Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
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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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A few days ago, we published “Do you know a ‘war-on” moron,” in which we criticized the so-called “War on Drugs” as being a harmful, counter-productive, crime-causing initiative against the lower income groups.

While these are exactly the effects our right-wing President and extreme right-wing Congress want, a most amazing thing happened recently:

Vote to Apply Sentencing Change Retroactively Could Let Nearly Half of Federal Drug War Prisoners Go Free Early
Jacob Sullum|Jul. 18, 2014 1:40 pm

Last April the U.S. Sentencing Commission approved a change to the guidelines federal judges use in selecting penalties for drug offenders, reducing prison terms for about 1,300 defendants a year by an average of 11 months.

Today the commission decided to make that change retroactive, which will have a much more dramatic impact. The commission originally estimated that retroactivity would make some 51,000 inmates—more than half of the drug offenders in federal prison—eligible for sentence reductions averaging 23 months.

But because it decided to delay retroactivity by one year, that figure will be reduced to about 46,000, with an average sentence reduction of 25 months. Many prisoners will go home years earlier than expected.

Of course, don’t expect anything to happen quickly. Many right-wing judges will drag their feet.

And, of course, these released prisoners still will have the stain of a narcotics conviction on their record, making it difficult for them to find jobs — our modern version of the medieval badge of shame.

But could it be the beginning of the realization that the “war on drugs” should end?

Maybe, but note, this wasn’t done by the President or Congress. It was done by the United States Sentencing Commission.

Who?

About the United States Sentencing Commission

The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency in the judicial branch of government. Its principal purposes are:

(1) to establish sentencing policies and practices for the federal courts, including guidelines to be consulted regarding the appropriate form and severity of punishment for offenders convicted of federal crimes;

(2) to advise and assist Congress and the executive branch in the development of effective and efficient crime policy; and

(3) to collect, analyze, research, and distribute a broad array of information on federal crime and sentencing issues, serving as an information resource for Congress, the executive branch, the courts, criminal justice practitioners, the academic community, and the public.

Presumably, many members of Congress realize the bankruptcy of the the “war on drugs,” but don’t have the courage to speak out, lest they be branded “soft on crime” by the Neanderthalian elements now holding sway.

So is this an end run — or perhaps a trial balloon — by the sane minority, to avoid election consequences, yet to acclimate the populace to larger measures?

Unlike many special purpose “study” commissions within the executive branch, Congress established the U.S. Sentencing Commission as an ongoing, independent agency within the judicial branch.

The seven voting members on the Commission are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and serve six-year terms. At least three of the commissioners must be federal judges and no more than four may belong to the same political party.

The Attorney General is an ex officio member of the Commission, as is the chair of the U.S. Parole Commission.

It’s a perfect setup. No one is elected and no one can be “un-elected.”

It’s revealing that today, the best way for our federal government to accomplish something, is for it to be done by unelected officials, not subject to the extremes of Congressional and Presidential bias and electioneering criminality.

(Another example: The seven members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. A full term is fourteen years. Unlike Congress, they make instant decisions that can be implemented instantly.)

If the new sentencing guidelines prove to be a step toward ending the war on drugs, they are most welcome.

If unelected committees also will become the method of choice by which a moribund central government can stir from its coma, there are advantages, but there also are dangers.

Just as such unelected commissions can be forces for good, they also can be forces for evil, as witness our current Supreme Court.

But perhaps we should be grateful for this one step forward, albeit minuscule and fraught with danger.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

====================================================================================================================================================
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. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here)
10. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)

—–

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

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:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

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.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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.
======================================================================================================================================================================================

I’m not sure about the real purpose of religion. I suspect it has to do with enabling group cohesion. We are a social species, and the stronger our group, the better able we are to survive.

(There is some irony to the notion that religion aids our evolution.)

But the ostensible purpose of religion is to provide moral guidance. The foundation of morality is the Golden Rule: “Treat others as you wish to be treated.”

Supposedly, we need religion to remind us of the Golden Rule, because selfishness comes easier than generosity. “Me first” is easier than “You first.” And fear is more natural than courage.

For the individual, evolution has made it so.

Yes, in our society, generosity and courage are more admirable than selfishness and fear. Group survival trumps individual survival.

But what can a person do, if he simply cannot bring himself to be generous or brave? He may try to hide his faults in the cloak of religion.

Border Crisis Tests Religious Faith — And Some Fail Badly

Flamboyant piety has long been fashionable on the political right, where activists, commentators, and elected officials never hesitate to hector us about their great moral and theological rectitude.

But occasionally, something happens that separates the people of faith from the sanctimonious fakers. With thousands of defenseless children now gathered on America’s southern border, seeking asylum from deprivation and deadly violence, something like that is happening right now.

Arizona Republican congressional candidate Adam Kwasman wanted heroically to stop a busload of immigrant children. He tweeted, “Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law.” He then said, “I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces … this is not compassion.”

Turns out the “hero” tried to stop a bus full of kids on their way to a YMCA camp. And rather than the fear Kwasman saw, the kids were laughing and taking photos of a fool standing in the road.

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA), a medical doctor, wrote, “Reports of illegal immigrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning. Many of the children who are coming across the border also lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles.”

Of course, no such reports exist. Ebola, for instance, never has been found in the Americas. Meanwhile, children in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, which offer free vaccinations, are more likely to be vaccinated than children in Gingrey’s Georgia.

And (the irony just keeps on coming), Gingery is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, right-wingers who oppose vaccination.

The always incredible Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said, “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane . . . My heart is broken for a female college student in Minnesota who was raped, murdered and mutilated by a foreign national who came into our country. We had a school bus full of kids in Minnesota — four children were killed on that school bus because an illegal alien driving a van went into that school bus.”

In the crazed, right-wing religious world, God punishes us with earthquakes, and children coming across our border — half of whom are female — are likely to rape, murder, mutilate and drive unsafely.

And then there’s the fear-mongering, Rep. Rich Nugent (R-FL), who was rated 90% by Gun Owners of America: ““A lot of these children … quote-unquote … ya know, they’re gang members. They’re gang affiliated. Listen, if you’re 14, 15, 16, 17 years old, and you’re coming from a country that’s gang-infested — particularly with MS-13 types, that is the most aggressive of all the street gangs — when you have those types coming across the border, they’re not children at that point. These kids have been brought up in a culture of thievery. A culture of murder, of rape. And now we are going to infuse them into the American culture. It’s just ludicrous.”

Now comes the oh-so-religious Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): “Do you believe in sharing the good news that will keep people from going to hell, consistent with the Christian beliefs? . . . Either you believe as a Christian that Jesus is the way, the truth, or life, or you don’t.”

That “religious” leader also said, “You want to talk about a war on women? This administration will not defend the women of America from criminal aliens! By the thousands, and hundreds of thousands. . . Well, we know thousands. And we know people are coming in by the hundreds of thousands illegally. And this administration wants to talk about other people having a war on women when they will not defend the women that are being sexually assaulted by illegal aliens in this country.“

(What is this fixation that Republicans have on rape? And why do they think immigrant children have that same fixation?)

There are two philosophies about helping people in need. Which one would you say is religious?

1. We help people in need, because it’s the moral thing to do, and that’s who we are as a nation.
or
2. We don’t help people in need, because that just encourages people to be needy.

There was a time when we clearly would have considered #1 to be the way of religion:

Leviticus 19.34: The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

Exodus 22.21: Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10.19: Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Now however, those having neither the heart for compassion nor the strength for courage, have in Orwellian logic, made selfishness and cowardice primary features of religiousness.

Now, greed is generosity; fear is courage. Immorality has become the new morality.

We are on a slippery slope, indeed. The religionists have closed their hearts to the poor, to the unemployed, to the pregnant, to the sick, to the uneducated, to the indebted, to the foreigners.

And now they even close their hearts to children — all in the name of a strange, new faith.

How far have we sunk, how weak have we become, from fear and meanness and greed, when we pervert our religions to turn our backs on children? On children!

And if even children are not safe in our hands, what fate awaits the rest of us? What fate awaits America?

Mr. President, for the sake of God, for the sake of America, tear down that wall!

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

====================================================================================================================================================
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. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here)
10. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)

—–

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

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:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

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.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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.
======================================================================================================================================================================================

I just received the following Email from the National Rifle Association.

Dear Friend,

President Obama and the media are waging all-out war on the Second Amendment. And unless you take action now, your right to own a gun will soon be a thing of the past.

Right now Congress and the American public are being bombarded with a steady stream of media attacks on our gun rights. CBS, ABC, MSNBC and CNN are flooding the airwaves and blaming the acts of violent criminals on our Second Amendment freedom.

Click here to take the NRA TAG Poll!

Obama is echoing the media’s demand for “sensible gun control.” You and I know that’s code for GUN BANS and GUN OWNER REGISTRATION.

WE HAVE TO FIGHT BACK NOW
BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

The Email directed me to take this impartial poll:

1. Do you believe that the Second Amendment guarantees law-abiding citizens the Right to Keep and Bear Arms?
Yes No Undecided

2. Do you agree with NRA that no city, county or state government should have the right to outlaw private firearms ownership for law-abiding citizens?
Yes No Undecided

3. Do you believe that it’s solely the responsibility of government to keep you and your family safe, and therefore, there is no need for you to ever own a firearm?
Yes No Undecided

4. Do you think Congress should pass more gun control laws, or enforce the laws that are already on the books?
More Gun Control | Enforce Current Laws | Undecided

5. Do you agree with the Obama administration that the United Nations should be given the authority to regulate firearms trade and dictate U.S. gun policy?
Yes No Undecided

6. Do you support NRA’s efforts to fight mandatory gun registration?
Yes No Undecided

7. Do you agree with gun banners who believe that the names of all gun owners should be computerized and kept in a government database?
Yes No Undecided

8. Do you believe law-abiding citizens like you have the right to give or sell your guns to family members without being under the thumb of the federal government?
Yes No Undecided

9. Do you agree with NRA that law-abiding Americans have the right to carry a firearm for personal protection?
Yes No Undecided

10. Do you support the National Rifle Association’s mission to protect the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans?
Yes No Undecided

Apparently, any form of gun control really means gun confiscation by the federal government.

It’s a scare letter, and yes, it succeeds in scaring me — but perhaps not in exactly the way the NRA hopes.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

====================================================================================================================================================
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. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here)
10. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)

—–

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

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:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

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.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY

Twitter: @rodgermitchell; Search #monetarysovereignty
Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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.
======================================================================================================================================================================================

Alcohol is a recreational drug. The U.S. officially began the “war on alcohol” with prohibition and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Imagine using an Amendment to the Constitution as a device for restricting the sale of one drug. Talk about using a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito.

Of course, the “war on” this drug was an abysmal failure:

Following the 18th Amendment’s adoption, prohibition effectively resulted in a public demand for illegal alcohol, making criminals of producers and distributors.

The criminal justice system was swamped although police forces and courts had expanded in recent years.

Prisons were jam-packed and court dockets were behind in trying to deal with the rapid surge in crimes.

Organized crime expanded to deal with the lucrative business, and there was widespread corruption among those charged with enforcing unpopular laws.

Sound familiar?

Then, in 1933, prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment, which showed that America had learned its lesson about trying to prohibit drugs that people enjoyed using. Right?

Wrong. America has learned nothing.

In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt publicly supported the adoption of the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act. The New York Times used the headline “Roosevelt Asks Narcotic War Aid”.

In 1937, the Marijuana Transfer Tax Act was passed. On October 27, 1970, Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. In 1973, the Drug Enforcement Administration was created to replace the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

In 1982, Vice President George H. W. Bush began pushing for the involvement of the CIA and U.S. military in drug interdiction efforts.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy, which mandated a national anti-drug media campaign for youth, which would later become the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

The director of ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) is commonly known as the Drug czar, and it was first implemented in 1989 under President George H. W. Bush, and raised to cabinet-level status by Bill Clinton in 1993.

Predictably, the “War on Drugs” not only failed, but had enormous adverse effects — a net loser, not only for America, but world-wide:

The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report on June 2, 2011 alleging that “The War On Drugs Has Failed”.

According to Human Rights Watch, the War on Drugs caused soaring arrest rates which deliberately disproportionately targeted African Americans. In the 1980s, while the number of arrests for all crimes had risen by 28%, the number of arrests for drug offenses rose 126%.

In 2008, the Washington Post reported that of 1.5 million Americans arrested each year for drug offenses, half a million would be incarcerated. In addition, one in five black Americans would spend time behind bars due to drug laws.

Federal and state policies also impose collateral consequences on those convicted of drug offenses, such as denial of public benefits or licenses, that are not applicable to those convicted of other types of crime.

KEY WEST, Fla. — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a Florida law that required welfare applicants to undergo mandatory drug testing, setting the stage for a legal battle that could affect similar efforts nationwide.

Judge Mary S. Scriven of the United States District Court in Orlando held that the testing requirement, the signature legislation of Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican who campaigned on the issue, violated the protection against unreasonable searches.

“The court finds there is no set of circumstances under which the warrantless, suspicionless drug testing at issue in this case could be constitutionally applied,” she wrote.

This, of course, was the typical anti-poor, anti-black legislation one has come to expect from the ultra-right wing, as always, doing far more harm than any possible good.

What’s Missing in the Current Immigration ‘Crisis’ Debate
Ron Paul

Much of the (immigration) problem can be directly traced to the US drug war, which creates unlivable conditions in countries that produce narcotics for export to the US.

Many of those interviewed over the past several weeks have cited violent drug gangs back home as a main motivation for their departure.

Because some Americans want to use drugs here in the US, governments to the south are bribed and bullied to crack down on local producers. The resulting violence has destroyed economies and lives from Mexico to Nicaragua and beyond. Addressing the failed war on drugs would go a long way to solving the immigration crisis.

The right-wing approach to any problem is prohibition followed by punishment for violating that prohibition. It is a quasi-religious, quasi-moralistic approach that always singles out the non-rich.

Thus a rich man receiving special federal tax breaks, is not asked to take a drug test, but people receiving welfare program benefits are, under the theory of savings.

Bottom line: If people are going to harm themselves by drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or huffing spray cans, they will do it. Outlawing these things will cause crime, fill our jails and remove otherwise valuable people from our economy.

The idiocy of prohibition can further be seen with our treatment of guns, which specifically are made to hurt people other than the owner. Guns legally are sold and carried in the streets. Recreational drugs, which are not made to hurt other people, are not legally sold or carried in the streets. It makes no sense whatsoever.

All those right wingers who scream “freedom” and “liberty” every time they think someone might take away their guns, should scream even louder about the taking away of recreational drugs.

My suggestion: Legalize all recreational drugs, but regulate them, the way we regulate cigarettes, prescription drugs and alcohol. Set standards, and require licensing and labeling. Place them all under the purview of the Food and Drug Administration — and provide plenty of money for supervision.

History shows: Usage will decline. Our jail population will drop. Desperate immigration will decline. America will be a better place.

Is your political representative a “War on” moron? Contact him with this message:

Freedom! Liberty! Common sense!

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

====================================================================================================================================================
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. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)
9. Federal ownership of all banks (Click here)
10. Tax the very rich (.1%) more, with higher, progressive tax rates on all forms of income. (Click here)

—–

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

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:
1. Federal Deficits – Net Imports = Net Private Savings
2. Gross Domestic Product = Federal Spending + Private Investment and Consumption – Net Imports

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.

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.

#MONETARYSOVEREIGNTY