An Inconvenient Debt

US Economy: The Philosopher's Stone

Hingsight is 20/20, Ron Paul should have been elected President.

This is the best Ron Paul, Peter Schiff video I have seen yet.

Spying on Pacifists, Environmentalists and Nuns...

Read this LA Times Article

Then chew on this from Court Justice Douglas back in the 70's:


"This case involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which aflicts us. Army surveillance, like Army regimentation, is at war with the principles of the First Amendment. Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. There can be no influence more paralyzing of that objective than Army surveillance. When an intelligence officer looks over every nonconformist's shoulder in the library, or walks invisibly by his side in a picket line, or infiltrates his club, the America once extolled as the voice of liberty heard around the world no longer is cast in the image which Jefferson and Madison designed, but more in the Russian image..."Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, 28, 92 S.Ct. 2318, 2333 (1972)(Dissent by Douglas).

A Wake-up Call Over The Anti-Christian Agenda of Public Education

From WorldNetDaily.com

The young man reported on in the above article from WorldNetDaily.com took his own life after receiving pressure from his peers and allegedly a Professor over his Christian beliefs. His Professor challenged him to read Dawkin's book "The God Delusion".

Several of his loved ones mentioned the fact that he liked to debate the issues. While I like debating probably more than the next person, it is not something that should be jumped into lightly. Atheists and non-Christians can get very nasty with their name calling in defending their philosophies of life.

Being a homeschooling mom I take these stories very seriously. But I do hope and pray that this was a rare, isolated occurrence. Although my skeptical head tells me it's not. It may just be that young influential teens don't always take these extreme measures when confronted with similar situations that question their beliefs.

Homeschooling only goes so far though. I can teach them strong values all the way through High School if my husband and I choose to. But once they reach college they may be suddenly exposed to similar discussions in classrooms and with peers at a young and vulnerable age when peer pressure can be overwhelming. I pray that I can establish the roots in my own children today to give them the strength in their faith they will need in a world of tomorrow. This world of tomorrow will no doubt be farther away from the morals of God than we faced in our school years. All the more reason for Christians to be in the world but not of the world.

I hope the anti-Christian agenda of today will start to be seen for what it is, anti, not neutral. Schools should not lean one way or the other. Yet everything they are teaching leans more towards atheism rather than neutrality and equality.

At the same time, our fight in the public school system should not necessarily be one of a pro-Christian agenda, which is arguably unconstitutional, but rather an equal rights agenda. We are not much better than Islamic extremists or the State Church that drove the pilgrims to seek an existence separate from their oppressive views. These establishments said, "My way or the highway". If we try to force our agenda on others they will fight back with their own agenda equally as persistently. By seeking equal rights for all, as our founding fathers intended, we may have a better chance to change things one person at a time.

Obama's Reason for Fighting Overseas Wars

This was taken directly from Obama's website, no not change.gov that has been virtually wiped clean of any hint of the once specific agenda of the Obama administration. This was taken from his campaign site BarackObama.com under the Issue of Defense. Why oh why doesn't this surprise me? I imagine it too will be taken down soon, once thinking people get sight of it. I have read and re-read this because I thought surely they wouldn't put something like this on their website. Maybe I misread it or misunderstood what they were trying to say. Please tell me I'm wrong! Taken directly from his site, see if you can catch it:

• "Preserve Global Reach in the Air: We must preserve our unparalleled airpower capabilities to deter and defeat any conventional competitors, swiftly respond to crises across the globe, and support our ground forces. We need greater investment in advanced technology ranging from the revolutionary, like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and electronic warfare capabilities, to essential systems like the C-17 cargo and KC-X air refueling aircraft, which provide the backbone of our ability to extend global power. "

Well folks if you didn't see it, read the last line of the paragraph again and then go to his website to verify it. We are fighting wars globally in order to "extend global power." The only thing I can't figure out yet is: Are we more like Ancient Rome or Nazi Germany?

A Look Into the Future...With Obama as President

A Bit over the top, but in a crazy way it is funny and scary at the same time.

Hyperinflation

It seems as if our government is following the manual "Causing Hyperinflation for Dummies" that requires huge government debt, printing money, and an immobilizing fear of repercussions to government actions (no one wants to get blamed and no one wants to cause a recession/depression). All these actions are a path the US government is clearly following.

Here is a summary of an article from Economicshelp.org:

So What is hyperinflation? It is very basically unchecked out of control inflation.

Examples:

Germany, 1922-1923 -- During the hyperinflation episode in Germany from 1922 to 1923, the Weimar Republic printed postage stamps with a face value of one billion marks, as prices doubled every two days. At one point in 1923, the exchange rate equalled one trillion Marks to one dollar

Yugoslavia 1993-1995 -- prices increased by 5 quadrillion per cent


What Causes Hyper Inflation?

Usually, countries with hyper inflation have the following features:

-Large government debt, usually over 100% of GDP. (Henry Paulson, by the way, is asking for an increase in the legal ceiling on federal debt to $11.3 trillion or 70% of GDP.)

-Printing Money. To cope with meeting the debt, the government starts printing money. This decreases the value of existing money creating a multiplier effect where people lose confidence in money and keep demanding wage increases.

-Reluctance / inability to deal with it. When Germany experienced hyperinflation in the 1920s it was not a phenomena they fully appreciated or understood. Their primary fear at the time was unemployment. They feared that unemployment could precipitate a Communist Revolution so they didn't want to do anything to reduce demand and possibly cause a recession.

Lack of Confidence in the Finance Sector

The experience of inflation can become engraved on people's mind making them suspicious of financers, bankers and the general economic system. It is no coincidence the Nazi party were able to feed off these suspicions to introduce extremist policies.

I write about this because it will have a great impact on our way of life as Americans. It will impact your ability to borrow money, to purchase anything due to higher cost of goods, etc. That means be prepared now with tangible goods. Gold will not feed you. Silver will not feed you. Just like having an emergency kit for a natural disaster, have an emergency stock for an economic emergency. If the fool says it could never happen then Murphy's Law says it will happen! Those who laugh now will laugh last when it happens I think. Katrina could never happen, 9/11 could never happen and they have. I'm just sayin'-ya' know?! :)

Here is the link to the above summary of an informative article describing hyperinflation in greater detail:

http://www.economicshelp.org/2008/04/hyperinflation-causes-costs-and.html