Mitchell’s laws: Reduced money growth never stimulates economic growth. To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments. Austerity breeds austerity and leads to civil disorder. Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
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Lest you believe that the Tea Party Patriots and the Republicans are purely political groups, who preach patriotism, fiscal responsibility, the Constitution and the free market, think again. While they use those words, many of them believe in a religious fundamentalism, completely at odds with what you may think those words mean.
Their “patriotism” does not mean love of our nation, for they wish to minimize or eliminate the very government that makes our nation possible. Their “fiscal responsibility” is a fiscal cruelty that would deny help for the needy. The “Constitution” is the antithesis of their beliefs, since they do not accept the dominance of civil law. And their “free market” is free only for the very wealthiest among us. The oil, coal and railroad barons of yesteryear believed in that version of a “free market.”
Background: In every group, the extremists define the agenda and the words to describe it. They are the loudest, most assured, most demanding sect, and view themselves as the “true” believers, with all others being lesser versions or even infidels. Thus, for conservatives, Christian Reconstructionism sets the agenda. It believes civil law must conform to their interpretations of biblical law. They preach a Calvinist, austere, hardhearted America.
Christian conservatives are akin to those Muslims who believe civil law must conform to Sharia law. Both tend to theocratic ideals, with the civil government being reduced or eliminated altogether, in favor of religious interpretations and religious administration of all law. The common claim, “America is a Christian country,” merely is a way to say, “If you’re not Christian (my kind of Christian), you aren’t American and don’t deserve to be treated like an American.”
The Tea Party’s call for less taxing and smaller government is a direct result of this theocratic fervor.
Applying ancient interpretations of religious law to modern life leads to a cruel, austere, arbitrary, pitiless world, in which human needs and desires are suppressed by a dictatorial priesthood, often harsher than the most evil, civil dictatorships. The extreme right believes there should be a Christian theonomy, where God is the source of ethics, as interpreted by the priests, not by civil law, similar to the Taliban teaching and enforcing of Sharia.
Under Christian Reconstructionism, the death sentence would be applied to adultery, homosexuality, incest, bestiality, pretending to be a virgin, idolatry, witchcraft, blasphemy, false accusations, false prophesying, kidnapping, and rape. Because the vast majority of humankind, including most religious leaders, has engaged in a least one of these “crimes,” the priesthood would have wide latitude to punish by death anyone they choose.
The natural result of the belief that God’s law supercedes civil law, is the belief that governments are immoral, so civil laws are immoral, and obeying civil law is optional. From this evolved the evangelical, home schooling movement, which is related to the notion that man’s science is immoral.
All the above has a powerful political outcome. For example, the vitriol against using embryonic stem cells for research that can save lives, is based on “God above man,” “God above science” beliefs. Though there is no scientific (or even biblical) basis for claiming that an embryonic stem cell is a human being, and that killing this invisible-to-the-naked-eye cell is murder, religious extremists interpret everything according to their vision of their bible, including the belief theirs is “the one true religion.”
The result: Many thousands of unfortunate women forced to carry babies they neither want nor can care for; many thousands of unwanted children born into poverty, crime and disease; many thousands of sick people not cured – a great mountain of misfortune and misery, none of which concerns those of the extreme right, for theirs is not a human morality, but a religious one.
Which is why they so willingly preach harsh austerity, for their neighbors and for their nation (their claims of “patriotism” notwithstanding).
The anti-government preaching of the right has dire consequences for America. It is consistent with the anti-science teaching of creationism, leading to acceptance of other anti-science such as vaccine conspiracies and naturopathy. Once you doubt science on the basis of religion, you can use the same religion to disbelieve all science, and a return to the dark ages is a small step away.
The cold, lack of concern for human misery and misfortune has other political repercussions:
Under the guise of employment and resource scarcity, a harsh immigration policy, allowing difficult immigration laws and no amnesty.
And, under the guise of “fiscal responsibility”:
An end to, or greatly reduced, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid
Reduced unemployment coverage
Smaller government and reduced benefits of government
And under the guise of morality:
Intolerance of any abortion for any reason
Intolerance of gays
Misogyny
Mixing of church and state
For a much deeper understanding of the right-wing extremism that has begun to take over our nation, I recommend reading: An interview with Frank Schaeffer
Today’s politics in not left vs. right. It is human empathy vs. cruel biblicality. The most important law forgotten by the right wing religionists is the Golden Rule.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
http://www.rodgermitchell.com
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No nation can tax itself into prosperity, nor grow without money growth. Monetary Sovereignty: Cutting federal deficits to grow the economy is like applying leeches to cure anemia. Two key equations in economics:
Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
b>Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment + Private Consumption + Net exports
MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 
WASHINGTON POSTNew Jersey nurses charge religious discrimination over hospital abortion policy
By Rob Stein, Published: November 27
In a lawsuit filed in federal court Oct. 31, 12 nurses charge that the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey violated state and federal laws by abruptly announcing in September that nurses would have to help with abortion patients before and after the procedure, reversing a long-standing policy exempting employees who refuse based on religious or moral objections.
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“I’m a nurse so I can help people, not help kill, and it just doesn’t seem right to me,” said Beryl Otieno-Negoje, one of the nurses. “No health professional should be forced to choose between assisting abortion or being penalized at work.”
The University Hospital issued a statement that “no nurse is compelled to have direct involvement in, and/or attendance in the room at the time of, a procedure to which she or he objects based on his/her cultural values, ethics and/or religious beliefs.”
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Matt Bowman, an attorney representing the nurses, said he had received an e-mail from a lawyer for the hospital arguing that no laws had been broken, because the nurses are required to care for abortion patients only before and after the procedure.
“The pre- and post-operative care provided to these patients is the same nature as that provided to patients who have undergone other surgical procedures,” Edward B. Deutsch of McElry, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter of Morristown, N.J., wrote in the e-mail.
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Yet another “benefit” of austerity:
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don’t Know They Have
The enumeration in the Consitution,of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people—The ninth Amendment
The Firs Amendment right of free speech and the Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination are well known, but the Ninth Amendment is ignored.Pity,because it bears directly on abortion, the right to die and gay rights.Even the once-forgotten Secon Amendment, with its “right to bear arms”, has reemerged in the public debate. But few people know about the Ninth Amendment, which reaffirms in broad terms rights “retained by the people” The Ninth flies slo far under the radar that iit has rarely been mentioned even by the Supreme Court.
What a pity .Even more, what a oversight: it bears directly on such modern-day constitutional issures as abortions, the right to die, and gay rights.
Debates about whether some particular right is “in the Constitution or not are really debates about how to read and interpret the Consitution. Those who claim that the Constitution doesn/say “right to privacy” or seperation of church and state” are relying upon the assumption that unless a particular phrase or specific words actually appears in the document, then the right doesn’t exist—either because the interpreters are drawing invalid implications or because it’s illegitimate to go beyond the exact test at all.
Gven how rare it is for the same people to arugue that the implications being drawn are not valid,the beyond its literal specific language are also often the ones who resist interpreting the Bible beyond its literal language. They are literalists when it comes to their religious scriptures, so it’s not a surprise that they are literalists when it comes to legal doucuments.
The validity of this approach to the Bible is debatable: it’s not, however, an approach to dealing with the Constitution. Interpretation of laws, should generally be limited to plain text, but the Constitution isn’t a law or a set of laws, Instead, it’s a framework for the structure and the authority of the government. The main body of the Constitution explains how the government is set up; the rest explains the limitations on what the government is permitted to do. It can’t be read without being interpreted.
The people who sincerely belived that constitutional rights are limited soley to those spelled out in the text of the Constitution must be able to defend not just the absence of a right to privacy, but also the absence of constituional rights to travel, a fair trail, marriage, procreation,voting and more-not every right which people take for granted has been discussed here. I don’t think it can be done.
I’m 71 years of age and a “Very Avid Reader about the Consitution and have taken a 2 year study course–at Hillsdale for Constiution Studying. I’m still learning the constitution.
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Interpreting the “Preamble:
The Phrase “United States” occurs twice in the passage
We the people of the United States,(in first sentence
for the United States of America-(in last sentence
Notice that America does not appear in the first sentence..Why!!!
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I’m 71 years of age and a “Very Avid Reader about the Consitution and have
take a 2 year study course–at Hillsdale for Constiution Studying. I’m still learning the constitution.
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Let’s see now, I’m going to remove a cell from you. It will kill the human life to which it belongs, but it doesn’t look like a human life, just a cell. You wiil be fine physically yourself; just the organism you are carrying will be killed. How cruel! Cruel to the developing human life within you, that is.
Who speaks for the fetus/embryo/ fertilized egg? “Fertilized” means developing into a baby capable of living outside of the womb. If you can’t see it with the naked eye, it doesn’t exist. If you don’t want the life to exist, it shouldn’t exist.
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I’m not going to post any more comments about the cruelty of abortion, by idiots who would rather save the life of an embryo than save the life of a full-size human. Those are the same idiots who would rather throw away an umbilical cord than harvest it for the stem cells that could end the suffering of millions of people.
Please go away and stop reading this blog.
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Religion despises all that is Rational. It has always been a scourge upon humanity. Rational and critical thought processes are frowned upon. Unquestioned belief is required. It’s all just another form of controlling human beings and instructing them as to how and what to think and believe. Blind allegiance is the only tolerated behavior. No other purpose is served; except to remove lots of cash from their followers. Sort of like Federal taxes. The majority of these imbeciles see absolutely nothing wrong with capital punishment, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocents solely because they were unfortunate enough to be born in a nation with whom our government has issues, killing abortion providers and beating young children, even babies. They are delusional individuals who are clinically insane.
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“In every group, the extremists define the agenda and the words to describe it.”
Nice words. I wonder if you see the irony?
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