Hard to believe, given the subject of this post, that no one has mentioned gold. Just saying.

Good job on finding it. It was still a rare piece of truth.

The US government became obstructive when Teddy Roosevelt became president and has been ever since, and has definitely been obstructive since the start of the Woodrow Wilson administration.

I was thinking last night, courting sleep, that if we could 'turn the Fed govt back' to what it was in about 1930 or 1940, we would have a workable system where the government had enough funds to support the deeds we wished it to do but not enough to get in our way. jbrenner and everyone else: what is the _most_recent_ date at which you think the US government was 'functioning but not obstructive'?

Jan

Yep! Alfred was a sage!
Definitely +1 for this!

This is the Real Speech not the fake one posted on the internet. It took me a couple of hours to find it. Finally I looked on C-Span and clipped this from that day's speeches:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4512605/tr...

Not only do our senators and congressmen have no knowledge of economics, neither do most citizens, let alone non-citizens. This is part of the justification regarding property ownership amongst the voting populace back in the late 1700s.

I just have a hard time hastening the end of the US. Perhaps it is part of my interpretation of the non-aggression principle. Hastening my end - well, I have no problem with that.

A couple more years like 1997-1998, and I could have retired back in 2002! I haven't gained toward retirement since 2000.

Very articulate. Thanks for posting.

Somebody spells out that the US is digging itself into a big hole.
20 years later?... still digging

anyone know how to convert national debt into
instantaneous effective-inflation? the ratio between
the debt and the total $$ in circulation, or
something like that, should lead to it -- j

Was anyone listening then? They sure as hell wouldn't listen now. I believe that very few senators and congressmen know anything about economics. I know that after going all through school, the word "economics" could have been in Swahili as far as I was concerned. It wasn't until I started reading A.R.'s books other than fiction that I was forced to learn about it in order to understand what she often referred to. I'd be willing to wager that not one in 50 members of the three branches could pass an Economics 101 test. If that's true, and I believe it is, there's no way people of either party can unscrew the screwed up economy of the USA.

Humble. I didn't think we would discuss the end of the US in my lifetime but more and more I have customers I talk to that openly talk about it.

John Galt went farther than I have. He actively stopped other producers. I am not quite that aggressive in bringing about the end.

I am not John Galt, but maybe Quentin Daniels.

The purpose of our handlers (historically) has been to remove any objective standards because subjective standards are so much more fun (and destructive) to manipulate. Consequently, subjectifying (is that a word?) money gives them the ultimate control over everybody and everything. It is a done deal.

"What, me worry?"
--Alfred E. Neuman

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

I just remember the day I read his post..."I will stop the motor of the world". JB is JG!

FYI - I am witholding my innovation in nanotech, desktop 3D fabrication, and biotech until we meet in Atlantis. This society is no longer worthy of my innovative efforts.

It sounds eerily familiar. Maybe over the next 20 years we will see more loose monetary policy and a revolution in nanotech, desktop 3D fabrication, or biotech, creating a deluge of new services and value we can't imagine. I feel like I'm living in '97.

I did not know Traficant was dead. patriot

The problem is that most people don't understand or believe this. While I am not familiar with all of the documentation, I have read these allegations in other forms and fashions in other places.. That statements about the Federal Reserve and our currency are dead on. I am not as sure about the statements alleging the suspension of the Constitution and so on...