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Take Control Of Your Money. Stop Donating It To Bankers.

M.J. Harris — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:32:06 +0000

How can we be expected to set aside money, wages, and earning over our entire career through vehicles that ride along with the stock market when the market itself goes up and down faster and more frequently than most rides at Six Flags Great Adventure.

It seems that most companies expect their employees to put part of their money back into a 401k plan or IRA plan. The promise for doing this is a good return on investment, growth and you get to shelter part of your wages from taxes.

However once you put it in, the money is not yours anymore. You can’t touch it or move it without paying heavy taxes and penalties, but I suppose you can look at it.

“Just look at how much money I might have in 5 years if I don’t die, and the market doesn’t implode….nice.”

Meanwhile hedge funds and investment banks get to play around with your money through the funds you have been duped into investing in. Meanwhile, they are free to build up some companies and destroy others on a whim, in hopes of eliminating competition and consolidating power for their friends. While naturally making some money for themselves along the way.

Can you expect your money remain safe over the course of the next 20 to 50 years?

However if I just held back cash in a personal stock account or invested into real assets like gold, silver, land, property, or even put some money into ownership a local business. You could even buy a cow and have a better return and more freedom and control over your investments.

Now I am much more free to ride the markets up and down with my money, and I can move it, sell it, transfer it to whomever, whenever I want. I can tie a rope around my investment and walk it down the road if I please. This is starting to feel much more like true financial freedom.

Without full control of your money, to buy and sell, and enter and exit contracts at will, how could you expect to be safe, secure, or free.

There is however, much more risk involved when you have freedom. With real freedom comes the freedom to think and do stupid things.

“But it’s our wits that makes us men.” - Malcom Wallace from Braveheart

If you live your life in a box, insulated from every difficult decision, passing off all the choices and options on to others who would more gladly take the risks with your time and money, in exchange for the promise of a modest return at a later date. Then perhaps you do deserve to be conned, swindled and led to slaughter.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin wasn’t only talking about personal safety that we all hope to get from the Department of Homeland Security. To live truly free, you have to be able to put it all on the line. Sometimes you need to go ALL in, not just 10% over 25 years paid in 3 times a year, and matched by your employer. And God forbid, if you need to get it ALL OUT, should you really have to pay a premium to take back what used to be yours.

It makes absolutely no sense to give another penny to a group of individuals who has proved time and time again to be working solely for their own interests. A group who has been convicted of countless frauds and who has gambled away lifetimes worth of money.

What they know, that you don’t are the rules to the game. The economy works like a casino. Given enough time the house always wins. The trick is keeping you entertained long enough to let the house suck you dry, while giving you the impression that you are actually winning something.

Guaranteed, the individuals managing the funds you invest have never stepped foot in the city or state where the money came from.

When you invest into large money markets, pensions, or lifetime retirement funds you are willingly transporting your money out of the place where it came from and into the accounts of Wall Street money managers. Who will no doubt lend it back to your municipality at interest when your local tax revenues fall short of the budget. Thanks for the “bailout”.

However, taking control of you money is dangerous. Like the first time you hold a gun in your hand. All of a sudden you have an enormous power to suddenly create, or destroy. You could become rich, or you could lose everything, but hopefully somewhere in the middle. With great power comes even greater responsibility, but there is no nation of people that has ever earned their freedom while sitting on the sidelines.

Money is more than just means to move through life. It’s a representation of your time and labor. Every dollar you earn is a piece of your life spent to obtain it. It belongs to you, your family, and your community. You should not give even one penny away without careful consideration for who it goes to and what it means to you, because its much more just a penny. It’s minutes and seconds of your life that you can never get back.

When you pass on, you can leave behind some remnants of a market fund thats been taxed 50% and divided up after fee’s and etc. Or you maybe just leave behind Betsy the Cow, I’d like to see them try to come take half then.

Buy something real, while you still can.

PIGS Boost The Dollar But Americans Forget To Feed The Piggy Bank

M.J. Harris — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:23:39 +0000

by MJ Harris

The latest numbers show that the US trade deficit had widened again this month. Instead of Americans spending less and saving more so that the trade deficit can shrink, the government is encouraging more spending so the trade deficit is actually expanding.

There is still alot of uncertainty surrounding the Greece and the Eurozone ‘PIGS’ bailouts. (This is how the financial markets are refering to the heavily-indebted countries of Europe: Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain.) Causing temporary flight back to the dollar. Bringing it to its highest levels in several months. These bailouts are bad for the economy as a whole because it promotes reckless behavior and rewards those who took on too big risks, with no regard for consequences.

This also sends messages to surrounding countries that they don’t need to reign in their risky behavior as well because no matter what happens they will be able to get bailed out.

“The problems we see in Europe will be coming to the United States soon at the state levels.”

Senate Candidate Peter Schiff recently said in an weekly podcast “In the end the federal government will come to the rescue with bailouts and that is going to lead to more reckless spending and even more risky lending by institutions because they feel like they will eventually get bailed out themselves.”

We know that the federal government is approaching bankrupt as well, as it continues to raise the federal deficit ceiling.

While the dollar has seen a temporary boost while others countries are in a state of panic, there is still a day of reckoning coming for the US dollar. We have been borrowing more and more money, however we aren’t spending money on productive things. Instead the majority of money is “blown” away in the middle east, while the rest is sucked down the drain of endless pension benefits for people who are no longer working.

The artificially high levels of the dollar have provided a great opportunity to buy gold. Just a few months ago gold was breaking records every week. Now it has pulled back off of those new highs, providing a good price to buy more. The new strength in the dollar should be short lived because Washington continues to run the printing press around the clock. Which will eventually create another round of new highs for gold in the years to come.

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The Tea Party Movement Has Been Hijacked

M.J. Harris — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:25:05 +0000

by MJ Harris

The Glenn Beck’s and Sean Hannity’s of the Republican party have been trying to capture the momentum created by the truly independent outrage of the average American. Big government and big corporations have teamed up on both sides of the aisle and now there are people who want to profit from the backlash.

Our growing discontent sewed it’s seeds under the Bush administration, but America has been off course for much longer than just ten years. The promises of perpetual war and an ever increasing size and scope of government has led to such great things as the “Patriot” Act, warrantless wiretapping, and the loss of more freedom and liberty since Orwell wrote 1984.

Homeland Insecurity

Today snapping a photo on the sidewalk can land you not in jail with a court date and trial of your peers, it goes much further than that. You will be indefinitely detained, questioned and held without recourse, only to be released on your way with no charges or record your encounter whatsoever. Until the next time you try to board a plane when you will find out that photography lands you Homeland Security watch list A.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

My own father has been identified to be on one of these list, when he was pulled out of line for an enhanced search. A Caucasian, conservative, tax-paying american, who has never even left the country, and never drove over the speed limit is pulled aside to be put through the full spectrum of interrogation and harassment, because the lists must be “balanced”. Meanwhile an Islamic African national with no passport, luggage, or identification, and who had been identified as extremists by his own family, is waved through security with a wink and a nod. Oops looks like that guy was actually the one who had the bomb.

For a brief moment there was Hope that war in the middle east may be coming to an end, but now we are seeing the beginning of a new war in Yemen, and the civil unrest in Iran is only the beginning. Obama had campaigned on a promise to return freedom and liberty to America, he promised Change from the Bush policies, but today we have seen things only become worse. Full body scans are needed to enter an airport, no one may use the restroom the last hour of the flight, and we are made to fear water bottles, toothpaste, books, and all forms of boxes in general.

We are made to fear the great “Al Qaeda” ghost and pray that our we can be saved from these terrorist by our loving government. Both parties are playing this card to its fullest extent, but those who cannot run a used car exchange program certainly cannot deliver us from evil.

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

The Two ‘Party’ Party

The champions of the Tea Party movement, posing as conservatives and libertarians, are doing their best to stop the “Obama Socialism Express” but meanwhile boast the greatness of Bush administration. Regular guests and friends on the Sean Hannity show include Karl Rove and Darth Vader himself, Dick Cheaney. The same ones who brought us the Haliburton war’s and backwater “contractor” assassins.

Now people are led to believe that they have a “Plan” for victory.

The neo-cons are trying desperately to reign in those who stray from the two party system. Every day on every program the fox radio broadcasters stress how important it is to keep our beloved 2 party system intact. Without it there will be the complete destruction of American values and morals and the other team will win.

Communism or Fascism; those are you choices, don’t think for a minute that you could have anything different.

The kind of victory they have in mind is quite different from what I have in mind.

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

Obama’s team of Mao loving communists are just as deadly to the constitution as Bush was. Obama’s team is possibly even more dangerous. Obama is more authoritarian, more ego-centric, and far more persuasive than Bush could ever have dreamed of being. A combination that makes for a Supreme Dictator.

The Train Has Been Derailed

The neo-cons have championed the Tea Party Train and have now derailed it completely. The movement was grown out of the Ron Paul 2008 “Campain For Liberty”. We are the people who wanted neither their “prosperity nor security” at least not in the ways our two parties have proposed to give it to us.

The left promises prosperity by giving us everyone else’s money, and the right promises security by taking away everyone else’s liberty.

We can only have prosperity AND security where there is Freedom and Liberty.

NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION

GOP party organizers are now throwing extravagant “Tea Party” fundraisers, dinners with a pricetag of $1600 dollars per plate.

Many of us who had no money had created a true populist movement that swept across the country. Now in the course of just a few months we have allowed all of that power to be taken from us and given back in to the hands of those who rightfully deserve it. The wealthy elite, who can afford to buy their freedom.

Enemy Of My Enemy

Every Fox News pundit now miraculously has been converted, they now claim to be either “conservative” or “liberterian” but somehow are also for bombing countries that have fewer people than we have cars and may God help you if you speak poorly of Mr. Bush on one of their shows.

Do not confuse the enemy of our enemy for a friend. They will point out with professional accuracy the flaws on the other side of the aisle, in an attempt to bring you back to theirs.

We are now left with only two choices, grow or die. Every living organism exists in only two states, growth or decay. We must increase our size until we outnumber both parties or disband and assimilate back into the two parties and hope and pray we can steer the ship back to sanity.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

2010 is here, and the deadline is coming upon us very fast. 11 months to create a real third party movement or be assimilated into your choice of Globalist Commie’s or War Hungry Neo-Con Fascistas.

It’s time to get off your computer, go out of your house, campaign, organize, raise money, grow the party, and make lots of noise. Victory goes to whoever wants it the most, which is why we have allowed our movement to be hijacked.

The theme for 2010 is GROW OR DIE.

Fake Jobless Numbers Dazzle Obamunist Supporters

M.J. Harris — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:13:42 +0000

by M.J. Harris

“This is good news just in time for the season of hope.”

President Obama had this to say following the jobs summit this week.

“The nation lost 11,000 jobs this November. Which was about 115,000 fewer than was forecast and the unemployment rate ticked down instead of up”

The bad news is that its all wrong.

What Obama called the best jobs report we have seen since 2007, is clearly also the best piece of fiction written since Harry Potter. This government logic and imaginary numbers sound promising when delivered by our actor in chief, but it couldn’t be further from the truth.

Here’s a simple math problem:

There are 100 people.
20 do not have a job.
Therefore the unemployment rate is 20 percent (20/100)
You expect 10 people to lose their job this month however, only 5 people do

What would the new unemployment rate be?
According to this administration it would be 15 percent.
That sounds about right, but is it?

No, the new total is 25 out of 100
So it should be 25 percent.

How is it mathematically possible to have any loss in total jobs and a decrease in number unemployed at the same time.

The real reason for the decrease in unemployment…thousands of people every day losing their benefits. So they are no longer unemployed because they’re homeless. The real unemployment rate is above 18 percent and when more people lose their jobs that rate should go up rather than down.

Up to one million people will be losing their unemployment benefits in this coming January.

You can be sure that after those 1 million more people are out on the street this administration will claim another strong victory in defeating unemployment once again.

The road forward

Coming off of the presidents recent job creation forum there were not many promising ideas to look forward to.

“He cited an expanded program to help make more U.S. homes energy-efficient as an example.”

“The president said there were some ideas that could be put to work almost immediately and other ideas that will become part of legislation for Congress to consider. He listed “moving forward on an aggressive agenda for energy efficiency and weatherization” as a prime candidate for quick action.

Meanwhile special interest groups are foaming at the mouth waiting to get their hands on some more of other peoples money.

With unemployment levels above 10 percent, Obama said “We cannot hang back and hope for the best.

The ONLY way out of this depression is to accept that government cannot provide new jobs for the economy.

We need to first, reduce government waste and cut it way down to a smaller size then we need to eliminate taxes and burdensome government regulation.

As nice as it sounds installing CFL lightbulbs in every home across the country is not going to lead our nation out of the abyss.