Our mission, as God-fearing and God-loving patriots, is to defend this Constitutional Republic and to increase its greatness, in all good things and ways, by using our voices in free but courteous speech, by discussing the happenings of the world and coming to a profound understanding of those things, and by sharing and promulgating these Truths on both this platform and others.
How about a irrelevant and unimportant deep dive into a totally disrespectful, yet, funny statement used in many endeavors, specially sporting events.
Definitely too much information, even if the subject matter is fully addressed in the first five minutes or so of the video.
Then there is this…
That was a bit strange… and very wet.
The next one is definitely up my alley.
Pepé le Pew with an interesting twist…or thud.
Which leads to…
That’s all folks!
No, really, that’s all folks!
We have reached the end of my run as an author at this time. Some of you are probably dancing in your skivvies and muumuus while shouting “good riddance” in your kitchens. Others may have a more subdued response because you ignored most of them. 😄
It’s all good.
I have been grateful for the opportunity Wolf provided to express my thoughts about past experiences, interests, people, our nation, Christianity, history, politics, business, health and so on. It has been chicken soup, therapeutic, for my soul. To all who spent your time reading and contributing your thoughts – thank you! It is encouraging to authors to know others are willing to spend time considering the subjects and presentations. Please continue to do so with all authors and supporting the efforts of Wolf. I have been humbled and learned much from all QTree members within our community. Being here has led to a better life for me and my family. Besides that, it is just a great place to hang out!
I am not going anywhere. I will still be reading and posting on threads many days. This place of online friends that Wolf has provided means a great deal to me. I just need more time to do other things of importance at home and in the community.
Life Lessons Learned
My mission here is complete for now. My assignment was to help others. That’s it. In so doing I relearned an important lesson that is really important for all of us if we are willing to consider it.
Luke 2:46
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. (ESV)
Regardless of His age, why would the Son of God spend His limited, precious time on earth sitting with the religious teachers of the stubborn, defeated people God chose to bring a light into the world; much less listen and ask them questions? He obviously knew far more than they did. Other Biblical text goes on to say that the religious teachers and others who were present were amazed at His understanding and wisdom as a child.
Some folks suggest it was His status as being both a young human and God and that may be part of it. It seems more likely to me that He was doing what better teachers do; listening and engaging to develop relationships and understanding with those around Him; building credibility of sorts. From that “lesser” position He might have hoped to influence their thoughts and beliefs by asking questions that had the benefit of guiding the participants.
Which led me to,
Proverbs 20:5
The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw itout. (ESV)
Most people keep their innermost thoughts and beliefs to themselves. It takes a person with a sincere desire to listen to understand and care to bring them out of that tightly guarded place. Coincidently, that is Habit #5 in the late Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” – Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.
In a sense, all of the 7 Habits that Covey provided are Biblically inspired and supported in my opinion. They also work well in this life in many applications. I personally benefitted because I bought into them at one of the lowest periods in my life at 40 years of age. I saw the parallels with them and The Word… and sold out. I felt the contents of that book and subsequent training was provided for me personally as I was retooling spiritually as well as in my career.
Everything changed for the better. I learned I really needed to listen and care about what others thought and had to say, not just give it lip service. I needed to ask more questions and truly listen instead of being self centered and bull headed in my positions. The Lord used this changed attitude and approach to improve my ability to separate the wheat from the chaff as well as when to linger and when to depart in relationships. He imparted more of His understanding, wisdom and discernment. He obviously knew I badly needed it because I was a flat zero in that regard up to that point in my life. From there I learned to help others by asking leading questions for their thoughts instead of “telling” others what they “should” do, say or think. It helped my career blossom. It changed me spiritually and hopefully made me a better husband, father and friend.
I AM
This awakening led to acceptance deep within my being; not just of the words I read on pages from an old collection of books that some non-believers call fables. We know that the Hebrew term of YHWH is synonymous with I AM WHO I AM, which was stated by God Himself to Moses in Exodus 3:14. Knowing that led me to the following. All scripture from this point on will be in the King’s English (KJV) some readers prefer.
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
I learned the truth that Jesus really is God come to earth. He is The Word as The Word states. It became time for me to personally and spiritually mature in my own life before I could help others better understand who He is; which is The Way, The Truth, and The Life stated later in John 14:6. He stated in that scripture that He is the only path to God the Father.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Well, there it is again.
This opens it up to the next leading question. Do you want to live eternally with a gracious, loving God in heaven? Jesus taught all of us how. However, that came after He listened to mankind first. Then He would ask leading questions; the ones you read throughout the New Testament of the Holy Bible. The answers led to the key truths of our existence. Yet, many miss those two little words of identification that provide His full authority as God. To fully understand it you need to know deep within you the meaning of Peter’s response. From Matthew 15:15-16,
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And once again…I am.
That was a leading question from the Creator and Savior of the universe that led to the equally great understanding and acknowledgement of who He is as well as the standing of Peter (us).
To conclude these observations, there is this from the back of The Book – Revelation 1:8,
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
You either believe Jesus or you do not. If you do not, just know that you do not receive the benefits of the relationship without the acknowledgement and acceptance of the forever binding contract (covenant) with YHWH that provides release from this earthly prison when you breathe your last breath. You get what you get for as long as you are here. If you do believe and accept Him, the great part is you pay nothing when you sign on. It is free and it provides the immediate release from your bondage to your personal screw ups and death. He paid the cost of entry for you.
My Next Assignment
I will be continuing to help homeschool Grandson #1 and it is likely that Grandson #2 will be coming online with that route later this year. Another primary reason is the Lord has placed on my heart to prepare for a deeper dive into The Word as I respond to His call to mentor and teach in our church. We are in the midst of a building project that is designed to specifically house our rapidly growing children and youth ministries. Upon completion, one aspect of it will lead to Christian homeschooling support groups for children of local families as well as an expanded Parents Day Out program.
Reengaging my desire and ability to employ Habit #5 will not only serve the children and youth better in this initiative of the church; it will be of major benefit to time starved working parents, grandparents and guardians. Once the trust and credibility is built, I hope to help in whatever way the Lord directs my path. Daughter has already signed on to do her part as a Pre-K teacher, which she currently does at another church.
It has not been lost on me that I did not have access to any of this type assistance as a young person. This lack of availability and access proved detrimental to my life into adulthood as well as to others around me with whom I interacted. I want far better for our kids, to give them a leg up in a challenging, sometimes difficult world in which live.
But, there is more. There is a SBC church that has been dying that is located between three thriving SBC churches within a five mile radius. The dying church has a good facility that at one time housed the largest congregation in our area. However, the church leaders during those days felt they needed to build a new, even larger facility on a more accessible major highway nearby. Their congregation was outgrowing the old facility. Once completed the majority of the congregation left for the new location while about 150 stayed. Those who left were proven accurate in their prediction and the new location now has about 2000 members and is still growing strongly. It also provides a playground, soccer fields, and walking trail that our entire community utilizes.
Over the decades that followed the membership that stayed at the former location has slowly dwindled to the point it became difficult to retain even a part time pastor. Today, there are only 11 members in the church that once had over 500. Part of the decline has been due to the strong success of the other three churches. Part is due to a lack of leadership and direction within its congregation. It is a sad situation for us personally as it was in that church that Daughter accepted Christ as her Savior as a young girl visiting their Vacation Bible School. She was baptized there a few weeks later. It was the only VBS she ever attended at a different church or denomination than our former UMC location.
Our three Senior Pastors and church leaders are focused on building the kingdom for Christ, not personal careers and preferences. As a result we will be in partnership together as we commit financial resources, staffing and congregational support to the troubled church. An energetic pastor who has been a local resident for over twenty years has stepped forward and assumed the role. A number of current members in each of our three thriving congregations will be moving to the subject church to seed its revival and ministry into our community, reaching more people for Christ. The intention is to serve the restarted church for six months to a year before returning to home churches as desired.
Our church leaders listened first to understand. They responded to the need as Jesus instructed all of us to do.
Somewhere in there is where the Lord will likely be leading us to serve. Whether it be to help build the children and youth homeschooling ministries where we are, or, charting a new path to the reseeded church. We will listen first and respond as Isaiah did in 6:8,
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” (ESV)
YHWH has a plan. I need more time to prepare for my role in whatever it is as well as be a good husband, dad, papaw and patriot. I will end this series with this simple statement and question asked by Abraham in Genesis 18:25,
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
For you, my friends…
Your Turn
It is your time. As I mentioned beginning a month ago there are a number of you who already possess the skillset to do these Dailies very well. You will have the support of all of us. There are so many paths you can take and it does not have to be elaborate. I just ask that you consider letting Wolf know of your willingness to do so. He has provided a beautiful place to spend your time and his leadership for it will prove fruitful.
Be blessed everybody. In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan, the Golden Age awaits.
Good and bad kings. Major and minor prophets. The Old Testament of the Holy Bible is filled with them. Who were they and how were they assigned to one or the other?
Why should we even care in today’s world?
Let’s look at a couple of summaries that are generally accepted. First, a short summary of their kings.
It seems the classifying is different for prophets. The classifications are simply based on book subject length and the range of the content it covers. Many of these prophets lived during periods of multiple kings. Israel is known for its good and bad kings as well as for their prophets. As we read we learn the nation flourished with the good kings who heeded the wisdom of the prophets of their day, who were the mouthpieces of God. Things went straight downhill when they did not. We also learn that even the good kings mucked it up at times. When that happened the prophets brought the Lord’s word to them in rebuke and straighten them out with varying levels of success.
How does that concept work with America? How has it gone historically with us? Since we exist within the providence of God, it would be a good confirmation to see a similar pattern.
It all led me to think about periods in American history where great progress was made as a culture and society. Great leaders seemed to incubate the good until We the People ran with it and excellence abounded. Then I focused on the bad times. We have had our share of those as well. We do not have to go back any further than two years ago to see a miserable, deadly period of great destruction along with national abandonment of faith, morality and good sense in our history. I can only imagine young Americans looking at our generations as miserable losers for a time in our nation’s history. Yet, so has it gone many times in our now over 400 years of existence as a developing nation in this land.
The common denominators in our history appear to be good and bad leaders along with whose counsel they keep. Fortunately, our founding fathers chose We the People to be the guardrails for our collective fates. Our period of We the People patriots have learned that we should never abandon our posts as watch guards over our representative republic.
American Leadership
Because there is so much historical information to review we all can come up with our own scorecards relating to the performance of Presidents. Yours may be substantially different from mine and that is OK. We all have different parameters and areas of importance. However, who were the prophets, secular or people of God; the important counselors of our leaders? Who were willing to tell the POTUS and top officials of the day the hard stuff; that they were wrong, misguided, or even right over target despite the chaos and turmoil? Who were the advisors in matters of intellect, wisdom and faith in regards to living and thriving as a nation under God’s providence?
Where do we find ourselves today?
These thoughts about our national leadership past, present and future naturally led to thoughts about reviewing a recent X post that was reposted on a Daily Thread in May.
The observations below are from a native South African with dual citizenship in Canada who came to America in 1992 via Canada as a young man with dreams. He enrolled at Penn and later at Stanford before entering the tech sector and focusing on business activities. In 2002 he became an American citizen.
I agree with Dustin below, it turns out he understands America better than the vast majority of Congressional members and bureaucrats who pledged oaths to serve America ever have.
Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you… pic.twitter.com/gwoDSfBpFu
Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance.
Zero competition.
No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
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The discussion above led to me considering the new global war that is well underway that #45-47 is focused on our nation winning and how it folds under the umbrella of God’s providence. This war is not being fought on a traditional battlefield with weapons of violence. However, it can prove to be even more lethal to mankind.
Providential Restoration & The New Frontier Of AI
For the most part we can probably agree on and list the major counselors who #45-47 trusts for input in various areas of expertise. Today, we will just focus on the one above. He is not a prophet, however, he does see a future of where mankind could go. As a result he exists as a counselor to PDT and captain of industry who appears to be playing for the white hats.
In various pursuits Elon Musk possesses much intelligence and wisdom about the world in which we live. We can only imagine how behind the 8 ball we would be without his purchase and clean out of Twitter. Next, just imagine if he had the same devotion to Jesus Christ as he does for his other endeavors; the influence on our younger generations would be off the charts. Well, maybe even that subject has been evolving in a positive direction.
I pray that his seeking truth in matters of creation, God, Jesus, faith, and all of the interconnections of same continues with Elon. Regardless, I remain thankful for the good he is doing for We the People and the world. I am happy he chose to be on our side of things and an important resource and counselor to #45-47.
Being under the Providence of God means adherence to doing things the Lord’s way and trusting Him to provide. Since The Word tells us that He desires none to be lost, it would seem likely that a nation who decided at its founding to specifically live under God’s Providence would do exactly as Elon Musk stated above. That same regard for His created beings that God commanded did go on and be reflected by our nation’s actions even during grave conflicts.
Like the path #45-47 has charted with the evil Islamist, fascist leadership in Iran currently when many of his advisors and We the People want him to finish the evil doers off with great malice and intent.
But how does all of that relate to AI and patriot Elon?
For some who have not yet grasped the importance, plan to limit their personal AI involvement, or want it all to just go away magically; do you now understand why America has to be the leader in AI? We cannot allow an evil world around us that is disinterested in following God’s commands to dictate the rules of engagement. They would set those rules and conditions for their total benefit and control at the expense of mankind’s good.. To permit it would be disobedient to God’s will and provision for us as a nation. It is our self determined role per our founding to be the ark for the righteous of God, yet, still provide a path of reconciliation and restoration for those who would oppose us. If the opposition refuses to walk the righteous path they will be doomed by their own choices just as the evil in Noah’s day I discussed in last week’s daily thread.
Chyna and Russia are deeply connected with the fascists ruling Iran as well as other like nations. Chyna needs Iranian oil to continue their own manufacturing based activities as well as AI development in their attempts to become a communist (Godless) led military superpower. That cannot be allowed to happen anymore than allowing Iran to have nukes and the ICBM’s to deploy them. It will not matter how high gas prices hit if Chyna and Iran get their ways. As the threats are contained, gas prices are already dropping overnight and with them food and product prices in a relatively short period of time – while wage rates steadily increase (think about it).
Elon has high security clearances and many years of working with national defense as well as industrial, space exploration, tech and scientific projects. We the People need a design gatekeeper for AI and its applications. Anybody want to guess who will be the most comprehensive and reliable developer of the technology and applications when and where it matters most?
Just a hint if you do not yet grasp it – use Grok.
Should the physical tunnel between Russia and Alaska transpire as assigned leadership in both countries has discussed, who do we know that owns a dominant “Boring Company” that could handle our side of it at a much lower cost than anticipated? Yup – that guy. Below is a locally discussed, recent proposal in my neck of the woods.
AI helps make those type projects and other endeavors feasible at a much lower cost. It is going to radically change how things are done in America as well as the world. AI simply shifts some people out of jobs that are becoming obsolete while forcing the job seekers to focus on jobs in industries and endeavors where people are still the best resource.
Mankind has seen this throughout history, like when blacksmiths were retrained into car mechanics. You don’t have to like it, but you do need to deal with its effects.
There will be far less paper shufflers and bean counters – the “analysts and “assistant” whatevers. You can somewhat track the scope and direction of the federal changes by following the U. S. DOGE Service website. The design and implementation of the federal government’s new operations platform is well underway and it will incorporate AI similar to nearly all of the larger businesses in the world. Expect states to complete similar initiatives that dovetail into federal reporting and operational requirements. Over time it will be important to all business employers.
In my opinion by the time #47 and the Elon established DOGE are done, the federal workforce at minimum will be cut by well over half from its former 2.7 million employees on the payroll beginning at the start of his term. This will be due to installing this modern operating system that utilizes AI instead of the current long since antiquated COBOL driven Model T version. Doing so eliminates make-work paper shuffling as well as fake analytical and clerical jobs that are given to political party operatives and their family members. That is well over a million people who will need to find work doing things that only humans can do. Perhaps they need to be taking a hard look at their futures and how they should prepare, which is the same way it works for the rest of us non-government employed type people. Those displaced by AI can have great opportunities and futures in roles where people cannot be replaced. Compensation and benefits will only increase for all folks once illegals, inefficiencies, criminality and so forth are squeezed out of our economy.
Which leads to DHS, ICE, VP Vance’s Fraud task force, DOJ and so on doing what needs to be done.
Conclusion
AI should be built the way the Lord would have it be built, to benefit His creation and people. For this point in history that includes using capitalistic principles that have developed in God’s America. Will we screw it up at times – probably. However, if we can keep our eyes on the prize of pleasing God by building guardrails, legitimate legal protections, and arrest/convict offenders it can be done right. We the People must insist and make sure it goes that way. If we disengage we can be assured the black hats will make mischief and win. We have seen up front and personal how that can go and destroy a nation that loses sight of its place under God’s providence.
Patriots should never again shirk from their duties and succumb to the psyops of those who would destroy our great nation. In fact, we should even incorporate trustworthy AI into making sure that never happens.
May God’s will be done.
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Before all things – In God We Trust. Also, trust Trump and the plan as it includes God’s will.
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Jeff points out the major failure feature of the Fake News.
…Editors should have: separated real evidence from allegations, resisted parroting the framing of biased sources, brought in neutral independent forensic and archaeological voices, and updated headlines as the picture changed. In other words, basic journalism vanished like the alleged mass graves.
It was a complete failure of what is supposedly the media’s most important function: to separate interested gossip from facts. Maybe I should say, that used to be media’s most important function. Now, corporate media’s most important function appears to be distributing clever propaganda that destabilizes countries, spurs stochastic terrorism, and permits politicians to effect massive wealth transfers…
…Government researchers enrolled extremely vulnerable infants in an experimental RSV trial, did not obtain informed consent, continued dosing even as severe cases emerged, and two children died. Nobody was prosecuted or even fired. This is serious iatrogenic harm (injury caused by medical treatment) and a research‑ethics failure on its face, full stop.
The Times did its absolute best to cloak that very disturbing and all-too-familiar story in race. The two boys were black. “Most, if not all,” of the 31 kids in the trial group were black. Thus, the Times concluded: racism. What the Times didn’t say was that by the late 1950s and into the 1960s, Washington, D.C. had become a majority‑black city; black residents were the single largest racial group, and by 1970 had peaked at about 71% of the entire population.
That’s one problem for the Times’ unfounded racial hypothesis. Second, the NIH’s RSV trial was deployed through government-run or funded clinics. Both because blacks were in the majority in DC, and because of basic economics, most patients at these public clinics were also black. So we needn’t dream up some conspiratorial racial animus to explain the trial’s demographics.
Black folks were just unlucky enough to be living in DC in large numbers at the time. That’s it.
So, once again, the NYT’s dumb, woke narrative collapses with the most trivial inspection. But more interesting is why the Times leaned so hard into the race angle, despite having not a scrap of evidence. It’s because the last thing the big health agencies need right now is more scandals.
This is exactly the institutional reform RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya were hired to deliver.
🔥 At some point during the Cold War, our big health agencies contracted a deadly disease. They are infected with a mind-virus called utilitarianism. The scandal here is not that the NIH gave experimental RSV shots to black infants without informing their black parents. The real scandal is that the NIH believes you can’t make a public health omelet without breaking a few babies.
In other words, the NIH’s secret trials of experimental vaccines would not have been more acceptable if the babies had been white, orange, or green.
Classic ethical philosophy based on Judeo-Christian principles says: “You may not use people purely as a means, not even for a huge benefit to others.” Utilitarianism rudely inverts that: if the benefit is big enough, and the expected risk is small enough, almost any use of human bodies as means can be rationalized.
At some point in the recent past, our public health agencies quietly slid from “we are here to protect people” to “we are managing a herd, sorry, a population,” and those are not the same posture. In other words, instead of thinking of themselves as healers, they think they are ranchers.
The Lot 100 episode illustrates this problem perfectly. Severe harms and even deaths of infants were tolerated by elite managers because the perceived collective value of “staying the course” was so high. Even fudging the numbers to hide the harms was considered virtuous.
Stalin’s stats were great too, until they weren’t.
In classic public‑health utilitarian fashion, the stated good was enormous —preventing a leading cause of infant mortality worldwide— so the “cost” of experimenting on a few dozen vulnerable infants in D.C. could be rationalized as small in comparison.
The reason progressives and public health types (but I repeat myself) stick like limpets to utilitarianism is that it is technocratic. The philosophy —which is a necessary foundation for communism— presumes it is possible to quantify, in hard numbers, the numeric value of human lives and flourishing. That makes it possible to compare political policies: which ones produce on balance the most human flourishing?
It is both sensationally attractive and completely perverted…
In the Lot 100 case, we find scientists who explicitly or implicitly calculated that infants were less valuable than adults, and that poor folks were less valuable than more economically privileged ones. After all, the NIH investigators recruited from public children’s clinics, not from the private practices their own children or colleagues might have used.
Put even more simply and uglier: the NIH bureaucrats didn’t experiment on their own kids.
🔥 I will say it: utilitarianism is an evil, reprehensible ideology that all good people should root out and shun.
Utilitarianism isn’t a neutral “science of compassion.” It’s a license for elites to convert other people’s lives into numbers and then quietly decide which ones are expendable. Once you agree that it’s acceptable to harm a few innocents to buy hypothetical benefits for the many, you haven’t elevated morality— you’ve simply replaced “thou shalt not” with “let’s run the model and see who dies.”
Lot 100 was not a tragic mistake; it was utilitarianism doing exactly what it promises: sacrificing powerless babies in a D.C. clinic for the supposed good of a population they never got to join. [It continues]
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), the “Father” of Modern Utilitarianism and progressive saint. His preserved head, anyway.
What is interesting is I had already put the following together about the philosophies of ‘value’ because I like Mises and Gary North. Gary passed away in February of 2022, at the age of 80 due to complications from prostate cancer.
…He was by training an economic historian and had a strong commitment to Austrian economics. He greatly admired Mises and Rothbard. He once asked Mises how he had been able to publish his famous article of 1920 on socialist calculation in a journal edited by Max Weber. Mises answered, “Well, I knew him, and I sent it in.” Gary wrote a notable study of Marx, Marx’s Religion of Revolution, and a long and learned commentary on biblical economics. He was also a founder of the Christian Reconstruction movement, along with his father-in-law, R.J. Rushdoony.
He was on Ron Paul’s staff in 1976, and he and Dr. Paul were close friends. For many years, he spoke at Mises Institute conferences, and he was the best debater I have ever heard. In his speaking style, he was highly organized and relentless; but he was in conversation kind and friendly. When I saw him at conferences, we would exchange stories of the old days. Now, alas, I cannot do that anymore.
Gary’s Mises on Money is well worth the read. I featured it in an article called APRIMERONMONEY. The following article by Gary is another excellent read as he identifies the problems that are metastasizing in American thought.
The philosophical bases of Marx’s thought were laid early and remained unchanged throughout his life. As a student, Marx accepted the philosophy of Hegel as the only sound and adequate explanation of the universe. According to this philosophy, “the only immutable thing is the abstraction of movement.” The one universal phenomenon is change, and the only universal form of this phenomenon is its complete abstraction. Thus, Hegel accepted as real only that which existed in the mind. Objective phenomena and events were of no consequence; only the conceptions of them possessed by human minds were real. Ideas, not objects, were the stuff of which the universe was made.
If Objective Reality does not exist, than a little girl can become a boy or a cat or a dog. The people pushing this insanity are not going to tell you that it is based on Marxism but that is where it comes from.
Old timers will recall this title as a memorable line in a memorable comedy album, Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Volume 1….
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO “PROPERTY”?
The phrase, “life, liberty, and property,” does not appear in the Declaration. The phrase is incorrectly attributed to John Locke. It was implied in Locke’s Second Treatise on Government (1690), but it does not appear. Locke used the word estate rather than property. He subsumed all three words under property.
Man being born, as has been proved, with a title to perfect freedom and an uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of Nature, equally with any other man, or number of men in the world, hath by nature a power not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty, and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men, but to judge of and punish the breaches of that law in others, as he is persuaded the offence deserves, even with death itself, in crimes where the heinousness of the fact, in his opinion, requires it (Sect. 87).
Protection of all three — life, liberty, property — is guaranteed in writing by the United States Constitution. This guarantee appears in Article 5 of the Bill of Rights, which was ratified in 1791. It has proven as reliable as other government guarantees of its own performance.
A similar phrase appears in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Burke wrote this of the revolutionaries:
To those who have observed the spirit of their conduct it has long been clear that nothing was wanted but the power of carrying the intolerance of the tongue and of the pen into a persecution which would strike at property, liberty, and life.
But there is no question that Jefferson substituted “the pursuit of happiness” for the more common term, “property.” Was there something ideological in this substitution? Was Jefferson a proto-socialist, as numerous contemporary historians argue?
Had he inserted “property,” this would have saved defenders of private property a lot of time and trouble when dealing with statist scholars, who are always searching for support for their position in the writings of famous defenders of democracy.
The pursuit of happiness is for modern academic man what the pursuit of truth is: a way to avoid the responsibility for discovering anything final. There is no objective truth for modern academic man, other than the truth against objective truth. Similarly, there is no objective happiness. There is only the subjective pursuit of such lofty goals by individuals. In this, as in virtually everything else, academics substitute process for objectivity. Defending the process is holy communion for modern academics. There is officially no holy grail, which would be much too objective.
Why this commitment to pursuit, trivial or otherwise? I suggest two reasons. First, academics do not officially believe in objective truth, which implies objective responsibility, which is decidedly old fashioned and even vaguely suggestive of the Christian doctrine of final judgment. The concept of objective responsibility implies objective standards and objective performance. Academics prefer to avoid both.
Second, modern academics control access to salaried participation in the process of the great search, especially in higher education. They control the implementation of the officially objective standards of tenure, institutional accreditation, and the flow of departmental funds. What Daniel Klein has described so well in the closed, self-certified world of Ph.D. economists operates in every academic discipline.
In contrast, “property” implies enforceable titles to identifiable units of ownership. This is altogether too objective for modern defenders of the political defense of the pursuit of happiness. They defend the democratic process, which affirms, “Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.” They want to believe in Jefferson the democrat, not Jefferson the defender of free market capitalism. They want to eradicate political restrictions on the confiscation of property by the State. The suggestion that politics exists so as to defend private property is only marginally less welcome than the suggestion that the Second Amendment to the Constitution actually means that civilians possess the right to keep and bear arms.
JEFFERSON WAS NOT ALONE
It was not only Jefferson who neglected to spell out in official detail his personal adherence to the private property social order. It was also Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations (1776), four months earlier, had placed the division of labor at the forefront of its economic attack on mercantilism, an attack that Jefferson made political in the Declaration. Smith’s pedagogical strategy backfired for the next 150 years. By failing to specify in Wealth of Nations the moral and philosophical foundations for private ownership, Smith handed the seemingly high moral ground over to Godwin and the socialists. The consequences of this decision have been chronicled in considerable detail by Tom Bethell in Chapter 7 of his book, The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages (1998).
Jefferson was the supreme follower of Adam Smith among the American Revolutionaries. But by failing to specify property as the third pillar of the justification for civil government — a mistake Locke had not made — he made more difficult his ideological heirs’ defense of the private property order.
The pursuit of happiness is open-ended and non-specific. Liberty is just too vague to be defended systematically. What was needed in 1776 in both of those legendary documents was the insight made by Frederic Bastiat in 1850, in the midst of a European revolution that had begun in early 1848, a few weeks before Marx and Engels’ anonymous tract appeared, Manifesto of the Communist Party. Bastiat wrote in The Law, “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” Or, in the words of a previous defender of objective private property, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16b-17)
Gary North Mentions Bastiat. Here is part of an article about Bastiat and his philosophy.
Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was one of the leading advocates of free markets and free trade in the mid-19 century. He was inspired by the activities of Richard Cobden and the organization of the Anti-Corn Law League in Britain in the 1840s and tried to mimic their success in France. Bastiat was an elected member of various French political bodies and opposed both protection and the rise of socialist ideas in these forums. His writings for a broader audience were very popular and were quickly translated and republished in the U.S. and throughout Europe. His incomplete magnum opus, Economic Harmonies, is full of insights into the operation of the market and is still of great interest to economists. He died at a young age from cancer of the throat.
LAW, Spoliation by
LAW, Spoliation by. What is law? It is the collective organization of the individual right of legitimate defense. Every man certainly has received from nature, from God, the right to defend his person, his liberty and his property, since these are the three constitutive or conservative elements of life, elements which complement one another, and which can not be understood, one without the other. For what are our faculties but an extension of our personality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty and his property, a number of men have the right to concert together, to agree and to organize a common force in order to provide regularly for this defense. The collective right has its principle, and its reason of being, and bases its legitimacy upon the individual right, and the common force can not legitimately have any other end or any other mission than the isolated forces for which it is substituted. Thus, as an individual can not legitimately make any forcible attempt against the person, liberty or property of another individual, so, for the same reason, a community can not legitimately make use of force to destroy the person, liberty or property of individuals or of classes. For this perversion of force would be, in the latter case, as well as in the former, in contradiction to our premises.
Which brings us to capitalism which TradeBait2 discussed yesterday. This is looking at Capitalism from the point of view of an Atheist. For those who may not know Ayn Rand grew up in the Soviet Union.
Laissez-faire capitalism, according to Ayn Rand, is not just an ideal but an unknown ideal. Few grasp its meaning, history, economics, or moral justification. In Capitalism, Rand sets out to remedy that.
Rand argues that capitalism is “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.” In practice, this means that a capitalist society is one in which the government performs a single function: it protects individual rights by banning “physical force from human relationships.”
Pure capitalism, she concludes, has never existed: but in the countries that approached it, with America in the second half of the nineteenth century leading the way, the individual was able to flourish. This is because capitalism is the only system that fully recognizes that man is the rational being who “has the right to exist for his own sake,” free from coercion by others.
There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective. The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in certain things or actions as such, regardless of their context and consequences, regardless of any benefit or injury they may cause to the actors and subjects involved. It is a theory that divorces the concept of “good” from beneficiaries, and the concept of “value” from valuer and purpose — claiming that the good is good in, by, and of itself.
The subjectivist theory holds that the good bears no relation to the facts of reality, that it is the product of a man’s consciousness, created by his feelings, desires, “intuitions,” or whims, and that it is merely an “arbitrary postulate” or an “emotional commitment.”
There are, in essence, three schools of thought on the nature of the good: the intrinsic, the subjective, and the objective. The intrinsic theory holds that the good is inherent in certain things or actions as such, regardless of their context and consequences, regardless of any benefit or injury they may cause to the actors and subjects involved. It is a theory that divorces the concept of “good” from beneficiaries, and the concept of “value” from valuer and purpose — claiming that the good is good in, by, and of itself.
The subjectivist theory holds that the good bears no relation to the facts of reality, that it is the product of a man’s consciousness, created by his feelings, desires, “intuitions,” or whims, and that it is merely an “arbitrary postulate” or an “emotional commitment.”
The intrinsic theory holds that the good resides in some sort of reality, independent of man’s consciousness; the subjectivist theory holds that the good resides in man’s consciousness, independent of reality.
The objective theory holds that the good is neither an attribute of “things in themselves” nor of man’s emotional states, but an evaluation of the facts of reality by man’s consciousness according to a rational standard of value. (Rational, in this context, means: derived from the facts of reality and validated by a process of reason.) The objective theory holds that the good is an aspect of reality in relation to man — and that it must be discovered, not invented, by man. Fundamental to an objective theory of values is the question: Of value to whom and for what? An objective theory does not permit context-dropping or “concept-stealing”; it does not permit the separation of “value” from “purpose,” of the good from beneficiaries, and of man’s actions from reason.
GOOGLE AI: Ayn Rand intrinsic value
Value Requires a Valuer and a Purpose
Rand asked the fundamental question: Of value to whom and for what? [1]
Because she rejected intrinsic value, she maintained that an object cannot have value without someone to value it.
For a thing to have value, it must play a specific causal role in achieving a goal for an individual. [1, 2, 3]
The Ultimate Standard of Value
Rand argued that the concept of “value” only makes sense because living organisms face the alternative of life or death. Therefore, the ultimate standard of value is an individual’s own life. An object or action is considered “good” or “valuable” if it serves to sustain and further that specific individual’s life. [1, 2, 3]
Explore the Intrinsic Theory of Values in the Ayn Rand Lexicon to read her exact definitions and arguments. [1]
With the support of the Democratic Socialists, his prediction is coming true.
Also, I remember him beating his shoe on the desk in the UN saying,”We will bury you”….
A reminder of Khrushchev comments September 29, 1959: THIS WAS Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev’s ENTIRE QUOTE from that day:
“Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright; but we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you will finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We will not have to fight you; We will so weaken your economy, until you will fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
Do you remember or know all of what Russia’s Khrushchev said in 1959?
How do you create a Socialist State?
There are 8 levels of control; read the following recipe:
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Fast forward to 2021.
Is this parallel to the Democrat Socialist Agenda????
With an open mind, you can draw your own conclusions.
One last historical fact that needs to be remembered: In 1964, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Democrats held the longest filibuster in our nation’s history, 75 days. All trying to prevent the passage of one piece of legislation. You guessed it: THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
Amazing how the CIA reading room hides all of this:
As a Christian citizen of America, I am a devout supporter American capitalism. Below you will learn why I feel that way. Feel free to post your own opinions and thoughts.
American Capitalism
American exceptionalism prevails in most endeavors. One of the chief ways is through our adherence to capitalistic principles. The definition of capitalism per Wiki states:
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and its use for the purpose of obtaining profit.
They go on to explain it is a socioeconomic system that developed historically in several stages.
Investopedia defines it as,
Capitalism is an economic system where private individuals or businesses own capital goods, and the free market controls the production of goods and services.
Merriam-Webster,
An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
I tend to agree with them. The definitions complement each other.
With #47 restoring our economic engine that is being driven primarily by energy, manufacturing, tech and agriculture; it took less than a year to become the “hottest country” after decades of languishing in the consumer driven service sector world of retail, restaurants and lodging facilities. Meanwhile Chyna had ascended on the worldwide stage while buying our uniparty politicians.
This gave enemies of capitalism the opening they needed. They love to point to the excesses and abuses while ignoring the far worse excesses and abuses of the other systems they support. Those detractors will never support America because there has never been a more powerful, successful economy in world history. It is interesting that we find many of the detractors in the halls of formerly trusted academia. Hence, PDT hammering their own misdeeds with the legal tools made available to him by the law.
When one considers our relatively short life as a nation, our economic performance during periods when we got serious about it is nothing short of astounding. In the current period, over $18 Trillion Dollars in capital investments invested into our nation is the tale of the tape.
That is a big deal.
The economic needs of mankind have historically been served best when participants are incentivized to perform at their highest levels. In no other economic system does that occur more successfully than in capitalism. The economic performance, innovation, and quality of life in our country are unmatched anywhere when we remain true to the principles of it and our founding documents. So it seems we only need to check and see what The Author of The Book has to say about it to defend against all other challenges.
Next, we should focus on applicable scripture. Credit to biblehub.com as well for their take on the issue. NASB is used for scripture clarity.
Godly Direction
Genesis 1:28 – God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 2:15 – Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
Proverbs 10:4 – Poor is one who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.
The three verses above establish what God wants man to do with His creation. He first placed mankind in control of all of the earth. The assignment was huge and it would require mankind to do as commanded by God. For now, ignore the result that surfaced later in the Garden of Eden. The original assignment was to populate and subdue the planet. To do that man had to go to work. Man was then assigned to tend and cultivate the Garden. It was a direct assignment. Fast forward thousands of years later and we read another scripture in Proverbs that confirms diligent work produces riches while being lazy makes one poor. In that we also learn that some people are rich and some are poor along with everything in between. Everybody is not the same when it comes to earthly wealth.
All of which tells us it is a directive of God to work hard. Gaining wealth is an offshoot and the amount is determined by God’s will. We are to share the bounty in God’s way. There is nothing inherently wrong with gaining wealth by working hard and smart. It is a much more preferable result over being lazy or undisciplined, which are conditions opposed to God’s will.
Private Property
Note that private property exists in a temporal sense. Individuals and governments do not own everything; God does. He makes the rules.
Leviticus 25:23 – The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because the land is Mine; for you are only strangers and residents with Me.
Exodus 20:15 – You shall not steal.
Matthew 25:14-30 – The Parable of the Talents. The reader is invited to review the linked scripture as it is too long to restate here.
In Israel during the time of Christ, a talent was a unit of measurement used when weighing gold or silver for use as money. A talent weighed about 75 pounds. That’s a lot of gold and great wealth.
With these verses we learn we own nothing. God owns it all. While working we are instructed not to steal another person’s property, which first implies people own rights to property that has value. We also learn people work for others who have amassed wealth, who entrust their workers to increase their assets (profits) that aligns with responsibility toward God. So, wealth multiplication from what God has provided is an expectation. When we do so we are being accountable to Him and meeting our responsibility.
As stated previously while here in this world, we hold rights to property. For example, the promise of land was a covenant God had with ancient Israel. In ancient times, there were even provisions (ex. – the year of Jubilee) for families to receive property back that had been sold or mortgaged or otherwise lost in previous years. The lesson to buyers and investors was the property should be held loosely and for the purpose of providing necessities of life, that God has the ultimate ownership. In the business world in America today there is an old expression that is still true, never fall in love with real estate. Always be prepared to sell it or lose it. Times change, values change, conflicts happen. Bankruptcy courts, divorce courts and cemeteries are filled with people who ignored this principle.
Work
Deuteronomy 8:18 – But you are to remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, in order to confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
Proverbs 12:11 – One who works his land will have plenty of bread, But one who pursues worthless things lacks sense.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 – For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
Again, gaining wealth is given as a worthy objective, just remember from whom it originates. To have, you must work. However, the degree of success you have while doing so is determined by the will of God. This is followed by the admonition that if you have the ability to work and are not willing to do so, you receive nothing. We need more pandering, power seeking politicians to take that last one to heart as they are circumventing direct orders from the Almighty. Giving away wealth to unworthy people or stealing the wealth God has permitted His people to accumulate is probably not what He wants to see done per scripture. There will repercussions for doing so.
Gaining, Sharing, Social Responsibility
Leviticus 23:22 – ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.’”
Deuteronomy 24:19 – When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you are not to go back to get it; it shall belong to the stranger, the orphan, and to the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Acts 2:44-45 – And all the believers were together and had all things in common; and they would sell their property and possessions and share them with all, to the extent that anyone had need.
I Timothy 6:10 – For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
We know from many scriptures that Abraham and Job among others were very wealthy. We know that both were faithful to God and did not become greedy and selfish. We know a number of followers of Jesus also had wealth that was used to support Him in His ministry. They shared their wealth and never turned away from Him even in bad times. We learn God expects those who have food, shelter and wealth to share it where there are needs. It is a condition to receiving His continued blessing of their work. We also see that when it comes to going into the world and sharing the Gospel, we should be willing to part with our worldly possessions if needed to support and make it happen. Add in that we must never love money, that it can become the cause of much grief and sorrow. Money is a tool to be used in accordance with the will of God.
Ethics
Proverbs 20:23 – Differing weights are an abomination to the LORD, And a false scale is not good.
James 5:1-4 – Come now, you rich people, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver have corroded, and their corrosion will serve as a testimony against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure! Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.
This one is simple – don’t cheat others and don’t think your wealth will save you from judgment. You screw people over and it will backfire on you bigly. Deal with others fairly or face the wrath of God.
Capitalism Is Supported
This is just a sampling. There are many more scriptures that establish personal ownership of property and working to materially increase wealth ethically and to further God’s kingdom on earth. It seems the philosophy of win-win in economic dealings prevails in the Bible. All who are able to work, should work for the common good when it comes to the interconnection of capitalism and Christianity.
Without question capitalism as an economic system has been around going back into Old Testament Biblical times. Archaeological digs and historical documents reveal fair dealing matters. They used standardized weighting systems as an example. Wealth was easy to measure and observe through possessions and status in society. Ancient manuscripts describing work, wealth and stewardship are detailed and accurate.
There are no stated prohibitions in scripture concerning a capitalistic system, only against evil and sin committed while doing it. One potential conflict is relating to usury, which is charging exorbitant interest for loans. The Old Testament prohibits charging interest, the New Testament notes its use and prohibits excessive interest charges. The difference is simply related to the evolution of economic systems over many centuries. The intent was to prevent people from taking excessive advantage over one another.
Work and rewards for doing so well were expected. There are serious admonitions against greed, abuse of workers, cheating, laziness and putting wealth before God and others. The expectation is stated to do well with what you have and been charged to do while being compassionate with others, support the work of the Lord, and always be righteous and ethical in dealings.
As a result we can conclude that capitalism as a system in America and possibly in other nations around the world typically complies with Biblical principles. Forces that work against are not compatible with America or Christianity. Capitalism was the economic system of America at its founding when our nation was defined by the founders as being under the providence of God. It has become a growing force for good throughout the world. Americans are the most giving, charitable people on the planet and it is not even close. Our nation is not without faults and errors, but correcting them is The American Way.
This understanding tells us to challenge and remove anybody or anything that stands in the way of its fruitful exercise. Pocahontas, AOC, Mamdani and Bernie can kick rocks. For us to be providentially restored we must isolate and remove the forces aligned against us by remaining faithful to God and country. Other systems and beliefs are not compatible with The Way or The American Way, which has yielded the greatest nation in world history.
The will of God be done.
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In honor of a day in America that led to slavery of all tax paying citizens, April 15, we dedicate this opener. It will not delve much into the history of the income tax’s origin, Gail has already handled that quite well and I urge you to read her works related to it. In them we revisit the period around 1913 and its many federal government related acts of aggression against We the People with the income tax being a big one.
I want to focus more on the way out of it, which #47 and Scott Bessent are orchestrating, now that we know tariffs are going to stay in play. We know the Fed is in process of being neutered and in the process, our petro dollar based fiat currency reserve will change to a version closer to what we had pre 1971 when gold was still the standard bearer and markets were less volatile with their bubbles and busts. Those were the days that brought us these immortal words that are still how it all should go,
#47 already told all of us how our nation can earn it – by him and future Presidents using tariffs.
So, let’s focus on how Trade thinks this may be positioned to go.
National Piggy Bank
Very few people will deny that it seems the entire world has used us as one. My goodness, the tossing money at illegal aliens, NGOs, fraudsters, foreign nations, and a sundry of criminal causes and enterprises of the moment for decades has been mind blowing. Most of us had no idea that trade imbalances were being built through unfair trade practices as long as that cheap shiz from China, Bangladesh, Meh-i-co and such kept showing up on our doorsteps. Once it was starting to be exposed, most of us could not get it off our minds how we have been lied to and used continuously for questionable to horrible purposes that had less than zero long lasting benefit to us. The worst part is it has resulted in a $38+ trillion and climbing national debt. We have all been paying excess taxes to support thieves and war pigs the entire time going back to the Vietnam War.
That is coming to an end. Many simultaneous actions are being undertaken by #47 which will stem the tide and then seemingly all at once, eliminate it. Our role is to keep the pressure on elected officials and the judiciary. We need to help Trump be Trump, to be followed by Vance being Vance, Rubio being Rubio, etc.
Who holds the largest amount of the debt? The same entity that will have #47’s hand pick take over as Chairman soon. Expect things to radically, but quietly change at the Fed and with the changes the national debt picture. Besides lower interest rates, it will probably include the spin out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into private entities that removed contingent debt from our collective books, marking our strategic reserves of gold and silver to market, market moves internationally to sell some debt, and possibly bankrupting a few complicit mega national banks and even Fed banks that have insufficient cash to meet their requirements.
That is even leaving out the effects of the potential use of stablecoin with blockchain tech.
All of the planned and already staged actions reduce inflation and interest rate volatility. So why is that so important? Simply, for every 1% reduction in the fed funds rate, there is a reduction in debt service interest of $500 – 600 billion. The current rate is 150-200 basis points (1.5 – 2.0%) higher than debt markets, economic activities, employment, and inflation indicate it should be. This has gone on for the entire first plus year of #47’s term. That tells us that at the time of this post that close to $1.5 trillion of our annual deficit is bogus just on that one issue. Why? The Fed has been doing it because some large international banks, their masters, have been running out of cash liquidity. Cutting to the chase – it has been an ongoing manipulation that hurts We the People in exchange for propping up their elitist scum bucket friends.
The dirty, not so secret, secret is they are upside down on derivatives in the big banking world. The Fed with their mega bank cronies, including the Euros, are trying to keep enough cash in the connected banking system to stay afloat. They do that by keeping the Fed Funds rate higher than the economics indicate plus while rolling the currency printing presses. You do not have to be a financial expert to tell which banks are most endangered. Just consider the individual responses to #47 and Bessent’s policies and statements. The move away from fiat currency puts holes in and in some cases sinks many of their boats. Even with that, many nations and mega banks are capitulating worldwide starting in Switzerland and progressing through the EU as Bessent turns the screws. Add in the effects of taking Iran out as a lever of their power and it seems tough times are ahead for many EU globalists. Spain has been particularly offended of late. Oh well…
The obstruction led by Jerome Powell has been criminal and even treasonous in my book. He has been screwing all of us, not just #47, in an effort to save the globalist cabal’s kingdom. America Last has been the Dems and Fed’s mission for many years.
The major ratings agencies have been telling the world for years that our growing national debt is a huge problem. It has not been a secret to anybody. Despite knowing that, the world invested into the debt of America, Inc. Instead of seeking funds from selling debt, It seems that the #47 generated trillions in investment into America to avoid tariffs. That spikes fed revenues over a relatively short period of time and leads to the win in The Golden Age that follows once the old guard’s thieving is kaput.
So what does all of that mean for We the People?
Trump Accounts & More
Now that we have identified a relatively easy solution to $1.5 trillion or more in annual deficit just with Fed interest rates being normalized, let’s look at another big ticket annual cost. How many reading this know how much of the federal budget, not the annual overspend (deficit), is comprised of the entitlement program of Social Security?
It is approximately 21% ($1.5 T) of the expenditures annually. Funny, that amount appears again.
One way to look at it is that it is a pretty big chunk that makes up much, if not all of the annual deficit even with the efforts of DOGE and other savings have kicked in. You do understand that the feds do not really lockbox your Social Security contributions, right? It all goes into the same pot and is used for the same grifting even with the separate accounting. They are Ponzi scheming. They are using a growing population’s contributions (including a previously exploding illegal alien population using fake ID’s/SS numbers) to fund existing enrollee funds allocations. Please tell me you remember they just removed over 12 million SS account recipients over the age of 110 or so. All were recipients of monthly checks and likely “voted” in our elections. You do know that most of that money was going to fake ID illegals who funneled it back to their handlers who fund the crooked politicians and government criminals.
Which is one major reason why the cabal members wanted a lot of older people to die with the COVID plandemic (scamdemic, hoax, whatever you want to call it). Scare enough of the sheeple into taking clot shots that accelerate the death rate to improve the actuarial tables to help fund the projected outflow to the criminals.
The problem they experienced has been that more people began to be skeptical about all of the COVID boosters and the fear porn they used. Fool me once applied as the resulting health issues of jabees became ill and died. The first two clot shots did some damage to the 70% or so of Americans who took them. However, to achieve the full kill effect they targeted, they needed far more sheeple to have 5+ shots. You know that is the number from PAVACA’s incredible research.
Meanwhile, MAGA patriots saw through it even when our germaphobe leader still backed his Warp Speed program. He read the tea leaves and backed off somewhat. He went on to have Bobby take over HHS and fully supported him to complete his personal withdrawal from weighing in on the issue, thankfully.
Now, a large number of younger MAGA patriots are doing what Charlie Kirk said to do all along – love Jesus, love country, get married and have babies. #47 along with JD became close to Charlie. They believed in him and the mission of TPUSA. So after he was elected he saw that TPUSA could help save America short and long term. Now the only defense that have are paid fake MAGA influencers who are rapidly declining in influence as their shilling is revealed.
We all knew the enemies of America would drink their own kool-aid and kill themselves off eventually, they always do. The Karens and Kens of baby making age are not into having kids anyway. Most Karens cannot even get a Ken interested in them. much less a MAGA male. Once the illegals were heading home, the left has effectively been isolated and continues to destroy themselves in incredibly stupid attempts to stay relevant.
Enter Trump Accounts and increased BBB child tax credits. Trump Accounts are rewards for baby making to encourage a return to understanding capitalism and the American Way. Funding initially will come from entities and private business people such as Michael Dell and wife. Promises from #47 indicate there is more on the way and it appears funding can even come from future “dividends” he declares from the coffers of America, Inc. Those revenues would undoubtedly come from, drumroll please, tariffs.
If families also invest funds in to their children’s accounts and the feds manage the funds as proposed well, the index accounts they use to produce anticipated historical returns of 8-15% over time will allow our young people to roll the dice and leave the funds invested. Or they can use for education, buy a home, and so on. Program details will be coming in advance of the July roll out.
But wait, there is MOAR!
Back To Social Security
Building Trump Accounts into the psyche and lexicon of the American public opens the door for younger adults to seek personal investment and private retirement funding exclusive of the current Social Security methodology and delivery because they doubt it will exist when they get there. For the record, I doubted as well some four decades ago and yet, here we are still receiving benefits.
For some of of us oldsters, we remember when many employers stopped offering defined benefit pension plans as 401-k style plans were first developed and approved by the federal government. The standard bearing, universally employer offered Defined Benefit Plans are very expensive for employers to maintain and as the average American lifespan increased, even more so. To protect recipients who worked many years to earn good ones, the federal government established an agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), to insure all plans. Employers pay fees to the PBGC that insures all recipients will receive their pensions even it there becomes a situation that there are insufficient funds available in each employer pension plan.
Employers sought a less expensive answer for retirement and the 401-k was devised along with other similar plans. Most employers stopped offering defined benefit plans and offered 401-k plans to replace. Benefits for existing participants in the former were frozen at their current levels for existing employees. The employees then began contributing to their own retirements in the latter. Many employers began offering some level of match of the amount an employee contributed subject to individual plan parameters and federal regulations. The better the employer did financially, the more some would contribute. The employee would choose their investments from a smorgasbord of options in mutual funds, bond funds and money market rates. Over time the vast majority of retirement plans have evolved to this type.
At this point, you should be seeing what may be coming with “Social Security” in the future.
Trump Accounts are the educator, the government does the investing for you, just in index funds instead of interest starved Treasuries. So, instead of the low risk, low ball fake SS investment model; they get to prove themselves worthy of the new method that will still be regulated. Unlike Social Security’s Ponzi scheme, Trump type accounts are actually invested into equities and bond markets using index funds. That helps fuel our capitalism based economy. Win-win applies. The returns people receive based on historical performance of index funds far exceeds inflation, treasury bond rates and bank interest on savings instruments.
Again, the current Social Security program is nothing more than a Ponzi weirded Defined Benefit Pension Plan with the federal government tax revenues funding it based on antiquated ways to take care of the income needs of senior citizens. By giving all adult citizens the option to go with a federal government version of a 401-k, which is what a Trump Account resembles, the government no longer has to fund the SS program for those who seek to have better returns and control over their money and futures. The SS funding gets shored up as needed through tariff revenues as all of the old users pass away.
Independence matters. Making market returns is important. Fueling education and investment into capitalism is crucially important. We did not become the greatest nation on earth by being Marxists and compliant sheeple. Patriotic Americans are bold innovators and hard workers.
Your Budget
I hope I do not have to tell you what lowering the interest rates and increasing the fuel and power generation supplies in America does to the costs of household budgets. Then add in what the BBB did to personal income taxes. The snowball rolling downhill has already begun.
It matters to us in flyover country what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. Destroy the sponsors of terrorism and the world gets flooded with oil that we already have more than ample supply of domestically. What does that tell you about future energy costs, which flows into the cost of products and services?
Lower interest rates do not just apply to home mortgages, car loans, and credit cards; the lower rates apply to funds borrowed by businesses as well as government. The fuel and power costs lowers prices the same ways including transportation costs. Less taxes paid are obvious. All of if increases available consumer spending for more and more American made products, which increases jobs and related wage rates and benefits. Meanwhile illegals are going home, who have been taking many jobs at below market wages without paying taxes, yet, voting and receiving government and medical services
All of the activity increases fed tax revenues, reduces government borrowing (bonds), and reduces the interest cost in the federal budget. That accelerates the elimination of the annual budget deficit as well as national debt over time. More international business investment and growth decreases wars just as all of PDT’s economically driven peace deals have done.
Conclusion
By supporting common sense moves the entire annual deficit at current levels should be eliminated at a good, measured pace. The moves even leave ample room for the support of PDT’s proposed military budget increase as the funding flows into job creation as well as preserving our freedom. That expands our national influence and prevents foreign aggression for decades to come. Peace through strength again proves to be the best deterrent there is.
The war pigs still lose along with all of the forever war politicians aligned with them.
Is that lead AI generated pig Lindsey Graham?
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Today we are going to discuss – BUDGETS! Yeah! Everybody loves a budget. Right?! No?! Wut? You don’t love having a budget or even talking about them? Dang. Maybe I can change your mind. Maybe not.
With all of the unnecessary drama about the funding issues caused by Demoncrap politics and R-con pansies primarily in Club Senate, we need to remember all of it can be fixed if We the People keep the hammer down on ALL elected officials. I will be suggesting a couple of methods further down in this text for when America First MAGA decides to wield its power on the elected officials nationwide.
But first, let’s see what The Word has to say about a related subject. First from the Old Testament in Proverbs 21:5.
“The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.”
The next is from the New Testament in Luke 14:28.
“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?“
We see that the prudent person makes plans that leads to success while the impulsive goes broke. In keeping with that, if you are planning to build or do something, you need to know how much it will cost or else it may not get done.
So plan for success. Check. Determine the cost and how much money you need to get it done. Check. Yeah, you know that means to BUDGET.
Simple concept to understand and execute if we are disciplined enough to do it. The problem is the majority of humanity rarely does. The attitude is “We don’t need no stinkin’ budgets (badges)!”
Budgets
I am not going to bore readers with a discussion on how to budget. You know how, you need to just do it. Below are some recommendations of types if you need them.
Wifey and I have never budgeted annually. Instead we plan and do our version of the No-budget Budget continuously as in the link. Which means planning long term for purchases, investments and other major uses while controlling spending to build surpluses. Then we spend the money at the right time and always look for the low point in pricing of whatever it is, which can be on sale, seasonal, negotiable, etc. We do not agonize over spending the funds since we planned and did our due diligence about a product or purpose. This method works for even emergency usage purposes. You simply think through what could happen and plan for possible emergency needs along with allocating funds to savings over time.
However, the budgeting I am primarily discussing today is our nation’s.
Federal Budgets
When was the last time a full budget of our federal government was approved by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the POTUS on time before the fiscal year began, which means without use of continuing resolutions (CR’s)?
No fair cheating and asking AI. Well, OK, go ahead if you must.
The year was 1997. Yup, about three decades ago. So let’s revisit some headlines from those days.
Slick was still doing the dirty with Monica.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😂
Ireland granted a divorce for the first time in its history, Notorius B.I.G. was shot to death at an LA stoplight, Heaven’s Gate cult members committed mass suicide in SoCal, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the Okie City bombing,
Tiger Woods won his first Masters. Shockingly, he is still alive after winning more and blowing up his body and personal life multiple times.
Hong Kong was returned to China, Princess Di died in that Paris car crash, John Denver died in a private plane crash, Elton John hit the top of the charts with Candle in the Wind, and the Titanic mega movie hit theaters.
The economy was buzzing. Newt’s Contract with America was paying big dividends and Slick was staying out of the way while taking all the credit; which was always the Clinton’s favorite move. The GDP had grown to a dazzling (for them and then) 3.75% range and markets were good with the Dow Jones Industrial Index closing at 7908. My own small business banking career was beginning to take off. Life was good in general for much of our population. The following Fed annual report can inform anybody who wants to know more about our nation’s financial condition.
Fast forward a half dozen years and the trends may start making you depressed as you remember then and now. Look at how much the deficit has increased since the last annual budget surplus was achieved in 2001. Since that point our nation has experienced 9/11, forever wars, the debt markets collapse and Great Recession beginning in 2008, Russia Russia Russia, the COVID scamdemic, openly stolen elections and lighting a match to more money than we can count supporting Nazis in Ukraine. It has been almost like we were in a controlled state of demolition as a country. Right?
Well, what nation or nations rose during that period? Yup. What elected officials aligned with those nations during the period? What industries and companies benefitted the most from the answers to those questions? What events distracted We the People from the answers to those first two questions?
It has been as simple to analyze and understand as answering those type questions.
Today
We the People have learned much through those 25 years. We learned that the old rules, thoughts and ways of doing things are no longer productive or necessary. Citizen ownership of guns and concealed carry permits/licenses have exploded. We learned that many kids did not succeed in public schools or live well after getting shot up with endless vaccines. Prepper supplies and info sold like hotcakes. We have learned that Big Pharm, CDC, FDA, NIH and a sundry of medical professionals as well as related industries, organizations and schools are extremely dangerous scam artists and liars who are willing to commit genocide for a buck. We learned that some believe there are dozens of genders with matching pronouns, you can mutilate a human to make it a different sex to affirm the “dignity” of the person, that sexual perversion is cool and normal, that you can dress like an animal and use a kitty litter box instead of a toilet even in public schools, that baby parts and blood help old human demons stay alive, and so on.
You get the picture.
We also learned about a guy named Trump. Boy, did we ever learn. The entire globalist world upchucked on itself when #45 happened. We MAGA types could scarce believe our good fortune. We knew we were cooked as an independent nation without a force such as him and the patriots taking over. He brought incredible economic growth despite all of the skullduggery of the wicked globalists who opposed his every move and tried to take him down.
From these experiences we also learned on a more mundane business of We the People level that the nation does not need an annual federal budget since there has not been one that mattered even when eventually one would get done well into a fiscal year THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PERIOD.
A few years of stupidity is one thing, a quarter century of it should be enough for everybody to admit that things have to change.
It no longer mattered because the federal government ALWAYS spent far more than the revenues they forecast or received because investors and other countries continued to invest in our debt (Treasuries). At least they did when the Treasury and Fed were not issuing and buying back their own debt. Say hello to quantitative easing. Had the inflow and creation of funds out of thin air stopped, the excessive spending would have stopped and the complicit businesses that caused the fiscal nightmare to the economy would have hit the bankruptcy courts. But the politicians could not have that because there personal incomes would take a hit.
America provided foreign investors a perceived safe harbor such that they made an acceptable rate of return orchestrated by a compliant and complicit Fed, which is not controlled by the POTUS or Congress despite being technically under the U. S. Treasury. That was the brilliant evil that came from the globalist ghosts of Jekyll Island. Ot course the politicians have been all too happy to play along with the scam as they became richer and richer.
Some created funds usage went for nefarious purposes of weakening our nation’s economic condition to the delight of the Uniparty, War Pigs and other enemies of the Republic who benefitted. Trump and patriots are dismantling one of their primarily beneficiaries – the Islamic Republic of Iran, before our very eyes today. The international corruption became business as usual, entrenched and built into the system that eroded the wealth of our middle class. The national debt and annual deficits exploded.
The submitted budgets from Congress and Presidents never practically balanced and there have been no restraints. They were fantasy and lipstick on the pig. It was all SWAG based using phony baloney projections and assumptions cooked up by partisan political hacks and backed by the Dem controlled Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and other swamp critters. The Republicons never cared enough to clean house when they won elections, they wanted theirs as well. Congress continued to spend like drunken sailors with no thoughts of tomorrow or We the People because most were in on the money grab. Explain the massive fortunes these elected officials accumulated during their times in office any other way. Their operatives made out like bandits as well in high paying, fake government jobs which led to the radical blue area support in DC, northern VA, Maryland, Delaware, etc.
All of it proves we do not need to keep doing annual budgets in our status quo halls of Congress since they have been weaponized against We the People. It will remain that way to some degree until/if a balanced budget amendment is passed. Until then, I suggest we think outside the box and upset the Deep State apple carts permanently with the following.
Perpetual Budgeting
Sometimes known as a continuous budget in the spirit of our personal budget model discussed above; the perpetual budget provides for updating on a regular, usually monthly or quarterly, basis as well as when major plans and changes in budget are approved and implemented. In this case that latter point would happen as major legislation is passed that requires budget adjustment. As an example, when one month or quarter is completed another is added. There would be no requirement that a budget of that type be done only on an annual basis. It could be for two or four years as examples, if at all after the initial one is passed. There is no Constitutional requirement for an annual federal budget. That is an outgrowth of the House of Representatives being granted authority over the purse. It is a practice that is lawful, but without specific provision.
For what it is worth, in my best Scott interrogation of Chat GPT, I took it down and made it apologize for saying there was a Constitutional requirement with its first response.
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To effect the change would mean legislative approval would be required to modify the process from the existing selected method of practice and procedure. Which is a timing issue for when a white hat GOP group of patriots gained control of Congress. When explained to American citizens it would become another 80/20 approval of the measure. The continuous haggling and posturing over budget matters would end. The fake news media would hate it and oppose. They might have to actually work as journalists to survive instead of the profiting from the Kabuki Theater we see today.
When used with a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) the perpetual budget would require significant proof, not faked estimates, of funds and revenue stream availability to justify any additional allocation or increase in appropriation as well as the increases in costs and expenses. There would need to be approval from Congress to make budget changes to ongoing appropriations and allocations That could potentially slow “progress” down, not a bad thing in some cases as it would slow the mischief of the Uniparty.
With the dynamics of our huge budget that has so many moving parts and the rapidly growing tariff revenues, the flexibility of continuous budgeting would put a headlock on the current and future political gridlock in Congress over CR’s and “annual” budget appropriations.
What some folks miss is that many programs and departments in the federal government have “end” (termination) dates that are forgotten or intentionally ignored. Instead they get continually renewed through CR’s and inattention. This keeps operatives employed and making mischief throughout the system to enrich the participants. In perpetual budgeting they are automatically ended unless extensions are approved in advance by Congress. We the People will know if we are provided transparent access to the financial workings of our nation, which is a goal of DOGE and U. S. DOGE Service.
It would also be an ideal weapon for PDT and future patriot Presidents to respond to opportunities throughout the globe as well as a deterrent for excessive spending by any elected officials. As an example, if American citizens got stupid and voted more criminals into power, the codifying of perpetual budgeting and the BBA would provide a good defense.
The operations of America, Inc. would take a more business as usual approach that would kill the Uniparty’s hellbent desire to spend other people’s money (ours) for personal and NGO gain. Political battles, holding payroll hostage and posturing in the media over CR’s would end as well. CR’s that have been a plague on our nation for 25+ years would have no reason to even exist.
Perpetual budgets would reduce the numbers of non-productive budget personnel in every area of government. With the new AI based operating system that is envisioned and being implemented there are less “hands” in the process as well as the till. The archaic always wrong, Demoncrap controlled CBO would be revamped to reflect current and proposed methods that actually work as well as using real time financial activity. Forecasting would become much more accurate and predictable, which would benefit all of us.
Our elected officials need to be more responsive to a rapidly changing, dangerous world while being much more responsive to We the People. The old ways and games they play need to come to an end. The Fed report I linked near the beginning is the type report and analysis they still do today. It is passé. PDT is trying to force the federal government and Federal Reserve into current times since what formerly was, is no more. Scott Bessent is being a hammer in Treasury and on the world stage. We do not need the old business as usual to throw a monkey wrench into The Golden Age. The unelected Fed would be completely removed from policy making, a goal of #47’s admin. Along with the proposed changes in the CBO, the Uniparty and Deep State would lose serious levers to their ages old political stranglehold on power and access to money to fund their devious schemes and activities.
I have provided a balanced look at Perpetual Budgeting in summary form in the link below for those who want to know more, while at the same time knowing that many readers will not do so. 😂 Perpetual budgeting does not have to be strict and narrow, it can be adapted to government accountability needs that make sense. Think practical and pragmatic, not political and corrupt. Think innovatively, not stuck in what seems to have always been. If 1913 taught us anything, the paradigms can be changed for good or for evil.
For what it is worth, if you are unaware of him, brandonjamal is brutally honest with a potty mouth.
This one is potty mouth truth telling.
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“Along those lines, I offer another big revelation.
Lloyd’s, London, England…manipulating the world.
THIS will end.”
And…
“100%. In the very short-term, Lloyd’s will deliver the insurance.
Then American capitalism will, take over the market. T A W.“
Yup. I am just surprised more have not figured it and the bigger picture out yet.
Game over, redcoats.
It’s about America, Inc.
When a world leader is an elite businessman and deal maker, most paradigms will change. Historical context becomes limited in value except when dealing with detractors, seditionists, etc. such as the hurdles caused by the Uniparty and SCOTUS. However, there are historical processes that actually have worked successfully in the past such as tariffs that can be brought forward to orchestrate a paradigm shift.
President Trump told everybody as #45 that peace would come from being successful. He believes in the same thing I have been posting from my own life experiences – abundance over scarcity. It is a Biblical concept that has been proven true forever. You will find good, white hats, love, acceptance, peace, security, prosperity and so on – success – from sharing within the abundance approach. God provided for everybody. More than we ever dreamed possible is sitting right at our figurative feet. Satan, his demons and all of the black hats sell scarcity. They want people to believe there is only so much. They then go about taking all of it they can by whatever means they need to use. That promotes feelings of insecurity and impotence, which makes their looting even easier.
Explain what you see from the Democrat Party any other way. They are after power and money at all costs. Screw everybody and anything else.
That is until they breathe their last breaths.
We have arrived at our nation’s inflection point. Definition – “A moment of dramatic change, especially in the development of a company, industry, or market.” Except in this context it is a nation and world inflection point.
#47 has been taking America and its allies back to the big time growth stage of the life cycle. Some are being forced while kicking and screaming like spoiled brats. America was in a major decline stage. So many Americans were in that same sad condition as many Europeans.
Think Bell Curve – left to right. Emerging, Growth, Maturity, Decline (Dead Dog – hence “we were a dead country and now we are the hottest” comments from #47).
Life Cycle
#47 is taking us from a deep dive on the right back to about mid point of the trajectory up on the left. When radical moves like that are made, which we voted for, it requires radical change to build the foundation for the growth that is to come. We pushed the button, #47 implemented the America First master plan. All of it is well underway today. The top of the curve is the sweet spot for the elimination of all national debt. At that point, we will be loaded and flush with funds just as this country was in the later quarter of the 19th century. We the People receive the ultimate benefits, but the rest of the world that plays along also greatly benefits.
Forward Prediction
The world as we know it will be about regional polarity. Donroe is for our hemisphere – our sphere of influence and leadership. Europe gets to slug out theirs with Russia. China and India take Asia and the pacific rim other than Japan, Philippines, etc. Our ancestors bled out too much to walk away from them and their strategic value. We will always counter balance aggression with strategic alliances throughout the world including Africa.
As an example, Australia and NZ have been cozying up with China for quite some time. NZ is the desired escape destination for many wealthy leftists, who are in China’s pocket as we know. As a result Five Eyes should die along with the move away from propping up NATO.
The other major world leaders will not be hostile enemies in this scenario. However, they will be in the ‘verify before trusting’ category. Our resources will be reserved for our interests and not be given and thrown away as they have for over a century. BRICS will become unnecessary now that the globalists are being vanquished. The world economy will implement blockchain. As long as adequate, preventive capabilities and provisions are implemented against hacking, it creates a level playing field worldwide. It eliminates intermediaries. It also destroys the central banks of the world’s power and control. If the downside risks from electronic/digital criminal activities are addressed, the exchanges can take place in nanoseconds worldwide as well as be based on agreed worldwide exchange standards whether that may be gold, silver, oil, whatever.
It is easy to see a future where peace and productivity are greatly rewarded instead of penalized by taxes, government/NGO graft and fraud, and forever wars.
Abundance is win-win. Win-lose is scarcity. Choose life, not death. Choose abundance.
We continue to fight, fight, fight. Do not get weary, the effort will be worth it.
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Although I am not an economist, I have observed that as mankind harnessed increasingly better sources of energy, civilization exploded. Mankind went from literal manpower – slavery & subsistence farming — to the first agricultural revolution, using animal power, and to the second agricultural revolution with mechanical power provided by factory-made equipment and tractors. As people were freed from having to scrounge for food, leisure time increased and innovation took off.
Where are we now? It has become obvious since President Kennedy’s death that the United States economy is deliberately being hamstrung.
“In fact, giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. With cheap, abundant energy, the attempt clearly would be made to pave, develop, industrialize, and exploit every last bit of the planet—a trend that would inevitably lead to a collapse of the life-support systems upon which civilization depends.”
— Paul R. Ehrlich “An ecologist’s perspective on nuclear power”, Federation of American Scientists Public Interest Report vol. 28, no. 5-6 (May-June, 1975) page 5.
And from Obama’s Science Czar.
That brings us to POTUS Trump and his cabinet’s work on the economy.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says at 16 minutes:
I think we’re going to see big employment growth this year. And these GDP numbers. I think the real vindication here, Chris, is that the 4.3% GDP number for the third quarter was really 4.7% or 4.8% in the private sector. We shrank the government by 3 to 4 tenths of a percent of GDP. So that [4.3% GDP] was a muted number. The private sector of the United States of America is going gang busters and I think we’re going to see it in 2026. So yeah, President Trump has these hats in the oval that say Donald Trump was right about everything. He was definitely right about economics this time.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) includes consumer spending, government spending, net exports, and total investments. It functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a country’s economic health. GDP may be adjusted for inflation and population to provide deeper insights. Real GDPaccounts for inflation, while Nominal GDP does not.
“It [GDP] functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a country’s economic health.”
I am not an economist, but I absolutely have a major problem in calling the GDP (as defined) the “scorecard of a country’s economic health.”
What does the spending on bureaucrat salaries do to our economy? It stifles it!
U.S. GDP is just $16 trillion instead of $54 trillion… in the absence of six decades of accumulated regulations—a median household income of $330,000 instead of the $53,000 we get now.
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I was aware that Susan Kokinda and the people at Promethean Action did not like either Keynes OR Mises. Iwas re-listening to a fiveweek old interview of Susan Kokindaand she mentioned LaRouche’s physical economy, and asked myself the innocent question, “What is LaRouche’s physical economy?” OH! Boy, did I fall into a major rabbit hole thanks to my curiosity bump.
He is a science graduate who went into economics. I thought I had a poor opinion of Keynes, however this guy reams him.
…Without firm roots in classical economics, I believe that modern economists tend to rapidly move into statist solutions.
Keynes still has a significant presence in the academia through New Keynesianism (e.g. Stiglitz, Kruman), and receives prominence each time the US government agencies and Federal Reserve Bank – that have diligently followed his ideas – mess up things.
Indeed, that’s the other point – that Keynes is still very prominent inside government agencies. Keynes is the cause of serious government failure across the world and significant devaluation of currencies. The (Fabian) London School of Economics, the League of Nations, the New Deal, the welfare state, various international central bank concepts that led to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Brettonwoods system which led to the collapse of the gold standard, and even the United Nations – all have been strongly influenced by the Fabians, but more particularly Keynes.
Hence his ideas MUST BE OPPOSED. Till today I only opposed his ideas. From today, I now oppose his person, as well. Keynes at Harvardhas opened my eyes….
However I had never hear of physical economics before and wondered if it was close to my observations. I started my search by looking up ‘Physical Economics’ in Brave.
In economics, physical economics is the study of economic phenomenon from the point of view of physics.
POLITICS
In politics, a version of “physical economy” is often found promoted by Lyndon LaRouche, or his followers, but is a version of physical economics that is a barely digestible rewritten spinoff of what seems to be the biosphere-noosphere ideas of Vladimir Vernadsky, employed for nothing more than polemics. [4]
This is the cited reference & I found it very hard going because I felt as if I was dropped into the middle of a PhD discussion of a subject I never even knew existed. The following are the few pieces that made sense to me.
…That is the science of physical economy which must now be adopted as the standard of practice used to replace what is already, since September 2007, the hopelessly failed versions of what are taught as “economics” seemingly everywhere among professionals and politicians today.
For example: Let us begin the presentation of the subject of this chapter by considering the physical form of economic capital in its primary character as technology, as technology is defined, rather than as a nominal value of money, in terms of qualitative degrees upward in both productivity and in the requirement of the effective equivalent of orders of increase of energy-flux density. Consider the consumption of an investment in physical capital, from the time of its “birth” as a type of physical-functional factor in economy, rather than matters of price, considering the time until that capital investment might be considered as “used up,” as by age, wear, or technological obsolescence, in its presently invested incarnation as an actual feature of the process of production of physical wealth. Consider the value of that capital to be expressed as the relative rate of increase of productivity, per capita and per square kilometer, with which the rate of related consumption by that body, is correlated in practice. Locate this aspect of that capital, similarly, in respect to the losses incurred, as through technological attrition, as a result of failing to supersede previously established technology by a new technology which increases the associated, relative productive powers of labor, and, also, provides the benefit to society of the consumption of the related product.
Then, ask yourself: when, in time, was the gain actually produced, and when, in time, for example, was the loss which is realized as the effect of failing to invest in that capital, as capital so defined? What does such a question evoke concerning the use of the term “physical space-time” in the field of a science of physical economy? When is what value earned, and how?
What does that say about the follies of financial accounting, on principle? What does that say about what is presently taught as economics? What does presently taught, monetarist economics suggest itself, mistakenly, to be?…
…Today, lost time being lost time for our culture, so, we must try to make up for that, even decades later, here and now, before it is too late for present and foreseeable future generations combined. The matter of the principles of a science of physical economy, is now become, suddenly, a most urgent affair for crucial decisions to be made at each new passing point in time, including crucial decisions which must be made by society, top down, in not more than some weeks ahead, even, in the worst case, more and more, some days.
The substitution for this approach, by one based on deals, compromises, and what-not, connived at over several months to come, would be clinical insanity in the measure of their effects….
That Constitution was built on the cornerstone of the establishment of the U.S. constitutional credit-system, “still on the books” of our original Federal Constitution, which, as all witting actual patriots know, bans monetary systems, constitutionally, from the sovereign practice of the United States…
…in the late 1960s, the space-program as fostered by the dramatic initiatives of President John F. Kennedy, was advancing by proverbial leaps and bounds within the aspect of the national U.S. economy focused upon the space-program itself, despite the otherwise reigning moral and physical decay of the U.S.A….
In that limited sector of our economy, by about the time of the Moon-landing, we were generating an fairly estimated ten cents’ worth of growth through science-driven progress, for each penny spent. It was the other parts of the economy, not the aerospace venture, which were the already looming threat of failure, since about 1966-1968. Since that time of the Moon-landings, there have been no more such U.S. manned landings on that Moon, during four decades, up to the present day….
..the U.S. economy failed, first under the effects of the Kennedy assassinations of the 1960s, the utterly fraudulent launching of the protracted U.S. war in Indo-China, in 1964, and in the rising tide of “environmental” contraction of the U.S. economy’s net investment in basic economic infrastructure during the 1966-1971 interval.
Thus,since March 1, 1968, the U.S.A. itself has undergone more than four decades of self-inflicted, net rot and ruin, all this chiefly the result of trends in policy-shaping guided by each and every Federal government which was installed from 1969, on, as extended to the presently accelerated moral and economic mass-insanity of the presently utterly truth-free Obama administration… and also Tony Blair-copied death-care policies…
After poking around this first time, I gave up and asked Yandex AI:
Lyndon LaRouche’s physical economy is a concept that aims to increase the relative potential population density of society by applying new technologies based on the discoveries of new physical principles. The key economic criterion, according to LaRouche, is not to buy cheap and sell expensive or to acquire rare goods, but to increase what he calls the “La,” i.e., the carrying capacity made possible by the constant introduction of new technologies. 1, 4
Some of the principles of LaRouche’s physical economy include:
Integration of international credit into a global set of fixed-exchange-rate systems to prevent significant fluctuations in exchange rates. 1
Regulation of prices and trade based on long-term physical investment. 1
Increase in energy-flux density produced per capita, per unit surface, and per gram of material used. 14
Use of nuclear energy as a reliable and cheap energy source. 5
LaRouche’s ideas are considered by some to be a form of pseudoscience. 3
This is from the Schiller Institute, the LaRouche organization that Susan Kokinda and Promethean Action are NOT a part of.
….the conception of Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the American System of political economy, which is little known in Europe. Hamilton introduced Article 1, Section 8 into the U.S. Constitution, which gives power to the U.S. Congress to issue letters of credit on the Federal government in favor of the Public Treasury, which in turn calls on the National Bank to coordinate the allocation of these credits. This concept of public credit redefines the very nature of debt: It reflects the intention of the government to pursue an action it deems necessary and to incur debt to achieve it. There is a “debt” incurred, but with no money circulating in the process, as the credit- money is just the means by which state credit is transferred and is not “liquidity.”
Hence, this system of public credit defines “value” as a means to increase the productive powers of labor (again, per capita, per unit of surface area, and per unit of materials employed). We have a physical economy in the service of man, in which the physical production of tangible goods resulting from the income generated by the project itself will supply the means to pay back the debt. Money only has a value if it is linked to the issuance of credit. Therefore, it can be called an “antiusury” system.
Abraham Lincoln said, “Man is not the only animal who labors, but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.” It is on such improvement, in contrast to monetary speculation or hopes of financial profit, that the entire Hamiltonian system is based, a system expanded and further developed by Lyndon LaRouche.
This approach is totally contrary to what has prevailed in the United States and Europe since the suppression of national banks and the public credit system. In the United States, it is by perverting the Constitution that the system was handed over to the megabanks and Wall Street. In Europe, it was the destructive development of the European Union which forced the nations to depend on credit from the same megabanks. The result is what we have defined at the beginning of this presentation: financial looting and a world, just as in the 1930s, headed straight toward war if nothing is done to stop it…
The World to Come
LaRouche’s approach has been partly taken up in the agreement of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Chinese “One Belt, One Road” project of the New Silk Road, with their credit institutions, such as the BRICS New Development Bank which has recently doubled its capital and intends to sign contracts in the currencies of the member states rather than in dollars or in euros. Therein lies a hope, and not in our transatlantic world that is running into a wall.
Therefore, let us leave behind the world of before, and fight for the world to come. Let us imagine teams of scientists, engineers, qualified technicians and workers, combining their skills and know-how on the scale of Eurasia and the world, and given the resources needed to use and permanently expand them.
Imagine how they will spark a new spirit of co-development and win-win partnership, and Lyndon LaRouche’s method of physical economy. Imagine the United States and us Europeans rediscovering our sense of mission and our constitutional principles. Is that not what the Ode to Joy, although it has become banal, really expresses? We must take Europe back from those counterfeiters of the European Union, in order to build a real Europe of projects and fatherlands and beyond, an entente, détente and cooperation among the countries of the entire world. It is with such a project, and what it inspires, that we will find in ourselves the selfrespect needed to to finish off the dominant predatory system.
LaRouche’s challenge is to muster in the 21st Century all means of a physical economy devoted to mankind to build peace through mutual development, exactly those means which were mobilized for war during a 20th Century which was financially imperial and ideologically Russellite.
Physical economy can become the most beautiful of all sciences since it will produce and transmit the good. It is the science of the human mind. LaRouche shows us the road to hope, which will not be made of roses but of combat…
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FINALLY after a lot of digging I actually came up with a decent description written by Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. It is only 2 pages. I will include a few snippets.
Although modern physical economy was an outgrowth of the development of what was called “Cameralism,” from the work of Georgios Gemistos (Plethon) during the 15th century, through the work of such as Jean Bodin, and through the circles of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Leibniz, Alexander Hamilton, et al., physical economy itself may be said to come into existence with Leibniz’s 1672 paper on “Society and Economy,” and was developed by Leibniz thereafter around the themes of the interdependent roles of heat-powered machinery and transformations in technology in increasing the productive powers of labor per capita and per square kilometer.
…Leibniz’s work in physical economy was introduced into the American English-speaking colonies and the United States during the 18th century… relevant portions of Article I of the U.S. Federal Constitution, and corresponding features of the reports of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton to the U.S. Congress on the subjects of Credit, a National Bank, and Manufactures are exemplary of this influence….
The division of labor can be illustrated by histograms. Thus, in the case of successful economy, the changes in the allocation of the full histogram will be consistent with the set of inequalities b). In that case, the primary inequality, a), describes the action which produces this successful result.
The practical primary work of the physical economist is devoted principally to determining, through aid of empirical studies, the appropriate scaling, and refining of this twofold set of inequalities. The secondary practical work of the economist is to map the interaction between physical economic processes, on the one side, and financial and monetary processes, on the other.
8) The crucial feature of the practice of physical economy today is the not-entropic quality characteristic of the primary inequality. The following summary suffices for purposes of broad definitions.
The characteristic feature of successful physical economies is the increase of the potential population-density of society, in per capita, per household, and per square kilometer terms. The cause of this increase is predominantly those changes in the productive powers of labor which are typified by investment in improved technologies, as the possibility of such (physical) investment is conditioned by requirements for use of sources of power and improvements in the development of the environment used for this purpose.
This measurement defines individual productive labor in terms of biophysical and cultural demographic functions of households, and defines existence of households, of individual productive labor, and of output of productive and other labor in terms of per household, per capita, and per square kilometer terms. What is measured is the production of the per capita productive powers of labor by means of the process of production so defined…
In these terms, the characteristic inequality, is:
That the continuing increase of the ratio of “free energy” to “energy of the system” is contingent upon a continuing increase of the intensity of “energy of the system” per capita, per household, and per square kilometer.
The increase in the productive powers of labor in this way, correlates with required increases in power- and water-density, with a shift from a primarily rural production, a continuing increase in basic physical infrastructure of production, and with a shift within the composition of the urban labor-force increasing relatively the ration of producers’ goods over households’ goods, of machine-tool component of producers’ goods, and with an increase in the ration of employment in “pure science and technology.”
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The following LaRouche article is care of Matt Ehret’s Rising Tide Foundation. Matt does Breaking History with Ghost (Gordon) at Badlands Media. Now I understand where Matt got some of his ideas.
…The term “a rising tide lifts all boats” was first popularized by America’s 35th President John F. Kennedy who used this poetic image as a means of conveying the idea that true wealth raises everyone rich and poor alike. Describing the construction of energy projects across America, JFK said in September 1963:
“When we develop these resources in the Northwest United States, it is just as well that the country realises that we are not talking about one State or two States or three States; we are talking about the United States. Our people move freely from east to west and even once in a while from west to east, but in any case, the country becomes stronger. There is an old saying that a rising tide lifts all the boats, and as the Northwest United States rises, so does the entire country, so we are glad.”
In recent years, this phrase was revived by China’s President Xi Jinping, who used it to convey the benefits of all nations’ participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a comprehensive plan for win-win cooperation and inter-cultural connectivity centering around energy projects, rail lines, new cities, telecommunications and education.
Just like JFK’s program which involved exporting scientific, industrial and technological progress to poorer nations in order to help others’ help themselves, China has also begun extending the BRI program to Africa, Middle Eastern, Eurasia and even Latin America. And, just as JFK extended olive branches to “enemies” such as Russia and China to work together on great infrastructure and even space exploration, China has extended olive branches to the west with multiple offers to join what foreign minister Wang Yi has called a “chorus of nations working to create a beautiful symphony.” —
This overall Trumpmania lead will have a second part next week. Hang in there, I know these require more reading than you would ordinarily want to do. Maybe you need reading material during the start of the winter doldrums. 😀 At least I hope you do as some of the subjects are pertinent to the times we live in and some of the signers discussed this month are exceptional as we wind this down.
Next year’s dailies from American Stories will be shorter and more celebratory. To better appreciate what We the People will have accomplished with our patriot leadership, we need to “see” them planting the seeds of liberty from which our beautiful nation later grew as well as review the trials and tribulations of these real people, who were just like us.
PDT’s admin is doing so many incredible things it is hard to keep up. Yet, the few negatives are always the first some people run to point out. Human nature I guess. If you want to know more how the rubber meets the road for We the People with the big stuff, please read this and the next part a week from today.
Or you can pass and focus on the fake pipe bomber, Epstein, the sport of blowing up narcos, the commie in NYC, color revolutions and other bright shiny objects from both sides.
However, it is America and you are free to play hardball or softball.
For those still reading that I have not offended or bored yet, going back a month, NYC/VA/NJ have been blue for a long time. It is a hive for unproductive, self centered sheeple and foreigners who deem themselves your betters because they are employed by the corrupted federal bureaucracy and its private support system, which you the taxpayer funds that gives them perceived importance and power. They truly treat the tax payer and Treasury’s borrowed funds as their personal piggybanks to raid for whatever they think of they want. I am not trying to disparage everybody who lives there, just the applicable, which happens to be a strong majority. I intend to disparage them. They are leeches whether they know it or not. If they had any sense of decency at all they would stop and assist #47’s administration, or, quit their fake jobs and leave the area.
I know because I spent a number of years visiting, working with and observing these people and the area of our nation’s capitol. I saw some of the inner workings of government and politics tied to the industry of my career. It did not take long to figure it out, most everybody on the Qtree would do so as well given the opportunity.
For example, we already knew northern VA would carry that state with 90+% of the federal workers who reside there with their families being donkey Dems for life going back to their father’s fathers. However, seeing the long view we know that the federal layoffs and dismantling of their gravy trains spills over. Despite their scummy candidates winning, their personal economic pain will continue, not lessen. Many of those federal jobs are not coming back or will be on the chopping block in the future. The Trump Admin will also leave jobs unfilled and allow attrition to handle some of it. The downsizing and decentralization of the federal government will continue. Federal worker unions are being neutered through judiciary decisions. The donkey Dems and their networks will eventually have to find real jobs that do not exist in that region over the next few years. It will take a couple of election cycles for a significant number of them to move out or cry “uncle” before the GOP can assert itself there and take VA into the MAGA fold. Once you head away from the hive to the central and western side of the state you realize MAGA is healthy. Patience is urged, but will be rewarded. Even NJ will gradually come into play because of the same paradigm changing moves of the #47 administration. It is two states anyway – north and south are different.
Some people on our side are missing the timing of all of what #47 and the patriots are doing for the midterms and beyond. To simplify – keep the powder dry until it is time as Q posted and has been done by successful military strategists since gunpowder existed. The attention span of many American citizens is short enough as it is. Many are in the “what did you do for me today?” camp due to impatience or greed. However, for another segment there is real economic pain. The reason for that was summarized quite well by VP JD Vance in the recent cabinet meeting that was televised.
For non-citizens who have also been illegally voting the span of time left to take advantage of We the People is much shorter. They have to make what they make and do quickly before leaving or getting deported. Their days of ripping us off are numbered. We are in the early stages now that will continue to trend well. Those struggling to make ends meet will be seeing that strain ease as that issue is handled and the BBB benefits are realized.
My advice for some MAGA and fence riders is to stop giving lip service about taking the long view and start working with the Patriots to accomplish the long view. The long view is not the midterms or immediate product price relief. The MAGA economic development plan is not being built and implemented based on lowering the price of eggs and providing more affordable housing. Those are benefitsof developing and building safeguards and legal protections around an economy that provides those and many other good byproducts from doing things Constitutionally in a capitalist economy. Focusing on micro to the exclusion of macro is what got us into this mess. PDT is bringing a full bore strategy of abundance to all people of the world who seek peace and success. The leftist idgits always operate on power seeking and scarcity of wealth that they can hoard.
Sometimes it all seems too much to comprehend to know how to help. Simply calling the ICE hotline on suspected illegals helps you and your fellow citizens. The link to that number and a summary of what they do is below,
Volunteer as an election worker where you live. You will get to visit with folks and observe. If you see something, say something.
It all adds up and you will be contributing to the success of America.
Product Prices
The current prices that average Americans pay should not be expected to drop significantly except for those costs that are tied to fuel prices. If they do drop like egg prices have, great, will take it. What matters most is the drop in crude oil prices as that long term strategy impacts product costs worldwide. Worldwide effects are important because of how much we import from other countries and use as consumers. For economic sanctions to work to help stop forever wars and commie aggression, the supply of crude oil has to be increased and domestically controlled. Once some of the international warring is handled by PDT, the world oil supply will strongly increase and with it, significantly decrease fuel costs to users. That is when food and household items will start moving down in price more because they are interrelated. Supplies increase, lesser number of buyers as illegals depart, wars stop so market disruption is less, and as a result prices trend down.
However, there has been a wildcard to address. The corresponding supply of final product fuels being produced from refineries in our country has not been materially increased for decades. We need more refinery capacity to get it to the pump in sufficient volumes to drop the prices to where most Americans can really benefit. #47 and the GOP are on it, the plans and development for it are being completed behind the scenes and out of the fake media. Another factor in why the gas prices have not dropped even faster is that PDT has been refilling the strategic oil reserve that Brandon depleted to pretend gas prices had stabilized in the lead up to the 2024 election. When that is finished there will be less crude oil demand and more supply available, which drops prices. But for now, national defense matters. PDT is using the current positive momentum to take care of our security needs as a nation.
This point is important. The first major new refinery since 1976 – a half century – is being built in Brownsville, TX and will come on line in 2027. It will add 160 K barrels a day to the nation’s supply. That is a roughly 1% increase of current domestic production. As discussed above we need more refining capacity to replace aging facilities and add capacity to existing wherever possible. To accomplish they had to neuter the EPA and state government resistance. That takes some time. About 20% of domestic refining production is in blue Cali under Newscum. So, who do you you think has been undermining the overall industry there? Yup.
The primary, macro way to clear the restrictive decks to increase capacity and thereby lower pricing at the pumps is through deregulation and declaring a national energy emergency. That cuts the red tape and leftist ability to obstruct. Well, guess what happened on the first day of #47’s term? Yup, refining was included in this EO.
Moving on, if prices of food and household items only stabilize or drop moderately in the short term, what else can we expect? With vehicles as an example, #47 and cabinet already handled the emissions issue that drove up prices by a $1000 + per average vehicle with even more costs to be added to comply in the future with the onerous (or is that odorous?) manufacturer fleet mandate that forced EV on the nation. He also opened the doors to the small, cheap car industry at the same time. You can expect more of the same with appliances, HVAC, furniture and so on. For what it is worth, the mandate away from freon was one of those scams as well.
As a result we can expect big ticket items to stabilize in price where they are and possible drop a little. If that happens, how does the average American who cannot afford them now get by? The answer is Increased income, which is primarily real wage increases plus reduced taxes. The sources for that increase in available household incomes are; the federal income tax bite is much smaller, child tax credits went up, long term interest rates are trending down, the manufacturing sector wage base is strongly increasing in job quantity and compensation, illegals taking jobs and housing is strongly declining, reduced legal immigration taking available jobs is happening and so on.
More good jobs with benefits + smaller labor pool available to work said jobs + much stronger economic activity overall + lower tax bill = Rising wages, personal incomes and greenbacks available for average Americans across all aspects of the economy.
Trojan Horse Issues
#47 and patriots are addressing the employer use of non-citizens at an increasing pace. Deportations, reductions in quotas, and revoking of visas, and raiding and fining offending employers is happening rapidly. So, let’s not make the mistake of believing the lack of fake media attention and patriot updates on the numbers means the deportations, reductions, and revocations have slowed or are not happening. Remember, the enemy does not need to know everything, just stuff that influences a reaction that benefits MAGA in some fashion.
The fake media has long been an important mercenary for the enemy. You will see an example of this going back nearly 250 years ago concerning an amazing founding father that finishes this series at the end of the month.
For examples today, have you noticed how little they talk about Ukraine now? Ukraine no longer commands the attention and money flow they crave. No little blue and yellow flags everywhere including the halls of Congress. The fake news industry helped the uniparty neocons siphon off $350 B of tax payer funds we did not have with Ukraine alone. The spigot turned off and they moved on to the next scam. A similar deemphasis is occurring with COVIDiocy and the jabs. The remake of the CDC and FDA is well underway. They may not be perfect, but they will be much improved. Truth and research is beginning to flow into the public domain more often. For example, say goodbye to the recommended 72 jab childhood vaccination schedule forced on physicians and staff to sell to unwitting families.
The fake news absence has been happening with DOGE media reporting. Their and leftist politician attacks against DOGE have all but died out. They lost the fight against it. SCOTUS ruled and DOGE continued retooling the entire operating system of the federal government in addition to addressing fraud, waste and abuse. It is completing its mission and has inspired some states to incorporate their own versions into their operations. So, the fake media’s leaking sources are easy to draw out as well. Below is an example.
As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few… https://t.co/S1pSmx26s0
Put out a fake story within the patriot admin, see which azzhat leaker(s) hands it off to the enemy (fake news). If nobody does, leave it laying on a desk where somebody from the enemy can see it when they are in the vicinity. Boom – you get to have some fun at their expense.
As Q said, these people are stupid.
Do you fully grasp what all DOGE is doing (in Trump time) means? The reworked operating system will provide much more legit, real time information instead of the dated, wrong, manipulated BS of the past using far less leftist, make-work deep state bureaucrats. Enter the age of AI and effective government.
Also, no more of SD’s silos. They never existed anyway. Everybody on the Demoncrap side knew what the other agencies and departments were doing because they have been coordinated for decades. The financial side was buttressed by the donkey Dem controlled Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as well as General Accountability Office (GAO). Sundance made up an issue and term that MAGA could grab and run with to attract attention and clicks. Anybody who has worked in federal government or lobbied them knows what I just stated is truth. The nonessential and essential staffers moved between departments and agencies as needs and administrations changed. When 90% of them are Demoncraps there are no needs for silos, just processes and secrets being kept out of the public domain. The latter has always been assured when future employment is at risk if you talk combined with the uniparty GOP’s indifference. You know this is true with many horrible incidents occurring In recent years such as staffer Seth Rich being murdered for not staying silent. He was just a speck on the tip of the iceberg.
What made it appear as silos operationally was the lack of coordination of operating platforms with each other. Again, this was a feature and not a bug. It was an intentional design to create massive opportunities for fraud and corruption. So, ask yourselves who benefitted? Yup – the uniparty and their globalist masters. They already had the real data fed to them directly through a shadow system we are not supposed to know existed.
Surprise! We knew. OSatan taking up residence in DC right after #45 taking office gave it away. We know how it worked because Cankles already did it at home with the kitchen closet computer.
There is now much more efficient processing of inter-agency information, auditable financial dealings and reporting of same, removal of corrupted staff and activities from the system, reductions in workforce, and so on. It is like the federal government now must think and act like a big, successful business would. Which is exactly what they are emulating.
The X post below is a recent example of the fruits of their work. Think about the impact. The media will never discuss because it is not headline grabbling or work to the favor of their pariah owners. Private business would think what has been done as just being normal operating practices. Yet, our federal government did not do these type things for over a century and there were obviously nefarious reasons for it being the way they were based on all of the fraud, waste and abuse that has already been found.
Weather Radio Update! @NWS has just crossed 1,000 transmission sites modernized (97% of the network) across the nation. Total savings in FY25 are $6.5M. The remaining ~30 will be upgraded in the weeks to come. https://t.co/PB0YBYpUVb
Multiply times hundreds, perhaps thousands of issues such as these throughout government. Another…
Contracts Update!
Over the last 9 days, agencies terminated and descoped 78 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $1.9B and savings of $335M, including an $616k HHS IT services contract for “social media monitoring platform subscription”, an $191k USAGM broadcasting… pic.twitter.com/83ldxUZ1NY
By the way, it is interesting that the DOGE.gov website – the bright shiny object – is no longer used. August 13 was the last post. They use X now. So what does that tell you about X? Oh yeah, who owns X? What does that tell you about Elon and #47? The crims have been played and it is glorious.
Keeping government operations disjointed and not “talking” to one another is what criminal communist mafias and deep staters do. It serves their purposes, not We the People. The over taxation, misery, deaths, and destruction are opportunities to gain wealth and power for them.
The same is occurring with the removal of illegals. They are being exited at an increasing pace as DOGE conducts research and interconnected the operating system with other applicable agencies. DOGE has been a very valuable resource in that. They identified aberrations and fraud. ICE, DHS, DOJ, Treasury, and gang handle the evictions and arrests. Look at how many have been removed from the rolls of SNAP in just the 29 states that complied with USDA’s data request. How many more are there in the rolls of the remaining 21 blue states that did not comply whose enrollees will not receive benefits until they do? My hunch is at least three times more. You know the overall total has to be at least 15% of funding was stolen, it is sort of a rule of thumb when the crims are involved.
Less existing illegal human bodies in the nation and no new ones coming in means less ability for Dems to cheat in elections. Which explains this public pronouncement.
Forensic analysis has been expanding into the state systems with federal election safety providing the entry point. For cheating to work, human bodies need matched to residencies, social security numbers, citizenship, and census even if mailed in. EO’s and court actions will address to pass muster at the SCOTUS level along with existing cases before the courts. As the illegals disappear the criminals have to use existing citizens who never historically voted to replace. That complicates their efforts and leads to more exposure. One of the key cheat methods is before SCOTUS now. Mail-in voting is going to be addressed. Once it is, Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ and other patriots will take over addressing the result of the decision.
Redistricting in the states will be finished and the GOP will net more seats in the House as a result. The GOP’s job is to advance strong, electable MAGA candidates in every area where they can win and use the bulk of their funding for that purpose. No MAGA supported candidates floated means the ones that are have uniparty stamped on them. That means a strong ground effort needs to be underway to have the uniparty criminals fearful of the methods they use and how much they cheat. They may throw caution to the wind and go crazy – that is likely as it is their last stand – but with FIB and DOJ retooled with patriots it will cost many of their soldiers prison time and give the basis (STANDING) to overturn election results as applicable. Less are likely to step forward to do the dirty and be prosecuted.
Just an FYI – to have a good indication as to what is happening in every area of emphasis and what to expect, you have to look back to look forward. Always check out what actually happened after the fake media headlines and initial politician driven ruckus to understand the real status of an issue. You know the opposite of what is reported is usually true.
2026 is all lining up for the economy to be humming, employment numbers strong, and inflation low along with with key household item prices stabilized to down by early spring. People with 401-k’s, pensions, IRA’s and other stock related investments – about half of American citizens – are seeing their portfolios jump. Do not miss this regardless of your personal situations. The markets being at record highs leads to people becoming more positive and spending money. Since we have a consumer based economy, when they spend money more jobs are created and incomes increase for everybody while reducing the deficit due to collection of more related tax revenues. That means no needed tax rate increases at the state and local levels should be necessary or even desired in addition to the reduced federal taxes delivered by the BBB. Save some cash for investing if you possibly can. Even a small amount can grow to help your situation over time.
The midterms are the short term target. The primary question will become, again, are you better off today than you were under the Maggot as KK calls him? We know the answer already, we just need to make sure the independent and swing voters get to the polls as well. Add in parading of more of the charged and convicted high profile Dem criminals that has begun. This needs to be an earthquake election that swallows that criminal party whole. That is where every America First MAGA supporter comes in. Vote, work to get others to vote, and work in local districts.
Do Not Miss This
In the big picture, what PDT has been doing is redefining the role of the POTUS and executive branch through the courts and his EO’s back to what the Constitution and law provides. The legislative and judiciary branches have been weaponized against the GOP executive branch. Now when leftist lawfare judges rise against the rule of law, it provides an opportunity to reaffirm in the appeal process and at the SCOTUS level. That is why he probes and pushes the buttons on legal and Constitution issues constantly. There is no such thing as settled law in this country. The Constitution was written without many enforcement and punitive provisions that quite frankly were not anticipated to be needed. Rules, procedures and practices added through the years continued the potential for circumvention.
PDT and patriots are actually reestablishing the role and value of the judicial system and branch in the process as well. With a 90+% win rate on appeals, which has never been achieved by any other POTUS in American history, the rules to the game are being defined in many respects for the first time. There has been renewed attention on the SCOTUS members being Constitutionalists as compared to the leftist/uniparty criminals and hacks that led our country astray in the past.
In the next phase JD and Marco will continue the direction and build on it. They are integrally involved in the entire process. As an accomplished attorney, JD is well versed in Constitutional law in addition to his tech business and military background. Marco knows government inside and out. They both know the King of Kings. So, the rest of the GOP better get on with the program and stop hiding behind rules, procedures and practices.
Multi (regional) polarity of independent nations is the end game for these times. More on that later.
It is a revolution. The Golden Age awaits. Trust Trump.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Born in 1734 in Westmoreland County, VA on the Stratford Hall tobacco plantation, Francis (Frank) Lightfoot Lee, was the fourth son of the eight children of Thomas and Hannah Ludwell Lee. The Lee family were of English descent and among the first families of the state. His middle name came from the name of his father’s best man in the wedding to Hannah. Young Francis was tutored at home by a Scottish minister for his education.
Lee’s great grandparents emigrated from England in 1639. They became wealthy from trading activities related to furs, tobacco and other goods in the colonies as well as England. They purchased large amounts of land as as a result. The older brothers of Francis participated in the family business and were educated in England as they traveled to and from there with each trading voyage. Francis was too young for the trips and remained home with his tutor, which was a disappointment to him at the time. It got worse, in 1750 both of his parents died while his older brothers were in England. The children inherited everything, which included land, money, slaves, and company stock for land speculation.
Francis inherited an estate in northern VA named Coton. It was located in Loudoun County, so his brothers began calling him Loudoun. He continued to live and study at the Stratford Hall library with his brother and fellow Declaration signer, Richard Henry Lee. They used the period to debate each other on various political and legal issues. By 1758 he had moved on to his Coton estate. He was soon elected to the General Assembly.
In 1766 he signed on the Westmoreland Resolutions that his brother, Richard Henry, drafted that challenged the King’s authority and the Stamp Act. At the time it was considered a seditious act, yet, later served as a basis for the Declaration of Independence. Three years later at the age of 35 he married the love of his life, 16 year old Rebecca (Becky) Tayloe of Mount Airy. The couple built a home in Richmond County where Francis was also elected to the House of Burgesses. It was in that public service role that he became close friends with two of the greats, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.
Both Francis and Richard Henry joined the state’s Committee of Correspondence in 1773 and joined the state’s Convention a year later. In 1775 he became a member of the Second Continental Congress. He and Richard Henry traveled to Philadelphia and stayed with a sister and brother-in-law there through the build up to the Declaration. Richard Henry was called back to the Virginia Assembly in June before the vote. Francis wrote a letter to keep him informed and expressed concern that the Congressional members were fighting over matters less important than the need to declare independence and be about addressing their enemy.
He signed the Declaration on August 2 and Richard Henry arrived and signed on September 4. They are the only brothers to have signed. Francis participated in the creation of the Articles of Confederation as well and is only one of 16 who signed both documents. During 1777 he did all he could and was instrumental in securing vitally necessary supplies for the military during its darkest hours. He continued to serve in Congress for four years into 1779, before returning to Virginia. He served both in the Senate and House before retiring from public service in 1785.
Francis was known as a well-read man “of gentle reasoning and quiet persuasion” by his peers. While Richard Henry and brother, Arthur, were controversy prone, Francis was considered the opposite. Even Arthur called him “calmness and philosophy itself”. However, his political beliefs and commitments were every bit as radical as those of his brothers. John Adams described Lee as “a man of great reading, well understood, of sound judgment and inflexible perseverance in the cause of his country.”
From constitutionalcenter.org comes this statement:
“The 19th century writer, Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] wrote of him: “He did no brilliant things, he made no brilliant speeches; but the enduring strength of his participation was manifest, his fearlessness in confronting perilous duties… was patent to all, the purity of his motives was unquestioned, his unpurchasable honor and uprightness were unchallenged.” Perhaps the epitaph offered by Lee’s niece Nancy Shippen put it best: “Thou sweetest of all the Lee race / That ever adorned our shore.”
After retirement into private life he was known for his happy demeanor and as a person who enjoyed helping others. Frank and Becky as they were known in the area, had no children. As a result when they both passed away in January 1797 they left their inheritance to the second son of Richard Henry Ludwell, as he had an interest in politics. Ludwell became an attorney and did successfully enter politics on the state level. The couple were buried in Mount Airy.
Francis Lightfoot Lee was an important, dedicated patriot who gave his full commitment to the cause of independence and his fellow citizens both in public and private life. We are forever grateful for his efforts.
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Well, not really. I am no day trader or Wolf of Wall Street. I am too lazy to work that hard to make every last penny I could. However, I can share what has worked for me, which is a long term strategy that led to no debt and an early retirement.
As we head into this one, these are the ground rules for TB’s take on this and any other subject. I am not you and you are not me. As always take what I say and apply only after thoughtful consideration of whether it works for you and your situation. My purpose is only to inform for what has worked for me or that I otherwise have legitimately beneficial knowledge to share. If any of this can help you or loved ones in some way(s), my purpose has been fulfilled.
To get to the financial, which is not complex or ground breaking, you need to handle the prerequisites first. Skipping the part that stabilizes your life and gives it meaning circumvents the good that comes from wealth accumulation. If you skip it, you either lose the wealth you do accumulate at some point, or, it becomes your idol or god because you are not grounded in truth.
Intentions
Start with first things first. Live a life of fulfilled intentions. Not just in financial matters – in everything. FAFO’ing through life is not a good way to approach it. You know this.
Per definition, intention is an aim that guides your actions to achieve an objective. You aim yourself as a weapon is aimed at a target. Anything or anybody that gets in the way is a distraction. Sometimes the distraction is good, it can cause you to rethink things. Sometimes the distraction gets in the way of you hitting the target. You need to decide the best course of action with the distractions and react accordingly.
Stay focused on the objective. Once the target is lined up, do not flinch and over think. Pull the trigger to get it done.
Most importantly, to fulfill intentions requires that you have some. Intentions give purpose to life. Do not go through life aimlessly.
It does not matter how old you are or your personal situation to fulfill your intentions.
Understand that God created the way the world was created – and you are not Him. Don’t fall for there is no God, no creator, bullshiz regardless of whether you are religious or not. Accept somebody greater than you created all of this by intention and move on to understanding your role and purpose within your circumstances. That means you really should ask Him, but that is your choice. If your life seems aimless or unproductive, start there.
You live in a country that provides for fulfilled intentions. Be grateful everyday and realize you have been blessed to be in the place you are. You have been given personal liberty secured by the Constitution that was executed within the providence of God as it states. When oppressors come against you, stand firm within your rights as an American citizen and counter their aggressions. Our founders and many patriotic Americans have bled out and died to provide that right. You owe it to them to give it your all and even do likewise if called upon. Do not go down without a fight. Fight, fight, fight!
Financial Freedom Basics
Work until you can retire, if you want to retire. Preferably, make money doing something that you love if possible. Sometimes that is not possible. So, whatever you do, do as unto the Lord. That is scripturally supported. If you do those things you will live within your means.
Do not spend more than you make. Getting the big eye is for kids, do not act like a kid as an adult. It’s dumb.
Compounded interest and returns are your great friends. Seek them. Make sure it is more than inflation and your personal tax burden. The more you make above the inflation rate and tax burden the better. It is doubtful you will achieve that depositing all of your funds in a bank or credit union. That is like floating around in a pool, you will never really get anywhere. I will address this below. There are no sharks in a pool and that makes it more safe and relaxed. It also makes it less productive for your financial gain purposes.
Again, avoid spending more than you make or borrowing excessive sums that cannot be repaid easily. Be risk averse when it comes to borrowing money.
Combine all of that understanding by first building a rainy day fund that is sufficient to pull you out of a loss of job, major household or auto expense, a medical emergency, and so on. Go for a minimum of 6 months income invested into savings. Buck up and have some discipline. If your current income is stretched to the max and you cannot cut any more expenses, find a second job or other legal method to increase income. As an example I know medically disabled people who make nice second incomes from just dog or invalid sitting. Figure it out, it doesn’t have to be a forever thing.
Give to your house of worship and others in need. It is a tenet of the faith that is between you and Him. If you do not believe, giving to others in need brings fulfillment personally.
Financial Freedom Intermediate Steps
Now, it is time to go bigger picture. Gaining knowledge, wisdom and discernment while continuing the basics are the next steps. This will be current and practical.
What has PDT told you (as well as the entire world) and what are big money world leaders doing in response relating to the plans for our economy?
Bonus points for the correct answer.
The answer is investing in America. How many trillions of dollars have you seen committed and already being spent by business and governments around the world within our borders? That informs your big picture. So stop being scared of the big, bad Democrat coyotes howling through their media pups. World business and governmental leaders are investing massive, previously unheard of sums into our nation. They know more than any of us do. Trust your eyes and ears.
Into what industries are they investing the majority of the funds? That would be Artificial Intelligence (AI) and anything that supports it or can directly benefit from its implementation. That should inform your decisioning.
They do not care if you like it or support AI. It is going to be a thing whether you like it or not, whether you participate or not. To Christians, we are to be about life and living it in accordance with what Jesus told us up to His return per scripture. So you should continue to live life accordingly while being wise to not fall into any Satanic traps.
AI is a tool. Use it for your purposes while realizing it can be easily corrupted. That is where wisdom and discernment come in.
A major intention of AI is to build an accurate knowledge base for many applications. This is intended to remove the mistakes and lower productivity coming from humans. So AI is combined with many robotic applications in business, industry, medical fields, defense, education, etc. in addition to intellectual use. That is why some jobs handled by humans will cease in the future. However, how well it does at those things is dependent upon human input. Expect hiccups along the way. Lots of them.
Two Opposing Sides & Lots Of Traitors
Now you see another blatant means for the globalists with depop – to corrupt the intention and twist it to their advantage. So, the two sides are clearly represented. One side reduces world population and uses AI applications to replace human productivity where it can. Sort of like culling the herd to only who is necessary while making sure the remnant do as trained. That is where digital ID and social compliance scoring comes in. They have more for themselves with less inconvenient rebellion that way as they replace God and march on to transhumanism where they believe they will never die. You have heard and read this from numerous developers of it including world leaders. Believe their intention even if you know it is all bullshit.
The other side uses AI to increase productivity, but believes humans are necessary for the continuance of the world and further exploration of the universe. They see life as transitory until death and passing into paradise with a Creator, so they want to leave things better for those that follow along the way. Their use of AI gives benefits to all humanity including financial, medical, educational, occupational, etc. advantages. They believe in doing good and caring for their neighbor.
I think you already know which government, business, industry, political, etc. leaders support which camp. Do not be overly concerned about the details in each, just focus on the big picture. One believes in the scarcity of worldly assets and the other believes in the abundance of worldly assets. The culture that develops from that is death for the scarcity crowd and life for the abundance folks.
That informs your investment decisions. Who is winning and what do they support?
In America you will also know them by their political affiliation with infiltrators that attempt to push things off course. Your role today is to work against our common opponents and invest in America as PDT has arranged.
If you have chosen to follow the money (investment), you know America is going to widen its lead the world in business and industry. Our military will continue to provide the protection we and our allies need for the foreseeable future as they are retrained as war fighters instead of woke nation builders, perverts, and baby sitters. This makes them more cost efficient as well as lethal. That scares the bejeezus out of our enemies. It is unlikely there will be any frontal attacks. However, there will be infiltration attempts, sedition and treason. There will be the Chynas of the world that attempt to stir the pot. Don’t fall for the fear porn it gins up in the media.
Our return as a nation in the form of the secular and religious Great Awakening only provides more support for the Golden Age as we justifiably give all of the credit and glory to the Lord for his provision for us as American citizens, as well as all believers around the world.
As a result we go about our lives and business with intentions that fit our world and kingdom view that we intend to fulfill.
Investments
Few adult American citizens are competent individual investors in the stock and bond markets. So, it would be foolish to do that as an investor of your hard earned money without the knowledge necessary to do so successfully long term.
The good news is you do not have to do it yourself. You can invest through funds with managers that do have the experience and knowledge, that make a living at successfully doing it for large numbers of people and institutions. That simply means to invest into good mutual funds with solid investment companies long term.
Consider using the Morningstar website. They review the performances of mutual funds and provided useful information about each. Start there if you are going to invest larger sums. It started over 40 years ago and does deep research. if you are just starting out or doing it smaller, just look for Morningstar ratings and info associated with mutual funds in which you may be interested. It would be safer for you to look at well known large financial providers such as Schwab or Fidelity. The link below gives a sample of their recommended ten best from Forbes.
My first point is to not fall victim to conspiracy theories and purity motives. Sure, you may find the investment choices of some funds to be distasteful if you investigate them. Refrain from investing in them if you feel that way. Check each fund’s prospectus and choose funds that are more what you would approve; just realize you have no control and there are bound to be some slugs, thugs and duds mixed in with the good ones in most funds.
That leads to you choosing your financial weapon(s). Pray about it and think it through.
Knowing the huge amounts of capital being invested into America informs you on how you need to invest long term. The S&P 500 index is comprised of the largest, better performing companies in America. It represents 80% of all of the market capitalization of American public companies. These are the companies that can and are investing into big into AI, all things that support it, all things that benefit from it, and other planned American economic growth drivers relating to energy and power production, tech, automotive, defense, etc. As a result you know you probably need to invest into already successful mutual funds that are largely comprised of the companies in the S&P 500, or by the index itself.
This index has performed at an average of about 10% return since its inception in 1957. Think about all of the things that have hit America hard during that period, yet, the average return has still been a strong 10%. For example, in the past ten years there have been a couple of loss years and far more good return years that has led to an 11% overall return. So you do not freak out if the markets decline for a year or two. You sit tight and wait for the rebound.
Average inflation has been around 3.25% over a 100+ year period in this nation. The goal per the Fed and PDT is 2%, which it has been for several months and was (and less) throughout #45’s term. So deduct your inflation assumption from the 10%. Next up is federal and any state taxes that may be due. Only you know your current tax rate. We have no state income taxes in TN, so our effective Federal tax rate is all that applies. By any measure, you learn that a 10% average return of a mutual fund will accumulate a substantial amount of wealth over time. How much is dependent upon your commitment to making additional deposits to it and refraining from taking funds out of it, which allows your contriutions and returns compound.
That does not mean you ignore the NASDAQ, Russell, or any other index with mutual funds. The participants are different in each one. The listed companies are generally smaller in market capitalization, so they are more subject to overall economic conditions of the economy. In good times they may perform better than the S&P. In stagnant or bad times they may be more susceptible and perform worse. The mutual funds associated with them will also have track records for you to review. They will also benefit from the massive investment into America.
Once you start you should basically forget you have done so. Leave it alone unless there is an emergency. That’s it. If your choice of funds does not perform well against peer funds, you can always move it to a better one. You now know a relatively safe path to wealth accumulation. You just have to be willing to pursue it and fulfill the intention to take advantage of the opportunity.
For those who are still a bit queasy, the industry has an insurance fund that covers potential individual investor loss if a fund provider goes bankrupt. Its link is below.
OK, now that you have your rainy day fund, you are living within your means, you have a low debt load, you are contributing to any 401-k retirement plan you may have at work, and you are now investing for wealth in the stock and/or bond market through at least one good mutual fund; it is time to talk about the future and how it could all go in America for you as well as your children and grandchildren.
Below is a link that is a MUST WATCH (8:41 long) interview by Larry Kudlow with Vivek Ramaswamy. Both are PDT allies and very knowledgable about all of this. Vivek will be Ohio’s elected governor after their next election. Kudlow served in an economic advisor role in #45’s term. They are in the inner circle. They both know how government, politics, business, industry and foreign investment works. They are MAGA.
There is much to unpack there. I hope you picked up on it because those two know what is coming. Ambitious expectations. All within reach of those who prepare accordingly.
It has been my expectation that we will finally see an eventual successful push to have Social Security funds invested safely into the capital markets, which has been prohibited. Think about it, had a significant portion of Social Security funds been safely invested into just the S&P 500 index, a great deal more funds would have been made available and the SS fund would now be self sustaining after many years of 10% compounded returns. Instead, the talk every year is about its future solvency while they use these dedicated funds to make the budget deficit appear smaller than it actually has been. Who has used that fear porn talk to fuel voter turn out for their candidates through the decades? Who benefits the most by keeping it and Medicare in a flux at all times?
The American public has been scammed far more than they ever realized. Collectively we had the power to end it all along. We just needed to become a movement of like minded patriots who held the politicians to account while keeping elections clean. The politicians have known and participated in the scams for many years. They kept selling the public on the lack of safety in investing public funds in capital markets. The same markets that the entire country uses to fuel its capitalistic economy. Ironic, huh? It has been infuriating to those of us who have seen the deception and corruption in plain sight for decades.
If you ask yourself why the answer is obvious. If the public were made aware they would have become outraged when the politicians intentionally overspent the budget or caused bubbles in the stock market or debt markets (2008 mortgage collapse) that caused booms and busts. The politicians knew these activities caused losses in the investment returns of the stock market that would endanger Social Security’s viability. If we had found out about their scamming it would mean the uniparty’s forever wars and depopulation efforts would have to come to an end. Using their media lapdogs they knew they could always sell the less informed sheeple about a potential shortfall in the SS and medicare funds in the future while at the same time approving increases in withholding rate, moving back the age to full retirement, restricting the amounts people could earn before being taxed, etc. That put even more money at their disposal to steal and misappropriate.
I will not spend much time discussing the truth that Jeff Childers of C&C recently brought about PDT and Bessent revaluing America’s gold reserves to more current market values. That impact alone would send the markets into the stratosphere. For once it would be nice if marked to market for something meant that gold could go back to being the reserve that supported the dollar to help it work for the common man’s benefit. Imagine the benefits to the retirement plans of We the People.
The answer for national solvency that included well funded retirements for all Americans has been sitting there all along. There was no political will power or citizen understanding to accomplish it.
Now there is.
Take Control
Once you identify how you want to invest, know that there are literally hundreds of funds that have no loads. Spend some time looking at reviews, ratings of funds, investment emphasis, fund expenses, 10 year returns and so on. The safety is in the S&P with the historically largest upside for growth in the NASDAQ index. Less risk with S&P, more risk with NASDAQ. More stable, proven acceptable returns in the S&P. More upside for returns with the NASDAQ.
Study it, work on it, budget for it and just do it. As wealth accumulates you may choose to move funds into crypto, precious metals, real estate and so on to diversify and reduce risk if you desire. It is never too early or too late to take the plunge. Actually, it can be good fun. For example, giving to children under aged 18-25 (depends on state law) is made easy with the Uniform Gift to Minors Act account. You can remain custodian until they hit the age limit and if you have taught them how investment works through the years they may choose to keep it invested and become millionaires later in life from a relatively modest investment in their youth. Linked below is an IRS update on the effect of the tax law changes on minors.
It is time to invest in America. Why let this golden age go by with nothing to show for it? If you have hit your senior years like us, beyond the additional personal income it provides it gives you an investment outlet while you are alive that will survive and be of benefit to whoever or whatever you designate when you pass.
For us that represents a fulfilled intention.
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