There are consequences for everything. There is a reaction to every action. No matter how small the action is, there is a reaction. Walking, results in a speed up of the heart and more lung action, etc. Parents spoil children and they become undisciplined. A burglar enters a house with an alarm and the alarm goes off. A nail punctures a tire and it goes flat. All are expected consequences of an action. Then there are unintended consequences, about which this drivel will be.
Lots of wonderful people do wonderful things every day in their lives, and I applaud them for their actions. I am a big tipper at restaurants and hotels, because those people work hard for their money, and probably I make a lot more than they do. People contribute to political campaigns, help the poor and friends, and all with their own money. Good works have consequences too of course, and they are happiness for the recipients as well as the givers. “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35.
“Unintended Consequences” by John Ross, is a novel, which will keep you on the edge of your seat, if you’re looking for an excellent read.
Unintended consequences, as of 2012, all seem to be located in Washington D.C. I won’t go back to Dishonest Abe’s War Between the States, Woodrow Wilson’s World War One, or even the Income Tax Amendment, or the Federal Reserve’s shady origins. I won’t delver into Roosevelt’s World War Two even, because that was before most can remember. Let’s just go to D.C. and watch.
People are getting old and may be hurting if they didn’t save enough? Let’s do Social Security and force them to save. People get sick and may not have enough money for health care? Let’s have Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid. People may get hungry? Let’s give ’em food stamps. And a thousand other unintended consequences are voted upon, not voted upon, or even done by unconstitutional ’executive order,’ but from D.C. they come. Why does this happen? Is it because the bureaucrats, Congress, Senate, or President are very loving humanitarians, and are concerned about us? Does the milk of human kindness pour from their votes and orders? Are they the wonderful people, who admire and copy us when we do good deeds, tip generously, and help the needy?
Or is it so that they can get re-elected to those posh offices with the power trip of being an elected Congressman or Senator? Is it so they can brag about how much bacon they have brought home, and how many roads, parks, and other stuff they have gotten through by attaching them to some other nonsense bill? Is Washington D.C. full of rotten to the core politicos, worthless bureaucrats, hangers on, groupies, and scum of all sizes, ages, and colors? Not counting the Tea Party, are any of them worth a hoot in hell? Are the usual Republicans any different than the usual Democrats?
All these handouts and giveaways cost a lot of dollars. Taxes have been raised and levied on every single thing we use. My telephone bill has 26% in taxes added to it, as an example. Gas tax, property tax, sales tax, income tax, and a hundred other taxes go to pay for the handouts at every level. There aren’t enough taxes collected to pay for the handouts, so they sell bonds and “T Bills” to pay for the stuff. In other words what they can’t tax, they borrow. and if they can’t sell the debt, they merrily print the money. The results are that we have ever decreasing dollars, increasing dollar prices for all tangibles, food, fuel, entertainment, and everything bought with dollars. The debts are so huge that they can never be repaid.
Congress has approved drones over American skies. 30,000 by the year 2020. They’ll be spying on you. I’ll bet not a single Tea party Representative or Senator voted ’yes’ on that one!
What is there to do? Move out of the US? Absolutely not, because as bad as it has become, it is still far better than other places, including Canada. There’s only two things we can do, and they are (1) Protect yourself, and (2) Try to change things. You protect yourself by getting out of paper promises such as bonds, savings accounts, and dollars in general, and into gold and silver, which are historic real money, and need no backing from anyone or anything. You try to change things by supporting the candidate who will change things, and it isn’t Mitt Romney.
SYRIA
Neither Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Korea, nor Vietnam were are any of our business. If we hadn’t been unconstitutionally thrust America those disasters, the national debt would be $4 trillion lower, and hundreds of thousands of American lives would not have been snuffed out.
From the September 30, 1899 Gladstone Kibosh: “Miss Minnie Bell gave a party in memory of her sixteenth birthday anniversary to a number of friends Wednesday night. This makes the eighth “Sixteenth birthday party” Miss Minnie has given in this section and they are becoming all the rage.”