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I know this is not a political forum, however many have expressed an interest in the current political climate in the US of A. This is information you are not going to get on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN MSNBC, etc because of their plitical bias to the left. As an independent I find myself increasingly going to UK papers such as the UK Daily Mail, and The Wall Street journal for a less biased approach. The problem lies in NOT what they are reporting but in most cases what they are FAILING to report. Thus you are only getting maybe at most HALF the story. I am even suspect of such respected news sources such as The Associated press, etc.! Don't believe everything you see or hear from the "mainstream" media sources. We are being manipulated and you may not even know it! We are being Scammed! Anyway thought you might want to see this news which isn't on the " Mainstream mediamainstream "
5 Lessons Every Voter Needs to Know
SHOCKING: Voicemail of Famous TV Anchor Leaked
Michael's Voicemail
We recently got a hold of a voicemail from a famous financial anchor.
Warning… what you’re about to hear is controversial. But we think you should hear this voicemail.
It could have a major impact on your wealth this year. Take a listen here.
--Just yesterday, I met a woman in a local Baltimore coffee shop. We started talking and things were going great.
It began to go a little downhill, however, when she told me that she believes our government is “too small.”
Of course, I had to do a double take.
“Excuse me?”
The government, she says, needs to spend more money to produce better results. (Overlooking, of course, the fact that the government doesn’t have any money of its own to begin with. And that, even so, it burns through more cash than any institution on the planet.)
Where will the government get the money? Taxes, of course. The “1%”! Everyone’s wealth is obviously hiding in some rich guy’s closet. If only we could set this unlimited bounty free, everyone would instantly be lifted out of poverty for the rest of their lives!
But, wait. Even if we hit the “1%” with a 100% income tax, I said -- even if we took away all their income -- Medicare alone would eat that up in three years. It would shrivel quickly, and those rich people would be gone, skipping out to a new country, before the first year’s up.
Digging the hole deeper, I asked her if she thought that government should have its hand in monetary policy.
“Yes, of course,” she said.
“OK. So you know what the Federal Reserve does, right?”
No idea.
And though she agreed with the Fed’s monetary policies (despite having no idea what they are), she had a clear disdain for the private sector and snarled when I said the word “entrepreneur.”
For her, it came down to one simple “truth”:
People, she said, aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions or rule their own lives. They’ll only mess it up. Which is why we need government.
Get the State to control more and people’s lives and everything will… through the magic of evidence-based policymaking… become better.
Nothing like the sweet garbage smell of “progress.” .
--When it comes down to it, those who support a bigger State (how that’s even possible is beyond us), have an inherent belief that State jobs come with an unbreakable duty to be benevolent.
And that they actually provide a meaningful (and measurable) service to human beings in need.
Although we cannot trust individuals to be good people, says the statist, we can certainly trust individuals to be good people when they’re given unchecked power to rule over other people’s lives.
Makes sense.
Statists believe that the definition of “freedom” is simply not being locked in a prison. Everything else is fair game.
They believe that social change is something that happens through arbitrary rules and strict policies rather than on the streets, where the people are.
They believe that a government that’s completely out of touch with reality is capable of fixing problems it itself has created as a result of it being out of touch with reality.
If only, they say, all the entrepreneurs, innovators and enterprising people would stop wasting so much money and pay their “fair share.”
(Huh?)
If we had one wish…
It would be that the Statist heed the following wisdom from Jeffrey Tucker in his article, Politics in One Page.
And discover how the system really works. And see why the absence (or severe limitation) of government is the only sane choice.
Read on…
Pentagon and CIA Insider Jim Rickards Issues His Most URGENT WARNING ever…
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Politics in One Page
By Jeffrey Tucker
In every election season, a new generation comes of age and experiences the political theater for the first time. The experience is formative. It challenges you to decide what you think about the world. Which candidate best represents my values and shares my sense of how things ought to be? More fundamentally, how should things be in politics?
As time goes on and you experience successive presidential election cycles, illusions begin to fall away. You start to see the whole thing for what it is.
So this article is for those who do not yet see.
It is a quick tutorial in political reality, and a way to avoid the pain and suffering that comes with gradually discovering that reality on your own.
Lesson 1: Your Vote Cannot Change the Election Outcome
It’s not that your vote doesn’t matter at all. It might matter, but the odds are incredibly thin. If you live in a swing state, you might have a 1 in 10 million chance of swinging the election. But on average, “a voter in America had a 1 in 60 million chance of being decisive in the presidential election,” concludes one statistical analysis in Economic Inquiry. As the authors indicate, you are more likely to die in an car crash on the way to the polls.
Why do so many people vote anyway? Are they deluded? Maybe, but many people treat voting as a consumption good, which is to say they enjoy it. It makes them feel patriotic. There’s nothing wrong with that, but if you are still voting in an attempt to affect the outcome — and are still spooked that your failure to vote might ruin everything — here is a solution. Find someone who will vote differently, and you can both decide to grab a drink together instead.
Lesson 2: You Are Voting for People, Not Policies
There are elections in this country in which people really do decide on issues. In state and local elections, there are referenda on bond issues, taxes, pot decriminalization, and so on. Exciting stuff!
But at the federal level, no way. You are voting only on personnel. Sure, the candidates can promise this or that, but how they behave after the election is something over which you have no control -- and there is no recourse if something goes wrong.
Wouldn’t it be grand if there were real national elections on issues? Let’s say that the ballots had lists of spending priorities, policy ideas, and methods of government management.
How many people would vote for their smartphones to be surveilled? For ever-less choice in health care? For higher gas taxes? I don’t know the answer here, but it would be interesting, for once, to see. Direct democracy on issues is technologically feasible today. It is even possible to give people the government they actually want through subscription services. We don’t do it because the ruling class likes the system the way it is.
Lesson 3: These People Are Not Actually the Government
Last year, I calculated the number of government employees who are actually running the state and compared it to the number of people we elect. Depending on how you calculate this, we are permitted to elect between 0.02 percent and 0.0004 percent of those who are in charge of our lives. The unelected constitute the deep state that no one wants to talk about. You could ship the whole class of elected rulers to Zimbabwe for four years and it would make no difference.
But wait: Aren’t the elected rulers in charge of the rest? Not really. Most of the permanent bureaucracy can’t be fired, no matter what. In any case, delegation to professionals is what elected rulers specialize in. The first act of the president is to fill 3,000 positions with political appointees. Congressional offices are managed by DC hacks. Politicians are specialists in what they are doing now: trying to get elected. The day they take office is the day the next election begins.
Lesson 4: These Are Not the Only Options
The beginning of political wisdom comes with the realization that the mainstream candidates do not exhaust the ideological options. Candidate A says that health care policy should be this way, and candidate B says it should be that way. What neither candidate ever says is that perhaps health care should not be the responsibility of government at all. And this goes for every other issue in national life: communications, labor, energy, environment, foreign policy, and so on.
The whole conventional political debate is premised on the idea that government should be running things. What’s left out here is the greatest single idea ever discovered in the history of the social sciences: society runs itself better than any authority can run it.
This is true in economics but also in culture, security services, religion, and family life. Liberty just works better. The discovery of this truth built civilization. But that idea is absent from the options we are given. No matter: you can discover it on your own if you are brave enough to step outside the partisan paradigm.
Lesson 5: Social Change Happens Outside of Government
Every candidate will speak about his or her vision for America. They talk as if they want to be, can be, will be, in charge of pushing history forward. But look around: the progress you experience in your daily life has nothing to do with the political class. Think about the mobile applications you use to stay in touch with family, find directions in a new city, monitor your health, communicate with your network. These services were not granted by the political class. They came to us via entrepreneurs and enterprise, working themselves out in the course of social evolution.
In “Is Politics Obsolete?” Max Borders and I chronicled all the ways the world has changed over the last four years. It’s remarkable what’s happening today. It’s revolutionary. None of this was anticipated by the last election. And none of it is inspired by politicians. The change is coming from within the fabric of the social order. And that change is continuing by the day. If you want to be part of it, to make a difference in the world, the realm of enterprise and individual action is the sector for you. In many ways, the political theater is a distraction — a learning opportunity, yes, but ultimately not decisive for the kind of life we want to build.
The tendency to treat elections as personal moments in our lives might be a product of democracy. We are encouraged to believe that we are running the system. So we flatter ourselves that our opinions matter. After all, it is we the voters who are in charge of building the regime under which we live. But look deeper and you discover a truth that is both terrifying and glorious: the building of the great society can’t be outsourced. It is up to you and me.
Regards,
Jeffrey Tucker
Founder, Liberty.Me