Any questions for Mr. Carter?
Dear Member of Democrats Abroad Canada,
Join us for Breakfast with President Jimmy Carter, Honorary Chair of Democrats Abroad, Rosalynn Carter, and their grandson, Jason.
A great event is happening in Sydney, Australia on Friday, July 18 – (TOMORROW). A Web Ex Call-In with the Carter Family to support Jason Carter, grandson of Jimmy and Rosslyn, who is running for governor of Georgia.
-Taking back Georgia and other red states would send TREMORS through the national political landscape – mainly in the Republican Party. Let us do our part and have the added bonus of an incredible opportunity to be in the virtual breakfast chat with the Carters.
One of the great U.S. presidents, President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, will be having a special Conversation via Webex with Democrats Abroad members from Australia. And we’ve all been invited to join in!
In Canada, it will be like -breakfast with the Carters-, bright and early at 7:30 am EDT: 6:30 am in Central, 5:30 am Mountain and 4 am Pacific time zones! Really early breakfast! Or if you are a late owl, a late night snack! But well worth it!
Here’s the link to donate to the Jason Carter for Governor Campaign, and to sign-up: http://j.mp/DAcallForJasonCarter
There’s a special $25 WebEx Guest call-in ticket, but feel free to give more. Once you register, you will be receiving an email with the Webex instructions and also invited to submit a question for the Carters.
Yours in democracy,
Adrienne Jones, Vice Chair, DA Canada / RVC, Americas
Julie Buchanan
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Amazing! Its the Dems that invented and implemented this stupid FATCA legislation!
He won’t know enough about FATCA to make it worth the $25, but am really surprised that the Democrats are even trying to raise money abroad now given what has happened. Also, Carter wasn’t a good president for U.S. citizens abroad.
I thought Ms. Jones was long gone. Interesting. At any rate I won’t be engaging in this webex for oh so many reasons. Don’t be surprised they are trying to raise money among citizens abroad. Some are very myopic and believe no matter the damage done the ends justifies the means. They believe everyone else feels the same. Any dem abroad who donates to this is cutting off their own nose to spite their face. The webex will be very controled so if you participate I wouldn’t mention you plan to bring up FATCA. I like Rosalynn, she’s done a lot of good work in her state over the years. Too bad that doesn’t translate into getting donations from attacked citizens abroad but, Adrienne it just doesn’t.
@Publius
Would be interested in knowing why you think Carter was not a good president for Americans abroad. My impression is that he actually was far better for Americans abroad than other presidents.
Not suggesting any donations, but …
http://renounceuscitizenship.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/president-carter-believes-in-human-rights-and-americansabroad/
As far as I know, Carter has been the only president to ever go beyond promising to improve the situation for Americans abroad to actually propose the US go to a residency based taxation model. Of course, Dems Abroad would rather not discuss this though. Makes the current guy look bad.
The information found here http://www.4rie.com/rie%205.html describes the relationship Carter had with the Trilateral Commission.
Very similar to the book I’ve been reading by Fritz Springmeier who says;
” When Nelson Rockefeller could not get the Presidency of the US, the Rockefellers switched tactics and supported Jimmy Carter, who was one of their men in the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission made up its board from executives of companies like IBM, Dutch Shell, Siemens, Chase Manhattan, Sony and Nippon Steel. The Commission set up committees to coordinate economic and political decisions within Asia, North America and Europe.”
@bubblebustin
I was thinking of some of the disputes in the 1970s over the foreign earned income exclusion, although that is the least of our problems. Thank you for the link, though, it is very informative. Perhaps the difference is that there was a problem under Carter but he tried to do something about it, while there is a problem now and the Democrats just seem to be ignoring it.
Why don’t Republicans Overseas do the same thing regarding their FATCA lawsuit.
Has anyone been in touch with Solomon Yue and able to give us an update on their action?
Looks like so far, they had a legal opinion from Jim Bopp, but we haven’t heard anything else since that article in the press.
I wish they would spend more energy on this lawsuit rather than the one they’re preparing against Obamacare, which doesn’t stand a chance. The law has been ruled constitutional. They have better chances of bringing down the IGAs, than the executive orders Obama signed to give more time to smaller companies to follow the law. What do they expect? Nullify those executive orders and have small business owners vote Democrats at the next election? Doesn’t make sense. They should fight the battles they have a chance to win. I don’t really understand them. Like their opposition to funding some actions to do something against the flow of children coming from the south border. Perry and Obama were even on the same page regarding what needs to be done. Withholding funding for any action is not helping.
Right now, Republicans are loosing votes. That’s not good for us, given that they’re the ones on our side.
Re: Jimmy Carter
He may be considered a senior U.S. statesman. Some have said he has done more than other Presidents once out of office taking initiative to bring peace to situations of the time in North Korea and Haiti. Often his initiates were courageous on the personal level. Let’s remember Carter in Haiti negotiating for peace when a U.S. invasion force had been launched to “liberate” the place.
It appears by this connection with Democrats Abroad in Australia that he is acknowledging issues we discuss on IBS. One may think if he was really on about fund raising he may find other avenues to better achieve this perhaps within Georgia itself.
I am interested in how this turns out. One may hope that within the U.S. one way to get traction on issues discussed is for senior U.S. statesmen/stateswomen and opinion leaders to speak out on our issues. They may be in special position to rise above the current political gridlock and gain attention and respect for their opinion and provide leadership on the issues.
Obama is in position to provide leadership on this issue an advocate an Affirmative Action program to right the U.S. discrimination against US persons abroad. He chooses not to.
It appears that the Republicans are in the right direction adding repeal of FATCA to their party platform. We need greater recognition from the Democrats within America of the injustices of U.S. policies as they are applied to US persons abroad – in a very uneven, inequitable, and unconstitutional way, in my opinion, compared to application to US persons living in the U.S.
Yes lets recognise and favourably acknowledge Jimmy Carter reaching out to US persons abroad.
Jimmy Carter is able and willing to speak out on issues that are embarrassing or critical of the current US government, like the abuses by the NSA, unjustified surveillance, and the information that Snowden revealed:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/jimmy_carter_gets_around_nsa_spying_by_using_old_fashioned_snail_mail.html
…………..”………….In an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Sunday, Carter said the justification for surveillance has been “abused” by the NSA.
“I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored. And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write the letter myself, put it in the post office, and mail it,” said Carter.
“Old fashioned snail mail,” Mitchell said.
“Yeah. Because I believe if I send an email it will be monitored,” responded Carter.
“I think it’s wrong,” he said in a separate interview with USA Today’s Capital Download. “I think it’s an intrusion on one of the basic human rights of Americans, is to have some degree of privacy if we don’t want other people to read what we communicate.”
Carter told USA Today that he thought it was “good for Americans to know the kinds of things that have been revealed by [Edward Snowden],” the former NSA contractor who has disclosed secret information about the agency’s data collection programs.
“Since 9/11 we’ve gone too far in intrusion on the privacy that Americans ought to enjoy as a right of citizenship,” said Carter. He added that he did not think Snowden should be immune to prosecution for his actions………….”