The Continuing Economic Stimulus Saga — “Dire Consequences” Indeed
January 8, 2009 by Stephen Palmer
I’d laugh if I didn’t take the blatant theft of my hard-earned money so personally and so seriously. I could smile about it if I didn’t know what they were doing to my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren for who knows how many generations.
When is Washington going to wake up? And when are the People going to rise from their beds of apathy and take some responsibility?
I just read a news article entitled “Obama Warns of Dire Consequences.”
It’s so full of status quo garbage it makes me sick. Obama, intent on becoming the next FDR, is out promoting an even greater stimulus package than we already have.
But the line that really got me was this one: “I don’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic action as soon as possible.”
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
Is this a joke? Please tell me I’m dreaming.
It’s not too late to change course?!
Can anyone tell me how a stimulus package in any way, shape or form represents changing course in the slightest? It’s exactly what we’ve been doing since 1913, for almost a hundred years!
The sad news is that, yes, I’m afraid it is too late to change course. We’re so steeped in Great Depression lies, overwhelmed by Federal power, and uninvolved to do anything different.
A dog doesn’t wake up one morning and become a cat.
Our decisions were made a long time ago. Our culture has been forged for over a hundred years. The ship of 300 million citizens doesn’t turn on a dime.
We’re not going to change course now and it’s a complete joke that the President-Elect would refer to a stimulus package as “changing course.”
We’re going to keep giving power to the Federal Reserve. The government is going to continue stealing us blind through inflation and taxation as they continue promising more and more benefits that they have no ability to pay for.
We’re going to continue spiraling into depression, debt, poverty and chaos until we burn these words, spoken by Thomas Jefferson, into enough minds:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
The power players, including Washington, Wall Street and corporations, have a vested interest in keeping us asleep. We’re going to continue living this nightmare until We the People wake ourselves up.
So wake up. Please. For the sake of freedom. For the sake of your children, your families. For the sake of all you hold dear, but may take for granted. Please.
Here are the first steps to waking up:
- Immediately buy and read the following books: America’s Great Depression
by Murray Rothbard, Animal Farm
by George Orwell, The Creature from Jekyll Island
by G. Edward Griffin, The Law
by Frederic Bastiat.
- Immediately write a letter to your elected representatives and beg them to stop the inflationary bailout madness.
- Get a degree from George Wythe University, the nation’s hotspot for freedom education. Distance studies are available at a very affordable price.
- Get out of debt as quickly as possible. The more debt you have, the more power financial institutions have over you.
- Become an expert on monetary and fiscal policy and teach the principles to your children. Specifically, start with the works of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and John Maynard Keynes.
- Prepare to run for political office, on whatever level and in whatever capacity that makes sense for you. We can’t beat the status quo through letters alone (although it’s a start) — we have to replace it.
- Click here to forward this article to everyone you know. It’s not enough for a handful of people who “get it” to sit around complaining to each other. We need to spread the word.
Is this asking a lot? You bet it is.
But it’s what’s required to maintain freedom.
Freedom comes with a price. Are you willing to pay that price? If not, your children are going to pay it, and it will be much, much worse for them.
Your choice.
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I am glad that you are taking a stand in this way. You have also gone about the procedure of specifically informing people about available steps toward open-mindedness and lively action. There are not many individuals that will leap forward in this fashion, and it is the true origin of the change that is spoken about so often. You can tell that someone is trying to lead others in the right direction when his words are representative of tough/risky actions that increase knowledge and experience, and when they are being recommended to be performed.
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Armen, thanks so much. It never seems like we’re doing enough, but we have to try.
Beautiful article. Thank you for the action steps. I started reading the Great Depression but got bogged down by all the technical terms. I am going to attack it again, and this time I will skim through the stuff I don’t understand to seek for the theme of the book.
I have read a little bit of Bastiats work and I love it! That man was definitely in tune with eternal principles. It was fun to see Taleb’s opinion of Bastiat for reading The Black Swan (a book I spoke about in a response to the classics contest in december.) The whole point of his book is that we can’t predict the future and he has bone to pick with economists who try to. He quotes Bastiat in his works and states that he has a lot of respect for him.
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