Homelessness, despite its explosive increase in the past 30 years, still feels like an exception, an anomaly in the grand, prosperous and self-righteous tableau that is America. How can so many be living “on the street,” basically, in a country with so many resources and so comprehensive a political infrastructure? Liberalism causes otherwise rational people to defend the RIGHTS of the mentally ill, weird or addicted and largely uncivilized people to sleep in public places. Eventually, their rights to urinate and defecate in public places are also “recognized.” Due to some dislocation in the logical thinking of other liberals who consider themselves civilized (living in houses, indoor plumbing, decent ‘human’ activities and some form of productive wealth), residents of the same jurisdiction are permitted by virtue of the existence of other “rights,” to make their ways around the city, including eating in restaurants and entering various other businesses, in the nude. Once good sense is breeched, the uncrossable lines of civilized decency become harder and harder to discern.
To varying degrees, many municipalities have descended into some form of what San Francisco has become a leader of. Prior to the last 20 to 30 years western civilization, largely founded according to Judeo-Christian beliefs and ethics, was endeavoring to advance in terms of human civilization, habits and public, interactive, practices. That direction has reversed. That reversal seems to be centered in and controlled by liberals, leftists and socialists. Conservatives are distinctly unimpressed by these trends, if not disgusted – as seems Prudent.
This accelerating retreat from good sense makes almost every “civilized” resident very uncomfortable. It has seeped out into criminal justice to the point that criminals are coddled while ultra-liberal prosecutors expand the list of crimes for which punishment and retribution are no longer very important. But the trend started with rampant and financially-encouraged homelessness – all of which programs have failed despite the millions of explanations of success by those same liberal politicians. Liberal “government” has foresworn any moral judgment to the point that anywhere it can insert some “public” monies must also eliminate morality as a shared ethic.
The Prudent approach is to recognize that life is better, safer, cleaner, more productive and successful when the vast majority of the population – and its “governors” – share a basic morality. In such a civilized environment certain behaviors and practices are not allowed for sensible reasons of health, public safety, compassion and cleanliness. We can begin the return to civilization by ending the “root causes” of homelessness. This will require the enforcing of laws despite the chagrin of some who are incorrigible – both homeless and “normal.”
Block by block, street-sleepers have to be rounded up and held in temporary – emphasis on temporary – facilities for evaluation. Which of them are addicted? Which truly mentally ill? There won’t be any free needles or free drugs… only compassionate detox, physical clean-up and healthy food. Every person will be required to adhere to rules in order to eat, hunger being the universal motivator. Those who are clinically determined to be mentally ill will be treated, possibly medicated if it will help, and housed separately… depending on the nature of supportive bonds with others, mentally ill or not. Instead of spending tens of millions of dollars on better tents or other free stuff that facilitates living on the streets, every person will be rehabilitated to the best degree possible. Vocational training will be offered within controlled circumstances. For many this will be a refresher for skills that used to support them before addiction took over. Each will have to work in some way to earn his or her room and board. Each should also be offered contact with religious people, ministers, or others. There is always hope.
In a sense it is a program of second chances, but not a second chance to live on the street. For those whose mental illness can’t be controlled, proper institutionalization is needed – not “warehousing” of humans, modified assisted living. Nearly every state has a history of terrible handling of the mentally ill. It always offended Prudence to hear about bad treatment and terrible conditions that seemed to go on and on… for years and decades. Were those the only solutions human beings could come up with? Was there someone else who could be blamed for the cruelty and stupidity that marked so many mental hospitals?
No, it was us, the same people who threw up their hands and closed the awful facilities and “mainstreamed” mentally ill people. Every person living “homeless,” can be helped, rehabilitated made more healthy and given / offered new direction and opportunity to take good care of themselves. If your politicians don’t agree, get some new ones. Politicians who are willing to run on a platform of honesty would be the best place to start.
On November 8th, a cold day before the first frost, hereabouts, Prudence found the very last Morning Glory blossom on a set of vines that looked dead for more than a couple of weeks. While it seemed lonely, perhaps forlorn, that blossom faced the sun with purpose. It was telling its world that even when all doors seemed closed, the spark of life, matched with a strong purpose – or courage – was overcoming almost everything.
We are witnessing the dismantling of the United States as a sovereign nation. It is sad that no news organization asks questions about it. It is the only end result that makes sense of Biden’s open-border tragedy and it’s not a new idea: George W. Bush talked about creating a “North American Union” similar to the European Union, where petty local elections would mean less and less and less. The free flow of peoples is part of it. Erasing quaint ideas of nationalism and America-first, are parts of it, too. No wonder Trump was so hated by the anti-nationalists who are in charge. It’s all globalist crap, and every Democrat supports it, yet not more than two Republicans have spoken of it, much. American citizens? Why tell them anything?
The deep state has discussed the concepts of an “NAU” with both Mexico and Canada over the past 20 years and probably more. There hasn’t been any effort to speak to the United States about it. President George H. W. Bush spoke of “… a new world order…” in the early 90’s, as though the actions and policies of the United States were somehow leading to that mythical utopia. You can spot those who share that concept: they looove the United Nations. They get a thrill from hearing people from less-successful and far more oppressed nations telling the United States what to do.
Barack Obama is a true acolyte in that church. Not only did he apologize to the world for real and imagined mistakes the U. S. has made… forever, but he couches his basic hatred of his own country in terms of racism: the unassailable condemnation. There are many like him. They’ve taken to calling for U. N. oversight of OUR elections! Yet, there is almost nothing the U. N. does that improves freedom or raises standards of living – except for the standards of living for those that work for the U. N. It is an horrendously corrupt and wasteful bureaucracy, and the U. S. feels compelled to pay the lion’s share of its many budgets. Being “woke” began with the U. N. after World War II; supporting the U. N., even over support for the U. S. is one of the greatest virtue-signals possible.
To rush along the “New World Order,” leftists within our own government favor and work for acceptance of U. N. directives. The fundamental process requires giving up bits and pieces of U. S. sovereignty, which also means discarding our Constitutionally protected, God-given rights. Within every variation of justification for elevating humanity to become our own gods, there is a constant drumbeat against religion (mostly against Christianity) and no room for God, himself. Here in one of the few nations founded or premised upon religious freedom, we find numerous CHURCHES and watered-down, rainbow-flagged liturgies, that strongly support the U. N. Individuality and individual relationships with God and Christ are not preached or honored there, any longer. Marching toward the new world order is a march to the left, Godless and socialist.
“The New World Order” is not a phrase that’s tossed around of late. What is dropped often enough is the term, “The Great Reset.” Everyone in favor of the Great Reset is perfectly happy with the prospects of a new world order, make no mistake. “Great Reset” is the brain-fart of the self-exalted “World Economic Forum,” led by the chief fart, Klaus Schwab. No one elected him; he and the rest of those who are “members” of the “Forum,” are self-appointed, very wealthy individuals who have developed significant sway over actual political, elected leaders. Despite their capitalist origins, they all seem quite comfortable with a socialist, one-world future. All seem convinced that socialism has failed heretofore only because those attempting to employ it were not as smart as this current gang of utterly secular insurrectionists… insurrection being the overthrow of existing government(s).
The Great Reset received a huge boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. Incipient global rulers watched the lockdowns and mandating of experimental vaccines with satisfied glee. Millions of hitherto “sovereign” citizens were accepting extra-legal control of movement, employment, worship and assembly on the premise of stopping an infectious virus. Constitutions and other statements of rights were set aside with minimal resistance. To globalists, this behavior showed that tyrannical control is manageable. God forbid.
Still, among the dying vines of freedom, faith, private property rights and individuality, there are enough living cells to blossom forth in glory. But, can we protect freedom’s flower from the coming frost of de-population, famine and global communism, under which, according to the benevolent Klaus Schwab, we will “own nothing and be happy?”
Representatives of our own government, including the incredibly corrupt Vice-President, Joseph Robinette Biden, descendant of slave owners and top dog in a corrupt and morally twisted family, have attended and addressed the W. E. F. in its Davos meetings. Biden’s last speech there, a couple days before Trump’s inauguration, was full of internationalist palaver and platitudes of cooperation salted with anti-Russian, anti-Putin derogation. As President, however, Biden has governed this country in contravention of his utopian dreams expressed to the W. E. F. Indeed, he has governed in contravention of his sworn oath upon inauguration: his word is cheap – easily purchased. With some 150 instances of questionable financial transactions among the several Bidens and foreign countries, it may prove difficult to ascertain who owns the largest portion of good ol’ Joe’s integrity. Observations – and Biden’s own actions – would indicate that significant ownership of his integrity belongs to Communist China, and not to the citizens of the United States.
“The West” owes to itself and to all mankind a proper regulation / limitation of raw capitalism. Today’s youth are rightly fed up with the distortions caused by hyper-accumulation of wealth. Capitalism was the servant of freedom while free-enterprise was possible, encouraged and promoted by republican governments. It worked while laws and judicial impartiality provided an honest business environment, one of the best in the world. In other words, free enterprise worked when government was honest, both federal and state. A hundred aspects of Covid-19 response have shown that our governments and multiple enforcement agencies have become dishonest, with even our largest, most trusted, government-corrupted, medical delivery systems forcing forms of protocols that have increased the death toll from Covid at least 100%. The “government” provided financial incentives to hospitals to both identify and treat “Covid” patients, including specific treatments and, oddly, lacks thereof. Thousands have died because normal treatments and checkups for cancers, heart disease and many other conditions, were stopped or avoided by patients. The crimes are so huge we’ll never have all the statistics.
The fastest way to start stitching the American opportunity society back together, is to return to honesty in government – something that seems anathema to today’s politicians and to the deep state.
All we true Americans need is the single-minded purpose of a Morning Glory blossom, determined to return our glory to the world.
Sun Tsu teaches that to defeat one’s enemy one must know who (or what) it is. The enemy, in its own defense, will always try to deceive, creating artifices against which its victim can expend great effort and resources, weakening itself to the point where the attacker can triumph with few losses. We call these artifices “Straw Men.”
So it is with good and evil. Evil never has strong footing but is very clever at creating false targets or disguises of its true purposes. Good can dissipate evil in a heartbeat but, being more trusting, gets diverted away from the target evil and even allies with it for a time, believing there is some greater good being served. And so it is with abortion.
The evil that is expressed through abortion is very clever. Abortion, we are told – and sold – is an expression of freedom and even civil rights. Most of us respect “freedom” and are quick to defend it. Most of us feel the same about individuals’ “civil rights,” and “Constitutional rights” even more. Being thoughtful and caring, most of us hate to admit that we have been deceived into defending evil when our whole intention is to defend rights, freedom and the Constitution – all “straw men” in this battle.
It doesn’t matter whether our core beliefs are religious, although such are great resources to bring into the battle against “abortion: “abortion” being the industry of the practice, now infecting medicine and even churches. Agnostics and atheists are free, certainly, to question our spiritual underpinnings as archaic or no longer relevant in a scientifically sophisticated world, believing that “science” has, or should, take the place of religious “superstition.” It doesn’t matter: religious truths and rules of honor are still operating regardless of any individual’s belief or disbelief. We still should strive to expose the Straw Men erected to protect abortion.
Among the other effects of the most famous opinion authored by Justice Harry Blackmun in 1973, Roe v. Wade cemented the repudiation of morality into federal law. Following the failures of moral struggles in the 1960’s, and as the federalization of welfare in the “Great Society” gained momentum, Blackmun conceived an invisible right to “privacy” that forced government’s hands off of virtually any moral judgements toward individuals’ behaviors. In effect, Roe justified evil, couching evil as a “right.” Historically, under a basically Christian impetus toward responsibility for one’s actions (essentially answering to a greater moral code than an individual might create for him- or her-self), individuals were free to be stupid, or to simply fail, but not to be immoral. Those who fought against immorality, or for a greater morality, were lauded and rewarded in society. Those who worked for licentiousness had to hide their purposes, often appealing to sympathies for the confused or otherwise “unfortunate” members of society who turned to an immoral path as their “only” means to elevate themselves from still worse circumstances. Straw Men on the march.
One need not follow any of the major religions to be uncomfortable at the destruction of unborn babies. If one is “religious” in outlook, he or she recognizes a more-or-less direct connection to God for every gestating child. This imparts a more-or-less direct responsibility – an obligation – to protect the holy innocents, there being no person of greater innocence than a pre-born baby. We should recognize the straw men arrayed against morality as those who seek to protect the abortion industry.
First is the claim that what has been conceived and is growing in the womb, is NOT a baby. It is merely a “fetus” which, in the view of abortionists, is a “mass of cells.” By implication, the proto-baby is a “foreign invader” and obligating the host-mother to protect and nourish it is a form of slavery or oppression. This argument is not biologically sound, nor is it morally solid. Humans, generally, are sympathetic to “baby” anythings, be they chicks, lambs, puppies or kittens, even heifers, foals, piglets and hippopotamuses. By great dint of effort, we have been divorced from the same emotions regarding our own babies. Indeed, appeals for donations to feed orphaned animals are far more successful than for the prevention of child abuse. How grotesquely odd; who benefits from this strange incongruity?
Women who have “bought” the entire narrative of oppression and “not a baby” still are likely to suffer some separation anxiety, even sadness, after an abortion. The older the fetus the more likely the grief. Who was that baby going to be? Would he or she have loved me? Blackmun found a right of privacy that flushed the destruction of the unborn clear of morality or meaning; the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, he couldn’t find. Interestingly, 90% of women who consider abortion choose to become mothers after seeing an ultrasound test and hearing the baby’s heartbeat.
Abortion can be rationalized with sufficient hatred, yet the essential child-mother bonding that commences very early on after conception, is real. More than simple hatred is needed to convince a mother that her irreplaceable role can be dissolved by mere hatred of a “growth” in her belly. It is a special virulence that brings a woman into an abortion provider’s lair, and it has to be carefully taught. For many abortion advocates, the essential hatred is hatred of male oppression. Such a transference of emotion is another variation of the Straw Man syndrome.
The country appears to be divided over the question of easy access to abortion on demand. This means that abortion advocates want abortion to be available within a bus ride, inexpensive or covered by insurance, and bound by few, if any, limitations.
The divide seems to follow party lines, with those on the left: liberals, progressives and socialists, the most in favor of unrestricted abortion; conservatives and Christians the least likely to approve of abortion on demand. The Democrat party has devolved into the party of death; it seems IM-Prudent to identify as such. Advocating for the most premature death possible is a form of evil. For religious citizens, it is proof of the actions of the “Devil,” which is to say, “Deified Evil.” Some call him Satan. Whether one “believes” or doesn’t, abortion is never as “nice” as the RIGHT to choose one. Even pro-abortion advocates should be able to recognize that pro-lifers who believe in the sanctity, or sacredness of innocent life, cannot compromise with the killing of that life.
It is worth wondering about the nature of the anger generated among pro-abortion advocates. It seems, well, out of proportion. Where pro-lifers might sing hymns or pray or simply try to speak with those heading into an abortion clinic – and this is understandably upsetting to those who have decided that death of their proto-baby is a solution to life problems – pregnancy support agencies are more likely to be vandalized and threatened. Where laws have been passed to protect access to abortion clinics and to prevent “harassment” of potential abortion clients, there are none that restrict the same for pregnancy support centers. Laws against vandalism and arson exist locally, of course, but seem to be less well enforced than the FEDERAL laws protecting the abortion industry, even when the industry, itself, breaks federal laws.
Demonstrations by pro-abortionists exhibit intense angers and even hatreds for pro-life defenders. One wonders why feelings are so high and angers so hot, in favor of abortion. Often there are threats of retaliation against those who oppose abortion. “If abortion isn’t safe, then neither are you!” Most pro-abortion / pro-death advocates have never suffered an abortion, yet they turn red in opposition to pro-lifers. Why? Clearly, if motivated to join a demonstration in favor of abortion, an individual believes he, or usually she, believes that a gestating baby is not a baby. Perhaps he or she also believes so strongly in Constitutional rights that the risk of breaking laws is well worth the righteous defense of such rights.
Yet, the only Constitutional right most pro-abortion advocates have ever defended is the right to terminate pregnancies. Is it just to defend the practice of licentious sex? Is the responsibility for the consequences of fornication so foreign a concept that the right to abortion must be defended? Is it that simple? It seems not.
Obviously, pregnancy resulting from rape is a special case, as is incest, and to protect the health/life of the mother goes without question. Requiring birth of a baby in these cases is cruel and unusual punishment, and society is not prepared to take that step. Neither is Prudence. Still, the baby is completely innocent in any case. We have to arrive at an agreement of person-hood at some point in gestation, whereupon Constitutional rights apply. We have not been able to do so.
It seems as though the right to kill innocent life is behind – or beneath – it all. It is an act that is as anti-religious, anti-God as is possible. If abortions were committed by sociopaths on the sidewalk, who then held the dead baby aloft like a battlefield triumph, we would arrest and incarcerate that evil person until his trial for first degree murder, a capital offense! Rightly so. But hiding the act away behind “clinic” doors and surgical gowns and rubber gloves enables us to defend it as a solemn right. Solemn rite, more like.
There are many forms of conspiracy of which average citizens have some inkling or suspicion, despite, or perhaps because of the concerted mendacity of government officials and agencies, including our military bureaucrats. Particularly since the Biden administration took control, world politics and military relationships have become more dangerous, more conspiratorial and far more difficult to control, let alone understand. Naturally, Americans are much more nervous and feeling isolated, as we probably should. With China encroaching on our spheres of influence and on numerous allies like Canada, Columbia, Panama, African nations and Europe, itself… even Hungary, the “world” seems to be ganging up on the U. S.
This is a rather abrupt turn of events. One has to wonder if it’s all a matter of incompetence and lack of understanding, or if key power centers in the U. S. are executing a plan. Can these questions be answered?
Was Covid-19 a strategy or unfortunate accident?
Is the widespread “legalization” of very dangerous marijuana and the onslaught of lethal drugs flooding our neighborhoods, just wretched capitalism or an element of intentional weakness that makes sense to some people?
Is the attack on Ukraine part of an “approved” plan by globalists to weaken NATO and the U. S.?
Is the “attack” on oil and gas in the U. S. part of the same plan?
Where did the basic plan to expand “transgenderism” among grade-schoolers originate?
How is it that major hospitals suddenly coordinated with the LGBTQ+ agenda and public schools to begin performing transgender mutilations and sterilizations?
Is the pressure to give virtually everyone from age 5 and up the modified RNA injections part of a larger objective of weakening individual freedom, lower general health and possibly population control?
Who, or what country(ies), actually benefits from the dramatic changes in U. S. monetary and immigration policies?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from election fraud?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from soft-on-crime policies in major cities?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from high inflation in the U. S.?
Who, or what country(ies), benefits from restricting food production – reducing fertilizer use and sequestering productive acreage?
These are all rather sad questions to be able to posit. How could so many negative policies suddenly descend upon our nation and people? Can they all be parts of tragic, unavoidable coincidences? Or, could they be coordinated from… well, somewhere? Someone? Some group?
Can we put much credence into the idea that Joe Biden, a man whose mental state requires guides and “handlers” at all times, actually believes in what he says or does, or that he thought up the set of policies he has put into action?
Or, God forbid, but not an impossibility, is it possible that leftists/globalists in the United States’ “deep state” have considered the evolving relationships and power of Red China, the problems and responsibilities of American freedom and nationalism and the blandishments of the World Economic Forum in terms of a financial control model of vastly smaller populations, and decided that the only answer to the possibilities of wars and nuclear conflict is to throw in with the W.E.F. and establish a global government able to negotiate with, and even coerce China into coexistence? Perhaps systemic treason has been sold to the oligarchy as salvation.
If broadcast words could be weighed, it seems Prudent that they would amount to a great, ponderous weight… and more than weight, a great mass possessed of a great inertia. Fortunately, since most have no “God particles,” they bear no weight at all. The God particle of speech is a mix of logic and sense or, put another way, reason and truth. When enriched with God particles, speech carries a lot of weight, influence and ability to move vast nations, like ours. We used to call it “common sense” but it is so uncommon, now, that we rarely hear that term.
So it is with most pronouncements and policies emanating from the federal government under the Biden administration. Daily, and sometimes more than once a day, the Biden regime states a policy that is questioned only by a few, with most of media agreeing with leftism, and almost inevitably it is a policy that cannot be justified on logical bases or on (uncommon) sense. A very clear example of this phenomenon is “Biden’s” (read: Obama’s) open borders policy and relaxing of immigration laws. Millions of people have flooded (read: invaded) our nation while the Biden administration states that “…the border is secure…” There are neither logic nor truth connected to this policy.
The ”Green New Deal” is a prime example of this process of misleading. The “GND” is a lie based on a lie, but elevated to spiritual truth despite the near absence of “God Particles” in any of it. There are truths nearby to it, but they lead in a very different direction from where the “Greens” intend to force humanity. To start, the degree of human impact on the rate or type of “climate change” is immeasurable, as in unquantifiable, and our ability to alter it is unknown, if any. Hence, it is completely illogical to destroy societies and standards of living in order to “fix” climate change. Climate has been changing for as long as there has been an atmosphere on Earth: warm, cold, ice ages, sweltering swamp and warm oceans, dry, wet and every mixture thereof.
The major effort of the “GND” is the changing of energy sources from so-called fossil fuels (and nuclear) to so-called “renewables’ or “natural” energy sources. The problems with this “conversion” grow destructive because the proposed alternatives are available only intermittently. The green theory depends on wonderful batteries to capture energy when it’s available. Such batteries are very ecologically “dirty” to make and to later recycle. When all the energy inputs are calculated to make (now) lithium-ion batteries, and to create, erect and maintain solar and wind-power collector/generators, there is no advantage or even equivalence to the ecological cleanliness of our cleanest and most efficient uses of oil and gas and even coal.
However, leftists have adopted the green new deal as the best way to replace the capitalist, free-enterprise economy. If it hurts the majority of Americans it seems to be of no concern of theirs, if not their intent. Their claim is that we must “decarbonize” in a decade or so or the planet will be destroyed by climate change and we’ll all die. Human life is based on carbon. Decarbonizing includes, in “green” theology, that there are too many people as well as too many cows, and too many farms using too much fertilizer growing food for too many people. It’s not a pleasant concept. Still, if we discard most of the progress civilization has made, both technically and politically, the Green gods will be pleased and will make the Earth more perfect for those people self-judged to be better than most and deserving of longer lives.
Our Military posture is another source of abundant fallacy. Any policy that involves “woke” theories of racial and sexual identity is fundamentally untrue, yet both now appear to govern “military” thinking and practice. We annually entrust hundreds of billions of dollars to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military branches, ostensibly to keep the country protected by maintaining overwhelming strength and prowess, both technological and human. Instead the Pentagon has elected to cater to trangenderism – its own body of fallacy, if not phallacy – equal rights for women, a mixed bag of strength and weakness and waste, and politicized medicine, to wit, mandated “vaccines” that don’t work and risk the health of personnel.
The vaccine mandate error, alone, has cost thousands of trained – expensively trained and experienced – soldiers, sailors, airmen and women, and marines, their positions “in” the military. What a stupid waste. Clearly there is no capacity for admitting egregious errors by top “brass” or their civilian counterparts. Altogether, over the past several years, their efforts have weakened the U. S. military. It seems that this is failure of the grossest order. Has anyone lost his or her exalted ranked position for this failure? Not that Prudence can recall; with a group of relatively unintelligent far-leftists holding executive power since January 2021, we’re not likely to hear of any in the immediate future, either.
Just the egregiously damaging withdrawal / retreat from Afghanistan in August of 2021 should have resulted in a dozen or more high-level firings and resignations. The only person forced out of service is a Lt. Colonel who had the temerity to point out the multiple failures being executed in that withdrawal. Shame on us for tolerating, even rewarding such stupidity; shame on us for electing “executives” who employ stupid ideologies for U. S. policy. God save us.
One way to look at our current national condition is from the top of the Mountain Of Lies. It’s a better viewpoint for observing the accumulating effects of dishonesty upon the health and strength of the nation to which it is dished on a literal daily basis. Sometimes there is illumination provided by organizing lists of items that share one or more parameters. It will be Prudent to consider the entirety, if not enormity of the following list of lies on which Americans’ lives depend:
LAW. Our history and culture are replete with real and literary conspiracies based on subversion of laws. To Prudence, undercutting the law is the worst of all lies. Peace, safety, freedom and life, itself, depend on honesty in matters of law. It is still worse when it leaves the individual level and seeps into “official” policy and action – denying or subverting the law, that is. We can see the scope of damage that official lying can do, by reflecting on the completely fabricated “Russia” conspiracy that politicians and law-enforcement agencies attempted to pin on Donald Trump before he won election as 45th President, and through much of his administration. Subverting federal laws only expanded after that.
A few people lost their jobs at the FBI, but, so far, not their pensions! The message is that anything illegal done against Donald Trump is not considered to be nearly as bad as illegal acts taken against some other American citizen. Yes, you broke the law, but it doesn’t bother us enough to apply legal sanctions – wink, wink. Subversion of law: one of the worst kinds of lie.
But, unfortunately, the unprecedented crimes against Trump are not the worst in terms of how the citizens of the U. S. are besmirched by government lying. We have to look at immigration and border policies and practices since Joe Biden signed that stack of executive orders on January 21st, 2021.
U.N. and U.S. rules for “refugee” and “asylum” status are pretty loose, subject to multiple steps of acceptance despite previous errors or even untrue/fraudulent applications. A judge can always accept some claim of good reasons to submit fraudulent statements in order to obtain safety unavailable in their country of origin. In other words, it is subjective at almost every step. Those who hyperventilate over “loopholes” in tax laws are singularly unconcerned about the sieve of loopholes in immigration law. Interestingly, many of the possible claims for asylum are based on non-binary sexuality. However, there are laws and regulations that govern the processing of asylum claims and of asylees, themselves. These are being ignored at the President’s direction, leaving millions of illegal entrants in our country with virtually no way for our erstwhile protectors to monitor or arrest them when they fail to appear for “hearings” required by law.
It’s all part of “Progressives’” intention to dissemble our Constitutional Republic. Every person connected to the Biden administration who comments on “the border,” has lied about it, and quite consistently. Those are bad lies, sure enough.
LEGISLATION. Once upon a time in Washington, representatives of the people and representatives of the states would diligently research and debate, in both Houses of Congress, the federal budget. Presidential administrations would cook up budgets with their own plans and hopes, including the increased spending inevitably required by each and every one of the 1,000 or so executive departments, offices, agencies and “black” projects. Congress, politically, would dissect parts of it, replace parts of it, gain hours of news coverage about their essential work, and eventually pass some form of it, including myriad political advantages for the parties holding some level of power: earmarks. And, always, plenty of “pork.”
The two great sources of power in Congress are 1) Spending; and, 2) Taxing. No matter how motivated or honest a new congressperson may be, fairly quickly he or she becomes either purposefully corrupt or casually corrupted by the systems of Congress. The orientation process for newbies includes explaining why it is that what each feels is the right thing to do… cannot be done. In order to accomplish a small bit of what spurred the campaign to enter Congress, much has to be compromised. That is the economic dynamic of Congress – not right or wrong, but bartering for good and not-good. With the number-one goal of everyone in both Houses being re-election, the barter system quickly becomes bartering to gain re-election benefits. Voting on the so-called “budget” offers dozens of barter opportunities, and so it goes. It is inherently corrupt and corrupting, which means that our fresh new representatives – House or Senate – must lie to us at their first opportunity.
Then, there are the aggregations of spending and taxing ideas that are given names like, “The Inflation Reduction Act.” These mountains of malarkey cut and pasted by the “power brokers” who then present a 1,000-page or 3,000-page pile of words with hundreds of new “laws” included and call for a vote within 24 or 48 hours. No one can read or understand the implications all of it before voting, yet there is a great trumpeting of accomplishment. Most of the time prior to the vote is spent by each “yea” voter to find something – anything – that he or she can tell constituents was “accomplished” for their benefit, including how their representative “fought” for them against the evils of Washington. Still, where’s the truth? There are $31 Trillion in the national debt that display 65 years of great lying to American citizens.
IMMIGRATION: No country is a greater magnet for emigration than the U. S. Despite the constant Marxist drumbeat of “systemic” racism, imminent murder of blacks by police and unfair incarceration of pathetic, somewhat innocent or non-responsible prisoners, people of color flock to our southern border by the millions. Some just walk in and say the magic words claiming asylum. Our Border Patrol officers spend virtually all of their time “processing” the flood of people from up to 100 countries(!). In The meantime, about 25% as many as claim asylum escape through our poorly secured border, carrying tons of fentanyl and other drugs (drugs that kill over 100,000 young Americans every year) as well as carrying plans in some of their heads to commit terrorist attacks.
It is one of the prime responsibilities of a President and administration to prevent these very circumstances. For a government to NOT fulfill this obligation requires two forms of “untruth:” 1) a purpose other than protecting the United States or its citizens; and, 2) a constant barrage of utter lies about the “secure” status of the casually breeched southern border, supporting the pretense of an administration that is fulfilling its vows. Typically, there is a penalty to pay for lying, much more so if the lie causes injury or cost to the subject(s) of it. What sort of penalty is appropriate for this grandiose lie?
The upshot of this close-to-the-worst-of-lies is that about 4 MILLION illegal entrants are scattered across the country. Each of them is a living, breathing, expensive lie. Along with them are the nearly 1 MILLION “gotaways” who evaded apprehension thanks to President Biden’s utter… no, purposeful… failure to complete the border wall, which would at least have channeled prospective entrants to limited points of entry. They are all lies, too, whose very presence implies some sort of right to be inside our borders. That there is no such right for nearly all of the 4 MILLION and the 1 MILLION, simply compounds the grotesque lie this administration has been telling American citizens.
COVID: This compendium of lies began 10 years ago as the great Dr. Anthony Fauci funneled NIAID grants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research on the SARS-2 coronavirus. He has denied that purpose, of course, which simply shows that lying is common in the federal government’s hundreds of agencies. Fauci’s NIAID agency of the CDC earned millions in royalties from helping Moderna develop its mRNA “vaccine” (the vaccine that doesn’t prevent infection, doesn’t create immune response and doesn’t prevent contagion), which Moderna was working on in Wuhan months before the world heard of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19.
Interestingly, the only response to Covid infection was – and still is – “vaccination.” All other treatments, some very effective, have been suppressed and discussion of them censored. Reputable scientists estimate that half a million American deaths can be blamed on failures to treat Covid with known anti-virals, immune boosters and supplements. Individual personnel within the NIH are allowed to earn royalties from numerous pharmaceuticals they helped to research, including the slickest liar of all, Dr. Anthony Fauci, reportedly the highest-paid employee in the federal swamp. Lying about Covid must have been the most lucrative scam he’s had. To really push the mass vaccination program that was part of a tawdry, essentially worldwide scheme, great fear had to be fomented, and locking down the country from most business activity fitted in perfectly with that goal.
First, though, the “Friends of Fauci,” recognized scientists all, conspired to flood medical publications with false opinion papers that claimed, uniformly, that the origin of the ENGINEERED SARS-2 novel coronavirus came from some natural evolution that workers at a “wet market” in Wuhan city were exposed to. Real virologists, like Fauci, can identify the Furin cleavage site in the viral chain where other genes were added to the original SARS virus. Yet the papers went forth at Fauci’s direction to confuse politicians and divert attention from the financing of the exact research – begun in the U. S. and shifted to Wuhan – that made COVID-19 so infectious. Lies have consequences.
COVID killed a lot of people, although far fewer than statistics claim, and nowhere at a higher rate than in the United States! How could that possibly be? We certainly have a right to know.
In effect, the pandemic here was handled politically, not medically. Fauci and others inside the deep state, beholden to big Pharma, and PROFITING from them, advised federal and state governments to impose useless and actually harmful steps, locking down economic and social activities, ruining family economics and, worst of all, forcing protocols on hospitals that ignored known treatments and caused the deaths of thousands who could have survived. It seems criminal.
As the so-called “vaccines” were introduced, the lies became greater. The definition of “vaccine” had to be changed to include the weird chemicals that comprise mRNA shots. Pushing them as vaccines was and still is comforting to the average “emergency use” recipient, now pushed down to infants and children. Unfortunately, nRNA shots don’t prevent the disease, they don’t prevent infecting others, and they don’t instill normal immune response. Oh, and they don’t last long in their one effect: mitigating the “severity” of infection. As one gets into “booster shot” country, the effects dwindle to a month or two. The shots are utter failures as vaccines and immensely successful as money-transfer agents.
But, wait! There’s more!… or less. The shots are dangerous to humans! You’ve seen the ads, over and over, telling the trusting that COVID vaccine is “effective and safe.” Some mothers couldn’t wait for them to be available so that their kids could be protected from a disease that is of nearly ZERO threat to them! Zero as in NO THREAT! Why force an experimental drug known to damage children to the point that they are at greater risk from the injections than they are from the disease? I’ll tell you why: FEAR and two years’ of lies from our helpful government.
Other lies… well, let’s talk about IMMIGRATION. Anyone in this administration or Congressional Democrat who happens to get a question about the “control” of the border with Mexico, lies. No one stands out as telling the truth about this one issue.
President Biden is virtually never asked about the border – that’s left up to his press flacks: first Jen Psaki and now the incomparable Karinne Jean-Pierre. On August 29th reporter, Peter Doocy asked “KJP” why tennis star Novak Djokovic cannot enter the United States to play in a tennis tournament because he ‘s not “vaccinated” against Covid, but migrants can just walk into Texas and Arizona unvaccinated and are allowed to stay?
Jean-Pierre’s response was that just walking in was not how it works. When corrected of that notion she stated that “…it’s not like that you can’t just walk over and…” And so it goes in the great mendacity machine that is the Biden administration.
Prudence has asked before: Where do we turn when our own government lies to us?
We’re all psychologists. Humans could not work together, form societies or even families, if we could not “size up” one another and make relatively accurate judgments as to the attitudes and outlooks of those we need to live with. Like every other human skill, psychological survival and progress has attracted experts, often the death knell of progress in the field of interest. Beyond studying and learning about human psychology, psychologists have moved on to defining and even inventing forms of it. Today it is almost as though the professional in the psychology field had DISCOVERED psychology in humans and that they, psychologists, must be consulted about any and every aspect of it, lest mere humans hurt themselves and others by trying to comprehend it.
Life is animalistic without psychological abilities. Animal brains only barely exhibit any sense of meaning to the actions they take. Humans strive to avoid it. Part of the magic of human psychology is the ability to worship, and to perceive a spiritual existence that is the greatest sense of meaning possible. What does – or what will – what I’m doing, mean?
Generally, the actions of today are taken because of their meaning something in the future. We save today for security tomorrow; we court and marry today to produce a family of children tomorrow; we live honorably, creating friends and earning respect from others, so that we’ll have friends and friendship in our old age; we try to avoid poisoning our bodies and avoid danger and injuries because it means we can live longer. We even attempt to extend our meaning to others beyond the date of our death with inheritances and bequests and instructions. Unfortunately, we are descending into a process of talking ourselves out of our own humanity. Psychologists of various stripes have convinced many to deny who they are, and have convinced many others with influence over them, to help them in the process of denial. What for?
A large element of civilization has been and remains theater. It could be as simple as street actors and their ad-hoc creation of scenes, characters and stories, to the elaborate production of operas that remain popular over decades and centuries. Greek and Roman theater still teach us to look at life and meaning in “better” ways; Shakespeare, Marlow, Bacon and thousands of others from every culture, employed costume, staging, music, masks and pretense to teach cultural truths and lessons for living. Modern electronics make it possible for every individual – including children – to become a preferred pretense character, almost always on a Snap-Chat stage. It seems, unfortunately, that the “psychology community” talked itself into treating human theater, down to the individual level, as more valuable – more essential – than reality.
As one old Greek noted, “Virtue lies in Reason and Vice in rejection of Reason.” However, as psychologists are only too aware, or promoters of, Reason cannot be satisfactorily defined, especially from generation to generation. There seem to be thousands of permutations of reason, and as communications have advanced, so to speak, certain biases have become widely shared, affecting modern concepts of reason, which is not to say, Truth. Since the 1960’s and ‘70’s, feminism has become the overriding permutation of reason in the United States, and it has led to a society-bending twist of sexual roles and mores. Psychologists haven’t tried to stem this tide. Where “psychology” might add to understanding of various truths, instead it seems to adapt to and rationalize social trends.
Prudence can expect to be roundly chastised for the previous paragraph, and, probably, the next one.
Feminism has done more damage to American society than any other belief system besides slavery. Bit by bit – now chunk by chunk – it has feminized men and destroyed the majesty of motherhood. Simultaneous with the explosion in homosexuality, feminism has also led to hyper-sexualization of school-age children down to disturbing ages. As it has torn down the old morality it has failed to replace it with a new one. Where women used to “civilize” men, they now compete in an arena of irresponsible sexuality where everything is planned or avoidable based on the whims of women.
Women are now the drivers of the new para-psychology called transgenderism. And, rather than eliminating confusion about maleness or femaleness, it encompasses a host of “sexualities” that mainly women teachers and gay or other “non-binary” “teachers” feel compelled to dictate to, if not guide and groom, children at very young ages. Where are “the psychologists” on this strange twist of “education?” Sadly, they seem able to rationalize or even justify the trans-gender fad. If it didn’t do so much damage to the kids whose theatrical fantasies everyone is rushing to “confirm,” the psychologists might be forgiven.
MOST of transgenderism is theater. Children, some genuinely confused about sexuality, a very small fraction, and the rest who want to play at being the opposite sex, are pounced upon by agenda-driven teachers, psychologists, doctors and even hospitals(!), who are all in a hurry to “confirm” trans-gender fantasies. Confirmation, unfortunately, consists of largely irreversible hormone injections and blockers, and even surgeries to remove perfectly healthy organs. The children are permanently changed and their developments confused chemically. The greatest effect? Sterilization. Not many teenagers and damned few adults can conceive of what full medical transfiguration means as time goes by. Most come to realize that they have attempted something that is impossible in the majority of cases, and that leaves them neither male or female. There is more at stake than pronouns.
Yet, some dysphoria is real – the people who transition to another way of living are still real people who deserve as much respect as anyone else. Heterosexual people are largely unable to accept trans-gender people at “face” value. Reactions vary over a short spectrum, from disbelief to disgust. Normal people have a duty to learn respect for those who have found the only way to deal with their relatively rare dysphoria is transition. Let the rest of us count our blessings.
This doesn’t excuse the agenda-driven recruitment of children to a belief in gender-fluidity. Parents know that childhood whims and fantasies usually fade away or are outgrown by maturity in nearly all cases. To pounce on these susceptible kids, especially for teachers, is criminal. For administrators and political / civic leaders to make it ILLEGAL to prevent gender-predation shall remain a stain on the conscience of the nation. Shame on us and kudos to those leaders wise enough to resist this weird aberration in human purpose.
Those who are committed to the “trans” state of being and living also need to recognize that their own, understandably very deep biases toward “non-binary” sexuality, bends their views to find trans potential atop almost every pair of legs. Bigots on both sides need to stifle their angers and misunderstandings. Professional, expert psychologists and psychiatrists ought to be guiding the confused toward a path that is constructive for society and civilization. Unfortunately, they have agreed among their professional, expert-laden Societies, to avoid moral judgement and even counsel patients to dissociate themselves from religious codes. Indeed, such counseling tends to affirm those ideas that comfort the patient, rather than disturb him or her.
In other words, psychology can affirm one’s deepest beliefs, which is not to say truth. Unfortunately, sometimes beliefs are just wrong and counter-productive or damaging to society. They can interfere with forming positive bonds with others, with family members, or with others who would be good for the individual. Psychology has drifted too close to chemical solutions for too many conditions/reactions; they also tend to counsel for far too long, with patients dependent upon their therapists to maintain a new normalcy.
As Americans ponder the decline of trust in the institutions that ought to defend successful traditions and uphold the greatest strength of U. S. culture, one of those has been medicine, including mental health medicine. The professionals in that society have always been people of sense, ready willing and able to advise patients toward the healthiest, most sensible habits and actions. This used to include psychologists and psychiatrists, but this has all changed. Why? How did industries – professions – of HONOR, become so sullied?
Politics and money, not synonymous, but often congruent. If politics were corrupted by only money we could survive and even thrive as the running battle against corruption played its parallel games. But politics has been corrupted by ideology, hatred and mendacity. The Covid pandemic exposed the degree of twist that has occurred. One political party routinely condemns half the voters in the country, not as those who see a different way to improve and strengthen America, but as a group that can’t be permitted to hold or even share power… a group that threatens the republic, that is racist, homophobic, transphobic and every other epithet that can be used on TV to denigrate another person. Then that same party does everything that their opponents are accused of doing, BY THEM. It is no longer politics, but managed hatred, and it has coopted the institutions of government, justice, education and medicine, among others. None of the professions that once held the nation together have been spared.
The various forms of artifice are all masks, covering the faces of evil. Millions of true patriots resist and believe in the majesty of the American way – most are Christians. They – we – are the conscience of America. A new professionalism and a new citizenship are all that can restore us… and a new / old spiritual understanding of why humanity is male and female, and how it can survive and grow stronger. Honestly.
The Biden “administration” has done everything it could in 19 months to destroy the trajectory of the U. S. economy, and, possibly, U. S. permanence. Above all, everyone is either helped or hurt by the big “bugaboo,” inflation. Economists, pundits, commenters and news-readers galore, all have wise-sounding opinions, yet no one seems to know what inflation IS!
It seems Prudent to assume that some of them do, but the average person listening to any such is not going to find it out. To a mouth, all say in so many, many words, that “inflation” is prices increasing. Well, no it isn’t. Inflation is inflation of the money “supply.” And that isn’t even accurate; it’s inflation of available cash OR CAPITAL that is “liquid,” or lendable. Capitalism and “inflation” go hand-in-hand to create prosperity for most people.
“Wait just a minute,” you’re thinking, “Inflation makes prices go up, and that’s bad, so it’s not helping MY prosperity.” Actually, it has helped it – look at the riches and bounty we enjoy. It’s a two-edged sword… like fire. It can cook our food, keep us warm, run our engines or… burn the house down. The key is keeping inflation where it runs the engine without burning down the house. So, where does this wonderful inflation come from?
The simple answer is debt. Our economy – even your personal economy – operates on a “futures” basis. If you own your home you probably have a mortgage on it, which is a long-term debt, well into the future. One of the quirks in our economy is that banks can legally loan out more “money” than they actually have on deposit. It’s called “fractional reserve,” and it is about 14%. In other words, among all the stored “savings” deposits and “performing loans” and temporary deposits, the “Bank” has an average number of dollars “in reserve,” at any given time. If it amounts to a million dollars, our laws allow the bank to lend out up to $7 Million, round numbers, of which 6/7ths is, fundamentally, air. So long as the honesty and ability to repay of most borrowers are intact, this is a safe system and the recipient of the check for the house you bought, accepts the dollars that were created to write it, as well as if he saw them peeled from a big fat roll of $100-dollar bills.
If the seller of the house also dealt with the same bank, his or her new deposit of, say, $400 thousand will, for a while, increase the average “reserve” the bank can lend seven times as much of.
Anyway, you commit to paying your mortgage for 20 or 30 years because the pain of losing your home is worse than the pain of making the payments. Besides, you have a job, you’re productive, you’re helping to create profits somewhere – productive surplus, if you will. It is reasonable that you will keep your promise to pay. You have made your work valuable enough to produce some “productive surplus” for your own family.
Try to imagine where the construction industry and millions of jobs would be if there were no such thing as mortgages or construction loans. But, if you’re worried about inflation, look at what you just did: you caused the inflation of the money supply by about $340,000! Depending on the “velocity” of that money (through the economy), possibly even more than that. But! It’s OK. You’re going to pay it down – or “back” – to the bank. Owning that house will cause you to buy a bunch of other stuff that increases production (let’s hope, inside the U. S.), as well as future repairs and upgrades, and it will enable you to raise your children to become productive, too.
Transactions like these happen thousands of times a day, whether for homes, or cars, or work vehicles, trailer trucks and on and on. Every loan creates some inflation, but not more than the “economy” will absorb, or, we might say, not more than the economy needs.
In the process of economic activity, wages, sales and so forth, governments collect taxes. That is, BECAUSE THERE IS PRODUCTIVE SURPLUS in our economic activity, “we” can afford to pay taxes for those services and public works that individuals cannot provide for themselves. Among these are public school facilities, police departments, fire departments, all the bureaucrats who are there to help US, the military, highway and roadway constructions, sewage treatment, water works and sewers, themselves. All that stuff is paid for from productive surplus. If kept in a rough balance, it all works together amazingly well as more people become productive and relatively financially independent, and benefiting in safety and economy from our shared public works.
How does it get out of balance? Put most simply, if the money supply grows with no commensurate increase in production or productivity. Take the example we’ve experienced recently where governments, based on perceived, raw, political advantage, decree that the “minimum wage” shall be $15.00 per hour. A kid stuck at the fry station in a McDonald’s, making French fries for as many customers as desire some, gets a sudden, say, 20% pay increase. He or she cannot fry more potatoes than before the raise, there are only so many orders for fries in a given day. The added pay does not enable the fry-kid to encourage more people to buy fries than they used to buy before the change in pay. Do you think the individual cost of an order of fries is going up? Of course. Or, is it possible that customers might wait a little longer to get their fries – and their whole orders, when it’s busier? Perhaps the restaurant owner can’t afford to put two kids at the fry station in busy periods, now that the pay has increased arbitrarily. The customer pays – or suffers – for this arbitrary work rule.
So, French fries go up in price, but is that “inflation?” Well, no, obviously. It’s an imposed change to the “CGS,” or Cost of Goods Sold. How would inflation cause the price of French fries to go up?
Suppose that in a certain marketplace: your town, for example, there are both a lot of disposable income – free cash, as it were – and a limited supply of frozen French fries. Potatoes are neither grown nor processed locally; they are transported some distance to the restaurants that want them in your town. People in your town are in the habit of ordering fries with their burgers and sub sandwiches and business in fries is brisk.
Because the supply of spendable cash has been inflated (increased), people who might have held off adding fries to their sandwich orders, have started to order them more frequently, yet the total volume of fries coming from the processors can’t increase for quite a while, as the extra cash in everyone’s pocket makes it possible to afford the fries in other towns, as well, and the price of fries appears to be a bargain where they used to be a bit of a luxury.
Restaurants are finding that they’re “selling out” of fries and seeing customers go to another restaurant that still has some. The owners get on the phone to order more fries but there aren’t any extra to be had. Very quickly busier restaurants will offer a premium price to the distributor to get an extra case of frozen fries every day. Realizing the nature of the increased demand, the distributor makes a deal with a potato processor who guarantees additional frozen fries, but at a higher wholesale price, too.
Pretty soon, the French fry supply problem is solved and people in your town can obtain all the fries they want, although each order costs a little more. Lo, and Behold! Inflation of the money supply changed demand patterns in the French fry marketplace. This example is too simple, but also real. During the engineered Covid crisis, the federal government wrote checks to millions of people that it/they, the federal, state and municipal governments had thrown out of work… billions and billions of dollars’ worth, but they were from accounts that had no actual – although highly hoped-for-future – money in them! The checks were written from AIR. Worse, they were doled out without regard to increasing productivity or other economic growth. No new crops were planted, tended or harvested; no new mines were opened and their valuable minerals retrieved; no new inventions were spurred causing new manufacturing to commence. But people accepted the ‘air-checks’ and spent them like money. The money supply increased by over a Trillion Dollars while the supply of goods to be purchased actually went DOWN!
Prices started to go up until states started to re-open their businesses and let people go back to work. The economy was roaring back when Biden was shoveled into office. He promptly signed another Trillion-dollar “Covid Relief” bill that was no longer needed, indeed it extended payments to not work, and inflation really started shooting up. The money supply – more air, but who’s counting – was now completely untethered from productivity, production or quantities of goods for sale. In addition, there was an even larger incentive to not work. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) started to take off in a serious way.
Because of “petro-dollars,” a sweetheart deal we made with Saudi Arabia (and, therefore, OPEC) when Nixon closed the gold window in the early ‘70’s, our federal spenders have developed a habit of calling everything a “crisis.” It doesn’t have to be a war, a disaster, a plague… just a problem – like getting re-elected. And, since there is (almost always) a terrible crisis, they can justify borrowing to resolve it. So, they spend about one-third or more, MORE than the real money tax receipts that the federal government collects each year. That missing third or 40% or so must be borrowed, largely adding to the “national debt.”
Now, if the extra federal spending were creating real wealth, which is what real investment does, the loans would steadily be repaid by the productive surplus the investments made possible. Another way of saying it is that the DEBT would be DESTROYED. That’s a good cycle: ideas vetted, loans obtained, practices, processes or new resources are implemented or obtained,* and the new productive surplus can be applied, in part, to “retire” the loan while net societal – or National – wealth increases. Living standards improve and the repaid capital (the loan) becomes available for other real investments.
This neat system collapses when non-productive or ANTI-productive effects of the loan (deficit spending, it’s called) are mandated by law. Most commonly, it collapses because the government borrows money to PAY FOR CURRENT EXPENSES, like welfare, interest on older loans, increasing the numbers of people employed in non-productive pursuits, and so forth. A good example of hiring more people to be non-productive is part of the recently passed “Prosperity Reduction Act,” or, as it is officially mis-labeled, “The Inflation Reduction Act.” Inside of this dishonest legislation is a provision to hire 87,000 more IRS agents, who will harass and impoverish productive people (tax-payers they are called) with absolutely no increase in productive surplus for anyone. Oh, there’ll be some fat paychecks, but the net wealth of our economy will decline.
The extra payroll dollars (among others in the bill) will inflate the money supply, however, and prices will move upward again as more cash chases fewer goods.
There are $600+Billion other dollars in the “bill” that also don’t represent any new production, productivity or wealth… they just lower the value of all the dollars floating around or in your wallet and retirement accounts. Thanks, Brandon.
*Where are new resources “obtained?” Well, there are only so many sources of new wealth that can add to an economy and total wealth of a nation. The first is agriculture. The elements of a crop of wheat or corn or soybeans or potatoes, are relatively inexpensive. We count on God to provide the soil, the rain and sunlight… even the seeds, although humans have figured out how to augment everything but sunlight, and how to till the soil and harvest the crops with automated machinery, which has reduced the cost of labor in food production, as well. Barring weather disasters and political interference, agriculture creates new wealth with every crop-cycle. Many inventions and new mechanizations have been developed in response to the need for better food production as population has grown.
Coincident with expanding agriculture are various forms of mining, whether for coal, metals, oil, gypsum, quartz and dozens of other riches the earth provides. From them have come thousands… no, Millions of products and inventions and improvements to standards of living, not least of which are pharmaceuticals and computer chips. Virtually every one of these bits of progress and improvement has required some “financing,” or, as better known, debt. Little by little every step has also “inflated” the money supply, but in rough equivalence to the new economic activity each has spurred. A lot of that activity has been in the form of “fixed” assets, like buildings, roads, bridges and so forth. At their creation, “fixed” expenditures DEFLATE the money supply, while enabling long-term economic benefit for lots of other activities, comforts or safety.
Somebody is going to paint those buildings. We’re still driving across bridges that were built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930’s.
Some companies, banks, agencies, treasuries and individuals are benefitted very nicely by inflation, primarily the federal government. They get to spend the money first. Debts and other invoices the federal government owes are paid off with “cheaper” dollars. Increased payrolls result in increased tax receipts. Favored industries obtain contracts and payments to carry out policies incorporated in the inflationary legislation. Millions of votes are purchased as loans are forgiven and exorbitant expenses incurred and paid off. So, some benefit immediately and don’t begrudge deficit spending. Others, tax-payers, not so much.
The actual net result is a reduction in both national and individual wealth for MOST people. The few favored in the legislation get an artificial boost of income. It’s all very unfair and sold to the American people as a universal “good.” But, what does it have to do with “petro-dollars?”
Petro-dollars refers to our agreement with OPEC that oil would be traded only for dollars. Every nation, basically, would need to always have some dollars on deposit – some even made the U. S. dollar a “reserve” currency – so that when they needed to buy oil they could. If they sold oil, they accepted having billions of U. S. dollars on deposit. Dollars could be exchanged for any other currency an “oil” nation needed to buy products from anyone. Still, a global acceptance of dollars gave a golden “carte blanche” to ignorant congresspeople to borrow without any practical limit. All they need is a “crisis.”
At the same time that President Biden has ruined relations with Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC, and attacked fossil-fuels in the United States, multiple countries like Russia, China, Brazil and Iran, are making moves to eliminate the dollar as the currency of trade in oil. When they succeed – WHEN they succeed – countries will start dumping dollars. They won’t have the impetus to buy stuff from the U. S. in order to use up the dollars they have had to hold. Currency markets will turn upside down.
We will experience price increases that are unimaginable. All the goods and goodies that we import now, will have to be paid for with more valuable currencies than U. S. dollars. Exchange rates are going to punish the dollar when that day comes. All the dollars that have been created in other countries and banks have been inflating the same “money supply” we talked about earlier. Every dollar BILL is, in fact, a bill that must be paid with something valuable, not merely with more “Federal Reserve Notes.” The mendacious debt that Congresses and administrations have racked up to the tune of almost $31 TRILLION, will complete its cycle of inflation, as well, while much of the trading world rejects payments in dollars, preferring gold, rubles, rials, or, most likely, yuan. We have no concept of and no political ability to balance our books and bring the number of dollars floating around into alignment with some form of productive output from our economy. Prices, for everything, will shoot up.
We can see the World Economic Forum, a group of self-selected control freaks by which real governments – including our own – are being influenced, is spreading the organic fertilizer of “nitrogen pollution,” since carbon-dioxide hasn’t scared enough people. To limit “nitrogen” requires, in their view, reducing crop yields (by refraining from using chemical fertilizers) and going “organic.” There is an agenda that is far removed from “climate” at work here. What will we do when hyper-inflation is chasing reduced supplies of food around the world? Or, when Chinese- and Bill Gates-owned land is held out from cultivation in our own country? We need miss only ONE growing season to be faced with famine, which is very unpleasant, even here.
Looking at the effects of the “green” movement and the recent pandemic-inspired tyranny, and the so-called vaccines that resulted, the main effects, cumulatively, have been death and sterilization. Sounds like population reduction, if one were being Prudent. Lo, and behold! Bill Gates and the people he hob-nobs with agree that there are too many people on Earth, by a factor of two-thirds or more! Let’s “vaccinate” every person on the planet. Inflation won’t be a problem, then.
Life can be much more uncomfortable for any group or faction, than its members, literally, never planned for, should the motivating ideologies that have activated the group politically, emotionally or intellectually be exposed as, essentially, incorrect. It is very upsetting, and more so if you are in the subset of that faction that is the last to realize that your beliefs really can’t apply to reality any longer. Those so impacted are quite likely to strike out against those who knew of the wrongness of the formers’ beliefs well in advance of the “new” awareness of those upset. In effect, a larger and larger majority of society appear to be becoming enemies of the newly “awakened” – a most unsettling environment.
This shift in “truths” can affect the powerful as well as the marginal. For those with political power, the reaction seems never to be an adjustment in action or belief, no admissions of error. Rather, the reaction is likely to be what is called “doubling down” on the old beliefs and supporting actions. To a degree, we can see this reaction in Congress, most particularly within and around the so-called “January Sixth Committee,” which has as its main purpose the proving of “White Supremacy” and “domestic terrorism” as the prime motivators of anyone who ever supported Donald Trump. As expected, evidence of the opposite being true is routinely ignored or denigrated as simply part of the “big lie” that the ever-smaller sub-group is sacrificing so mightily to expose. This concentrated cabal remains certain that all Americans will embrace their sacrifice once that premise is “proven.”
For many, the foolishness embodied in the January Sixth committee barely registers as a problem worthy of Congress’ attention, which helps to show the falseness of the premise noted above. The shrinking inner group of alternate believers seems to be more determined than ever to prove their case. Should that fail, hatred of the alternate believers will be the irreducible collapse of their dimming star: there will be no supernova.
So it is with abortion and “choice,” but on a much longer timeline and background of seeming success. This awakening will be one of the most wrenching that America has faced, certainly since the 2nd Civil War. That one, over slavery, finally, made America stronger. The collapse of Abortion, Incorporated, has the potential of doing the same, but only if churches wake up at the same time. America “works” only in a society of shared morality. Will a new understanding of life, itself, open people’s hearts? Not very quickly, Prudence fears.
Abortion “rights” distill the human conflict between spirituality and the worship of socialist government. This conflict has existed since the “Garden of Eden” when the “serpent” convinced “Eve” that surely she would not (actually) die if she ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but that she would become like the gods in knowing of good and evil. When God learned that Adam and Eve had eaten of the tree His love for them tempered his punishment: not death, but difficulty, and banishment from “the Garden.” The “thesis” was that Eve and Adam would die if a certain commandment were not observed; the “serpent” provided the “anti-thesis” that surely they would not die. God’s love for His “children” softened the punishment, as love does and should do, which was explained as the antithesis being slightly more true than the thesis. This is the same dialectic employed by Marx and Hegel and Engels.
For thousands of years, amidst phenomenal progress, prosperity and elevated standards of living, the lure of authoritarianism, Nazism, Soviet Communism and Fascism has clung to the human condition like a voracious parasite. Its only opponent is God and, as Christians believe, his son, the Christ. The story of Jesus Christ, whether one is a believer or not, is a dramatic departure from identity only as part of a religious group. Grouping is virtually automatic, but being FREE because of a personal connection to God, rewards faithful individuals with personal responsibility for individual decisions, choices and actions. There is no freedom without that responsibility; there is no freedom when “right” action is taken only in fear of some earthly authority.
Back to the future of our once-great nation.
Is there a source within society that can rebuild a common morality? Our collective conscience? We need two key elements… no, THREE: 1) Non-political churches; 2) Morally guided education; and, 3) Equal application of laws. Free individuals have the power to empower all three factors. Yet, our imperfect politics is what we tend to look to for salvation from problems created by, mostly, politicians. Do we have some reason to believe that, facing a wide replacement of those in Congressional power, that the new crop of “representatives” in either House is going to help us chart a more morally straight national course? There is almost no historical support for that outcome.
But there is opportunity for America, and it’s wrapped up in our ability to deal with the promised agitation from pro-abortionists. There is no greater moral imperative than to protect our children. There is no economic value that comes close to that of protecting our children. Supposedly economically or politically powerful people can issue drivel that tries to connect the destruction of the unborn with some sort of economic benefit. Obviously the economy exists because there are people, but it is a stretch beyond all reason that aborting new lives is good for everyone, let alone any one. Still, there is a good possibility that overreaction to the end of Roe v. Wade will awaken many who are rabidly in favor of abortion, now. It certainly will focus attention on the worst forms of butchery and profiteering. Prudence would indicate that there is still sufficient moral outrage in Americans’ hearts to overcome the allure of political/financial power. To those in Democrat power, abortion has been played for added power for 50 years – the destruction of 62 Million lives has been a small price to pay to keep re-electing Democrats. What a foul bargain.
The illegal “leak” of Justice Alito’s draft opinion on “Roe,” has unleashed a rash of law-breaking by proponents of unfettered abortion. Within that is the possibility of exposing the utter lawlessness of our own Department of Justice under AG, Merrick Garland. Not only has he lied to Congress in sworn testimony, but he has employed the FBI to investigate parents who are upset about improper educational curricula and ideological indoctrination of their children. The FBI was instructed by Garland to open cases under “domestic terrorism” titles regarding parents who broke no laws.
Now, as proto-criminals harass Supreme Court Justices in direct violation of federal law, America’s AG ignores them and refuses to direct the FBI to apprehend and charge those breaking 18 U. S. Code Section 1512. Unfortunately, with Garland’s apparent political agreement with demonstrators who are in contravention of that section of federal law, and with his established willingness to break federal laws, himself, and to lie about it, no apprehensions or prosecutions appear likely. Perhaps stopping illegal demonstrations is a threat to Democratcy. (spelling intended)
As Prudence has noted before, contracts, including covenants with a free people, are only as good as the integrity of the parties to them. Changing the meaning of words is a common and corrupt means of sidestepping truths, a major cornerstone of integrity. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence says, in English, that our unalienable rights include Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The abortion travesty of 1973’s Roe versus Wade decision tried to codify the redefinition of “Life.” There no longer was a question of life or death of a fetus, provided that the pro-death faction was allowed to define when life began to exist. The court did not rule on that, although it tried to “split the baby,” so to speak, by stating that States could limit abortion to the first one or two trimesters of, well, LIFE, perhaps, for lack of a better name. But, in the Blackmun opinion, abortion was allowed throughout pregnancy.
The floodgates were thus opened to dozens of interpretations of “when life begins,” largely coming down to “when the pregnant woman decides it does,” largely on the basis of convenience, not on the life or health of the mother or of the baby. Needless to say, this open-ended death warrant included, and has been argued to include, “abortion” up to the moment of birth. In effect, a woman who decides at the very day of birth that she does not “want” the baby, for it certainly is such, can deny its right to live beyond a point of starvation or dehydration after birth. It seems Prudent that a live baby is a citizen of the United States and causing it to die is murder, no matter the reason or logic for the act. The pro-death faction has been allowed, in some jurisdictions, to redefine the meaning of “murder,” too.
Perhaps there will arrive a national awakening to the horrors of abortion, the cruelty, the pain, the denigration of humanity and even the anti-God aspects thereof. Perhaps morality will win out. Perhaps this 5th Civil War will begin the process of restoring America and erasing our ability to believe one of the worst aspects of socialism: that a fetus can be both a person and not a person at the same time.
Socialism depends on large numbers of people acting as though two diametrically opposed ideas are true. Such mental incongruities are all around us, today. That so many young people can believe, in the midst of unparalleled freedoms, that socialist central governance will make them more free, is one such incongruity. Believing that men and women can change their genders with enough determined willpower, is another. People will fight to hold these opposing ideas simultaneously. In order to do so, of course, requires constant reinforcement by immersion among groups who are also determined to believe two incongruous ideas. They have to redefine a lot of words to support their beliefs.
They ought to be made to answer some obvious questions as, for example, when the somewhat confused mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, was asked if there should be any limits on abortion, and his answer was “No, no limits. It is a woman’s right.” Any reporter with enough courage to ask a public figure a question without prior clearance, should have then asked, “Are there any limits on what procedures may be used to stop the heart of a baby who survives the abortion process?”
As an alternative, should no one with that much courage be within earshot, would be, “Mr. Mayor… if the baby survives the abortion, is it a citizen of the United States?” Surely there would be an answer to one of those queries. At least one of the “abortion activists” shouting slogans in recent days opined that a mother could decide up to the age of two years, or even later, whether the living, growing fetus actually had a right to live and grow any longer. When pressed, it all came down, FOR HER, to “… it’s the mother’s right.” That outlook seems imprudent, at least, and blatantly murderous. How did a female of the species arrive at such a belief?
Prudence indicates that truth will overcome evil, whether EVIL agrees with it or not. The subgroup that likes rubbing shoulders with evil or Satanism, itself, will be come smaller as those farther out from the pit are able to be revulsed by what they’ve been instructed to ignore. At the same time, those who never bought the pro-death lies will gain the courage to resist, if not fight, the proponents of eliminating children. In fact, here are a couple of protester signs that might help: Babies are a pain in the vagina: Get rid of them! Or, if that point is misunderstood, All unwanted children should be killed! Convenience über alles, God forbid.
We’ve all heard of the “Supreme Court.” Historically, it has had 9 justices, one of whom designated upon presidential nomination, as “Chief Justice.” When the Constitution was ratified in 1789, the Court was defined with 6 justices, with John Jay as Chief. The fifth Chief Justice was John Marshall, who also held that position for the longest tenure: 34 years. Until 1869, the court’s size varied from 5 to 10 justices; at that point Congress set it at 9 justices and it has remained that until today.
The politicization of the court became an obvious problem under Franklin D. Roosevelt, a so-called “transformative” president, which mainly meant that he pushed policies that the Constitution had not anticipated, extra-Constitutional policies, we might call them. As the Supreme Court ruled against his socialist efforts, Roosevelt attempted to “pack” the Supreme Court, intending at one point to expand it to 15 justices… of whom enough would agree with Roosevelt’s political ideas.
“Packing” the court got shot down by a wise Senate in 1935, but it has always been technically “legal” constitutionally. How much safer we’d be today if there were an amendment that set the number of Justices at 9, safely limiting how destructive any one president could be. Harry Blackmun showed how destructive a Justice could be by inventing a “penumbra” of shadowy rights emanating from the Fourteenth Amendment and perceived “right to privacy.” It’s not known whether even Blackmun grasped how cleverly the definition of “life” could be distorted so as to convince 62 Million mothers that their unborn child is anything but.
Would he cheer or frown to find that not even womanhood can be defined in our enlightened age?
Coming home from work the other day – the day the “leaked” opinion draft indicating that Roe v. Wade could be overturned was all the RAGE – there were, in just one intersection of our not so very large town, about 250 pro-abortion hot-heads shouting at traffic, waving signs like, “My Body – My choice,” “Keep Abortion Legal,” “Bans Off My Body” and easily 50 other messages. Prudence observed that every single one of those protesting had never been aborted!
Abortion is definitely not one of those actions that can be done over, nor can the experience be related to others who have had one. What? You say that a woman can certainly discuss an abortion with another womens’ rights exerciser? Well, that’s true enough, but the abortion didn’t happen to her, did it? The person who actually experienced the abortion has been, pretty much, silenced forever. No one on this side of the veil can listen to how the abortee describes an abortion. The person in whom the abortion took place has only a circumstantial description of what happened: her brain wasn’t suctioned out of her skull so she can still speak and breath and stuff.
Of course, it is statements like that that bring down the hatred of the pro-abortion zealots who denounce the hatred being expressed, the lack of compassion for the abortion facilitator / mother, the outright… ummm, well, racism, or worse, religious beliefs Prudence is trying to impose on others! Ohh, the horror. Anyone making such a statement is trying to make an unfortunate “birthing person” feel badly about aborting the whatever it is she is carrying inside her. Aha! You called her “she.” You’re transphobic, too! You, you… you MAGA person!
Back in my town’s intersection there was a lot of anger and upset including many young men as well as women (Prudence can tell them apart). Have they any concept of what they are protesting? Is it safe to suspect that none has READ Justice Alito’s draft opinion? Or are they fired up because of the possibility that some authority-figure might have said “No!” to something they want?
What is more unfortunate is that “protests” in the Washington, D. C. area have devolved to the level of targeting the residences of Supreme Court Justices. “Protests” is in quotes because they are sliding toward riots, and Prudence can tell them apart. The now almost-expected wrong reaction from the “White House” is a failure to condemn this step towards personal, possibly physical intimidation of JUSTICES for performing the Constitutional tasks that reach the Court through legal, appellate processes. We are witnessing a creeping sickness that Prudence never expected to see.
The so-called “Biden Administration,” in thrall to a global communist utopia, utilizes the Constitution as a road-map of what to do the opposite of. The treachery and treason of the entire cabal is so monstrous as to defy belief, even as we watch it unfold. It has sunk to its lowest level yet when the “President” refuses to condemn the worst behavior of his fellow travelers… he does condemn patriotism, however. What a s-(euphemism for “turd”).
