And now, corrupted by power and money… curdled, degenerate, and incompetent… they want to hold onto their privileges at all costs. Like cream, members of the elite have risen to the top. It controls the government, the media, the universities, the military, et al. And while the public is distracted by party politics – an empty, gaudy, and tawdry spectacle – it is this elite caste that rules. Members of the elite are, almost by definition, rich and powerful. They owe their allegiance, first and foremost, to their caste. Republican or Democrat… European or American… members of the elite go to the same schools. We need to do more thinking about “the elite.” It will have to bring that under control by raising rates and curtailing its big-borrowing, big-spending, big-printing plans. About the Elite…Īnd now, the elite is advertising even bigger “investments” – to change the planet’s climate… and bring equity (whatever that is) to all.īut the elite is running into trouble. Instead, year after year, the money goes out the door and into the pockets of the elite… adding $27 trillion to the nation’s debt since 1980. What American citizen – however civic minded – would have willingly paid for these things? Very few.Īnd had they been good investments, they would have paid dividends. All of these were sold as “ investments” that would give us a better future.
It wanted the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the Wall Street Bailout… then the COVID-19 Bailout. It wanted the War in Afghanistan… and for 20 years, it hijacked the nation’s wealth to pay for it – $2.3 trillion worth, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. It maintains that freedom should not be allowed to get in the way of What It Wants Now. “Not much,” is the answer from most of America’s intelligentsia. “What is it worth?” is the question on the table. YOUGHAL, IRELAND – Our subject this week is freedom.
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