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So What's Wrong with the Fair Tax? Nothing, if You Like Being Taxed at All

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I hate to disagree with you good folks who support the Fair Tax. I know that your hearts are in the right place. And while I prefer the Fair Tax to the Income Tax, the very need for any such tax, the attempt of which is to defray the cost of government, and its associated FISCAL imbalances, is purely a function of the PRIVATE MONETARY SYSTEM the American people are forced to use. That system charges interest on each dollar in the money supply, and pays that interest to a Fed Member Bank, the overwhelming proportion of which gets paid to those few who are on Wall Street.  Understanding that one fact, it should not be difficult to understand how these banks got to be "to-big-to-fail." The truth is that, the NATIONAL DEBT IS AN ILLUSION of the Federal Reserve PRIVATE central banking system. Under a public system, that debt could be paid off by 9:00 tomorrow morning, no more borrowing, no more taxing, and no more accruing interest. And so while the Fair Tax migh...

Why Congress Lies

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Last I checked, the US Congress had an approval rating of 16%.   Obviously, the American people are not happy with congress.   But I submit that congress’ inability to accomplish the people’s work is not the most fundamental reason.   Sheer ineptness does not a villain make. I submit that the most fundamental reason for congress’ low approval rating is very simple; they lie.   Congress lies to the American people, and the people sense that.   Your congressperson, wherever you are, even if one of the “good ones,” lies to you.   It may be an active lie.   It may be a lie of omission.   It may be not correcting a mistaken public impression of the truth.   But if there is one requirement that is essential to the continuation of representative government, it is that those who represent you in government do not lie to you, any more than you would lie to yourself.   Those who represent you, for all practical purposes, are you, wit...

Understanding the ‘Raising the Debt Limit’ Scam

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Last week President Trump tweeted, “I requested that Mitch M & Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A. Bill for easy approval. They didn't…Could have been so easy-now a mess!” Trump seemed awfully cavalier about raising the debt limit, didn’t he? Isn’t raising the debt limit a really big deal? Isn’t it capitulation by all conservative-minded Americans? Isn’t raising the debt limit tacit approval for the US Government to even further exceed its Constitutional boundaries? Well, maybe. But more importantly, the ‘raising the debt limit’ debate is just another scam on the American people, perpetrated by those we elected to represent us in DC, another reason they all must be replaced.  The periodic raising of the so-called “debt limit” is simply the natural order of things anytime a national government chooses to carry out its financial responsibilities under a private banking system rather than a truly sovereign, national monetary system. The banki...

Why I Pity the Politician

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One of the great things about being a builder is that practically each day I can look back at some tangible difference made in the world. I can visit projects built over 30 years ago. They are still there, each making a mark on the earth, providing evidence that we were there and accomplished something.    That is why I pity the politician. His (or her) accomplishments are rarely tangible, and when they are it’s normally starting a war to destroy things others like me built. When the spouse asks, “What did you do today,” it must be difficult to recall an entire day that God provided, day after day, and have nothing to remember as a true accomplishment. “Well let’s see… I spoke to Mrs. so-and-so. I gave a speech at so-and-so. I cut a ribbon at so-and-so…” I’m sorry, but that cannot be a very fulfilling day. The emptiness must be overwhelming.     I’ve studied all this for a while, finally arriving at the judgement that over time politicians, by and lar...

Obama’s Iran-Con Backfired

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In last week’s article entitled, “Republican Congress Pulled the Wool on You,” I revealed the “con” behind the Iran Nuclear Review Act, a deception Obama and the Republicans in congress perpetrated on the American people. But I didn’t show you the con the Iranians pulled on them! So this week, let’s pull back the veil on the rest of the story, starting with the facts surrounding the leadup to the Iran Nuclear Review Act and all that happened afterward. Putting all this in perspective, consider that the narrative supposing Iran might develop a nuclear bomb first surfaced over 30 years ago , when in April of 1984 West German intelligence sources leaked reports that Iran would be capable of producing a bomb ‘within two years.’ Get that…Iran bomb…two years...1984. That report was “leaked.” Why they would do that? Since that time, trusted sources have regularly circulated allegations regarding an imminent probability of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon. One such authority ha...

Congressman Woodall Pulled the Wool on You

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I was asked about a remark I wrote in last week’s column, “Congress pushing the dollar over a cliff.” In it, I referenced the Iran Nuclear Review Act (HR1191) passed into law in May of 2015. I wrote that in September of 2015, congress engaged in what I termed, a “playfight,” a ruse ostensibly to stop Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. I wrote that although the Republicans in both houses seemed vehemently opposed to Obama’s deal with Iran, they were “all in on it.” So today, I’ll show you the ruse the Republicans, including 7th District US Representative Rob Woodall, pulled on the American people, and indeed the good people of Forsyth County. This is what they do, friends. And this is why they must be replaced. In May 2015, HR1191 passed both houses of congress, quickly signed into law by Obama. In July, I caught an interview with Senator David Perdue in which he referenced congress having an opportunity to “disapprove” Obama’s deal after he signed it. To most people, that may ha...

Congress Pushing the Dollar Over a Cliff

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Have you been watching the US dollar lately? It is down almost 10% for the year and plunging. There is a reason for that, which should not come as a surprise to anyone who follows this column. A few weeks back, I explained that since 1975 world demand for dollars has been sustained by the petrodollar agreement between the US and the Saudis, as well with most other OPEC countries. It is a coercive system. Countries of the world must have US dollars to buy OPEC oil and gas. To obtain dollars, they must import goods to the US. So the petrodollar has been the driving force and financing mechanism of the US trade deficit all these years. But because the two are linked, if OPEC loses control of the world energy market, the US simultaneously loses control of the world currency market. When the countries of the world no longer need OPEC oil, they also don't need US dollars. And that is why the dollar is dropping. Nations are tired of US currency coercion, are no longer solely dependen...

Time for Nice Guys in DC to Come Home

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In August of 2014 I attended a town hall meeting held by one of the really nice guys in congress, my 7th District US Representative, Rob Woodall. At his meetings Rob usually talks about the budget. He’s a numbers guy. And he will astound you with is knowledge of the US Federal Budget. Rob has even balanced the US budget on his computer! Representative Woodall But during the time in question, the world was abuzz about ISIS.  “ISIS did this. ISIS did that, ISIS…ISIS…ISIS.” So uncharacteristically, at this meeting Representative Woodall stepped out of his normal comfort zone, the budget, and ventured into mine, geopolitics. Anyone who knows me knows how hard I work to better understand history and world events. That’s just who I am. And so at this meeting, Representative Woodall took the time to update the attendees with the very latest ISIS propaganda, right off the presses at the US ministry of truth. The crowd ate it up, sadly. That’s when he made his mistake. Th...

Trump Dashes G-20 Globalist Hopes

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“Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” That declaration, vocalized by candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, put the world establishment, many of whom recently met at the annual G-20, on notice that a President Donald Trump would turn America against their globalist purposes. While many Americans have heard the term, “globalism,” few recognize its dire implications. Our US congress, our executive government and mainstream news are infiltrated, even infested, with globalists. To combat them, we must understand what they are attempting to do and how they would do it. To explain globalism, indulge me to recall a popular song from the 1950’s, one entitled, “Sixteen Tons.” It depicts the plight of a coal miner during the days before fair labor laws. The refrain goes like this: “You load sixteen tons, what do you get?/ Another day older and deeper in debt/ Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go/ I owe my soul to the company store.” Let’s ...