Letter to Michele Bachmann Concerning the Fed

PO Box 130

West Shokan, NY 12494

June 26, 2011

Michele Bachmann

103 Cannon HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Dear Ms. Bachmann:

Please take a position concerning the Federal Reserve Bank and the legal tender law.

I recently gave a small contribution to your campaign and to Ron Paul's and Gary Johnson's. I am not certain that I will vote for a Republican in November 2012, though.  One reason I contributed to you is the legacy media's bias against you.

In order for me to continue to support your candidacy I will need to know where you stand on the Federal Reserve Bank. You need to be specific.  Stephen Moore's recent Wall Street Journal article* about you was unconvincing. Moore indicates that you would appoint a different Fed chairman than Bernanke, not that you would eliminate the post altogether. I appreciate your opposition to TARP.  But the headline referred to Ludwig von Mises while the authors whom you admire include Art Laffer and Milton Friedman.  Milton Friedman's monetarism and Art Laffer's supply-side economics depend on big government.  Perhaps you might base your position on Hayek's essay "Denationalisation of Money." 

I await your position on the Fed, which is the decisive one concerning big government, for the Fed is a necessary and sufficient condition for big government.

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

*http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576375491103635726.html?KEYWORDS=bachmann

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Political Contribution Season

My good friend Mike Marnell has sent an e-mail to his friends urging them to contribute to Ron Paul's presidential bid.  I also received a call from Michele Bachmann's campaign. As well, I have been very favorably impressed by Gary Johnson.  Johnson told me that he favors repeal of the legal tender law, which is close to favoring abolition of the Fed.  Paul favors abolition of the Fed. I'm not sure of Bachmann's position on the Fed, but I have heard that the legacy media hates her, which I verified by taking one look at the ridiculous spin that CBS calls news.  I don't get annoyed with the legacy media any more; I simply don't pay attention to it. (I never watch broadcast journalism, but might make an exception for Fox Business News's Judge Napolitano.)  Since CBS hates Bachmann, I am going to support her too.

I decided to kick off the 2012 presidential campaign by giving small donations to Paul, Johnson and Bachmann. I'm not ruling out support for the Libertarian Party, though.  I'm still not sure if a split government (Republican Congress, Democratic President) wouldn't be better than a Republican Congress and a Republican president given the Republicans' stupidity the last time around.   The problem, of course, is Obama's distasteful position on Israel and his insistence on destroying the American economy by inhibiting development of energy and other natural resources such as coal and oil.  Obama, a banker lackey, is even more corrupt than the Republicans were. Bush made a mess of the economy. Obama made the mess 50 times worse.   In other words, the Democrats are so bad that even a Wall Street marionette like Mitt Romney is better than an anti-Semitic Whig  like Obama.

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FBI Investigates Long Time Obama Comrades

Mairi sent me this article from Accuracy in Media. AIM says that according to The Washington Post, the FBI is conducting an investigation of communists in Chicago that has reached "Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some who have been active in labor unions that supported his political rise.” Also according to AIM:

Those under investigation are suspected of providing support to foreign terrorist organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the Middle East, a Marxist group. The Post called them 'Colombian and Palestinian groups designated by the U.S. government as terrorists.'

The FBI must be a racist organization. The proof: they are investigating Obama's associates. Obama's media supporters probably won't explain why the president possibly has associated with terrorists. After all, in The Economist's view, presidents rise to the office. Perhaps in four years the Democrats will run Bill Ayers himself.

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United States of America, RIP

I just received this e-mail. Professor Tyler was prescient, but he omits one point. In American democracy the ideology of freedom and the ideology of hard money had to be replaced before the ideology of Progressivism or socialism could replace them. This was done by ideologues posing as experts in fields like economics and sociology.  Also, American socialism does not even benefit the voting mob. It benefits a thin layer of super-rich, who have used Progressive and socialist ideologies to explain their money grab. The e-mail reads:

 

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2012 
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
           
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in  St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:

Number of States won by:          Obama: 19          McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by:      Obama: 580,000    McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:    Obama: 127 million  McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:  Obama: 13.2  McCain: 2.1 

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the  United States  is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA  in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Someone should point this out to Obama. Of course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The Constitution. There couldn't be more at stake than on November 2012.

If you are as concerned as I am, please pass this along.

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