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The Fed (and Central Planning) Are Fueling ...

By Doug French

Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, included ten planks required to create a socialist dictatorship. Number five on the list is “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.” America’s Federal Reserve satisfies this requirement, especially the modern version, which grows exponentially in size, scope, and power, engineering financial repression “for governments to increase tax income and domestically-held debt.”1

While socialism continues to creep from university classrooms to replace once-upon-a-time laissez-faire in everyday America, opioid use has grown to be termed an epidemic.

The Fed (and Central Planning) Are Fueling Substance Abuse
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Why You Need F-You Money

By J.L. Collins

Those who live paycheck to paycheck are slaves. Those who carry debt are slaves with even stouter shackles. Don’t think for the moment their masters don’t know it.

Why You Need F-You Money
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Teachers Unions Are Bad for Teachers. Here’s Why

Rigid pay scales, high dues, lousy pension system: Membership has its privileges.

The New Jersey Education Association, the state chapter of the largest teachers union in the country, boasted more than 200,000 members and $154 million in revenue last year. You might think it focuses on helping teachers become more effective and making the public schools better—especially now, with more than 80% of the state’s districts still not offering full-time in-person instruction 13 months after the pandemic began.

Teachers Unions Are Bad for Teachers. Here’s Why
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Value Is Subjective: Neither Gold Nor Crypto ...

By Connor Mortell

A major hurdle to the adoption of bitcoin is that while the average person may be at least open to the idea that fiat money is not the ideal, they still struggle to see a difference between fiat money and cryptocurrency. And this lumping together is not just held to the average adopter but includes many brilliant household names such as Peter Schiff and Elon Musk. This widespread conflation of cryptocurrency and fiat currency comes from two vital misunderstandings: a lack of an understanding of what exactly fiat is and a lack of understanding of value’s subjectivity.

Value Is Subjective: Neither Gold Nor Crypto Have "Real Value"
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Understanding the Fed's Balance Sheet

By Robert Aro

The Fed’s balance sheet could easily be replaced with the phrase abracadabra; truly, there is little else in the world which works as magically as it does. Often cited, seldom understood, few seem to realize that as the balance sheet expands, so too does the power of this central bank at the expense of the entire nation.

Understanding the Fed's Balance Sheet

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America Needs to Reconsider Its Foreign Aid Program, Stop Nation Building and End the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

By Lee Enochs

Recently America's Defense Department announced that it has suspended $300 million in funding to Pakistan over what it calls the government's failure to take action against terrorists.

This suspension of aid is part of President Trump's broader cessation of funding to Pakistan which the President announced this past January. 

Trump and his administration believe Pakistan is not doing enough to curtail the terrorist activities of the Taliban and other extremist organizations that the Trump administration says are flourishing in Pakistan with the approval of its government.

"Due to a lack of Pakistani decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy," the $300 million was redirected to "other urgent priorities" before those funds were set to expire on September 30, U.S. Army spokesperson Lt. Col. Koné Faulkner told NPR.

While I personally commend President Trump for cutting off the gravy train from Pakistan, the subject of foreign aid in general should be called into question.

With the national debt now soaring over $21 trillion dollars, the United States cannot afford to continue to dole out endless cash payments to foreign governments.

Also, it is time for the Trump administration to pull America's military out of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and cease attempting to fulfill the NeoCon dream of promoting its vision of globalist nation building abroad.

While cutting Pakistan off from receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in American taxpayer generated money, we need to reconsider our entire approach to foreign aid and foreign interventionism.

Lee Enochs is a political writer and pundit who currently lives in Southern California. Lee’s limited government articles and Op-Ed’s have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. Lee is also the author of the book, “The Case for Rand Paul.”