Instead of a manifesto
Posted: February 4th, 2009 |
A spectre is haunting America — the spectre of debt repudiation.
For a growing number of Americans, the era of complacency has come to an end.
The housing and banking collapses of 2008 forever shattered their confidence in the ability of government bureaucrats and regulators to protect whatever measure of hard-earned wealth regular citizens might amass.
The ongoing “bailout” drama has likewise shattered their confidence in the intent of those bureaucrats to serve any interests which conflict with the demands of their Wall Street masters, the corporate kleptocrats who seek their profits not through the voluntary mechanisms of the market but through the coercive powers of the state.
Not content with their seizure of a large percentage of Americans’ income year after year, our politicians and their corporate masters have built up a mountain of debt now exceeding $10 trillion and set to contiue growing at a future rate of more than $1 trillion per year according to the recently inaugurated President of the United States.
Helpless in the face of looming economic collapse, more and more Americans long to seize control of their own destinies but fear that they lack the means to do so.
That means, however, exists. It is the Achilles’ heel of the kleptocracy, and it is nothing more than a word:
“No.”
No, President Obama, we will not tolerate further unbalanced budgets. The era of deficit spending is over.
No, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi, we will not tolerate continued service of the “national debt.” You and your predecessors ran it up, but we’re not going to pay it off.
No, Congressman or Congresswoman or candidate, we will not elect or re-elect you if you vote to raise the debt ceiling, or vote in favor of an unbalanced budget, or vote in favor of appropriations for debt service, or fail to support a constitutional amendment for repudiation of the debt.
No, speculators in government debt, you’re not going to get over. You loaned money to the politicians in full knowledge of the fact that it could only be paid back by the sweat of our brows and on the labor of our children’s backs. Our labor and our children’s labor is neither yours nor theirs to dispose of. Take notice and act accordingly. Cut your losses while you can.
We are, at present, a minority — but as Samuel Adams said, “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people’s minds.” We will set those brushfires and we will become the majority that the kleptocrats fear.
We refuse responsibility for their debt, and we will express and implement that refusal by all available and necessary means.
They will hear our refusals from the soapbox.
They will count our refusals when their elections officials open the ballot box each November, and when their Internal Revenue employees check the mailbox each April.
And if they press the issue too far, our forefathers taught us that the cartridge box remains available as a last resort.
Amen!
I totally agree, but don’t expect Leviathan to go down without a struggle.
Remember - those now built massive detention centers will soon be ready for action - and believe me Uncle Sugar will have no qualms about using them against “unruly” citizens.
Let’s get ready to rumble!
For anyone who still feels a responsibility to adhere to the US Constitution, remember that the debt that has been run up by the US government is NOT legal. There are many reasons, but simply put, the ONLY monetary system allowed by the Constitution is gold and silver. The US government is not constitutionally allowed to delegate monetary creation to a privately owned central bank (the Fed.) Also, since the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified, any loans made with future tax dollars as collateral is fraudulent.
Are you a US patriot? Determined to obey the US Constitution? Well, you STILL don’t owe the debt our so-called representatives have authorized; they broke the law when they did it.
Petitioning Congress is a good plan but if it should fail I have another. If even five percent of the self employed simply decided to stop dutifully paying taxes others would follow their lead and the rotten system would quickly collapse. There is neither the prison space available nor the manpower to make the arrests. If left unchecked the kleptocracy will bring the nation to catastrophic economic collapse anyway following an inevitable inflationary death spiral. Which is more preferable? They depend upon our sanction and and that sanction must be peacefully withdrawn so that the Constitution can be restored and future generations live as freemen rather than as virtual serfs. It will undoubtedly take courage and the willingness to act on moral convictions.
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As a patriotic neighbour-to-the-north, I can only applaud this direction, and hope that /my/ countrymen wake up to it, too!
In the immortal words of M.K. Ghandi:
“What are they going to do? Shoot us all?”
Can we at least agree to cancel all cable TV/satellite TV subscriptions as a start? That’s on average $1200 per year per household that will not be flowing to the corporate media companies. 100,000 dropped subs takes away $120m annually. Now that’s a fairness doctrine.
Can you at least convince your family to skip it for just one year?
Repudiate the debt? Agreed. Cut the cable? Agreed. Let’s hit them where it hurts. Time to withdrawal our financial support of this rogue government….
The suggestions I’m reading here are all well-intentioned, but are they actually achieveable? I think we each know the answer to that. Probably the most realistic concept I’ve seen is that of a national referendum on spending. It’s completely feasible to demand a vote be taken among all citizens, seeking legislation that enacts a law. That law would demand that our hard-earned tax dollars go towards balancing the budget, before those dollars get spent on ANYthing else.
No new entitlement programs. No more wars. No more bailouts for ANY industry.
The ONLY place our tax dollars should be applied is to balancing the budget.
Our Congressmen and Senators can then go on record with their votes. The President can either support the legislation or oppose it. ALL of our elected officials’ position will the forever be on record for all to see. When it comes time for re-election, they will have nowhere to run and hide.
We could do this. We can do this. We must do this.
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Obama will not change the face of US in 5 years.Economical issues will continue surely in the mortgage sector like it did before.We dont wait something, we just wonder.