Your taxes pay for illegal immigrants, debt, war, curfews, gun bans, NSA wiretapping, checkpoints, forfeiture, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, torture, kill lists, no fly lists, searches without warrants, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, NDAA, IMBRA, FBAR, FATCA, TSA groping, secret FISA courts, and Jade Helm.
Hot money seeks out the conscious mispricing of risk. Capital, in the form of both money and personal talent, increasingly flows into malinvestment and the gaming of markets.
The productive economy languishes, left wanting for the lack of creative resources and attention. The bubble rises to unsustainable valuationsâ and fails, and a nationâs capital is consumed.
Are you not entertained? As Egon von Greyerz noted, the next five years are not about winning, but surviving. So, then let us then proceed.
Over the last thirty years, the United States has been taken over by an amoral financial oligarchy, and the American dream of opportunity, education, and upward mobility is now largely confined to the top few percent of the population. Federal policy is increasingly dictated by the wealthy, by the financial sector, and by powerful (though sometimes badly mismanaged) industries such as telecommunications, health care, automobiles, and energy.
These policies are implemented and praised by these groupsâ willing servants, namely the increasingly bought-and-paid-for leadership of Americaâs political parties, academia, and lobbying industry.
If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.
Have Americans ever read a history book before?
Americans think that the airports, parks, schools, and courthouses were already built when the European settlers arrived in North America, but what if the towns were built by the settlers and then the government was set up?
Americans seem to think gulags, killing fields, and concentration camps never existed.
Do you think your grandpa would be lying if he looked you in the eye and said his friend was killed during WWII?
Do you honestly think that the Great Depression and WWII never happened?
Americans prance around thinking that they live in a free and peaceful country with a balanced budget, but what if Americans were wrong?
What if the USA was really a bankrupt warmongering police state?
Do you see any similarities at all between the 1929 stock market crash, the Great Depression, the trade war, and WWII and the 2008 stock market crash, the recession, the trade war, and a possible WWIII?
You don't see any warning signs?
Do think tyranny is some kind of joke?
Do you tyranny is a fun little game?
Do you think the US Ponzi economy will never collapse?
What will you do when inflation is 1 million percent?
What will you think when you see the Gestapo line protesters against a wall and shoot them?
What will you do when you see a starving guy with a butter knife stab someone to steal a can of corn?
Will you wish that you had said something when you are sitting in a concentration camp?
Do you think that you will be able to opt-out when the US starts WWIII with North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China and the nuclear bombs explode around you?
Aren't you just a little concerned?
Americans want to live in a happy paradise with high wages, no guns, no blacks, no Muslims, no illegal immigrants, no beggars, no smokers, no straws, and no flag-burning, but how did tyranny work out for the USSR?
Do you really want to live in a world where everyone is a mindless sheep, everyone has the same thinking, and everyone wears the same clothes?
Nazis say Trump was only making a compromise when he banned bump stocks.
Nazis will say Trump was only making a compromise when he bans silencers.
Nazis will say Trump was only making a compromise when he makes gun background checks more invasive.
Nazis will say Trump was only making a compromise when he bans revolvers.
Nazis will say Trump was only making a compromise when he bans rifles.
What do you gain if you lose everything?
Americans want to live in a happy paradise with high wages, no guns, no blacks, no Muslims, no illegal immigrants, no beggars, no smokers, no straws, and no flag-burning, but how did tyranny work out for the USSR?
Do you really want to live in a world where everyone is a mindless sheep, everyone has the same thinking, and everyone wears the same clothes?