I think the word “Aid” is a couple hundred years old or maybe more, but it means just that, as in “First Aid,” or help. Churches and charities have always given aid to the needy, but at FDR’s election, the word took on an additional meaning, and that was to simply garner votes. Aid was removed from churches and charities, because charities always got recipients to do something for their aid, such as do some chores, clean, or in some way work for their aid. FDR started the “CCC,” or ‘Civilian Conservation Corps’, but that lasted only a few years. When governments took over aid, it was free, with no work required. Look what it has done to us.
Old people need aid? Can’t care for themselves? Let’s force them to save with a government program we’ll call “Social Security.” That was the beginning. It was supposed to put the forced savings into a lock box which could never be touched, except to be dispersed upon participants’ old age, to help them through their last years. A Ponzi scheme it became. There is no lockbox, all the dollars have been put into the general fund. Social Security is an insurance actuarial impossibility and a fraud. Old people, for hundreds of years, took care of themselves, saved, and looked out for their future by plans, thought, and logic. Social Security got FDR elected, and it has gone downhill ever since.
Poor people can’t house themselves? Let’s build public housing, and destroy neighborhoods simultaneously, which self-destruct in 20 years through vandalism. Let’s let a woman give birth to as many as a dozen babies from numerous sperm doners, with an increase in her check with every illegitimate birth. Her offspring will undoubtedly turn out as did the mothers’ and sperm doners’, and be a drain on law enforcement.
People can’t feed themselves? Let’s give them free food stamps, or whatever they’re called now. Let’s give aid for their prescriptions, heating and transportation. Let’s let all those needing aid, get free health care by not allowing hospitals to charge for their care. We’ll increase taxes. Let’s give the poor Medicaid and foster a whole new industry of nursing homes, where government will pay for them to rot away in senility. Can’t get a job, because of a lousy education? Build more taxpayer funded public schools to further kids’ non-education, lack of reading, and math scores. Foreign nations need aid? Let’s give them hundreds of billions, whether they like us or not. Let’s send troops overseas to help them In Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and costing trillions of dollars, while we watch our dollar’s value plummet. Doesn’t make sense to save in dollars because their purchasing power is going down? They used to be made of real gold and silver and paper was backed by the same.
Can’t afford a home? Politicians will tell Fannie and Freddie to finance your heart’s dream with no money down and no credit report, in many instances. Sugar and dairy farmers need aid? We’ll provide price supports for them. Hershey will move their factories to Mexico where sugar is half the price here, thanks to price supports. You need an increase in your Social Security? Sorry, we spent all the money, and there never was a lockbox. We’ll have to raise taxes to pay our bills. Cut spending? Can’t do that, because the election is coming up and we need the votes of all the people we feed, house, care for, and subsidize. They’re all Democrats? That’s life I guess.
It’s like a horror movie, having watched it all unravel, beginning the year before I was born in1934. Roosevelt was elected for the first time with his Democrat Congress in 1933, and it continued for three more terms, ending in WW II. I watched Cokes go from a nickel to? Hershey bars go from a nickel to? Streetcar and bus fare go from a dime to? It’s all the same candy and beverage you know. It’s the ‘money’ that has lost value. $20.67 gold to $1800? It’s the same gold. We’re turning our population into the likes of a domesticated pet or animal. Put them out in the woods to care for themselves, and they’d starve or be eaten quickly. Stop the endless welfare and make Americans care for themselves and save for their old age, or other needs, and they’d starve or die quickly. Politicians, with their endless vote getting welfare schemes, paid for with printing press money and high taxes, have destroyed Americans. Here’s another truism. “Whatever you tax, you get less of, and whatever you subsidize, you get more of.” This applies to us. Former hard working, responsible, patriotic, self-sufficient Americans have gradually been overrun and out-voted by the welfare hangers-on, who are destroying our once, “Land of the free and home of the brave.”
The Biden administration has raised inflation to 8.3%, and the end is no where near. Better place your surplus assets into gold and silver. The low prices on Friday 9/17, might not be the same as when this column is put up on Monday 9/20.
Don Stott- don@coloradogold.com