DC’s Fake Poverty Line: 40.8 Million People. Real US Poverty Line: 178.5 Million People
Since DC jettisoned the gold standard and imposed fiat currency in 1971? The US dollar is down in value 87%.
Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Since DC jettisoned the gold standard and imposed fiat currency in 1971? The US dollar is down in value 87%.
What makes The Elites think they will remain exempt from the the AI fate they are inflicting upon the rest of us? Methinks AI has further blinded them with hubris.
The United States Constitution severely restricts what the federal government is supposed to do. By specifically delineating what the fed gov is supposed to do.
An alleged bulwark against the fifty states overspending like the federal government? Has been the old saw: “The states can’t print money.”
The US owes $38+ trillion. Stop right there. That amount of money is insurmountable – and un-payback-able.
The US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2024 was $29.2 trillion. So the debt is 130+% of that. That alone is enough information to write off the US.
And as the government consumes more and more of our money? It ain’t the Elites that are crowded out of the pool. It is you and me.
In his television show “Yellowstone,” creator/writer Taylor Sheridan delivers some sage advice via his character Rip: “Life is plenty hard. You don’t need to help it.”
My high school senior year (Class of 1989) history teacher asked us what we thought was the single largest problem facing the United States. I said the federal government’s debt. I was the only one who did so. The teacher rolled his eyes when he read mine aloud – as if it was the dumbest of all possible submissions.
Most of Wikipedia’s editors are anonymous. How do you sue them? You can’t sue their host Wikipedia – because of Section 230. As lawsuits have proven time and again to be the only tool we have against the legacy forces arrayed against us.
As Ronald Reagan rightly observed: “The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” He knew that – a half a century ago.
Government is a shotgun – not a rifle. Raising the cap gains rate – would inflict a LOT of non-rich-people collateral damage. Like tens of millions of retirees cashing out stocks, selling their homes, etc – in order to, you know, live.
US consumers have yet another hyper-interest-inflated debt to throw on the pile. Atop their hyper-interest-inflated mortgages, credit cards, cars, student loans,….
Let’s examine why the Founding Fathers deemed such things as Freddie and Fannie unconstitutional: Their poisoning of the private sector.
The Constitution bestows upon the Congress the power of the purse. Congress is supposed to use that power to pass actual budgets. Each with 12 separate appropriations bills, each debated and voted upon. This acts to limit government.
DC’s Cronies place their hands on pieces of paper. And DC traces them with law they write. Everything inside the hands represents the entirety of those businesses and their practices. And DC makes it all legal.
DC lies for the same reason all people who lie lie. To advance their actual interests – without acknowledging their actual interests.
DC is now a $7+ trillion per annum Titanic. And you have a panoply of icebergs from which to choose. About all of which DC is lying to US.
You are living your life. You know things aren’t great. Your dashboard is lit up like a pinball machine. And the Institutional Obfuscators are all asking you a modified version of the classic question:
“Who are you going to believe? Me – or your lying wallet?”
There are only a vanishingly few instances where Big Government advocates are honest about the awful policies upon which they insist. Cigarettes are one such instance.
Way back when, Big Tech was just beginning to reorder its strategy of total conquest. In DC, that meant massively increasing their lobbying budgets.