The greatest man made societal and economic collapse in history is unfolding
before our eyes. This Journey to the collapse of the developed world's civilization
and empire began over 100 years ago during the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
with his subversion/betrayal of the constitution of the United States and creation
of a privately owned banking and currency monopoly called the Federal Reserve
and the creation of the income tax to fund the beginning of the Confiscationism
of the progressive socialism we see today. In exchange for a monopoly on money
to multi century banking cartels which allowed the country to be run for the
benefit of the banking systems. In exchange for unlimited funding for government.
Private property rights began its road to demise at that time.
In Part
I of this series we covered the transformation of the monetary
system from sound reserve backed constitutionally mandated currency system
to what now has become completely unsound Fiat currency and credit system.
Money has changed from a system for storing wealth, purchasing power
and ones labor for the future to a confiscation scheme run for the benefit
of Banksters and socialist progressive government. Do not miss this as
UNSOUND money and Reserveless banking is the master thread and foundation
of all the chaos unfolding in the world today.
In PART
II of this series we thoroughly covered how the ACCOUNTABLE
LOCALLY controlled education systems have been highjacked and transformed
into FEDERALLY CONTROLLED UNACCOUNTABLE public school MONOPOLIES designed
to create sheeple and Useful Idiots ripe for exploitation. The Locally
controlled school systems that created the most prosperous country in
the history of man are now nothing more than PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST indoctrination
centers. Designed to mentally cripple the futures of our children and
stunt their ability to create a prosperous wealth creating economy. It
is now an insidious Potemkin educational system used to create morally
and fiscally insolvent citizens, bereft of histories lessons, contemptuous
of the thoughts and ideas which created our exceptional country and its
burgeoning middle classes. Useful idiots are unable to produce more than
they consume, live prudent and productive lives and DON'T have the BASIC
knowledge needed to build a prosperous and independent life upon. Both
previous parts of this series are critical foundations to this edition:
DON'T MISS THEM. Now onto part III.
As Inflation has eaten our standards of living alive, and public school monopolies
have created curriculums that spew out toxic waste and call them educated our
society has become DIVIDED. Those that have a proper classical education versus
those that don't. It is as simple as that. This next illustration by Pew research
shows the PROGRESSION of the split between socialist, progressive democrats
(the takers, educated to be socialists) separating ideologically from OLD school
Conservative Republicans and independents (the makers, trained to be self-sufficient
independent of government) as the school systems produce their USEFUL IDIOTS:
Look at the CHASM growing. Notice how as we move forward from 1979 the divide
grows and grows. That is the propaganda expanding as successive generations
enter and exit the public school systems building and EXPANDING constituencies
of socialist KNOW NOTHINGS. I promise you will find big age disparities as
well as the young skew socialist and the older generations and a few younger
students learn more classical educations head into the conservative direction.
Today's students are now taught Government dependence is now an acceptable
LIFESTYLE, not something to be avoided or shameful, that personal failure is
not their fault. Therefore they believe they are the MIDDLE class and by showing
up are entitled to the rewards that go to those that work hard, take care of
themselves, live a prudent lifestyle, save, and serve others the most. That
has been the recipe for personal success which has served the developed world
so well. NOW NONE of these virtues is taught in today's schools, thus students
no longer give these things ANY THOUGHT or work to achieve them unless taught
so by their parents... Now after almost half a century since the Dept. of education
was created legions of citizens are on one form or another of Government assistance,
relies on it to supply or supplement their incomes which they can no longer
earn due to general incompetence, inability to produce more than they consume
or economic weakness caused by the economic policies of centrally controlled
federal and state governments:
Look closely at the breathtaking climb of those on one form of the dole or
another. They are sucking wealth out of the US economy rather than being wealth
creators in the private sector. The President and his supporters in Congress
have exploded government DEPENDENCY since supermajorities were elected on his
coattails of "HOPE and CHANGE" in 2008. The social safety net system is and
has been overwhelmed with responsibilities the government has chosen to PROVIDE.
This is part of the plan of the president and his supporters to collapse the
economy in a socialist dictatorship and it is called Cloward-Piven
strategy. Look it up.
It has simply become a lifestyle choice for many people who choose to live
on the fruits of others. Food stamps, welfare, Medicaid, Obamacare, section
8 housing to name a few. Recent studies put the benefits received by a family
as high as $60,000 dollars a year. Why work as they are taught in school it
is OK to be on the government dole. National bankruptcy looms as you will see
in the next part of this series. Those charts are over 2 years old and the
legions of DEADBEATS are much higher at this point. There is no shame connected
with government dependence as children are taught it is the norm, not their
fault and are entitled to it.
"There are 46 million Americans on food stamps. 44% of people in the
US pay no federal income tax. Only 83 million people pay taxes, which means
that each working person supports about three other people. I would like
to meet the three I support. Perhaps they are very nice. But how long can
this situation continue? Where is the tipping point?" - Bert Dohmen
What would we do if these people had to stand in old fashioned SOUP lines
rather than receive a debit card in the mail box? Soup and benefit Lines would
EXPOSE the shameful behavior and OUTRAGE of poor governance and the failure
of personal character that this represents; instead it is hidden from the public
by modern paperless money and electronic benefits of one sort or another.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will
herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin
These people no longer work for a living they vote for it. The president calls
them the MIDDLE CLASS! Tells them they are playing by the rules and should
support him in robbing others to deliver on the falsehoods they were taught
in PUBLIC schools. You can see them behind him at every photo op they create,
clapping at his COMMON SENSE. They believe they are OWED a good living for
supporting progressive government.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish
and he'll eat for a lifetime."
The PUBLIC schools QUIT teaching people how to fish and created people dependent
on government for their futures. They know nothing else and have been taught
that capitalism is the boogeyman and they are incapable of providing for themselves.
They are AFRAID of being independent and self-reliant and look to the government
to cradle them in its arms. In reality capitalism is the ticket to escape from
their government masters.
"It is not an endlessly expanding list of rights --- the "right" to an
education; the "right" to health care; the "right" to food and housing.
That is not freedom. That is dependency. Those are not rights. Those are
the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle." - Alexis
de Tocqueville
These people BELIEVE government is there to SUPPORT THEM rather than
they supporting themselves. They believe the impossible dream that they
can live at the expense of others rather than provide for themselves. They
have not been taught the things they need to KNOW to support themselves!
ON PURPOSE!
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily
subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary,
when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they
will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." -
Samuel Adams
Once the public has been impoverished by DECADES of unsound money and their
living standards slip away along with their ability to see, understand and
solve problems. And they HAVE BEEN CRIPPLED by an educational system that DOES
NOT TEACH. They become RIPE for MANIPULATION through economic desperation,
misinformation and FEAR. They want security and believe government is the key
and guarantors of it rather than the BARRIER and PURVEYOR of it. They have
been taught this since birth, believe it, and vote for it as they know nothing
else.
The Third element of a CREATING a Something for nothing Society and useful
idiots is a MAIN STREAM media that reports misinformation as facts and BLACKS
OUT or censors critical reports of public or private (crony capitalism and
banksters) wrongdoing.
Throughout history powerful empires have held the media in their hands, the
Politbureau of the former Soviet Union, Xinhua news of China, The ministry
of information of Nazi Germany are just a few examples. In the US and Europe
it is known as the MAIN STREAM MEDIA. Controlling the thoughts and minds of
the public by elites is as old as man. The main stream media used to be quasi
monopolies on information before the internet. These are very powerful tools
to manipulate the unthinking part of the public. Look no further than modern
day Russia whose economy is failing, living standards are declining and the
public victimized by official cronies of the kremlin. They support Putin's
expansionism and aggression by record margins of up to 80%. The Chinese are
no different, nationalism in the face of the boogeyman they don't know. Chinese
media is tightly controlled and censored to keep ideas and broader information
for evaluation by the public OUT OF REACH. They manipulate the minds of the
useful idiots presenting information in a manner that is favorable to them
and omitting anything that is not. The minister for public information for
Nazi Germany sums it up nicely:
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of
public opinion" - Joseph Goebbels, Minister for public information,
Nazi Germany
In the United States the media has been tightly controlled since World War
II, only the invention of the Internet has brought widely disseminated alternate
(true) views to history and current events. Before that is was all officially
approved VERSIONS of past and current events. Now investigative journalism
is virtually extinct and bad news BLACKED out or not reported in any way. It
is all politically sanitized by editors who do not agree with your need to
know to better conduct your affairs or who to vote for. Government malfeasance
is now only reported by accident whether you look at the national debt, politically
correct economic reports, the hoax of climate change, the state of government
finances, regulation, inflation, all are now politically correct reports rather
than reflect the facts which may be inconvenient to the powers that be and
cause them trouble in the next elections.
Recent reports of Facebook painting the reports going to users to manipulate
their thoughts and impressions was greeted with great uproar. Those techniques
have risen to an art form by the main stream media and practiced daily over
the last half century.
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind." - Jim Morrison
Most news now is slanted as a positive view of the future regardless of the
facts, or FEAR to chase people into the safety of government arms. The main
stream media is OWNED by the same elites which control the banks and government.
Once a powerful barrier to misinformation and falsehoods it has now become
the purveyors of it. And due to the poor quality of their educations the useful
idiots cannot sift through it to SEPARATE the truth or lies.
Make a middle class into SERFS and slaves to government and banks in one
form or another. Create desperation for growth and personal progress in their
lives.
Standards of living are in free fall properly measured in purchasing power:
I defy anyone to show me a government statistic that is an accurate MEASURE
of REALITY. GDP, Consumer prices, Unemployment, inflation, wages etc. ALL are
POLITICALLY CORRECT and practically INCORRECT GARBAGE and compiled to do only
ONE THING: HIDE the economic MISMANAGEMENT and FAILURES of CENTRAL PLANNERS
in the DISTRICT of CORRUPTION also known as Washington D.C. Government Ministers
of MISINFORMATION. And the main stream media present it as TRUTH.
Taxes and Fees have risen to confiscatory levels throughout the developed
world!
Including, sales, and Vat taxes in Europe, fees, and other taxes on most activities
humans do taxes range from 40 to 70% in Europe and the United States. With
the people making median wages paying virtually nothing and the top 25% of
income earners mostly all taxes collected. The more you produce the more that
is confiscated for redistribution to the Useful idiots and Something for Nothing
Society's. Robbing peter to pay Paul and collect his VOTE.
"When people who earn more than the average have their ‘surplus,'
or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who
earn less than the average have the deficiency, or the greater part of
it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must
sharply decline; for the energetic and able lose their incentive to produce
more than the average and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive
to improve their condition." - Henry Hazlitt
UNSOUND money allowed government to COVER UP poor economic policies and
to grow in excess of economic growth, while yoking the private sector as
DEBT SLAVES to the banking systems!
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary,
too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas
Jefferson
Based upon the debt to gdp chart above it now requires about $12 dollars
of new debt to create one dollar's worth of GDP. The GDP is for one brief
instant in time but the interest owed on it compounds against the borrowers
aka taxpayers and our children. Why is this issue virtually unreported by
the main stream media? This is how the bankers take the public's money with
their powerful lending operations and transfers it to themselves. The banksters
who printed it out of thin air and lent it to them. In REAL terms incomes
are not up even 24%, they have declined almost 80% in purchasing power terms
since 1971:
That is why the middle class is desperate for wage and income growth. Literally
the public has become rats on a spinning wheel. Working, working, working
and getting nowhere but poorer. Since they no longer know what money is and
why it can't be printed out of thin air they accept their government and
banking system torture in quiet desperation. Since 2000 the gap between real
inflation and reported has become especially pernicious:
Most people also don't understand that inflation is an unseen TAX, and that
it represents a theft of their labor and savings by the Federal Reserve and
the governments and commercial banks its system SERVES. But it is felt by the
PUBLIC when going to the grocery store, buying a car, paying for insurance,
clothes for the kids. As you can see on a compounded basis, purchasing power
of the money of the US has been murdered by printing press and runaway fractional
reserve banking. The official MEASURES are poorly masked politically correct
lies. Used by progressive Government, banksters and the Federal Reserve to
eternally goose the economy thorough ultra-loose money and interest rate policies. Now
let's look at the other side of the coin (expenses for major expenditures)
as a result of unsound Money:
Are your incomes up these amounts since 1978? Do you think that people who
FEEL the purchasing power of their money DISSOLVING might feel like a frog
in slowly boiling water? Become more desperate for income progress in their
lives. This is socialism and unsound money working on the public and useful
idiots in particular. This is the RESULT of UNSOUND money losing its purchasing
power; it is an illustration of living standards in FREE FALL since August
1971 (see part
I< of this series) when money WEALTH was confiscated and IOUs (money printed
out of thin air) was substituted. This creates SERFS and DEBT slaves of the
public at large and transferring the fruit of their labor to themselves. This
is the face of Leviathan government, banksters, FAKE MONEY and CENTRALLY PLANNED
socialism destroying capitalism. If competition was really allowed and pre
1971 semi sound money was still circulating these prices would not be running
away to the upside. In addition the government is on the buy side and PRICE
is no object if the money goes to crony capitalist enterprises and inflated
union wages.
This is how government, crony capitalists and the banking system LOOT the
PUBLIC at large of the CURRENT and FUTURE fruits of their labors. In the something-for-nothing
society you can still have these things your fathers paid cash for, but to
do so you must borrow the money from banks which PRINTED the MONEY out of thin
air, who lend it to you at interest rates which cause the price YOU PAY to
be MULTIPLES of what you borrowed through the magic of compounding. This is
the picture of the public being yoked like an ox to the fractional reserve
credit system and the transfer of wealth from you to them.
What a disaster for the citizens of the United States. This is the picture
of the slow boil the public has been subjected to; notice how incomes and savings
PEAKED shortly after Breton Woods II in 1971. This is when credit creation
was substituted for wealth creation to create growth. Do you think these people
are desperate for change, sound money and a return to a prosperous and growing
economy and incomes? Those are the CHAINS of DEBT being placed around the citizens
of the United States and the keys and beneficiaries to them are in the BANKING
SYSTEM. All condoned under the auspices of Washington DC. Interest rates once
called USURY are common today in credit card lending, pay day loans, and revolving
credit of all kinds. Condoned by your representatives in government who get
campaign contributions for not legislating predatory lending away. The banksters
control them lock stock and barrel.
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In closing, we covered how the citizens of the developed world have been STRIPPED
of their wealth through the destruction of the money they are paid and store
their wealth in thinking it is money. They don't know what money is so they
don't know why they can never get ahead. Told inflation is 1-2% when in reality
it is near 10% a year. Their bank accounts have the same balances as before
but it always buys LESS. It is the transfer of wealth from themselves to the
government and banking systems which fleece them like the sheep they have become.
As Keynes put it in part
1 of this series, debauch the currency debauches the society. Now over
the last 40 years they have been turned into TAX and DEBT slaves as a result
of this moral and fiscal bankruptcy of leviathan government and the banking
systems. SLOW TORTURE! It has been a long process and fed to the public in
little doses just as the proverbial frog in hot water as it heads to boiling.
What was just an ever hot bath over the last three decades for the evolving
something for nothing societies is now becoming BOILING water and social unrest
can be expected to rise RAPIDLY as we enter the endgame of these MAN MADE policies.
These broad societal and social trends are SET in STONE and can be expected
to continue. They are unstoppable at this point. Anyone (politicians like Ronald
Reagan, the tea party, etc.) trying to change the course of this societal suicide
will be professionally or personally crucified by the powers that be and media
that control our world. The useful idiots and something for nothing societies
are their UNTHINKING mobs, ripe for manipulation. Only Mother Nature, god and
the teachings of Charles Darwin can defeat them at this time. They have never
failed to defeat this particular type of insanity in HISTORY. It collapses
under its own weight as history repeats itself. This insanity will only be
ended when an APOCRYPHAL crisis unfolds, overwhelms the elites and there is
no alternative than common sense. Just as Deng Xiao Ping did when he discovered
to get rich was glorious.
In the next final issue of Useful idiots and the Something for Nothing society
will be covering the other aspects which add up to slowly unfolding societal
and economic collapse and SUICIDE throughout the developed world today. Why
its continuation is assured and all the elements not covered yet. This is Austrian
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