Stefan Molyneux

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George Orwell wrote that, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” You have probably heard confusing phrases like the trade deficit, the falling dollar, the national debt, unfunded liabilities and so on, which all sound vague and actuarial and vaguely - well, “not me.” The reality behind these accounting phrases is perfectly monstrous. When someone -- a foreigner, say -- loans money to the American government, what are they getting in return? Well, they are getting promises of interest payments, and eventual repayment of the principal. Where does your government get this money? The government is not a business; it does not generate profits in the free market, so where does it get the money to repay its creditors? Do you see where this is going? Are you beginning to understand that it is not dollars that are being sold, or bonds, or agency debt, or treasuries, or anything like that. Where is your government going to get the money to pay off its creditors? It is not pieces of paper or contracts or computer bits that are being sold. There is only one thing that the government has to sell. Governments have only one asset that they can use as collateral. Your leaders are selling you. When China lends $800 billion to your government, what they get in return is a guarantee that $10,000 dollars -- plus interest -- will be taken from your family at gunpoint and shipped overseas. When a farmer gets a loan from a bank, he uses his livestock as collateral. It is the milk and meat his cows will produce in the future that he will use to pay off his loan. The bank is buying a share in his cows. You are the livestock your leaders use as collateral. The people that you cheer for and throw parades for and drop balloons behind and donate money to are selling you to Chinese rulers, to the Japanese, to the Nigerians, to South American drug lords with accounts in the Caribbean banking centers, to Russia, to Korea, to Egypt, to Colombia, to Chile, to the Philippines, to Malaysia -- and anyone else who is willing to give them a few dollars in return for the blood, sweat and toil of your future. The flag that you praise and the anthems that you sing and the rulers that you weep and kneel before have as much loyalty to you as a plantation owner had to his slaves. And sadly, plantation slaves had more pride than we do. Plantation slaves did not generally praise their masters for selling them off, for auctioning off the lives, hopes, dreams and futures of their own little children. We can understand that cattle may lick the hand of the farmer who lowers an axe to its neck, because cattle are dumb beast that cannot comprehend their real relationship with the farmer, and his imminent plans for them. What is our excuse? When we chant “USA” “USA” “USA,” when we cheer and bow and beg and scrape and sing and weep with joy that some new farmer now presides over the wholesale dismantling and sale of our family’s future, when we love with obsessive emptiness the leaders who laugh while they auction us off to every tin pot dictator and stockbroker the world over, what is our excuse? Has our pride been so broken that we lunge with pathetic joy at every new silver tongued demagogue who pretends to care for us, even a tiny little bit? In the future, our children will ask why we knelt and cheered as they were sold on the auctioneer’s block. This video -- and my life’s work - is my answer to my child. What’s yours? http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?p=42087 http://www.itulip.com/images/foreignholdingstreas1952-2008.gif http://www.itulip.com/images/foreigndebtCBO2007.gif http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt fstn http://blogs.cfr.org/wp-content/uploads/setser/unpleasant_4.gif http://www.iousathemovie.com/

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Thanks for taking the time to come to this discussion board - we are always eager and happy to chat with new members! My name is Stefan Molyneux, and I am the host of the radio show and the moderator of this board. The purpose of this board is to discuss anarchy, atheism, morality, philosophy, psychology, politics and government (whew!), and many of the discussions are driven by topics in the Freedomain Radio show. In general, the people who post on this board are interested in exploring the true nature of political power, and how societies can run without a centralized political State telling everyone what to do. We are almost all pacifists, in that we despise the use of violence above all else - except in very rare circumstances of self-defense. Government is an agency which claims a monopoly of the use of violence in society, and we strenuously object to that claim. Morality is a universal absolute, and what is wrong for private citizens must therefore also be wrong for politicians, policeman, soldiers, prison guards, court judges, and so on. It is wrong for you and I to steal, therefore it is wrong for the government to steal our money in the form of taxes. You and I cannot force other people to obey our whims - and therefore politicians cannot force other people either! We do not believe that government -- or the use of violence - is ever a legitimate solution to complex social problems. Poverty, drug use, welfare, health care, old age pensions, war, crime - all these complex problems are simply made worse by the government barging in and throwing the armed might of the State around. So thanks again for dropping by - we welcome positive contributions to the art and science of discovering how society can best work in the absence of government!