–All you suckers need to know about Barack Obama

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 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.
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Here is all you suckers need to know about Barack Obama — that great protector of the middle and lower income groups. Read this excerpt from Policymic.com

Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner is reported to have offered a set of proposals that include increasing tax rates on the wealthy, a one-year postponement of scheduled cuts in defence and domestic spending, and $400bn in savings from Medicare and other entitlement programmes.

First, get angry at Obama for doing what he long has told you he would do: Cut benefits to the middle and lower classes, and camouflage this with a puny tax rate increase on the wealthy (which they won’t even notice, scarcely will pay, and in any event, will do you no good whatsoever).

But after you’re finished blaming Obama, blame yourselves for believing the BIG LIE that makes these cuts possible — the BIG LIE that federal deficits must be reduced.

You didn’t even try to understand Monetary Sovereignty, a simple statement of the fact that the federal government never can run short of dollars.

You didn’t even try to understand why, far from being too high, federal deficits have been way too low. You didn’t even try to understand why federal finances are different from personal finances and local government finances. You didn’t even try to understand why taking money out of the economy, via tax increases or spending cuts, causes recessions — always, always, always.

You didn’t contact your Senator and Representatives, demanding that they tell the truth about federal finances, rather than lying about deficits and debt. You didn’t write a letter every day, to Obama, demanding that he too tell the truth. You didn’t contact all those media types who speak and write the BIG LIE.

In short, you didn’t even try to save yourself. Instead, you allowed yourself to be brainwashed. Instead, you chose to mock those who tried to help you understand.

Rather than learning, you smugly made ignorant comments about how we would become the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe if deficits grew. You rejected all the facts, and calmly allowed the BIG LIE to penetrate your skull.

And now, your chickens, as they say, are coming home to roost. Your chickens, your children’s chickens. Your grandchildren’s chickens.

Your Medicare will be cut. Your Social Security will be cut. Aid to the poor will be cut. Medical research & development: Cut. Infrastructure maintenance. Cut. Food and drug oversight: Cut. Financial regulation: Cut.

Those thousands of federal services that not only benefit the lower 99% income group, but help reduce unemployment and grow the economy; Cut, because you fell for the nonsense about the government being “too big” and the deficit being “unsustainable” and how people should be “self-sufficient,” and deficits cause hyperinflation, and those who accept government help turn into “sloths.”

Facts? Who needs facts? Not you. You have your intuition, and that’s all you suckers need. That, and the debt-hawks whispering in your ears.

The only thing that won’t be cut: Your taxes. FICA, the worst tax in America, the tax directed at you middle-class salaried people — that will go up.

Austerity. Just like Greece. It’s happening to you now, suckers, right under your nose. The upper 1% once again has won. They are taking your money, taking away your life — with your approval. No, with your insistence.

When the reality of your unnecessarily declining world begins to sink in, and you find yourself whining about expensive health care, inadequate Social Security, unaffordable college, unemployment and ever more frequent and severe recessions, you can remember all your dumb-ass, smart-ass, sarcastic, debt-hawk comments.

Suckers.

Now if this gets you mad, good. Use that emotion to contact every politician and every newspaper, and tell them to learn the facts about Monetary Sovereignty. Tell them the deficit is too low, and FICA should be eliminated, and federal spending should be increased. Tell them if they vote for austerity, they’ll lose your vote.

Use your self-proclaimed self sufficiency to save yourself.

Or just lie back and let them screw you, again. Suckers.

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
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%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–They can die in the military, defending America, but by heaven, we won’t let them be citizens

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 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.
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The Republicans still don’t get it.

Washington Post
Senators introduce GOP alternative to Dream Act
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Published: November 27

After an election that bared the GOP’s huge disadvantages on immigration, three influential Republican senators have introduced legislation that would grant legal residency to young people brought illegally to the United States, if they seek higher education or enlist in the military.

The proposal comes as more Republicans have called for the party to soften its opposition to illegal immigration in the wake of massive November electoral losses that were driven, in part, by low support among Latino voters.

The measure — sponsored by Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), and retiring Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.) and Jon Kyl (Ariz.) — would offer a Republican alternative to the so-called Dream Act, providing a pathway for young adults to apply for legal permanent residency — but not citizenship — if they have completed military service or higher education and have worked in the United States for at least four years.

Despite Republican anxiety about the party’s inability to lure a growing number of Latino voters — President Obama beat GOP challenger Mitt Romney among Latinos by 44 percentage points — Hutchison and Kyl said their bill is not a response to the election.

Translation: We try to care about the less fortunate, but it simply isn’t in us. We did everything we could to prevent poor people from voting, but we still got our butts kicked. For some strange reason, Americans don’t like mean bullies.

So, we’ll try this phony half-way measure, and maybe that will fool enough people to get us votes.

But of course, this isn’t about votes. It’s about compassion.

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
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%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–Eurozone discovers formula for economic growth while raising taxes, reducing spending and paying off loans.

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 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.
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Here is the European formula for economic growth:

1. First, destroy a nation’s ability to create money. One method is to take away the nation’s sovereign currency, and force it to use an alien currency, the euro.

2. If the nation runs a trade deficit (mathematically necessary for half the world), its euro supply declines, and it finds itself less and less able to pay its bills. So it is forced to borrow euros.

3. The EU sets requirements for borrowing: Increase taxes and reduce spending (aka “austerity”) Both requirements draw euros out of the private sector, which depresses the nation’s economy, further. The nation must borrow more and more.

4. As loans are repaid – with interest – euros flow out faster and faster. The nation now is in an economic “death spiral,” from which there is no escape.

But wait. Along comes the EU and the other euro nations, to save the day. Here are some excerpts from Bloomberg News:

Bloomberg News
German Lawmakers Set to Approve Greek Aid Plan This Week
By Patrick Donahue on November 27,

German lawmakers are set to approve Greece’s new aid package by the end of this week after euro-area finance ministers reached an overnight agreement to ease terms on emergency bailout aid for the country.

Lawmakers expressed relief that a Greek debt write- off wasn’t part of the agreement in Brussels.

Translation: Greece will continue to go deeper into debt.

The euro ministers gave Greece more breathing room to scale back its debt amid economic collapse, declaring after three years of false starts that Europe has found the formula for nursing the debt-stricken country back to health.

Translation: Greece has “breathing room,” but has no way to obtain euros to pay its debt – plus interest — except to borrow more and more.

“We believe that these measures are appropriate for the solution of the problems that have emerged in Greece,” Gerda Hasselfeldt, the Bundestag caucus leader for the CSU, told reporters. “I also can’t say whether this is the last step. We have to keep an eye on this.”

Translation: They will watch as Greece descends in an ever faster “death spiral.”

The agreement “offers a change so that Greece can return to the markets and sustainable growth and competitiveness after long and difficult developments,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said today.

Part of the welcome for the agreement, stemmed from the rejection of forgiving any of Greece’s publicly held debt, an option the government in Berlin has ruled out.

Translation: Greece has no way to grow its economy, except by obtaining euros. It has no way to obtain euros except by more borrowing. No one will forgive Greece’s debts, so Greece will sink deeper and deeper into debt, the economic “death spiral.”

And that is the EU formula for Greek economic growth.
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Here is how the U.S. Congress applies the European successful formula for national growth:

1. First, cut the deficit to destroy the government’s ability to create dollars.

2. As the U.S. runs a trade deficit, its dollar supply declines, and it finds itself less and less able to pay its bills.

3. Congress demands increased taxes and reduced spending (aka “austerity”). Both requirements draw dollars out of the private sector, which depresses the nation’s economy, further.

4. America now is in an economic “death spiral,” from which there is no escape.

And that’s it. That is the European model for economic success. We’re fortunate our Congress is copying it.

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
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%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY

–The FICA disgrace

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 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.
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Fifteen years ago, FREE MONEY suggested the elimination of FICA. Three years ago I posted (with input from Warren Mosler and Randall Wray) “Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA.”

FICA is the most damaging tax in American history. It punishes the middle and lower income classes (the “99%”), while leaving upper income classes (the “1%”) virtually untouched. It punishes salaried people while leaving all other types of income unscathed.

For many in the middle and lower income classes, FICA is the largest tax they pay – larger even than those income taxes that are much in discussion today. No tax does more than FICA to widen the gap between the richest and the rest.

So it should come no surprise that the Democrats and the Republicans seem to favor increasing FICA, since both parties receive so much funding from the upper 1%.

Here are a few excerpts from an article in the HuffPost:

Obama Administration Not Sticking Up For Payroll Tax Cut
Posted: 11/26/2012

WASHINGTON — For the past two years, U.S. workers have enjoyed a 2 percentage-point increase in take-home pay thanks to a payroll tax reduction trumpeted by lawmakers as an effective lift for a sagging economy. Come Dec. 31, that cut will expire — and policymakers don’t seem too upset about it.

The White House has gone almost completely quiet on one of its favorite stimulus policies. In a report released Monday morning, the administration warned that middle-class families will pay thousands more in taxes next year unless Republicans relented on income tax breaks for the rich. But the report didn’t mention the soon-to-expire payroll tax cut.

Translation: “The marginal tax rate, on those rich people who pay very little of the marginal rate anyway, cannot be allowed to rise. But, taxing the 99% is O.K. Those people are not big contributors to our campaigns.”

At the daily briefing later on Monday, Alan Krueger, chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), said that the payroll tax cut clearly gave a boost to middle-class families and to the economy in general over the past year. But he stopped notably short of supporting its extension.

Translation: Cutting FICA helps the economy, so let’s increase FICA.

“There are many tax provisions that are expiring at the end of the year and the president has said that the payroll tax cut, among others, should be on the table,” Krueger said.

Translation: President Obama, the self-proclaimed protector of the 99%, does not mind increasing taxes on the “little” people who voted for him.

Congressional leaders are similarly difficult to read, though many signs hint at the demise of the payroll tax cut. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in September the tax cut should be allowed to expire.

Translation: Thank you to all you middle and lower income people who voted Democratic. Gotcha!

Many lawmakers and outside stakeholders have expressed concern that diverting tax money from Social Security — which the payroll tax helps fund — would weaken the program, which provides an average monthly benefit of $1,237 to some 40 million seniors. The Social Security Administration’s actuaries say the trust fund will run out of money in 2033, at which point incoming tax revenue could support just 75 percent of benefits.

Translation: We successfully have brainwashed you people into believing FICA pays for your Social Security. That is one of the great successes of the *BIG LIE.

AARP, the lobby group for senior citizens, said in a statement Monday that it is glad the White House left the cut out of its tax report. The organization has previously said the payroll tax should return to normal.

“We’re pleased the White House doesn’t mention the payroll tax holiday since extending it would undermine Social Security’s separate dedicated funding source,” AARP executive Joyce Rogers said in an email. “We also remain committed to keeping Social Security and Medicare benefit cuts out of any ‘fiscal cliff’ negotiations.”

Translation: You thought AARP was on the side of the retired and elderly. No, AARP is an insurance agency masquerading as your benefactor. AARP always has promulgated the *BIG LIE that FICA pays for Social Security and Medicare.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described socialist who has been a vocal advocate of social insurance programs, said Monday that he is “strongly opposed” to keeping the tax holiday, since doing so could damage Social Security’s solvency.

“The middle class deserves tax relief, but not at the expense of Social Security,” Sanders said. “The president and members of his administration have been very clear that the payroll tax reduction was temporary and would not be extended. I expect them to keep that commitment.”

Translation: And, of course, we in Congress like FICA because our rich contributors like FICA. What’s good for the rich is good for the country – oh, except maybe for those middle and lower income groups. But you can’t help everyone.

Bottom line: FICA is 100% bad for the economy. Before the U.S. became Monetarily Sovereign in 1971, FICA did fund Social Security. Today, FICA no longer pays for Social Security. FICA does not pay for Medicare. FICA does not pay for anything. You might as well shove your money into a garbage bag and burn it.

All FICA does is take money from the pockets of middle and lower income class consumers and from businesses (which take it from employees). More than a trillion dollars was paid for FICA this year. That’s a trillion dollars removed from the economy, lost forever. Think of what this economy could do with an extra $1 trillion.

If FICA were $0, that would not reduce by even one cent, the federal government’s ability to pay all Social Security benefits and to provide free Medicare to every man, woman and child in America. The collection of FICA is the 2nd biggest tax disgrace in America.

The biggest? Obama and the Democrats – the great supporters of the 99% – justify FICA by telling you the *BIG LIE.

[*The BIG LIE is a statement that U.S. federal taxes pay for U.S. spending. In a Monetarily Sovereign government, taxes pay for nothing.]

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
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%

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

#MONETARY SOVEREIGNTY