Well, the simple answer to that is it restrains the growth of the federal government. Federal government can’t grow if it can’t print money, if it can’t borrow money, and if it can’t print itThey actually have to live within their means like they did for 160 years. And that’s why, that’s why the politicians, that’s why the establishment is horrified. That’s why the world bankers, that’s why Wall Street is terrified of it. That’s why all the parasites that live off the Federal Government are horrified of a currency that is tied to gold or tied to silver or tied to palladium.
When the Federal Reserve cannot print money out of thin air, you can’t go to war in Afghanistan and bomb people back into the stone ages unless the American people support it and are willing to buy bonds and pay taxes to fund the damn army. That’s why. You can’t have all these vainglorious federal agencies and all this welfare programs and all this giveaway and all this redistribution of wealth if you can’t print the money. If people have to actually be taxed to fund Leviathan, the party is over because you’re not going to fork over 71 percent, which is what it’ll take of your income to the Fed so that they can benevolently distribute, redistribute it. And maybe you’ll get some of it back. This is why. That creature from Jekyll Island is the heart, it is the cancer, it is the root, as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ would say, of much of the evil. It’s not all of it. But it does enable the war machine.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have to stop, as a people we have got to stop this – we’ve got to stop these wars. I don’t know where it is lost on the American public that somehow we have always been a nation at war, and that it’s our job to go overseas and fight other people’s war. “Well, we’ve got fight for democracy and freedom in Israel....really, do we?” Israel will do its own fighting, if we would just get the hell out of the way – how many of you people are watching that HBO miniseries “The Pacific”? It’s horrible. You’re all gung-ho about going to war, watch “The Pacific” and then come back and tell me how gung-ho you were about it. Now, it may have been necessary to fight the Japanese. I’m not arguing that. But war is hell, as some northern aggressive Yankee general once said.
Not only that, how did they fund World War II? Roosevelt actually had to have guys like Basilone, Sgt. Basilone out there selling bonds. They had to do tours. People had to empty their piggy banks out. Taxes had to be doubled. They couldn’t borrow the money. We actually had to pay for it. You don’t want to pay for your war. If we had to pay for the Iraq war, it would have been over long ago. If we had to pay for this fruitless exercise in Afghanistan, pay for it, today, it would be over. If we actually had to pay directly for the occupation of 134, 136 countries, I lose track, it would be over. Much of it would be over.
People don’t understand this. “Oh, it’s conservative to build giant war machines.” We outspend the known universe on armaments. I thought we were a nation of peace. I thought all we wanted to do was live in liberty and freedom and have the rest of the world admire us and what have you. But, no, we’ve got to export war. It’s not a conservative position, ladies and gentlemen. Go back and read your history. Is war necessary? Now, I didn’t say war was never necessary. But we should go to war as one nation under God and with a clear mission to get in, win, and get out. If we all agree that we should, and then we all have to agree that we’re willing to pay for it. You’re not paying for it right now, baby.
And then we have this embarrassment, Olympia Snowe. “I represent the people of Maine who haven’t gotten enough welfare from the other 49 states.” This is just ridiculous. This is why I can’t stand party affiliations anymore. What is the point of having this so-called party that is basically the lower chamber of the other party? That’s what it is.
It’s not fair and balanced because fair and balanced implies that there is validity to the other argument. If you’re an American, and you’re supposed to live in the land of the free and the mobile home of the brave, most times there isn’t validity in the other argument. We should not have to be a people that discusses every two years whether or not we want to become the Soviet Union, for crying out loud. Why don’t we discuss what to do with all the freedom and liberty that we have? How can we make new and more better stuff? How can we continue our great moral traditions and support our great moral institutions? But no. We have to have fair and balanced discussions on the merits of Stalinism and Maoism and Trotskyism and Leninism and Marxism and Castro-ism and Hugo Chavez-ism and farcism and every other ism you can name, vs. little, tiny – what did Washington Irving call James Madison? “Poor withered little applejohn, James Madison.” You`ve never heard that before, dont have a clue what I`m talking about?” That’s because you don’t study history.
My favorite part of this resurgence of the Constitution is the discussion of foreign policy. There is nothing that will make a unionized, blue-collar person that fancies themselves a conservative’s head spin, flinging spittle across rooms, screaming and hollering, than a discussion of downsizing foreign policy and the military. “You can’t have – it’s heresy. You’re irresponsible. You’re going to get people killed” Let me tell you about getting people killed. You know what milestone was passed today, sadly? And I’m not going to harp on this because I do love with every fiber of my being those guys and gals that sign up to wear our uniform. I just think that they are pawns in a larger game. Many of them have signed up for the right motives, because they want to protect and defend freedom and liberty.
Today we pass a grim milestone, though. Ladies and gentlemen, there was an attack yesterday in Afghanistan. And with the results of that deadly attack, we now have 1,000 Americans dead in the Afghanistan war, which began in earnest in October or early November of 2001, after the 9/11 attacks. “I bet you ask what should we have done after 9/11, smart guy? Dumbass? Careless, reckless, paleocon, libertarian, anarchist kook?” As Congressman Paul had suggested at the time, letters of marque and reprisal. We should have gone after the actual perpetrators, which we did. And then once we were done, we should have stopped inventing boogeymen, which we did. And now look at the blood and treasure that has been expended. What, so Iraqis can run around and flash their purple fingers.
Say what you will, but our founding fathers never intended for us to become global police, or to fight everyone elses wars.
You wonder why we are broke and other countries have more $$$ than we do for our own citizens, its easy to spend money when the U.S. is suppling you with our military and you dont have to pay for one of your own, right canada, spain, mexico, europe as a whole.........
I say cut off all overseas campaigns, bring our boy and girls home and use them to protect and guard all of our borders.....lets see what europe and mexico do then!
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