Money and Jobs

In 1971, then President Nixon, suspended convertibility of the US Dollar to gold, thus putting an end to any backing of the US Dollar. In 1970 the USA had a trade surplus with the world of approximately two and quarter billion dollars and Gold was priced at $35/oz. By eliminating any backing, the value of the dollar was totally in the control of the privately owned Federal Reserve banking system. No longer bound by a commodity the government was now free to fund any and all operations by just having the Federal Reserve print money. Yet one must see the moral issue in creating something from thin air that is perceived to have value and then using this instrument to acquire things that have actual value. This is the basis of fraud and is why counterfeiting currency is illegal (Except for the private Federal Reserve) On top of having the Federal Reserve create the money the government would pay them interest on the money they created. With the newly created money government could fund all the projects and wars it had desired to do but previously could not afford. National debt has risen from $390 billion in 1970 to over $9 trillion now (not including unfunded obligations). In 1972 Henry Kissinger and Nixon opened trade with China, who was more than willing to accept US dollars with which it could buy oil which was priced exclusively in US Dollars. 1972 Wal-Mart is listed on the NYSE.

Throughout the 80s government would test the ability to print money, increase debt and export dollars around the world. With the amazing logistics of Sam-Walton and Wal-Mart the Americans were mostly able to avoid the high cost of inflation by exporting these created dollars to China. An indication of how much the dollar has actually depreciated is the current $736 price of Gold. Yet America has not reflected this type of inflation due to the exporting of the excess printed dollars.

Trade deficits reflect the amount of goods and services we have imported versus the amount of goods and services we have exported. Trade deficits have consistently risen from 1971 on with 2006 being $758 billion. So Americans get goods at very cheap prices in exchange for printed dollars that were created out of thin air. This sounds great right?

The result of the dishonest money has Blowback. If we can print money and get goods that we want. Why trade goods for what we want? And since we no longer need to work to create goods, and we can just export dollars then why not have China, who is a willing partner, do all the work? To an amazing degree, this is what has happened over time. Thus converting America from a self reliant nation with a strong manufacturing base to a predominantly service based nation. The blowback from the dishonest money that seemed so great is the loss of manufacturing capability and jobs in America. As well as massive dependency on foreign nations.

Exporting of USA jobs is NOT the result of free trade but is directly the result of dishonest money. As a citzen of the United States I will do everything in my power to reinstate honest money and do away with the Federal Reserve System. Thereby immediately reestablishing trade balance and giving the American people the ability to compete in a global economy without jeopardizing American Sovereignty via WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and the NAU “managed trade” deals.

McBamaLand

Obama's First 100 Days

John McCain had a very obvious chance to reverse this trend. The vast majority of the people opposed this $700 billion bailout(+$150 billion "sweetener"). But did McCain come to bat for conservative government? No he did the exact opposite and promoted another trillion in deficit spending. Is that conservative? He chose big government over the people of the USA. John McCain is a partner in bringing us to a socialist state. Obama is terrible and McCain is terrible. There is no lesser of two evils there is only evil.

John McCain would appoint Joe Leiberman to his cabinet, so how conservative a Supreme Court Judge would he appoint? John McCain won’t agree to even bring home troops from even one of the 132 nations to defend American borders and reduce cost. John McCain cosponsored the bill with Ted Kennedy to give amnesty to all the illegal aliens. John McCain and Obama both support Georgia being in NATO, McCain even employs Scheunemann the double agent himself. They both support giving USA sovereignty to UN, WTO, NATO etc… John McCain was rated even worse on second amendment rights than Obama by Gun Owners of America. John McCain could simply be Obama’s running mate.

But be happy, we have a pattern for a solution for this type of problem!

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (Declaration of Independence)

The people still hold the power, who is brave enough to simply resist McBamaLand? Stop funding the government. Taxation without representation is happening right now. We are entitled to redress of grievances and it is the duty of a true patriot that loves liberty to stop funding those that wish to destroy it. Who amongst us has the bravery to stand as Patrick Henry stood and declare, "Give me liberty or give me death?"

Bush Reagan Goldwater Cheney and Ron Paul speak wisdom!

The Libertarian Alternative - Harry Browne (2005)

MLK and Ron Paul

Martin Luther King Jr. about Vietnam

And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to understand and respond in compassion, my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. I speak not now of the soldiers of each side, not of military government in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now. I think of them too because it is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution until some attempt is made to know these people and hear their broken cries. Now let me tell you the truth about it. They must see Americans as strange liberators. Do you realize that the Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945, after a combined French and Japanese occupation. And incidentally, this was before the communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. And this is a little known fact, these people declared themselves independent in 1945, they quoted our Declaration of Independence in their document of freedom. And yet our government refused to recognize, President Truman said they were not ready for independence. So we failed victim as a nation at that time of the same deadly arrogance that has poisoned the international situation for all of these years. France then set out to reconquer its former colony. And they fought eight long, hard, brutal years, trying to reconquer Vietnam. You know who helped France? It was the United States of America, it came to the point that we were meeting more than 80% of the war cost. And even when France started despairing of its reckless action, we did not. And in 1954, a conference was called at Geneva, and an agreement was reached, because France had been defeated at Dien Bien Phu. But even after that and even after the Geneva Accord, we did not stop. We must face the sad fact that our government sought in a real sense to sabotage the Geneva Accord. Well, after the French were defeated, it looked as if independence and land reform would come through the Geneva agreement. But instead the United States came and started supporting a man named Diem, who turned out to be one of the most ruthless dictators in the history of the world. He set out to silence all opposition, people were brutally murdered merely because they raised their voices against the brutal policies of Diem. And the peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly rooted out all opposition. The peasants watched as all this was presided over by United States influence, and then by increasing numbers of United States troops, who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused. When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace. And who are we supporting in Vietnam today? It's a man by the name of General Ky, who fought with the French against his own people, and who said on one occasion that the greatest hero of his life is Hitler. This is who we're supporting in Vietnam today. Oh, our government, and the press generally, won't tell us these things, but God told me to tell you this morning. The truth must be told.

Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"

“Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant”