BREAKING: MICHAEL BROWN ALLEGEDLY A PARTY IN A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CASE:
Ladies and gentlemen, this is literally hot off the presses, and news which I find for the young man's family and the community of Ferguson, MO to be most unfortunate. As you know that I read numerous news mediums, including international and state-run services, I also am subscribed to IJ Review, which considers itself an independent outlet with journalists from all political spectrums. Not ten minutes ago, I received notice over Allen West America on my Facebook this update of Brown's involvement in a Second Degree Murder case which was evidently covered up, and I should first preface this by updating you first on what was submitted a day or two ago to CNN, run by notorious Obama supporter Jeff Zucker who was fired by NBC for incompetence, regarding the issue of a mysterious audio recording where apparently Michael Brown was shot six times, but once where there was a pause, which entails nothing of serious consequence. It did, however, pique the interests of socialists in the media and within the Obama administration and Gov. Jay Nixon in Jefferson City. I will first post that audio clip, and then describe briefly about what has come of this revelation:
Considering the is "journalist" Don Lemon, I found this "revelation" yesterday upon learning of it to be at best suspect, but mostly likely, a hoax and a planted. The thought that the gun sounded like an automatic, not a semi-automatic, is disturbing considering the bullets are almost shot in a streamline manner like an automatic, where all is needed is to pull the trigger once for the bullets to fly almost as if a machine gun. Most police officers carry some form of .9 MM Glock pistol or a Baretta. And whenever I watch Mr. Lemon prove that the definition between differentiating an "automatic" or "semi-automatic" is rather entertaining, considering he claimed he purchased an AR-15, and that it is a matter of semantics:
"Nobody is arguing the Second Amendment. Nobody's arguing the semantics...." Thank God he is not a brain surgeon! He completely engaged in a massive U-Turn when he learned he had no clue about the difference between the two forms of guns. Of course, he did lie as well: Why would he demand that there be a public debate over the legalization of automatic pistols when he himself does not know what one is or what is a semi-automatic? I dare posit the theory he has never seen Dirty Harry, and is about as metrosexual as they come.
And that young man who recorded it? Well, he apparently was getting his rocks off as he did so. Who knows? Maybe he was beating something with his drumstick!
And that young man who recorded it? Well, he apparently was getting his rocks off as he did so. Who knows? Maybe he was beating something with his drumstick!
At least 11 shots were fired; The Washington Times stated as many as 10. So if this pistol fired 10 or 11 shots, why was Darren Wilson using an AR-15 assault to do so? Most police forces employ, again, .9 MM Glock or Barettas, and those are semi-automatic; it would have been laboring for Wilson to pretend to be Lee Harvey Oswald on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository assassinating JFK with three shots over a matter of seconds. I am also waiting like Godot for who Don Lemon informs me was planted on the grassy knoll, or if he follows the old Peter Jennings school of thought by stating Oswald planned and executed the entire assassination.
There is also this eyewitness account, albeit very much unintended and rather profanity-laced, where at the 6:00 mark details what happened:
To assist you through the garbled background noise, the following written dialogue will be provided:
@6:28/6:29 of video
It corroborates Officer Wilson's story exactly according to a friend's words:#1 How’d he get from there to there?#2 Because he ran, the police was still in the truck – cause he was like over the truck{crosstalk}#2 But him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran – the police got out and ran after him{crosstalk}#2 Then the next thing I know he doubled back toward him cus - the police had his gun drawn already on him –[there is dispute here whether he says "doubled back" or "coming back."]#1. Oh, the police got his gun#2 The police kept dumpin on him, and I’m thinking the police kept missing – he like – be like – but he kept coming toward him{crosstalk}#2 Police fired shots – the next thing I know – the police was missing#1 The Police?#2 The Police shot him#1 Police?#2 The next thing I know … I’m thinking … the dude started running … (garbled something about “he took it from him”)
Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And, Darren’s first protocol is to pursue. So, he stands up and yells, “Freeze!” Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him… And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something.”
There is also the issue of the toxicology report declaring he had marijuana in his blood. I will not go into detail about this, but will provide you a link to read disputed studies for your personal reference over whether marijuana can cause psychosis.
Brown's accomplice, Dorian Johnson, admitted a few days ago he had filed a false police report and that his story for which he provided in an interview with CNN was a lie. Since the report I have from ABC 17 news in central Missouri briefly details his warrant for an arrest from 2011 and this revelation nearly a week ago, it too will be provided in a link.
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Michael Brown: Murderer? You Be the Judge
As promised, so too shall I deliver. This again is courtesy of the IJ Review:
Charles C. Johnson, the Editor-in-Chief of Got News and the investigator who debunked the Everytown shootings map, is suing the St. Louis County Court to release Ferguson shooting victim Michael Brown’s juvenile arrest records.
As relayed by the website YoungCons.com, Johnson claims that he has “confirmed” Michael Brown was arrested in a case involving second-degree murder:
Johnson earlier reported on Twitter that he had two contacts in the St. Louis Police Department tell him that Michael Brown had a juvenile criminal record, thus prompting the lawsuit:
The reporter has been challenged on his rationale for seeking the juvenile records of Brown, and this is his response today:
As reported by Ryan Gorman of AOL News, the citizen journalist wants the alleged arrest records released to the public:
“To find out if those police officers are correct requires seeing Brown’s juvenile arrest record, which ought to be freely available given that he is dead and therefore has no right to privacy remaining,” insists Johnson.“Knowing the truth about Brown’s past will help us gauge the credibility of his parents and family who have called him a ‘gentle giant.’”Attorney Johnathon Burns, who is arguing the case, told KMOX that since the teen is deceased, his records are no longer sealed.
The lawsuit follows below, via SCRIBD:
The lack of transparency involving the Michael Brown shooting was a major factor in the conflagration in Ferguson. After the initial reports of the Ferguson shooting arose, numerous major news media outlets jumped on the story to frame it as a racially prejudiced police officer shooting an unarmed “gentle giant” when he either had his hands up or was running away.When video surveillance photos of Michael Brown surfaced, the media questioned the police’s release of the information, which the Holder Justice Department wanted withheld from the public. The story of the strong-arm robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson that Brown was running away appears to be falsified with an initial autopsy failing to show gunshots in the back of Michael Brown.The police deparment’s version of the story, as well as that of Wilson’s friend, and an unidentified witness commenting on the case, appear to corroborate the story that Brown continued to come at the officer after being initially fired at. The background evidence of the strong-arm robbery and any prior criminal incidents speak to the potential state of mind of Michael Brown during the fatal confrontation.In any event, since the Ferguson rioting, the matter of Michael Brown’s death and how it occurred is a matter of public interest. The facts of the case must be divulged to the public, and that is the only way the second-guessing and the speculation will end.CBS News reported a hearing for the lawsuit is scheduled for September 3rd.
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Conclusion: Is the Purpose for the Wanton Transparency Due to "Racial Animus"? Did Dorian Johnson's Outstanding Warrant from 2011 Stem from Michael Brown's Part in a Second Degree Murder?
If push comes to shove, why are the socialists in power so concerned about the transparency of this case? Why are they hiding legally-mandated public information that should be made available for anyone who is murdered, including juvenile medical and legal documentation? And did Dorian Johnson have more to hide than we know? Why did Johnson suddenly come clean? Is there a mystery plea bargain set to provide him with legal immunity or at least lessen his charges for say, Second Degree Murder? I briefly skimmed Google to see what I could locate, but so far, no dice. The information is plentiful for Johnson's June 24, 2011 arrest in Jefferson City, the state capital of Missouri, but nothing has rendered any information regarding Brown's involvement in robbery. One such source is from August 24 in a Fox News blog. There will be a video provided as well as written commentary to read:
FOX NEWS
A key eyewitness in the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, whose death set off violent protests in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, reportedly has a warrant out for his arrest.ABC17.com reported Wednesday that 22-year-old Dorian Johnson, who was with Brown when he was shot, has a warrant out for his arrest for stealing in Jefferson County, Missouri from 2011.Johnson also was charged that same year with lying to police, the station reported.WND.com reported that the court clerk for the Municipal Court of Jefferson City confirmed that Johnson had been arrested June 24, 2011 for allegedly stealing a parcel. Johnson was also accused of lying about his identity and age. He was charged with larceny with an added count of false identification.Johnson was scheduled for trial on July 31, 2013 but did not show, according to the clerk.The clerk told WND.com that Johnson has a warrant for his extradition if he is arrested in a 50-mile radius of Jefferson City.Johnson’s attorney Freeman Bosley Jr. told WND.com that the situation regarding Johnson’s legal troubles has been taken care of, and has no impact on Johnson’s credibility in the Brown case.“(Johnson) was held in jail in St. Louis for 14 days, waiting on Cole County to come get him, based on the warrant,” Bosley told WND.com. “They never came, so the city let him go.”
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Megyn Kelly, as you see, grilled the attorney general. And the attorney general is, per usual, is guilty of racial animus. There is no such thing as a "non-polarizing figure". And sadly, this lady sat there demanding "justice for Michael Brown" and in St. Louis, "African-Americans didn't vote for him". And fair and impartial? Well, tell that to Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama and Jim Crow, who she likely identifies as the personification of the entire white population in America. The fact is, she stated that while black voters didn't vote for prosecutor, the people of St. Louis, according to Megyn Kelly, did. And if the Democratic Party is not at all racist or impartial, then why are there far more white politicians still elected within that party over all others? It appears that the definition of what is the plantation today and who are the planters is a bit skewed at best.
You decide. I already have. The issue with transparency to this state prosecutor enjoys as much clarity as the boards on many of the government-funded housing she supports maintaining as the status quo living quarters for the black community nationally without any hope for social advancement. If the Democratic Party did not have a largely poor black community nationally in our inner cities, who would ever want to vote for them? Today, the gap between the wealthiest Americans and the quickly evaporating middle class and soaring total of those living below the poverty line is staggering. The height of socialism in America was during World War II; it is not a coincidence that when FDR's New Deal economic plans left the nation in worse economic shape than what he had inherited in 1933, he turned to foreign policy and may well have committed treason to enter the U.S. into a global war that the people did not want. The paradigm of warfare/welfare is rather a telling account of why deficits have soared, our currency is worthless compared to pre-Sixteenth Amendment America (federal income tax) and the Federal Reserve manipulating monetary supply through interest rate hikes or devaluations, and the matter of Otto von Bismarck's very words on why he created the first social welfare state in Germany while chancellor in a study conducted by FEE:
“My idea was to bribe the working classes, or shall I say, to win them over, to regard the state as a social institution existing for their sake and interested in their welfare.”
The following, in concluding this article, demonstrates why America is on the brink of another war, as well as proving why the Democratic Party historically and at present is the party of the nation's war mongers, from Minyanville:
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How Welfare and Warfare Are Destroying Our Country
By Jim Quinn Jul 20, 2010 12:15 pm
There are no easy choices left. But unless we act now, this may be our last crisis.
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Most people in America associate the Democratic Party with spending on welfare programs and the Republican Party with spending on warfare. Until reading Niall Ferguson's brilliant The Ascent of Money, I never realized that welfare and warfare have gone hand in hand for more than a century.
The immortal German warmonger Otto von Bismarck was the first politician to introduce social insurance legislation in the 1880s. His reasoning wasn't strictly humanitarian. According to Bismarck, "A man who has a pension for his old age is much easier to deal with than a man without that prospect." Bismarck was a shrewd politician who realized that when you provide people something for nothing, they'll vote for you. When you go to war with France, a population sedated with entitlements is more easily malleable and controllable.
David Lloyd George rolled out pensions and national insurance in Great Britain prior to World War I in order to win votes. Politicians began a century of addiction to welfare programs, as the poor voted for those that promised them the most. The world has now reached its limit of unfunded promises. The financial crisis in the last two years was caused by politicians throughout the world promising benefits to their citizens and paying for these benefits with borrowed money. Margaret Thatcher aptly summed up what has happened: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
The world has run out of other people's money.
Britain expanded its social welfare state during and after World War I. With demobilization in 1918, it introduced unemployment insurance as a method to keep former soldiers from disrupting their country. Winston Churchill rolled out an ever-growing array of social programs to keep the lower classes from revolting. The Japanese government, after World War II, initiated national insurance for sickness, injury, childbirth, disability, death, old age, and unemployment. Nations began to cover all citizens against everything that could possibly go wrong.
Is it a coincidence that the largest expansions of the US welfare state occurred in the 1930s before a World War, in the mid 1960s in the midst of the Vietnam War, in 2003 at the outset of the Iraq invasion, and in 2010 as we continue to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? It was essential for politicians to buy off the populace before conducting undeclared wars in far-off lands.
Why? Who has benefited from entitlement spending and endless warfare? Politicians and the military industrial complex benefit. The way to get elected in the US since the 1930s has been to promise voters benefits while ignoring the long-term costs. The defense industry and its lobbyists benefit by creating phantom enemies around the globe and stirring up the masses through fear and propaganda. The other beneficiary has been the banking syndicate and their printing press called the Federal Reserve. The welfare promises and constant warfare over the last century wouldn't have been possible without the Federal Reserve and its ability to create constant inflation.
Guns & Butter
Politicians discovered that the populace will go along with their never-ending military adventures if they were bought off with promises of generous pensions, free medical insurance, subsidized housing, unlimited drug benefits, farm subsidies, tax loopholes, and thousands of other voter boondoggle payoffs. The Federal Reserve printed the fiat currency, the military industrial complex created the enemies, young Americans fought and died in foreign countries in undeclared wars of choice, and corrupt politicians promised unlimited benefits to the masses in search of votes while rigging the tax system to benefit the rich and powerful.
The creation of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Income Tax in 1913 unleashed politicians from the chains of fiscal responsibility. The "guns versus butter model" was turned upside down. Before the Federal Reserve was created the US had to choose between two options when spending its finite resources: It could buy either guns (invest in defense/military) or butter (invest in production of goods), or a combination of both. Politicians handed out butter to the masses and M-16 rifles to our young men. All of the New Deal and Great Society social programs are dependent upon unlimited amounts of debt to be issued for all eternity or until the entire corrupt house of cards collapses.
The beauty of socialism and the welfare state is that when a country is young and vibrant, with a rapidly growing economy, the many pay for the benefits of the few. The baby boom that occurred throughout the modern world after World War II granted politicians the means to expand their welfare pledges. The more politicians promised, the more votes they received. It was a beautiful scheme, until reality struck.
Ferguson provides the reality check in The Ascent of Money:
Yet there was a catch, a fatal flaw in the design of the post-warfare welfare state. What had started out as a system of national insurance had degenerated into a system of state handouts and confiscatory taxation which disastrously skewed economic incentives.
The larger the welfare state becomes, the lower economic growth, higher inflation, and lower productivity overcome the social benefits. As unions become stronger, the economic system becomes more dysfunctional and warped. The economy in a welfare state becomes bogged down in misallocation of resources, mal-investment, rules, regulations, and distorted pay structures. Incentives to increase profits are eliminated. Incentives to create new businesses and to boost efficiency are purged as bureaucracy gains increasing power. As the populations of the welfare states age, there are only a couple of alternatives for the politicians who never looked beyond the next election when passing legislation to hand out more entitlements. Politicians increase taxes on the productive to pay entitlements for the unproductive. The entitlement promises are so great in the United States that politicians couldn't possibly raise taxes high enough to pay for them. This is where a willing central bank steps in and prints money and allows politicians the easy out of borrowing to pay the entitlement promises. This method works until it doesn't. Ask Greece and Spain.
Turning Japanese
The welfare state really gained momentum after World War II with Japan and Great Britain leading the way. Ferguson describes the beliefs that overtook the developed world:
From now on, the welfare state would cover people against all the vagaries of modern life. If they were born sick, the state would pay. If they could not afford education, the state would pay. If they could not find work, the state would pay. If they were too ill to work, the state would pay. When they retired, the state would pay. And when they finally died, the state would pay their dependents.
With a post-war worldwide baby boom, the taxes easily paid for the benefits in the early years. The myopic politicians and bureaucrats failed to consider that life expectancy would increase from 62 years old in 1935 to 78 years old today, a 26% increase in 75 years. They also failed to anticipate that the baby boomers would have fewer children. The average family size has plunged from 3.5 in 1935 to 2.5 today, a 29% decline. After the implementation of Johnson's Great Society programs in the late 1960s, the percentage of families with two or more children plummeted from 36.7% in 1970 to 23.7% in 2007.
As usual, any program conceived by politicians always has unintended consequences because they haven't properly considered the potential scenarios. A properly run Ponzi scheme like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid requires that enough new money come into the system from new suckers to pay off the old suckers. With the old suckers living much longer than anticipated and not enough new suckers being born, politicians have resorted to doing absolutely nothing. Any politician who proposes any adjustment, restriction, or cut in these programs is immediately ridiculed, spat upon, and run out of office by the AARP and the entitled classes.
The US is about to experience what Great Britain and Japan have already experienced. The major difference is that Japan and Great Britain didn't have to fund warfare along with welfare like the US has been doing for half a century. This experiment of delusion won't end well.
Great Britain's experiment in socialism came crashing down much sooner than Japan, as its population was much older. Its system degenerated into a system of state handouts, high taxation, no economic incentives, slow productivity, high inflation, and economic stagnation. Social transfers rose from 2.2% of GDP in 1930 to 10% in 1960, 13% in 1970, and 17% by 1980. Unions controlled the politicians and resisted all efforts to institute incentives based upon traditional capitalistic principles. Margaret Thatcher was able to slow the advancement of the welfare state for awhile, but was unable to put a stake through its heart. Great Britain continues its long-term decline with a GDP equal to Italy's today. Japan, on the other hand, appeared to have figured it out, with the most dynamic welfare state economy in the world from 1970 until 1990. But then the wheels came off. Demographics have a way of ruining the best laid plans of politicians.
As the life expectancy of the Japanese has risen to the highest in the world at 83 years old, the birth rate in the country plunged. There are more people dying than are being born every year in Japan. They're the oldest society on earth, with 21% of the population over the age of 65, versus 12.8% in the United States. Japan has been in a two-decade-long slump and has squandered its national wealth on wasteful stimulus programs while failing to address the impossibility of fulfilling its welfare state promises. Japan's welfare budget is equal to three-quarters of tax revenues. Its debt exceeds one quadrillion yen, or 170% of GDP. On its current path toward 240% of GDP, Japan is doomed. As recently as the early-1970s, social expenditures amounted to only about 6% of Japan's national income. In 1992 that portion of the national budget was 18%, and it was expected that by 2025, 27% of national income would be spent on social welfare.
Niall Ferguson sums up the situation for most of the developed world:
Longer life is good news for individuals, but it is bad news for the welfare state and the politicians who have to persuade voters to reform it. The even worse news is that, even as the world's population is getting older, the world itself may be getting more dangerous.
Dangerous Liaison
The United States has hit the proverbial jackpot, with a rapidly aging population, a $106 trillion unfunded liability, an administration that has piled more unfunded health-care obligations upon our future unborn generations, politicians who refuse to address the crisis, and as icing on the cake 700 military basis spread throughout the world and an annual defense budget of $895 billion equaling the total spending of the next 11 countries combined.
The number of Americans over 65 will surge by 35% over the next 10 years and then by an additional 30% in the following decade. Baby boom demographics have caught up with politician promises. Therein lays the dilemma. Every day 10,000 Americans turn 50 years old. They won't vote for anyone who promises to cut their entitlements. It's the American way to ignore long-term problems until the crisis arrives. Politicians could have proactively addressed the out-of-control entitlement issue 10 years ago. They didn't. Now it's too late. The crisis is upon us.
The US government is on a "burning platform" of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic health-care underfunding, immigration, and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.
-- David M. Walker
The United States of America is the modern-day Roman Empire. Any reasonably intelligent person with a calculator can figure out that this will end in economic collapse. And still, we do nothing. Not only do we do nothing, we push our foot down on the accelerator by spending $2 trillion on wars of choice, commit $16 trillion to new drug coverage for seniors, and national health care for all at an unknown cost. There's one law that can't be skirted. An unsustainable trend won't be sustained.
Fallacies & Fear
The chart below paints a picture of impending disaster. There are no easy choices left. Massive tax increases, enormous benefits cuts, or some combination of the two will be required to avert a catastrophe. Greek-like demonstrations, protests, and strikes are in our future.
The mindset of close to 50% of the US population is exactly the same as the socialists in Greece. In the latest edition of The Casey Report reporter Jayant Bhandari describes the mindset of the entitled class:
While sitting in a coffee-shop in Athens, I struck a conversation with a very smart-looking, confident girl while we sipped our rather expensive Euro 4 coffee. She was proud of spending time lying on the beaches and buying expensive clothes. By not taking on too much, she was contributing to the world's peace and happiness. She claimed to be doing a good deed by spending money, which kept the economy going through increased money circulation. Saving money, she said, was bad, something only a selfish person would resort to.
"Fewer working hours mean work for other people and hence less unemployment," she said. While I was thinking that she was likely a spoiled child of rich parents, she added, with bright, clear eyes, that the rich should be heavily taxed. Realizing something was missing, I couldn't help but ask if she was on public assistance. Without a blink, with supreme confidence, and a complete absence of any guilt, she said, "Yes."
The reason she didn't lie is because she did not feel an iota of guilt for being on dole. Those memes have been systematically annihilated. This is a life in complete contradiction to the natural principles. Not only does the educational system teach falsehoods, the machinations of the system are such that there are seemingly no consequences to misguided living.
The same attitude about saving versus spending took root in the United States in the early 1980s. Citizens became consumers. The only way for a country to achieve long-term growth is for its citizens to save more than they earn. These savings can then be invested within the country to insure that prosperity would continue for future generations. A country of only consumers will eventually collapse under the weight of debt and lack of investment.
Two generations of Americans have been brought up to believe they're owed a pension, owed tax subsidized housing, owed free health care, and owed the right to happiness provided by Big Brother. The conviction that government can coddle and provide for all the underachievers, disadvantaged, and unambitious in society has taken root like a weed. This belief is a fallacy.
The other fallacy that's been bought hook, line, and sinker by the American public is that American-style democracy can be spread around the globe through force by utilizing the most powerful military in the history of mankind. In 2000 the US expenditure on defense was less than $400 billion. The Obama 2011 budget proposes military spending of $895 billion. That level is eight times the next highest country. The country that we're supposed to fear as the biggest threat to world peace, Iran, spends $10 billion per year on its military. This is 1.1% of the annual US spending level. The war on terrorism has cost more than $2 trillion since 2001. Do you feel safer than you did on September 10, 2001?
The country has been in constant military conflict across the globe since the 1940s and Congress has never carried out its Constitutional duty to declare war. The military industrial complex and the politicians they control have subverted the US Constitution in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the citizens. The United States of America in 2010 is Greece, but with the biggest baddest military machine ever conceived as our backstop. The only difference between our socialist state and those that are tottering toward collapse is that we're also burdened with policing the world. This guarantees that our empire won't collapse with a whimper, but with a big bang.
The US welfare-warfare state isn't the result of any one political party's agenda. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have cooperated to achieve this result. Republicans passed the largest entitlement expansion since LBJ in 2003. Democrats have just proposed the largest military budget in the history of mankind. It isn't easy to run the national debt from $5.7 trillion in 2000 to $13.1 trillion today. It takes cooperation and mutual ineptitude on the part of both parties to achieve such a spectacular result. Thirty billion dollars unfunded unemployment extensions are attached to bills to pay for the war in Afghanistan. If you vote against the bill, you're not supporting our troops and you want to kick people out into the street. The two sides pretend to offer alternatives to the American people, but their agendas coincide:
"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."
-- Thomas Sowell
The hard truth is that every human life ends in a tragedy. There's no amount of money that can be spent by government bureaucrats to alter this fact. Baby boomers can keep running on their treadmills, popping vitamins, and trying to stay a step ahead of the grim reaper, but the grave beckons. The real tragedy is that because of the fiscal irresponsibility of politicians and the boomer generation, future generations of Americans will for the first time in US history have a lower standard of living than their parents. The wealth of the nation has been frittered away by statists and warmongers. The current fiscal path of the country is unsustainable. The immediate actions required to avoid a catastrophic collapse are:
1. At least a 50% reduction in annual military spending
2. A drastic scaling back of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits based on age, means testing and instituting real-market competition.
3. Scrapping the entire income tax system and replacing it with a VAT or flat tax.
4. Eliminating useless government agencies like the Department of Energy and Department of Education.
5. An across-the-board 25% reduction in every government program.
6. The elimination of the Federal Reserve and the linking of the US dollar to a basket of commodities including gold, silver, oil, and agricultural products, in order to restrict corrupt politicians from spending money we don't have.
These six steps are the talk of a crazy man. There's no chance of any being implemented today. We all know that the American way is to ignore imminent problems until they morph into a crisis. Unless we act now, this may be our last crisis. The choice is ours.
