Secretary-General António Guterres (left) speaks with Volkan Bozkir, (Russia) President of the UN General Assembly.
The position of the United States of America, once the beacon of hope, justice and honesty, relative to the rest of the world’s nations, has changed. It’s not a change most Americans have hoped for or, cruelly, even anticipated – certainly not one that our erstwhile “leaders” have anticipated. In a nutshell: our enemies have identified themselves. None of the bribes or blandishments by which we have executed “foreign policy” are sufficient any longer. The outright gifts to those who will be just as happy to watch our demise as grand influencers, have proven to be a waste… unappreciated largesse from our grandchildren’s grandchildren that bought, evidently, only tolerance.
Now that the Bidens have destroyed faith in our money, in our courts and in our foreign services, Americans have what might be perceived as an opportunity to stop lying to ourselves the way we’ve been lying to other nations. Honesty is not a commodity that is banked in any quantity by our federal administrative state or by the elected trolls it maintains for our imagined benefit. We vote and vote, hoping and praying that the latest lines spewed in campaigns are, at last, the true ones, but nothing changes very much. The only change agent in the past 9 administrations has been hounded and vilified, attacked and threatened by the administrative state’s agents, since before he won election in 2016.
The internal and external destruction of the United States of America, has been engineered by the Communist Party of China – CCP. The majesty and Christianity, tolerance and charity of America has been given away, diluted and stolen by even our trusted friends, neighbors and “public servants” as we’ve barely watched, so consumed are we by technology and hyper-sexuality and self-hate. “They” have divided us against ourselves – the only way America and Americanism could have ever been defeated. We’re still standing by the Grace of God, but our own determined effort will put an end to that. Still, while we yet stand, we have an opportunity to make some radical decisions.
A quick and painless one, an obvious one, is to get rid of the United Nations and renounce every connection or treaty that we’ve ever honored with that den of thieves. Kick them out of New York, out of our State Department and out of any influence in our curricula (aside from history) or our medical establishment. We are Americans – we own this country and we can clean out this fetid closet of worms if we wake up in time. Let China build a new set of club-houses for the International Liars’ Club to meet in.
Next, recognize who our enemies actually are and stop treating them like imminent friends whose undying friendship may be cemented by only a few billion more debt-dollars from our grandchildren’s grandchildren. If they wish to trade with us or even enter our country, they will have to be at least courteous towards our national sovereignty and honor. Let those who are proven friends to our nation, have advantage over other nations in terms of trade, commerce and intercourse. Let us make mutual defense agreements with those who will commit as much to those treaties as our nation does – who will risk their citizens’ lives in our defense as we have and will in theirs.
Our international agreements should be mutually beneficial while not draining our treasury. We’ll need some honest financial managers to replace the band of liars who operate the mis-named Federal Reserve, FDIC, Treasury Department and the IRS. They operate as controllers of or enemies of American citizens. Naturally, our federal budgets must be in surplus all-the-friggin’-time. Inflation of the money supply has only limited value to AMERICAN CITIZENS, and then only in times of war or national disaster. These do not include local hunger or personal failures or homelessness or drug addiction or unhappiness. We’re talking only the business of the federal government, personal matters notwithstanding.
It is not the business of the federal government to house people, feed or clothe them, educate them or wipe their bottoms. At least half of the federal departments and sub-agencies can be eliminated along with half of the work-force… to start.
It IS the business of the federal government to defend and control our borders, ports of entry and the presence of non-citizens. Illegally residing non-citizens should be humanely rounded up and deported to their home countries, from where they can apply for visas. Our country has allowed its past half-century of federal administrations to over-promise and over-spend to the amount of some $32 Trillion of current debt, and over $100 Trillion of future socialist obligations. This is the same as pointing out that we have exceeded our productive surplus* over the past 60 years in order to transform other countries, provide comforts to non-productive citizens/residents of our own country, act like we are the most wealthy nation in the world, and to add numerous socialist programs for political reasons (vote-buying). We cannot afford to live the way we have been. We must stop borrowing and pay our loans off. We must teach/force our citizenry to take responsibility for themselves and take that same off the back of the federal government. The future can be one of freedom or of socialism/Communism; it can’t be both.
We need more tax-PAYERS, not more tax-TAKERS. Currently, and since the outbreak of COVID-19 in particular, the long, slow creation of federal dependents has been operating at hyper-velocity – the dream of the Communists among us. Sadly, we have been electing Communists to positions of influence and power in our states and in the federal government. Part of how this could be is our hasty acceptance of people from widely diverse cultures, making them citizens and allowing them to create pockets of cultural distinction rather than assimilating them into our unique American culture. We can identify the Communists among us by observing their disdain for that American culture. We allow many of these weird people into our education establishment and then marvel at how differently our children treat American values. In too many cases, our children have never learned what those values are.
Recently, 700 professors on the staff of the University of North Carolina signed a letter opposing a new requirement to include instruction in America’s founding documents and Constitution. They feel that “academic freedom” is threatened by teaching American history. A great university is represented by faculty who, evidently, fear the inculcation of AMERICAN values. Perhaps their best efforts are perceived as the separation of their students from American values, should the primary and secondary schools not done an adequate job. Maybe this explains why teachers see parents as the enemies of “education:” they might be teaching their own children the American values that teachers are committed to destroying. America Awake!
*Productive surplus is what is available to be taxed out of payrolls and profits.
There is a certain fascinating aspect and predictability to the ways leftists, Democrats and Communists create solutions to difficult social problems that they often have also created. To resolve the growing, activist-multiplied problem the various shades of leftists inevitably proffer a “solution” that strengthens the government and the leftists, themselves… and on and on it goes. Freedom gets traded for a new level of “safety.” Only the rarest of elections changes this course.
We see this playing out in the sudden pandemic of trans-sexuality that has infected our schools, our governments, our colleges, even our medical establishments – including pediatrics, a form of medicine most of us have always trusted – and even some churches. It’s a worse pandemic than COVID was intended to be, bad as it was. It’s worse because there is no injection that will immunize the hearts and minds of the susceptible, nor is any pharmaceutical company working on one. No President has cleared the decks for a “Warp Speed” development of a cure for this new disease; various groups cannot agree on its origin: animals or a laboratory. It is grotesquely infectious, however, affecting many organs, starting with the brain.
Just like COVID, trans-genderism has attracted new streams of commerce, catering to the needs of the infected as well as the threatened. Some of these are drugs, so helpful to transitioners as they leave reality, and surgical procedures, even in pediatric departments at formerly trusted hospitals, but, not to be out-done, beer, sneakers and other products are making sure that “trannies” know where to buy whatever makes life worth living, including rapid delivery from Amazon Prime vans. We are no slouches when it comes to scraping a buck off of the mentally ill.
The psychiatry and psychology industries are getting the short straw, though. Lots of jurisdictions had long-ago made it illegal to treat sexual matters, no matter how confused, psychologically. Affirmation and the aforementioned drugs and surgeries, not to overlook deception of parents and grandparents, are the only accepted maltreatments. If parents and grandparents react badly to teachers and school policies that lie and mislead them about the children they raise and love AND ARE RELATED TO BY BIRTH, the leftists will send police and the FBI and others to harass and arrest them.
The widespread reactions to opposition to the trans-gender pandemic, are the basis of the new problem that cries out for a governmental solution… from the same leftist gaggle that created the original problem/pandemic. Pretty soon, state by state, legislation will be offered to “protect” the LGBTQ+ “community” from “Christian fascists” who wish to take away the “civil rights” of the deviant. Grotesquely, that “community” has attached itself to real civil rights problems that are based on inherent distinctions of race and birth – unchangeable things. Always seeking support, militant “civil rights” activists are happy to add sexual deviance to their reasons to protest and, now, to tear down. In their anti-historical foolishness, true civil rights activists are abetting the complete tear-down of society and culture that global communists have always wanted: the “solution.”
Most “trans” and other abnormal sexual claims are based on – wait for it – self-declarations. They are not based on empirical evidence of gay-ness or of needs to convert one’s body to one that has the appearance of the opposite sex. It’s all mental-emotional. This in no way belittles the intensity or “reality” of emotional worries, fears and other feelings that cause the sufferer to believe his or her body is the “wrong” one. The suffering person is suffering. How though, could enforceable laws be based on the utter lack of empirical evidence: nothing to show anyone, nothing a jury could review, nothing with the possibility of forensic discovery. How much worse it is when a trusted adult asks the questions 5, 8, 11-year-old children don’t have the wisdom to answer.
Tik-Tok and other kid-centric social media enhance the peer pressure to adopt the latest, most affirmative trend / fad, and it is largely out of sight of parents and other non-affirmative adults. After all, your teacher, for Heaven’s sake… well, not Heaven’s sake, certainly, but someplace’s sake, told you not to tell your parents that you really aren’t a girl and that your name is now Brad instead of Bonnie. Go ahead and send that video to your favorite classmate of how cool you look, dressed like a boy. What rot.
Evil trends have conspired to destroy humanity, especially in the United States. Separating children from their actual selves denies them the ability and opportunity to fulfill the responsibilities of their gender. The education of boys ought to be different in key ways from the education of girls. Each gender has its own preparation for adulthood. Boys and girls are equal under the law, but not equivalent in roles and in life. It’s not mysterious, but it is a crime socially, culturally and (should be) actually.
There is no reason to trust anyone who thinks the explosion in “trans-genderism” is good or valid. There’s no reason to trust medical institutions or personnel who accept minors for surgery for the purpose of “changing” gender. No reason to trust anyone who will feed puberty blockers or opposite- sex hormones to minors. No reason to trust anyone who will ruin the maturation and fertility of a minor human child. God save us.
For some weird reasons: forms of moral communism, basically, sexuality has become a major element of elementary education and the business of thousands of men and women formerly respected as educators. One wonders why there has been a virtual explosion of sexual deviance and why America tolerates it, let alone cements it in place with illogical legal protections. The so-called LGBTQ+ “community” has shifted from seeking safety and tolerance to rabid dominance of culture and communications, and a legally enforced “right” to convert children to deviance in schools and elsewhere. This abrupt, new trend is a sign of sickness in a culture.
Normalization of homosexuality was the beginning to a societal tolerance of deviant sexuality, but by itself, neither virulent nor threatening to our core morality. Gay marriage, however, provided the breech in legality such that virulent deviance could force itself upon schools, society and families. Proto-Communists in the schools and teachers’ unions, perceived gender confusion as an excellent tool for dividing society and weakening families: a key process to create totalitarian control of society. How diabolically clever to choose as an “enemy” the widespread grasp of truth. What is the most damaging effect of this subversion?
To answer that we need to establish some moral – and spiritual – ground rules. It seems Prudent to reflect on life, itself. It is fundamentally spiritual, in the majoritarian worldwide view. There are too many “miraculous” events, large and small, that define, save and divert the lives of too many people to attribute everything to “luck.” Even cultures that place great emphasis on “luck” are dependent on something “spiritual” – forms of super-natural forces.
At the same time as “spiritual” beliefs or assumptions are at work, society, itself, must function for the maximum number of people. That means food, safety, comfort, property and advancement. All require stability and widespread agreement on rights and wrongs: ethics, courtesies and laws. People had to cooperate in trusted and trusting ways. The integrity and primacy of family units are essential, as are the education and acculturation of children. Those who would disrupt – to the point of replacing the structure and strengths of – a successful society, recognize that disrupting families is the first and most effective step. To some significant degree, those are people who are anti-spiritual, and in the case of America, anti-Christian in virulent ways.
Human sexuality, in nearly all family units, represents the creation of children, who are the descendants of that family line. Grandparents are as keenly interested in that process as parents are. Whatever interferes with conception, childbirth and acculturation of children, is striking at the essence of social success and of hope… for the future, one of those “spiritual” aspects of life. To the disrupters, sexuality, in the soup of hypersexualization of “Western” civilization, became a weapon against American culture.
“Gay” marriage was a move spurred by compassion. Once it had legal status, aggressive sex-weaponizers had a basis for demanding equal status in school settings: homosexuality now had to be taught along with heterosexuality, and not just about marriage. Heterosexuality is – and always has been – normalcy: mothers and fathers produce children; boys and girls are different in “normal,” predictable ways; growing up takes place in predictable, “normal” patterns with predictable responsibilities, that ought to respond to parental and societal expectations. The boundaries of ethics and law are equally recognized and predictable. Progress occurs as does advancement, in that individuals become more skilled, more valuable in the economies of families and communities… and nations, and more spiritual. Those formulas of cultural success are resilient, but only to a point. Feminism, a re-ordering of relationships between men and women, perhaps inadvertently, provided political power to legalize increasingly non-normal sexual practices. Gay marriage had opened the door a crack while a giant wedge of divisive realignment was poised, in the form of radical feminism, to jam it open to every form of deviant irresponsibility. Our culture has, so far, failed to recognize the danger lurking within the virulent move to get children to renounce their true selves – basically denying responsibilities inherent in their genders and roles in a healthy society. “Affirming” mental incongruities as more true than reality, has a very, very low rate of success. The web of lies we call “laws,” should be unraveled.
ELECTIONS
The majesty of United States’ citizenship is taught – if taught at all – through detraction and condemnation. Rare are the public, unionized schools where a deep understanding is gained by students, of the responsibilities imparted by our Constitution, Declaration and multiple other founding and originating documents and philosophies. Freedom is not a gift from our forefathers, except as a door to the future that we, American citizens are obligated to pass through as leaders for this world. We have the keys to progress, advancement and personal perfection in our hands; we have failed to implant it in the hearts of our children. For most of us, the closest we come to that responsibility is in our role as voters – authorized choosers of America’s leadership, authorized lenders of power to those we choose to hold it. That fundamental authority and power has been so corrupted as to be taken from us BY THE VERY PEOPLE we lend our nation’s representative powers to!
Some functions of democracy should not be computerized. The stealing of elections has become virtually part of the background humor of the United States, and it’s a part of history, most especially in large cities. The holding of public office in cities can, if manipulated successfully, provide great wealth and power over others. Those positions will be defended and fought-for. The rot of urban election theft has morphed, thanks to the mysterious wonders of computerized vote recording and tallying, into the theft of statewide and federal elections.
Voter lists are computerized and the printouts of those lists are available to official campaigns. So, too, are lists of deceased or moved-away voters, and those who are ineligible for other reasons. Fortunately for those who are willing to defraud the voting process, most of the ineligible voters are still listed among the names on the “voter” list. A moderately sly campaign functionary can arrange for persons to go to the polls and vote in the name of ineligible, but still listed, voters. It works, but is time consuming and risky. How fabulous to have a “pandemic” strike the nation during a federal election year! Resulting fears and medical ignorance (and mendacity) overrode legal and Constitutional strictures, enabling even more sly attorneys to win court cases allowing for “mail-in” ballots to “protect” voters from the scourge of COVID-19.
These mostly illegal changes under cover of a “national medical emergency,” were quickly stretched to allow ballot drop-boxes, official and unofficial, and then vote-harvesting from infirm voters, ostensibly. Sympathetic election officials allowed ever wider interpretations of “safety” and “every vote should count,” which included every ballot – licit and illicit. A handful of determined election fraudsters in mail-in states could, because of fellow-democrat fellow-travelers, sway tens and hundreds of thousands of invalid, but counted, “votes.” Even signature-match verification was disregarded in the interest of safety during a national medical emergency. Computers helped, of course, providing unmonitored curing of “erroneous” ballots with new electronic records. Damn the whole process.
Voting is the only sacrament in democracy. We have allowed one party, basically, to corrupt voting and vote-counting to its benefit. In 2020 these factors may have accounted for more than 8 million illicit votes. It changed history and the resulting President is changing history more every day… not in good ways, at all.
How can this Jin be pushed back into its cave? How can every election be trusted again? What are the steps? It requires a certain amount of automation, but no actual computerization and no internet connections to aggregation points or to state elections offices or to anywhere else.
First, hand-marked ballots, only. Fill in the ovals or squares and let a machine scan them and count them. A total is reported for each office. Count the handful of write-ins, and pack up the ballots with a bar-coded wrapper. A certified police officer transports that bundle to the single aggregation point near the state capitol. There, that bundle is unwrapped and fed through a certified machine identical to the one in East Podunk that generated the draft, on-site total. The stack is run through the second machine and the totals compared. If they are exactly alike, the total is reported as final.
If the totals don’t agree the ballots are inspected by hand while monitored by poll watchers. The stack is scanned again in a free-standing, non-networked machine. At some point there will be two identical totals and that number is reported. The total time to complete these steps might be 2 or 3 days, but the totals will be trustworthy. Everything else that has been interjected into this process is bogus and serves only the convenience of government – and the purposes of the leftist party. Absentee ballots should be only that, with significant reasons to avoid personally casting one’s ballot.
There should be no “early” voting, except, perhaps, for 2 or 3 days. That will facilitate convenience without encouraging voting in ignorance of much of what might be exposed by the campaigns. If the Post Office is to be involved in any significant way it should be to deliver registered ballots that must be signed-for by the requestor. Then, ON A SPECIFIC DAY prior to Election Day, and involving no mail delivery on that day – perhaps a Saturday – Postal route personnel can pick up the ballots at the addresses to which they were delivered. No wholesale mailings to untrustworthy “voting lists” and no ballot harvesting.
If we fail to secure our elections we fail to deserve the blessings of liberty.
BUDGETS
The term, “Budget” is not used in the Constitution. Budgeting for government spending, however, is vitally important – it’s the only way to set a standard for the key functions of the Congress: raising revenue and appropriating it for legitimate government expenditures. There are thousands of words in the U. S. Code relating to the President’s obligations to provide dozens of kinds and titles of data about programs and expenditures included in the President’s submitted budget. Sadly, about three-quarters of “the budget” is considered permanent or “entitlements” or both at once, and therefore unchangeable by the people’s representatives, despite having been created by those same worthies on behalf of those same people. Technically, EVERY element in the budget may be modified or removed. However, virtually every aspect of federal expenditure has its own advocacy group, mostly political. With Congress’ primary purposes being re-election and not the “people’s business,” no part of the budget that could have a negative impact politically, will be touched, except to increase it.
With a $32 Trillion federal debt, a large fraction of the sub-chapters of the budget must be “touched,” cut or eliminated. They cannot all grow in every budget cycle, including payrolls, welfare entitlements pensions and other hot-button items. There is no reason to expect that the Congress as constituted and elected, is going to ever balance expenditures and revenues, let alone cut any one of them. The collapse of the U. S. economically is being led and accelerated by government debt and deficit spending. All processes of taxation and revenue accumulation have failed to enhance America’s economic strength of freedom, nor has it done very much to increase the prosperity of a majority of Americans. We feel like we’re becoming more wealthy, higher real estate prices and so forth, perhaps larger retirement funds, but our money is worth less every year and a lot of what we think we’ve gained is “balanced” by those trillions in debt. Most of us will not be ready when the decline becomes a rout.
Our wonderful – magical – Federal Reserve Bank was given vital power by Congress in 1913: to coin money and set the value thereof. Along with that sloughing off of Constitutional power, Congress also provided “the Fed” the magical power to loan money to the federal government, even when it doesn’t have money to actually lend. So, it lends air and charges interest on it. The federal government owes so much that it must borrow money to pay the interest on previous loans. That amounts to three-quarters of a trillion dollars this year. Only the most irresponsible presidential administration would run a greater-than-Trillion-dollar deficit in its budget in the face of this unprecedented indebtedness.
The history of the past 60 years has made the budget process of the U. S. federal government, an increasingly fraudulent exercise. The fraud is perpetrated upon the American people, in the main, but also on every holder of dollars in the world, as the value of each dollar slips downward, year by year… sometimes week-by-week.
Prudence would dictate a different course for our ship of state, but we won’t see that happen under Democrat control of the White House.
The accumulation of derogatory information about the origin of COVID-19 and the supposed “vaccines” rushed into production and forced upon billions of people across the world, argues for some Prudent discussion. We’ve been repeatedly told about how “COVID” caused the deaths of “a million” Americans. It’s more complicated than just that terrible number.
For some weird reason, the United States has yet to hold China responsible for the pandemic. We keep doing billions of dollars of business with China, we treat China with kid-glove diplomacy, and we drop key internal defenses against Chinese influence within our universities, elections and social media. No rational country would act this way, so why are we acting irrationally? Money? Is that it? Did you know that China actually established its own POLICE STATIONS (supposedly to monitor Chinese nationals) in New York and elsewhere?
Do you ever hear a statistic of how many people have died or been debilitated by the mRNA vaccines? No? It is Prudent to wonder why that is so. Are the deaths of young, not infirm, but healthy young children and young adults, any less tragic than deaths from COVID? There are thousands, after all. Debilitation includes permanent heart damage that has stopped sports activity in its tracks and lifelong heart weakness. Is this other epidemic simply the price that a society must pay for the greater good? What good is that? Wealth transfer?
Those who take the “side” of the so-called mRNA vaccines are convinced that they miraculously saved the lives of millions of people. That is a statistic that can’t really be quantified: we can’t prove what didn’t happen. Oddly, though, when COVID was its most virulent, in 2020, there was no “vaccine” available, yet in 2021, when people were lining up by the millions to get the injections, twice as many people died “from COVID.”
Needless to say, money skewed those deaths and statistics, too. Hospitals were compensated for treating COVID patients, more for providing Remdesivir (which also killed some victims) and more for use of ventilators on patients… then still more for every COVID death in hospital. Unlike virtually every other epidemic/pandemic, NO OTHER TREATMENT OPTIONS WERE PERMITTED! Despite widespread evidence of lives saved and mitigating effectiveness of Ivermectin in various combinations with analgesics and supplements, one of the safest drugs ever discovered, doctors who prescribed it were chastised and restricted to the point of losing hospital privileges and even licensure. AS IF COORDINATED, there erupted a monolithic defense of mRNA vaccines as the only “treatment” approved, and a virulent disapproval of all alternatives. Is that how influential big Pharma’s money is throughout our medical establishment?
To make matters ever so much worse, governments imposed vaccines on various groups, professions, industries else workers would lose their jobs – jobs deemed heroic prior to vaccine availability. Civil rights were tossed out the window in favor of vaccine mandates, while adverse effects of the vaccines themselves were suppressed. Gone was the right to “informed consent” by the coerced, since the vaccine makers had made claims of effectiveness based on poor test samples and, in crucial cases, NO TEST SAMPLES… just claims. There was no real information about the “vaccines” that could provide the “informed” part.
Throughout 2022, as “vaccinated” came to mean the first two shots and some number of booster shots, the niggling reports of adverse reactions to mRNA injections became a flood, including an abrupt spike in sudden adult deaths among the 25 to 59 year old demographic – the healthiest segment. Morticians and pathologists were reporting numerous instances of long, rubbery blood clots among deceased, vaccinated victims. Young men, even into their teens, were dropping dead during sporting events or while in training – reports from our and several other countries. Other reports involved pilots, who are monitored constantly for fitness, and even military personnel, also in the healthiest years of their lives, all vaccinated by mandate.
One doctor Prudence interacted with, upon hearing how the injections were being called “clot shots,” immediately proclaimed that COVID itself caused clots “orders of magnitude” more frequently than the miraculous mRNA injections, which, sadly, is simply not true. She, like many others “in” the medical industry, believes that the mRNA shots are a miracle that has saved millions of lives. That is what they are supposed to believe.
There are numerous instances of patients’ families going to court to force hospitals to treat their loved-ones with something besides ventilation and Remdesivir. In many cases the hospital would force them to physically take the patient somewhere else to avoid being treated in ways that institution had declared to be the “protocol,” for COVID, often in lockstep with “CDC” recommendations and “FDA” rules against Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. Doctors who knew of the effectiveness of alternate treatments were forced out of those hospitals and even lost their licenses. Today, the CDC and FDA are trying to claim that they offered only “suggestions” and that neither ever forced anyone to choose certain treatments or deny them. What a load of crap. These are still the “authorities” in medicine. We haven’t even mentioned Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Tony Fauci is a case study in “deep statism” all by himself. He worked for the National Institutes of Health for more than 53 years, and as head of the national Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the last 38 of those years. Over that span his federal salary rose to well over $400,000 – more than the President or anyone else in federal employ is paid. He may have been worth every penny. However, in addition to salary, many of the staff within NIH agencies, including Mr. Fauci, presumably, are allowed to collect “royalties” from pharmaceuticals and treatment protocols developed directly from research and laboratory testing financed by the NIH budgets. Fauci has strongly denied any “investment” in, for example, the mRNA injections, but his declaimer about royalties paid to personnel is rather indistinct, although he tosses in that none of its royalties were “paid to (him).” That doesn’t apply to numerous other products his NIAID helped to develop.
Perhaps Fauci’s greatest impact is achieved through research grants, in the many millions, ultimately billions, of dollars. We can see this impact in the microcosm by following the money the NIAID granted to a subcontractor, “Eco-Health Alliance,” for whom there existed no compunction about financing work in the Wuhan, China, Institute of Virology. Despite the highly revered – and paid – Dr. Fauci’s denial before Congress, Eco-Health Alliance was funding so-called gain-of-function research on the SARS-2-CoV virus. There must have been some good reason to encourage and fund that work. Money, perhaps.
It turns out that the University of North Carolina obtained a patent on the SARS-2-CoV virus protein. This is not possible, according to patent law referring to biological “inventions,” unless… unless the molecule or protein or cell has been engineered. That is, one cannot obtain a patent on a naturally occurring life-form. Even more interestingly, our own “CDC,” a federal agency (the Center for Disease Control) had already obtained a patent (which they petitioned to keep confidential) on the SARS-2 virus! That virus had to be engineered, also, in order to be patented, and not merely isolated. Wait a minute!
Dr. Fauci and others had determined that the SARS virus had certain useful qualities, perhaps as a biological vehicle for delivering certain biological materials into humans? Certainly there was something about that virus that made it worth engineering. And engineer they did, except the “they” got laundered through a favored sub-contractor who did business with the Wuhan Institute.
When the virus broke out of the lab – which reason and evidence make clear – it was the engineered version, made more infective in humans through “gain-of-function” engineering. “They” call it research. Who doesn’t like scientific research? Trust the science, right? The Chinese Communists, never known for telling the truth, tried to deflect on the source of COVID-19, as they distributed it across the planet, by claiming that it came from the U. S. military. There was, very unfortunately, more truth to that claim than Americans want to admit. Our own National Institutes of Health and its NIAID under the careful guidance of the renowned Anthony Fauci, began the chain of processes that resulted in the pandemic/plandemic we blame for millions of deaths and trillions of dollars of economic destruction. What a string of crimes.
But the disease enabled a huge lurch toward one-world socialist government, and our own president-regular-guy, Joe, is following along with his own trans-national delusions. He is happy to sign over American sovereignty in matters of health, American citizenship, gun-control, freedom of movement and financial manipulation. His outlook is shared by the World Economic Forum and the United Nations, particularly the W.H.O., who have lied about COVID-19 fairly steadily to protect China. No wonder today’s Democrats hate Trump and “America First” so much. The patriotic, America-loving observer would, Prudently, expect that “America First” would encompass “Americans First,” as part of the philosophy. It would seem that the HEALTH and well-being of Americans ought to be way high up in the purposes and priorities of the politicians we elect and overpay with that reasonable expectation. These so-called “vaccines” and related mandates appear to be the exact opposite of “Americans First.”
Recently the less-than-honest CDC expanded its “recommendations” for the “emergency use” injections of poorly tested mRNA gene therapies, to children as young as 2 years. No mother has been able to make an informed decision – able to provide “informed consent” – for the administration of these odd chemicals to their innocent offspring. That is because no mother has the information about what the “vaccine” does to her child’s body, heart, brain, ovaries immediately or over time. Neither Pfizer nor Moderna nor Astra-Zeneca has publicized what each does know about adverse reactions to the shots. There are, literally, well over 200,000 such events, including thousands of deaths. ANY other “vaccine” would have been pulled from the market after several hundred serious adverse effects.
ANY other epidemic/pandemic disease would have had every feasible treatment thrown at it, as well. None has ever been restricted as COVID-19 was, as to what drugs might be administered to counter the infection. Did you or someone you know lose a friend or family member to “Covid?” Was he or she “treated” with ventilation and/or Remdesivir? Estimates of how many Americans died of Covid, in fact, run to one million; estimates of how many might have been saved with banned treatments, primarily Ivermectin and key nutrients, run to HALF! 500,000 deaths that deserved more than one attempt to prevent them.
And, there is far more useful advice for prevention of harm from Covid-19, than taking more doses of mRNA shots, that for many people are a far greater risk of injury or death than Covid, itself. Put that in your 5-year-old… and hope for the best.
There are so many things to think about, wonder about, dream of or simply, profoundly contemplate… at Christmastime. Modern society provides thousands of distractions to contemplative thought, even of religious thought. It confuses young and old and even quite intelligent people, who, many of them, find comfort in overthrowing traditions and beliefs that, however jerkily, created pathways of progress and even enlightenment. Enlightenment’s end will be realized when “woke” ideologies capture the last government.
Christmas takes place at the altar of God, like it or not. Mankind is obligated to bring gifts of thanks to the Creator, gifts derived from multiplying what we have been given for a full year’s cycle of days and nights, pains and suffering, triumphs and failures, loves and losses, lives and deaths, babies and aged cadavers. If we manage to not be destructively distracted, we have much to offer our Creator, and offer it we must. This is not a new or even a “Christian” concept. Most religious traditions include significant measures of time, “moons,” seasons and solstices. The traditions that built our civilization caused the development of calendars that have a clear beginning and ending, recognized by everyone. Those who understood the segments of time and lengths of daylight hours gained great influence. As God and His prophets explained and taught spiritual laws, it was into the traditions of our incipient civilization that they fit them. As much as the first day of a new year is meaningful about beginnings, plans and courage to attempt new things, the end of the year is important for tallying the results and expressing gratitude for the victories and challenges thereof.
That there is believed to be a cycle of receiving and giving and of giving and receiving, all of which may contribute to a better destiny after one’s earthly life is finished, formed the basis of ethics, charity and hard work, and, it can be said, of honesty and personal responsibility. Populations that share these concepts develop individual consciences and the greatest of all gifts: self-control. This very capability is essential – indispensable – for the creation and maintenance of a personal relationship with God, God by any name, and, clearly, for the establishment of the democratic republic of the United States of America.
Many are alive today who, as socialists also do, believe that their purpose in life is to take as much advantage of society as possible. They expect levels of wealth, comfort and licentious rights as though by magic. Many don’t work or produce anything of useful value to others. If they are in college due to signed loan contracts, they tend to agitate energetically for “the government” to absorb their debts, as if they who signed those contracts were magically absolved of a solemn promise. It is an extraordinary expectation with literally no prior basis in law or social organization. Such an outlook is the diametric opposite of accepting an annual opportunity to live, multiply and serve others, and laying the results on the altar at the conclusion of the annual cycle. Education, parenting and religion have failed these people.
The American holiday, Thanksgiving, fits our founding philosophies perfectly. As we approach the end of each year, we are reminded unceasingly that it is time to give thanks for the blessings of freedom and of our Constitutional governance. Amongst the football, shopping, road-races and overeating, families and friends come together, let’s hope without conflict, where, even if not articulated, being thankful seeps in to the most unaware. But, thankful to whom?
Some might think they are thanking the government… for the good fortune that has found them in the United States. Yet the government spends most of its time limiting our freedom, not something to thank anyone for. However, we do enjoy a good fraction of the freedom that was present at our founding and we should be thankful for that. We still enjoy a measure of personal responsibility, the one ingredient in freedom that makes our personal choices meaningful as it makes our lives meaningful. Government seems to be actively eliminating personal responsibility as though everything good or bad that happens is a social consequence, not a personal one. That’s not what – or whom – we are thankful for, either.
Like love, hate or forgiveness, thankfulness is uniquely human. So, too, is the ability to worship. This combination of human attitudes and abilities is why socially sensitive civilizations exist. Add to them the sense of sacrifice that spurs preparation for a better future for ourselves and for others, and some of the most sublime philosophies of social organization, economics and government can be understood. The greatest advances of science and medicine would be impossible without certain attitudes, including sacrifice. These are attitudes common to what we call, “human nature,” and which are fought against consistently by philosophies of what we call, “socialism.”
Humans have a further grant from, well, their creator… certainly not from any government. We call it “free will” and it refers to the opportunity to choose from evil, which is to say, “away from evil.” Clearly, God (I’ll use “God” – easier to type, you know) brought humans into being on a planet where “free will” would always be tested against the blandishments of evil. Freedom will exist only so long as the young are taught about it and of it and, if truth be told, so long as God is worshipped. No form of governance that denies those understandings is able to keep people out of tyranny. For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, and hearts to maintain the courage of free will, I am thankful.
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” Frederick Douglass
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
Sun Tsu teaches that to defeat one’s enemy one must know who (or what) it is. The enemy, in its own defense, will always try to deceive, creating artifices against which its victim can expend great effort and resources, weakening itself to the point where the attacker can triumph with few losses. We call these artifices “Straw Men.”
So it is with good and evil. Evil never has strong footing but is very clever at creating false targets or disguises of its true purposes. Good can dissipate evil in a heartbeat but, being more trusting, gets diverted away from the target evil and even allies with it for a time, believing there is some greater good being served. And so it is with abortion.
The evil that is expressed through abortion is very clever. Abortion, we are told – and sold – is an expression of freedom and even civil rights. Most of us respect “freedom” and are quick to defend it. Most of us feel the same about individuals’ “civil rights,” and “Constitutional rights” even more. Being thoughtful and caring, most of us hate to admit that we have been deceived into defending evil when our whole intention is to defend rights, freedom and the Constitution – all “straw men” in this battle.
It doesn’t matter whether our core beliefs are religious, although such are great resources to bring into the battle against “abortion: “abortion” being the industry of the practice, now infecting medicine and even churches. Agnostics and atheists are free, certainly, to question our spiritual underpinnings as archaic or no longer relevant in a scientifically sophisticated world, believing that “science” has, or should, take the place of religious “superstition.” It doesn’t matter: religious truths and rules of honor are still operating regardless of any individual’s belief or disbelief. We still should strive to expose the Straw Men erected to protect abortion.
Among the other effects of the most famous opinion authored by Justice Harry Blackmun in 1973, Roe v. Wade cemented the repudiation of morality into federal law. Following the failures of moral struggles in the 1960’s, and as the federalization of welfare in the “Great Society” gained momentum, Blackmun conceived an invisible right to “privacy” that forced government’s hands off of virtually any moral judgements toward individuals’ behaviors. In effect, Roe justified evil, couching evil as a “right.” Historically, under a basically Christian impetus toward responsibility for one’s actions (essentially answering to a greater moral code than an individual might create for him- or her-self), individuals were free to be stupid, or to simply fail, but not to be immoral. Those who fought against immorality, or for a greater morality, were lauded and rewarded in society. Those who worked for licentiousness had to hide their purposes, often appealing to sympathies for the confused or otherwise “unfortunate” members of society who turned to an immoral path as their “only” means to elevate themselves from still worse circumstances. Straw Men on the march.
One need not follow any of the major religions to be uncomfortable at the destruction of unborn babies. If one is “religious” in outlook, he or she recognizes a more-or-less direct connection to God for every gestating child. This imparts a more-or-less direct responsibility – an obligation – to protect the holy innocents, there being no person of greater innocence than a pre-born baby. We should recognize the straw men arrayed against morality as those who seek to protect the abortion industry.
First is the claim that what has been conceived and is growing in the womb, is NOT a baby. It is merely a “fetus” which, in the view of abortionists, is a “mass of cells.” By implication, the proto-baby is a “foreign invader” and obligating the host-mother to protect and nourish it is a form of slavery or oppression. This argument is not biologically sound, nor is it morally solid. Humans, generally, are sympathetic to “baby” anythings, be they chicks, lambs, puppies or kittens, even heifers, foals, piglets and hippopotamuses. By great dint of effort, we have been divorced from the same emotions regarding our own babies. Indeed, appeals for donations to feed orphaned animals are far more successful than for the prevention of child abuse. How grotesquely odd; who benefits from this strange incongruity?
Women who have “bought” the entire narrative of oppression and “not a baby” still are likely to suffer some separation anxiety, even sadness, after an abortion. The older the fetus the more likely the grief. Who was that baby going to be? Would he or she have loved me? Blackmun found a right of privacy that flushed the destruction of the unborn clear of morality or meaning; the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, he couldn’t find. Interestingly, 90% of women who consider abortion choose to become mothers after seeing an ultrasound test and hearing the baby’s heartbeat.
Abortion can be rationalized with sufficient hatred, yet the essential child-mother bonding that commences very early on after conception, is real. More than simple hatred is needed to convince a mother that her irreplaceable role can be dissolved by mere hatred of a “growth” in her belly. It is a special virulence that brings a woman into an abortion provider’s lair, and it has to be carefully taught. For many abortion advocates, the essential hatred is hatred of male oppression. Such a transference of emotion is another variation of the Straw Man syndrome.
The country appears to be divided over the question of easy access to abortion on demand. This means that abortion advocates want abortion to be available within a bus ride, inexpensive or covered by insurance, and bound by few, if any, limitations.
The divide seems to follow party lines, with those on the left: liberals, progressives and socialists, the most in favor of unrestricted abortion; conservatives and Christians the least likely to approve of abortion on demand. The Democrat party has devolved into the party of death; it seems IM-Prudent to identify as such. Advocating for the most premature death possible is a form of evil. For religious citizens, it is proof of the actions of the “Devil,” which is to say, “Deified Evil.” Some call him Satan. Whether one “believes” or doesn’t, abortion is never as “nice” as the RIGHT to choose one. Even pro-abortion advocates should be able to recognize that pro-lifers who believe in the sanctity, or sacredness of innocent life, cannot compromise with the killing of that life.
It is worth wondering about the nature of the anger generated among pro-abortion advocates. It seems, well, out of proportion. Where pro-lifers might sing hymns or pray or simply try to speak with those heading into an abortion clinic – and this is understandably upsetting to those who have decided that death of their proto-baby is a solution to life problems – pregnancy support agencies are more likely to be vandalized and threatened. Where laws have been passed to protect access to abortion clinics and to prevent “harassment” of potential abortion clients, there are none that restrict the same for pregnancy support centers. Laws against vandalism and arson exist locally, of course, but seem to be less well enforced than the FEDERAL laws protecting the abortion industry, even when the industry, itself, breaks federal laws.
Demonstrations by pro-abortionists exhibit intense angers and even hatreds for pro-life defenders. One wonders why feelings are so high and angers so hot, in favor of abortion. Often there are threats of retaliation against those who oppose abortion. “If abortion isn’t safe, then neither are you!” Most pro-abortion / pro-death advocates have never suffered an abortion, yet they turn red in opposition to pro-lifers. Why? Clearly, if motivated to join a demonstration in favor of abortion, an individual believes he, or usually she, believes that a gestating baby is not a baby. Perhaps he or she also believes so strongly in Constitutional rights that the risk of breaking laws is well worth the righteous defense of such rights.
Yet, the only Constitutional right most pro-abortion advocates have ever defended is the right to terminate pregnancies. Is it just to defend the practice of licentious sex? Is the responsibility for the consequences of fornication so foreign a concept that the right to abortion must be defended? Is it that simple? It seems not.
Obviously, pregnancy resulting from rape is a special case, as is incest, and to protect the health/life of the mother goes without question. Requiring birth of a baby in these cases is cruel and unusual punishment, and society is not prepared to take that step. Neither is Prudence. Still, the baby is completely innocent in any case. We have to arrive at an agreement of person-hood at some point in gestation, whereupon Constitutional rights apply. We have not been able to do so.
It seems as though the right to kill innocent life is behind – or beneath – it all. It is an act that is as anti-religious, anti-God as is possible. If abortions were committed by sociopaths on the sidewalk, who then held the dead baby aloft like a battlefield triumph, we would arrest and incarcerate that evil person until his trial for first degree murder, a capital offense! Rightly so. But hiding the act away behind “clinic” doors and surgical gowns and rubber gloves enables us to defend it as a solemn right. Solemn rite, more like.
There are many forms of conspiracy of which average citizens have some inkling or suspicion, despite, or perhaps because of the concerted mendacity of government officials and agencies, including our military bureaucrats. Particularly since the Biden administration took control, world politics and military relationships have become more dangerous, more conspiratorial and far more difficult to control, let alone understand. Naturally, Americans are much more nervous and feeling isolated, as we probably should. With China encroaching on our spheres of influence and on numerous allies like Canada, Columbia, Panama, African nations and Europe, itself… even Hungary, the “world” seems to be ganging up on the U. S.
This is a rather abrupt turn of events. One has to wonder if it’s all a matter of incompetence and lack of understanding, or if key power centers in the U. S. are executing a plan. Can these questions be answered?
Was Covid-19 a strategy or unfortunate accident?
Is the widespread “legalization” of very dangerous marijuana and the onslaught of lethal drugs flooding our neighborhoods, just wretched capitalism or an element of intentional weakness that makes sense to some people?
Is the attack on Ukraine part of an “approved” plan by globalists to weaken NATO and the U. S.?
Is the “attack” on oil and gas in the U. S. part of the same plan?
Where did the basic plan to expand “transgenderism” among grade-schoolers originate?
How is it that major hospitals suddenly coordinated with the LGBTQ+ agenda and public schools to begin performing transgender mutilations and sterilizations?
Is the pressure to give virtually everyone from age 5 and up the modified RNA injections part of a larger objective of weakening individual freedom, lower general health and possibly population control?
Who, or what country(ies), actually benefits from the dramatic changes in U. S. monetary and immigration policies?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from election fraud?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from soft-on-crime policies in major cities?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from high inflation in the U. S.?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from restricting food production – reducing fertilizer use and sequestering productive acreage?
These are all rather sad questions to be able to posit. How could so many negative policies suddenly descend upon our nation and people? Can they all be parts of tragic, unavoidable coincidences? Or, could they be coordinated from… well, somewhere? Someone? Some group?
Can we put much credence into the idea that Joe Biden, a man whose mental state requires guides and “handlers” at all times, actually believes in what he says or does, or that he thought up the set of policies he has put into action?
Or, God forbid, but not an impossibility, is it possible that leftists/globalists in the United States’ “deep state” have considered the evolving relationships and power of Red China, the problems and responsibilities of American freedom and nationalism and the blandishments of the World Economic Forum in terms of a financial control model of vastly smaller populations, and decided that the only answer to the possibilities of wars and nuclear conflict is to throw in with the W.E.F. and establish a global government able to negotiate with, and even coerce China into coexistence? Perhaps systemic treason has been sold to the oligarchy as salvation.
The Biden “administration” has done everything it could in 19 months to destroy the trajectory of the U. S. economy, and, possibly, U. S. permanence. Above all, everyone is either helped or hurt by the big “bugaboo,” inflation. Economists, pundits, commenters and news-readers galore, all have wise-sounding opinions, yet no one seems to know what inflation IS!
It seems Prudent to assume that some of them do, but the average person listening to any such is not going to find it out. To a mouth, all say in so many, many words, that “inflation” is prices increasing. Well, no it isn’t. Inflation is inflation of the money “supply.” And that isn’t even accurate; it’s inflation of available cash OR CAPITAL that is “liquid,” or lendable. Capitalism and “inflation” go hand-in-hand to create prosperity for most people.
“Wait just a minute,” you’re thinking, “Inflation makes prices go up, and that’s bad, so it’s not helping MY prosperity.” Actually, it has helped it – look at the riches and bounty we enjoy. It’s a two-edged sword… like fire. It can cook our food, keep us warm, run our engines or… burn the house down. The key is keeping inflation where it runs the engine without burning down the house. So, where does this wonderful inflation come from?
The simple answer is debt. Our economy – even your personal economy – operates on a “futures” basis. If you own your home you probably have a mortgage on it, which is a long-term debt, well into the future. One of the quirks in our economy is that banks can legally loan out more “money” than they actually have on deposit. It’s called “fractional reserve,” and it is about 14%. In other words, among all the stored “savings” deposits and “performing loans” and temporary deposits, the “Bank” has an average number of dollars “in reserve,” at any given time. If it amounts to a million dollars, our laws allow the bank to lend out up to $7 Million, round numbers, of which 6/7ths is, fundamentally, air. So long as the honesty and ability to repay of most borrowers are intact, this is a safe system and the recipient of the check for the house you bought, accepts the dollars that were created to write it, as well as if he saw them peeled from a big fat roll of $100-dollar bills.
If the seller of the house also dealt with the same bank, his or her new deposit of, say, $400 thousand will, for a while, increase the average “reserve” the bank can lend seven times as much of.
Anyway, you commit to paying your mortgage for 20 or 30 years because the pain of losing your home is worse than the pain of making the payments. Besides, you have a job, you’re productive, you’re helping to create profits somewhere – productive surplus, if you will. It is reasonable that you will keep your promise to pay. You have made your work valuable enough to produce some “productive surplus” for your own family.
Try to imagine where the construction industry and millions of jobs would be if there were no such thing as mortgages or construction loans. But, if you’re worried about inflation, look at what you just did: you caused the inflation of the money supply by about $340,000! Depending on the “velocity” of that money (through the economy), possibly even more than that. But! It’s OK. You’re going to pay it down – or “back” – to the bank. Owning that house will cause you to buy a bunch of other stuff that increases production (let’s hope, inside the U. S.), as well as future repairs and upgrades, and it will enable you to raise your children to become productive, too.
Transactions like these happen thousands of times a day, whether for homes, or cars, or work vehicles, trailer trucks and on and on. Every loan creates some inflation, but not more than the “economy” will absorb, or, we might say, not more than the economy needs.
In the process of economic activity, wages, sales and so forth, governments collect taxes. That is, BECAUSE THERE IS PRODUCTIVE SURPLUS in our economic activity, “we” can afford to pay taxes for those services and public works that individuals cannot provide for themselves. Among these are public school facilities, police departments, fire departments, all the bureaucrats who are there to help US, the military, highway and roadway constructions, sewage treatment, water works and sewers, themselves. All that stuff is paid for from productive surplus. If kept in a rough balance, it all works together amazingly well as more people become productive and relatively financially independent, and benefiting in safety and economy from our shared public works.
How does it get out of balance? Put most simply, if the money supply grows with no commensurate increase in production or productivity. Take the example we’ve experienced recently where governments, based on perceived, raw, political advantage, decree that the “minimum wage” shall be $15.00 per hour. A kid stuck at the fry station in a McDonald’s, making French fries for as many customers as desire some, gets a sudden, say, 20% pay increase. He or she cannot fry more potatoes than before the raise, there are only so many orders for fries in a given day. The added pay does not enable the fry-kid to encourage more people to buy fries than they used to buy before the change in pay. Do you think the individual cost of an order of fries is going up? Of course. Or, is it possible that customers might wait a little longer to get their fries – and their whole orders, when it’s busier? Perhaps the restaurant owner can’t afford to put two kids at the fry station in busy periods, now that the pay has increased arbitrarily. The customer pays – or suffers – for this arbitrary work rule.
So, French fries go up in price, but is that “inflation?” Well, no, obviously. It’s an imposed change to the “CGS,” or Cost of Goods Sold. How would inflation cause the price of French fries to go up?
Suppose that in a certain marketplace: your town, for example, there are both a lot of disposable income – free cash, as it were – and a limited supply of frozen French fries. Potatoes are neither grown nor processed locally; they are transported some distance to the restaurants that want them in your town. People in your town are in the habit of ordering fries with their burgers and sub sandwiches and business in fries is brisk.
Because the supply of spendable cash has been inflated (increased), people who might have held off adding fries to their sandwich orders, have started to order them more frequently, yet the total volume of fries coming from the processors can’t increase for quite a while, as the extra cash in everyone’s pocket makes it possible to afford the fries in other towns, as well, and the price of fries appears to be a bargain where they used to be a bit of a luxury.
Restaurants are finding that they’re “selling out” of fries and seeing customers go to another restaurant that still has some. The owners get on the phone to order more fries but there aren’t any extra to be had. Very quickly busier restaurants will offer a premium price to the distributor to get an extra case of frozen fries every day. Realizing the nature of the increased demand, the distributor makes a deal with a potato processor who guarantees additional frozen fries, but at a higher wholesale price, too.
Pretty soon, the French fry supply problem is solved and people in your town can obtain all the fries they want, although each order costs a little more. Lo, and Behold! Inflation of the money supply changed demand patterns in the French fry marketplace. This example is too simple, but also real. During the engineered Covid crisis, the federal government wrote checks to millions of people that it/they, the federal, state and municipal governments had thrown out of work… billions and billions of dollars’ worth, but they were from accounts that had no actual – although highly hoped-for-future – money in them! The checks were written from AIR. Worse, they were doled out without regard to increasing productivity or other economic growth. No new crops were planted, tended or harvested; no new mines were opened and their valuable minerals retrieved; no new inventions were spurred causing new manufacturing to commence. But people accepted the ‘air-checks’ and spent them like money. The money supply increased by over a Trillion Dollars while the supply of goods to be purchased actually went DOWN!
Prices started to go up until states started to re-open their businesses and let people go back to work. The economy was roaring back when Biden was shoveled into office. He promptly signed another Trillion-dollar “Covid Relief” bill that was no longer needed, indeed it extended payments to not work, and inflation really started shooting up. The money supply – more air, but who’s counting – was now completely untethered from productivity, production or quantities of goods for sale. In addition, there was an even larger incentive to not work. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) started to take off in a serious way.
Because of “petro-dollars,” a sweetheart deal we made with Saudi Arabia (and, therefore, OPEC) when Nixon closed the gold window in the early ‘70’s, our federal spenders have developed a habit of calling everything a “crisis.” It doesn’t have to be a war, a disaster, a plague… just a problem – like getting re-elected. And, since there is (almost always) a terrible crisis, they can justify borrowing to resolve it. So, they spend about one-third or more, MORE than the real money tax receipts that the federal government collects each year. That missing third or 40% or so must be borrowed, largely adding to the “national debt.”
Now, if the extra federal spending were creating real wealth, which is what real investment does, the loans would steadily be repaid by the productive surplus the investments made possible. Another way of saying it is that the DEBT would be DESTROYED. That’s a good cycle: ideas vetted, loans obtained, practices, processes or new resources are implemented or obtained,* and the new productive surplus can be applied, in part, to “retire” the loan while net societal – or National – wealth increases. Living standards improve and the repaid capital (the loan) becomes available for other real investments.
This neat system collapses when non-productive or ANTI-productive effects of the loan (deficit spending, it’s called) are mandated by law. Most commonly, it collapses because the government borrows money to PAY FOR CURRENT EXPENSES, like welfare, interest on older loans, increasing the numbers of people employed in non-productive pursuits, and so forth. A good example of hiring more people to be non-productive is part of the recently passed “Prosperity Reduction Act,” or, as it is officially mis-labeled, “The Inflation Reduction Act.” Inside of this dishonest legislation is a provision to hire 87,000 more IRS agents, who will harass and impoverish productive people (tax-payers they are called) with absolutely no increase in productive surplus for anyone. Oh, there’ll be some fat paychecks, but the net wealth of our economy will decline.
The extra payroll dollars (among others in the bill) will inflate the money supply, however, and prices will move upward again as more cash chases fewer goods.
There are $600+Billion other dollars in the “bill” that also don’t represent any new production, productivity or wealth… they just lower the value of all the dollars floating around or in your wallet and retirement accounts. Thanks, Brandon.
*Where are new resources “obtained?” Well, there are only so many sources of new wealth that can add to an economy and total wealth of a nation. The first is agriculture. The elements of a crop of wheat or corn or soybeans or potatoes, are relatively inexpensive. We count on God to provide the soil, the rain and sunlight… even the seeds, although humans have figured out how to augment everything but sunlight, and how to till the soil and harvest the crops with automated machinery, which has reduced the cost of labor in food production, as well. Barring weather disasters and political interference, agriculture creates new wealth with every crop-cycle. Many inventions and new mechanizations have been developed in response to the need for better food production as population has grown.
Coincident with expanding agriculture are various forms of mining, whether for coal, metals, oil, gypsum, quartz and dozens of other riches the earth provides. From them have come thousands… no, Millions of products and inventions and improvements to standards of living, not least of which are pharmaceuticals and computer chips. Virtually every one of these bits of progress and improvement has required some “financing,” or, as better known, debt. Little by little every step has also “inflated” the money supply, but in rough equivalence to the new economic activity each has spurred. A lot of that activity has been in the form of “fixed” assets, like buildings, roads, bridges and so forth. At their creation, “fixed” expenditures DEFLATE the money supply, while enabling long-term economic benefit for lots of other activities, comforts or safety.
Somebody is going to paint those buildings. We’re still driving across bridges that were built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930’s.
Some companies, banks, agencies, treasuries and individuals are benefitted very nicely by inflation, primarily the federal government. They get to spend the money first. Debts and other invoices the federal government owes are paid off with “cheaper” dollars. Increased payrolls result in increased tax receipts. Favored industries obtain contracts and payments to carry out policies incorporated in the inflationary legislation. Millions of votes are purchased as loans are forgiven and exorbitant expenses incurred and paid off. So, some benefit immediately and don’t begrudge deficit spending. Others, tax-payers, not so much.
The actual net result is a reduction in both national and individual wealth for MOST people. The few favored in the legislation get an artificial boost of income. It’s all very unfair and sold to the American people as a universal “good.” But, what does it have to do with “petro-dollars?”
Petro-dollars refers to our agreement with OPEC that oil would be traded only for dollars. Every nation, basically, would need to always have some dollars on deposit – some even made the U. S. dollar a “reserve” currency – so that when they needed to buy oil they could. If they sold oil, they accepted having billions of U. S. dollars on deposit. Dollars could be exchanged for any other currency an “oil” nation needed to buy products from anyone. Still, a global acceptance of dollars gave a golden “carte blanche” to ignorant congresspeople to borrow without any practical limit. All they need is a “crisis.”
At the same time that President Biden has ruined relations with Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC, and attacked fossil-fuels in the United States, multiple countries like Russia, China, Brazil and Iran, are making moves to eliminate the dollar as the currency of trade in oil. When they succeed – WHEN they succeed – countries will start dumping dollars. They won’t have the impetus to buy stuff from the U. S. in order to use up the dollars they have had to hold. Currency markets will turn upside down.
We will experience price increases that are unimaginable. All the goods and goodies that we import now, will have to be paid for with more valuable currencies than U. S. dollars. Exchange rates are going to punish the dollar when that day comes. All the dollars that have been created in other countries and banks have been inflating the same “money supply” we talked about earlier. Every dollar BILL is, in fact, a bill that must be paid with something valuable, not merely with more “Federal Reserve Notes.” The mendacious debt that Congresses and administrations have racked up to the tune of almost $31 TRILLION, will complete its cycle of inflation, as well, while much of the trading world rejects payments in dollars, preferring gold, rubles, rials, or, most likely, yuan. We have no concept of and no political ability to balance our books and bring the number of dollars floating around into alignment with some form of productive output from our economy. Prices, for everything, will shoot up.
We can see the World Economic Forum, a group of self-selected control freaks by which real governments – including our own – are being influenced, is spreading the organic fertilizer of “nitrogen pollution,” since carbon-dioxide hasn’t scared enough people. To limit “nitrogen” requires, in their view, reducing crop yields (by refraining from using chemical fertilizers) and going “organic.” There is an agenda that is far removed from “climate” at work here. What will we do when hyper-inflation is chasing reduced supplies of food around the world? Or, when Chinese- and Bill Gates-owned land is held out from cultivation in our own country? We need miss only ONE growing season to be faced with famine, which is very unpleasant, even here.
Looking at the effects of the “green” movement and the recent pandemic-inspired tyranny, and the so-called vaccines that resulted, the main effects, cumulatively, have been death and sterilization. Sounds like population reduction, if one were being Prudent. Lo, and behold! Bill Gates and the people he hob-nobs with agree that there are too many people on Earth, by a factor of two-thirds or more! Let’s “vaccinate” every person on the planet. Inflation won’t be a problem, then.
It is becoming ever more clear that there are good, solid, society-strengthening, family-strengthening and tribe- or nation-strengthening reasons to NOT sink into hyper-sexuality and debauchery.
“Oh, come on, you damned Republican prude, sex is fun and ‘empowering’ for individuals that didn’t like themselves before learning to translate everything about life and economics into sexuality. Don’t be such a Donnie Downer.” And, if one steps back from identity politics far enough to see the forest AND the trees, that one can see the point being made in that reactive statement.
Now, now, now… calm down, there. America and the West have tried a 60-year experiment in immorality and sexual depravity, all couched in terms of “love,” “freedom,” “rights,” and “health care.” It has proven extremely confusing, mainly because all the things the experiment was supposed to make better, have proven to become worse.
Of course, the prime target of the acids produced (and “dropped”) by the experiment has been morality, primarily Christianity. REGARDLESS of your opinion of “the Church” or any reformation thereof, or of “the Bible,” the rules for living contained in both Testaments, are far, far better than the pack of “rights” and re-defined words we attempt to operate society with, today. There is plenty of evidence of the breakdown of “Western” civilization, here in 2022, not least of which is the installation of an American administration controlled by mostly traitors and liars, and the “root cause” of this breakdown is mirrored by, or caused by, the spread of hyper-sexuality, mainly, but not exclusively, in forms of “non-binary” expressions.
“Oh, you hateful homophobic trans-phobe! You can’t say that, you hater. Next you’ll say you’re opposed to gay marriage. Hummphh!”
It is not Prudence’ intent to use broad-brush half, or even smaller fractional truths to express feelings about others’ partial truths. She intends to make very pointed statements about them. Some examples might help.
Let’s consider pornography. No one talks about it anymore. In the 1950’s and 60’s pornographic photography came of age, or so people thought, in part thanks to Polaroid technology whereby film negatives didn’t have to be shared with any third parties in order to be shareable. Of course there were always hidden, secretive “foreign” magazines from “Sweden” or some other exotic place, but, for the most part, “porn” was under-the-counter or back-room stuff in sleazy joints that most honorable, upright citizens would never frequent. And then came “Playboy.”
With Playboy numerous barriers were breeched: a new envelope was created, as it were, and ever more prurient publications pushed to stretch it. Our own Constitution was unprepared for it. The First Amendment had to be applied in some way to keep porn under wraps… and it couldn’t. Judges, themselves, couldn’t agree on what constituted pornography or obscenity. Pictures, and full-color, high-definition videos, of course, of naked bodies in the midst of various activities, are “protected speech” according to clever attorneys and agreed-to by judges, including supreme court justices. Somewhere along the line, unlike the strict definitions of words usually applied to the Constitution, “speech” has been stretched to include “expression” which is automatically stretched to include bodily movement and exposure, all sorts of cursing and verbal attack. One can almost hear the arguments.
“Freedom of Speech” now means any form of observable or audible activity detectable by another. So, what, you ask? Well, how about skewing life and sexuality toward unreality? Do you not see the damage to marriage, families and morality? And, now that what used to be hidden in various ways is quite public (any “Gay Pride parade), in movies and on television and a raft of advertising campaigns, can we even define morality?
“Morality?” you scream… “You mean that Christianity stuff? Separation of church and state, pal!” Hyper-sexuality has become the most effective weapon against true religion, most particularly, Christianity. Just count the rainbow flags and laws that are closing in on what pastors and priest can even SAY within the liturgy. What good has over-sexualizing everything from elementary school to church services actually done for America?
“Well, we can have more and innovative forms of sexual pleasure, so there… besides, it’s a free country and she can always have an abortion if something happens.” Something. And, it makes health care busier.
Let’s consider another example: the “trans-gender explosion.”
Hyper-sex has become a tool of the left – perhaps it always was. We can define the left as always attempting to erode freedom and responsibility, turning both over to some form of tyranny, camouflaged or not. Federalizing every personal unhappiness is a clear marker, making tyranny stronger and individuals weaker. Ultimately, spirituality and religion are weakened or lost altogether, as we are experiencing, now. Back to “trans.”
Public schools, so-called, are increasingly federal, government schools, with “the public,” whose offspring are the reasons for their and their teaching staffs’ existence, increasingly excluded from participation or influence. Children, from the age of 5, and even earlier in “pre-schools,” are carefully prepared to distrust their parents, prepared to ignore their own realities, like physical features and even names, IN SCHOOL! Teachers, to whom the kiddos are entrusted for 3, 4, 5, 6 hours a day and more, and who are clear authority figures and sources of wisdom – which every child is attempting to gain – are spending less time educating the kids in preparation for adulthood, and more time guiding, or grooming them, for early-onset sexual experimentation and experience. “Do you feel like a boy or a girl, today?”
“You can feel like both, if you want. We’ll call you by a name you like better and we’ll use the pronouns that fit how you feel.”
“Don’t tell your parents about your new name; they’ll be mad at you. You can change into different clothes when you get to school – to match your new name. It will be our secret.”
Can you imagine such conversations? … from TEACHERS? These are your tax dollars at work. When the kids are older, the boys are taught how to tuck their penises into certain underwear so that they’ll look like girls in their underpants rather than boys. What the Hell do “underpants appearances” have to do with school?
Girls are taught to bind their breasts so they’ll look more like boys. Both are offered drugs to prevent development in puberty, risking permanent physical damage and developmental retardation and likely sterility. Is that the point? To prevent more children? Or is it simply, and cruelly, designed to dissolve tradition and normalcy and family bonds?
Who, or what “institution” benefits from the breakdown of chastity? Casting about in all directions reveals only a single beneficiary: government… and Satan, one might say, often indistinguishable. And as it expands, it is not a government of benign partnership in the success of its citizens; it is a government that almost automatically divides its population against one another, increasing dependence upon… you guessed it, not freedom, but increasingly tyrannical government.
Government of, by and for the government. 87,000 new, armed, IRS agents will do that. None of their purpose is to enhance freedom – it’s to vacuum money from we the serfs.
Interestingly, the strongest political force against this foul creep of foul creeps, is parents, fighting to keep their families intact and their children as pure as possible.
Why the hyper-sexualization of kids, though? There is an overarching control-meme pushing otherwise professional and ostensibly educated people to adopt Critical Gender and Race theories. We can encapsulate it with the term, “ideology,” but that’s the same charge these groomers use against religion: ideology, a belief system without empirical proof. And, they are the first to shout the loudest about “impose your religious mumbo-jumbo on my body…” Yet, the only “proof” that has emitted from Critical Gender Theory is the destruction of lives, families, suicides and lifelong regrets in all but the rarest of cases. And WE’RE the haters?
Dear friends, we are fighting the Anti-Christ, pure Marxism. Marx, who believed in God, believed also that he would go to Hell for his philosophies. He knew what he was doing and advocating. We need to know, also, and reverse the tide on Marxist hatred that seems to have infected much of our American governance. Those who are its advocates have adopted the anti-life, anti-freedom philosophies for the crassest, crappiest political advantage and wealth. For shame.
Despite Prudence’ writings over the past 8 years, the nation has not adjusted to the models of governance and behavior she has carefully laid out. Upon the election of the odd Joe Biden and his basically anti-American administration, irritating, family and society-weakening tendencies have become policies, however illegitimately. Now, they’re crises – crises that threaten the survival of our nation and of Freedom, itself. Like the heart of Socialism in every sense, it derives from the avoidance of responsibility.
People say things like, “it’s a new day,” or “Times have changed.” Except “times” haven’t changed, people have. They’ve – we’ve – been taught new ideas to believe, habits to adopt, pleasures to revel in. We can look to a sudden change upon the murder of President John Kennedy. Most likely, the purpose of that assassination was political, not cultural. Kennedy had created powerful personal and political enemies. The abrupt change in culture and morals was an inadvertent one. Lyndon Johnson became president, federal civil rights legislation moved to center stage, for right reasons, but its adoption was made possible by the crassest political calculations. Inadvertently, for some but not all, the Civil Rights bill shifted morality into the metastasizing businesses of the federal administrative state and the court, where it has become enforced amorality.
Prior to the ‘60s, change in living standards and integration was happening due to improvements in individual beliefs in better moral codes… not fast enough, by a long shot, but improvement and progress were being made. The Civil Rights Act and the movement that brought it to fruition, inadvertently changed the nature of federal moral enforcement, even as it made long-overdue corrections to discrimination and segregation. Part of the federal “corrections” included elements of the “Great Society,” which federalized welfare and began the application of laws differently for different groups. This process, in all of its corrupt and socialist pieces, has rendered the federal government a soft tyrant which is hardening daily, while providing $Trillions of support for sub-tyrannies throughout the administrative state, particularly in Education.
Under the Constitution, the only moral adjustments can and should be made through equal justice: Equal protection under the law / equal application of the law. That canary escaped with the passage of the Great Society. Otherwise, our system works only if the vast majority of our citizens and residents share basic morals and mores, a claim that can no longer be made. Every institution that could reinforce the moral strength of our people, including schools and churches, are either hell-bent in the opposite direction, or bending a knee to popular immorality. For shame.
Freedom isn’t freedom without responsibility, it’s mere licentiousness. As responsibility began evaporating in the 1960’s, leftists accelerated, as part of civil rights and the Great society, their domination of public education and colleges of education, themselves. Like Mao’s “Long March,” it has taken decades – well-paid decades – to convert the role of education from conveyance of language, culture, skills, morals and history to our youth, to one of separation by race, class and, incredibly, gender. Everything happening fulfills the Communist Manifesto: separation from God and from Responsibility.
Churches and liturgies have proven to be much weaker than the years of bygone sacrifices to hold to and establish those faith communities would indicate. Just count the rainbow flags that some churches think override the teachings that brought them this far. They are proving every day that it is nearly impossible to convince others of ideas you, yourself, don’t believe. Simple economics can’t take the place of shared moral goodness.
America has been under moral attack for 60 years at a higher intensity than during its first 170 years. As the lessons of Genesis make clear, God’s Word (or, if you find that term more offensive than child abuse) moral truths, are always under attack here on Earth. Christianity has long been the primary target of such opposition, both from within and without.
For centuries those attacks tended to fail because the engine of responsibility kept working. People still, for the most part, paid the price for their own follies and failures. That is, until socialism replaced monarchy. Evil men – almost always men – grasped socialist ideas as a better way to control nations, economies and armies, but they ultimately fell: their bases were evil and so counter to human nature that they became insane. There has never been a government that created for itself political defenses that not only protected amorality and immorality, but learned to erode morality and, specifically, responsibility by individuals. Not until the U. S. federal (and state) administrative states. They’ve made a lot of “progress,” but they are “Progressives” by their own description. It has taken 60 years of “re-education” to bring us to an America facing the corrosive issues we do today.
What are the parameters of responsibility in matters of conception, pregnancy, abortion and birth?
Since the ‘60s we have replaced marriage as the cultural norm, with contraception, abortion, “hooking up,” and fatherless children. Responsibility has shifted to federal and state welfare programs. Women have become convinced that they need not choose a decent, committed and loving man who will provide for his family and children, and who will be in their lives through puberty and into adulthood – and this all before having sex! All they need is the sperm… and other men when they feel like it. It is the destruction of the American family and of children – especially boys: our vote-buying tax dollars of destruction, at work.
Along with hyper-sexualization of grade school children, lewd “Pride” parades and filth in school libraries, the left appears to be obsessed with fornication for “all genders.” To Democrats and other anti-Christian groups, fornication is a “right” as important to freedom as the First Amendment and all the rest. Except, without responsibility, it’s not a freedom at all. Enter abortion “rights.” Except abortion never was a “right,” per se; democratic decisioning at the state level is the “right” our Constitution guarantees.
What are the parameters of responsibility in matters of guns, ownership, self-defense and crime?
Gun owners quote the phrase, “… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” It is part of the Second Amendment. Some like to ignore the stuff about the “A well regulated Militia…” But, as they may also choose to ignore, the amendment goes on to qualify the concept of a “militia,” as follows: “… being necessary to the security of a free State, …” Above all, the Bill of Rights amendments and their wordings are intensely Prudent in their purposes of preventing a tyrannical central government. Guaranteeing individual armament is crucial to that purpose. Clearly, by simple inference, mindful of why the Constitution was drafted and mindful of the horrendous sacrifices needed to permit its creation, is it not obvious that arming the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT had nothing whatsoever to do with the second amendment?
The only “militias” in the new nation’s experience were those formed by local communities and others to fight off the central government, perceived to be tyrannical toward the colonies. This aspect is never, ever acknowledged by that same federal government. Yes, gun ownership is crucial to individual self-defense, which that same federal – and some states’ – governments appear to discourage, if not deny, to its citizens, even as those governments purposely abdicate their contracted role of public safety. Had the British monarch established today’s same failed public policies, the justification for overturning his authority would have been far more popular.
There is a high expectation of responsibility for Constitutionally legal gun owners. As a definable demographic, legal gun owners are the least source of crime and, by far, the least source of crimes involving firearms. Yet this same group is always the target for restriction whenever a mentally or criminally defective person commits a “mass” shooting. Individual shootings and murders by gang members and drug dealers are of no particular concern to those who attack the rights of legal gun owners.
Maybe the concept of “militia” for legal gun owners is one that should be developed – not by any government, but by gun owners, themselves. “Whoa,” you might be saying. “That sounds like a mechanism for insurrection.”
Well, it’s not, but that threat should ALWAYS be on the mind of the Executive departments, and on the minds of voters. Sadly, and our own faults, the Congress should have it at top of mind, as well. Americans have the RIGHT to replace a tyrannical government with a representative one. One bright light – President Biden – during a press conference on gun control, uttered these non-sequiturs:
“Those who say the blood of lib- — ‘the blood of patriots,’ you know, and all the stuff about how we’re going to have to move against the government. Well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots. What’s happened is that there have never been — if you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”
If these words had been uttered by someone who knew what he were talking about, they’d be chilling to Americans… perhaps, upon reflection, they are. That bozo is President. But the concept of “militia” is not far-fetched. Certainly it is not a federal force, nor should it be funded federally. “Militias” should be local, and the more local the better. In the most Prudent view, those gun owners who choose to carry concealed could be part of an anonymous police-trained force that has been earlier referenced as “Guardians.” (See: http://www.prudenceleadbetter.com/2016/05/30/the-guardian-program/) These same would be the nucleus of local militias. Leadership of each jurisdiction’s militia would be chosen by election within the membership, and thereby granted officers’ titles.
The nature of “Militia,” Constitutionally, is inherently anti-federal. No wonder this aspect of the Second Amendment is never discussed. “Nuclear weapons,” indeed. At the time of its adoption, the concept of “Militia” was understood as the forerunners of the Continental Army ultimately led by George Washington, named a General by the Continental Congress. To make the revolution work required the establishment of a governing body separate from the King and his governors and troops. It was all extra-legal and deemed illegal by the Crown. Militias were already fighting the Redcoats by the time the Continental Congress got down to the business of revolutionary government.
Americans are so reliant upon a steady and dependable government in Washington, that we find it hard to conceive of an autonomous civilian militia, yet that is precisely what the framers were talking about. The colonies had just fought off a tyrant and the framers were determined that we be just as prepared to fight off another, should the tyranny arise. There existed very little affinity for a central government because of the tendency toward tyranny by virtually all such entities. The ability of citizens to check the power of government provided all the justification needed for a Second Amendment. Armed crime in the streets was practically non-existent in 1789, so that wasn’t the reason for it; hunting was so crucial to provisioning of food and even clothing, that no one had to “allow” for it in the Constitution. What was crucial was preventing another tyranny from replacing the British Crown. The twenty-seven words of the Second Amendment guaranteed the ability of citizens to replace a tyrannical central government, and Ratification was impossible without it.
Today, unfortunately, discussion of the true reason for the 2nd Amendment brings forth accusations of sedition and insurrection, “fringe” white-supremacist grouping, and religious fundamentalism. Yet, it is the Constitution we have and that forms us, even now.
To the “left,” constitutionalism is suspect in all iterations. It challenges and exposes the sanctity of the STATE for the hollow proto-tyranny towards which it constantly slithers. The “establishment,” nearly as tyrannical as it could be – economically, morally, politically – is directly threatened by the Constitution, as are all tyrants, everywhere. Our own proto-tyrants fight to make the U. S. as much like every other nation as they can, while patriots recognize and try to enhance the exceptional nature of our constitutional Republic. “America first” sends chills down the spines of the permanently re-elected swine that wallow for decades at a time in the halls of Congress.
Americans have unique responsibilities, including defense and preservation of the Constitution; it is not the task of elected people, specifically, but of THE PEOPLE. The Constitution came not from government, but from “We, the People…” WE ordained it, which is that we gave it life. WE ratified it, but only when the Bill of Rights was appended to it, which is that we entered into a covenant with all who forever after held office upon swearing to Preserve and Defend it – the Presidents merely a handful of those. The ultimate defense and execution of the Constitution is our business: the People’s. We are obligated to preserve it, defend it and live according to its rights and responsibilities on behalf of every American citizen, now and forever after, as well as on behalf of every nation and people, who depend upon the United States to stand firmly against globalism, socialism and communism… and dishonesty. Let’s get busy.
