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message.”
    “Understood. You coming in from the vpn?”
    “Yes.”
    “Okay, during a crisis we always block some sites on the outside, it keeps the traffic down. Do you have an IP?”
    “Yes, ends in twelve dot one six eight.”
    “Just a second, I’ll put you through to one of my techies… . On second thought it’d be faster if I would do it for you, hold on.” Peter’s fingers raced across the key board as he open the main servicing center command window. Yes, he was the director, the head fromage so to speak but he knew his way around the network, besides it would take even longer to explain things to a peon and he wanted Scott off his back as soon as possible. The last thing he wanted was the President to shuttle even more responsibility to Homeland Security after being deemed uncooperative whenever the “T” word was uttered, “ . . . ummm… . yes, it looks like it was manually blocked. You should be back in business.”
    “Thanks Peter.”
    “You’re welcom, if you find out any information, keep me in the loop will ya?”
    “Absolutely Peter, thanks again.” he was already out of the loop Scott thought.
     
    The call and even more importantly, the IP address, were a fading memory to Peter on this very hectic day. Not so was the case just a few doors down the hall from the director. The truth to the matter, the IP address was not available to the outside network, it resided somewhere on the network at Langley. It was just made to look like an outside address. The reason it was contained inside was that it needed the protection from the very best firewalls the planet has to offer.
     
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Chapter 6  
    “  . . . . but the people at the top are controlling this world.
    A nd to top it off, they get taxed less than you… . oh it may seem like a lot, thirty-five percent, but take that from an annual salary of ten million dollars. That’s three and a half million dollars. Chump change I’m telling you. Are they telling us they can’t live on the six-point-five million dollars per year? Boy I sure hope they can pay their minimum wage housemaids in a timely manner. Now take the average American earning thirty-five thousand dollars a year, take twenty percent of their salary for taxes. That leaves them with twenty-eight thousand—the average American car cost more than that. Twenty-eight thousand dollars, twenty-eight thousand dollars left to feed a family, pay rent and utilities, insurance, healthcare, and any other living expenses. Barely getting by.
     
    Then we have the middle class—a middle class that is declining at an unprecedented rate. We once had the biggest in the world. Not anymore, not today. The middle class is shrinking, and they are not moving up my friends. We are heading for a two class system. Lower and upper. The upper class is controlling this country. They streamline, they merge, and in turn, they cut jobs. Cut jobs of good people, hardworking people. They never reinvest in the people, they never reinvest in the people that made them rich. They just take and take all while distancing themselves from the common folks—see the limos in their driveways, see the gates at the end of their driveways? They see it coming. We are heading for trouble. Don’t believe me? Just ask France or the Bolshevik’s. You say an uprising, a revolution cannot happen in this day and age… think again… . who’s going to stop it?
     
    Who is going to stop it?
     
    I am… . I am… . I can help. Help Now! My solution—tax the people who can afford to be taxed not the ones who can’t. They don’t want to reinvest in the people who made this country great… we’ll reinvest for you. Reinvest in America, in its people, the American people. Believe me, the money makers of this world can live on what they’ve got… it’s the people who don’t got, that can’t live. I’m telling you now this has got to be done, done now!!! Or we’re heading for