I had just returned from a lovely stroll on the beach in drug-war-torn Acapulco and was pleased by, yet again, returning un-beheaded – despite the warnings from the western mass media. I entered into my 29th floor beachfront condo with a full view of Acapulco Bay – a place, by the way, that cost me less than $100,000 and has annual property taxes of $300 (shameless plug: you can own one too: Acacondos.com). (Perhaps that is why the American media is trying to portray Mexico as being hell on earth – if American's knew how beautiful, free and cheap it was here they'd be climbing that wall to get into Mexico!)
My maid, whose daily service is included in my condo fees, greeted me as always with a big smile and a gift of some mangos she had brought from a tree outside her house. I had brought up a fresh coconut I purchased at the beach for $2 (fresh coconut juice is one of the healthiest juices you can consume) and sat down to my workstation to go over the vagaries of the day.
Someone had forwarded me a link to a website called Recovery.gov, a government website where they try to do the impossible: track the economic improvements caused by stealing money from people (taxes) and then spending it on politically motivated, unproductive things (a.k.a. waste). Good luck with that, I thought!
A cute little hummingbird, my favorite animal, had stopped to partake of some flowers on my patio and it's beautiful colors against the bouquet of flowers, green-blue of the ocean and the deep blue of the sky struck me as being particularly breathtaking.
I took a sip from my coco and pondered on how much I enjoy living in paradise when my eyes glanced back at my computer screen to a big red button right on the front page of Recovery.org.
I nearly choked on my coco juice!
“You gotta be $*&%'in kidding me!” I snorted, forgetting I wasn't alone.
“Que, senor?” my maid asked.
“Oh, nada… nada. No lo puedes creer!” I responded.
Report fraud, waste & abuse? There should just be one big check-box beside that statement where you can just reply, “Yes.”
Fraud? While most think the majority of politicians are stupid, which they are, they aren't all “that” stupid. In other words, many of them know this is just a big game of taking money from some people and delivering it to their friends and supporters. In other words, many know this “recovery” plan isn't an honest attempt at “doing what is right”. Fraud? Check.
Waste? Government “stimulus” spending is the epitome of waste. I'm surprised they haven't defined stimulus as a synonym of waste in the thesaurus yet. How do you know it is ALL waste? None of these things the government is spending your money on is being done by private enterprise. Private enterprise only does things that are profitable, otherwise they cease to exist. It's the beauty of free enterprise. If private enterprise isn't spending $3.4 million to build a “turtle tunnel” in Florida or $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station, that means that it isn't worth it to build. If it was worth it, then private enterprise would have done it. Spending for things that no private company would bother doing is, by definition, waste. For anything which does not produce profit wastes resources on things that are unwanted/unnecessary. Waste? Check.
Abuse? It goes without saying that the poor American citizenry have been abused for decades by an out of control government who views them as tax milk cows. It's bad enough the government has put the average American family of four nearly $1 million into debt ($70+ trillion in debt and unfunded, long spent liabilities divided by 310 million population = $226,000 per person of federal government debt and liabilities) but they continue to pile on the debt day after day under the pretense of “recovery”. Abuse? Check.
Speaking of that recovery, how's that been going?
24% unemployment, as measured by the way the government used to calculate unemployment in the 1990s, before they figured out how to rig the numbers. Up 11% from 13% in 2008. Woohaa, that's quite the recovery they are engineering!
The only silver-lining in all of this is that the US government, whether by default or by collapse cannot exist for much longer. Once they are finally gone the millions of hard-working and industrious people in the US will finally have “hope” and “recovery” will not be just a fraudulent slogan but a reality.
Until the US government is gone, however, it will be a wild and crazy ride. One in which Dollar Vigilante subscribers (Subscribe today!) are well prepared for as we help arm them with information and advice on how to enact your own personal declaration of independence – in the spirit of 1776, something which has obviously long been forgotten in Washington, D.C.
