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Misallocation of Capital (3)

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

In the first part, I showed the actual producer with the best data is the best allocator of capital produced as profit. In part (2), I showed the proper use for the purpose of founding government, why government is least qualified to properly allocate capital, distance from the data, and most likely to err.  In this part, I am going to demonstrate how we end up with the least qualified making the most important decisions on capital.

In recap, when a person chooses work, the smith for example, He alone can best plan how much coal he must order, to work.  It is all the raw material, the coal, the iron stock, the contract with the carpenter, as to iron fittings for wagons, and his own expectations of wagon building.  Having someone external to the process makes no sense except if the smith and the carpenter are both talented fools.  Yes, it is nice having a wife who is a bookkeeper, but she still doesn’t know the up to the moment data unless she’s briefed.

Our foundation for failure in “government allocation of capital” is the idea election or appointment of officials is of “experts in vast panoplies of fields” and their intervention in the normal business cycle is rational. Perhaps the best example is one of its most egregious forms, colonists were not allowed to take up trades which would compete with British Tradesmen, so it was illegal in the colonies to smelt iron, all iron must be imported, and the colonies were not authorized their own mining and production.  The cost of transport across the ocean was born by the consumer of products, and at the same time, there was a caused shortage of iron products, raising the price.

The Second order of government misallocation is caused by politically driven planning, with a beneficiary at stake.  Solyndra comes to mind, along with the other dozens of “green energy” government subsidized industries which have taken huge subsidies, produced nothing while going bankrupt, with the money stolen.  Two errors are made in this; first, allowing technical decisions be made by some bureaucrat, and secondly, believing such is done without the intent to allow the bureaucrat to profit enormously.

“Green energy” in government hands is a pet peeve of mine primarily because it is billed as a new idea, driven by moral and concerned “leaders”.  The fact is, getting more from less work has driven man’s inventions from the dawn of “work”, and only those who design such things are qualified to capitalize a likely improvement. Nepotism is the driving force behind this aspect, and we’ve seen the worst in my lifetime, only under this current administration.

It is the presumption Citizens building and designing, visionaries for the future, care only about profit, and will burn the world down, if profitable, which is why we put government in charge.  Doing so must presume government is perfect, honest, and knows everything.  These issues are of paramount importance, but the proper venue is found using logic, not emotion.

We must recognize those in government are less liable to be honest than any other citizen, and more likely to have a personal profit cause to exploit, to face reality.  This has been the downfall of our innumerable “oversight “administrations” such as EPA, BATF, Justice Department and all the government departments which have failed to meet our needs.

The need for “communal oversight” is imperative, but we must choose a venue as “a rational society” which we can both select those best suited for such work, rationally, while having the means and understanding to change this “committee” to meet ever changing advances in technology.  It must be predicated on utility and value, and we must ensure science drives findings, and realize it must pull from active fields, and rotate the members constantly, that they remain scientists, and not become bureaucrats. They must have full intent in their ongoing education, and find it an imposition to be out of their forte.

We must keep capital allocation choice in the hands of “the people” to the highest degree possible, with only that which only government must do, allowed in its exacting establishment.  This can only be accomplished by a moral and religious people.  We must also choose to be “such a people”.

Copyright 3/6/2013 by Gulf1

Misallocation of Capital (part 2)

By Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

Capital is the single most critical aspect of “enterprise” in any venue, because it is the sole difference between “tribal living nomadic, hunting gathering life-style” and the “settled, chosen field for agrarian work, chosen for its natural value, and its future prospects”.  The first demands acceptance of minimal accumulation, maximum focus on readiness to move on, and the constant threat of confrontation with other, similarly focused nomadic groups.  The second can only succeed with the constant repetition of “capital investment”, as stationary without this aspect wears out the “infrastructure”, in this case, the ground, and its nutrients.

Man has learned about “allocation of resources” by the accumulation of experience, and well recorded it in our history, back seven millennia.  History shows capital allocation is best chosen by those on site, working in the time and place, because they alone can know the multitudinous factors which affect production and productivity, they alone can alter plans on the moment, allocating according to immediate dictates.

The choice man makes in expanding from extended family, into “Tribal”, and from that into “culture of common practice” is done as a means of improving productive output, because people can readily see “many hands make light work”, noting differing abilities, and the fact we do best pursuing that which we have talent for, and expecting the same from others, open eyed, intent on a better life for their children.

We establish government because man inherently must confront his fellow man, those who look, see opportunity to take by force, and save labor, and we must organize our defenses no less wisely than those who would wage war and take.

The problem arises because we all have to choose whether to work, or steal.  We must have “government” to establish our security, but those who find it satisfying, are prone to see it as their way to advance themselves, not caring it is to the detriment of the society.  The founding of our own government was a deliberate process, with the sole intention of providing the exact necessities, and precluding any expansion except by the “Will of The People”.

It is the work of the productive which provides all the resources which in turn provide a better life as “society” than was possible as “tribe”.  At the same time, it is absolutely true that those who become “representatives” must focus on the known threats and make recommendations for the defense, and since in doing so, we deprive the raiders of their means, we must expect them to adapt tactics and practices to overcome our defenses, so “government” must be pro-active and it must change, to meet with the challenges it faces.

The difficulty lies in separating real threats, from imaginary threats, which are usually the desire to wield more power and influence. In a dynamic world, separating truth from the desire for power becomes more difficult, and we end up with expanding government, constrained only by the Active thinking productive society member, living at the front edge, best knowing the issues of the moment.

We were established as “Sovereign Citizens”, bearing the whole responsibility of government, including not only security, but the full cost of government.  It is always our responsibility to set out our priorities, expecting our elected servants to fulfill our demands.  When they cease to “serve” and rule instead, it is because we have failed as Sovereigns.

When a Nation reaches the size and scope of ours, the cost of surrendering our Sovereign Responsibility is allowing government to assume all authority and power, and dismiss any constraints.  Those who fill it will serve themselves, not having good cause to do otherwise.

Government has historically been the direct result of war waged, and a winning leader assuming authority over all.  It has been effective when such figures have the interest of what they perceive as their Nation, in growing for more than mere expansion of power.  It always becomes destructive when accumulation of power becomes principle reason for expansion.  Tyranny is always oppressive, and I believe our founders were absolutely correct when they suggested tyranny by a tyrant is more easily acceptable than the tyranny of the majority, because at least “the tyrant” must sleep sometime.  We have a tireless central government, and it denies all constraint.  Sovereigns make choices, subjects follow the order imposed upon them.

Copyright 3/3/2013 by Gulf1

Misallocation of Capital (part 1)

By Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

This Nation got a head start on the free allocation of capital while colonies because at our inception, “the capital” was almost entirely “sweat equity”, which is allocated entirely by the laborer, while our “sparse population” meant very little central control of anything at the start.  We had at the very beginning, the lesson against socialism and communal property in the utter failure of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, losing half its population in its first years, and only by choosing to reverse course and discard the underlying principle and replace it, did that colony survive, and ultimately become thriving.

Throughout history, government has been primarily established by force, and while many such governments have chosen to be less imposing than possible, in almost every case, imposition has been the primary way of ruling The People who are under it.  Capital has been invested by the dictates of government, and wise governors have kept their nations going many generations, by ensuring education was a hallmark, and those which didn’t, fell shortly after wisdom fell.

Our nation was established out of an unusual set of circumstances and they allowed the colonies to grow even while having a bare minimum of government, something extremely rare for Empires but based on the populating by our “mother country”, rather than the norm, with few rulers, controlling a large native population.

We became an economic force with far more freedom and liberty in choice than perhaps any set of colonies before us, and we came to our success with this experience as something we would cherish as “uniquely American”.  We had ceased to be British Subjects, even without noticing, and came to consider ourselves “Americans” even as we kept our loyalty to England and The King.

When we established our independent Nation, we did so on a notion, untried since God established Israel, of having the very least of government, constrained to its exact and explicit duties and purposes, leaving everything else in the hands of those who would both plant the seed and reap the harvest, both physically and metaphorically, as the same principle of self-benefit applies in the studied allocation of capital off the farm as well.

It was no accident the constitution left the whole of the economy outside any government control and only gave government one job, economically; the coining of money, and the establishing of relative value of foreign coin.  The founders precisely kept the sole source of government revenue as “excise tax”, because that tax alone controls the economics of import, and ensures competition in the marketplace.  Without a thriving economy, government has no revenue, so it is incumbent for congress to set such “excise taxes” to keep domestic business fully competitive with foreign imports.

Adam Smith in his treatise “On the Wealth of Nations”, demonstrated selfish self interest is the only way capital is invested at its best most effective place and time, because only the individual, sowing and reaping, has all the factors affecting profit, exactly and directly in hand.  While States and the federal government kept to principle established, the colonies were profitable as few Nations had ever been, and our own Nation established a new paradigm.

Every tiniest bit of government beyond constitutional limits must misallocate any revenue, simply because it cannot be at the point where the decisions are logical and rationally clear.  The full understanding of this fundamental Principle is why the Constitution is a constricting document exclusively.

Having allowed government to assume an ever expanding role in our economy, to the point it consumes substantially more than half of all economic assets, and by this fact, must by Nature, misallocate it, inherently unable to have the facts at hand to do otherwise, we must revert to first principle if we would have our Nation as our own.

Our elected representatives argue over how to allocate government consumption between established programs which are the essence of waste, fraud and corruption while ignoring the elephant.  There is no discussion of whether government should have any of this, but only how to mis-spend.

We can never restore our economy and revert to being a Free and Independent Nation, while government controls both the whole of the economy, by controlling half, and while doing so, it spends not only half our GNP, but also two thirds again of that part, borrowed, with no way to ever pay back.  We can’t be a Free and Independent Nation while government controls our every move and thought.


Copyright 2/28/2013 by Gulf1

The Tenth Amendment

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

I wrote last week on the ninth amendment of the bill of rights, and I’ve put my thoughts on the fourth amendment, pursuant to the current depredations enacted by executive order, via the Department of Homeland Security, designating “constitution free zones”, as if there were any possible authority for any subject government to do so.

For this reason it is necessary to write this essay.  The powers not delegated to The United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to The States, are reserved To The States, Respectively, or to The People.  This is the sum total of the “rule of law over government”, having established exactly, the duties and purposes of the Federal Government,  precisely eighteen, with only such authority conferred as is necessary to accomplish these duties, and absolutely no more.

We have given a law abiding federal government its exact purpose, its precise duties, and established in detail, exactly how it is to carry out its functions and it’s concise limits by proclaiming all other Authority and Powers as belonging “To The States” and “to The People” in this enumeration of “Our Right to form Our government to serve Our purpose”.  There is no room for legitimate question; the precision of our Constitution rivals the text of manuals describing the workings of complex machinery, or electronic devices.  There is no room for question of meaning; its authority is complete and absolute in the clarity and succinctness of this absolute Statement.

We have had appointed bureaucrats proclaim from their offices in the un-Constitutional “Department of Homeland Security” or “DHS” write and introduce as a “rule”, calling it a law, declaring zones within a hundred miles of border of our Nation “constitution free zones”, and the claim by these un-elected officials, we may not stand on our constitutionally recognized rights in such places, and in many cases, they cover the whole of states.

The DHS has been illegally produced, in deliberate violation of the rule of law, The U.S. Constitution, as if those serving us in government have” Sovereign Authority” of any sort.  There is absolutely no room in The Constitution for government to make government.  The FED was put forth as a constitutional Amendment, but failed to even get out of congress, so congress re-wrote the amendment as a bill, and passed it as such, and we have an illegal private corporation being used by congress to produce “monopoly money” and fully avoiding their “Duty to Coin money, and to establish the value of foreign currencies relative to our own”.

The DHS has been established upon that precedent set, and without even considering an amendment, knowing well it would never pass.  Congress has no authority to establish new parts of government, and the fact they have done so, routinely since they got away with it under our grandparents, or for they youngsters reading, your great-grandparents, has meant we accepted this imposition without anywhere near the level of Question and Command we were responsible to confront Congress with.

Our Constitution has been under constant attack from the day it was established as “The Rule of Law over the U.S. Government”, both in content, but far more importantly, by those who use the same venue as “The Serpent”, whose best remembered words are; “surely you won’t die from just one bite”.

The United States of America exists only as long as “We, The People” accept our current and operating form as meeting the fixed established principles and standards of our foundation.  We cannot allow the U.S. Constitution be taken or ignored by choice of those whose purpose is to Serve us, we either hold it as true, and the legal control over Our Own Government, and use it as it is ours, or we no longer have The United States of America.  The Constitution either is still “The Rule of Law” over the Nation, or the “Nation” it established has ceased to exist.  We must Bear Arms, or we shall wear chains.

Copyright 2/23/2013 by Gulf1

The Fourth Amendment

By Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

We are constantly told “the constitution is outdated, it was designed for simpler times, it no longer fits, the list of excuses goes on forever.  Two plus two has equaled  four all my life, and the mathematical principles which make it so have never, as far as I know, changed. 

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 issued, but on Probable Cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and Particularly describing the Place to be searched and the Person or Things to be seized.

I ask you, what part of this exact stating of this enumeration of one of our innumerable “Natural or Endowed Rights”, is made obsolete by any act or change in this world, since our Nation’s inception?  Is there a demonstrable cause for calling for searches and seizures without a specific and exact reason?  To do so removes the “rule of law” from all “search and seizure” acts, and they become nothing but acts of Tyranny.

Is there any reasoning away the demand for a specific and exacting accusation, made before an official of the court, with the accuser being held to the standard of truth we must demand in court, lying being subject to charges of perjury?  Is the issue so pressing, is time so precious, we can’t have an actual recorded accusation before issuing a warrant?  Government has done so with impunity, however it has yet to even confront the issue, much less justify their actions.

How is it there are places which “must be searched”, “things which must be seized”, yet they are not of sufficient importance to put the facts before a court, and have a warrant issued?  We knew of the presence of all the supposed 9-11 highjackers, their apparent bizarre behavior in flight school, their discussions, the dozens if not hundreds of signs and signals which would easily pass muster of “probable cause” in any reasonable court, but the reason there was never a hearing wasn’t for lack of faith in the system, or the belief warrants would not be issued, the entire failure was the complete lack of supervision over these green card holders, who came with sufficient actions and markers to get a dozen worthy and substantial “warrants” but no one ever thought to look.

We don’t hear about challenges to search and seizure regulations when real criminals have been located, tracked, and procedure followed, for two disparate reasons.  First; it happens so seldom it isn’t newsworthy, we don’t figure out the enemy until after he announces himself in his death throes.  Secondly, when it does happen, when someone notices something amiss, reports it, and the police follow through and get someone who is truly a threat, they make full use of “the rights we afford all but the innocent”, and it is generally only after many sessions in court, we even get to know the charges and the challenges, from the accused lawyer.

We are confronted with the choice of relinquishing our rights quietly, no fanfare, standing in line awaiting our turn to be groped, or letting our person be searched, all because not doing so makes what is almost enough to make travel not worth the effort for the average person, but falls just short of what it would take to drive us all into civil rebellion, or claiming our “right” and spending the next five or six hours dealing with petty tyrant bureaucrats whose focus is to ensure everyone kowtows to the demands, and no one causes an interruption by “getting out of line”.

We are denied our rights only because it is inconvenient according to the official plan, “security”, for anyone to have “rights” at the point of departure.

On 9-11 we watched one example of success, and three examples of utter and complete failure.   On Flight 93, the passengers ensured that missile did not strike its target, nothing else changed the intents and plans for that day.  Why do we not respond to the ongoing and continued threat according to the single example of success for that day? It is because the government had no control over that outcome, no other reason.

Copyright 2/19/2013 by Gulf1

The Ninth Amendment

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

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When we consider the U.S. constitution, we tend to focus on the personal aspects that directly impact our own lives specifically, and we tend to have a difficult time getting around to gathering to consider the impact of common law, long passed, new law in consideration, and how it impacts the form and function of our own government.

The Ninth amendment states; “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by The People”.  Reading this statement, one must first note it is a “legal imperative”.  The word “shall” has the full force of law behind it, the word is one with a direct legal meaning, it is an absolute, unlike such a word as “may”.

During the closing days of the Constitution Congress, much time was spent on the issue of rights.  Many delegates suggested the enumeration of any would likely leave the future open to the denial of any others, because people who gravitate toward office tend to presumptuousness.  On the other side, many suggested if the most basic, serious and fundamental rights were not put in writing, the door would be far more open to the same disparagement as otherwise, but to include fundamental rights.  North Carolina, along with some five other states refused to ratify the Constitution except that “the Bill of Rights” be incorporated within it.  There were twelve amendments in it, and in agreeing to focus the first session of Congress on the incorporation of this bill, the way was made to ratify the Constitution and begin the task of assembling a working government.

Ten of the twelve amendments were secured, and this was considered sufficient, with one State abstaining from ratifying, and doing so later.  The enumeration of rights in the Bill of Rights is very specific and of the greatest importance to “Citizen Sovereignty” and representative government because the nature of politicians was well understood.  Even with the amendments in clear, plain language, of common use then and today, many argue against the exact principles underlying these enumerated rights, because it constricts the government’s power, and for no other reason.

The single most attacked Natural Right we have is our right to life, and the absolute right to its full and complete defense.  It’s language could hardly be more clear, its meaning defined precisely, not a word of it questionable in its meaning.  We, as a People have been fighting to retain the fullness of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms for over a century, and those for violating it have not been shut down by reason, logic, and clarity.

There can be no reasonable question today, as the propriety of establishing “The Bill of Rights”, every evidence has demonstrated the will of some to disparage all rights, denying such ever existed, and only when such people have construed legislation infringing on our rights, do those who understand and support the principles, rise up to defend those rights.  By this, we are always at the disadvantage, the aggressor always having an advantage over the stationary defense.

If we, as A Nation, had progressed forward with the intents and principles of the founders, we would today, have a long list of “enumerated rights” discovered along our way forward which had not been noted at our founding.  We would also have a general understanding of the vast panoply of “un-enumerated rights” which are ours by deductive and inductive reasoning, and the full understanding these rights we have noticed, are every bit our Natural Rights, un-alienable as the enumerated rights, and equally beyond any authority of any person or government.

The very fact we not only have not added any “Natural Rights” since our inception, and have lost innumerable un-enumerated rights enjoyed for the whole first century, demonstrates our utter failure to follow our founders, and stand on the firm foundation they established.

We can never have even a modicum of the Sovereignty our founders enjoyed, while we allow those with a penchant for government, to be our selected “rulers”.  We much lay claim to those “un-enumerated rights” as well as those enumerated, and we must defend them all with all possible vigor, even unto war, if we would ever see our nation The Republic, and not become a vassal Nation under world government.  Having allowed this much against us, we have no other option.

Copyright 2/16/2013 by Gulf1

Indiscriminate Fools

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By John McClain, USMC, Retired

My tenth birthday was awaited with great angst.  I had made flash cards, all matters of long lists, exactly worded statements, and fixed principles I knew and lived under, I had studied all these vigorously, preparing for the test.  When I turned ten, I was eligible to join the Boy Scouts of America, and with trepidation, fear, and hope, I went to the fourth or fifth meeting, but this time with preparation to be “boarded”, tested to see if I reached up high enough to qualify to be a Boy Scout.

The “board” was the most difficult trial I’d ever faced, and I barely passed, but each of those Scout Masters; Mr. Harry T. Keefe, Mr. Art Hansen, and Mr. Jim Miley, shook my hand, congratulated me on my success, and firmly encouraged me to put the whole of myself into my personal improvement, and the task of growing up to be an American Man, a Citizen, sovereign, moral, ethical, capable of governing a Nation I was part of.

In 1967, I took an oath to be discriminating to a high and specific degree.  To become a Scout, a boy had to believe in evil, and deliberately avoid it.  Corruption was choice, avoiding it had to be deliberate. I took an oath to pursue God and Godly Principles, at the cost of avoiding wrong, immorality, and definitive evil, deliberately discriminating between good and evil by studying every situation which came before me, and being deliberate in my choice.

I expect God, looking down, saw an “average” boy in America; it wasn’t considered a bad thing at that time to be honest and trustworthy mostly, or loyal, brave and reverent.  America grew up with good cause to hold The Boy Scouts of America in high esteem, and considered the values represented in the Scout Laws affirmation of the principles of our Nation’s founding, and by this, a great advantage to those who pursued these.  Most Americans considered choosing to be a Boy Scout an act of choosing to support and affirm the fundamental principles of being an American.  Those who didn’t generally didn’t believe in those principles and actively fought against them.  We called them “socialists, communists”, and stated they had no interest in the continuation of America.

In 1776, the Continental Army was gathered after a few battles, having acquired some knowledge of war so many never had before. General Washington had received some reports and found cause to address the whole of the Army, and made the foundation speech setting the tone for Military Law to follow.  He addressed many small things, aspects of war known only to those who have experienced it, but he made his focus on one aspect of military life which has always been an issue, he spoke of homosexual activity within the Army.

General Washington stated it had been brought to his attention that some such activity had taken place, and assured all, any such activity noted in the future would be followed with a trial, and a gallows for any found guilty.  For most that run across this obscure reference, it is discrimination directed at homosexuals, but for all the experienced Warriors, it was simply a necessity for cohesion, and common held standards.  Of course this speech did not include any constraints on heterosexual activity, because there were no women in the Army.

What few ever note is the demand is no less upon the 97% of society which is not inclined to homosexuality, but every bit as strong in expectation of moral behavior therein as well.

This Nation was founded on Judeo-Christian Principle, the tenets which come to us from the Torah, the Old Testament, and also from the New Testament, reaffirming the Law and the Prophets of Old, while opening the Temple of God to all who would choose to worship in peace and in truth.  Every aspect of faith is dependent upon exacting discrimination, and this Nation, established on fixed, carefully considered principles, was careful in choosing exactly how it would discriminate.  Our entire success stood upon choosing the right Standards, those which make a strong, egalitarian society, capable of cohesion through the worst of trials. 

Utopian dream is the sole venue of absolute absence of standards, and thus no “choice” discriminating.  This dream never remembers Genghis Khan, perhaps the most egalitarian leader in the history of the world.  He had very simple standards, “win or die”, and his warriors were always subject to the test and challenge, any time, any place.

Copyright 2/5/2013 by Gulf1

Coming up next

by John McClain

We hear of the “fiscal cliff”, the alert have noticed the government spending has continued to exceed revenue by over a trillion this year making five, and there is no rational case to be made to explain the two co-existing with responsible managers.

We have exactly three futures before us we may choose from among, and how we choose is as important as what we choose.  I don’t know the last time our Nation’s budget was balanced, but I know it hasn’t been in my lifetime.   To get our Nation back is easy, all we have to do is choose to demand our congress write a budget, and insist it be legitimate.

That sounds rather simplistic, but in truth, we are the nation with the greatest debt ever in the history of the world, all because we have consistently spent money we never earned and never had, plain and simple.

Arguments can be had of where it was “excess” and what is “responsible”, but none of that can truly take place in a budget venue, you have to enter such a venue with principles established, truth already a known thing.  To have a budget we have to be honest.  So far, we’ve watched six plus trillion dollars spent without a dime going to repair any damage done previous to this president, nor any of it going to pay for what this administration has brought into being as expansive government.  Every bit of it was wasted, every dime went away and is in the pocket of some banker or another, none of it spent usefully except on bribes and illegal union actions supported criminally by the president.

To get a budget, we must force our congress to sit down in their respective houses, and write each a real budget which starts with realistically expected revenue, funds the operation of legitimate, constitutional government acts, and ends with surplus sufficient to actually pay against debt.  This is the way all honest people must live, and no honest government lives any differently.

Every other form or action taken can only lead to failure.  There is only one singular path to restoring our nation as honest, and it means ending all the dishonest and openly, blatantly criminal actions those in our government routinely are allowed to engage in.

We can listen to any or all of our politicians, yet only one will tell the truth on the budget and our Nation surviving; Dr. Ron Paul.  If we do anything less, we do nothing at all.  We did not budget ourselves into 16 trillion dollars in debt, we allowed our government to spend vast sums it never could see, and we did not stop it.

There is no way to write a budget that fulfills the desires and promises of most of those in government.  They have promised far more than our Nation can earn.  Either we stand over those we elected, and get an honest budget, an end to deficit spending, and pay our first payment on the actual debt, or we might as well not bother even being concerned or considering.  We either put it straight, or we have chosen to be a subject state under world government, run by the U.N., by “unanimous consent”.

Copyright 01/01/13 by Gulf1

Raising Taxes

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

As we face this “fiscal cliff”, the sole mantra of the left is “raise taxes, the rich aren’t paying their share, the poor are being abused”.  This is a clear, blatant lie.  In truth, to be “righteous” by the law of God, “fair” means everyone pays a tithe of their income as taxes.  This whole idea of graduated income taxes, is based on the idea that those making more, do so because they are lucky, or gifted, they have a special reason for making more, and it is right and proper for government to level the capabilities of earning, by stealing the greater portion from larger earnings, and taking only a small portion from lower earners.  To close this fiasco, they give some of the revenue out to those who simply don’t work at all.

I don’t care what others may think; our forefathers established our Nation based on God’s laws, the principles which have guided people to this western Judeo-Christian world view, and which have brought about the best, most egalitarian form of culture in history.  The most powerful aspect of our founding was the idea of each and all of us born equal, and none having rights or authority above any other.  Our founders established free and equal citizens for the first time since God did so with his own Nations.

This fiscal cliff we face exists solely because persistent clamor on the left for a government which will act a nanny state from cradle to grave.  Absent this pressure, we have no reason to operate in deficit, and every reason to as a certainty operates exactly according to constitutional constraint.  Obama has bemoaned the fact “the constitution is a constricting document, not and expensive one for government”.  If it had been such, the second president would have pushed us to the edge of the fiscal cliff, and the third would have presided over our going over.

I have noted since I began working full time at 11, those who have found a place in life to work which they love, prosper; those who grudgingly work because the bill collectors are mean, tend to find work which they can tolerate, and at the same time, hate.  I went to work precisely because one can’t be a mechanic without a tool box, and tools for such a box are expensive.  I knew from before I was two, I was going to be working all my life, I loved learning and doing too much to choose otherwise.

There was a very specific reason the constitution ignores “welfare”, “social security” and all the other leftist plots to take from the working, and give to the lazy.  The founders knew the way of man, and this truth has been known to every generation which has existed in the world since writing was invented, it is written in every culture’s history.

The sole issue of merit today is a matter of principle.  We can follow what has proven to work, and provide the best, most aggressive productive society in history, but which demands we earn our way, and be a free and independent people, or we can allow the left to take what was built on principle, and turn it into utter failure for pure wanton laziness.  This Nation has never failed to care for its widows, orphans, and others in real need.  If we can’t live within our means, how can we possibly ever teach our children to do so?

Copyright 12/13/2012 by Gulf1

Moving Forward

by Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired

We’ve got some priorities we need to take care of, and not a whole lot of options, so we need to use what we have wisely.   We could have control of the house, if the Republicans will play for real stakes, and not kowtow to their “honorable adversaries”.  The debt ceiling is a crucial issue, it is a matter of reaching a point we can’t and won’t maintain our interest payments, and go down the road Greece is going through.  The only other choice is to hold the line, period.

The obamanation care plan has already doubled its stated cost and it hasn’t been implemented to any significant degree yet.  We have to hammer on our Senators and Representatives  regarding the hidden tax of inflation, worthless money, constant reshuffling of banks, and all our finances.  We cannot allow our historical reliance on small business be killed by this president and his vision, and those who fit in his “high earners” include many small businesses, when that number is gross not net.  No matter what else is said, our Nation cannot afford government health care.

This Nation was founded on fixed, unchanging principles, on truth as an absolute, first and foremost.  As long as we live on fiat currency, with federal reserve notes instead of money, the single greatest thievery continues, and we can leave nothing of substance to our children.  We can’t even teach them about truth, the issue  of the debt, and speak with any real authority because our foundation of this Nation was Truth, and now that word no longer belongs to the most prevalent part of the Nation, to most people; the government.

We must take the truth, the real figures not produced by “Washington, and bring all to realize the real issue of massive debt, and the fact it does not have to be this way, not at all.  The end of “fiat money” could be as simple as Congress re-defining the dollar as one hundred copper pennies of standard weight and purity, payable upon demand, and the adjustment would be within reason, the standard one meaningful world-wide, and our own earnings are secure.

With a fixed currency again, all of the sudden, our payments are real money, and worth more than the old, fiat payments, and we pay down debt faster.  With real capital, we have real competition with the world in terms of resources and manpower.  We can become a net producer nation, and we have to put our government on notice we expect a forward looking vibrant economy, and we can do it around them, in spite of them, without their participation, and minimizing our contact with them.

We are entering a period of austerity, either for the purpose of re-tooling our production, paying down debt and getting our house in order, or due to the depression of massive proportions this president is imposing on us; the money spent merely transferred out of the hand that earned it, and into government coffers.  Those with this in mind never note the money they remove from the economy disappears into black holes and serves almost no one.

We will never get “our fiscal house in order” except by choosing to do so.  We must choose sound currency, and simply refuse to use a fiat currency.  We cannot depend on our government to straighten up, we must demand these things, and be willing to fight to see them come.  The real problem is, when we have a stable, sound economy, we benefit from our own hard work, not the politicians, and that is the whole reason for their racket after all.  Either we run our Nation, through them, or they rule over us.  The only source of revenue is the profit from the personal capital investments we make in our own plans and ideas for the future.  Without us, there is no revenue, nothing to tax.  We do have control, without us, there is no money.  We have to be willing to tighten our belt a little, and we win, because government doesn’t have the capability of doing so.

Copyright 12/07/12 by Gulf1