Column by Alex R. Knight III.
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Senator Rand Paul, son of the infamous quasi-libertarian ex-congressman Ron Paul, recently brought a proposal [5] before the governmental body of which he is a member. It moved that – other than the sacred cow of so-called “Social Security” [6]– one percent (1%) of all other fedgov spending, right across the board be cut. That's one percent. Just one penny out of every confiscated federal tax dollar. One cent. No more.
It likely will not surprise anyone reading this that the measure did not pass. No Democrats – those heroes always allegedly fighting for the working class – were in support of it, and fewer than half of the supposedly less government, lower taxes Republicans voted with Paul. We're talking about one percent of spending. An amount that would in practice produce virtually no noticeable effect whatsoever in terms of government reduction. Just 21 members of a 100 member clique thought it might be permissible to trim a mere $30 billion out of a roughly $3 trillion budget to fund government. And that's just for one lousy year.
Is there anyone prepared to seriously continue pretending that those calling themselves government “work for us,” or in any way love “our country”?
The National Debt [7]– the amount the people in government have borrowed out of thin air from the counterfeiters known as central banks and are charging usfor via taxation – is now well over $21 trillion and rising at all times.
Roughly 2.3 million people are incarcerated [8]in America. If we include all the people on parole or probation, that figure inflates to aroundseven million people. A constitution allegedly created to produce the smallest, least intrusive government in history has in practice spawned the most massive and expensive behemoth the world has ever seen, with the greatest number of laws on the books, and more wars and conflicts around the globe than any other.
The failure of this experiment in “limited government” – the absurd supposition that bureaucrats can be restrained by words on pieces of paper – is now long since both flagrantly obvious and undeniable.
And yet when we talk about one percent, that is maybe – maybe – the percentage of Americans who can actually see this situation for what it is and know that the sole solution is not any kind of “reform” (which is essentially always in flux in some capacity anyway, and to no real ultimate benefit), but a total end and cessation of the State Concept and model altogether.
But that is not enough to tip the apple cart. It's not even close, in fact. And on all fronts, time is running out as the last vestiges of freedom and autonomy fade away, and the tentacles of government find their way into the very last vacant niches of human liberty.
Solutions? You can peruse through my archives for a few suggestions I've advanced here and there in the past. Voting is certainly not among them.
I'm not writing this with any kind of a cure in mind this time around, I'm afraid. Just a sense of warning for what is to come. For the one percent. That's not a reference to any group of ultra-rich globalist nabobs, mind you, but to the small minority out there who are already awake and listening. Call it preaching to the choir if you like.
But I don't hear much singing – especially not over the constant cacophonous din of shrill screams for ever more government control in every area of life.
For now, at least, there are simply too few of us.
That must change. Or humanity will die as slaves who foolishly forged their very own chains.
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[3] http://www.strike-the-root.com/topics/govt-spending
[4] http://www.strike-the-root.com/topics/debt
[5] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-trashes-rand-pauls-plan-to-cut-federal-spending-by-1-percent
[6] http://constitution.org/tax/us-ic/schiff/ss_swindle.pdf
[7] http://www.usdebtclock.org/
[8] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.html
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