Why do I write these? I guess because I think I have something important to say, and I am not a well known writer, even though tens of thousands read each column. To sell gold and silver? Only indirectly. If thousands are intelligent enough to read my stuff, and realize that it is not your typical CNBC trash, then they’ll probably buy their gold from us. We do have an “A” rating from the Better Business Bureau however. Maybe it is to get it off my chest, like the following:
It’s May 1945, the war was still being fought, and in Britain, Winston Churchill was running for Prime Minister against Clement Atlee, who was the Labor (left) candidate. Atlee had been the Deputy P.M. for several years, and had a long record as an MP (member of parliament) as a staunch leftist. Everyone thought Churchill would win, because he was sort of the hero of the war. (Not to me, because Churchill and FDR actually gave the free world away to the Soviets at Yalta). Everyone loved ’Winnie’ and his cigars and speeches. He lost to Atlee. Atlee not only won, but got a Labor Parliament, and they immediately got to work. Atlee had been a leader in the Labor Party for many years, and was in favor of joining the League of Nations, socializing everything in sight, and weakening the British military. Under Atlee, the Brits actually lost their empire. Under Atlee, India, Pakistan, Burma, Jordan, Siri Lanka, and Palestine left the British fold, and have been at war with each other ever since. When it was said that “The sun never sets on the British Empire,” it was absolutely true. The Brits civilized major parts of the world, which have been decaying ever since they left. Atlee was a devout student and believer in the Keyenes type of economic planning.
Under Atlee, the entire health system was nationalized, and in the subsequent two or so years, the British government, under Labor, (what we call Democrats), took over, seized, and nationalized the entire British economy. This included NATIONALIZING the Bank of England, civil aviation, coal mining, railways, highway transport, canals, cable. radio, electricity, and gas. In other words, the entire private economy of Britain was seized. (Yesterday, Mexico’s electric power industry was seized and nationalized by its government). The have never given much back either. (What they did give back was under Margaret Thatcher). Today, the Brits have become so accustomed to government running everything, that after 65 years, few even remember when England was free, capitalistic, and an economic giant in the world. Today, the Brits pay through the nose for everything…to the government. They have forgotten about the free market, competition, individual action, thought, and the most basic of freedoms we have, but are losing. The Brits are truly wonderful people, don’t get me wrong, but they have long ago forgotten about individual responsibility, and not depending on government for virtually everything..
Today, Obama, (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price a mere two weeks after taking office), and his leftists, are trying to complete the total socialization of medicine, which was begun with Medicare and Medicaid over 40 years ago. We Americans are so imbued with semi-socialistic health care, that we have forgotten what it was like, when you bought health a policy if you wanted one, or most probably didn’t want one, because one wasn’t needed. A $3 office visit to the doctor took care of what most people needed. There were thousands of charity clinics for those who needed them. We have forgotten what the medical profession was like before lawyers got into it with fraudulent mal-practice suits. (Yes, we do need tort reform). We have forgotten what it was like before Medicare and Medicaid. Look at food stamps, which came on in 1972. When someone told me that government was going to pay for food, I thought they were hallucinating. We have been slaves to it for 37 years now, and people are forgetting what America was like without government paying for medical care and food. Before 1937, public housing was unknown, and if you had told someone about it, they would have thought you were nuts. In other words, we have been enslaved, weakened, and brainwashed. We have had a population increase with worthless people, who wouldn’t be here without the various welfare schemes which Democrats have voted for, and Democrat Presidents have signed into law. Before public housing, food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, people planned, saved, and cared for themselves, and America was naturally, a much stronger, intelligent place. I haven’t even mentioned public schools, which are a disaster.
The Brits so long ago lost their freedoms, that they have forgotten what they were like. We are on the verge completing the course. The Brits of course, have had all their guns seized, and their ’bobbies’ (cops) don’t even carry guns any more. Crime has skyrocketed in the UK, and no one seems to know why. When you deprive a nation of its freedom to innovate, think, defend itself, and be true capitalists, its brains become numb and submissive. Thomas Jefferson once said, “When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” He also said, “The only way to save the system is to destroy it or have it destroy itself.”
What would happen if food stamps were removed, and public housing torn down, as of course they should be? Just imagine the riots, especially in the big cities! The plunder and destruction would probably level them, because the underclass uses them to eat, live, commit heinous crimes, and survive. Should they survive? Are they any benefit to America, when they destroy practically everything they touch, wreck neighborhoods, burn things, rob, murder, rape and destroy? Look at South Central LA or West Philly, and tell me they should be fed and housed. No one would admit that the underclass should exist. Why do they? Because they can vote, and sick, left leaning and voting humanitarians also, can and do vote. “We have to take care of the poor,” is the empty, universal phrase. I ask, “WHY?” George Moore said way back in 1888, “I don’t care how the poor live; my only regret is that they live at all.” Is this cruel? NO, just logical. Let the poor work, survive, sweat, or whatever it takes, but not get a handout from government.
Without Medicare and Medicaid, the million tons of paperwork and tens of thousands of bureaucrats who administer it and write checks for it, would also disappear. Each doctor would require one less employee, and one less office and office equipment. Those who wanted to see a doctor would pay for their visit, which would be a lot less expensive. Doctors would rise and fall on their reputations and expertise, and even rates they charge, like every other business or business person. This is the way it used to be, and of course should be again, but never will. Our brains have become so used to various handouts, that we have forgotten what it was like before them, and now believe we are entitled to them, ignoring their cost and inefficiency. Same with the underclass. We can’t go back. We can only get more enslaved by the left, humanitarians, war voting Republicans, “help the poor” fools, and of course those ever lovin’ senators and representatives, who never even read the bills on which they vote. Today, as I write this, the Senate is voting on a thousand page, trillion dollar health bill, and none of them have read it, nor probably given a minute’s thought to the ultimate result of it.
Whenever any government, at any level, does anything, it costs more, and is less efficient. The larger the government, the less efficient and more costly is the ’service,’ and the less able anyone is to complain or change it. In a small town, like the one I live in, I know the sheriff, police chief, city council members and county commissioners, personally. If something’s wrong here, I can call them and scream or complain. Try to do that with your DC elected goof off. Imagine what would happen to America if Medicare and Medicaid were cut off. Thousands of nursing homes would go bankrupt immediately. (Before Medicare and Medicaid, there were virtually no nursing homes). Tens of thousands of employees of doctors and the bureaucracy would be out of jobs immediately. Millions of idiotic geezers would have conniption fits. It is impossible for it to happen, in other words. It will only eventually be universal health care like the Brits have, and that is almost inevitable, since we have already gotten half way there. Since Emergency Rooms cannot decline to treat, whether they get paid or not, and since the geezers have Medicare and Medicaid, we are already half way there, and as history shows, we will only get more, not less government.
All we can do is protect ourselves, try to get out of the big cities, and hang on!
P.S. as I finished editing this, I had a customer call who I hadn’t heard a word from in over eight years. They, in 2001, had spent $16,655.90 with me, including commission. They just sold it all for $62,130, and their only expense is to ship it. That is a 373% profit in eight years. Eight years from now, will you make 373% profit on gold or silver you buy today? I’d be willing to bet on it.
Why do I write these? I guess because I think I have something important to say, and I am not a well known writer, even though tens of thousands read each column. To sell gold and silver? Only indirectly. If thousands are intelligent enough to read my stuff, and realize that it is not your typical CNBC trash, then they’ll probably buy their gold from us. We do have an “A” rating from the Better Business Bureau however. Maybe it is to get it off my chest, like the following:
It’s May 1945, the war was still being fought, and in Britain, Winston Churchill was running for Prime Minister against Clement Atlee, who was the Labor (left) candidate. Atlee had been the Deputy P.M. for several years, and had a long record as an MP (member of parliament) as a staunch leftist. Everyone thought Churchill would win, because he was sort of the hero of the war. (Not to me, because Churchill and FDR actually gave the free world away to the Soviets at Yalta). Everyone loved ’Winnie’ and his cigars and speeches. He lost to Atlee. Atlee not only won, but got a Labor Parliament, and they immediately got to work. Atlee had been a leader in the Labor Party for many years, and was in favor of joining the League of Nations, socializing everything in sight, and weakening the British military. Under Atlee, the Brits actually lost their empire. Under Atlee, India, Pakistan, Burma, Jordan, Siri Lanka, and Palestine left the British fold, and have been at war with each other ever since. When it was said that “The sun never sets on the British Empire,” it was absolutely true. The Brits civilized major parts of the world, which have been decaying ever since they left. Atlee was a devout student and believer in the Keyenes type of economic planning.
Under Atlee, the entire health system was nationalized, and in the subsequent two or so years, the British government, under Labor, (what we call Democrats), took over, seized, and nationalized the entire British economy. This included NATIONALIZING the Bank of England, civil aviation, coal mining, railways, highway transport, canals, cable. radio, electricity, and gas. In other words, the entire private economy of Britain was seized. (Yesterday, Mexico’s electric power industry was seized and nationalized by its government). The have never given much back either. (What they did give back was under Margaret Thatcher). Today, the Brits have become so accustomed to government running everything, that after 65 years, few even remember when England was free, capitalistic, and an economic giant in the world. Today, the Brits pay through the nose for everything…to the government. They have forgotten about the free market, competition, individual action, thought, and the most basic of freedoms we have, but are losing. The Brits are truly wonderful people, don’t get me wrong, but they have long ago forgotten about individual responsibility, and not depending on government for virtually everything..
Today, Obama, (who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price a mere two weeks after taking office), and his leftists, are trying to complete the total socialization of medicine, which was begun with Medicare and Medicaid over 40 years ago. We Americans are so imbued with semi-socialistic health care, that we have forgotten what it was like, when you bought health a policy if you wanted one, or most probably didn’t want one, because one wasn’t needed. A $3 office visit to the doctor took care of what most people needed. There were thousands of charity clinics for those who needed them. We have forgotten what the medical profession was like before lawyers got into it with fraudulent mal-practice suits. (Yes, we do need tort reform). We have forgotten what it was like before Medicare and Medicaid. Look at food stamps, which came on in 1972. When someone told me that government was going to pay for food, I thought they were hallucinating. We have been slaves to it for 37 years now, and people are forgetting what America was like without government paying for medical care and food. Before 1937, public housing was unknown, and if you had told someone about it, they would have thought you were nuts. In other words, we have been enslaved, weakened, and brainwashed. We have had a population increase with worthless people, who wouldn’t be here without the various welfare schemes which Democrats have voted for, and Democrat Presidents have signed into law. Before public housing, food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, people planned, saved, and cared for themselves, and America was naturally, a much stronger, intelligent place. I haven’t even mentioned public schools, which are a disaster.
The Brits so long ago lost their freedoms, that they have forgotten what they were like. We are on the verge completing the course. The Brits of course, have had all their guns seized, and their ’bobbies’ (cops) don’t even carry guns any more. Crime has skyrocketed in the UK, and no one seems to know why. When you deprive a nation of its freedom to innovate, think, defend itself, and be true capitalists, its brains become numb and submissive. Thomas Jefferson once said, “When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” He also said, “The only way to save the system is to destroy it or have it destroy itself.”
What would happen if food stamps were removed, and public housing torn down, as of course they should be? Just imagine the riots, especially in the big cities! The plunder and destruction would probably level them, because the underclass uses them to eat, live, commit heinous crimes, and survive. Should they survive? Are they any benefit to America, when they destroy practically everything they touch, wreck neighborhoods, burn things, rob, murder, rape and destroy? Look at South Central LA or West Philly, and tell me they should be fed and housed. No one would admit that the underclass should exist. Why do they? Because they can vote, and sick, left leaning and voting humanitarians also, can and do vote. “We have to take care of the poor,” is the empty, universal phrase. I ask, “WHY?” George Moore said way back in 1888, “I don’t care how the poor live; my only regret is that they live at all.” Is this cruel? NO, just logical. Let the poor work, survive, sweat, or whatever it takes, but not get a handout from government.
Without Medicare and Medicaid, the million tons of paperwork and tens of thousands of bureaucrats who administer it and write checks for it, would also disappear. Each doctor would require one less employee, and one less office and office equipment. Those who wanted to see a doctor would pay for their visit, which would be a lot less expensive. Doctors would rise and fall on their reputations and expertise, and even rates they charge, like every other business or business person. This is the way it used to be, and of course should be again, but never will. Our brains have become so used to various handouts, that we have forgotten what it was like before them, and now believe we are entitled to them, ignoring their cost and inefficiency. Same with the underclass. We can’t go back. We can only get more enslaved by the left, humanitarians, war voting Republicans, “help the poor” fools, and of course those ever lovin’ senators and representatives, who never even read the bills on which they vote. Today, as I write this, the Senate is voting on a thousand page, trillion dollar health bill, and none of them have read it, nor probably given a minute’s thought to the ultimate result of it.
Whenever any government, at any level, does anything, it costs more, and is less efficient. The larger the government, the less efficient and more costly is the ’service,’ and the less able anyone is to complain or change it. In a small town, like the one I live in, I know the sheriff, police chief, city council members and county commissioners, personally. If something’s wrong here, I can call them and scream or complain. Try to do that with your DC elected goof off. Imagine what would happen to America if Medicare and Medicaid were cut off. Thousands of nursing homes would go bankrupt immediately. (Before Medicare and Medicaid, there were virtually no nursing homes). Tens of thousands of employees of doctors and the bureaucracy would be out of jobs immediately. Millions of idiotic geezers would have conniption fits. It is impossible for it to happen, in other words. It will only eventually be universal health care like the Brits have, and that is almost inevitable, since we have already gotten half way there. Since Emergency Rooms cannot decline to treat, whether they get paid or not, and since the geezers have Medicare and Medicaid, we are already half way there, and as history shows, we will only get more, not less government.
All we can do is protect ourselves, try to get out of the big cities, and hang on!
P.S. as I finished editing this, I had a customer call who I hadn’t heard a word from in over eight years. They, in 2001, had spent $16,655.90 with me, including commission. They just sold it all for $62,130, and their only expense is to ship it. That is a 373% profit in eight years. Eight years from now, will you make 373% profit on gold or silver you buy today? I’d be willing to bet on it.