Thank God for the Electoral College

If one excludes the Marxist state of California, Trump won the popular vote. Now I’m no Trump guy. I don’t believe he will change much. And the coming economic disaster just up ahead can’t be headed off by anything he does. I’m more an “Anyone but Hitlary” guy, except perhaps Bernie Saunders who would probably be worse.

Never the less, Bernie, not Hillary, should have won the nod from the DNC in California. Leaked emails and a study out of Stanford show the corruption of the voting apparatus controlled by the Democratic party in California. So why should anyone in the rest of the country trust anything out of this state, which, by the way, is the worse managed state in the union with Illinois and New York right on its heals for the title. For more information on this, see the link below.

California Vote

Clearly California has corruption problems, but it also has serious mental problems. In deed, many “millennials” seem to have the inability to think critically about the subject of collectivism (Socialism, Communism). Most of the time, their thinking and reported conversations exclude well documented history and the ability to engage in any type of intellectual discussion. It does include regurgitating knee jerk insults, parroting their Marxist professors, and violence.

This lack of discussion demonstrating an inability to reason to often results in real “hate speech”. Instead of engaging in discourse over the merits of arguments presented, they dismiss them because of their origin. This is akin to someone rejecting an argument not because of an argument’s validity, but because the source comes from an African-American, or a women, or a progressive, or a conservative, or a Christian, or a Muslim, or an atheist, etc. An argument either has weight or it doesn’t. Its source my not be palatable to someone, but to focus on that simply leads to ad-hominin responses, bias, bigotry and racism.

To call a group of people xenophobic or bigots or racist is itself bigotry. But that level of thinking seems to hard to follow, with to many levels of inference for our young college educated millennials. To many of them are not aware that they are being played by the collectivists in Washington, the Media, and the academics. To many of them are being pushed and pulled like a vast group of lemmings easily controlled by propaganda. Certainly this seems to be the goal of the state.

Until the people of California learn the true record of 20th Century collectivism by studying its history, It is most fortunate for the rest of us that the Electoral College prevented California from sending the rest of the country further down the slippery slope of Socialism.

and thoughts on voter fraud from REDDIT…

My old man lives in California, and sent me his thoughts on the popular vote:
Donald J. Trump has, also, won the popular vote! The anti-electoral vote crowd, which has awakened after a 16 year hibernation period, can now put their protest signs back in the closet.
Donald J. Trump, President-Elect, has won the popular vote. When the votes from the liberal state of California are tossed out the entire political spectrum changes. Consider California is excluded from the Presidential Election of 2016.
Total USA Vote Count including California (99% reporting)
Clinton: 60,839,922 or 48%
Trump: 60265858 or 47%
Johnson: 4,152,009 or 3%
Total USA Vote Count excluding California (100% reporting)
Clinton: 54,979,208 or 46.5%
Trump: 57,114,029 or 48.5
Johnson: 3,847, 988 or 3.3%
Why exclude California? There may be a number of reasons to disqualify California…
1. It is one of 12 States that issue driver license’s to illegal immigrants.
2. While a few States permit legal immigrants to vote, California openly permits illegal immigrants to vote. Get a driver’ license get registered to vote.
3. California counsels illegal immigrants to vote for Democratic candidates.
4. California passed a State bill restricting the ability of the Republican Party to place candidates on the National Ballot. This easily eliminates the freedom to vote for a GOP candidate for the Senate.
5. California was called for Clinton one minute after the polls closed with less than 1% of the vote counted. Despite the fact California uses paper ballots.
6. With the exception of Illinois, voting fraud is common practice in California
7. California is still counting ballots and they are somehow are all for Clinton.
So if you are a Trump or GOP supporter, relax. Just throw out California, relax, smile, have comfort in the fact Trump won the popular vote along with 306 electoral votes. Oh yes, Clinton has 55 fewer Electoral Votes, Shame. Something else for the DNC to cry about.

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Stand with Rand?

On the way home yesterday I was listening to the local talk radio program on WMAL (Washington, DC).  They were discussing Rand Paul’s filibuster of the “Patriot Act”.  For those who do not know, Paul is against renewing it, wants to see it’s funding stripped and its scope curtailed if not abolished altogether.

The people calling in (usually an assortment of conservatives or neo-cons) made points both for and against Paul’s actions.  The majority “stood with Paul” but there was a good mix.  Being that I do not have a cell phone (I’m dinosaurian) I could not call in.  So I was waiting to hear if anyone would be making any point remotely discussing the elephant in the room.  At least to me it is certainly THEE elephant.

Nope, no such luck.  I expected as much.  The people in the DC area, while many are struggling, are used to money pouring into this area so hard times here are not hard enough for most.  After all, the federal government rapes and plunders the rest of the country to maintain the huge and ever growing bureaucracy needed to control the rest of us.

So hear goes, as I see it.

I stand with Paul, but not for the reasons mentioned on the show by the host or the listeners.  Yes, the government is to big.  Yes, the Patriot Act and the powers and funding it gives to DHS, the NSA and its satellite agencies is excessive, unconstitutional, and ineffectual.  Yes, the claims by the NSA/FBI/DHS about terror plots foiled is most likely fiction.  Yes, the data collection is more likely going to be used against Americans who challenge federal authority than a terrorist in Yemen.

But my issue is strictly the economics of it.  The government is beyond broke.  It has no “money”.  The federal government lives on credit.  The IRS collects taxes so the federal government can service the loan and interest on that loan they get from the FED.  Without this, the government cannot borrow more currency to continue its activities.  So it must squeeze the people harder and harder because the debt and the interest on the debt gets larger and larger.  Servicing the debt becomes more and more difficult.  We are now at debt saturation.   Ever thing is leveraged and hedged and leveraged again by the Central Bank and its member banks (owners).  Our government, like all governments before them, must increasingly turn to plundering and impoverishing its citizens to service the debt (pay back the bankers so the government can borrow more to meet its expenses).

The dollar, like all fiat currencies before it, will crash and burn.  All assets with the banking system will be confiscated to keep the system “alive”.  All numbers from the BLS, whether employment, inflation, GDP, DJIA, etc., are fraudulent.  I fear for my parents.  He has substantial wealth, but will lose all of it if it is not in something tangible.

We are on the edge of economic collapse that will make the great depression look like the good old days.  What is coming is nothing that I nor my children nor my grandchildren are prepared for.  Unfortunately most of them either ignore the news or get there information from the main stream media that parrots white house talking points.  Real information one can find on Zero Hedge, King World New, Financial Survival Network or the Miles Franklin Blog go unread.  Warnings from Holter, Leeb, Quayle, Stockman, Roberts, Maguire, Rule, Pento, von Greyerz, Dalio, Price, Hoffman, Schiff, Krieger, Keiser, Woods and many many others go unheeded or unknown.  The only economists that have understood and have been right are the Austrian economists over at the Mises Institute.  They are like old testament profits who’s warnings go unheeded because they are not positive, comforting and full of lollipops and unicorns.

When collapse occurs likely later this year or next, funding the military industrial complex and cutting back on the military will also occur by default.  Not only the military, but every unfunded liability will be hurt if not destroyed.  Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Pensions, retirement accounts, IRA’s, savings accounts, etc., will vanish. EBT cards will crease to work.  Jobs will vanish.  As the dollar crashes, so will the ability of politicians to control the coming civil unrest.  And civil unrest is coming because people will look to the government as savior.  That is a job the government was never suited for.  Like the thieves they are, the government only knows how to steal, kill and destroy. No more money for the war on terror or war on drugs.  No more oil or farm subsidies.  And in the end, we won’t be debating the budget of the military or the welfare state, we will be looking for food.

I stand with Rand not because I believe it will matter.  But even if there is only 0.01% it will help, I will take it.  Anything, absolutely ANYTHING, that will curtail the power of the federal government is worth a shot.  The less power they have, the less damage they can do.  That is how desperate the situation has become.

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Economic Meltdown coming soon to a theater near you.

Outstanding interview with Bill Holter about how people will lose everything. The Collapse of the American Empire is upon us. Trauma ahead.

What can be done?

On a national level, nothing.   The government triad (Washington, Wall St.[Central banks, Financial Services, Multinationals], Main Stream Media) is the cause, the disease masquerading as the cure.

Individually it is another matter altogether. To survive will depend, not on government, but on avoiding it, and learning to be an asset locally.  Learn a practical skill such as gardening, carpentry, making charcoal, or water purification.  Anything other than pushing paper, pushing buttons or…

…parasitic brain cell destroyers like Twitter; boiler room, pump-and-dump scams like “The Grilled Cheese Truck“; dying, bottom of the barrel fast food chains like “El Pollo Loco“; or highly commoditized, zero value-added societal drains like King.com (Candy Crush).  – Ranting Andy Hoffman.

Retirees and pensioners will be hit hardest. Then skill-less civil servants and lawyers.  The Grandson closest to me only knows Sports and iPhone skills.  These “skills” will be valueless in short order.

My best guess is second 1/2 of 2015 – 2016.  However, the markets have had near credit seizures within four days of each other.  We are at debt saturation and huge bond bubbles ready to explode.  The derivatives that rest upon them are even more massive.  1.4 quadrillion with a Q!  The great depression will be seen as a warm-up.

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What bankrupt governments do

Clueless evil in the service of bankrupt governments = Nobel Prize

 

Two important articles…

1. Eight Things Bankrupt Governments Do

Highlights…

• Cyprus and Direct Confiscation – Pensions will be raided – Bail-ins
• More Taxes Coming – More theft at gun point
• Theft by Inflation – The poor will get poorer
• Capital Controls – Your money is not your money
• Wage and Price controls
• Severe Penalties attached to Wage and Price controls
• Increased regulation – the government will expand its financial spy network
• War and National emergency – false flags coming

 

and…

2. Spy on people, Find their money, Take it

• Fined for not spying on people
• Government to track down where your money is
• Then  they will take it

 

 

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Municipal Plunder

 

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.  Frédéric Bastiat

Read the article and watch the great John Oliver describe how “We the People” have become targets of the thieves that manage our cities and keep us “safe”.

How Municipalities and Police screw you from Liberty Blitzkrieg’s Michael Krieger

And while I do not have a lot of respect for the Washington Post, they had a very good 6 part video report calling for the end of asset forfeiture by thieves we call police, judges and magistrates.

Part 1 here

 

 

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A Myth for the Bureaucracy

In the days preceding and following the American revolution, men and women gave their lives for the idea of a nation based upon liberty and freedom, free from the arbitrary and fiat rule of tyrants and kings.  The severe constraints that our founding fathers placed upon the new government of the United States was meant to safeguard those freedoms.  The mechanism was the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Power was divided between three branches of government.  The individual States and their localities had the lions share of power and were meant to prevent the always possible usurpation of power by the federal government.  The laws was designed solely to prevent injustice such as the plunder of private property by governments at all levels.  This allowed individuals the freedom to navigate their own way, manage their property as they saw fit, and have the liberty to pursue purposes and dreams.

Law does not serve that purpose anymore.  Instead it attempts to insure equality of outcomes called by the Marxist term “social justice” rather that prevent injustice.  But this is an impossible task because one must rob, plunder or extort by force the resources of one group to re-allocate it to another.  This is how votes are always bought.  It is how sociopathic politicians stay in power.

Instead of concern for injustice, the law is now used to manage and regulate the actions of people.  To do this, people must have their options (freedoms) limited and forced into compliance by fines, incarceration, and when necessary, violence upon person and property.  It takes a lot of resources to manage people but the government, having no resources of its own must of necessity turn to plunder.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

With this change in the purpose of law and by slow and small steps, the law has been transformed into and instrument of plunder.  The chief user of this instrument is the federal government.  To be sure, the banks and the corporations are also behind this, but it is government that provides the muscle for this axis of evil.

So what is the myth?  It is simply the belief that those that work and sacrifice for the good of the government are doing so in the service of their country.  They believe that their labor and contributions are for the country their love.  It is not.  Their sacrifices are for the government, not the country, not the welfare of the citizen who is plundered every April 15th, who is regulated so that the cost of doing business is no longer profitable, who must play the debt game designed by bankers and enforced by these same bureaucrats to make certain the tyrannical empire of the petrodollar endures forever because their livelihood depends upon it.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”  Patrick Henry

So ubiquitous has service to government been confused with service to country that to most they are one in the same.  They are not.  They are not even close.  The bureaucracies produce few goods that one can purchase and provide no service one wishes to pay for.  The use bureaucrats have is solely because our government have shackled the once free citizens with a collective compliance and debt slavery without which the bureaucrat and the agencies they work for would have little use.  Their need is artificial, required for the operation of the great machine of empire to plunder the people and intimidate the nations.

The nation born of the idea of free men has transformed itself into the tyranny of Ancient Rome.  Breads and Circuses (welfare and entertainment), endless wars to preserve empire (National Security, “Gladio”), and currency debasement (Quantitative Easing, money printing).  The government’s bureaucratic armies run a propaganda machine (unemployment rate, inflation rate, economic recovery), control markets (DJIA, Gold and Silver, S&P), and have a spying apparatus (NSA, etc.) what would be the envy of any fascist government.  Instead of securing the blessings liberty they have their finger in every pie to manage every move and have laws on the books the citizen doesn’t even know about so they can be threatened or removed as needed.

Sadly, the average over-educated yet witless bureaucrat still believes service to his government is service to the country.  This is how we are destroying ourselves.

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The arm of the plunderer

The police, judges, and government in general are waging war against the public.  Unlike the cartoon above, you don’t have to be guilty of a crime.  Just the suspicion that your property was involved in a crime is enough for the police to seize your stuff.  This seizure of stuff has been escalating since at least 2002.  Even the Heritage Foundation, a very conservative think tank, is catching on.  Below is one chart from an excellent article about “asset forfeiture”.  I think is it called “equity sharing” when the Feds art involved.

Click on image to read article – Civil Asset Forfeiture: 7 Things You Should Know

But wait!  It doesn’t stop there.  Cops, Judges, and “Civil” Servants need a lot of money for their salaries, huge pensions, and excellent benefits, so…

In Australia cops sit camouflaged hiding in the wood-side to trap “speeders”.  In Switzerland, speed cameras go off at 2 mph over the seep limit.  Then the fine is calculated based upon how fast you were going and how much money you make.  Well, it is better then being shot dead for no reason like John Geer was.

Bang bang, John’s dead

Finally, after 17 months while Fairfax County Police and Government sat on it hoping it would go away, a reasonable judge granted a court order to release the documents.  The Washington Post writes “Friday night, under a court order obtained by lawyers for the Geer family, Fairfax released more than 11,000 pages of documents that shed new light on the police shooting”.  Really, 11 thousand pages?  Excessive pages are used by bureaucrats to obfuscate issues, not to determine truth.  Never-the-less, in Fairfax county we too have sociopathic loose cannons running around with guns ready to murder someone at the slightest twitch.  And Fairfax has an ever growing bureaucracy ready to cover it up.  But hey, Fairfax is mostly democrats and RINOs that always vote to expand the state.  They commute into DC and suck off the federal tit to finance their lifestyles anyway.

What will it take to stop this theft (legal or not) and unnecessarily quick resort to violence and force by police?  It may be safer for the public to be armed and the police to be disarmed.  It is almost as if, in its stupidity, the government in its endless quest for revenue, is provoking the public into retaliation.  More likely they want more and more plunder, because governments (police, judges and bureaucrats) DO NOT PRODUCE a goods or services that can bring in revenue, so they utilize force to shakedown the citizen.  They are certainly not interested in justice.

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How banks destroy nations

In his post HERE, Charles Hugh Smith points out very important points as to how banks loot a nation and impoverish a people.  Banks and lenders are assumed to be capitalistic.  But that is not reality.

In a free market where real capitalism is actually practiced, when lenders make bad loans, ignore risk, and ignore the credit worthiness of the borrower, the “lenders who ignored risk management; they get destroyed.”  This is supposed to be how it works, indeed, this is how it has worked in times past.  “As imprudently issued loans default, the losses pile up and the lender become insolvent. At that point, Capitalism kicks in and the management is fired, the stock goes to zero, the lender’s assets are auctioned off and the creditors are issued whatever remains after wages, taxes, accounts payable, etc. are paid.”  That’s it.  HE continues, “There’s nothing complicated about it: Capitalism requires the discipline of losses being taken by those responsible, the firing of incompetents and the destruction of imprudent lenders.

In other worlds, bad loans eventually wipe out the lender, as they are suppose to.  Idiots who do not properly vet the borrower and analyze the risk get whacked.  But now, there is little need, because why? Because they have effectively done two things.

• They have used their control of the media (propaganda) to sell the story that it is the borrowers fault.  Somehow the narrative is “the lenders are blameless, the borrowers are at fault and should pay.”  

  While it is true no one should borrow money that they can’t pay back, the “primary fiduciary responsibility is on the lender to not offer loans to marginal borrowers and those at high risk of defaulting on their debts.”

  “Let’s set aside the propaganda for a moment and get real: anyone with the slightest knowledge of Greek finances and the power structure of the Greek economy/society knew it was insanely risky to loan Greece billions of euros. No one can deny this, yet somehow the lenders deserve to be paid for their avarice, stupidity, incompetence and total disregard for the standards of prudent lending? No, they deserve to be destroyed–closed down and their assets auctioned off.”

• They have shifted the responsibility from themselves to the citizens of the sovereigns who borrow from them.  In other words, the tax base and resource pillaging will be used to payback bad loans.  The lender(s) are no longer on the hook for anything.  Risky loans are not longer a threat to their existence.  This is what happened with the IRS and the Federal Reserve member banks.  You taxes are collected to pay back the loans has taken out on “your behalf”, not for schools and roads.  Before the FED, there was no income tax.  It wasn’t necessary.  The purpose of the IRS is to backstop the FED.  Nothing more.

• In the case of Greece, politicians put the people on the hook because they work for the elites that rule Greece.  These elites “have preserved their positions through control of the media (propaganda) and through old-fashioned favoritism, sharing the spoils of power with the country’s politicians. Greek legislators, in turn, have held on to power by rewarding a small number of professional associations and public-sector unions that support the status quo.” 

So the European Central Bank has the nation and its people on the hook.  What does that mean?  It means the time and labor of the people is owned by the banks.  It means that those Aegean Islands will be sold to the bank for “pennies on the dollar”, it means pensions have to be cut so less is paid into the system allowing the banks to take more.  It means their is a “Fire Sale” sign above the Acropolis.  The ECB has made many very stupid loans.  But in today’s world, stupidity is rewarded if you are a parasite and produce nothing of value except the invention of new and unique ways to plunder the productive.

It will end when bankers swing from the lamp posts.  Tax collectors will pay for their duplicity.  Governments and banks are broke and desperate to perpetuate their existence and will attempt to plunder the world before they go down, citizens be damned.

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“A frightening monster that has been unleashed on the world”

Monster from the ID – The Federal Reserve

 

Everything is falling into place for the destruction of the current monetary system.  Unfortunately this will also destroy a lot of people’s lives because they won’t be prepared or even understand why the worldwide meltdown is happening.  

The reality is that the global fiat currencies have now started their final leg down that began with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913.  Before this Great Purge is completed, all fiat currencies will reach their intrinsic value, which is zero.  There will be a panic into gold and this will save a handful of the world’s population from the coming collapse of the global currencies.

At the end of this disastrous and chaotic period, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank won’t survive, nor will the Bank of Japan or the Fed.  And if the central banks won’t survive, neither will the commercial banks.

…this is the inevitable consequence of the corruption and mismanagement of the financial system over the last 100 years.   Egon von Greyerz who predicted the collapse of the Euro against the Swiss Franc 59 days ago.  more HERE…

The kind of austerity that is demanded of Greece and other European peoples is the kind that produces revolutions.

So if these countries(Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland) see that Europe will not ameliorate the hardships that have been imposed on them by these austerity programs, and these countries turn to Russia, China and India — the BRICS — you would then see a total breakdown in the EU system.  This is a system where the banks get countries in debt and then they send in the IMF to impose austerity.  The bank’s clients then buy the premier assets of these countries for pennies on the dollar.  It’s a looting process.  That’s what happened to Greece.  It also happened to Ireland.  So if these European countries realize that all they are just being looted, they will then accept Putin’s offer and turn to the Russians and the Chinese.  The BRICS can easily assist the Greeks.

If the greed and stupidity of Greece’s creditors and the inflexibility of Germany and the EU persist, Washington’s European Empire could crumble. The Dread Pirate (Paul Craig) Roberts.  More HERE and HERE.

The Greek case shows that the supposed free market is just an illusion, especially in the banking industry. The biggest private banks created a complex financial environment with complex financial destructive “tools” which governments are unable to manage. Governments are forced to turn to the same banks for “advising services” while they are flooded with former bank executives placed in key positions. This explains why the biggest private banks receive bailout packages of billions at the expense of taxpayers, loading governments with more debt.  More HERE.

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Obama Red Herring: The “Rich” are not the problem

The “rich” of this world are often lumped together with the elites of this world as the 1%.  But there are differences within this 1% and it is a difference that is very important.

Now if you are a socialist then everyone that produces an income is, or will eventually be, a target.  Of course being a socialist also means you are utterly ignorant of economics (Keynesians excluded as that is not economics).  So we will leave socialists alone to their “philanthropic” destruction of the world by plunder.

Eric Sprott: Not a member of the elite.

Thus, moving on, this 1% is composed of the elite rich who want to rule the world and those who are not members of the elite.  First lets identify the elite.  They are governors of central banks, politicians that make up governments and owners of corporations that provide services to banks and governments.  They also control armies of bureaucrats which fill agency after federal agency.  These obedient lemmings implement and expand the wishes of their masters.  The drones run various government agencies that regulate, fine, and steal private property in all its forms.  In addition to having their own police arms within the bureaucracies, they also use or control local, state, and federal police forces that provide force to terrorize the general population.

Hogo Salinas Price: not a member of the elite.

These “armies” use the same reasoning for doing their duty (impoverishing and destroying the lives of the citizens) as found with the Nazi bureaucracies.  They use “it was legal” and “I was just following orders”.  The enforcement powers do not protect the citizen, they enforce the laws made up by rouges who used deceit to get elected.  This is how tyranny always starts.  Corruption needs to legalize itself.  Then once legal, the enforcement powers are filled with drones who will do the bidding of the tyrant.  Public education has many purposes especially in its omissions.  They omit clear reasoning and critical thinking but make good citizens.  So we end up where Tacitus said we would.  Like Rome…

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

The problem for the elite is twofold.  The first problem is control of the populous. In order to control the population they have to control the resources.  The average citizen needs to be put into a position so they cannot do anything more then protest.  They do not want the average Joe to have access to force.

Hence they desperately need gun control.  They need to redefining those opposing government as “domestic terrorists”.  The need to pass executive actions that allow confiscation of all assets.  They need a dependent population so they oppose any self reliance.  That’s why raiding groceries selling “raw milk” and teaching police how to escalate situations so force can be “justified” by the courts are part of the same game plan.  They need income so they push for carbon taxes because of “climate change”, want to tax the rich, they manipulate markets and the stocks of the DJIA.  Virtually anything government does that does not protect life, liberty and property is for control and enslavement of its “inventory”.

In the US, almost every action of government is overreach and is prohibited by the tenth amendment.  So the constitution becomes a “living” document, malleable to the whims of the power hungry sociopaths and the over-educated army of obedient implementers they must pay for.  If our all-wise overlords, elite central planners and sociopathic political class didn’t want to control you and I, they would need almost to money.  But because they do, they need great mountains of it, which is why they use paper currency.

Egon Von Greyerz: Not a member of the elite.

The second is bankrupt governments.  Governments are the enforcement arm of the central planners and central banks.  What started out as a good scam, i.e., using debt to finance government and taxing the people to pay for it, has gone from manageable to nightmare for them, and everybody else unfortunately.  While they may be personally wealthy, their institutions, financial instruments and apparatuses they control are unsustainable because debt needs to grow to be sustainable.  The very dollar itself is debt, it is not money.  Or better, the money we use is debt with interest due it and somewhere down the line that interest has to be paid.  As their need to expand control grows so does the debt needed to pay for it.  They don’t want to pay for it, they want the citizens of their fiefdom to both pay for that control and to take a little off the top for their personal holdings.  This has created a debt based system that is now on the verge of collapse because of debt and leverage on that debt.  To understand this go here.

Marc Faber: Not a member of the elite.

So governments need to find ways to extract more money from the system.  Sometimes class warfare is used.  Like the Jews of Nazi Germany, the rich are used as the scapegoat for the liberals so called “middle class economics”.  Middle class economics like Marxist bourgeoisie physics does not exist.  It is a made up term to create class warfare.  It should be no surprise that liberals borrow from Marx.  But the problem is not the wealth of the rich.  It is politicians who have promised far to much to people and now can’t keep their promises.  It is central banks and governments that have intervened and meddled in the real economy, causing prices to rise, stealing your purchasing power, and manipulating every perception.   It is the huge pensions promised to the vast bureaucracies that are no longer affordable.  The apparatuses of government have grown so large in an effort to control the masses it is having convulsions ahead of the coming collapse of the petrodollar.  So now they must look for additional ways to plunder and impoverish their citizens.

Taxing the rich, many of which are not the elite, will not help the middle class in the slightest.  Government would consume anything they got from the rich in a matter of weeks if not days.  And it would be wasted on further expansion of the control apparatus because more needs to be squeezed from your wallet.  In any case, the rich who are in the elite will not be target of the governments they control.  No, the only rich that will be taxed are those opposed to the oppression and stupidity of the current socialist system.  The rich who support this system of debt enslavement by taxing citizens to pay for the elites debt will not be touched.

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