Posted on 06/09/2025 3:57:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
One of the great things about the Internet Age is the opportunity to discover the words and ideas of people who don’t have publishing contracts or university tenures. Usually written anonymously or under online handles, there is genius lurking everywhere (even in the comment sections of these articles).
One such jewel caught my eye recently: “Imagine a government operated so poorly they had to import an entire nation of new voters because they lost the citizen vote.” Another argued, “If your country has enough money to give to other countries, your taxes are too high.” If our celebrity intellectuals were as pithy as some of the unknown writers who drop pearls across the Internet, critical thinking skills would return to America in no time.
Both those observations above masterfully capture our predicament, don’t they? Now that the USAID scandal has pierced the public’s consciousness, people from all walks of life are admitting that the U.S. government is little more than a money laundering operation for political and financial elites. Congress creates spending bills that award trillions of dollars to bureaucratic agencies, “non-governmental” organizations, and foreign governments. Agency employees take their cut, promise fidelity to the federal Leviathan, and allocate the rest to well-connected private businesses and third parties. The NGOs take their cut, bribe voters and special interest groups, and advocate on behalf of the government and wealthy political donors. Foreign governments take their cut, hand over their countries’ natural resources to multinational conglomerates, and start or manage wars that benefit the military-industrial complex.
Spending bills include funds for NPR, PBS, and countless other state-funded propaganda organs — both inside and outside of the U.S. — so that an army of liars exists to parrot the federal government’s preferred “narratives.” These “narratives” are monetized to enrich corporate firms
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I wonder how we recover from our situation.
And lawyers. And used car salesmen!
And, “Get off my lawn!”
A very good article by J.B. Shurk. Thanks for posting.
Atlas Shrugged 2.0
Good article! Says everything I have thought about for the past few years. Our government is and has been so corrupt that they don’t want to make things right in our country. They can’t balance the budget because it would stop their gravy train.
At every step of the way, the Federal Reserve is ready to leverage its power over the U.S. government by conjuring new money with its magic wand that can be used to pay for all these boondoggles, unwinnable wars, and expensive misadventures.
There is over $30 trillion of outstanding public debt. However, the combined Federal Reserve system banks owned $4.5t of Treasuries at the end of 2024, which is down $500bn from a year prior.
Yes, the Fed prints money - Federal Reserve notes. However, the quantum of paper money was up $25bn at the end of 2024 vs a year prior.
The vast majority of money supply in this country is electronic/DDA accounts. That money is created by regular banks making loans, which in turn is put to productive use by firms and individuals.
In reality, our fearless writer is a commie, suggesting implicitly that this financial engine be stopped. Or, the writer is a rube.
Either way, it is amusing at times when allegedly conservative writers get economics and finance so wrong. The nutritive value of their ignorance is that they surrender their position. I can skip over anything Shurk writes involving money now.
Thank you for saving me time.
He forgot Insurance companies - and Big Pharma...
“I wonder how we recover from our situation.”
Until we become personally self committed, disciplined, and willing to sacrifice to stand on principle we are never going to recover.
Until we are willing to make some personal efforts and sacrifice some convenience to stand on principle forget it...
If you can’t trust your banker who can you trust.
W.C. Fields
The Bank Dick
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