors, Tommy McDonald, and Jerry Tubbs]. Davis played for Syracuse from 1959 through 1961. By then Brown had established himself as the best player in the NFL. Davis was the star running back on SU's national championship team in 1959 but didn't finish in the top 10 for the Heisman Trophy. He also failed t o make the top 10 in 1960. His senior year wasn't the best of his collegiate career, but he won the Heisman Trophy in a close vote over Ohio State fullback Bob Ferguson, who had the luxury of sharing the running load with lightnine-and-thunder halfbacks Paul Warfield and Matt Snell. SU coach Ben Schwartzwalder said the award to Davis was "a tribute to his three years really, not just one." If Horning diserved the Heisman in 1956, Davis more than deserved it in 1961. I wonder if Brown's instant success in the NFL had any influence at all on Heisman voters who passed on him in 1956 to give Davis his just due in 1961. Brown and Davis played for the same school and Davis left his footbal idol in the dust in yards per carry. Brown averaged 5.2 yards and rushed for 666 yards for 5-3 SU in 1955 and averaged 6.2 yards and rushed for 986 yards for 7-1 SU in 1956 [not including the Cotton Bowl loss to TCU]. Davis' numbers [regular season]: 1959---98 carries for 686 yards; 7.0 yards per carry; 8 TDs. Syracuse was 10-0 in the regular season and Davis was Cotton Bowl MVP [a 23-14 win over Texas]. 1960---112 carries for 877 yards; 7.8 yards per carry; 8 TDs; SU was 7-2. 1961---150 carries for 823 yards; 5.5 yards per carry; 12 TDs; SU was 7-3 in the regular season and Davis was Liberty Bowl MVP [a 15-14 win over Miami]. Brown blazed the trail for Davis at SU and Davis blazed the trail for tuture black Heisman Trophy winners. Black players have won the Heisman Trophy 27 of the last 47 years. Ernie Davis always will be the first. Imagine the time involved just in doing the research for this portion of his Sunday column!!! Nearly all his columns are this "stastic-loaded!!!" Check 'em out if ya have the chance!!! Til nex'time......