Thomas Massie is one of the few in Congress with any integrity. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) sat down with Tucker Carlson for a little over two hours, where the two discussed a variety of topics, including the grip that lobbies such as AIPAC has have over legislative agendas, freedom of speech, government surveillance, and the influence of the media when it comes to the political polarization of American politics.
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Massie began by opining on the US National Debt, which currently stands at just under $35 trillion.
You know, it’s hard to comprehend 14 digits of debt. But when you see the last five digits are moving so fast, you can’t, you know, perceive them with your eyes, then you kind of understand. Whoa, we are problem here. I mean, it’s a $100,000 a second, roughly. So imagine we had this catapult and we were launching, cyber trucks once a second into the ocean. That’s how much debt we’re taking on, continuously.
He noted a troubling tendency by Congress to treat the debt as a mere abstraction vs. an urgent reality that requires immediate and decisive action, telling Carlson “I am trying to make people feel very uncomfortable” so a to raise awareness.
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The only way to get out of debt is to admit that the Federal Reserve is an illegal and immoral monopoly and discharge the debt by declaring it a fraud and establishing money based on value, i.e. it represents stored value of a real item. Any other attempt to slow down spending, balance the budget, i.e. don’t spend more than you bring in but as long as the economy is working with fiat (debt) dollars being debt free is unattainable. To repay the debt under this system all currency would have to disappear from the system and the interest would still be owed.
Offering to keep the dollar as a reserve currency to collect interest or use fees does not resolve the problem of a fiat currency. Debt enslaves and makes people subject to the debtor.
~ Chad
Where will they jump to after running FUSA into the ground?
Will the yellow man outsmart them?
Babysitters and “flak back home” are thanks to the rapture cult who heard it from the good reverend who drives an Escalade while they drive an old beat up hooptie?
Pass the collection plate, God just declared bankruptcy.
(snark)
Why was there no reference to a rapture for 1800 years until comrade Scofield came along?
Must be a reason why the Long March started in the church before it was even called that.
Education was an important one and it took a lot longer with declaring it openly in 1979 with the department of education.
How could people be so insouciant (h/t-PCR) and not notice all of these snouts under the tent of freedom?
We have a treadmill and debt slavery for that.
Breaking from MF Doom and MC Paul Barman:
Hot Guacamole (CCR Down on the Corner sample!)
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