Lunatic Fringe: Bernanke & The Dissolution Of The American Ideal

We have tax evaders. We have adulterers. We have people taking bribes. We have people using their office for their own financial gains no matter how "illegal". Most of them have never run as much as a lemonade stand, and have not the slightest clue about how a business works. Yet there they sit, making rules for the masses, rules that we have to abide by or "go to jail".

Lunatic Fringe: Bernanke and The Dissolution Of The American Ideal by Bob Rinear, Robert Foster, et al from Invest Yourself

This letter is going to be offensive to many many people. That's fine, I'll simply chose to use my first amendment rights, even though I understand it will bother a lot of folk. As you proceed through the letter, you're going to ask yourself a question, and it might go somehow along this line "Isn't IY about the economy and the markets? What's this rant got to do with that?" The answer of course will be "everything". So let's get to it. Oh and by the way, if you can't deal with what I'm about to go off on, please exercise your rights to hit the "unsubscribe" button while you are still free enough to do so.

InvestYourself isn't going to solve the worlds problems. The giant gears of global society are turning and will not be repealed by a small newsletter writer. All we can hope for is that "some" amount of people ponder what we say for long enough that they actually "do" something for themselves. I'm not stupid enough to think I have all the answers, I don't. But I'm smart enough to know that when a ship is sinking, I want to be real close to the life raft. America the Titanic is sinking. The Captains are telling the passengers that everything is fine, she's a sturdy ship, and we'll be back on course in no time. Meanwhile the water is rising.

The increasing, detailed, intrusive regulation of life, the national desire for control, control, control. Everything is the business of some form of government. Want to paint your shutters? The condo association won't let you. Let dogs in your bar? Never. Decide who to sell your house to? Racial matter. Own a dog? Shot card, pooper-scooper, leash, gotta be spayed, etc. Have a bar for men only, women only, whites or blacks only? Here come the federal marshals. Want to open a lounge that lets people smoke while having a drink? Can't do it. Want to drink a sugar packed soda just for the rush? They want to tax it, "obesity" tax. What isn't controlled by government is controlled by the crypto-vindictive mob rule of political correctness. This wasn't always in the American character.

Add the continuing presence of police in the schools, the arrest in handcuffs of children of seven, the expulsions for drawing a picture of a soldier with a gun. A woman gets arrested for watching her neighbors kids at the bus stop because she isn't licensed to run a daycare. Something very twisted is going on. America stood for the land of the free, home of the brave. Now we are the land of the controlled, home of the scared. The nanny state has brainwashed the population into believing that Government knows best, Government will keep you safe, just give up your silly ideas of freedom and come under the great wing of Uncle Sam, he'll protect you, keep you from harm. Yet who is "the Government?" Isn't it nothing but a collection of men and women? It is. Oh and what a grand troop they are. We have tax evaders. We have adulterers. We have people taking bribes. We have people using their office for their own financial gains no matter how "illegal". Most of them have never run as much as a lemonade stand, and have not the slightest clue about how a business works. Yet there they sit, making rules for the masses, rules that we have to abide by or "go to jail". Why are criminals allowed to make rules, that make us criminals if we don't abide by them? Why do people who've never run a business, get to make laws concerning business?

Just 65 years ago, Fine American soldiers returned from Europe. They had defeated Hitlers Germany. Then over the next 20 years, they outproduced, and outmanufactured, anything the world had ever seen. America was the single largest manufacturer, The largest exporter, the richest nation on earth, the worlds largest creditor to the world, and guess what? They did it all without 90% of the "Rules, laws and political correctness we have in place now. Kids weren't handcuffed for drawing a gun, in fact they went home and went shooting with their fathers after school. Women weren't arrested for watching the neighbors kids at the bus stop, in fact, it was quite common for each "mom" to take her daily rotation in watching over the kids that week. The nice lady down the street wasn't shut down and fined for cooking some turkey dinners for the poor people on Thanksgiving, she was praised in the paper.