By Tom Clunie
December 10, 2025
We are ensnarled with endless wars, a $38T warfare/welfare debt, a homeless-drug-crime-poverty epidemic, graduates who can't read their diploma, and a struggling middle class. What is causing all this?. Mamdani's socialist free lunch paradise certainly sounds more appealing than crony capitalism, but it's likely he'll just become New York City's slum lord mayor. Neither major party seems capable of getting us out of the mess they both participate in creating.
The Core Problem
Is our dishonest, fiat Federal Reserve Syndicate (FRS). This fiat-create-money-out-of-nothing scheme has grown the size and power of the Federal Government far beyond its Constitutional limitations. We frogs are not supposed to notice that inflation theft keeps doubling the cost of our electricity, food, housing, etc. Our $38T debt is wealth subtly stolen from citizens to support crony wars, crony health care, crony everything. Before fiat replaced Constitutional gold and silver, wars and welfare happened only if the people supported them with either taxes or loans. Fiat has transferred wealth and power away from the people and states to Federal politicians. There are very few problems in America that cannot be traced upstream in part or whole to this disastrous deluge of fiat.
Where Do We Go From Here?
The founders said that self-governance works only if citizens are moral, educated, and informed. We have become significantly deficient in all three requirements due in part to our corrupt monetary system. It remains to be seen if enough honest, competent people can come together and chart a course out of the looming collapse.
But for a genuine "Greater Reset," the Federal Reserve and IRS both need to be abolished along with funding by debt. Most taxes should be collected and spent locally. A sales tax is the least abusive of our privacy and rights, particularly if rates are set by the people paying them rather than politicians. Property taxes should be set only by property owners. Voting reform is essential. Freedom is never free; it takes work ! Let's have honest money to set America on the road back to freedom and prosperity for all.
Tom Clunie, a former political talk show host, is a holistic heath practitioner in Ashland Oregon. He can be reached at kemosaby at proton.me.
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