Genocide wrote:
The less government we have in our lives the better off we are period. There are things that government should be involved with and i welcome that.
The control that is being put into place by our current administration is creating a country were everyone will be dependent on government to survive. It's border line slavery if you ask me.
This.
If it's something that needs to happen, the people need to make up their minds as individuals first. They then need to come together in local government make up their minds. Then the local governments can represent the people in state governments and the state governments in the Federal should the issue be one that we all need to make up our minds on. The same thing applies to international issues.
Our current government is out of control and destroying our freedom and responsibility.
Freedom is a great power and much like in Spiderman, with great power comes great responsibility.
Our problems today arise from the laziness and blatant stupidity of the masses who would rather drink from the teet of their chosen entertainment than actually ensure their prosperity and that of their countrymen (not to mention fellow human beings).
More government will not help anyone. More acceptance of our own responsibility will help everyone.
It's easy for some hippie F*CK on the street to shit in your face over the fact that those wonderful shoes that keep your feet covered all day were created by impoverished children in sweatshops for an extremely low price and then go home to watch Survivor while thinking to yourself, "Oh well, there's nothing that can be done about it." That's easy mode in life. And most people F*CKIN' can't get enough.
It takes a pair of balls between your legs to say, "That's fucked up, let's do something about it."
The best part though is that you don't even need government to fix that problem!
Corporations run on money. If enough consumers get together and decide that the shoe company doesn't deserve their almighty dollar due to the treatment of those children, the shoe company either cleans up it's act or goes out of business.
But, instead of hypothetical and faceless shoe situations, let's concentrate on something more pressing and close to home.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution states irrefutably that "The Congress shall have Power...To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures."
Currently, the money supply of the United States is controlled by the Federal Reserve which is a private corporation out of the hands of the U.S. government.
The Fed was created by Congress and President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 to create and regulate a standard and steady money supply with their primary goal set as stopping inflation for the United States in the hands of a private company (in business for it's own prosperity) with a board of directors selected by the government. Today, inflation still runs rampant.
Three years later:
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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men * * *. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world.
-Woodrow Wilson, 1916, reference: United States Congressional Serial Set, p100. reference: "Repeal the Federal Reserve Banks" by Rev. Casimir Frank
Today, we have a massive supply of fiat currency which is created solely off of a promise to repay the loan.
Let's say the United States needs money. It "borrows" one hundred million dollars from the Federal reserve at a hypothetical interest rate of 7%. This means that the initial loan of $100,000,000 becomes $107,000,000 that must be paid back. Seven million dollars must simply come out of thin air. Money that does not exist must be used to pay back the money borrowed. That is a logical impossibility.
On top of that, any bank in the United States with between $9.3 million and $43.9 million held by their accounts can create $3 out of thin air for ever $1 they have on their accounts.
Any bank in the United States with over $43.9 million in their accounts can create $10 out of thin air on top of every $1 they have.
Let's say you bank with the second type. You deposit $1000 dollars. This suddenly enables your bank to give out a loan of $10,000 to me at an interest rate of (again) 7%.
I must pay back $10,700 which was created out of thin air to assist in running up inflation and bring us ever closer to a collapse of our economic system simply because the men and women elected to our governments are willing to turn a blind eye to it and because our countrymen are either too stupid to know or too apathetic to do anything.
The real kicker though is that while our money supply is infinite, the resources we must harvest from our planet to sustain the need for this money supply are not.
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits, to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
-Sir Joseph Stamp, (President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain)
"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
-Henry Ford
TL;DR - Go commit suicide, you worthless sack of flesh.