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This is the 3rd in a series. Part 1 is here http://thedrpete.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what-must-be-said-and-americans-must-understand-part-1-in-a-series/
Part 2 is here http://thedrpete.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/what-must-be-said-and-americans-must-understand-part-2/
More will follow.
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Government giveaways are always first government takeaways. Government has no money until it either takes it by force from some people in the private sector or prints new money, thus inflating the dollar, which is taking money from everyone. It may just be worth pondering what the late Henry Ford once said. “Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the American Government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.”
Those receiving should be mindful that those taken from will stop doing what they do, so the receiving has both a ceiling and an expiration date. History is a great teacher, and that is what has always always happened. Liberty and initiative and hard work have no ceiling and the only expiration date is the one set yourself. History teaches that as well.
If you think someone is holding you down or holding you back, think again. They’re too busy trying to succeed themselves to worry about you. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines.
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As someone was asking, “Who is John Galt?”
Are you thinking, Cream of Wheat, that the quote about Galt would change minds of those who are now gimmees and moochers?
>>”Government giveaways are always first government takeaways.”
Amen!
Glad you seem to have liked that line, CW.
I agree with the premise above. But, we have to clearly understand some hard and cold facts:
[1] The wording of the Constitution has been changed since 1950. Our rights are being altered by the SCOTUS and by executive orders. The HIgh Court has the ‘right’ to redefine what those words mean. Original intent is not applicable now.
[2] The low classes bolstered by illegal aliens have the vote in the majority if you include leftists. There was never an intent to give everybody the vote in the US and the word democracy does not appear in our founding documents. Adam Smith warned us about giving the vote to the low classes as all they will vote for is money for themselves. Nobody from Jefferson to J. J. Rousseau to Hobbs all the way back to Aristotle wanted such a vote. Democracy of that form has always failed.
[3] We are terminally mired in debt with the average Federal debt liability for those making more than about $43,000 running past $250, 000. [only 72 million workers who pay taxes and $16.4 trillion dollars in debt load] In 4 short years we will be in the same fiscal position as Greece was when it went down. They think we can print money forever [Bernanke and Krugman].
[4] The quest by the left is now for the wealth held by the ‘savers’ through their bonds, equities, land and other assets. There is no where else to get money. The rich will escape this, as usual, leaving the middle to upper middle classes to bear the debt levies and taxes and confiscation. The notion of ‘haircuts’ for bond holders has been established in the GM case and in Greece. Debt forgiveness is the new trend. So, our 401(k)s, Roths and other accounts are subject to extra taxes or attachment to Social Security or other phony Ponzi Scheme.
Thanks, ryckki, for joining the discussion. At issue here is whether and to what, if any, extent this and the first two essays in the series can change minds.
The wording of the Constitution, sans amendments, says what it said in 1787 and 1789 and means what it meant in 1787 and 1789. Many today misread it, placing new contemporary meanings in 18th-century words and phrases. What results is misunderstanding by the ignorant and obfuscation by the clever connivers. The Supreme Court has duties, but no rights.
This philosophy is correct in many quarters such as the Bork Group, but cannot be supported by the current administratoin. The Warren Court found new rights and other things and twisted words and meanings to suit their leftist goals. A reading of Bork’s book “The Tempting of America” has numerous examples how magistrates and SC types have altered the meaning of the original intent.
Obama himself lectured in Illinois that the Constitution was defective in that it only restricted government and did not delineate very many rights.
The SCOTUS created its own co-equal power base with a single ruling in the Marbury v Madison case [Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)[ where they took on powers previously not granted. Jefferson had a fit. There are more outrageous examples such as Griswold v Connecticut.
Every person on this planet from 1800 to the present knew or knows that private guns defeated the Brits and that 2A was a way for the private sector to stay armed in case of more government abuse. Likewise, 9A and 10A have been essentially ignored as the government takes on powers given to the states. The militia requirement argument fails as there was never such a group and the guns were in private hands the whole time. Indeed, the question of who might form a militia is open to question and not debated in the courts.
As such SCOTUS is out of control and Roberts has already ducked his responsibility in allowing Obama Care as some tax even properly places in the House. The government was never granted the power to force citizens to buy certain products.
The Supreme Court, clearly, has duties, along with massive rights of legislation and executive privilege. It could easily become a Star Chamber and take most of the power away from either or both branches. I think Roberts just did that.
Arguing from first principles or from the original documents will NOT convince the left to change their minds. They are on a progressive roll like Lenin thought he was on and where the EU is stuck now.
And, coming up, when the next fiscal crisis hits [I predict bond bubble] the quest for wealth will be on in full so our 401(k)s and Roths might be merged into Social Security or other failed government program just to be ‘fair.’ The lefties on the Court would love that.
We were warned about giving the right to vote to the low classes so now we face what is happening in the EU with un-elected officials in Brussels making up rules for taxes and fees and banking regulations. They are trying to extract punitive and destructive fees from the wealth source of the EU and that is the London banking system.
The debt is catastrophic and soon the government will either have to print money willy-nilly or tax those who have it at very high rates. There is no way to escape the damage from the debt so we must retreat to tangible assets or gold or jewels to get away from bonds and paper which may become worthless in a few weeks or months.
rycK
With due respect, ryckK, I have difficulty understanding you comment because I cannot make sense of “philosophy”, “correct”, “new rights”, “meaning of the original intent”, why I care about what Obama lectured, “massive rights of legislation and executive privilege”, “giving the right to vote” (There never was and isn’t now any “right to vote”).
Actually, as to “militia”, it’s defined in US Code Title 10, Section 311 as essentially the entire body of law-abiding citizens.
My error. Should have said meaning. The meaning has certainly changed.
I used the broad term philosophy to describe the notion that the original meaning of the words used in our founding documents is correct . Bork was an advocate of that. Apparently we drift apart in the appreciation of the central context of what Obama and the progressive left are doing. The states, originally, determined voting all qualifications until the post Civil War amendments and then the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its amendments happened. The ‘original’ intent was to let the states do what they wanted. In Maryland I understand illegal aliens can vote, according to Ann Coulter in her county, and that is certainly a right. California has the ‘honor system’ where absentee ballots and such go unchallenged by illegal aliens such as the race in Orange County a while back. Certain precincts apparently had a 100% turnout with votes only for Obama. This is Chicago politics at its best.
Let us not get mired in grey semantics. The point of the Obama crowd is to radically change the US into a place were the low classes have more voting power than the upper classes. He does not care how that happens. They will open the doors to any and all votes of any kind that may support their causes. They will attempt to suppress other votes that fall against them such as the military as Al Gore did in 2000 and what we saw recently. The low classes have a firm and absolute ‘right’ to vote and the proof of that would be to try to prevent certain groups from voting. Here the words of the Constitution are not adequate to describe the current status. The vote has been corrupted and we will see the consequences of that soon. SEIU thugs who intimidated voters at polling places in Philly, caught on camera, were not prosecuted. This was a reward for their loyal union service and deliver of votes to Obama. The prosecution and investigation of ACORN, a fraud, was blocked at every available turn by the Obama Administration. We have only the House and about 4/5 of a seat margin on the SCOTUS to protect our rights. Things are going to get rough in the near future.
You should be more concerned about the debt and the spending. We cannot vote out the 40% deficit even in the House or even hold the line on the debt. The current debt is intractable and it grows at 8% of GDP per year starting now at about 104%. What Obama embraces and what he sees on the horizon is the system in the EU where sovereign state’s citizens were either given no opportunity to vote membership in the EU or when they voted against that [Ireland I think and maybe Belgium] they were overruled. That is a dictatorial form of government now espoused by Barroso and his un-elected friends. There are many who want the dollar to fail or a new fiscal crisis to happen so they can announce that ‘capitalism has failed’ and put in something different by force.
Democrats have never been ashamed of ballot box stuffing, corruption, lies, deceit or any other crime. JFK was elected because the sheriffs in West Virginia picked up all ballot boxes and turned them in for some vote.
The original tenets of the Constitution are being corrupted in practice as our society bows to the low classes for political power. What the intent or wording was in the beginning cannot stand against rogue courts who legislate from the bench [Sotomayors' joke] and misconduct by juries.
The rabid left do not give a hoot what the Constitution says if anything there blocks their path to dominance. We are past that. They will either change the meaning to suit them or ignore the words. The progressives think the Constitution is a living document that must change with the times. That means a hard shift to the left.
rycK
I think, ryckK, that we are on the same page. We agree, except for “semantics”.
Words mean things. Over time and with ignorance near-ubiquitous, those meanings morph. To understand the U.S. Constitution, therefore, requires use of a circa-1780s dictionary. Because a majority of nine former lawyers in black robes have contrary agendae doesn’t change what the supreme law of the land is.
There is truth, absolute truth, that which is. A careful and dispassionate rational and logical analysis of what can and cannot make sense in nature’s order is the sole means to arrive at understanding of said.
” To understand the U.S. Constitution, therefore, requires use of a circa-1780s dictionary”
This is an error. The lefties do NOT care what the original intent or definition of the words meant. They want to change things. Obama said the Constitution is full of restraints on government, unwise and needful of major changes, so as to delineate new ‘rights.’ That blows away your premise. SCOTUS will follow Obama, period. Read Bork on this matter.
“There is truth, absolute truth, that which is. A careful and dispassionate rational and logical analysis of what can and cannot make sense in nature’s order is the sole means to arrive at understanding of said.”
Since politics is based on persuasion and not truth or facts this cannot apply to modern US politics or that of the EU for that matter. Your comment is correct only in selected quarters of our society. It does not apply to politics. Sorry.
If you insist, ryckki, in allowing mentally-flawed progressives/liberals/leftists define “truth” and “reality”, then you’re comments are not worth discussing. You’re ceding all standing.
Doc, I know some of those on the receiving end of these government giveaways and they couldn’t care less that what’s being given to them must first be taken from somebody else. Nor does the possibility that those being taken from will somehow stop doing what they do, ever enter their pea brains. And they have been thoroughly convinced that neither a ceiling nor an expiration date actually exists. I fear that none of these folks will learn the lesson of history that you speak of, until this country is made to hit rock bottom. Which kinda sucks really, since I’ll most likely be made to loose everything I’ve worked for just so these morons can be made to finally see the light.
Even worse, Dan, is that when the ceiling and expiration date have been met, when those from whom all has been taken quit the game, when misery is equally shared by all, the gimmees and moochers will still remain clueless as to what happened.
Even worse than THAT, Dan, the progressive/liberal intelligentsia will assess the situation as result of too little progressivism or a mere fixable problem with plan execution.
Not a pretty picture. And what’s worse than that, at this stage of the game is there any chance of being able to avert what now appears to be so certain?
Replying to Dan: The ‘poor’ or more aptly the low class have been taught that evil rich driving massive corporations have exploited them and their ancestors so it is just and right to take back some of that and, parroting Obama, ‘spread it around a bit.’ Fully 1/4 or all our citizens cannot compete in even the lower rungs of the economic ladder as they may possess some of these attributes: disease, drug abuse, criminal activity, sloth, ignorance, stupidity, or chronic alcoholism.
Then, we have 2 million people in the slammer and some 5-8 million felons who did hard time still living and probably still interested in jobs or at least income, illegal or not.
We have several million drug addicts and that is evident from the vast number of people being fired from middle level jobs at Wal-Mart, Super Fresh and other big stores like Target. The drug testing precaution is now essentially 100% for all new hires.
There is the sub-culture of the narcotic addict, sex workers and other vices and they have jobs of a sort but not exactly career oriented. Those who fail in those trades will probably not be well suited for a real job. [What did you do for the last 12 years? Oh, I was a hooker and peddled crack to get by.]
Then, there are the black markets and double dippers who collect 99 wks of unemployment while working in lawn, roofing or other services.
Then, we have the proud graduates of our ‘schools’ particularly in the inner cities where ‘teaching’ is some kind of job mill with high pay, grand pensions and such but cannot turn out a graduating class that has less than a 50% drop out rate and just a few % headed to college.
When you add this up it is not difficult to arrive at some 15 million people [15/305 ] or 5% of the entire population that will never work in the traditional sense. But these people all have a ‘right’ to welfare, food stamps, etc. All they have to get all that is vote for Democrats. The U6 DOL unemployment rate is about 14% now amd U6 counts everybody.
Add to all this some 13 million illegal aliens who do work and work well and some of those jobs subtract from the citizen’s ability to find a good job.
Add to this generous welfare payments and phony social programs like Head Start and Job Corps and the like. These programs do essentially nothing.
These are major structural defects in the system and the government of the US is not exactly trying to fix any of them. Poor teaching, sloth, crime, drugs, prison and other factors create millions of people who are not fit to work even if they wanted to.
But, we have to support them anyway. And that support buys votes from Democrats. And the debt to GDP is more than 104% and rising 8% per year. Bad news. We are going bankrupt and the low classes are in control.
For what it’s worth, ryckK, I have guessed that 75% of our population can succeed and that there is no “low class” (versus “the poor”) at http://thedrpete.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/thoughts-for-99-ers-from-a-once-homeless-kid/
1/4 or so cannot compete in our society for a variety of reasons. HS graduation levels act as a filter to prevent some 1/8 or more of our citizens from getting a diploma. The Bell Curve [ by Richard J. Herrnstein political scientist Charles Murray] explains this in detail. There is a distribution of cognitive skills in our society and many groups have lower averages so they cannot compete on a level basis. The ‘poor’ are the low class based on income. This fact is unacceptable to the liberals. They insist people are ‘equal.’ They are not.
There is no way to fix this and leftist antics such as sending HS dropouts to college are a farce.
“For college students who ranked among the bottom quarter of their high school classes, the numbers are even more stark: 80 percent will probably never get a bachelor’s degree or even a two-year associate’s degree.”–Plan B: Skip College By Jacques Steinberg
More details at:
The New York Times Advises: Plan B: Skip College. They Missed Plans A, C and D.
http://ryckki.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-new-york-times-advises-plan-b-skip.html
Revised 1.22.2013 Most Townhall links are broken.
The bottom line, as I see it and as you guys have indirectly discussed, is that we’re going through a period in this country wherein the rhetoric from the Left pretty directly matches the rhetoric used in 1917 by the Bolsheviks. Look how that turned out.
It worked fairly well for 74 years. A few dissenters had to be liquidated or sent to the gulags for retraining, but what the heck.
How did the French Revolution work out?
“… the rhetoric used in 1917 by the Bolsheviks”
Or, the French Revolution. We still hear about the phony ‘social contract.’ Most of that is now ‘social justice’ or money for minorities.
Many still think the USSR was a fine experiment and it should be tried again and again until they get it right.
The ObaMessiah being a shining example.
Interesting points and much obvious truth spoken by ryckki, Dan, and thedrpete.
It was Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes who said, “the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” Actually, he said, “We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.” (Speech before the Chamber of Commerce, Elmira, New York, 3 May 1907)
Justice Douglas reports that Hughes also said, “At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.”
The problem with “progressive” judges is that they subscribe to the shortened version of Hughes’ famous quote.
In Randy Barnett’s “Liberty Amendments,” he proposes a fix to that problem. “Article [of Amendment 10] — [Neither Foreign Law nor American Judges May Alter the Meaning of Constitution]
The words and phrases of this Constitution shall be interpreted according to their meaning at the time of their enactment, which meaning shall remain the same until changed pursuant to Article V; nor shall such meaning be altered by reference to the law of nations or the laws of other nations.”
(SEE the drpete post of Januray 6)
In answer to the question posed, and specifically addressed to me by drpete, the gimmees/lower classes will indeed not listen to, care about, nor change their minds in response to the quote about John Galt. But, Bernard Arnault, Gerard Depardieu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Phil Mickelson, may. And when joined by many others who find ways to avoid being plundered by the government and the dependent classes they have created and now cater to in return for their votes, when their is no wealth left to plunder, THEN they will change in response to their changed condition.
It was not the moochers who listened to John Galt, it was his fellow wealth-producers.
Excellent post.
I finally agree with ryckki. Well-damn-said, Cream of Wheat. As to your impacting Bernard Arnault, Gerard Depardieu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Phil Mickelson”, et al, my question to you was result of their not being my target audience with this series.
“If you insist, ryckki, in allowing mentally-flawed progressives/liberals/leftists define “truth” and “reality”, then you’re comments are not worth discussing. You’re ceding all standing.”
This is the way the system works. This logic allows the left to twist the Constitution into any shape they desire. I do not follow liberals in anything. But the facts are that they are actually defining “truth” and “reality.”
We cannot hide in the 18 century and deal with progressives by quoting Jefferson. They could care less. They follow Saul Alinsky not George Washington. They listen to Soros or Krugman.
I cede nothing willingly; I just cannot prevent the left from debasing the currency, spending us into financial oblivion, opening the borders to flood the ballot boxes with the votes of illegal aliens and boosting the debt until the system crashes. Note that they have ‘economists’ like Paul Krugman that have never published an op-ed in the NYT in 8 years that omits [1] a bigger government, [2] more spending and [3] higher taxes. This mentally-flawed vision of ‘economics’ is adored and celebrated all over Washington and take as pure truth. That is how “truth” and “reality” are defined in current progressive politics.
The population now recognizes that they can vote for Democrats and get bags of money, education, jobs, food stamps, 99 wks of unemployment monies, drug treatment, ‘training’ and other items because they are in the majority. After promising to not raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 we have put back the 2% payroll tax and now Senator Schumer wants to not pass any budget unless it includes even more taxes:
““In our budget that we will pass, we will have tax reform, which many of my Republican colleagues like. But it’s going to include revenues,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on NBC News’s “Meet The Press.””
There is no limit to how much they can spend or tax. They have full control and now define the system as they wish ignoring any version of truth, fact or anything else. The House Republicans act like lap dogs or privy cleaners.
Let us start listening to the left and putting less emphasis on what the situation was 250 years ago.
TRUTH = tax, tax, tax…….regulate regulate regulate…..spend spend spend.
rycK
Okay, rickki, I get what’s wrong, and I hear your spews vis-a-vis it. What, ryckki, do you plan to DO about it? What would fixing it be? What’s your end-game? How would you define getting it right?
Given that the power resides with my [perhaps our] social and economic enemies my current position is based on avoidance. [1] Avoid taxes in order to deprive the opposition of funding, [2] Resist any and all pressures presented by the left, [3] support, with all means, people who join in the fight against liberalism and its evils.
We should use the Alinsky Formula first and ridicule any and all members of the Democratic party [I am a JFK Democrat, by the way] in any possible instance. They have some very inept people in their ranks like Joe Biden who has serious problems and a poor history as a law student and was a plagiarist.
We should, also, following Alinsky, hold the rabid left to their ‘promises’ [that they will never keep anyway] to show others that they are phony. We can start with Biden’s ‘watch my lips’ on the $250,000 no extra tax pledge that just fell apart like a rotten melon. We can mention, every day, Obama’s failure to control unemployment, lower the deficit, close Gitmo, address immigration, excess spending, union corruption, association with crooks like ACORN and his failure to address entitlements. We can recite his lies verbatim to all we meet. Anything he promised that was unfulfilled can be mentioned and described as a lie. We can point to the debt and its terminal consequences in all transactions in stores, banks and elsewhere.
We can send letters to Democrat reps and senators demanding to hear how they can address the deficit and spending and then point out that taxing the rich cannot make up for even $100 bln of the $1200 bln deficit. We should ask them where the rest is coming from and IF they are going to cut ANY government spending other than the military.
We can hope that our Republican House members find some spine somewhere.
We should dump bonds and acquire tangible assets like equities, gold and similar items in preparation for the next fiscal crisis which surely will happen given the terminal 40% deficit we have and its addition of 8% more debt yearly to the current 104% of GDP. We should never buy anything the government is selling except postage stamps. We should not purchase equities in corporations that are favored by the government such as GE, GM, the phony solar companies, Amtrak and more.
We should direct all purchases of goods and services away from the unions, the government or any ally of the left. Certain stores should be boycotted and girlcotted. Other stores [Papa Johns, Wal-Marl,Chick-fil-A should be patronized].
We should ridicule and expose the problems of electric cars and the tyrannical grab of bond holder’s assets in the phony GM debacle that has lost money for the taxpayers despite promises by many it would make a profit. Never buy a GM car. Never buy an electric car. Never follow government guidelines in purchases unless it makes financial sense. We can ridicule the windmills [$0.53 per kWh!!] and numerous failed solar companies that cannot remain solvent without massive government bailouts and subsidies. We can labels these companies as leftist cronies who bribed Obama for subsidies.
We can point out that we are headed down the same fiscal path as Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and now Cyprus into default and bankruptcy. California, Illinois, New York, Maryland and some other states will certainly go bankrupt without gifts from the Federal government and will go directly into more debt.
If in business we should never hire a liberal unless it is quite necessary. When choices as to firing we should use political positions as part of the employees’s suitability to remain in the organization. Never partner or buy on invest in a labor union-dominated business unless you intend to tear it down and sell off the pieces. Never partner or enter some joint venture with known leftists. Spread the word that Warren Buffett has come to the end of his career and his business recommendations are just political quips. Quote him often on his inflation comment.
We should compose blogs and other forms of communication that outline, highlight and expose the left for what they really are: parasites. We should buy the books and magazines of conservatives and patriots and spread around their messages. We should abandon certain groups like the AAUW, United Way and support the Boy Scouts and other groups instead.
Places like California [I am 5th generation 49-er] should never be visited and other places that are in the red state group should be visited often.
Those are just starters. We need to start more organizations like the Tea Party and join marches to object to numerous government programs and their manifold failures. The lefties become uneasy when they see people in the streets objecting to them. That is their way.
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“What’s your end-game? How would you define getting it right?”
That question is now put to drpete.
What is your path forward???
I’ve explored hereon a second contract with America (political), a constitutional convention (ala Randy Barnett), my becoming a short-run benevolent dictator, secession by a couple-dozen contiguous states and the forming of a new confederacy, and more.
Given discussions also hereon, I’ve concluded that the Fat Lady has sung and exited stage right, that America is toast, destined to become a 21st-century version of 20th-century Argentina.
Mine now is the path less traveled. I’m isolating and insulating. I’m focused on friends and family, on the beauty of sunrises (See this morning’s in the header) and sunsets, mountains and valleys. In short, ryckki, I’m resigned.
Any ‘resignation’ of that order must be temporary and only directed at the current government. They cannot control everything and we have family and future offspring to help by providing guidance, funds and encouragement. We can resist, wait and/or move away.
Cutting thru the intrinsic cynicism I detect here I would support part of your dismal outlook by saying that the Fat Lady has spent the milk money. She has also let the kitchen help rework the budget for the entire household.
But, you could offer some comments on how we deal with a $16.4 trillion dollar debt that is 104% of the GDP and our growth is only about 2% of the GDP. The debt hikes monotonically some 8% per year now and that will increase with more ObamaCare and other follies like Carbon Taxes. At this rate we will be in worse shape than Greece in less than 5 years.
I consider the debt intractable and expect a bond bubble which will be severe since the Fed cannot keep printing money and buying securities forever. I have a good record of picking market tops and sometimes bottoms so I predict that IF the 10 year bond rate soars beyond 2.5% then an avalanche will happen and bonds will be dumped wholesale. A lot of Londoners agree with me. Here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/9822372/Money-printing-amounts-to-theft-from-our-children.html#comment-776134572
That could be worse than 2008.
Are you resigned to permanent debt or do you have some plan for us to get out of this mess without a cleptocratic government episode that will debase our currency or perhaps a revolution?
You will not find the answers to this problem in earlier writings using the help of some 18th century dictionary. Adam Smith, Von Mises and Say have been tossed in the trash. We have Krugman and the shrunken remains of Keynes to solve problems now. We can now spend our way out of debt. Maybe we can erase the debt by minting trillion dollar platinum coins where plastic would be sufficient. It would only take 17 or so to get a fresh start.
I am retired but not resigned. The new prospects may be in Asia. The US and EU are collapsing. IF I were 30 years younger……………gone.
rycK
As I’ve noted hereon before, ryckki, I had an island in the Pacific off Panama picked out five years ago. But, my wife will not move.
Thus, I will try to live the best life I can while communism spreads all around me, and while government takes my stuff.
I share that. I know that your vision of what America has been and could be in the future depends upon a change in government ideology and some vacating of some obnoxious court decisions. Some event like a depression or a revolution or other catastrophe might turn things around .
I think I can agree with your exact wording on communism and government taking away my stuff. They took a lot from me and even sent me to Viet Nam. That delayed my college by several years .
Remember, there are very few that have wealth on the globe and we all know that governments will attempt to grab as much of that as possible. They always have wonderful plans for the poor. Once upon a time, nearly 1/2 of the world had Marxist dictators in charge and they controlled all wealth and those systems collapsed. The ruble collapsed and all the saver’s money went down by 1/1750 in a week or two. This could happen here too.
The parasites in Washington and at the UN know exactly who holds the housing, 401(k)s, Roths and other assets as much of this is either public knowledge or in contained in tax returns which are not exactly secret. That suggests that certain tangible assets might be acquired and placed in spaces out of sight.
Good luck and now on to my next tactical project: I am wondering when Hillary will wash her hair again.
rycK
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