The Illegitimate President

The Mogambo Guru writes:

I notice that Frank Holmes of US Global Investors is not around to stop me, so I will use something he said to buttress my argument. “The real damage, right now,” he says, “comes from populist policies that are rewarding and encouraging envy and justifying jealousy. When jealousy and envy come to dominate a society, the society becomes dysfunctional and most people lose.”

I was hoping that he would have gone on, “And when you give these coveting, envious, greedy morons the chance to give themselves money, benefits and advantages by merely voting for someone who promises to give it to them if elected, it means these higher costs and burdens will pass through to the ultimate consumer, just like all other costs and burdens always do, in the form of higher prices. And if there is one thing that we don’t want, it is inflation in consumer prices because it means that Mogambo The Glorious And Irritating (MTGAI) was right, so tragically, horribly right, to bellow, night and day until we are all sick of hearing it, that inflation in consumer prices is the thing to be feared above all others, as it is inflation in consumer prices that destroys economies because it means that the poor, on whose behalf the money was created by the Federal Reserve so that the government could borrow and spend it in the first place, are, collectively, even worse off than they were! Worse off! Hahaha! “We’re from the government and we are here to help you!” Hahaha!

My advice to the government, if they really want to help the poor, is to stop allowing the creation of more money and credit by the Federal Reserve. Which they won’t.

Every Single Program the government is pursuing to “stimulate” the economy is funded by money created out of thin air.  Anyone who’s played Monopoly knows what happens towards the end of the game when all the players have a bajillion dollars – everything gets hella expensive!  And coincidentally enough, that plain lesson in economics has repeated itself in real life, countless times over the course of history.  And every time a nation allows its government to print bajillions of dollars to fund its corrupt and idiotically misguided and corrupt expansions, that nation’s economy has collapsed.

The only thing the government can actually do to help you, me, and the economy, is to stop trampling the Constitution, stop doing just about everything it is doing right now, and let us and our neighbors help ourselves.  The founders had lived through this lesson, and so, wisely mandated that our nation’s currency would be silver and gold, and then we wouldn’t have this problem any more.

Which makes me say, Weee, this Constitutional and economics stuff is easy!

Step 1: Prepare

National Guard drill at high school to prepare for possible H1N1 riot
PARIS Maine — Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be the site of a National Guard riot control drill Thursday morning to prepare in the event of a panic over distribution of serum to treat the swine flu.

Step 2: Recruit

National Guard reveals ‘internment’ job sites

Military confirms it follows Constitution, civilian leaders

Soldiers recruited to be “Internment/Resettlement” specialists by a series of National Guard ads concerning “civilian resettlement” locations would have assignments overseas, not within the U.S., says a National Guard spokesman who reports members pledge to follow the U.S. Constitution and take orders from American civilian authorities.

Step 3: Expand

The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.

The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster.

What makes it especially spooky is how that last article says:

That section gives the President the sole discretion to designate an event as an “emergency” or a “major disaster.” Both are “in the determination of the President” alone.

So, they are drilling the national guard to fight riots that may crop up in response to mandatory immunizations against a non-existent pandemic, the national guard is actively recruiting “resettlement and internment” soldiers, and the president is seeking sole authority to define and declare emergencies and to command — domestically — hundreds of thousands of troops.

What could go wrong?