When and where are we going to be able earn the money it takes to sustain economic growth? That is the burning question. Meanwhile, the Feds are printing billions of dollars. But printed money can only serve to temporarily prop up a failing economy while it devalues the money earned through honest labor.  Inevitably, the result will be inflation, which is far more devastating than a recession or a depression. As an example I will use Southern Rhodesia's recent  fall from 300+ years of prosperity. The disaster was caused by socialist who decided that white farmers were too rich. They killed some and chased the others out of  their country. It's now known as Zimbabwe, a poor starving country where,  in a few short years, a thousand of their dollars can't buy what one dollar could buy before they ousted the rich white farmers.

We are headed down the same sorry road. The con-job the government is handing us is criminal in its negligence of the public trust. They are printing money to keep up the appearance that we are still a prosperous society. It’s all a sham. The rich are being demonized and their businesses are being taken over by a pettty tyrant for the good of society. More and more goods are being produced in third-world countries while our government encourages us to spend more and more money on foriegn commodities. In fact, they send us checks in the mail so we’ll have money to spend.

Spending unearned money is like spending monopoly money because we aren’t earning it by working at jobs. It goes out of one government pocket into another. Because, it creates no wealth nor growth in business, it will eventually be useful only as toilet paper. To make matters worse, the earned money we spend on goods made in China and elsewhere doesn’t stay in this country. That money can’t be re-circulated through our banks to be available as loans, to build homes, start up new businesses, and to purchase inventory.

In trying to make lemonade out of lemons, the present administration tells us that a weak U.S. dollar is good for exports. “Our goods will be cheaper overseas,” they tell us. There’s only one problem with that theory: businesses can’t afford to produce the goods necessary to take advantage of this windfall. Meanwhile, the money that was supposed to stimulate businesses has disappeared down a rat hole.

We can’t produce the goods in America because it costs too much to manufacture them. Between unions, taxes, minimum wage, and mandated health care, employers can’t realize the profits necessary to reinvest in capital, nor can they entice wary shareholders to invest in them. It's all basic economics 101 stuff, but this administration thinks it’s illogical and they are convinced that capitalism exploits the worker. They don’t understand that in American capitalism, the employer/employee relationship is a mutually beneficial activity. Liberals are stuck in the 1900’s when Marx and Lenin correctly described the exploitive labor situation in Europe at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Those horrible conditions do not exist in America and if they did, we wouldn’t need the government to correct the situation. Labor can take care of itself without government backed unions. When unions (such as those that exist in America today) have the full force of the government behind them, it’s the same as being forced at gun-point to do their wishes. This mutually beneficial arrangement between socialist thugs and union thugs has crippled businesses. It’s the origin of the phrase “Socialist Union” as in USSR.

If we continue to destroy the environment that produces risk takers, entrepreneurs, and innovators, and if we continue to allow the ongoing corruption resulting in vanishing billions, we will be no better off than any banana republic. Individualism and liberties will be stripped from us because those are concepts that tyranny cannot abide.

Meanwhile, we impotently watch China replicate the capitalist system that we once enjoyed. We marvel at the exploding economic power they have produced in a few short years. We shake our heads as we learn that China has chastised our president and given him lectures on how to cut spending, reduce taxes, and to allow businesses to flourish and expand. We truly are a sorry country let by a sorry president elected by a sorry society. We no longer have the capability to earn enough money to live as free people without interference from a heavy-handed government. We are about to experience what “equality” is all about. Welcome to the world of communism where the misery is spread equally among all except those in the inner circle of the politburo in Washington, D.C.

Changes We Can Truly Believe In - 2010

The government is seriously contemplating several new taxes that allow them to spend on new government programs. Along with raising “sin” taxes on cigarettes, there’s talk about a “sin” tax on soda to help fight obesity, and alcohol to help fight alcoholism. And Congress is starting to make noises about a VAT (value added tax); a national tax on everything we buy i.e., another income tax. Americans are waiting in vain for Congress to start reversing this trend, to start making serious noises about curbing spending and giving us some tax relief. How does creating new sin taxes, or punishment taxes, and raising those already in place make good sense? As soon as the higher taxes succeed in producing the desired behavior, wouldn’t the government receive less revenue? Or do they want more people to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat themselves into an early grave just to raise more revenue? The problem is this; they never cut spending, thereby, creating a perpetual, cloying need for more revenues. In turn, government moves to come up with even more clever ways to “tax and fool” us into believing we are helping to divert yet another dire crises (obesity, global warming, 47 million people without health insurance, ad nauseum). When the government can’t raise revenue in added taxes, they resort to the printer.

While the government can mint and print more money, they cannot create wealth. Wealth can be described as ownership of material things such as property and other items like stocks and bonds that are relatively scarce and have a high social value. Money, in and of itself, is not wealth unless it is invested or used to create things of value. All the printed money in the world is useless if you can’t buy anything with it. Unless money is generated through the production of goods and services, it is not useful to the maintenance of a free market capitalist society. In the same way, whenever money, earned by labor, is confiscated by the government and redistributed to non-productive government programs, the free flow of wealth is interrupted and society is the worse for it. Bailing out failing companies with tax-payer money is not a fruitful use of money.

A free society cannot long exist while the government incrementally and systematically schemes ways to confiscate more and more the wages of working people and redistribe that money to non-producing government programs. The only return on government spending of that hard-earned money is a growing sector of society dependent upon those who work, being looted by an armed government and forced to forfeit an ever-increasing portion of their wages to the nurturing and support of free-loaders and moochers. We are no longer working to support our own families, businesses, and communities; we are working to support an increasingly dependent society. We are like sheeple who placidly sacrifice self to the “greater good of society” while ignoring our own responsibility to first serve ourselves and then others. Socialists and communists view our attitude as self-serving and selfish when, in reality, it is the essence of the Judeo-Christian work ethic. It is the work ethic that made this country the most economically powerful country on the planet.

When people start to believe that it is better to work for the “world” and for “society” instead of for themselves, they surrender to a kind of death sentence of drudgery, boredom, and constant service to those who demand more and more. Freedoms are sacrificed for the “greater good of society,” and once a freedom is lost, it can only be regained by blood, sweat, and tears.

 Now is the time to take a good look at where we are as Americans and to decide if this is what we truly desire for our ourselves, and our children and grandchildren. Look long and hard at the options and when you enter the voting booths all across the nation, vote your conscience, not for what seems expedient. Think about the future of this country and whether we want ourr children to work under the yoke of communism where even the freedom to think is no longer “good for society.” Think about whether we want them to be free to use their minds to invent new things, to start their own businesses, to pursue their own studies; or do we want them to live out their lives for the “greater good of society”? Should we leave future generations with no choice of medical treatment and force them to accept sub-quality treatment from a totally corrupt and ineffective government system? Think about whether we want our children and their children to be forced to ride public transportation if they want to go to the store (if they will even have stores like we have today with their mind-boggling assortments of goodies and necessities).

The stories of Russian women coming to America during the cold war era, entering American grocery stores, and crying are true. They could not believe that such places could exist in the world. I hope our future generations will not have to go through that kind of experience.  

The year 2010 is our time; the time to derail the bullet-train that is rapidly leading us further into Communism. Don’t forget, the ruling classes in all communist countries believe in democracy for themselves, but autocracy for the masses. Consider how this has been going on for some time now. Congressmen wouldn’t think of educating their children in public schools or submitting themselves to a public health care system, but it’s good enough for the masses.

At the voting booths you and I can end the punishing “sin” taxes and out-of-control spending. Do we have as much moxy as the International Olympic Committee. Can we just say “NO” to Obama? We can shock the world by showing the true grit of the American people. Vote for those who will get the government out of our health insurance and work to end the corruption and inefficiencies in the existing government programs, especially public education and Medicaid and Medicare. Now those are “changes” we can truly believe in.