The 17th needs to be repealed and never should have been ratified. I really don’t understand what the states were thinking. I hope William Jennings Bryant is burning for what he started.
“There is only one remaining peaceful way to change things: Withdraw your consent and thus intentionally but peacefully and lawfully destabilize the underpinning of the government debt market,”
Forgive me. I haven’t had my coffee. What does this mean practically? Going Galt?
And vote fraud isn’t even part of the above equation...
Bump
The US economy will crash quickly or slowly regardless of our consent. How's this for a actual strategy?:
1. Work hard and make the most money you can.
2. Use that money to prepare for the unavoidable collapse.
3. Preparing means moving away from high population areas and buying real things - defensible arable land, guns and ammo, food and medicine, etc.
4. Join with your neighbors and similarly minded folks in defense groups.
5. Develop a non-technology based skill - farming, carpentry, tailoring, food prep, etc.
6. The most important - Get right with God. Join a church, read your Bible, pray for revival.
Somehow, I think these ideas might prove more successful that "withdraw your consent".
Hmm. Sobering article, and things do look bleak, but the author is making a few assumptive mistakes that work in the favor of his thesis.
First, it is wrong to assume that EVERY govt worker is going to vote liberal Democrats all the time. They don’t. The majority does, but to assume 100% skews his figures greatly.
Second, it is wrong to assume that EVERY means tested recipient will vote liberal also. Many of those are on SS and they are conservative. Again, by assuming 100-0% instead of maybe 70-30% his total skew is huge.
Third, it ignores the fact that the way the geography is laid out, conservatives are in a great position to continue to win House seat majorities because the libs are cloistered in inner cities.
And fourth, if he were correct, the margins in 2008 and 2012 would have been MUCH larger and 2010 would not have happened, not to mention all the good elections in 2009 and 2011 in odd run-offs, etc.
Overall, I think his premise is correct, just not nearly as correct as he says, because he is cooking his own books.
“reduce your spending and income to only that which provides necessities”
Way ahead of you on that one.
“As such you cannot vote your way out of this.
You cannot politically organize your way out of this. “
Eventually, we’ll probably have to shoot our way out of this.
Swell, somebody new to try to stampede me.
Secession does not mean Civil War will follow......
....There is only one remaining peaceful way to change things: Withdraw your consent and thus intentionally but peacefully and lawfully destabilize the underpinning of the government debt market, thereby denying the government the means to continue screwing you, your children and grandchildren irrespective of the vote count. The only other choices remaining are consenting to your own economic death, along with that of your children and grandchildren, or violence.
IOW learn to live on so little (enough for the necessities but not the niceties) that the govt. cannot function on the taxes that you still generate.
Amazing that with the help of the MSM, 535 pols can run a great country of 300 million into the ground.
bkmk
2011 Census
108,592,000- recipients of one or more means-tested government benefit programs
101,716,000 - people who worked full-time
21,880,000 – of the 101,716,000 are Federal workers
He claims:
108,592,000+21,880,000 = 130,472,000 is the number of Big Gov voters
101,716,000 -21,880,000 = 79,836,000 Small Gov voters
39% Disparity in voting towards Big Gov
His solution is to cut back on taxes that are going to Big Gov by lowering the paying middle classes taxable income and trimming our necessities. Starve the beast and force the Big Gov voters back to work. With his percentages, I do not see this ever working, and to purposely remove initiative from people is not smart.
I don’t think we are too far gone yet.
My revised numbers:
30% of the 108,592,000 are retired patriots 32,577,600 Small Gov
10% of the Fed Workers 2,027,062 are Small Gov
65% of US Military is conservative (which is part of the 21,880,000 Federal Workers)
Total number of US Military = 2,475,967x65% = 1,609,379 Small Gov
30% of remaining people working full time will vote Big Gov 81,445,379 x30% = 24,433,614
Total Potential Voters
210,308,000
Gov Dole 108,592,000
Conserv 30% -32,577,600
Total 76,014,400.00
Fed Workers 21,880,000
10% Fed Work -2,027,062
65% US Military -1,609,379
Total 18,243,559
Remaing Full Time for Big Gov 81,445,379x30%
Total 24,433,614
76,014,400.00
18,243,559
24,433,614
118,691,573 Total Big Gov Voters
Total Potential Voters 210,308,000
Total Big Gov Voters -118,691,573
Total Small Gov Voters 91,616,427.00
A 23% Disparity. We have our work cut out for us.
My solution:
Get 30% of the 108,592,000 back to reality by having a job. This could shift the voting percentages 10% toward Small Gov, which would get us back on track.
Just continue to give me my Netflix ...
Unfortunately, Rand and Orwell were accurate.
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