Freedom, Indiana – Our nation’s founders warned us. Eisenhower warned us. Innumerable politicians, economists and even losers like me have warned through generations and decades, against central banks, empire-building, entangling-alliance meddling, nannying, and military/monetary bullying. Our costs are rising, our standard of living is falling, and the recent meeting of international leaders, and expo of military might in Beijing, presaged that USA’s costly exertions of global domination will end, one way, or another. As all proud empires fall, so shall ours.
It’s not all Trump’s fault. Our century-old fiat currency system and Federal Reserve Bank cabal doomed us to the twin perils of the Cantillon Effect, which made the rich, richer at the expense of the non-Investment Class; and, since the Breton Woods Agreement after WWII, the Triffin Paradox, which describes the inflation and inevitable collapse of the dollar’s dominance as the global Reserve Currency.
But Trump’s manic gyrations of military and monetary bullying, particularly with the seizing of Russian assets, piling on more international sanctions on everybody, and recently, the helter-skelter tariffs and regime change efforts, accelerated moves already begun by nations around the world, to end our empire’s destructive carrot-and-stick manipulation and subjugation of the planet. Economic alliances like BRICS and ASEAN, and a new military axis of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, now comprise most of the world’s population, and economic production. We’ve funded, armed and trained our enemies, and betrayed our friends. We turned against what made this nation successful, and subjected ourselves to demagogues and plutocrats. We have literally forced most of the world to turn against us.
But we can come out of this OK if we do a few things that should’ve been done long ago.
First, stand-down our Military-Industrial Monster, and focus on free trade. Real free trade. Now. Today. Globally. We ought to publicly issue a very humble and honest mea culpa that we’re broke, and that we can no longer govern, aid, punish, defend or nanny any country but our own. Sorry.
Second, End the Fed, and reestablish a sound, and BTW, constitutional, monetary system. G. Edward Griffin wrote a workable, stepwise plan to do this in “The Creature from Jekyll Island.” I’m not aware of a better plan.
Finally, and this is the hardest sell, but must happen if we’re to avoid casting our seniors into ditches. We must phase-out and privatize both Social Security and Medicare. I’m on SS and Medicare myself, and I’m certain this would be a massive improvement for all of us, not the catastrophe our rulers would have you believe. This would stop our slide into destitution, and start us marching toward real prosperity.
If we’d prefer to continue our acceleration toward the drainpipes of history, we can of course keep reelecting the corrupt millionaire politicians that are protecting the Epstein files and care more about Netanyahu, than you. But if you give anything I’ve said above any credit at all, please start pressuring the politicians we’ve been reelecting, AND start looking now, today, for better replacements. Encourage people that you know would be moral, responsible, constitutional public servants to run for office, and/or run yourself.
We can fix this, or at least clean up a big mess and avoid real catastrophe. But the clock is ticking, and the USA now has real competition for King of this rock. And that doesn’t have to be the end of the world.
Liberty or Bust!
