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“We Are From the Government and We are Here to Help You”

We are so hypnotized by the Divine Right of Democracy or just The Divine Foundation of Government that we are constantly in denial about the Co-dependent relationship between the modern State at all levels and it’s serfs (aka “citizens” yes, you and me).

A recent analysis of the Social Security System is excellent proof of the incompetence of government sponsored safety nets.

Here from the Independent Institute:

SOCIAL SECURITY INCREASES POVERTY

Social Security is often touted as a crucial safety net that protects American retirees from abject poverty.  In reality, Social Security has made it harder for retirees to grow wealthier by reducing their ability to save and thus has contributed to poverty in old age, argues Texas A&M economist and Independent Institute Research Fellow Edgar K. Browning.

For those retiring in 2008:

• Social Security returned an average of slightly less than three percent on retirees’ contributions, adjusting for inflation.
• Had they invested their contributions in a balanced portfolio (60 percent stocks, 40 percent bonds), those retirees would have earned, on average, 5.5 percent – a huge difference when compounded over a lifetime.
• In fact, the annual retirement income provided by a 5.5 percent return is double that provided by the three percent return of Social Security; even more compelling, an investment in the stock market averages seven percent real return, which would mean an annual income of three times what Social Security provides.

Moreover, the yield from Social Security looks even worse when considering that savings fuel investment and economic growth, adds Browning.  It is likely that we would have fewer poor among the elderly had they been free to invest their taxes in private assets.  Once Social Security’s rate of return drops to below two percent, it will only continue to aggravate poverty in the future.

Policymakers are left with the decision to cut benefits or double the tax rates.  Neither option is attractive, but the longer we wait, the harder it is to implement change and the more likely we will be forced to accept substantially higher taxes, concludes Browning.

Source: Edgar K. Browning, “Social Security Increases Poverty,” Independent Institute, August 22, 2008; based upon: Edgar K. Browning, “The Anatomy of Social Security and Medicare,” Independent Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Summer 2008.

Download the Complete Report at Independent Review:

http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=688

Take responsibility and provide for yourself and your loved ones.

& Take Responsibility for Your Own Retirement

And Contribute Directly to Local Safety Nets Such as Food Banks and Charities.

The Second Article in the Silver Phoenix series has been published.

To read it just look for the Ezine widget towards the bottom of the right hand column.

In Your Humble Partner’s Opinion Demanding “Coin Metal Silver” Is THE Most Revolutionary Act That Can Be Performed At This Time To Move The U.S.A. Back To Sound Money.

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It was really fun writing The Silver Phoenix Rises Again but embedded in the entertainment were some very serious, in fact revolutionary, recommendations – the take aways !

(if you haven’t read The Silver Phoenix Rises Again, please read it first)

The Primary Purpose of the article was to inspire action (your action dear reader) towards the remonetization of silver.  Remonetize silver and the remonetization of gold will follow as night follows day.  Ergo a return to sound money which is the foundation of a truly free and prosperous society.  The inimitable Harry Browne made the recommendation to always take the direct route to freedom in his classic How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World.  An example of indirect action would be to buy stock in B-Mart and plan to attend an annual shareholders meeting when you got extremely bad service.  The direct and rational action would be to walk across the street to Target.

The Political Route ? (1)

So what would be the direct route to remonetization of silver?  Join a political party and attempt to add sound money goals to the party platform (this means joining and then influencing the platform committee).  Then run for national office (House of Representatives).  IF  you win, draft legislation and stump for a consensus of rational support in congress…………………… Wrong!

The Societal Route – Individual Action (2)

The direct route would be to simply start using silver as money not just as an investment vehicle.  Currently, those of us who buy silver bullion coins or bars are using silver as a “Secondary Media of Exchange”.  To buy a candy bar or pay for services rendered we must first go to a coin shop and convert the silver (secondary media of exchange) into Money (in the US that would be Federal Reserve Notes or in colloquial terms “Dollars”).  Then we buy the candy bar or pay for services with a direct media of exchange (money) – dollars or euros or yen.  To start using silver as money (as a direct media of exchange) means to actually use it as the primary exchange item.

Actions

I am going to start paying my business partners each month with 10 ounce silver bars for up to 5% of what I owe them.  That would be paying for services with silver as money.  You could start by paying 10% of  your kids or grand childrens allowance with pre 1964 silver us coins.  This would give you the opportunity to share the history of the constitutional dollar with them.  Use it as a teaching moment to share our heritage with the next generation. (If anyone wants me to draft a short history of the constitutional silver dollar for their kids and grand children, let me know).  Be creative and share your ideas with us here.

Coin Metal

Now this is a small but vital first step.  Unfortunately, most of the physical silver out there can’t be used as coins in everyday transactions.  99.9% pure sounds great BUT it is not durable enough to be used as money.  So we need someone to start minting “coin metal” silver coins.  Coin metal silver coins would be 90% silver and 10% copper.  Each silver coin would have 1 full ounce of pure silver and .11 ounces of copper.  The coin would weigh 1.11 troy ounces and would be very durable and usable for many years in everyday transactions.  I am currently working on that project unless someone beats me to it – hint hint (I am a money manager and personal financial coach not a mint master).

Anyone interested in these “Coin Metal” silver coins please share your email address and I will keep you posted.

Silver is THE doorway to sound money – just open it and walk down the yellow brick road. 

Let freedom ring with the sound of silver in every ones pockets.

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE HISTORY – USE IT – INFECT TWO OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE SILVER VIRUS BY SPREADING THE MONEY AROUND.

Rocky Mountain Illumi Naughty Dictionary definitions:

1 Political Science – The art of acquiring with a gun through governmental action what you can’t acquire on a voluntary basis through dialogue and a hand shake.  Always a win/lose situation.

2 Volitional Science – The art of acquiring what you want through dialogue and a hand shake.  It is always a win/win outcome.

A Mango Thanks to Russell Stewart for sharing this Fibonacci with us

Art and Investing DO go together

Buen Provecho mi lectores!

Dear Reader Please Click Over and Check It Out

This is not investment related BUT I am so proud and excited.  I have been working on a new calendar system for a couple of years (one of my many avocations/challenges).  Last night I roughly mapped it on to the Analema.  The result BLEW MY MIND!  To see what entertains your polymath partner…..

Check it out at http://SolsticeCalendar.com/

C’est Moi !

Silver Currency Symbol created & copyrighted by Michael R Stoddard

Posted for the benefit of EZine Article readers – “The Silver Phoenix is Rising Again”.

Prices for goods in 1913 are all over the place – please dear reader please share your research.

See its use in a common GAAP Financial Statements below.

How much did an Orange Crush cost???

PS: If you found this valuable or interesting PLEASE let me know by dropping me a comment!

Grok This First!

Don’t Invest Without Understanding This

Investment Wisdom Begins With…..

Understanding that we live in world dominated by one overwhelming investment reality – the entire world went on a FIAT Money Standard in 1971. Fiat money, besides being a tool of virtually invisible confiscation, inherently creates systemic risk and distorts our perception of what is happening in the world. This core reality informs all the asset allocation decisions that we will recommend to our clients and subscribers. Again, I beg that you read the prophetic words of the most eminent economist of the 20th century.

Read Very Carefully What Keynes is Telling Us

” Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they do not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. the sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their just deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”

John Maynard Keynes, C.B., The Economic Consequences of the Peace page 235.

How could this happen to us ???

With the drafting of the US Constitution, our founding fathers attempted to protect us from the devastating results of “rag money”. But unfortunately after decades of manipulation and disinformation, powerful banking and finanical interests won out. For one of the best explanations of HOW we lost sound money and what the founding fathers originally intended for us, read a short monetary history of the dollar by one of the most brilliant scholars I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Edwin Vieria, Jr., please take the stand. If you can ever get a copy of his magnum opus on the dollar “Pieces of Eight” lock it up. It is eighteen hundred pages of U.S. monetary scholarship that is breathtaking in it content.

Are you outraged now ? You should be ! ! !

Fiat money and the havoc it wrecks upon the investment world is the first and most important reality on our investment map. We will show you how deal with it.

The volatility created by a fiat monetary system can be protected against and used to accumulate wealth.

For a free initial half hour consultation email me at: michael@fibonaccifinancial.com

Currently Silver Does Not Have a Face aka a Symbol

A New Currency Symbol for ISO Silver Currency XAG No. 961

Silver Currency Symbol artist and creator is Michael R. Stoddard.

For those who want to include this new symbol in their word processing and spread sheet fonts, please email your requests to:

michael@fibonaccifinancial.com

I recommend that you go out to Wikipedia’s article on ISO 4217 on Currencies.

Sample Financial Statement Presentation

The “unit of account” for the Founding Fathers was the silver dollar. That is they kept their accounting records in silver dollars. What did they know that we don’t. During the constitutional convention they debated long and hard about allowing paper money but came down strongly against paper money. They resolved only to admit gold and silver as money. They also resolved to use silver as the monetary unit. Officially confirming what they were already doing independently. Why were they so vehemently against paper money? Why mandate in the Constitution that the States could only accept Gold and Silver?

Publishing financial statements in Silver ounces could be presented as follows. The currency symbol is prominently displayed in the upper left hand corner to help with the paradigm shift. The new symbol is displayed at the top and bottom of each financial statement column.

MRS BLOG: SOLSTICE CALENDAR DATE – Wednesday the 18th of Gaia in the Y.O.O.S. 195,009

(see calendar explanation below)

THE GANG OF 20 MEET TODAY IN LONDON TO PROMOTE THE LONG MARCH TOWARD ONE WORLD SOCIALISM

Sing along now!

Onward Comrade Soldiers

Marching Off to War

With the Cross of Lord Keynes

Going on Before………

Civilization on Terra is currently retrogressing into a primative tribal top down command and control phase due to a century of monetary corruption. The fascist allience between banking cartels and governments lead to a financial collapse that is being scapgoated onto free markets. This century long embezzlement by central bankers and governments of their citizens wealth has created massive imbalances in wealth, debt, malinvestment and excessive growth of kleptocratic governments and corporate dinasours. This destruction was envisioned by none other than John Maynard Keynes (one of its key architects) at the beginning of the twentieth century.

READ CAREFULLY – In fact read the following quote five times (tis an ill wind that blows no minds) !!!

” Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they do not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. the sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their just deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”

John Maynard Keynes, C.B., The Economic Consequences of the Peace page 235.

W O W = So De Ja’ NOW Baby = Praise the Lord (Keynes) !!!

There is only one antidote to this potential implosion of western civilization – uber rationalism.

Yes, that means you have to THINK ——- Can You Handle It ???

First assignment – read Alan Greenspan’s article “Gold and Economic Freedom” in “Famous Words” Category of this site.

Your Guerilla Ontologist and Freedom Fighter,

MRS

Stay Tuned For More

Brief calendar explanation:

The Solstice Calendar is a scientific, rational 13 month 28 day system anchored on the Winter Solstice with the last day of the year being the Winter Solstice and New Years Day being the day after Solstice . The Year is anchored on the first known appearance of Homo Sapiens Sapiens on Terra about 195,000 years ago ergo Y.O.O.S. Year Of Our Species. (aka the Thursday April 2, 2009 on the catholic calendar).