–If you’re poor, the government knows what’s best for you.

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Mitchell’s laws:
●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes.
●Austerity is the government’s method for widening the gap between rich and poor, which ultimately leads to civil disorder.
●Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
●To survive long term, a monetarily non-sovereign government must have a positive balance of payments.
●Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
●The penalty for ignorance is slavery.
●Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the gap.
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Poor people who receive aid from the government are stupid and don’t know what’s good for them — at least not as well as the government does. Right?

Ooooh, 1 percent fraud. And what exactly is that “huge” fraud?

Oh, no! Poor people receiving cash? How awful! (Actually, I’m not sure why it’s awful, but it surely must be.)

While it is good governing for the public to know how the government spends, it isn’t taxpayer money the government is spending. The government creates dollars, ad hoc, by spending. No tax dollars involved. Not one SNAP dollar comes out of your or my pocket.

Not really vital public information, is it? Are other businesses required to disclose who their customers are or even the categories of their customers?

But wait, we now arrive at the most important part — the nanny-state implications:

Really? The government doesn’t allow poor people to buy soap with SNAP benefits? Well, thank goodness for that!

“Reasonable” prohibitions? Is that like, “You’re poor, so no Coca Cola or potato chips for you. Those kinds of foods are just for people who have earned them”?

See, it’s like this: If we, the government, simply banned all the foods we, in our infinite wisdom, felt were bad to eat or drink, there would be riots in the street. But we can do it to you poor people, because . . . well because you have no clout. Your political contributions are next to nothing, which means you are next to nothing.

Oh right, those people with SNAP cards really are living in mansions and driving Mercedes. Out of the 50 million people using SNAP, there must be at least a hundred rich ones.

Bottom line, this is just the tip of the contempt iceberg, in which the poor are viewed with disgust, and every negative label is attached to them: Stupid, lazy, dirty, sneaky, criminal, immature, dangerous — so that they must be controlled on a short leash, as this comment on the article indicates:

Oh, the hatred. This is the new America, where it’s now cool to find a good excuse for not helping the poor, and what better excuse is there than, “They don’t deserve help.”

In reality, most of the poor are poor because of some failure by the government. For instance, here is a verbatum comment about the article:

These are the working poor, you know, those “lazy” people, many of whom work much harder than the lucky plutocrats. Apparently, these lazy poor are too stupid to know what to eat.

If the government were to institute the “10 Steps to Prosperity” (below), we’d have far fewer poor and far fewer excuses needed for not helping them.

Meanwhile, we all can take comfort in knowing that the government is telling the poor what they can and cannot eat, and even whether they are allowed to bathe.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Federally funded Medicare — parts A, B & D plus long term nursing care — for everyone (Click here)
3. Provide an Economic Bonus to every man, woman and child in America, and/or every state a per capita Economic Bonus. (Click here) Or institute a reverse income tax.
4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
8. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here)
10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

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10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
2. Spread the myth Social Security, Medicare and the U.S. government are insolvent.
3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt

As the federal deficit growth lines drop, we approach recession, which will be cured only when the growth lines rise. Increasing federal deficit growth (aka “stimulus”) is necessary for long-term economic growth.

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