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By: d daxx

d daxx — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:30:04 +0000

In addition, try to understand that government, at all levels, are only supposed to fund themselves according to their immediate needs, not future (wants)alleged needs. When and if you decide to read what the intent of the Founding Fathers was/is, read the Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers, and the Second Federalist and you will understand that the Founding Fathers distrusted government most of all and that is the reason for the Bill of Rights; and especially the Second Amendment.
In actuality, the Amendments should never have been made amendments to the Constitution since they do not amend the design of the limited and restricted government. They should have been added as a series of Proclamations that were added in order to specifically limit and restrict the government with regard to the inalienable Rights of the natural person, Period! However, they, not unlike the present, dumbed-down, masses-r-a—es, apparently figured that the Constitution would be sufficient to restrain government. In the Federalist Papers, I think that it was Hamilton that stated, “We must be wary of mischievous and perhaps evil persons (government)”, and again, “We must be wary of the stealthy encroachments of government”, and look at where the States are today, with Homeland (alleged) security and all of the other police-state actions that are conducted each and every day!

By: d daxx

d daxx — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:21:00 +0000

For Bill and all others, there are three websites that provide all the necessary information you will need to both understand and realize just what the CAFR funds are. They are CAFR.com, CAFR1.com, and CAFRman.com.
Enjoy learning how government is stealing your labor and profits for its own personal gain.

By: Bill McGee

Bill McGee — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:45:30 +0000

Hi Sheldon:

Really liked the “boon or doggle” piece and think your treatment added new clarity to the true isues. I did not even know what at CAFR was until today and a FEE-wide search provided no hits. I am both “doggled and boggled!” Are you going to write about them?

Bill

By: d daxx

d daxx — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:28:32 +0000

I am still very surprised that not one comment either from the readers or from Mr Richman regarding the enormous amounts of the CAFR funds and what elimination of those funds could do for the country.
Those agencies created their own alleged laws to create those exhorbitant CAFR funds even though there was no authority in the first place. That, in my mind is scurrilious theft. Take those monies away from all government agencies and deny them any opportunity in the future to sequester those funds and the so-called need for money will disappear!
Wake up amerikans before you really are ameriKans!

By: Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:14:00 +0000

William, quite right. National security has been the pretext for all sorts of government activity, from interstate highways to federal aid to local government schools.

By: William White

William White — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:24:39 +0000

Great article. You did resist a punchline. All infrastructure originally came with fairly big signs that proclaimed the military necessity of their building:

Canals to nowhere in the 1830s to provide an alternative to New Orleans as a barge transshipment port for the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio watershed. The culprit in never accomplishing this goal, the victor at the battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson.

The Transcontinental rail subsidies were intended to speed evacuation and resupply of the west coast in case of attack. this has yet to be done.

By: d daxx

d daxx — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:20:54 +0000

Greetings. I am always curious why the many writers who attempt to describe or understand the financial situation that exists in this demokracy but never mention the trillions of federal reserve notes that are being sequestered in the CAFR funds.
Each and every government agency from the smallest town to the federal government maintains CAFR funds for their pensions, etc. However, the private, market-place has to pay for insurance for those same funds because any attempt to maintain such a fund would price their product(s) out of the market.
If all of those CAFR funds were utilized to do away with the debts, the repair of the infrastructure(s)and any other government expenses, and those agencies were to tax only for their necessary expenses as they occurred, we could eliminate the (un)federal (no)reserve and put this once great Republic back in the position that the Founding Fathers intended!