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The Best America can Hope for

The best thing we as the American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers can do for ourselves as we look to 2023 figure things out is to get ourselves prepared for what we know is on the horizon. We're definitely on the knife's edge of Decline both Foreign and Domestic, the point is to mitigate whatever the damage that'll come with that.

• We cannot expect Government to solve the very underlying problems that it created to begin with. We certainly cannot expect Government to make anyone whole when the same US Government cannot even balance its own checkbook or secure its own Borders. There's hard work that's going to have to be done to get the United States and its Citizenry out of the Economic and Financial cesspool that's come about. The manufactured Coronavirus Pandemic, the 2020 Roll of the Dice (aka Election), The FTX Scandal, and subsequent Recession has reminded Taxpayers of this fact. There aren't going to be anymore Bailouts from the Government, We The People have to roll up our sleeves and bail ourselves out by doing things the Old Fashioned way and hard work.

• We need truely healthy Free Market Economic and Monetary Policy so American Taxpayers and Consumers can be able to take full advantage of the benefits and keep the Fruits of their own Labor, also able to grow and keep their Wealth.

• We need Foreign Affairs based on what the Founders understood to begin with; Trade, Commerce, and Honest Friendship with other Countries but entangling Alliances with none. A Foreign Policy that Talks, Negotiates with, Trades with, has Cultural exchanges with. We never use Economic Warfare or any Warfare against any Country without a Constitutional Declaration of War from The US Congress first! We treat other Countries the way we ourselves want to be treated. You can't bark about Human Rights when you don't practice it yourself.

Seasons Greetings to all...
• Most importantly, we must have a Limited Constitutional Government that does away with the so called Nanny State. The less Government we have, the more Freedom the People have. The Government that governs least governs best...
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Broache73 · 46-50, F
If you give a me a Fish today, I'll eat today; If you teach me how to Fish today for myself, I'll never go hungry today or ever...
@Broache73 “Meritocracy”.
Broache73 · 46-50, F
@soar2newhighs And good old fashioned common sense. Why on earth would anyone want to depend on someone else to do for them what they have the power to do for themselves?!

If you have to outsource your Liberty, Freedom, Prosperity, critical thinking skill, common sense, and clarity of thought to someone else to do for you; You're only as Free as what that Person is willing for you to be. After all, Convicts can be safe in Prison but they aren't Free. Who in their right mind wants to live that...
@Broache73 There was a great song done by Al Green. “The Snake.”. IMO I see the government as the snake, and many who embraced it and stroked it never realized how dangerous that embrace would be, because as the adage goes, “ nothing is free” and there will be payment rendered when that snake bites. Just a metaphor as how I see our government and this current administration.
Gloomy · F
@Broache73

[quote]Why on earth would anyone want to depend on someone else to do for them what they have the power to do for themselves?![/quote]

Kinda true given that the strict division of labor made us less free in a way not saying we shouldn't depend on each other especially when unable to do certain tasks on our own but less division of labor in certain areas makes sense and gives back freedom.

"For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."

- Karl Marx
Broache73 · 46-50, F
@Gloomy
• The American Empire..
• The American Police State..
• The Welfare/Warfare State..
will end by crashing and burning. The World Community has wised up and they'll stop throwing good Money after bad. They'll stop playing Follow the Leader with the United States, and they'll no longer allow themselves to be subjugated to the US Government's horrific dictates and sadistic threats. You know this as well as I do.

I personally use what information I've readl, learned, ideas heard about, listened to, and discovered for myself then post what I myself believe what a Constitutional Government bears responsibility for. I'm very honest about that so there's a respectful discussion on the merits of issues. Whether or not all of them are my own ideas isn't the issue, the point is that whether or not we've prepared when the US Citizenry learns the truth and the World Community wises up. China in particular, has a complicated history, whether or not their Economics is in question is very complicated. They're backing their Currency with something real, their Relations with Russia is strengthening and tenable, they have the leverage to buy and trade from whomever they damn well please. On top of that, China can buy Natural Resources in open Markets (i.e. Afghanistan) since they seem to understand Capital Investment.

I put information out for anyone else to do with it what they will or please. It's not about whether or not we agree on everything or anything at all. People are responsible for using their higher education and critical thinking skills to find the answers they need to arrive at the truth. Others will decide for themselves what to believe, think, or do. That's not my place to tell anyone to do so, far be it from me. What you support or went along with is your personal business, your personal responsibility, and your Right as a "Free" American. After all, you'll bear responsibility for yourself and whatever you yourself went along with. Actions have consequences, and you'll definitely bear that responsibility too.

That being said, The Facts clearly speak for themselves that 9 out 10 in recent surveys believe that America is in Decline, 3 out of 4 believe Corporations have too much control over their Lives, and the Corporate Duopoly of Republicans and Democrats have failed miserably. The United States' Diplomatic Credibility is in the dustpins of US History. America's Foreign Affairs is in Shambles and is blowing up in our Faces due to the blood soaked War on Terrorism and War on Drugs. America's Fiscal, Economic, and Monetary development is in collapse since the US Dollar is nothing more than Phony Monopoly Game Money. We have Debt, Deficits, Dependency, and Inflation as far as the eye can see. The US Government cannot serve the needs or interests of the Citizenry since Corporations, the Military Industrial Complex, the Prison Industrial Complex, the Medical Industrial Complex, K Street Lobbyists, and AIPAC made sure that our Nation's Capital was Corporate Occupied Territory. You and I both understand that fact!

It really begs the following questions;
• How much longer will the American Citizenry continue to "Play the Fool" before they realize their Intelligence is being insulted by the same Officials they Elected to represent their Interests?!

• How much longer will it take for the American Electorate to realize that they're the Ones drowning in the Sea of Washington's Bull****?!

• How much longer will it take for the American Taxpayers to realize that the Joke and the Trick is always and solely on them?!