Mindconnection eNL, 2011-06-05

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In school, you were expected to sit down, be quiet, and do what you're told. Same thing in the workplace. Those in authority were right. People in those positions must be smart. Smarter than you, anyhow.

Unfortunately, while we eventually realized our parents didn't know everything, few of us come to any such realization about authority figures. Most of us still think the CEO is the smartest guy in the company. The boss must be pretty smart to be the boss. Essentially, we're back in that childhood viewpoint of seeing someone in authority as smarter than we are. Even if we intellectually understand this is not so, in our subconscious many of us believe it.

Do you doubt this? When's the last time on the job that you came up with a great idea that wasn't related directly to an assignment from your boss? When's the last time your company's management struck you as particularly brilliant and forward-thinking? Unless you work for Apple, it's probably sometime between "never" and "I can't remember."

Most of us are conditioned to show up, put in our time, and complete our assigned duties. We focus our brainpower on the mundane. Are you selling yourself short that way?

Oh, but maybe you don't have the experience your boss does. The education. The resources. The whatever. Well, that should not hold you back. You have everything you need to make your unique contribution. To stand out from the cubicle dwellers around you. What your boss has that you don't have is irrelevant, whether real or perceived.

Your boss isn't thinking strategically or coming up with new, great ideas (unless you have a very unusual boss). Chances are good that nobody in your company is doing this. Everyone is focusing on grinding out the work, getting done so they can go home.

It is seldom true that the person who runs things is the smartest one in the room. It is usually true that everyone else in the room is self-intimidated into underutilizing their smarts.

So, impress your boss by overcoming that intimidation and presenting ideas that can help your department or company do better. Better yet, impress someone who reports directly to the CEO (you will have to create an opportunity for being heard and for this person to want to listen--a hard sell will backfire, so don't do that).

You still need to respect authority, of course. Taking an attitude that only you have a solution will not work. Instead, take an attitude that you can help solve real problems. Present things in a deferential fashion, if you must. The key is to save the deference for the presentation rather than the thinking.

When people refer to "the debt," they are typically referring only to that portion of it that exists in the form of US Treasury bonds. Since most of those bonds are held by Mexican and Chinese peasants, there would be no repercussions to the USG for simply declaring those bonds worthless--in other words, repudiating them.

 

However, that $14 trillion is only a small part of the total debt. The total exceeds $200 trillion. The remainder hasn't been foisted onto any hapless third parties. We are just floating that part of the debt. I haven't though about how repudiation would work, but it seems that repudiation of that far larger portion of our debt would be catastrophic.

 

This debt is so threatening (and so brazenly immoral) that the USG doesn't have any centralized accounting for it. There's not a balance sheet showing USG assets and liabilities. In other words, it's hidden from sight and the USG simply lies about it.

Now, on to the main thrust.

I often come across a reality-challenged opinion that our staggering national debt exists because taxpayers demand services. In case you come across someone who:

1. Votes.
2. Holds this opinion,

...here are three talking points by which you might dislodge one more enabler of the vast enterprise known as "the federal government" (which does very little governing, but does a great job of being a tool by which criminals steal).

1. With few exceptions, the services we receive from the federal govt are akin to stud services. And we are not the stud.
2. The national debt is now more than 3 times the GDP of all nations combined. As all debts have carrying costs, the ongoing economic depression has an obvious cause. When you know the cause, you can "solve for X" and maybe get rid of the problem. Working on any solution not related to the cause will not solve the problem.
3. Civilized countries (those which have an actual government, by which I mean a legitimate one that operates by laws rather than by purchasing political appointees, "elected" officials, bureaucrats, judges, etc.) have a full plate of social services but little or no debt. Either they are hundreds of times more intelligent than all Americans, or we just have a corrupt system in place here.

So, why do people repeat the falsehood that our debt slavery is somehow the fault of the taxpayers whose misrepresentatives in CONgress keep transferring taxpayer wages to the employers of members of CONgress? I say it's the incessant brainwashing done by the state-run media and other tools of the thieves who have members of CONgress on their payroll. Possibly, there is another explanation but this seems the most likely to me.

It seems to me that the only realistically viable way to stop the stealing is one brainwashee at a time. Let's get to it! When someone lays this "the victim deserved it" trip on you, set that person straight.

Don't let people tell you:

1. It's your fault that the USA has this staggering debt, by "demanding govt services" that simply do not exist.
2. Somehow, the people allegedly "elected" to office can't make simple choices and prioritize spending so the nation can live within its means.
3. People who go to work every day also believe there's such a thing as a free lunch (i.e., something for nothing or money grows on trees)..

Destroying the three idiotic points above:

1. How many citizens are demanding that the federal govt burn $21 million an hour on the Pentagon Acquisition Program, which results in almost 100% wasted funding (only 5% of the money results in fieldable weapons, and the "able" is almost never "ed"--most of those are unnecessary and never get used)?
2. Many single mothers budget limited funding every day for their own households, so we know proper financial management can be done.
3. If American workers thought money grows on trees, why would they put in 60+ hours a week while their European counterparts work half as many hours? And surveys show that most Americans hate their jobs, going to work only for the money to pay their bills. Would they do that if everything cost nothing?

The simple truth is the massive debt exists because of stealing.

It has nothing to do with "services," as most of us are lucky if we get back a penny on the dollar (many get back a negative return on their taxes; just ask the family that lost a son to some pointless war that is making employers of members of CONgress rich).

Your major costs exist purely as a consequence of this stealing. While you can't immediately fix the problem, you can be part of eventually solving it. The alternative is to let things get worse by allowing others to perpetuate the fraud.

Fact: Most of what the federal government does is statutorily banned by the Constitution (see the 10th Amendment). That is, it's illegal. Thus, most of what the government calls "services" are actually crimes. Law and order are obviously foreign concepts to a government that refuses to govern itself or follow its own laws. So it is not your fault that CONgress is, de facto, a criminal enterprise. It's the fault of those who occupy seats in CONgress and make it that way.

It's your money that's being stolen. The truth may not set you free, but it may help stop the stealing. It will also help if you explain to others why it's important to refuse to vote Demopublican (see the above discussion, and "why" becomes self-evident).

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• Healthy skin.
• Foundational nutrition needs met.
• Protection from diseases stemming from nutritional deficiencies.
• Provides basis for other supplements to function properly.

Shortly after turning 50.

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At www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:

• The best workouts are short and intense.
• A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

In 1796, Napoleon was only 26 years old when he took command of the French Army of Italy. Today, the national debt is so large that today's 26 year old American has no hope of ever being free of it. But anyone entering the workforce today can look forward to a lifetime of servicing that debt through long hours, high taxes, and inflation. However, there is hope for change. To start ending the madness, vote Libertarian.

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