We’d already be living in relative paradise if it weren’t for governments and centrally planned banks (central banks). The 20th century saw billions lifted up out of squalor thanks to a fair amount of freedom in the western world and countless innovations by entrepreneurs. But so much of it has been squandered. Destroyed. The internet alone likely increased productivity by as much as 100% or more, which should have meant massive prosperity.
But so much of it was destroyed by taxation, money taken from the productive and given to bottom feeders (public workers and bureaucracy) and much of the rest was destroyed by the inflationary policies that destroy economies. Yet central bankers are proud when they tell you that by their own lying, propaganda “consumer price indexes” there hasn’t been too much “inflation”. No one can ever know what the true cost of their damage was, but without them prices would be down significantly for most goods over the last ten years… instead, gas prices which are currently at near all-time nominal levels.
GASOLINE NEAR RECORD HIGHS
And in some cases, record breaking levels, such as in Kalifornia. Last week, gas prices hit a record average of $4.655 for a gallon of regular gasoline in the golden state.
However, it should be noted, and was noted by TDV correspondent and silver vigilante, Justin O’Connell, that there may be more than meets the eye in terms of gas prices in Kalifornia (“String of Inside Jobs at Fault For Near-Record California Gas Prices, Pump Closures?”).
FOOD AT NEAR RECORD HIGHS
Gasoline is one of the life bloods of the global economy, but there is something even more important to human survival: food.
Again, during a time of massive technological improvements all of the savings that should have shown themselves in the price of food commodities has gone in the opposite direction.
Even a look at the last few years shows major price rises in the fuel that humans run on.
Notice in the charts on gasoline and food that for a very brief microsecond in 2009 the prices of all things fell dramatically. This, according to Ben Bernanke, is very bad. According to the stupidest smart man alive it is very important that nothing ever be cheap. When things drop in price, due to a deflation scare, he considers it to be one of his top priorities to ensure they do not remain cheap for long. Much of the western world also believes this, just look at housing. When house prices go down, most people think it is a terrible thing. That is, of course, because most people own houses. Everyone loves inflation when they own assets. As for people who don’t own homes? Too bad for them. And, the 636,017 estimated homeless in the US? Even tougher luck.
To rub it in, numerous cities across the US have even made it illegal to feed the homeless! The criminal mayor of Philadelphia recently banned feeding homeless people in many parts of Philadelphia where homeless people are known to congregate. Last June, a group of activists in Orlando, Florida were arrested by police for feeding the homeless in defiance of a city ordinance. And, in Houston, a group of Christians was recently banned from distributing food to the homeless, and they were told that they probably would not be granted permission (a permit) to do so in the future even if they applied for one.
The war on the poor has been in full process for decades as the US churns them out in record numbers. Nearly one in six US citizens now depends on government food handouts to eat.
Meanwhile, a disability epidemic appears to have broken out.
Meanwhile, other mostly poor people are regularly rounded up and put in prison camps in the US at record levels.
There are more people in prison camps in the US than in Stalin’s gulags. Although, to be fair to Stalin, that was because he killed most of them…
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