When Government Lies – A Challenge To The Press

By David R. Young as published on TheBrennerBrief.com

“We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks with interest.” – President Obama

“…the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence….” – Joseph Lieberman

“The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody’s constitutionally protected rights.” – Janet Napolitano

Doing what is “right” is relative. What is good for the butcher is bad for the livestock. In a free society, the wrongness or rightness of political action is relative to one essential element; Freedom. Not “freedom from”, “freedom for” or “freedom to”; but just freedom: The ability to act without restriction. The challenge for government is not to create sweeping laws which restrict criminal actions en masse, that’s lazy, dull and all too common. The real challenge is to enact precise laws which restrict antisocial actions that inhibit human rights. Laws are created for the criminal, but only law-abiding people follow them. Therefore, laws mainly have the effect of restricting freedoms of law-abiding and rational thinking men, such as sitting at a red light at night for three minutes with no cross traffic in sight. That is a lazy and stupid law.

A criminal is easily defined: it is basically a person who takes something and gives nothing in return; be it a watch, a car or a life. The criminal seeks to obtain without giving back something of comparable value. Communism attempted to solve this problem by eliminating private property; for where is the crime if someone takes from you an item you don’t own? And yet, a communist government forcibly takes all property without any equitable compensation. Thus, the basic precept of communism is based on criminal reasoning. (more…)

The Wall Street Money Machine, Players Beware

By David R. Young as published on TheBrennerBrief.com

Look everyone! The stock market on Wall Street is hitting all-time highs, and the largest transfer-of-wealth scheme in history is building momentum. The fundamentals of economic success, if not forgotten, are all but ignored as money vomits from the gaping mouth of the Federal Reserve carnival. With its flashing lights, roller-coaster ups and downs, and the grand prize winnings for those who participate, the mainstream media pitches to the crowd to “step right up” and prepare to lose everything.

Stop – just for a moment – just for a bit of sanity, and take a few minutes to review the seemingly outdated fundamentals.

The free market is a system of exchanging products and services. Grow some wheat, or manufacture a stove, and sell it – then use the profits to buy items you need and want such as food, transportation, etc.

The barter system is a direct exchange system, or a product for a product. It is the most basic economic form, and when money fails, this is the system a community falls back on.

Capitalism is not the free market. It is a system of investing money to “produce” more money. Participants invest dollars into an activity which produce goods in order to obtain a share of the profits.

Capitalism cannot exist by itself. It feeds on a thriving free market. An “economy” based on an exchange of money for money’s sake – as glaringly exists in the stock market today – produces mirage-like wealth that can and often does disappear in to thin air, leaving worthless paper in your hand.

The stock market is a system of “middle men” between you and your investments. These middle men are always chasing fresh rumors looking for the jackpot. Therefore, they can be manipulated by false information, false reports and false statistics. On April 23, a hacker on the AP Twitter account reported the following: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is Injured.”