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Most of the world, and not just America, believes, and rightly so, that America is on the skids. Our debts are sky high and growing daily. Millions are being fed, housed, and cared for by a stupid government, in the form of welfare of all varieties. Military suicides are incredible, because of the absurd war in Afghanistan, and we have a president, who if not an actual Muslim, was raised as one, and as most of us know, what we learned in childhood, sticks with us for our entire life, be it accurate, truthful, or not. Rednecks have redneck kids. Sophisticated, educated, well mannered parents produce the same. Children raised in single parent homes in public housing, will grow up to be worthless, like their usual mother, whether she knows who the father is or not. Politicians endlessly spout off about ’global warming,’ which is a total fraud, as witness the past winter, plus other obvious signs. The EPA and other nonsensical bureaucracies make building, farming, and manufacturing virtually impossible. Moronic ’greenies,’ harp about carbon dioxide as if it were poisonous, rather than beneficial. The list could be endless, and faults lie with Republicans and Democrats, at least the RINOs, (Republicans in name only), who have always voted for more spending, wars, taxes, and bureaucracy. We’re in terrible shape.
The buck slides daily, and this results in the stock market reaching new highs, thanks to artificial low interest rates provided by the Federal Reserve.. The Federal Reserve creates dollars out of thin air and loans them to the U.S. Treasury at interest, bankrupting us further. Bureaucracy, czars, millions of rules and regulations, make mining and growing virtually impossible. Most of what we buy comes from China or some cheap labor nation. Gas prices are astronomical, and roughly three times what they were when Obama took office. These are merely a very few of the ills which America is now saddled with, and no way out. Let me, in my opinion, give you the two major reasons why we are here, and in this condition, and why politicians have not only gotten us here, but so far have refused to get us out. The Tea Party Republicans, which are gaining popularity quickly, may be of help.
First of all, the Constitution has been completely ignored. It’s that simple, but has been going on for so long, and by such gradual degrees, that it’s been like the well known frog in a cold water pot, and the heat gradually gets hotter and hotter, but so slowly, that the frog doesn’t notice, till he is cooked, and never knew it. It began almost at the beginning, with the first central bank, which Alexander Hamilton convinced virtually everyone was wonderful…except President “Old Hickory” Andrew Jackson, who vetoed the bill, and there was no more central bank till the Federal Reserve came on, in a highly suspicious way. Read “The Creature From Jekyll Island” for the complete story. If you haven’t read it, buy it and READ IT! The First Republican president, dishonest Abe Lincoln, started a hideous war, which his side won, and then his general attempted to destroy the South in what has been known as his “March to the Sea.” Drunk Ulysses Grant, then became President, and a poor one. The 16th Amendment (income tax) was a nail in our coffin, and Woodrow Wilson got us into World War One foolishly. Roosevelt and his Democrat Congress started Social Insecurity, and began a welfare system, which has acted like the frog in water, till it is all encompassing and bankrupting us. The weepy liberals say that we must help the weak, but it is because the weak and all recipients of government largess, will vote for the candidate which voted for it.
The Constitution does not give permission for the federal government to regulate, form bureaucracies, deficit spend, or print un-backed money. The Constitution has but a few hundred words, but the Obamacare bill had 2700 pages, and tens of thousands of regulations and add-ons after it became law. The average bill has thousands of pages, and few if any who vote for it, have read it. The then Speaker said that we had to pass it so we could see what was in it. Were the Constitution followed, and 95% of the federal government eliminated, prosperity would quickly return. The Constitution doesn’t allow for a ’cabinet’ even, much less departments of everything, which squander any work, entrepreneurial, or education ethic we might have had at one time, but which like a cancer, are being eaten alive by oppressive government. But what about the poor, sick, and helpless? This brings us to the second reason.
In the animal fish, and bird kingdoms, the strongest, healthiest, and even most beautiful, reproduce and keep the line alive and healthy. Sick old, or weak animals die, and this is the way nature intended it to be. For a species to thrive, the females fall for the handsomest male, and vice versa. Humans act the same way. The richest or handsomest, nicest guys get the prettiest, smartest girls, and their kids are magnificent. All humans do the best they can to obtain the best mate they can find, and all levels of intelligence and appearances dictate who will get the best they can with their individual assets. It’s the natural way of nature. Nature sees to it that the millions of species survive to live another day, and those who can’t make it, don’t survive. 97% of all species that ever lived, are extinct, thanks to nature. Nature protects itself by the law of natural selection, meaning the best and strongest get the best and strongest mates, and the sickly, deformed, old, or weak don’t or can’t reproduce. Animals, fish, and birds die when they get old and feeble, but politicians pass laws to protect weak species, which should be allowed to become extinct, and make our lives and efforts sometimes impossible. Rather than allow weak, old, and sick humans to die, politicians’ welfare schemes make humans live in nursing homes and fill them with prescription drugs to prolong life for a few miserable years… for the votes of course. Females of all species, are very careful about who they mate with, because they know that if they mate with an inferior, sick, or deformed male, their offspring will have those characteristics. Human females, are the same! Nuf said?
Humankind always acted as nature does, until politicians realized that they could glom votes by providing help to those who should not have been helped, because of their weakness, age, mentality, or physical attributes. Let’s keep them alive, at the expense not of those who vote for it, but the rest of us. Taxes grew like topsy, as did the size of government. When there wasn’t enough coming in to pay the huge bills, the money was printed helter skelter, and without end, making the currency go down, which triggers all sorts of other things, which have and still are, ruining us. When dollars lose value, thanks to politicians voting endless largess from the government, prices go up, and wages go up to pay for the increased prices. This makes jobs and manufacturing go overseas, where wages are much lower, and not only wages lower, but electricity, taxes, raw materials, and shipping also are lower. Here at home, factories close and unemployment escalates. The jobless then are in trouble, but politicians are ready with two years or more of handout checks, which destroys the budget as well as the work ethic.
The milk of human kindness flows endlessly in the veins of politicos. Politicians can’t stand to see anyone that is poor, old, sick, stupid, or in trouble, when by just a vote, they can ’fix’ it for their constituents, while destroying the nation. I’ve said for years, that the nation can be saved and restored, even though, like all previous empires, no one was able to save them, be it the Greeks, Romans, or even the Brits, which have lost all credibility and solvency, and now are being overrun by Muslims. The average age of an empire seems to be about 200 years, and we are about 40 years overdue for the rubble heap, and are already the laughing stock of intelligent people around the world. The signs are all there. The dollar is in danger of not being the world’s reserve currency, and in just 15 years or so, gold and silver have quintupled. All prices have done so, and like gold and silver, prices will continue to go up for tangibles, as the dollar slides, and everything we buy, almost, comes from China or abroad somewhere, where wages are lower and government is less oppressive.
Being the world’s policeman, has cost us as much as has the welfare state, and politicians are always ready to fight and run the deficit up to the sky, while killing and wasting human lives in the process. We haven’t won a war since 1945. I’ve talked to many veterans of Korea and Vietnam, congratulating them on their service, but not a single one has ever told me why we were there. After our last victory in World War Two, the old milk of human kindness ran like a gusher through the arteries of politicos, and we rebuilt our former enemies! Not in history, has any nation been so stupid as to rebuild a conquered nation…its former enemy.
How is it possible to save us? Read some of my previous 1293 columns maybe, but basically, stop all federal welfare, and let the states do as they see fit. Fire 95% of bureaucrats and get rid of the bureaucracies for which they work. Free America from the rules, regulations, laws, executive orders, and bureaucracies. If a state wants to spend foolishly, have lots of welfare, high taxes, etc, that’s fine! The states will then compete as the Constitution intended, and like any retail establishment, let the best state win with the lowest taxes, least regulations, best scenery, etc. Competition is marvelous, and guess why people and industries are moving to Texas and Florida? They have no state income taxes! Why does industry move to China, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, or other places? Because America has the highest corporate taxes in the world! 35%. So corporations have their headquarters elsewhere and store their money elsewhere. How utterly stupid the politicians and government are!
Turning Washington D.C. into a ghost town, selling all the federal properties (for which they have no title or deeds for anyway), to pay off the national debt, allow no entrants into Medicare or Social Security, and refund all payments for those under 45. Have politicians read every bill before they vote on it, and allow no laws or proposed laws which violate the Constitution. This means we may have very brief legislative sessions, and a hefty return to vibrancy and solvency. It’s doubtful that it will happen, unless the Tea Party candidates get elected, but we can always hope. If corporate taxes were reduced to zero, and the budget balanced, the dollar would gain strength. If Americans were indeed free of entangling government, and had a stable currency, all sorts of wonderful things might happen. In the mean time, vote for and support any and all Tea Party candidates, protect yourself with gold and silver and pray for a better government. We’re entitled to one after Obama and Harry Reid!