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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:52:41 PM
Inflation is one of the most subtle of swindles, because it
takes money away from you "under the table) by causing prices on
everything to rise while your pay remains the same for long after. They blame
it on the "wage-price spiral," ignoring the fact that the
"wage-price spiral" is just a SYMPTOM of the problem. The problem is CAUSED
by the GOVERNMENT printing more and more money with nothing behind it with no
limit, making each dollar in existence worth less in buying power.
Environmentalism is one of the best swindles they have, because who wants to be
thought of as being "against the environment?" The Great "Global
Warming Swindle" isn't a "government swindle" but
governments have gleefully "jumped onto the wagon" because it's a
good way to swindle more people out of more money and power. Then there is
"It's for the children!" That's the hue and cry every time they want
to do something stupid, but which gives them more of YOUR money and more power
to play with. In addition, there's the "anti-gun swindle," the
"anti-smoking swindle," the "Microsoft anti-trust swindle,"
and others too numerous to even mention here. All of these swindles involved
swindling "big business" out of millions, even BILLIONS of dollars
for producing a LEGAL product they have been able to convince people are
"bad for you." With Microsoft it was just their way to force Bill
Gates to give Washington the money he wasn't giving them willingly. They've got
him so afraid that he was heard to say that he intended to "give away"
95% of his fortune. All the time this is giving the government politicians and
bureaucrats more and more money to spend, while "closing in" on us
with more and more laws, rules and regulations, many contradicting each other
so there's NO WAY we can be law-abiding if we violate one while obeying
another. (Ayn Rand makes it clear why this method is so favored. She says it's
a way to make "lawbreakers" out of all of us so they can
"control" us as "lawbreakers.") Probably the best way
Congress (or any legislature) to "help us" is to go home and stop
making laws (I put "government swindles" into Google and got 135,000 "hits." Does that tell you anything?).