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 the post Police state: Which vital secret did Edward Snowden reveal? PART II Monday, Jun 17 2013, we asked, “Exactly which vital secret did he (Edward Snowden) reveal.”

We showed that the Taliban, President Obama and Congress all knew about the NSA’s monitoring of phone calls. So exactly what secret did this “traitor” (according to John Boehner and Dick Cheney) reveal?

“He faces 30 years for charges including unauthorized communication of national defense information and theft of government property.” Yikes! Thirty years? Isn’t that a bit excessive for “unauthorized communication and theft of property.”

Really, exactly what secrets did he reveal? To quote an old hamburger commercial, “Where’s the beef?”

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, “I’ve always thought this was a treasonous act. I hope Hong Kong’s government will take him into custody and extradite him to the U.S.”

Wow! More cries of “treason,” and calls for extradition. And oh yes, they nullified his passport. All this for “unauthorized communication and theft”? But guys, exactly what secret did he reveal?

O.K., you know the answer. He revealed the secret, not from our enemies, but from us Americans, that our government was spying on us. And, government secrets from Americans are the most important secrets of all.

But wait! It’s not just the American government that spies on its citizens and keeps it secret from us (though not from our enemies):

The Guardian
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications
Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Nick Hopkins, Nick Davies and James Ball, Friday 21 June 2013

Britain’s spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world’s phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process vast streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA)

One key innovation has been GCHQ’s ability to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fibre-optic cables for up to 30 days. That operation, codenamed Tempora, has been running for some 18 months.

GCHQ and the NSA are consequently able to access and process vast quantities of communications between entirely innocent people, as well as targeted suspects.

Hmmm . . . Until now, NSA has tried to hide behind the fiction that its spying first was cleared through U.S. judges. But do U.S. judges clear GCHO spying?

The existence of the programme has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as part of his attempt to expose what he has called “the largest programme of suspicionless surveillance in human history”.

Now, poor Snowden, whose main crime seems to have been to tell the people that their government is filled with, and authorized by, criminals — now this poor guy will have the Brits after him.

But wait, again!

By 2010, [the UK spy system, Tempora] was able to boast it had the “biggest internet access” of any member of the Five Eyes electronic eavesdropping alliance, comprising the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Yikes. Now it’s the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who are spying on their own people. We always knew about massive spying on their own citizens, by Russia, China, Cuba and North Korea. I mean, those are dictatorships. We expect that kind of thing from thugs.

But could such a thing happen in the “free” world?

Yes, because power corrupts. Our government increases its power over us by spying on us, which corrupts our government even more, which leads to even more spying — in an ever widening helix of corruption and government power.

The excuse for this spying is to protect us from our “enemies,” but in fact, more people have been enslaved by their own governments than by foreign powers.

What hero will step forward to save us from our enemies in Washington? Until someone tells me exactly what secret he has revealed, my “hero” vote goes to Edward Snowden.

A traitor is “one who betrays another’s trust” (Merriam-Webster). So, who has betrayed our trust: Snowden or Congress and the President?

Who has lied to us, again and again, and stretched our Constitutional protections beyond all recognition?

Who illegally has used census information, that is supposed to be confidential, and engaged in warrantless searches?

Who tortured prisoners, then denied it until a whistleblower revealed it — all in the name of security?

Who lies that “America is broke” so as to starve the poor and reward the rich?

Who murdered an American without trial, with the excuse that he may have been Taliban?

Who killed and maimed thousands of innocent young Amerians, in wars based on lies?

Who takes bribes not to prosecute criminal bankers — they who have cost America trillions — while mounting the full weight of the federal government against a man who revealed the truth?

Who are the real American traitors?

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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Those of us who are sophisticates have been using the word “meme” for eons, mostly to impress you dullards. We fashionable types could use the words “belief” or “idea” or “premise” or even “axiom.” But that wouldn’t demonstrate we are cool with the latest jargon.

There is an acceptable definition of “meme” in Wikipedia at Meme But the Daily Bell has an even better one:

A meme is a dominant social theme with the strength for propagation from one generation to another.

A dominant social theme is a belief system (usually concerning a purported social or natural problem) promoted by the monetary or power elite.

The related problem, as it is presented, may be centered on people themselves (e.g., overpopulation) or be caused by people (e.g., global warming).

A dominant social theme typically is launched from one or more centers of the elite’s global architecture, such as the United Nations, World Bank, World Trade Organization or World Health Organization.

The theme is then rebroadcast by the mainstream media. Dominant social themes are notable for their resistance to contrary evidence, and they invariably imply a need for unaccountable, elite authorities to impose a solution.

With sufficient repetition in the mass media (including “news” and entertainment presentations) and through enshrinement in school curricula, a dominant social theme can become so ingrained in the public mind that it is passed from one generation to the next, as though it were folk wisdom.

It becomes virtually exempt from questioning.

The fear of overpopulation is a meme, as the worry now has spanned generations. A generalized fear that the world may run out of resources, including basic resources such as oil and water, appears on its way to becoming a meme.

After, “religion-equals-morality,” which is the world’s favorite meme, economists might say today’s dominant meme is the belief that the finances of a Monetarily Sovereign nation are the same as the finances of a monetarily non-sovereign entity — government, business or person — so a Monetarily Sovereign government must “live within its means” (aka “austerity”) or suffer recession, depression or inflation.

Harking back to that wonderful Daily Bell definition:

1. This need-for-austerity meme has the “strength for propagation from one generation to another.” (Not just generations, but centuries).

2. It is “promoted by the monetary or power elite.” (Promoted by political leaders).

3. It is “launched from one or more centers of the elite’s global architecture, such as the United Nations, World Bank, World Trade Organization.” (All of them plus others.)

4. It is “rebroadcast by the mainstream media.” (All of them.)

5. It is “resistant to contrary evidence.” (Bingo!)

6. It “implies a need for unaccountable, elite authorities to impose a solution.” (Every government plus famous economists and other experts.)

7. It is enshrined enshrined in school curricula (Nearly all college economics departments, with the notable exception of UMKC, teach it.

8. It has become “virtually exempt from questioning.” (In fact, those who dare to question it are attacked. See Ignaz Semmelweis.)

The fundamental problem with memes is #8, above. They aren’t questioned, at least not seriously enough. And they often are wrong.

“Overpopulation” has not occurred, probably won’t occur this century and may never occur.

“Global warming” is happening, in that the world is getting warmer, but the meme that global warming is a curse, has begun to show cracks — perhaps it’s not so imminent and maybe it’s not so bad as Al Gore says. On balance, it actually might prove to be beneficial.

“Running-out-of-oil” keeps getting pushed farther into the future as unforeseen technology finds new sources and new substitutes.

“Religion-equals-morality” is a meme that meets all of the above 8 criteria, plus one that magnifies its power. Call it criterion #9: The meme is vital to important people, in this case religious leaders.

The “need-for-austerity” meme has that 9th criterion. It is vital to the important, upper .1% income group, because it leads inexorably to a wider gap between the rich and the rest. The gap is what make them rich, and the wider the gap, the richer they are.

Thus, the need-for-austerity meme, as factually wrong as it is, may be with us forever. That’s why you should care.

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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This blog is an equal opportunity scold. We relentlessly have criticized President Obama and the Democrats for taking the Presidency by pretending to support the poor, while accepting bribes from the right wing, to widen the income gap between the rich and the rest.

We have criticized the Republicans for unerringly choosing the side of the rich over the poor, and for anti-women, anti-gay, anti-poor, anti-black, anti-Latino, anti-immigrant, anti-gun-control stances.

That said, I continue to be astounded at the stupid, deluded, absolutely certifiable, nut-case pronouncements that come from the right wing — the unprecedented degree to which right wing heroes have made comments that not only are loony, but are accepted and even repeated by their faithful followers.

The National Memo is a left wing blog, making no secret about its leanings, and each week publishing a piece called “This Week In Crazy.”

It simultaneously is hilarious and frightening, for it describes self-made idiots who have been elected or at least praised by Americans, some of whom may be your neighbors, friends or families.

For your amusement, amazement and fear, I’ll direct you to some specimens of the craziness, of which, The National Memo, week after week, never seems to run short.

Here are five examples from the February 15th National Memo alone. I urge you to subscribe to The National Memo, particularly if you get your education from Fox News.

This Week In Crazy: February 15th Edition
February 15th, 2013, Henry Decker

5. Wayne LaPierre
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has long opposed gun safety laws on the grounds that America will soon devolve into Mad Max-style dystopia, but his latest op-ed for the Daily Caller is especially paranoid.

In the rambling, 2,000 word piece, LaPierre claims that “Latin American drug gangs” and al Qaeda will soon overrun American cities, after an imminent “fiscal collapse” leaves the government unable to pay the police. At that point, civilization will crumble.

Presumably, in the coming anarchy, Latin American drug gangs and al Qaeda, having the firepower to defeat the entire U.S. army, will be frightened away by you and your pistol.

4. Glenn Beck
A disgraced FBI agent, who claims that President Obama’s nominee for CIA Director, John Brennan, is a secret Muslim traitor. Beck, as is his style, doesn’t agree with the outrageous charge — he’s just asking questions. “There is so much in John Brennan’s background that should be questioned, that this is plausible,” Beck says of the crazy theory.

If ever you want the definitive retort to those who deride liberals (Are there still any in government?), just say: “You believe Glenn Beck.” That will insult anyone having a brain.

3. Ben Shapiro, Breitbart News
Shapiro, the Editor-at-Large of Breitbart News, linked Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel to a group called “Friends of Hamas.” Hagel’s opponents immediately ran with the story, which was referenced by Senator Rand Paul and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

There’s only one problem: there’s no evidence that “Friends of Hamas” actually exists. When asked to clear up the mystery, Shaprio responded “The original story is the entirety of the information I have.”

Putting up non-existent straw men as serious enemies is a favorite right wing tactic, who (rightly?) assume their audience are flies (Flies enjoy the smell of bullsh*t).

2. Judson Phillips
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips, unleashed an all-time crazy rant in a failed effort to get Republicans to walk out of the State of the Union address.

“Liberals are looking more and more like Nazis every day,” Phillips wrote. “The address is no longer the State of the Union address. Instead it will be a Hitlerian screed attacking Republicans.”

Phillips also warned the Boy Scouts of America not to accept gay members, saying they share Obama’s “Hitlerian” tendencies.

Fortunately, his was not a Hitlerian screed attacking the President. And if there’s one thing the Nazis were known for, it was their tolerant attitude towards the gay community.

I always find it amusing when right-wingers make negative references to Hitler, considering their parallel views.

1. FreedomWorks

When FreedomWorks began an internal investigation into its management, it turned up something completely outrageous: a promotional film for FreedomWorks’ “FreePAC” conference, which featured a female intern wearing a panda suit peforming oral sex on an intern wearing a Hillary Clinton mask.

Yes, we’re sorry to say you read that correctly. Remember, the Republicans are the party of family values.

And we’re sorry to say, the above five are nowhere near the nuttiest of the right wing. Periodically, we’ll add to this post, in an attempt to answer the questions: Why has the right wing become so completely bonkers, and what kind of Americans actually pay attention to what those people say?

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Here’s Judson Phillips, again, three weeks after the election:

HOW OBAMA CAN BE STOPPED IN ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Exclusive: Judson Phillips offers constitutional means to put Romney in office after the election is over!

Yes, the election is over – but remember, a presidential election in America is not by popular vote. According to the 12th Amendment, for the Electoral College to be able to select the president, it must have a quorum of two-thirds of the states voting. If the Electoral College does not have a quorum, then the responsibility for selecting the president and vice president devolves to the Congress.

The House of Representatives selects the president and the Senate selects the vice president. Since the Republicans hold a majority in the House, presumably they would vote for Mitt Romney, and the Democrats in the Senate would vote for Joe Biden for vice president. Can this work? Sure it can.

Since this column was posted it has been discovered that the premise presented about the Electoral College and the Constitution is in error. According to the 12th Amendment, a two-thirds quorum is required in the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College.

To quote that famous Texas Republican governor who was a candidate for President ” . . . Oops.”

Then there’s yet another dopey Texas politician (what is it with Texas??) who thinks the poor are given too much:

Last week, a group of House Democrats responded to Republicans’ plan to cut $20 billion from the food stamp program( SNAP) by attempting to live for a week on a food budget of just $4.50 per day, to raise awareness about the difficulties of living on SNAP.

Right-wing Steve Stockman’s (R-TX) communications director and agriculture policy adviser, Donny Ferguson, decided to take the challenge himself. According to Stockman’s office, Ferguson “was able to buy enough food to eat well for a week on just $27.58, almost four dollars less than the $31.50 ‘SNAP Challenge’ figure.”

Stockman’s office provided a list of the groceries that Ferguson purchased for his $27.58: Two boxes of Honeycomb cereal, Three cans of red beans and rice, Jar of peanut butter, Bottle of grape jelly, Loaf of whole wheat bread, Two cans of refried beans, Box of spaghetti, Large can of pasta sauce, Two liters of root beer, Large box of popsicles, 24 servings of Wyler’s fruit drink mix, Eight cups of applesauce, Bag of pinto beans, Bag of rice, Bag of cookies, Gallon milk, Box of instant oatmeal.

The list lacks fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat. Stockman’s office declined to speculate on the health effects of living on a beans and fruit drink mix diet. This would presumably be a problem for the 47 percent of households receiving SNAP benefits that include a child, however.

Hey, wouldn’t your child be better off with rice and beans, rather than meat, fruit and vegetables? Kids should find three cans of beans plus two cans of refried beans sufficient, so long as they’re washed down with root beer, popsicles and fruit drink mix.

Then there’s back home in my Illinois, where the downstaters are solid red Republican:

Downstate GOP official quits post after calling ex-Miss America ‘street walker’
By Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune reporter, June 21, 2013

Jim Allen, of Farmersville, the chairman of the Montgomery County GOP, (resigned after) likening former Miss America Erika Harold, who’s challenging a sitting GOP congressman in next year’s primary election, to a “street walker” whose “pimps” were Democrats and moderate Republicans.

Allen also wrote that after losing the March 2014 primary, Harold would end up back in Chicago — though he used a derogatory spelling of the city — “working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires.” Harold is African American.

Whats wrong, Jim, wasn’t “legitimate rape” still available?

And perhaps the best quote of all is this famous one:

Jindal: GOP must stop being ‘stupid party’
By STEVE PEOPLES and KEN THOMAS | Associated Press – Thu, Jan 24, 2013

In the keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the GOP doesn’t need to change its values but “might need to change just about everything else we are doing.”

“We’ve got to stop being the stupid party. It’s time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults. We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. I’m here to say we’ve had enough of that.”

Sorry Bobby, apparently the right-wingers and their voters, aren’t ready for sense. They prefer stupidity. They actually seem to wallow in it.

So, I couldn’t allow this post to end without reminding you of the famous quote from Republican Senator Roman Hruska (Nebraska): Speaking in March 1970 to support a U.S. Supreme Court nominee:

So what if he is mediocre? There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they? We can’t have all Brandeises, Cardozos, and Frankfurters and stuff like that there.

In all these years, nothing seems to have changed.

(Now, my right-wing readers will pore through Google, to find examples of leftish stupidity, thereby “proving” the right-wingers aren’t stupid. But in terms of recent stupidity, I’m betting on the right, at least 10 – 1.

Hey, I have Michele Bachmann on my side.)

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

A gun is a killing machine. It can be used for evil or to prevent evil, as well as for fun. Those three alternatives — evil, prevent evil, fun — repeatedly are the subject of the overall gun-control argument.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) and its believers, being one side of the argument, emphasize the “prevent evil” and “fun” aspects of gun ownership, while gun victims and potential victims, being the other side of the argument, emphasize the evil.

Unfortunately, the NRA never (until now) has proposed any solution to gun violence. Their position has been a cross between denial of gun violence (“Guns don’t kill people; people kill people”), teaching people to use guns more safely and statements about the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.

But finally, the NRA has proposed a solution. Before we reveal it, here is a note from a good gun owner, as printed in the Letters section of the July 2013 Scientific American Magazine:

I, as a legal gun owner, have taken due diligence that has ensured I have never had an incident. I cannot and will not suppose that owners of illegal firearms do the same.

If research is to be conducted and solutions found, make sure it includes ways to keep the guns from entering the hands of the criminally minded.

If this can’t be done, and I suppose it can’t, don’t limit or remove our capability to defend ourselves from that element.

There will always be examples of poor firearm safety — even the best gun owner can slip. But most gun violence is perpetrated overwhelmingly by criminals and the psychologically challenged.

Ken Ridgley (via e-mail)

Mr. Ridgley supports being a “legal gun owner,” and does not support gun ownership by “owners of illegal firearms” or by the “criminally minded,” “criminals” or by the “psychologically challenged.,”

Presumably, that mirrors the opinions of most honest gun owners. But what steps can be taken to reduce gun ownership by evildoers?

The NRA has a plan. Here is the full text of their statement:

Statement from the National Rifle Association Regarding Toomey-Manchin Background Check Proposal

Expanding background checks at gun shows will not prevent the next shooting, will not solve violent crime and will not keep our kids safe in schools.

While the overwhelming rejection of President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg’s “universal” background check agenda is a positive development, we have a broken mental health system that is not going to be fixed with more background checks at gun shows.

The sad truth is that no background check would have prevented the tragedies in Newtown, Aurora or Tucson.

We need a serious and meaningful solution that addresses crime in cities like Chicago, addresses mental health deficiencies, while at the same time protecting the rights of those of us who are not a danger to anyone.

President Obama should be as committed to dealing with the gang problem that is tormenting honest people in his hometown as he is to blaming law-abiding gun owners for the acts of psychopathic murderers.

Lest you were unable to identify the NRA’s proposed solution, here is an explanation:

NRA: “Expanding background checks at gun shows will not prevent the next shooting, will not solve violent crime and will not keep our kids safe in schools.”

Translation: Background checks to prevent Mr. Ridgley’s “criminals and the psychologically challenged” from buying a gun do not help make it harder for the “criminals and the psychologically challenged” to buy a gun. Understand?

NRA: “We have a broken mental health system that is not going to be fixed with more background checks at gun shows.”

Translation: Background checks at gun shows do not fix mental health problems. Similarly, police in the streets do not fix mental health problems. Understand?

NRA: “We need a serious and meaningful solution that addresses crime in cities like Chicago, addresses mental health deficiencies, while at the same time protecting the rights of those of us who are not a danger to anyone.”

Translation: First we must identify all those “criminals and the psychologically challenged,” but do it without checking anyone’s background. Then, we somehow must eliminate all crime and all mental health problems, for the first time in human history. Finally, we should allow all those, “who are not a danger to anyone,” have guns.

That is the NRA solution. Understand?

Sincerely,

The NRA
Devoted to protecting your rights
and supporting wealthy weapons manufacturers
and undertakers.
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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