Silver Lining - The Emerging Truth

The term that is getting the most usage these days is Revolution and this nation is inching closer to that eventuality by the day. People are getting smarter. The tireless efforts of such true patriots as Congressman Ron Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Peter Schiff, and many others are bringing the truth to a wider cross section of the American people. But now we are seeing the government and its media toadies inadvertently aiding in the very process that will bring their criminal cabal crashing to the ground.
We are approaching the anniversary of our independence, the Fourth of July, and the hype is amping up to nauseating proportions. Gala celebrations are planned throughout the nation, but all the fireworks, bands playing patriotic music, and all the related hoopla, only amplify the garish irony surrounding the encroaching Socialism that threatens to steal more of our personal liberties and bankrupt the nation beyond redemption.

There are still 130,000 troops in Iraq, four more were killed during the pullout from Baghdad. The news carried the story but it was nothing like the media blitz that followed the death of Michael Jackson. "The whole world mourns the death of Michael Jackson," one headline bleated. Really? The whole world? I seriously doubt that anyone was really thinking about Jackson very much lately. He was famous for his odd tastes and the scandals that dogged him every bit as much as he was regaled for his music. His career was nowhere; a recluse, the London tour was intended as a comeback and he put a lot of work into it, to his credit. As with the untimely passing of any human being, Jackson's death was sad but was it a catastrophe of global proportions? Hardly. It may create jobs, though: Michael impersonators, like Elvis impersonators with fancy footwork.

Cigarette taxes tripled over the past thirty days or so as the government continues its fraudulent anti-smoking campaign. They claim its to pay the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses; but where does the money really go? It gets Pentagoned (a new term I just made up to describe the strange disappearance of tax dollars into thin air; Oops! It was here a minute ago!). It is taxation without representation, the issue that tipped the 13 colonies into revolution.

Then there's Crap and Trade (no typo) an innovative way to fuel inflation. The high costs of the meaningless target reductions in "greenhouse gases" will of course be passed onto the already overburdened taxpayers. Another log on the revolutionary fire, and it's coming! I could go on but it's time to get to the point. What kind of revolution am I talking about?

The revolution I am speaking of will not involve Minutemen, militias, or citizens carrying placards or firearms. But they will be armed - with facts and a huge resentment against the thieves and liars who have sold out to big corporations and big money. It's about the MONEY, stupid!

Write this down so you don't forget it: MONEY IS ANYTHING THAT HAS VALUE! Our economy is a barter economy and has never been anything else, and it will always be! Barter is, after all trading one good for another; we use pieces of paper bearing the portraits of dead presidents on one side of most personal transactions and we will continue to do so. These Federal Reserve Notes are worthless though, aren't they? Yes, and they always have been, but that didn't stop us from using them. The point here is simple: We the people have the sole power to decide the nature and value of money: we decide what money is. Like California. They can't agree on a budget; it's in the neighborhood of 24 billion dollars. Schwarzenegger said if the legislature can't submit a comprehensive budget for his approval, the state will have to issue IOUs to pay expenses. Guess what; these IOUs will be money every bit as much as the phony scrip the Fed has been turning out since 1913. Will they be accepted in trade? No reason why not; these Arnolds (we have to call these IOUs something) would be a supplementary currency, used to stretch the dollars supply and to pay state taxes. Remember Tally Sticks?

Some municipalities are already developing alternative currencies.A popular version of these is the Time Dollar. The way these work: I may offer to landscape a neighbor's yard. We agree on $15.00 an hour. The work takes eight hours and is worth $120.00. The customer may decide to pay with Time Dollars, wholly or in part. The person who did the work has $120.00 in Time Dollars that he can use to buy certain goods. The merchant who accepts these TDs in payment for good can use these to pay for goods and services that he needs. If he takes the whole amount in trade he can use the $120.00 worth of TDs to pay a clerk for twelve hours @ $10.00 an hour. This would be a closed loop economy limited to a community of people who agree to the strategy but it could spread as more people see the usefulness of the plan.

When the people get together behind a plan there's nothing that can stop them.