Separation of Church and State

The Big Questions are: How, Why, What, & When. They are questions of matter, purpose, law, & time.

Origins
Meaning
Morality
Destiny

HOW did i (and everybody else) get here?
WHY are we here? Is there a purpose to our existence?
WHAT do we do? Are there rules for our existence?
WHEN we die, what happens? Is there a soul?

For all of human history, since man has been able to contemplate & record his thoughts, these questions have been gnawing at us. From time to time, some people have claimed 'special insight' for the answers, & have constructed plausible scenarios for these questions. This is what i will call, 'Religion'. It is an attempt to define & solve these basic questions of the Universe.

It does not matter how far back you go in history. It does not matter who the philosopher, guru, wise man, scientist, or thinker of great thoughts is, they wrote, spoke, & obsessed over the Basic Questions of life.

Now you may ask, 'What does this have to do with the separation of church & state?' It is a long way around to this issue, but it is necessary to define the basic terms & concepts.

In the human experience, there are 2 basic expressions of Religion: Institutional & Individual. We have constructed institutions to be the caretakers & managers of our philosophies of life. Most of these are found as churches or organizations that reflect the opinion of the founders. But there are also individual beliefs & opinions that do not fit neatly into any particular institution.

I would also like to point out some basic Truths about humanity & the Big Questions:
1. NOBODY really knows the answers to these questions. There are only beliefs.
2. Atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, absurdism, theism, & ANY speculation about these Questions are ALL beliefs.
3. There are NO empirical answers for any of these questions. They are outside of scientific methodology.
4. Truth is not a democratic process, but there is not even a consensus among humans to the Absolute Truth of the Questions.
5. Since ANY belief about the basic questions of life are purely BELIEF & conjecture, & since the questions are outside the realm of empiricism & scientific inquiry, ANY & ALL beliefs about these Questions are Religious & philosophical.

For most of human history, including now, a Majority Opinion was the consensus in a society. There was little tolerance for diverse views on these things, & conformity was expected. Wars, force, & conflict were & are common strategies for persuasion of a particular philosophical world view. The American Experiment was born as an attempt at self rule, & was a utopian dream of human governance. The religious/philosophical question was addressed in these 2 basic concepts:
Govt was to secure freedom of religion. This is the 'free exercise' clause.
Govt was NOT to 'establish' or give any preference to any religion. This is the 'establishment' clause.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ~1st Amendment

For the next 200 yrs or so, there have been various interpretations & explanations by the supreme court on this phrase. In most instances, there was no conflict with any expressions of belief by individuals, or any 'free exercise' parts of human belief. The 10 commandments on the courthouse, or a nativity scene in the city square were not considered to be violations of the establishment clause. God was mentioned freely in all human institutions.. education, govt, media, law. Prayers were (and are) offered before congressional sessions & other public settings. The religious beliefs of the majority opinion were allowed expression without violating any minority beliefs. The roots of America were based on Christian biblical principles of human equality, Natural Law, & freedom. These were Enlightenment concepts, & they were incorporated into the founding of this radical new expression of human governance.

The Majority Religious Opinion
Here are the summary premises as a basis for further analysis:

1. ALL beliefs about the 'Questions' are Religious & philosophical.
2. America was founded upon the utopian dream of free exercise, & non establishment by govt in matters of religious expression.

Ideally, the collective organization (aka, govt) should be indifferent to any 'free exercise' of religious expression, & only inserts itself if there is a conflict between the beliefs of one violating the rights of another. That is the role of the courts, to adjudicate any disputes between the citizens. For most of the history of America, there was no conflict with a nativity scene, or some other expression of religious faith by the citizens. The 'majority view' was primarily theistic, & specifically christian.

But as is often the case in human society, changes bring new dynamics. The sense of tolerance & diversity about religious beliefs, that was the basis for the American ideal, has changed with a new majority ideology. What was once 'endowed by the Creator' is now 'granted by the state.' Naturalism has replaced Natural Law. I see the changes illustrated by a few highlights in court decisions.

• 1925- the state of Tennessee passes a law banning the teaching of evolution in public school. It went to court, in what has been called the 'Scopes monkey trial'. Many other states followed suit, banning the teaching of evolution. The tennessee law was upheld initially.
• 1967 – Tennessee repeals the Butler Act, the law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.
• 1968 – In Epperson v. Arkansas, the Supreme Court strikes down an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution.
• 1973 – Tennessee passes a law requiring that public schools give equal emphasis to "the Genesis account in the Bible" along with other theories about the origins of man.
• 1975 – Tennessee's "equal time" law is declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.
• 1982 — In McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, a U.S. district judge strikes down an Arkansas law that required public schools to give "balanced treatment" to evolution and creationism whenever either was taught.
• 1987 – In Edwards v. Aguillard, the Supreme Court rules that a Louisiana law requiring public schools to give "balanced treatment" to creationism and evolution is unconstitutional.
• 1990 - In Webster v. New Lenox School District, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals found that a school district may prohibit a teacher from teaching creation science.
• 1994, in Peloza v. Capistrano School District, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court finding that a teacher's First Amendment right to free exercise of religion is not violated by a school district's requirement that evolution be taught in biology classes.
• 2005 - in Selman et al. v. Cobb County School District et al., U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper ruled that a evolution warning label required in Cobb County textbooks violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The disclaimer stickers stated, "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."

What is interesting to me, is the slow change from one view to the other, & the transition from one being the 'banned' view, into the other now being the 'banned' view. Neither have any empirical evidence of absolute Truth, & both are merely OPINIONS about the origins of man. Yet we have officially transitioned from one 'majority view' exclusive opinion to the other, in the short span of a few decades. This example is easy to follow, as you can see in the court rulings the gradual changes from one to the other.

But this is only one reflection of the majority opinion of Naturalism. It has become the de facto 'religion' of the day, & dominates all of our institutions, especially in the public arena.

The irony to me, is that naturalism used the 'tolerance' & 'free exercise' principles in the constitution to find public validity, & is now using its majority opinion to squash any dissent from alternate views. In matters of free expression, secular humanism & other flavors of naturalism carry the 'religion' label, but in matters of establishment, they disavow the 'religion' label in favor of the 'science' label.

Secular humanism has been defined as a 'religion' by the supreme court (Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488, 1961) . It is, in fact, a belief system about the universe, origins, the nature of man.. it is an attempt to answer the 'How, Why, When, & What' of our existence.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others. See Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 101 U.S. App. D.C. 371, 249 F.2d 127; Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda, 153 Cal. App. 2d 673, 315 P.2d 394; II Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 293; 4 Encyclopedia Britannica (1957 ed.) 325-327; 21 id., at 797; Archer, Faiths Men Live By (2d ed. revised by Purinton), 120-138, 254-313; 1961 World Almanac 695, 712; Year Book of American Churches for 1961, at 29, 47. footnote 11 from the case

In summary, the concept of the 'separation of church & state', while lofty & ideal, seems to be impossible with humans how they are. All they do is go from one majority enforced view to another, in the realm of religious & philosophical beliefs. Even in the melting pot of America, where diversity & tolerance is celebrated, an exclusive view seizes control, & its followers demand strict adherence to the tenets of the faith. American once had a majority view of christian theism, but is now mostly transitioned completely to naturalism. It has taken over in most expressions of Law, & is decidedly intolerant toward any competition of other world views. Science is misused, & indoctrination is the preferred method of instruction in this ideology.

The Central Flaw of Democracy

The Central Flaw of Democracy:

People who have not worked for it get to decide how to spend other people's money.

It is a basic problem of Conflict of Interest.  Those who vote for a living will begin to outnumber those who work for a living, & the downward spiral has begun.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." ~Sir Alexander Fraser Tyler

I saw this in the republican debate last night.  All the politicians promise goodies from the treasury.  Public service is lauded as the most virtuous career.  Police, fire, & military are elevated as icons of humanity, when it is the taxpaying producer who pays their salaries.  Justice providers are a necessary evil.. an expense on the producing segments of society.  But those blinded by the lights & glory of Govt cannot see the source of their very survival:  The producing, working man.

It is an inherent flaw of any democracy, made worse by a watered down citizenry, state centered propaganda, & universal suffrage.  This is not the goal of American Governance.  This is a bastardization of the American Experiment, driving it to ruin.

“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy… It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.” ~ Alexander Hamilton

Problems

• Diluted Citizenship. Citizenship is treated as a cheap commodity, rather than a sacred duty.  It is handed out like candy, to anyone who wants to vote.  This has been the METHOD that the statists have used to usurp the rule of citizens, by flooding the electorate with useful idiots & self interested voters.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.  ~Winston Churchill

• Ruling Elite. For self rule to work, you have to have CITIZEN Representatives.  Public service cannot be a magnet for shysters & scoundrels, looking for easy living.  They have turned the American Experiment into a den of thieves, not a rotation of representatives with the interests of the tax PAYERS in mind.

"All [reforms] can be... [achieved] peaceably by the people confining their choice of Representatives and Senators to persons attached to republican government and the principles of 1776; not office-hunters, but farmers whose interests are entirely agricultural. Such men are the true representatives of the great American interest and are alone to be relied on for expressing the proper American sentiments."  ~Thomas Jefferson

• Conflict of Interest.  The control & management of the public treasury is in the hands of those who have not contributed to it.  It is easy for them to hand out goodies from the treasury for votes.  It compounds & snowballs into corruption, & it has corrupted the American System of govt.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.  ~Alan Corenk

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ~ William Blum

Solutions

• Term Limits.  End the 'career politician'.  Structure our electoral process so that 'drudgery & subsistence' is the only draw for public service.  Duty & SERVICE should attract altruistic citizens into collective administration.  Lock down the revolving door to riches, which is the current system.

"Our public economy is such as to offer drudgery and subsistence only to those entrusted with its administration--a wise and necessary precaution against the degeneracy of the public servants." ~Thomas Jefferson

• Balanced Budget.  The accountants of the public treasury should have the same constraints as everyone else.  They should not spend more than they take in.  It is immoral to burden future generations with the excesses & folly of previous ones.
• Cherished Citizenry.  Being a Citizen should be difficult & hold accountability.  It should not be open to anyone.  Only those who actually produce wealth for the nation should have a vote.  Leeches & dependents should not be part of the spending decision process, as they will always lean toward corruption.  Universal suffrage is an enemy of a stable, productive society.  It breeds dependency & corruption, & is the primary problem in Western democracies.
• Civil Disobedience.  This quote by Franklin is often used as a 2nd amendment support, but it is about the inherent flaws in a democracy. “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”  ~Benjamin Franklin.  At some point, the working producers will have to throw off the tyranny of the moochers & looters, & their conspiracy against them.  This seldom happens peacefully.  Liberty is always well armed.

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."  ~Thomas Jefferson

The ONLY way to get back on a sustainable track is to address the FUNDAMENTAL problems in our governance.  It is mostly about the money, & those administering it.  Politicians are like Parade Queens, tossing out the taxpayer's hard earned money like candy.  It is a flaw in the core of our system, & one the founders foresaw.  But we have not heeded the warnings, but let a professional ruling elite gain control, enabled by the mooching hordes who are too happy to vote the looters in.  If we do NOT address & face the flaw of Conflict of Interest in our system, they will continue, & eventually destroy us.

A Bloodless Coup

When a nation is ripe for revolution, there is sometimes YEARS of disgruntled talk, solutions offered, continued oppression, & bullying of the citizens.. IOW, exactly what we have now. The mere suggestion of a revolt or some other remedy does not happen immediately, but there is usually a 'trigger' that sets things off. A face off in lexington. The storming of the bastille. Some kind of event triggers things, & it all goes up in flames. Sure, it is risky, but so is the status quo. Life is a risk, & we should not be afraid to make some changes for fear of upsetting the apple cart. There were mockers in American revolutionary times, too.. laughing at the thought of some upstart locals with muskets defying the mighty English Army. Most of them had to flee to Canada, or they suddenly became patriots. We will always have those. But we desperately need bold patriots who will fight for their freedoms & their country. IMO, we have more now, as a percentage, than we did in 1776, so restoring the constitution would not be that hard. Cowardly liberals talk tough, if they think they have an army or police behind them, but if those back the constitutional people, they will wilt like yesterday's flowers.

A coup in the US could be swift, bloodless, & to the point. A coalition of congressmen, senators, governors, military leaders, & other public figures could make this the easiest coup in history. It just needs to be organized, & acted on.

1. The military already has provisions for keeping the infrastructure going in their 'nation building' plans. They can just do it here instead of in a foreign land.
2. New elections can be held, with local govts overseeing their local elections, with some federal level observers, to ensure legality.
3. A military tribunal can be held to examine charges of treason & corruption within the administration, & arrests made.
4. The coalition can work closely with congress & the senate, with clear directives to follow constitutional limits.
5. The coalition can work closely with the courts, & propose alternative solutions to judicial appointments.
6. Massive dismantling of all the extra governmental meddling that is not allowed by the 10th amendment, & those prerogatives given back to the individual states.

In the new election, many would favor additional amendments &/or laws:
A. Balanced budget.
B. Term limits.
C. Elected judges.
D. Campaign reform.

The goal is to return the country to self rule, & remove the corrupting influences of special interests, the spoils system of appointments, return to fiscal solvency & eliminate career politicians. This is simple, common sense stuff that resonate with Americans. It can work, & we should give it a shot, rather than just continue the downward spiral.

I don't care who does it. All our public servants have vows to the constitution & the American people. If the courts won't stop it, or if congress is too frightened of its shadow to arrest this madness, then let the military arrest him for treason, & force the courts & congress's hand.

I would have more confidence in some disciplined military people than the double-talking politicians & their moneyed cronies. Where has 'trusting' the politicians brought us? Is the constitution followed? Do they keep their vows? NO!! they are complicit with the administration with his treason & gutting of the economy, trampling the constitution, ruling by decree, & plunging us to collapse. I would support a coalition of high ranking military people who went out on a limb to save the country. It IS the last straw, & the last resort for us as a nation, except for a popular uprising without the military. But if they start it, the people will join in & the goal will not be to install a dictator, but to return us to constitutional Law.. the basic premise of the nation. THAT is what America is, not this convoluted, money grubbing, corruption filled, group of liars & scoundrels that has infested our governance for decades.

It is time for drastic action, not more words. Take away their power, they will not surrender it willingly. Force is the last resort for deterrence & submission to Law. Our representatives do not fear the people, but plunder us for their own gain. It is time for the workers of the land to throw off the shackles of oppression & send these moochers & looters to fend for themselves, instead of feasting on our lifeblood.

Consumer Confidence & Money Velocity

Consumer confidence is an unquantifiable variable.. you cannot fix it with edicts, or pompous imperial decrees. It is closely tied to money velocity. When CC is high, so is money velocity. When CC is low, velocity is too. They almost mirror each other.

During the bubble leading up to 2009, consumer confidence was high, even though many other indicators spelled trouble.  Note this chart on money velocity:



You can see the velocity starting to slow in 2006-7. That was a bad indicator, but no one sounded the alarm, as the media are whores to the politicians & bankers, who use these wild swings in the economy to fleece the working man. They killed home ownership in one fell swoop, & took trillions from the people. Oh, sure, the banks lost some capital with the 'toxic loans', but the politicians bailed them out with OUR money!! But the people who lost equity lost it all. No one bailed them out. The govt not only failed in its basic duty to protect the citizens, they were complicit with the plunderers, robbing the citizens of trillions in savings & equity.

What about the 'toxic' loans? These were imperial edicts, by dubya & barney franks, the social engineers in charge of giving everyone a home. Indifferent to the consequences, they mandated banks to loan to anyone, oblivious to the bubble they were creating, & they shrugged off the millions of people thrown into bankruptcy. The poor people did not change. They shrugged it off & went back to govt housing. No losses to them. The banks were bailed out.. they got guarantees for the loans, even though it cost the taxpayers billions, & plunged us into a deep recession that we are still not out of.

The only losers were the working taxpayers. ..those who had some equity in their homes, or who 'invested' in other things with their equity. So a massive swing of real wealth began, taking from the working man, & 'redistributing' it to the bankers, the ruling elite, & their enablers: low information voters.

All we can expect is more of the same, as long as these same looters control the currency & fiscal policy. They will use it to fleece the working man, using Law as an instrument of plunder. I don't know how to give any financial advice in the current market.. the only thing that can fix this is revolution.. wholesale eviction of the looters in charge, with perhaps some guillotines tossed in for good measure. Then, there should be a concerted effort to provide a stable currency.. unemotional, unmoved by pity or charity.  A currency should be amoral.. & be based on indifferent numbers & values. You cannot base a currency on compassion.. or at least, basing it on emotional appeals is a recipe for destruction, which is the least compassionate option.

You cannot manipulate money velocity, else the social engineers would do it. Limiting supply can limit velocity, but that is not the problem. We have plenty of supply, but no CREATIVE demand.. that is, demand created by production, which needs investment, labor, & intelligent innovation. The liberal 'demand' for money is superficial.. it wants the results of money.. tangible wealth, without the investment of capital & labor. They print money to buy stuff, but don't make or create any of the stuff. Stuff comes from overseas, or through govt theft. There is no velocity in this scheme, as the demand for goods is not based on growing wealth in the nation, but money shuffling from a fiat currency. Money is shuffled in artificially by fiat, but it leaches out of the nation, & has little movement within the nation.

Saying velocity CAUSES economic maladies is like saying your high temperature caused the flu. The economy is sick.. too much govt regulation, too much dependency, not enough production.. these are the CAUSAL factors. Velocity, job participation, housing, etc, are all symptoms of a sick economy, given to us by our sick representatives, with a sick world view that makes them think they can control these things by imperial decree.


Obama believes in the progressive/socialist fantasy that he can merely issue an edict, & the economy will respond. He has no clue about market factors, production, & the origin of wealth.

Natural Law: A religious issue?

Natural Law is independent of religious belief. Many skeptics, deists, & even atheists believe in Natural Law. There is no conflict, & even Jefferson acknowledged that in the DOI:

'When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them'

You can call it God. You can call it Nature. You can call it whatever you want, but it is the immutable, UNALIENABLE rights of man, inherent to his existence, equal & independent of all other men. It says your life, your property, & your liberties are natural rights.. native to your existence, & not subject to the whims of others.

The enlightenment thinkers concluded that the CENTRAL role of any collective organization.. the MAIN duty of govt is to secure these rights. AND, if any form of govt becomes destructive of these ends, it is further the people's right to alter & abolish said govt.

This is basic stuff. It is the foundation that America was built upon. You can destroy this foundation, or argue that man has no such rights, or try to trample his rights by violating Natural Law, but it will not last, & you will find yourself on the side of the oppressor, crushing human freedom instead of defending it. You are merely embracing the monarchists role of 1776.

Power is another factor. Power can be used to defend & protect Natural Law & the people, or it can be used to dominate & oppress. In the rare times where power is used to defend human freedom, times of liberty, opportunity, prosperity, & enlightened growth took place.

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” ~Albert Einstein

The progressive left argues to deny & ignore natural law, & replace it with authoritarian despotism.. a ruling elite who issue mandates to those beneath them. You would undo what has taken us millennia to achieve, with no thought to the consequences. You do not believe in the equality of man, but the superiority of an evolved 'elite'.. a super human (or super race) who should have the rule over the lessor evolved inferiors. You have become a nazi.

Natural Law is timeless. It is the same whether it is 3000 bc, or ad 1700, or ad 2100. Elitist oppression is also timeless, whether from monarchs, military despots, or superior evolved beings who all claim the privilege to rule. You may succeed in fooling some of the people, with years of propaganda & indoctrination as to your superior state, & your privilege to control & manipulate others, but many of us see this as the same old, tired oppression of yesteryear.. it is so pre 17th century.. i thought we were past that.

..talk about someone who wants to live in the past. You are not advocating more freedom for humanity, but a step backwards, where elitist controllers seize power over the working man, to exploit him & fleece him of his labors. You promote the very thing we have struggled for centuries to overcome. This is NOT a religious question. This is a HUMAN issue. Will we advance in our humanity, defend the natural rights of mankind, or descend back to the dark ages?

Wake up, you deluded progressive leftists!! You have been indoctrinated with an anti-human ideology that is leading you & everyone else to bondage. Your hatred for christianity & God blind you to the UNIVERSAL TRUTH & benefit of Natural Law. But you will not be rewarded for your complicity in this subversion, if America fails. You are just another pawn for the elite to manipulate. Oh, you may live, while the champions of freedom are killed, but at what cost? Will you sell out all of humanity for some delusional lie? Despotism will NOT be an improvement for our lot.  As humans, we have been there before. Choose freedom.

You will NOT win, anyway. The genie is out of the bottle. We have tasted freedom, & will NOT return to bondage & oppression. You will have to kill too many people, & you will discover that they will not go quietly into the night, but will fight fiercely for their freedoms. You will awaken the slumbering giant of America, & it will roll over you like a juggernaut.

Death of the Family

 The nuclear family is the most basic building block for society, & is the thread that weaves the social fabric, to mix some metaphors. No culture can withstand the destruction of the family, though many despots & crackpots have tried, over the centuries, to replace the family with some collectivist institution.  The decline of the traditional family is an obvious statistic, but its significance is often lost on the culture.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. ~Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The State must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. — Adolf Hitler

I know and you know that Chicago is my kind of town. And Chicago is my kind of village. ...And we have learned that to raise a happy, healthy and hopeful child, it takes a family, it takes teachers, it takes clergy, it takes business people, it takes community leaders, it takes those who protect our health and safety, it takes all of us. Yes, it takes a village. And it takes a president. ~Hillary Clinton

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. ~Karl Marx, 'The Communist Manifesto'

You see attempts to replace the traditional family structure, even in recent history. Hitler's Youth, Mao's Red Guard, & Stalin's Komsomol, Young Pioneers, and Little Octobrists. The goal was indoctrination.. social engineering, to mold a compliant & subservient cadre of servants to the supreme state.

  

I see these as symptoms, tactics and tools to destroy the traditional family structure. They have been steadily increasing & govt policy has been pushing us toward these anti-family values:
a. The emasculation of Fatherhood.
b. The eradication of discipline in the family structure.
c. The rampant growth of crime.
d. The corruption of justice into gaming the system, & building state dependency by turning citizens into wards of the state.
e. The proliferation of pharmaceuticals to control people, rather than accountability & personal responsibility.
f. The construction of the fantasy global 'village' to raise children, as subjects of the state. Collectivist view of man.
g. The 'feminizing' of men. Metrosexual & pajama boy liberals elevated as the Male Ideal.
h. The explosion of homosexuality. Gays are made, not born, & progressive ideology has used the confusion of puberty to drive young people to embrace homosexuality. 
i. The demonizing of the Alpha Male. Strong, natural leaders of the social structure are shamed & ridiculed, replaced with PC metrosexual role models.
j. The individual destroying, family breaking act of abortion, pushed upon naive young women, to their detriment & all of society.
k. The destruction of moral absolutes, replaced with relativism & situation ethics.
l. The equating of traditional family with 'exploitation of children', as Marx does in his 'Manifesto'.

A healthy society needs well adjusted men. It needs well adjusted women, too, but the progressive war has been primarily on men. Radical feminists, the anti family squad of progressive ideology, have been systematically attacking & emasculating the alpha male for decades. They wish to build compliant, passive men, who are comfortable lounging in their pajamas watching chick flicks. But no society can survive without fierce warriors & clear thinking, confident leaders to defend the culture from enemies, foreign or domestic.

This chart shows the growth of dependency, but also the surrender of men for their duty to provide & protect, replaced by the progressive village, which only produces town drunks & village idiots. 



This is ALL men, but some minorities have been even harder hit. The welfare state has systematically emasculated the black man for decades now, & the traditional black family is nearing extinction.

The consequences for this will be detrimental to us as a culture.
1. We will be weaker, militarily, as our armed forces will be run & managed by pajama boys.
2. The nuclear family, the fabric of all human societies, is replace by collectivist bureaucrats.
3. Dependency is accelerated, as single women look to the state to raise their children, rather than the traditional family structure.
4. All these things lead to financial & social collapse, as a society cannot function outside of fiscal & social reality. Fantasy dreams of utopia cannot & will not replace the hard realities of life.

Currency, Banking, & Corruption

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. ~John Adams

Fractional Reserve Banking is sometimes seen as the same as Fiat currency. It is not. Basically, fractional reserve banking is a method of growing the currency. IF loans are made on productive ventures, the money 'created' is real & has value. But if the loans are just created by fiat.. with NO collateral, they dilute the real value of the wealth.

One of the problems of fiat currency, is it makes reserve requirements irrelevant. What is the purpose of a bank holding reserves to cover its liabilities, if they can just get more cash from the central bank?

Reserves are what a bank has in real assets, to cover their loans. Most fiat nations don't even have reserve requirements, because they can just print up more anytime they need it. But as a sentimental nod to past hard currencies, the US currently has a 3% reserve requirement for most banks.

Here are some examples.
Traditional fractional reserve banking:
Bank A has $1m in assets.
'A' loans Farmer $1m for land improvements, seeds, & equipment, with the future years crops as collateral.
'A' loans Storekeeper $1m to build a storefront & to buy inventory, with future earnings as collateral.
'A' loans Widgetmaker $1m to build a factory, raw materials, & hire workers to make widgets, based on future sales as collateral.
'A' loans Homeowner $1m to build a house for himself, paying contractors & material suppliers, based on the future value of the house as collateral.

In this scenario, bank A loaned out $4m, when they only had $1m in assets. The other $3m was 'created' by the central bank, that bank A borrowed from to make their loans. Since all of this money is based on real wealth being created, this is not inflationary, nor does it devalue the currency. As the borrowers make money off of their ventures, they pay back the bank, who pays back the central bank for the 'created' currency.  Real wealth is created, & there are no diluting or inflationary pressures on the currency.  Even if the currency is fiat, if sound lending practices were followed, there would be HYPOTHETICALLY no inflationary instability.

Regulations come into play in a scenario like this:
'A' loans Nepotist $1m to buy securities, lobby, & make kickbacks to govt officials. The OCC catches them, & puts both banker 'A' & Nepotist in prison.  Any remaining monies are returned to the investors & lenders.

But lets look at the current banking practices.
Bank 'A' has no assets.
'A' loans Scoundrel $10m, for donating $1m to Political Crony's campaign.
'A' loans Shyster $10m, who had loaned Scoundrel $2m to lobby.
'A' loans Conman $10m, who got a grant from Political Crony of $1m to study the effects of lobbying on the money supply.  (no effect, he concludes)
'A' loans bank 'B' $100m, so they can make loans to Crony, Liar, & Weasel. They are lawyers who put together a trade deal to help impoverished nations, an executive order made by Political Crony, who successfully ran for president.
'B' loans bank 'C' $500m who is the channel in payments made in foreign aid, & military contracts.
'C' loans bank 'A' $1B to buy derivatives & securities.

The fed considers all these valid loans, even though NOTHING of value is created. It is all money shuffling. All the small banks have been swallowed up by the central banking cartels. They have no competition, & shuffle cash between themselves, tapping the FED for more & more. NONE of the 'loans' made were based on the creation of wealth, but mere pyramid scheme parameters. This is inflationary, & dilutes the real value of the currency.

THAT is where the problem lies, by allowing shady loans to 'create' money, when nothing is being created. If the banking regulators put the crooks in prison, like they used to, these kinds of ponzi schemes would not dilute the currency or plunge us to bankruptcy. But our own govt is the worst offender. They make loans to themselves, paying interest on borrowed money, with borrowed money, created by fiat. It is a shell game, using smoke & mirrors to confuse everyone & obscure their crimes.

The treasury spends money that congress has allocated. They issue T-bills to get the cash. The Fed buys the t-bills, & gets interest from the treasury. The treasury sells more t-bills to pay the interest, & the Fed gives some of the interest back to the Treasury. The treasury boasts how they are making money off of the interest on t-bills.  It is nothing but a ponzi scheme

The whole system is corrupt, run by money shuffling thieves, with no basis in production. They are driving the currency to collapse.

One of the core concepts of America is that of man's inalienable rights. His right to life & property are paramount, & the ONLY purpose of govt is to protect & secure those rights. FIAT money is at its root a method to plunder the working man & take his property. It is foundationally contrary to the American ideal, & was slipped in by scoundrels & state worshippers to gain control & fleece the producers. It is at the root of statism, & is unamerican at its core. Nothing else we do.. no other reforms or changes will help, as long as the foundational principles of fiat money are in play. It is a redistributionary system employed by statists & oppressors, not a system of self rule. That change, began in 1913, was the turning point of American liberty. Since then, we have increasingly been plundered by a growing ruling class, enabled by the bankers & moneyed elite who also love this system, as they use it to enrich themselves without having to work or produce anything.

How did the stock markets respond to govt managed currency?  Did the Federal reserve bring stability & solvency to financial markets?  Hardly.  They brought the exact opposite:

Since the Fed, we have had wild swings in the markets, with fiat currency & debt used to fleece the producers & working man.  This was a progressive, big govt action, to grow & expand the role & power of a central govt.  The results have been a decrease in opportunity in America, & a destruction of the middle class, once the hallmark of a prosperous America.  Now, the money shuffling elite, who produce NOTHING, live in the lap of luxury on the backs of the working man.

This is just the great fiction that Bastiat wrote about. The delusion that govt can enable people to live off the labors of everybody else. If this delusion becomes a national religion, that society is on a downward spiral. Unless they wake up to the reality of work, production, & the source of wealth, they will collapse upon themselves in a massive dependency orgy.