A Look at the US Economy: Inflation to the Rescue!

Repeat after me, "Inflation good! Deflation bad!" Now, say this mantra throughout every day of your life until you are sick at the sight of low gas prices, affordable mortgages, and interest rates that allow you to build wealth in savings accounts versus risking your financial future on the guidance of  central bankers and speculative market turmoil.

Then, and only then, will you be a good little Keynesian drone gleefully expecting government to, like all else, "fix the economy" when oil is not $130 a barrel, interest rates at record lows, or stocks at record highs. Oh, and to help you sleep at night, completely block from your mind the skyrocketing national debt, economic crises, and geopolitical instability caused by these inflationary policies. Zzzzzzz.....

If, on the other hand, you've noticed something is not quite right, that the economic deck is stacked against the most productive and hardest working people in the nation, relax. You're not crazy and, yes, it is a conspiracy. But don't vote for Bernie Sanders. Socialism sows the seeds of slavery and genocide. Put on your economic seat belt and read this:

https://mises.org/library/history-money-and-banking-united-states-colonial-era-world-war-ii

Do we have a "right" to own guns?

 

Is your right to "keep and bear arms" determined by the existence of the Second Amendment? If a majority of Supreme Court Justices ruled 'the Second Amendment does not protect an individual's right to possess firearms,' would you surrender your weapons -your personal property- to the nearest police station for immediate destruction? Or would refuse and fight to the death any attempt to confiscate your guns?

Many in the gun culture believe that any effort by federal or state government to confiscate our constitutionally-protected right to own firearms would result in an organized and violent resistance. Gun owners, after all, have the Supreme Law on our side.1  But what if the Bill of Rights was written out of existence? Do human rights no longer "legal" mean we no longer have human rights? Can we be jailed, abused, and murdered by a government that simply legislates away our rights? That would entirely depend on our compliance with or refusal to obey such laws. Moreover, it would depends on the ability to prevent such government abuse from ever occurring via possession of firearms.

Earlier this week I was in a meeting when the issue of Obama's "Executive Amnesty for Crime and Terrorism" (gun control) came up for discussion. An elected official in attendance remarked how Obama is attempting to expand definitions of mental illness so more Americans, e.g. veterans being treated for PTSD, can be denied their legally-protected access to firearms.2 Another person followed up with the comment that "such executive orders are violations of the Second Amendment," to which most agreed. 

Of course, I kindly reminded everyone that our ownership and possession of firearms is legally protected by the Second Amendment, but our right to guns is bestowed by virtue of our humanity. Total silence ensued. People looked at me as if I had publicly endorsed Hillary for president. For a moment I was confused by all the blank stares, but soon realized why the perplexed looks.

Generations of Americans have been conditioned, through years of government engineering, to believe that a civil right cannot exist unless written into law, and would cease to exist if  repealed by a legislature or court. 

To the contrary, human civil rights, such as the right to protect yourself from criminal deadly force with firearms (only firearms can defend against firearms), can never cease to exist simply because a government removes it from the document on which it was written. The Bill of Rights to the US Constitution are legal protections of your rights but it is not the reason your rights exist. Your human civil rights are either endowed by your creator (if you believe in creationism) or bestowed upon you, and absolute, by virtue of your humanity.

Although your legal right to keep and bear arms can, as the disastrous history of gun control demonstrates, be legislated out of existence, the human civil right to own and possess firearms, however, is unalienable and inalienable regardless of what laws exist to guarantee that right or are imposed to remove it.

Before "President Hillary" or a government of Yale University grads petition away your legally-protected rights, understand, and teach others to understand, that laws created by a legal or political process can never obviate natural laws regarding our human civil rights to life, liberty, and property; notably the ownership of firearms for protection from criminal deadly force.

1. As liberal anti-gun states like California and New York demonstrate, firearms do not need to be confiscated when constituents allow ownership of and access to guns legislated out of existence. 

2. Currently there is no nationally accepted clinical definition of what it means to be "mentally ill." Regarding legislation and public policy "mentally ill" is a political term with different meanings referencing state case laws. The progressive left, rest assured, would expand the definition of "mentally ill" to mean "any private citizen whom feels the need to own a gun."

The CNN 67% Poll

Aiding King Obama's push for a disarmed, fearful, and thus compliant society, CNN touted a poll, it conducted, claiming 67 percent of Americans support the King's illegal executive fiats on gun control despite the fact that not one measure of gun control can live beyond the committee process in either house of Congress. 

What CNN, and supporters of illegal executive orders, cannot and will not accept is that America is a Constitutional Republic based on the rule of law and separation of powers. Meaning, for you historically and legally illiterate liberals, we are a nation with a SINGLE legislative (that means law making) body, not a nation run by the desires of activist info networks and Marxist Alinskyites hoping to, one day, cart all political opposition off to labor and execution camps via rail cars. 

Obama Town Hall on Guns

Obama ganged up on by freedom lovers, and not liking it one bit.

Last night CNN, the nation's most anti-gun network (remember Piers Morgan?), teamed up with the nation's most autocratic ruler to sweet talk you into accepting eventual confiscation of all civilian-owned firearms in America. 

Were you convinced? Do you now, as a husband, wife, mom, or dad, feel guilty about owning firearms for the purpose of protecting your family? Do you, by the King's illegal executive fiat, now fear buying that .22 for your daughter's birthday or giving a Glock 19 to your dad whom still thinks revolvers are "the best guns for self defense"?

If not, King Obama, who was as articulate on gun control as a piss drunkard at a physics round table, did not accomplish his goal of readying your minds for confiscation.

Make no mistake, King Obama wants you to forfeit your guns, thus his constant friendly references to forcibly disarmed Australia and Britain (notice he no longer mentions gun-free France) while, simultaneously, attempting to convince you he 'simply wants a safer America via a few more background checks.' At least this time he didn't cry, this time.