[From a video I put out in 2019] ( In short, central banking. )
Boomers have allowed the America society to degrade quite a lot.
- Boomers allowed immigration of people who don’t even understand the plain language of the 2nd amendment, and have no cultural history of the rights presented in the bill of rights. These new immigrants are slave citizens, from cultures of slave hierarchical societies, and will vote for socialism.
- Boomers massively increased the intelligence organizations in America. They’ve allowed news to be completely taken over by these organizations, such that news is now totally co-opted by factions in government and globalists.
- Boomers allowed the military industrial complex to grow extravagantly
- Boomers surrendered US sovereignty to international organizations such as the UN and NATO
- Boomers introduced both the degeneracy of drugs and pornography, and at the same time, gave government the unconstitutional power of making drugs illegal, resulting in huge amounts of drug related incarceration
- Boomers indebted cities for their pensions, stealing from the youth
- Boomers ruined health care
- Boomers, while outsourcing factories to China, gave China intellectual property and industrial expertise, destroying US middle and lower class.
But, Boomers were a result of previous failures. Although Boomers are a product of World War II, the failure comes even before that. Wherever power lies, there will be cartelish interests attempting to control that power. America is no different. The standard method for controlling the power of a country is controlling that country’s finances. There are two primary methods for controlling a countries finances.
The first is to control the central bank of the country, or otherwise control the currency of the country. In the beginning of America, England’s attempt to place the colonies under the monetary control of the Bank of England was seen by many as the “last straw” of oppression which led directly to the American Revolutionary War. Even after the US formed, British interests held two thirds of the bank stocks of the First Bank of the United States. And, when the US did not renew that charter for the First Bank of the United States, Brittain again went to war with America in the War of 1812.
This presents the 2nd method of controlling the finances of a country: Indebtedness. In 1812, the British, committed multiple acts of war against the United States.
- Britain began stopping American sea vessels and forcing subjects on the vessels into the British military. This practice was called “impressment.”
- Britain issued a series of trade restrictions designed to disrupt American trade with France.
- Britain provided arms and support to Native Americans in the western frontiers who were attacking American settlers.
The war of 1812 led to the creation of a US national debt. The national debt forced the US to create another central bank, this one called the Second Bank of the United States.
Although the British had learned not to be so apparent in their control of the bank, Andrew Jackson, perhaps the last great president, was not fooled:
Already is almost a third of the stock in foreign hands and not represented in elections. It is constantly passing out of the country, and this act will accelerate its departure. The entire control of the institution would necessarily fall into the hands of a few citizen stockholders, and the ease with which the object would be accomplished would be a temptation to designing men to secure that control in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a president and directors would then be able to elect themselves from year to year, and without responsibility or control manage the whole concerns of the bank during the existence of its charter. It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions millet flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people.
…. Should its influence become concentrated, as it may under the operation of such an act as this, in the hands of a self-elected directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the independence of our country in war? Their power would be great whenever they might choose to exert it; but if this monopoly were regularly renewed every fifteen or twenty years on terms proposed by themselves, they might seldom in peace put forth their strength to influence elections or control the affairs of the nation. But if any private citizen or public functionary should interpose to curtail its powers or prevent a renewal of its privileges, it can not be doubted that he would be made to feel its influence.
Should the stock of the bank principally pass into the hands of the subjects of a foreign country, and we should unfortunately become involved in a war with that country, what would be our condition? Of the course which would be pursued by a bank almost wholly owned by the subjects of a foreign power, and managed by those whose interests, if not affections, would run in the same direction there can be no doubt. All its operations within would be in aid of the hostile fleets and armies without. Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence, it would be more formidable and dangerous than the naval and military power of the enemy.
This act authorizes and encourages transfers of its stock to foreigners and grants them an exemption from all State and national taxation. So far from being “necessary and proper” that the bank should possess this power to make it a safe and efficient agent of the Government in its fiscal operations, it is calculated to convert the Bank of the United States into a foreign bank, to impoverish our people in time of peace, to disseminate a foreign influence through every section of the Republic, and in war to endanger our independence.
Further, Jackson presented a fundamental concept of economics that highlights the major problem of government: the efforts of entities to use the monopolistic powers of government parasitically – usually through money and law:
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.
Nor is our Government to be maintained or our Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves-in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its control, but in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.
Experience should teach us wisdom. Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of Government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them richer by act of Congress. By attempting to gratify their desires we have in the results of our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. It is time to pause in our career to review our principles, and if possible revive that devoted patriotism and spirit of compromise which distinguished the sages of the Revolution and the fathers of our Union. If we can not at once, in justice to interests vested under improvident legislation, make our Government what it ought to be, we can at least take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our Government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy.
After vetoing the central bank, dismantling it, and paying off the national debt, Andrew Jackson became the first president on which there was an assassination attempt. Jackson himself attributed this to his opposition to the central bank.
Following Andrew Jackson’s presidency, efforts by bankers to force a national, cartelish banking system continued. And, just as with the War of 1812, the US Civil War was used to in-debt the nation and to bring in the National Banking Act. Despite the National Banking Act’s efforts to give advantage to the cartelish national banks over the state banks, the state banks began to regain market share in the 1890s. Recognizing this failure, the banking monopolists again sought to force a national banking system by means of crisis. This time, instead of war, the stock market was used.
Early in 1907, Jacob Schiff, the chief executive officer of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, in a speech to the New York Chamber of Commerce, warned that “unless we have a central bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.” Following this threat, “The Panic of 1907” hit full stride in October
In response to the Panic of 1907 we now have the Federal Reserve System.
It is the failure to combat and regulate monopolistic interest that is the principle failure of society. Money being a proxy for power, banking is the primary source of the formation of monopolistic interests. And, once banking is controlled by monopolists, they seize more and more control. They create a police state in their own country, enfeeble the citizenry, and attempt to control the world through banking and a military industrial complex.
But, these concepts are well beyond the capacity of the ordinary citizen to understand. This history not taught. People have a hard enough time understanding the supply and demand curves. And, this fundamental concept of unregulated monopolization always leading to exploitation is almost never recognized.
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