America Has the Government It Deserves
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“America Has the Government It Deserves”
by Brian Maher
“Every nation gets the government it deserves,” said 18th century French philosopher Joseph de Maistre.
If true, and we suspect there is justice here… the United States is a nation of no-good deadbeats. For the nation hosts a spendthrift government perpetually on the borrow.
By some metrics, the United States now takes on more debt in one year than it did in the first 200 years of its lovely existence. Its gross national debt rose $1.27 trillion in fiscal 2018… to a record $21.5 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects it to exceed $23 trillion by 2020. We refer you to the following chart for some slight sense of perspective:
Debt, Debt and More Debt: The United States Treasury will likely borrow $770 billion by the end of the year — a 60% increase over last year. This April the CBO projected the federal budget deficit would scale $1 trillion in 2020. But last month it was forced to reverse its projections one full calendar year… to 2019.
$523 billion the United States spent servicing its debt in fiscal year 2018 – another record. It is a record that will not stand long. Rising interest rates will increase the debt burden hung around the nation’s neck… like a giant boulder. Within a decade, it may spend over $900 billion annually to service its debt – nearly 25% of the entire budget.
But somehow the business seems beyond all human agency, all control. It is simply the way the machinery operates, a fellow concludes. He may cluck-cluck his opposition to it — and who doesn’t? But he is largely a man resigned. Besides, he bellows, it is the fault of the big-spending politicians sitting at Washington. Not himself. But is it?
Is the glad-handing, vote-seeking politician solely to blame for the nation’s grim finances? No, argues Paul Van de Water, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Look thyself in the mirror, citizen: “Even voters who say they’re against deficits would also prefer lower taxes.” We are forced to agree.
Democracy Never Lasts Long: The free lunch has eternal appeal. Put it on the menu and it never comes off. “Democracy never lasts long,” as warned John Adams long ago. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” But is it necessarily in the nature of democracies to run down the nation’s finances… to lunch free of charge? Perhaps it is not democracy as such to blame… but the character of a particular people.
Ancient Athens — by all rights a democracy — amassed a vast public treasury in its Golden Age. That treasury remained unmolested until wartime, even though it was there for the asking. The citizens of Athens were free to vote themselves the manna. But they did not.
Author Freeman Tilden, from his neglected 1935 masterwork “A World in Debt”: “At one time the Athenians had in their citadel more than 10,000 talents of silver [roughly $165 million in 2016 dollars]; and what is more significant, they did not tap the resources until forced by the necessity of war. Tilden cited 18th-century British philosopher David Hume, on the Athenian character: “What an ambitious and high-spirited people was this, to collect and keep in their treasury a sum which it was every day in the power of the citizens, by a single vote, to distribute among themselves!”
Nor did Athens take to the swindle when it was in a bad way – no clipping of coins, no debasing the currency. Tilden: The most brilliant democrats that ever lived, the Athenians, made tragic mistakes of policy. But with all their blunders, the Athenians never, as free men, indulged in the final madness of debasing their currency: They never became swindlers. Athens rose in trade by means of establishing good credit and by safeguarding the honor of her coin. In the most terrible years of her history, when the treasury was empty, she was indeed obliged to strike emergency coins of gold and bronze, but never consented to debase her coinage.”
Is America More Like the Roman Republic or the Roman Empire? Safeguarding the honor of its coin? At this point we might remind you… The United States dollar has lost 95% of its value since the Federal Reserve went on duty in 1913. But out of respect for the nation’s monetary authority and the high dignity of its office… we shall refrain.
Were the ancients hammered from nobler metal than us moderns? Had they greater virtue? More than Athens, the Founders set the American form of government to the Roman model. But was not Rome a bedlam of vice and debauchery? Did not Nero fiddle while Rome burned? Did not Caligula famously name his horse a consul?
Yes, but the Founders looked to the early Roman Republic for its example – before Caesar went across the Rubicon – before Nero fiddled. Virtue, public service were the pole stars of the early Roman Republic. Consider the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C. Rome lost 50,000 men to Hannibal’s berserkers in one single day (America lost a comparable number in over a decade of Vietnam).
Was it the dregs of Rome that went to their graves that day? No. The Roman Senate lost almost one-third of its members in the Battle of Cannae. “This suggests,” notes historian Peter Turchin, “that the senatorial aristocracy was more likely to be killed in wars than the average citizen.” If a nation gets the government it deserves… the citizens of the early Roman Republic must have been made of pretty good stuff.
Imagine – for one passing moment if you can – a United States senator on the front lines of battle. Then return to your senses. Meantime, Turchin informs us that the wealth of Rome’s top 1% was perhaps 10–20 times a commoner’s at the height of the Roman Republic. By the time of Rome’s terminal imperial decline… that figure may have risen to 10,000 times. America’s numbers aren’t quite so out of joint – yet.
But does America’s domestic condition today more resemble the Roman Republic… or the Roman Empire? Benjamin Franklin was present when the Constitutional Convention concluded in September 1787. Upon his departure from the old Pennsylvania State House, Ben Franklin was supposedly accosted by a grand Philadelphia belle. Legend claims she asked old Ben whether the assembled had bequeathed the people a monarchy – or a republic. ”A republic, Madam,” came his reply – “if you can keep it.”
Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2018/10/america-has-government-it-deserves.html
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what a click bait title!
The government is not judged on how it spends its money…
But Budget deficits are created when There is more spending and Taxes are being reduced.
So the TRump Budget is exactly like that. More spending in military, Lowering corporate Taxes and then no money to buy a wall.
I remember congress vetoed the wall in September, again. Trump approves congress’s spending not Visa Versa.
I recently found out the reason why we are in debt is basically we have been loaning this money out to ourselves really. We just print the money and loan to ourselves every year.
To compound the problem we loan it to other countries LEADERS (not the people) and the corrupt leaders spend it on themselves and NEVER pay us back.
So, basically, we are just throwing money around to schmooze ourselves and others. Hoping somehow it returns. It never does and the proof is the $125 to $250 trillion debt we gave ourselves.
But other countries and the world will soon learn what happens when their sugar daddy goes down.
WHAT GOVERNMENT….would that be
It appears…….THERE IS NO U.S. “government”
…………..
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It is an established fact that the UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN DISSOLVED by THE EMERGENCY BANKING ACT,
48 Stat. 1, PUBLIC LAW 89 – 719; DECLARED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, BEING BANKRUPT and INSOLVENT.
March 9, 1933,
H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and ABROGATE The GOLD CLAUSE DISSOLVED The SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY OF the UNITED STATES…AND….The OFFICIAL CAPACITIES OF ALL UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTAL OFFICES…….OFFICERS…and….DEPARTMENTS….AND I$ …… further EVIDENCE that….The UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EXISTS TODAY……..IN NAME ONLY.
http://www.jewworldorder.org/rothschild-is-the-receiver-of-the-united-states-bankruptcy-the-rothschild-international-bankers-the-united-nations-the-world-bank-the-rothschild-imf/
Rothschild IS The Receiver Of The United States Bankruptcy: The Rothschild International Bankers, The United Nations, The World Bank, & The Rothschild IMF.
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Being an organization whose SENIOR EXECUTIVE I$ A NON-GOVERNMENTAL PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS MAN, IRS CANNOT BE PART OF ANY GOVERNMENT —either the alleged “United States of America” (MORIBUND SINCE June 30, 1864,
) or District of Columbia, a municipal corporation (16 Stat 419).
13 Stat. 223, 306, sec. 182
Whereas, ONLY A DULY COMMISSIONED OFFICER OF THE UNITED STATES CAN ADMINISTER OVER A GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION
Internal Revenue Service cannot be part of government and alleged “United States of America” has made a FAL$E REPRESENTATION and COMMITTED FRAUD on the court……………………………..
https://supremecourtcase.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/petitioner-files-three-new-motions-to-dismiss-for-other-fatal-defects-us-attorney-silent-for-last-three-months/
Petitioner files three new motions to dismiss for other fatal defects; US attorney silent for last three months
March 29, 2018supremecourtcase
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I imagine the RECEIVER$ of “income tax”; the PRIVATE FEDERAL RESERVE;…….in a TGA ACCOUNT…….Treasury General Account
with “monies” having been DEPOSITED by the…..PRIVATELY EMPLOYED Secretary of the Treasury…..who coincidentally DEMANDS
TAX Remittances from the FRUITS of the LABOURS of the American peoples
………………..
I can only imagine that…..ALL HIRING……PAYING…..&……FIRING…..&…….PENSION PAYMENTS…..of those who…….
erroneou$LY beLIEve they WORK for “GOVERNMENT”………..those payments are all paid by the PRIVATE OWNER$ of the……..
so-called…….”FERAL” Reserve Bank ?
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The Evil Federal Reserve
By THOMAS D. SCHAUF, CPA (certified public accountant)
http://www.lovethetruth.com/government/federal_reserve/federal_reserve.htm
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Trevor Moore – Time For Guillotines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exnaY0l4XsM
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IMF Issues Dire Warning – ‘Great Depression’ Ahead?
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
/v3/economy/2018/2954659.html
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Inside the Bailout That Saved a Debt-Ridden Trump Organization | The Choice 2016 | FRONTLINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEWBcdUg6k
America has the same government that everybody else has, owned and operated by the Masonic Satanic Cult since 1000AD. The proof is right there on their old Castle walls back when they ruled openly. Now Fool School and the criminal media tries to hide that fact.
All Government…
Thursday, October 18, 2018
“All government, in its essence, is A CONSPIRACY AGAINST the SUPERIOR MAN: its one permanent OBJECT I$ TO OPPRESS him and CRIPPLE him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its PRIMARY FUNCTIONS I$ to REGIMENT MEN BY FORCE, TO MAKE THEM as much alike as possible and as DEPENDENT upon one another as possible, to search out AND COMBAT ORIGINALITY among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives.
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN TO ANY GOVERNMENT IS THE MAN WHO IS ABLE TO THINK THINGS OUT FOR HIMSELF,
Almost INEVITABLY he comes TO THE CONCLUSION that the GOVERNMENT he lives under IS DISHONEST, IN$ANE and INTOLERABLE, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
- H. L. Mencken
/v3/opinion-liberal/2018/2579983.html