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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More agents, fencing may cut illegal immigration by half; Senate bill’s critics not satisfied
By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Spending $35 billion on new Border Patrol agents and fencing would only stop between a third and half of future illegal immigration, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest analysis released Wednesday.

Wait! We plan to spend an additional $35 billion to add to the existing wall between Mexico and us?? Is Mexico about to attack us?

If not, what the heck are the cowardly right-wingers so frightened about?

Where else in the world does such a wall of shame exist? O.K., Israel has a wall. But Israel is a tiny country surrounded by big countries that have vowed to destroy it, and in fact repeatedly have tried to destroy it, and Israel daily is attacked by rockets.

But, we are the United States of America, the most powerful nation in the history of the world. And Mexico is militarily weak and makes no threats against our existence. In every sense, Mexico is one of our allies.

So, what the heck are the cowardly right-wingers so frightened about?

Are these the same cowardly right-wingers who feel they need to stockpile guns — semi-automatic, military weapons — to protect themselves against . . . against what?

But it gets worse.

The “CBO estimates that the net inflow would be reduced by between one-third and one-half compared with the projected net inflow under current law.

The CBO also said that the additional legal workers will boost the economy and lead to nearly $1 trillion in new tax revenue over the next 20 years.

Get it? The cowardly right-wingers want to stop the flow of immigrants, and absolutely do not want to provide immigrants a path to citizenship. But additional legal workers will boost the economy.

So, what the heck are the cowardly right-wingers so frightened about?

To win GOP votes, senators accepted an amendment from Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota to add fencing and border agents, which will bring the total number of agents on the southwest border to more than 38,400.

The additional security spending will cost $38 billion, the CBO said.

Security experts on all sides of the immigration debate have cast doubt on the efficacy of doubling the size of the Border Patrol, saying the return on investment is rather low.

The cowardly right-wingers are firmly against addition government spending for frivolous things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, other poverty programs, food & drug inspection and bank supervision.

But there is $38 billion available to protect us from that dangerous, implacable bully, Mexico.

Visualize us citizens of the United States of America, all carrying guns (Thanks, NRA) and cowering behind our wall, protected from attacks by Mexico. And visualize us protected from the immigrants who would boost our economy.

I feel so much safer now. But I have one question:

Who will protect us from the cowardly right-wingers?

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

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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In a previous post, I compared NSA, CIA, FBI et al to vicious guard dogs. They are necessary to protect us from dangerous enemies.

But they have slipped their leashes and gone out of control, and now have become more a danger to our freedoms than are the supposed enemies.

Here is another example of the uncontrolled arrogance and craziness of our security agencies — arrogance which is coming back to bite us:

Austrian officials searched the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales for Edward Snowden on Tuesday at the request of the U.S.

Morales was forced to make a layover in Vienna on his way back from a Moscow energy conference when France and Portugal refused to let him fly through their airspace.

Bolivia is one of the two countries that say they will consider a request for asylum from Snowden. Bolivian officials were not happy about the search: “We’re talking about the president on an official trip after an official summit being kidnapped,” said Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Now imagine the U.S. government forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to land against his will. Take a moment to consider the dangerous repercussions.

Or imagine China forcing President Obama to land against his will. Would we be outraged? Would there be talk of war?

By what right do we force the president of a sovereign nation to land in a foreign country? Yes, Bolivia is small, but does that give our security apparatus legal jurisdiction over its president?

The answer is, “Yes.” NSA, for instance, is a secret nation, creating its own laws in secret. These laws are approved by judges in secret, based on secret testimony, and prosecuted and tried in secret with secret evidence.

Neither you, nor any lawyer, nor Congress nor the President knows those laws.

They are kept secret “for your protection.” Presumably you could be breaking one or more of those secret laws, just by reading this blog. There is no way to know.

This is neither new nor revelatory. Read: Testimony of Dawn E. Johnsen
Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution
“Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government”
April 30, 2008

The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution read:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

It says “all,” not some, criminal prosecutions. It says “public,” not secret, trial. It demands a the availability of a jury and the ability to face your accuser and knowledge of the evidence against you.

Sadly, the Supreme Court, over the years, has whittled away at those Constitutional protections, so that even a self-proclaimed “originalist” like Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, seemingly is not concerned about the drastic modifications of the Sixth Amendment.

Today, our government has determined it is not subject to the Constitution nor even to existing law. It creates laws at will and ad hoc. If you try to fight these laws, you will be told by the courts you don’t have standing.

See: If you are prosecuted, you may have no right to face your accuser, nor will you have a right to see the secret evidence against you.

America no longer is the land of the free. We are beginning to look more and more like China, the old Soviet Union or even North Korea, than to the America we thought we knew and loved.

Yesterday the government spied on you for no reason. Today the government grounds the plane of a sovereign nation’s president. Tomorrow — tomorrow, what? Are there any limits? If so, what are those limits?

Does this bother you?

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

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

The National Security Agency (NSA) is so secret and so powerful, few people have any idea what it does. Congress doesn’t know. The President doesn’t know. Certainly the voting public doesn’t know, for the NSA is unelected and unresponsive to anyone.

It does as it pleases, without asking, “May I?” and if anyone has the temerity to question them, their response is the same: “We won’t tell you. It’s a national security matter.”

They are completely out of anyone’s control.

Consider the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The NSA has been revealed to monitor your every phone call. Is there probable cause — some reasonable suspicion — showing that you have committed a crime?

Has any warrant been issued by a court, allowing the NSA to monitor your phone calls? Under whose oath would such a warrant have been issued?

Never mind. The NSA answers to no one.

If the NSA “only” is spying on you and spying on your family and spying on your friends and neighbors, that’s bad enough. If the NSA “only” is spying on the media, that too, is bad enough.

But the NSA, being completely out of anyone’s control, has gone far beyond “bad enough.” It’s teaching your kids how to be spies, under the cover of “education.”

TPMDC
How The NSA Gets Inside K-12 Classrooms
HUNTER WALKER JULY 2, 2013

Along with running a massive surveillance apparatus, the secretive National Security Agency operates a program dedicated to getting its agents inside America’s elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. These K-12 NSA operatives guide children through math exercises, “cyber ethics,” and even mock spy games.

The NSA’s Mathematics Education Partnership Program, is an “outreach program to promote mathematics and science education at non-profit educational institutions,” due to concern among some at the NSA about the future of math and science education.

WHAT?? The NSA has decided that among its secret missions is the duty to educate your kids in science and math?? Are you kidding me? (Don’t ask. It’s secret.)

[Parent: I’d like to talk with you about what you’re teaching my child.
Teacher: Sorry I can’t discuss it. It’s secret and you’re not cleared.]

If you like that piece of NSA garbage, you’ll love this:

SLATE
Teach Your Kids About the NSA With the Help of CryptoCat and DecipherDog
By Justin Peters | Posted Friday, June 7, 2013

CryptoKids is the official children’s section of the National Security Agency’s website, which puts an upbeat, youthful spin on government-sponsored cryptology.

“We’re the CryptoKids® and we love cryptology,” the site reads. “What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool.”

You know what else is cool, according to the CryptoKids website? The work being done by the heroes at the National Security Agency/Central Security Service: “Our Nation’s leaders and warfighters count on the technology and information they get from NSA/CSS to get their jobs done. Without NSA/CSS, they wouldn’t be able to talk to one another without the bad guys listening and they wouldn’t be able to figure out what the bad guys were planning.

Get it? Your children are being brainwashed to accept NSA as good and necessary to fighting bad guys.

“Don’t ask what we’re doing. Hey kids, just blindly accept that we’re all good guys, doing nothing but good. No bad guys here.”

And meanwhile, please tell us what mommy and daddy are doing. They might be bad guys. Did they yell at you, today?

Can it possibly get more outrageous than this: An unelected, unsupervised, super-powerful, secret organization that answers to no one, and has been allowed to do anything it damn well pleases, all under the phony umbrella “national security.”

Why do we need Congress? Why do we need the President? Why do we need the Supreme Court? NSA doesn’t have to obey them. Why not just make it official and allow our Big Brothers at NSA to run our lives?

After all, they promise they all are “good guys.” So it must be true. Who says “Power corrupts”?

(Oh, except for that traitor Edward Snowden. He’s a bad guy. But he’s the only bad guy at NSA.)

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

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

Readers of this blog know I love irony, and governments are an endless source. Consider excerpts from this article in the July 1, 2013 Chicago Tribune.

Furious EU confronts U.S. over reports it spies on allies
By Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post

European leaders reacted with fury Sunday to allegations in a German magazine that the United States had conducted a wide-ranging effort to monitor European Union diplomatic offices and computer networks, with some saying that they expected such surveillance from enemies, not their closest economic partner.

The irony: Our allies are furious at being spied on by the American government. But, so far as I can see, the American people — most of them — aren’t upset about our government spying on us.

We seem to accept the notion that our own government can do to us whatever it pleases, so long as it tells us its “for security.”

Monitor our phone calls? No problem. Read our Emails and text messages? Help yourself. Track our location as we move around? Sure, why not? Kill an American citizen without trial? Stuff happens. And lie about everything? Hey, we expect it.

Apparently, foreigners value their privacy and the rule of law more than Americans do.

Top officials from several European countries said the reports of spying would figure into the future of trans-Atlantic trade talks that began in June.

European officials said Sunday that they suspected the target of U.S. intelligence interest was economic information, not military.

What?? The Europeans suspect U.S. spying has nothing to do with security? But, our leaders tell us the spying is necessary to prevent terrorist activities. They couldn’t be lying, could they?

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said, “It is shocking that the United States takes measures against their nearest allies, comparable to measures taken by the KGB of the Soviet Union.“

Wake up, fools. If we’re going to spy on every American citizen, why would we hesitate to spy on you foreigners?

Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on 38 embassies and missions that U.S.,intelligence agencies were monitoring, including embassies of France, Italy, Japan, India and South Korea.

If you own a pack of big, vicious guard dogs, and you don’t keep them under control, one day you’ll come home to find they ate your children.

America has a large pack vicious guard dogs — the CIA, FBI, NSA, ICE, BATF, the Secret Service, IRS, as well as various local police — and heaven knows what else. We are up to our butts in vicious guard dogs.

So if their activities are kept secret, in the name of “security,” how do we keep them from eating our children?

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