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The Bible says there will be no peace in Israel on Earth until Jesus, the Messiah returns, the same could be said of the U.S. in the 21st century. The U.S. is indeed in a perpetual state of war. The cycles of peace and war leading up to and throughout the 20th century are gone and have given way instead to constant conflict.

It is puzzling to observe and reflect how the U.S. has been directly engaged in total “war” in two countries for 8 years with little populace resistance to these efforts. For some reason supporters of these bellicose engagements that include various types of Americans from soccer moms to politicians maintain positions or beliefs that rely on superficialities without grasping the essence of the phenomena had the Iraq invasion occurred, except for one terrorist event, ceteris paribus.

Clearly, many of these sycophants realize a war has been waging since before 9-11. They argue this simply to support the dogmatic position of a war on terror that was finally treated as a war when Bush went into office. If this was the case why did that administration run on a policy that was the complete antithesis to a position in which Bush only later adopted along with a new catch word for himself that was purposely utterred whose unfortunate consequences should not have been overlooked, “wartime president”. With this term all considerations were beaten down that could have led to a conclusion advising against a war. And then, to make matters worse, Congress abdicated its Constitutional responsibility to require a full declaration.

Its obvious these people knew little of the conflict before 9-11 and after. Especially since they counted on a war of only short duration. Before its outbreak the idea would no doubt have been called absurd that a protracted engagement neither could have been waged nor should have been waged. But the wild claims of Wolfowitz and other administration officials were touted as in the ballpark so to speak and appeared generally acceptable.

A crusade for intervention:

More importantly now, is the present day economic condition of the U.S. 8 years later. Apparently, the economic aspects are only understood by keeping in perspective the dependence on contemporary developments of the economic relations between the various nation states that led one nation in particular to strike.

But it should be considered that in the history of war that once the financial constraints that had held previous polities in check fall away, the government’s road toward war and conquest is much easier. It is through pre-existing government control of economic matters that is most important. For example a monopoly as such as it exists today with the Federal Reserve and the violent protection of the creation of money. History shows that a monetary system based on a reliable standard such as gold only limits the exercise of power, but innately is a check on inflation, with the benefit of providing a stable money supply its citizens can rely on. A good example was in Britain which for a time when the money supply was based on gold, led that country to become the premier world economic power during the 19th century.

The first requirement would be to have a bank immune to arbitrary interference by the government. Instead we have a forced currency. As the present day financial conditions worsen in 2010 the government will continue to do whatever it takes to keep the system perpetuated. And soon this will result in emergency measures brought upon the people. The first steps have been taken by the government. The overinflated money supply. At some point as the condition deteriorates, transactions of any kind will be illegal unless conducted with government printed currency. No purchases with gold, silver, or any other medium of exchange will be tolerated, except what is forced upon us as the government attempts to control its citizenry and enrich only their self interest which is continued power and privilege for the ruling elite.

Geithner called to explain AIG bailout secrecy

The bailout that started with Bush, any federal bailouts for that matter, is an intervention by the government that attempts to force the businesses to transact their affairs in way that satisfies the government rather than the consumer. The Government in this latest case is simply trying to make it so that entities that would have failed otherwise survive. The consumer, the real boss, would have let these businesses fail, or at least some of them.

Moreover, the businesses left standing and the new ones that arise from the ash-heap that would have been alle jung, gesund, und stark aber at least continued lending money to businesses. Instead, by obeying the new master, government in this case, the surviving businesses, chosen by government, in what seemed to be only an isolated interference in an allegedly free market economy actually contributed to effects that were less satisfactory. Business lending froze. The result was the opposite. These continual “isolated” interventions only distort the economy from functioning on behalf of the consumer. Eventually, the government responds to each distortion until they have total government control.

(recent credit card laws go into effect)
But there was a catch. [Credit] Card companies had nine months to prepare while certain rules were clarified by the Federal Reserve. They used that time to take actions that ended up hurting the same customers who were supposed to be helped.

chi paga* (who pays)?:

With czar’s being appointed for various economic sectors I expect a modern day Deutsche Arbeitsfront culminating in direct control over the economy.

The recent conduct by the government that resulted in an insurmountable debt and inflation of the money supply will most certainly bring about an increase in prices. The government will of course address this, after causing it, by asserting various price controls and so on that will bring even greater distortions. Eventually, this trend will collapse or reverse course.

This is but one of an array of effects resulting, at first unseen, by the financing of two unsustainable wars. Remember, the elected leaders in 2001 only fore casted a quick, cheap war in Iraq, the more expensive of the two. To get it so wrong and not be held accountable is unconsionable. Yet, it continues. A war, or wars and occupations that will last in perpetuity at least by the governments nebulous definition, until events on the ground say otherwise.

To provide the illusion of a healthy economy during the 2000’s the government in cooperation with the Federal Reserve embarked on a course of easy credit, artificially low rates and incentives to instigate the kind of bubble that popped in late 2007. To dismiss this as result of Democratic langering through GSE’s and legislation by Barnie Frank is simply political ignorance. After-all, this is the Bush economy that was so proudly touted by conservatives during the 2004 election until the bubble burst.

This wasn’t about lack of regulation on the market, GSE malfeasance, or Barney Frank incompetence. This was about providing the illusion of a rich and powerful nation that decided to use all of its resources to wage war and nothing else. Folly prevailed in this case. A populace that was ignorant to the facts, and didn’t care so long as the illusion continued.