Unfortunately, today's so-called 'money' is actually debt — every dollar, pound, peso, and rupee has been 'loaned' into circulation at interest.  There is not even enough currency to pay off every debt currently on the books, not by a long shot.  It's nothing short of economic servitude — i.e. slavery!  And boy are we "sorrowing" ...

Hmm, not so hard to imagine now, eh? ;-)

(Talk about a "tirade" ... Sheesh, Fred)  And you've gotten every point you are trying to make wrong.

Fred, that is a straight up LIE!

Yes, mark the date, Fred.  The next crash is inevitable now, and for we conspiracy realists, it has never been more self-evident that the intent of all this money printing after QE 1234 and Covid is to intentionally break the US economy and the US dollar.  Why?  For the same old reasons: to loot and pillage the remains of a once prosperous people. 

They have the next currency in the batter's box — digital currency that they can mint, unmint, turn on and turn off at will.  It's already been implemented in China and starting in Europe on a "voluntary" basis — you know, like the 'voluntary' vaccine passports they rolled out across the world, already tested with the (un)willing masses falling into line.  All they need is the right crisis — which is their specialty.

Fred, how the hell would you know?!  Sheesh, talk about arrogant.

Mike, I don't think Fred knows what socialism really is, servitude to the state/government.  But who knows, since whenever socialism is explained to him, he says that he is the ONLY one who knows what it is... he is THE socialist (whatever that means).

Socialism is slavery.  Period.  It offers no creativity at all.  It is the appropriator of all to make dependents of us all. It is the antithesis of Liberty and personal responsibility.  Any and every good idea is turned into a racket.  Socialism almost always leads to dictatorship as authoritarianism is its modus operandi.

The only happy socialist is one who has a good job enslaving his/her fellow man, working for government, banking, propaganda, military, or any of the businesses that serve them.  No one living on social welfare is happy with it.  The history of socialism is nothing but empty promises by bought-and-paid for politicians and oligarchs.  The real rulers of this world absolutely know what they are doing keeping the populace ignorant and squabbling with each other while they go laughing to the bank.

Unfortunately, Fred is one of those useful idiots and will NEVER EVER examine how the monetary system works, proving he has been duped over a lifetime by those he calls heroes.  And he is unfortunately (for us) in good company.  Good Lord, help us all!

Money is simply a storehouse of labor.  Even capital goods only have value due to the labor necessary to create them. 

Therefore if money can be corrupted, the corruption can steal the fruits of one's labor — even the property of a nation en masse.  Such theft is incomprehensible to the uneducated man and why government-sponsored education never touches the subject.  But every currency trader understands the principle and bets with one currency against another for gains due to its expansion or contraction.  Ask George Soros...

A central bank that prints money out of thin air to buy government promissory notes (bonds) will eventually own the government and its citizens — this is nothing short of slavery, and is the system employed by every member nation of the UN — in fact, it is one of the requirements of membership.

Real money is liberty, interest-bearing fiat currency is servitude.

Thanks, Robert, this is excellent!  Real history, long ignored.

Sheesh, Fred, 'price controls' are what you have read into this quote?

Republicans in name only — RINOs.  The real government is the Federal Reserve, and politicians are beholden to the money-printing power, no matter what party.

More like a "a tangle of squabbling" ideologies at odds with Liberty and the republican form of government established by We The People to protect us from those who claim power over us.

If social security was indeed implemented as it was proposed, a savings account for the worker, I might agree with you.  But it is merely another Ponzi scheme to benefit interest-bearing fiat currency. 

By the time one is old enough to collect the savings, the value of the currency has lost most of its value, whereas if that money had been put into real capital (and protected from government spendthrifts) it might actually have worked.  The truth is SS is just another tax, and recipients are paid from taxes collected today, not 30 years ago.  There is no money!

The censor reveals the truth by censoring it.  The media have been complicit for a LONG time, to the point that whatever they report you can nearly guarantee it is not true.

Love it!  Spoken by a leader of a people who have suffered greatly under socialism.  Javier Milei indeed has many ideas — firing 75% of the government was his start, with more to come.  Watch and learn.  I do hope we see more of this around the world from nations that are tired of the yoke of socialism.  We are lions, not sheep!

"Think globally, act locally."  There is plenty to correct of my own actions that will make a real impact, rather than writing letters to my Congressman to end conflict in Palestine or Yemen.  Just saying...

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
~ General Douglas MacArthur

There is a BIG difference between representative government which is chartered for the protection of the rights of individuals and 'democracy,' i.e. majority rule.  The founders hated democracy precisely because it HAS been tried, and failed every time.  The word 'tyranny' comes from the exercise of democracy in Tyre in ancient Greece.  Democracy always ends up in a dictatorship or a despotism, a statist rule over a people kept in servitude by an elite.

All totalitarian governments claim to be democracies — see China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and up and coming Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, UK, and good ol' USA.

Please, make the world UNSAFE for democracy!  Liberty!  A republican form of government is the only one that is not at eternal war with the rights of the people over the state.

Think Climate Change, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, and the whole host of "social justice" initiatives that grant power to the state over the rights of the People at large.  Farming being regulated out of existence, energy production being banned for the common good, censorship of anything that exposes state/corporate corruption, medical discoveries banned, open borders, ballot stuffing, politicians profiting from insider trading — all are promoted in the name of "fairness and equity."  That's politicians "riding roughshod" with clean consciences ...  All aspects of socialism, I  might add, the mother of altruism gone astray.

Yes!

Nailed it! ;-)

Central banks captured all the monarchies in Europe once they were permitted to print a nation's currency out of thin air and then 'loan' it to be repaid in gold.  War is the catalyst, and the banksters play one side against the other supplying arms to all.  That's how each central bank was re-established in the US.

A little known fact: the national debt is the nation's money supply, that's how currency is issued.  If it were issued interest-free in proportion to the need for trade, wealth would naturally be disbursed and not concentrated into the hands of the banksters. 

The annual interest on the US government debt in 2023 was $675 billion!  The goal is to keep the common people in perpetual poverty and dependence.  This is the very tyranny over which the American Revolution was declared, fought and WON!  We have come full circle — will the People ever wake up again?

I've come to understand that the Golden Rule is to "do unto others as you would have done unto you."

The Silver Rule is to "do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you."

These are rules that show The Way, because the Law of Nature is "as you sow, so shall you reap."   In other words, "you get out of it what you put into it;" "garbage in, garbage out;" "karma."

The Laws of Nature cannot be abridged and require no human  law enforcement.  Hence, the need for 'redemption' and the plea to "forgive others as you would have yourself be forgiven."  Why?  Because of The Law.

That's the difference between materiality and spirituality.  From the material perspective, the past cannot be reversed.  From the spiritual perspective, we can atone, forgive and reform.  Without Life, all is brought down by gravity.  With Life, we wake up, get up, and stand up, against the forces of the physical world.  Life is a gift from Nature's God as Jefferson put it in the Declaration of Independence.  Life is spiritual, not material. ;-)

Let's keep it simple.  I repeat, how does the Socialist guarantee freedom?

It is because of human nature that a republican form of government is to be guaranteed.  We cannot put our trust in rulers but upon the natural law.  The republican form places the responsibility upon the individual in concert with his neighbors, while the statist form (monarchy, dictatorship, socialism, etc.) claims authority over the common people.

But, yes, a republican form of government requires an informed and empowered populace that knows who they are and the responsibilities they have with a firm respect for the rights of others.  With a populace dependent upon the state and with the mindset of a servant, no republican government can stand — hence the reason England failed at a republican government.

America is a republic, only "if we can keep it..." 

That's not socialism, that's classic liberalism, perhaps, with a hint of arrogance and elitism.  "Correct understanding" is the aim, yes, but cannot ever be assured.  The science is never settled.  It is not about the population "appreciating" solutions but given the opportunity and right to accept or refuse them.  Bias — or simply subjective opinion — is inherent.  What must be afforded is the right to one's opinions, not the appreciation of the "solutions" from those that claim authority.

A republican form of government is one of consent and mutual agreement.  Where we do not agree, there is no consent, and therefore no authority to impose "solutions." 

A republican form of government's purpose is to protect the People's right to govern their own affairs and to protect their natural born rights. 

Socialism on the other hand assumes its own correctness, imposing "solutions" upon the common people without mutual agreement or consent, declaring their authority "reasonable."