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UPDATE II: A Correction’s Coming (‘Default By Inflation’)

Debt, Democrats, Economy, Inflation, Propaganda, Republicans

From John King, USA (CNN statist) to Shepard Smith (FoxNews statist), to Fareed Sakaria (all-round Zombie), to Larry Kudlow: all are agreed that the chief danger to the US economy comes from the debt debate, and not the actual debt.

Causality has been turned on its head in all but one of the Newsspeak-dominated TV programs. Thus it is alleged that the downgrade of America’s credit rating is what will cause the country’s economic downfall, when it is the reverse. First came an economic collapse. Assorted indices are catching up.

Ask yourself this: If the US Treasury was flush with cash—and on a sound footing—would a downgrade of its credit outlook by Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s cause the country to go off the economic cliff? Economic reality dictates an economic demotion—a flight from US Treasuries and the dollar and a concomitant rise in interest rates, because, what do you know? The US is broke.

The latest wheeling and dealing is here.

In this preordained, dead-end debate, default is another fudge factor:

“Federal tax revenues vary by month, but should total around $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion for FY 2011– an average of perhaps $180 billion per month. So clearly the federal government has sufficient tax revenue to make interest payments to our creditors. For now, those interest payments represent about 12 percent of the total federal budget.”

UPDATED I: BASTARDS LOWER THE BAR. The dead-end debt debate reaches a new low. The newsspeak in circulation (and native gullibility, and I’m being charitable) has ensured that Americans now believe that the political stand-off, and not the spiraling spending, is what will seal the country’s economic fate.

The next step?

The players—the people who fund this orgy are at work—arrive at a Grand Compromise to loud fanfare, their own. This “compromise” is truly Orwellian: you make a huge deal about cutting spending just a wee bit more than the rise in the debt ceiling which you’ve okayed.

How far astray from the original goal of slashing the debt have the politicians led a willing people? Well, at least everyone now knows what the S & P is.

Read about the upcoming symbolic vote on Boehner’s plan.

UPDATE II: “DEFAULT BY INFLATION.” As I said above, the natural laws of economics do not obey the (positive) laws politicians make, whatever these creatures ask you to believe. Warns Ron Paul:

“Default is coming. The only argument that’s going on now is how to default, not send the checks out or just print the money. In all countries our size, they always print the money,” Paul said.
“They’re going to raise the debt limit, and then they’re going to print the money, and then they’ll default by inflation, and that’s much more dangerous than facing up to the facts of what’s happening today.”

Lovely Lack of Legislative Accomplishment

Elections, Federalism, Law, Regulation, Republicans, Ron Paul

Lack of legislative accomplishment, according to former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, makes his fellow GOP 2012 candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann “unfit to be President.”

On NBC’s Meet the Press today, Pawlenty went after Bachmann, who holds significant leads in the polls, saying “Her record of accomplishment in Congress is nonexistent — it’s nonexistent.”

Pawlenty should look for another angle to bolster his lackluster presidential campaign. Unless they are passing legislation to repeal other legislation, the less legislating the clowns in Congress do, the better—for every one of us. An example of a good legislative record is that of “Dr. No,” aka Ron Paul.

Naturally, it’s hard to find information about how voluminous the United States Code is, but it’s safe to presume that it has its own dedicated building.

Where Was Coulter On … Economic Freedoms, Asks Vox Day

Ann Coulter, Bush, Debt, Economy, Federalism, John McCain, libertarianism, Republicans

My WND colleague Vox Day wants to know “where was Miss Coulter when the McCain-Palin ticket suspended its Republican presidential campaign to help the Bush administration collude with the Democratic Senate to ram TARP down the throats of a protesting American public?”

“Cowering frauds,” writes Vox—with reference to Ann Coulter’s term for libertarians who do not want a department of marriage affairs to be added to the Federal Frankenstein in enforcing morality—“is a term that is best reserved for Republicans, who preach fiscal responsibility while repeatedly raising the debt ceiling, who talk about the importance of respecting the law while permitting Wall Street to openly violate it at will, and who claim to advocate personal freedom while staunchly supporting a futile Prohibition that saw three times more Americans arrested for drugs last year than were arrested in 1980.”

Check the WND archives for the two months leading up to the 2008 presidential election. Miss Coulter was too busy cheering on the Red Faction of the bifactional ruling party in a futile attempt to elect John McCain to bother speaking out against the Republican elite’s rejection of economic reality, small government principles, the U.S. Constitution and the American people. On the other hand, WorldNetDaily’s two libertarians, Ilana Mercer and myself, wrote no less than 10 columns attacking TARP and the treacherous Bush bailouts during those two months. When viewed from this perspective, Ann Coulter calling libertarians ‘”cowardly frauds” looks rather like Anthony Weiner calling Pope Benedict XVI a perverted exhibitionist.

Sacrificing Kids To PC Pietism

Conservatism, Crime, Ilana Mercer, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Race, Racism, Republicans

The excerpt is from “Sacrificing Kids To PC Pietism,” now on WND:

“After brief observation, here is how an alien from deep space would puzzle over the creatures who, by dint of a miracle, still dominate the Western world:

This prototypical man is flabby in body and mind. He is fearful and easily cowed. He erupts in tears at a drop of a hat. He is gripped by the culture of apology and flagellates over sins he has not committed.

His eternal state of expiation is driven not by goodness, but by insufferable self-righteousness.

This archetypal man forgives unspeakable violence against himself and those he is obligated to protect. He would not hurt a fly, much less repel a foe.

An astute alien would notice that, in this regard, there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ earthling. Both insist on catering to and enabling organized entities – in politics and in other crime – that despise them for their abilities and frailties, and instinctively seek to harm them.

These hostile identity groups segregate themselves voluntarily from the Western weakling, something our alien well-understands. He himself has little respect for a people that enables evil as a matter of principle. (However, to his superiors, the alien in this parable will be recommending not conquest, but cooperation. It better fits with his civilization.)

Flash- feral mobs flood places of commerce across the once-great country of America. What does the overwhelmed creature under observation do? ‘Conservative’ or liberal, he refuses to finger his assailants.

Instead, his experts implicate abstractions (“risk-taking”), and his media mouthpieces (The Huffington Post and Fox News) point to technology such as social media. Yet another, least logical, bogus causal agent invoked (at the American Thinker): the racism of the Democratic Party.

Not only does this generic Joe refuse to identify his proud, empowered attackers, but he rejects the possibility that they act out of ingrained animus for his kind.” ….

Read the complete column, “Sacrificing Kids To PC Pietism.”

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