–And this guy wants to be President? The Rubio cube

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.
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If the quality of our Presidential candidates foretells America’s future, we are in terrible trouble. Take, for example, Marco Rubio:

Washington Times
Marco Rubio: No debt limit increase until Congress adopts plan to balance budget in 10 years
By Seth McLaughlin-The Washington Times Thursday, July 11, 2013

Sen. Marco Rubio . . . said that Congress should not agree to raise the nation’s borrowing limit “a single cent” until lawmakers pass and Mr. Obama signs off on a spending plan that shows how the federal budget will be balanced in 10 years.

As Rubio knows, the money already has been spent. His proposal is akin to running up a credit card debt, then refusing to pay the bill. Balancing the federal budget will remove trillions from the economy, guaranteeing a recession if we are lucky and a depression if we are not. It is another notorious “sequester” — on steroids.

(Rubio said,) “They will say, ‘Well you are going to risk default.’ The $17 trillion debt is a risk of default. The lack of any plan to fix it is the risk of default — and not a statutory default, a real default.”

Rubio’s plan is not “a risk of default.” It is an actual default. Meanwhile, the government could eliminate the so-called $17 trillion debt tomorrow, simply by transferring debt owners’ own dollars from their T-security accounts to their checking accounts. Rubio pretends not to understand that and he doesn’t want you to understand it.

Mr. Rubio said the administration has had the wrong priorities. Instead of focusing on reducing the debt, reshaping the tax code and tapping into the nation’s domestic energy industry, Mr. Obama has pushed for tighter gun control laws, same-sex marriage and a climate change agenda.

Mr. Rubio said that the Republicans should move in an opposite direction by pursuing a pro-growth agenda that takes advantage of the nation’s oil, coal and natural gas resources, reforms the tax code and reduces government regulations to encourage more investment and risk in America.

Translation: “Instead of causing a recession by reducing the money supply, making the middle-classes pay more taxes while the rich pay less, and increasing pollution and global warming, Mr. Obama has pushed for reducing gun violence, less bigotry against gays and saving the environment for our children.”

Mr. Rubio said that the Republicans should move in an opposite direction by pursuing a negative-growth agenda that burns more of the nation’s oil, coal and natural gas resources, reforms the tax code to benefit the rich and reduces government regulations to encourage more stealing by crooked bankers in America.

“We have to convince the majority of our fellow Americans that the road we are on today will lead us to decline,” Mr. Rubio said. “That we don’t need a government that picks winners and losers. What we need are leaders that believe we can all be winners.”

Translation: “We have to convince the majority of our fellow Americans that cutting the money supply somehow will grow the economy,” Mr. Rubio said. We don’t need a government that helps the poor and takes from to the criminal rich. What we need are leaders that believe we can fool the people into giving the upper .1% more power.”

Let’s be honest here. Marco Rubio has three “qualifications” for the Presidency:

1. He’s a nice-looking young fellow.
2. He’s Latino, a cynical, conservative attempt at fooling other Latino’s into believing the right wing gives a damn about them.
3. He backs every right wing initiative to crush the poor and middle-classes and to pay off the rich for their support.

Like the almost-but-not-quite namesake cube, he can be twisted and turned every rich way, to come up with any crazy design. He is 100% flexible, according to the wishes of the upper .1% income group.

And this guy wants to be President? Sadly, the right wing hasn’t changed from its Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain blend of incompetence and craziness.

The right wing “solutions” simply do not work, will not work, can not work. It’s time for a new plan.

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 Click here
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 and here)

10. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99% (Click here)

The Ten Steps will grow the economy, and narrow the income/wealth/power Gap between the rich and you.
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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

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.
1. A growing economy requires a growing supply of dollars (GDP=Federal Spending + Non-federal Spending + Net Exports)
2. All deficit spending grows the supply of dollars
3. The limit to federal deficit spending is an inflation that cannot be cured with interest rate control.
4. The limit to non-federal deficit spending is the ability to borrow.

THE RECESSION CLOCK

Recessions begin an average of 2 years after the blue line first dips below zero. A common phenomenon is for the line briefly to dip below zero, then rise above zero, before falling dramatically below zero. There was a brief dip below zero in 2015, followed by another dip – the familiar pre-recession pattern.
Recessions are cured by a rising red line.

Monetary Sovereignty

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.

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Mitchell’s laws:
•Those, who do not understand the differences between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics.
•Any monetarily NON-sovereign government — be it city, county, state or nation — that runs an ongoing trade deficit, eventually will run out of money.
•The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, the weaker an economy becomes..

Liberals think the purpose of government is to protect the poor and powerless from the rich and powerful. Conservatives think the purpose of government is to protect the rich and powerful from the poor and powerless.

•The single most important problem in economics is the Gap between rich and the rest..
•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.
•Until the 99% understand the need for federal deficits, the upper 1% will rule.
•Everything in economics devolves to motive, and the motive is the Gap between the rich and the rest..

MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY
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–You’re having the wrong discussion about gay marriage

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.

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For most of our history, many states held marriage between blacks and whites illegal. Finally, in 1967 (!), the Supreme Court ruled such laws unconstitutional.

Now the fight is about gay marriage, which the Supreme Court has almost, but not quite, ruled on.

Proponents of gay marriage talk about love and morality and fairness and children. For instance:

–If two people are in love and wish to marry, why should they be denied this happiness? Whom does it hurt?
–The federal government has no laws against two people of the same sex living together nor even of having sex together, so why should they be denied marriage?
–Why should gays and lesbians be treated as second class citizens, by not receiving the same legal benefits and protections that straights receive?
–What evidence exists that children raised by a gay couple have an inferior childhood, by any measure, to children raised in a straight marriage?

Opponents of gay marriage talk about the bible, tradition and promiscuity. For instance:

–God and the bible oppose gay marriage
–Gays are more promiscuous than straights
–Gays choose to be different when they should choose to be normal
–Marriage is for procration
–Gay marriage can lead to polygamy, bestiality and the spread of homosexuality to children and susceptible adults.

In short, those opposed are motivated by the “yuck factor.” Gay marriage feels wrong, so it must be wrong. Those favoring gay marriage are motivated by fairness, and “we’re not hurting anyone.”

But, there is one point that seems to be overlooked in all the endless hyperbole: Why does marriage endow couples with financial benefits?

For example, here are some of those marriage benefits, summarized:

NOLO
Federal Marriage Benefits Denied to Same-Sex Couples
Whether married or not, gay and lesbian same-sex couples are denied many federal benefits that are available to heterosexual married couples.

Social Security Benefits
Spousal survivor benefit. A surviving spouse may be entitled to receive retirement benefits based on the deceased spouse’s earning record.
Spousal retirement benefit. A person whose calculated benefit is lower may take half of his spouse’s higher benefit.
Lump-sum death benefit. A surviving spouse gets $255 from the federal government to help pay for funeral arrangements.

Tax Benefits
Filing joint income tax returns with the IRS offers advantages over separate returns.
Creating a “family partnership.” Married couples can divide business income among family members, resulting in big tax savings.

Estate Tax and Estate Planning Benefits
Estate and gift tax exemption. Federal law exempts a certain amount of money from federal estate and gift taxes on property left to a surviving spouse.
Estate Tax “Portability.” Married couples can combine their personal estate tax exemptions.
Heterosexual married couples can create life estate trusts, including QTIP trusts and QDOT trusts.
The heterosexual spouses of deceased veterans are entitled to a myriad of benefits, including health care, death pensions, educational assistance, home loan guarantees, vocational training, and bereavement counseling.

Federal Employment Benefits
Many of the employment benefits that the federal government provides to its employees and their families are tied to marriage status: Health insurance for spouses, and wages, worker’s compensation, health insurance, and retirement plan benefits for the surviving spouse of a deceased federal worker, the right to use sick time to care for a spouse or a child, the right to add a partner to a long-term care insurance program, and the right to use medical facilities at posts abroad, be evacuated for medical reasons from posts abroad, and be included in family size for housing allocations.

Immigration Benefits
A non-U.S. citizen may obtain legal residency, and later citizenship status, when married to a U.S. citizen.

So the question is: Why all these government benefits of marriage? Or more accurately: Why does the government discriminate against single people?

That is the real question, never asked, much less answered.

(And why are single people not as angry as gays at this discrimination?)

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–Rules are for fools. Trust me.

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.

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Here is how the Freedom of Information act is handled in the land of the free:

TPM
Bin Laden Raid Records Shielded From Public In Secret Move
RICHARD LARDNER JULY 8, 2013

Adm. William McRaven, the nation’s top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.

CIA agency spokesman Preston Golson said it is “absolutely false” that records were moved to the CIA to avoid the legal requirements of the Freedom of Information Act.

I believe Golson. He is government. Government is truthful. Government is truthful. Government is truthful.

Secretly moving the records allowed the Pentagon to tell The Associated Press that it couldn’t find any documents inside the Defense Department that AP had requested more than two years ago, and could represent a new strategy for the U.S. government to shield even its most sensitive activities from public scrutiny.

Another secrecy strategy? How many strategies to keep us in the dark, does this government need? (I’d give you the answer, but it’s a secret.)

The records transfer was part of an effort by McRaven to protect the names of the personnel involved in the raid.

Someone please send a black marker to the government, so they could redact the names. Apparently sequester has cut their black marker supply.

Under federal rules, transferring government records from one executive agency to another must be approved in writing by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Archives was not aware of any request from the U.S. Special Operations Command to transfer its records to the CIA, spokeswoman Miriam Kleiman said.

Hey, rules are for fools. We don’t follow rules. We are the government. Trust us.

The Federal Records Act would not permit agencies “to purge records just on a whim,” said Dan Metcalfe, who oversaw the U.S. government’s compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. “I don’t think there’s an exception allowing an agency to say, ‘Well, we didn’t destroy it. We just deleted it here after transmitting it over there.’ High-level officials ought to know better.”

See, they didn’t intentionally hide this stuff from the public. It was sort of an accident, and those naughty boys “ought to know better.”

In the days after bin Laden’s death, the White House falsely said bin Laden was armed and even firing at the SEALs, misidentified which of bin Laden’s sons was killed and incorrectly said bin Laden’s wife died in the shootout.

The Defense Department told the AP in March 2012 it could not locate any photographs or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden’s body, could not find any images of bin Laden’s body on the USS Carl Vinson, could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government planned to dispose of bin Laden’s body if he were killed.

Other than that, the government has been completely open and honest with us — oh, with maybe a couple little white lies, for our own good.

President Obama has pledged to make his administration the most transparent in U.S. history.

Actually, it is becoming transparent. We all are beginning to see right through Obama and his pledges.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–Do you trust the government, completely? Apparently, you do.

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.

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Do you trust the government, completely? Apparently, you do .

Recently, one of my friends said, “I hope they hang that traitor, Snowden” (the former NSA “leaker” who is being sought by a desperate and angry U.S. government.)

I responded, “You want him hung for being a traitor? Exactly what secret has this traitor revealed to our enemies.?”

After a long pause, my friend allowed that he didn’t know exactly what secret has been revealed, other than our government has been spying on all of us.

Is the fact of our government’s spying a vital national secret? Is this something our enemies didn’t already know? Or is this just an embarrassment for an overzealous, out-of-control federal agency, bolstered by an extreme, right-wing, secret court?

And right there is the message of this entire blog: Given the full resources of the three branches of government – the President, the Congress and the courts – plus the media — the American public can be made to believe anything.

Just as my friend, and the American public trust the federal government, when it says the federal deficit and debt should be reduced, my friend and the public also trust the government when it says Snowden is traitor for revealing “vital, national security, secrets.”

The vital, national secret is: In violation of the clear wording of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, our trustworthy government is spying on every American, innocent or not.

And lest you believe government deception is rare, limited or accidental, read these excerpts from an article in the New York Times:

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Published: July 6, 2013

WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans.

You always had heard that “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” but did you know ignorance of the law is premeditated. It’s what the government wants. But don’t dare break those laws the government intentionally has hidden from you.

The court has assessed broad constitutional questions and established important judicial precedents, with almost no public scrutiny.

Not only have they reinterpreted the Constitution, but no one knows what those reinterpretations are.

The 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the FISA court, has quietly become almost a parallel Supreme Court, delivering opinions that will most likely shape intelligence practices for years to come.

In one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have carved out an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of a warrant for searches and seizures.

Who gave this secret court the right to make exceptions to the Constitution? No one knows. It’s a secret. This court acts illegally, in violation of the Constitution.

The FISA judges have ruled that the N.S.A.’s collection and examination of Americans’ communications data to track possible terrorists does not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment.

That legal interpretation uses a relatively narrow area of the law — used to justify airport screenings, for instance, or drunken-driving checkpoints — and applies it to the wholesale collection of communications in pursuit of terrorism suspects.

When a government agency works in secret, there is no limit to the convenient interpretations of secret law they can make. Working in secret, they could just as well determine that anyone a government official merely suspects of a crime, can be killed, legally.

Why not? Who would stop them? It’s all for “national security.” We just have to trust them.

A whistle blower might tell on them, but you know what happens to whistle blowers in America. They are chased down like dogs, while the American public is told they are traitors. When caught, they will be given a secret trial and denied access to evidence that may exonerate them.

That is what happens to a nation that has been brainwashed into paranoia.

In one recent case, intelligence officials were able to get access to an e-mail attachment sent within the United States because they said they were worried that the e-mail contained a schematic diagram possibly connected to Iran’s nuclear program.

In the past, that probably would have required a court warrant because the suspicious e-mail involved American communications. In this case, however, a little-noticed provision in a 2008 law, expanding the definition of “foreign intelligence” to include “weapons of mass destruction,” was used to justify access to the message.

The judge gave permission based not on facts, but merely on someone’s worry. I’m kind of worried one of my neighbors might possibly be a terrorist, so please search their house — and try not to make too much of a mess.

Since virtually all these legal provisions are “little-noticed” or outright secret, what’s to prevent unseen ex post facto changes in the law, to justify previously illegal acts?

“The definition of ‘foreign intelligence’ is very broad,” another former intelligence official said. “An espionage target, a nuclear proliferation target, that all falls within FISA, and the court has signed off on that.”

The official discussed the court’s rulings on the condition of anonymity because they are classified.

Not only are the decisions secret, but no one even is allowed to discuss them. These are absolute decisions, with no higher court review nor public knowledge.

Unlike the Supreme Court, the FISA court hears from only one side in the case — the government — and its findings are almost never made public. A Court of Review is empaneled to hear appeals, but that is known to have happened only a handful of times in the court’s history.

That is the very definition of absolute power, and as has been so aptly stated, “Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.” In short, the FISA court is corrupted. Absolutely.

All of the current 11 judges, who serve seven-year terms, were appointed to the special court by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and 10 of them were nominated to the bench by Republican presidents.

So we have 11 judges with absolute power, and therefore absolutely corrupted, appointed by the right wing, which is notorious for its anti-poor, anti-women, anti-children (out of the womb), anti-elderly, anti-education, anti-minority leanings, all making decisions in secret, some of which change the Constitution of the United States.

Does it get any worse than that? Yes, this is worse::

None of the requests from the intelligence agencies was denied, according to the court.

The judges have concluded that the mere collection of facts like the time of phone calls and the numbers dialed, does not violate the Fourth Amendment, as long as the government establishes a valid reason under national security regulations before taking the next step of actually examining the contents of an American’s communications.

NSA: “Judge, I want to read everyone’s mail, and put cameras in everyone’s bedroom.”
Judge: “Why?”
NSA: “For national security purposes.”
Judge: “O.K., enjoy yourself. You know we always agree. Just do it in secret.”

The court has indicated that while individual pieces of data may not appear “relevant” to a terrorism investigation, the total picture that the bits of data create may in fact be relevant.

Get it? In essence, the court is saying, “We have no idea why you want all that information, but we suppose maybe some of what you learn might possibly be relevant to something sort of related to protecting America in some way. So go ahead and collect it.”

Reggie B. Walton, the FISA court’s presiding judge, wrote in March that he recognized the “potential benefit of better informing the public” about the court’s decisions. But, he said, there are “serious obstacles” to doing so because of the potential for misunderstanding caused by omitting classified details.

He knows he should say he wants to tell us what he’s doing. But he would omit so much information, we wouldn’t understand it anyway. So the best thing simply is not to inform us, and for us to trust him.

Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the N.S.A. director, was noncommital when he was pressed at a Senate hearing in June to put out some version of the court’s decisions. “I don’t want to jeopardize the security of Americans by making a mistake in saying, ‘Yes, we’re going to do all that.’ ”

Translation: “I’m not going to tell you a damn thing. I know what’s good for America. I’m from the government. You’ll just have to trust me.”

Apparently you America, and my friend, do.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

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Nine Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
2. Medicare — parts A, B & D — for everyone
3. Send every American citizen an annual check for $5,000 or give every state $5,000 per capita (Click here)
4. Long-term nursing care for everyone
5. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
6. Salary for attending school (Click here)
7. Eliminate corporate taxes
8. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually
9. Increase federal spending on the myriad initiatives that benefit America’s 99%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY