This is an educational handout to explain how things really
work. You won’t see this on the evening
news or taught in government schools.
-We are told that government is to care for us and provide
jobs and run the economy.
-But it is supposed to be simply a referee, not a player.
-The role of government is to protect our rights, not to
provide our every need.
-If the government gives to me, it has to take from another
and violate their rights.
-In simple democracies, 51% of the people can vote to steal
from the 49%. This is why we were
founded as a Republic, supposedly restrained by a Constitution to prevent mob
rule by the majority and protect each individual.
-The Constitution was designed to limit government power,
but now every excuse is made to ignore it and expand government power, and
extract more wealth from us.
-We are told we need to give up our money and freedom to be
safe, but we end up losing both our freedom and our safety. Programs often are for show only to make us
feel safe.
-Both parties want our money and freedom, but make it appear
as though they are different. They
promise change, but the welfare and warfare continue.
-Most people vote the party line even if it damages the
country – they just let the party tell them who to vote for. So instead of voting for what’s right, most
just follow along. Some avoid voting for
good candidates they say are unelectable – self-fulfilling prophecy.
-The major parties have ways to make sure candidates are
selected who will keep big spending going, and who won’t change anything of
significance.
-The media also choose to ignore or marginalize candidates
who are for less government.
-Government takes money from us in ways most don’t know
about.
-When government can’t take enough through taxation, they resort
to borrowing, or having the money printed by the Federal Reserve (The Fed), the
private central bank.
-When more dollars are created, each dollar becomes worth
less, so it takes more to buy.
-This is why prices are continually going up, so our purchasing
power is stolen.
-Prices should actually be going down, due to increased
efficiency and productivity. We should
be able to work less, but as soon as we get ahead, the extra is taken.
-Those in charge do leave us crumbs, or give us handouts to
keep us happy.
-Not only does the Fed steal to fund the U.S. government,
but it funnels money to prop up banks or businesses who took too much risk, or
spent too much, including foreign banks.
-We are talking tens of trillions of dollars handed out –
more than Congress spends.
-As more and more bailouts are needed, dollars will be
created at an increasing rate, and hyperinflation will result, making money
worthless.
-A dollar from 1913 when the Fed (private bank) was created
is now worth about 2 cents.
-In addition, the Fed is keeping interest rates very low to
stimulate the economy, but that encourages debt since interest on loans is
cheap. The excess borrowing contributed
to the housing bubble and collapse. Low
interest rates also mean less saving, because of poor earnings on savings
accounts.
-The Fed creates bubbles with easy access to money, and then
when the bubbles burst, as with housing, they prolong the recession by throwing
money around to keep those who overspent from going bankrupt. Debt must be liquidated before the economy
can recover.
-Businesses will take excessive risk if they know they will
be bailed out (moral hazard).
-Because states and counties cannot print their own money
(actually have to follow a budget), they look to the federal government for
grants and funding which is supposedly unlimited. With strings attached to the handouts, the
feds get more control.
-There is no free money.
Money taken from the economy for government programs means less
available for jobs. Create few
non-productive jobs and lose more real ones.
-You cannot increase the wealth of the nation by giving more
money to non-producers.
- Because so much government money is thrown at certain
areas like healthcare and education, prices go up much higher than
inflation. Then fewer people can afford
them, so government spends even more to help alleviate the problem they caused.
-Charity once did a much better job of taking care of the
poor. Now hundreds of billions are
wasted on government programs like Medicare through fraud.
-The war on drugs, like the prohibition on alcohol, has been
a huge failure. It has resulted in more
crime both here and in Mexico
-Government should
only care if harm is done to another, not someone smoking a joint in their
living room. Harming oneself, as in
overeating, should not be criminal.
-There is big money to be made in the war on drugs: more
police, lawyers, judges, prisons, etc.
We’ve spent a trillion dollars so far, with little effect on drug supply
or use, and drugs have become more potent and dangerous.
-Our country’s founders tried to limit our war-making by requiring
a declaration of war by Congress. We no
longer follow the intent of that rule.
Undeclared wars last longer.
-Government policies contribute to many of our national security
problems.
-We are told that Iran
-Leaders on both sides use threats to rally the people behind
them – false patriotism.
-Our CIA helped overthrow an elected Iranian leader in 1953 (Operation
Ajax) so the British could get their oil.
Our CIA then trained their secret police, SAVAK, to brutalize the
people. They revolted in 1979, taking
our hostages and installed religious leaders.
-We then supported Saddam Hussein when he invaded Iran Kuwait
-A PR firm was used to create propaganda against Saddam,
including the fabricated story that Iraqi soldiers were throwing Kuwaiti babies
out of incubators.
-We built bases on the Arabian
peninsula , and destroyed Iraq
- We imposed sanctions which Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright said was worth it, even though it resulted in at least 500,000 Iraqi
children dying.
-The Golden Rule says do unto others as you would have them
do unto you. We wouldn’t tolerate
another country treating us as we treated these countries. We would retaliate. We won’t let another country build bases on
our soil. We would consider sanctions on
us an act of war and would retaliate.
-So not surprisingly, on 9/11 there was retaliation by men
from Saudi Arabia
-And so we reacted to 9/11, and initially went after al
Qaeda. But within a few years we went
to war with Iraq
-Again, propaganda was created from doubtful sources,
including an Iraqi engineer who lied about Iraq
-The long-term costs of the Iraq
-Osama bin Laden is dead, but we are still in Afghanistan Afghanistan
-Yes, Osama bin Laden was once our guy, too. Many times we support a leader or dictator
only to have them later become our enemy.
-We provide defense for Europe
and Japan
-We give aid to countries, with strings attached, so we can
control them, such as Israel
-Foreign aid is usually wasted by rulers or used against the
people. “Foreign aid is taken from the poor people in rich countries, and given
to the rich people in poor countries.”
-Eisenhower warned against the military-industrial complex,
to which we give trillions of dollars.
Congress spends money on things the military doesn’t even want.
-Attempts to audit the military have failed. Billions/trillions are lost and wasted.
-We spend on defense 5X times more than the next country on
the list. When is it enough? And much of it is spent on the type of
military no longer needed.
-Leaders use fear to get us to give up our freedom and
privacy. Government agencies are spying
on our internet and phone calls. We are
groped in the airports. And now we can
be arrested and held indefinitely without a trial if we’re suspected of being a
bad guy.
-Drones will soon be looking through our windows. Research NDAA.
-The terrorists wanted us to be afraid and give up our money
and our freedoms and we are letting them win.
We expect bravery from troops, but not from ourselves.
-Admiral Mullen said our debt is our biggest threat. The interest on the debt is now as much as we
spend on defense, and it is growing.
-Politicians use fear to get us to support their programs
and wars. But our biggest fear should be
the collapse to come from the unlimited spending.
-Spending increases are snowballing. Many say we cannot cut because we will lose
jobs or benefits, but they will end anyway.
Mathematically, there is no way they will continue.
-Social security funds are immediately spent, so youngsters
must pay current beneficiaries. And
there aren’t enough youngsters to pay for baby boomers.
-Those calling for limits are called names (kook, nutcase,
extremist) and told they are haters.
Less education $ : hate children, less foreign aid $: hate Israel America
-When politicians talk about cuts, they aren’t really
cuts. Each year the budget calls for
automatic increases of say, 10% over the last year. So if it INCREASES 9% more than the year
before, we are told it’s a cut, because it did not increase as much as
originally planned. So even “conservatives”
grow government, despite talk of cuts.
-The other trick is to propose a balanced budget in 10 or 20
years – never happens.
-The longer we support the spending, the harder the crash
will be.
-Join your neighborhood group that demands more freedom and
limited government.
-Do not count on either of the major parties – they are both
in bed with special interests that want your money and your freedom.
Quotes:
-Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force;
like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment
should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)
-It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from
its government. (Thomas Paine)
-Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
(George Washington)
-When the people find they can vote themselves money, that
will herald the end of the Republic. (Benjamin Franklin)
-A democracy is nothing more than
mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the
other forty-nine. (Thomas Jefferson)
-A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves
largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always
votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury
with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy,
always followed by a dictatorship.
(Author Unknown)
-If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not
lost. You can still call him vile names.
(Elbert Hubbard)
-We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute
security.(Dwight Eisenhower)
-The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
(H. L. Mencken)
- The average man does not want to
be free. He simply wants to be safe. (H.L. Mencken)
-It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is
to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. (James Madison)
-Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of
death. (Otto von Bismarck)
- Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none. (Thomas
Jefferson)
-Power is usurped from the people, first by implementing
fear, then it is maintained by slandering as 'unpatriotic' those who refuse
submission. (Ramman Kenoun)
-The natural progress of things is
for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
(Thomas Jefferson)
-If the American People allow private banks to control the
issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all
their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent
their Fathers conquered.(Thomas Jefferson)
-Love your enemies. Blessed are the peacemakers. Do unto others as you would have them do unto
you. (Jesus Christ)
-Good intentions will always be pleaded for every
assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution
was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are
men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise
to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. (Daniel Webster)
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Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in
any country. (Goering at the Nuremberg
-Presidential oath of office: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I
will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will
to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the United States."
