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One year
As I reflect on the year since the fall of Afghanistan and the 21st anniversary of 9/11, all I can think of is…
How soon we forget.
How short our attention span is and how easily we let others dictate our lives, our choices, our focus.
How it started:
How its going:
Ridiculous exit strategies against all advice leaving tens of thousands of people in the lurch and fearing for their life and leaving $50-$100 billion in assets to pay off cronies all around the world.
Not a great strategy for keeping your country safe nor giving your allies confidence in you.
Mind you, which is your only job as United States president.
Why do wars persist?
I’m not here to fight red/blue or lib/conservative or black/white because those are losing battles.
Always have been and always will be.
Precisely why George Washington warned us about the two-party system in his farewell address over 200 years ago.
Two-party system is easily co-opted and coerced by mobs and money.
And the plebs are left with no good options and zero place to go.
But again, why do wars exist?
We can head to another famous farewell address where Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us against the military industrial complex siphoning off blood, sweat, tears, and wealth away from the citizenry.
Did we heed either of our two former president warnings?
Of course not.
Wars persist because of the perpetual currency printing machine.
The currency printing that allows governments to fund endless wars by stealing the wealth of its citizens through inflation (indirectly) and taxes (directly.)
War bonds anyone?
What we clearly need is separation of money and state.
A sound money that cannot be corrupted.
A deflationary money and that cannot be printed.
A money that is tracked and has to “put in the work” each day in order to maintain its actual value.
These wars were inevitable because the military industrial complex is in bed with the government.
Cabinet positions being filled by lobbyists.
The revolving door swings back and forth smacking the ass of each unproductive class member as they exit and enter private and public sector each four year cycle.
The last three secretaries of defense we’re all worth a combined $18 million plus. (below.)
Our current secretary of defense literally left the board in “the complex” at Raytheon, among other companies, which as you may have guessed builds weapons for militaries all of the world.
Conflict of interest much?
As you can see, the revolving door doesn’t care what aisle you are on:
Not to say he or any of these men aren’t qualified. Who am I to determine that?
My point is to get you thinking that this kind of non-sense happens everywhere all the time.
If only there was a way out, A NEW OPPORTUNITY…
If we had sound money and we weren’t having central banks screw with our dollar then we never would’ve had to take ourselves off the gold standard and then make a deal with the devil.
Henry Kissinger never would have made the deal with Saudi Arabia to trade all the oil in dollars in return for our global military protection.
That lasted a couple decades and bit us in the rear end.
In a bitcoin standard, that doesn’t happen.
It incentivizes peace and incentivizes thoughtful decision making.
Not only because it’s all recorded on a ledger for all to see but more importantly because it benefits people monetarily to create value through goods and services instead of stealing it through currency printing.
Which just to remind you is not possible on a bitcoin standard since it is finite and immutable.
Meaning every Satoshi accrues value over time instead of losing value like fiat dollars.
Oh and it cannot be taken from if property secured off exchanges, in your cold storage.
Never forgetting, means never again.
So as we sit back and remember those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us I believe it is time to remake our monetary system how the founding fathers would’ve wanted it (as they routinely wrote about): on a sound money system away from central banks and back in the people’s hands.
Thomas Jefferson if he were alive today, would say, separation of money and state is the only way!
Stay strong,