"We're from the government and we're here to help" - Audit the Fed

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I have found myself unable to create a new post without choosing a hive to post from. HELP!

The following spiel may not belong in Freewriters, but @MarianneWest is the least likely to downvote me for posting in the wrong community.

Panic, hysteria, fearmongering, is there a prompt I could use to unleash my concerns about authoritarian measures coming our way and the American instinct to fear once you grant them temporary powers, they'll make permanent moves?

We saw it with the Patriot Act. Phone surveillance. Loss of privacy.

Coronavirus has been so much in the news, I hardly need mention the Draconian measures taken to curtail. I'm not opposing the shutdowns and quarantines, but I do question everything I hear, every statistic, ever new measure passed.

As a nation were already split, already seeing Millennials leaning toward Socialism, and older Americans fiercely defending laissez fair economics, capitalism, and minimal government.

Old School Americans think like this:

One of the scariest things you will ever hear is "We're from the government and we're here to help." - Ronald Reagan

This email from a doctor sums up quintessential American skepticism:

Dear (Citizen),

We don’t know how bad the coronavirus will truly get.

But after forty plus years in Congress fighting for liberty, I can tell you bureaucrats and politicians in BOTH parties salivate at the prospect of citizens gripped by fear and panic.

... If you’re anything like me, you’re leery whenever statist politicians and their pals in the global bureaucratic elite insist they must enact endless “emergency” measures to “save” us from anything -- especially when many of those same statists and elites are determined to seize any opportunity to advance their own agendas.

Sadly, our national media goes right along pushing for more, more, more!

Just look around . . . governors in state after state demand businesses close, shutter schools, restrict travel, even suspend elections, and effectively prohibit religious gatherings .... with new demands on phone and Internet companies to help them snoop on citizens, unlimited government spending on Keynesian “stimulus,” and an orgy of Federal Reserve bailouts for the global financial elite.

Where is all this money going to come from?

Even before Congress’ latest spending spree, the national debt had ballooned to over $23 TRILLION under the economic myth they can spend and spend without consequence because the Federal Reserve can simply print the money out of thin air without anyone suffering the slightest when the bills must be paid.

They’re dead wrong.

And those problems will far outlast the coronavirus.

... The reality is, coronavirus exposed the economic rot the Federal Reserve system created by abandoning sound money in favor of fiat currency and their raw power to meddle in our economy.

If the Fed quit meddling, we’d have true price discovery, markets would naturally stabilize, and the purchasing power of our dollars wouldn’t be so easily squandered away.

What’s more, the global financial elites would find it much tougher to plunder our wealth.

I’d say that’s pretty big incentive for them to spread panic and encourage arguably premature “emergency” measures in many areas to grind the nation to a halt and cover their tracks.

After each financial disaster, the Fed assures us it’d be “enough this time,” and they’d soon ween the financial elites off the “monetary morphine!”

But as almost anyone could have predicted, they weren’t about to.

As a doctor, I can tell you morphine is one of the most dangerous and addictive substances known to man. First, just a little of the opiate masks a patient's pain. But then, addicts crave more and more until overdoses result in death.

.... instead of doing the hard work to get clean, the financial elites decided to go on a bender when things began looking dire.

The Fed has pumped $9 TRILLION in “loans” to their Wall Street cronies, since just last September and the supposed “technical glitch” in the repo markets.

And with no end in sight, the Fed’s bailout sheet now stands at $4.2 trillion! For perspective -- the entire annual federal budget is “ONLY” $4 trillion!

If that weren’t enough, over the last week, they cut rates to ZERO, and announced they’d pump another $1.5 trillion PER DAY and plow full steam ahead putting Lord knows what kind of garbage on the Fed’s bailout sheet.

If they actually spend all the money they’ve committed to, they’ll surpass half of the entire $23 TRILLION national debt by May.

. . . It’s absolutely vital you sign the Audit the Fed petition I’ve prepared for you insisting that your U.S. Representative cosponsor H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act.

I designed this bill to remove restrictions on Congress’ ability to know what the Federal Reserve is doing to -- and with -- our money.

Under current law, the Federal Reserve can conduct its own foreign policy in complete secrecy independent of the Executive Branch by making deals and lending money to foreign central banks and governments.

How can an entity as powerful as the Federal Reserve operate with no accountability?

Congress created the Federal Reserve -- and our elected representatives need to take back their ability to conduct informed oversight.

Without the authorization to conduct a full and thorough audit of the Federal Reserve, politicians are just fumbling around in the dark in their oversight role.

And with their vast power, the unelected, unaccountable, and secretive Federal Reserve holds our economic fates in their hands -- as well as our nation’s political future.

Worse, their feeding on the coronavirus panic could become a vicious, if not fatal, circle. This will not only send our economy veering toward total collapse -- but it will give the statists worldwide all the ammunition they need to clamp down on individual liberty.

....Please share this message with everyone you know . . . friends, family, and business associates. Ask them all to sign the petition ....

For Liberty,

Ron Paul
Chairman

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Split,

fractured, divided - may we be united soon. And back to business as usual.

Marianne, I love this:

Dang - I am starting to think that I must have special powers or something. You know that I create prompts way in advance and they have been eerily fitting to our situation...

I am sure most of you know about the upcoming hard fork that will create the new blockchain the Hive. Read about it in this post:
https://steempeak.com/communityfork/@hiveio/announcing-the-launch-of-hive-blockchain

if you haven't already, please let us know if you are going to be Hive only, Steem only, or both for the time being.

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