freedom isn’t free I guess?
On #2 ... Your car.
The biggest one ticket item OMITTED in the list:
You will lose your priveledge to drive if you don’t get, pay and keep insurance on you and the drivers.
STATE LAWS mandate you buy insurance and you must prove it to the almighty govt even before you can pay the other ransom fees for registration, etc.
“But when those families get booted out onto the street they don’t get their down payments back. They don’t get all the mortgage payments that they have made back. The banks get to keep all of the money and all of the houses.”
I hate it when that happens. It’s like paying rent. That’s why I don’t owe anything on either of my two homes.
“When you base an entire economy on debt...” I like to think of it as debt based wealth. There is something unreal about it right up until the moment reality sets in.
“Fishing License Taxes ...Hunting License Taxes...” I look at these as good investments. It’s a small price to pay for good, fresh catfish and elk in my freezer.
Ping for later
Debt slavery is NOT capitalism!!!!
#36 - the rent you pay the government to live in what’s supposedly your own home.
Plus, through the magic of currency devaluation, here called ‘quantitative easing’, your money’s value mystically disappears.
| year (jan) | note | my home $ | gold $/oz | my home in gold(oz) | silver $/oz | my home in silver(oz) |
| 2006 | 425k | 550 | 772 | 9.25 | 45,946 | |
| 2007 | dems move into congress | 380k | 625 | 608 | 12.75 | 29,804 |
| 2008 | dems have congress for one year | 290k | 885 | 327 | 16.00 | 18,125 |
| 2009 | dems take whitehouse, 0bama steps in | 270k | 860 | 314 | 12.00 | 22,500 |
| 2010 | dems in full swing | 250k | 1150 | 217 | 17.50 | 14,286 |
| 2011 | GOP takes back the house | 224k | 1360 | 164 | 29.00 | 7,724 |
| 12 APR 2011 | 222k | 1452 | 153 | 40.05 | 5,543 |
although it may look like my home value dropped to 50% of what it was in 2006, in real world buying power, it is now 16-20% of what it was in 2006.
the dems and progressives have done a real job on the people of the US
do the math yourself. check out zillow.com for your home value over the passed 5 yrs. plug those values in, calculate the value in terms of ounces of gold and silver... and you'll see how much you've lost
And above all, when you hold any of your wealth in the form of US Dollars, when government prints more of them, they are stealing wealth from you for government’s own benefit. One result of this is the price of assets like land and precious metals goes up in dollar terms even though there is no change in wealth. Government gives itself the power to define that increase in dollars as “profit” and “income”, and to levy an income tax on it.
Fiat money when combined with a tax on incomes is the grandest scheme of theft in all human history.
Matthew 6:19-21 (King James Version)
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Unfortunately, it just about the only wealth tactic "wise" people have been taught.
On the lighter brighter side, every dead-beat in American gets a free ride...