Every day I hear advertisements for the sale of precious metals. Birch Gold, Lear Capital, Oxford Gold Group, Metal Stacks, Advantage Gold, and many more all inform us that the value of our resources is eroding and that the surest way for us to protect the value of those resources is to diversify with gold and silver.
Our nation’s founders understood the danger we experience today hundreds of years ago. That is the reason many of our founders and our Constitution’s framers rejected central banking and fiat money.
There were a few who sought to create an American central banking system, (Alexander Hamilton being one of the more famous,) but it was determined that Americans should have their wealth protected from plunder by our Constitution.
Many agree that it’s reasonable to accept this wisdom, protecting their savings with investments in precious metals, but just how effective could this be?
First of all, very few people suggest investing more than a small portion of our savings in metals. Why?
It is because unless our society descends to “Book of Eli” conditions, gold and silver are very inconvenient as currency. Therefore, each dollar we convert to metals becomes less useful to us as currency.
Another problem with this situation is that every dollar not in gold or silver remains subject to the constant devaluation assault by the central planners of modern monetary manipulation.
We should ask, “What is the wise reaction to our current currency instability?”
The answer is as obvious as it was to our forefathers in 1789. The correction will not be painless. Conveniences currently enjoyed by Americans would likely be affected adversely, but is the alternative truly acceptable, or even sustainable?
Today our nation’s debt is growing at a rate of one trillion dollars every one hundred days. Trust me, this will be short-lived. If nothing is done to stop it, our national debt will be growing at the rate of two trillion every one hundred days before long.
Some believe that Trump will correct the problem when he regains the presidency, but history is a strong indicator of future behavior.
During the first Trump Administration, our national debt grew to exceed the debt of every administration before it, combined.
It is important to point out that the same had been true of the Obama Administration, the Bush Administration, and so on.
The truth is that as long as the Federal Reserve accommodates the uncontrolled deficit spending of Congress, rubber-stamped by Presidents, The Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela are the models of our fiscal future.
The present administration is flooding our nation with non-citizens while they spend us into oblivion. They are alienating our nation’s allies, and empowering our enemies without limits.
Our courts are rewarding violent criminals and punishing law-abiding citizens, and all of it is being done with resources stolen from the American people through the collusion between the Federal Reserve, Congress, and our president.
Americans complain about the price of eggs, gasoline, rent, home construction, automobiles, etc. Little attention is paid to the enabling principle of “central banking,” or fiat currency.
Most Americans think this is all out of their reach. They resort to complaining and searching for a savior, like Trump.
Jesus is our only savior. There will be no one coming to save America unless it is “We The People.”
How did we get into this situation? Was it one thing, or was it a conglomeration of contributing factors?
I believe it is a vast number of little things. As John Adams once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Our citizens, and especially our churches’ pastors have neglected their duty to teach the Bible and its relevance to American history to their families and congregations. These American families and congregations have engaged in lives void of an understanding of their spiritual and moral duty to self-governance.
If Americans continue in this self-imposed ignorance, the fall of our nation is inevitable, but that course is not guaranteed. It is possible to right the ship.
Corse correction will be at least two-fold. It will require a spiritual revival, and it will require a return to legal money. As long as our government’s collusion with central banking continues, wringing every drop of American wealth from the private sector, the end is inevitable and rapidly approaching.
What is needed to arrest the decline, and restore ascendency is to recognize the source of the problem and address it openly.
While I preserve some of my wealth in precious metals, It is not enough just to put some of our savings into precious metals. Soon many of us will have no savings to invest in precious metals if nothing is done to return to legal money.
Article V of our Constitution gives Americans, “We the People,” the power to amend our Constitution without Congress’ permission. They have no say, nor do our Governors or our President.
Only one amendment is needed to correct many of our most crucial problems. A single amendment could cut to the root of these problems if it outlawed and decommissioned the Federal Reserve, restoring gold and silver as our national currency.
What are the most destructive issues to the future of our nation?
1) Inflation is increasing every day and degrading the living standard of most Americans.
2) Corrupt politicians are remaining in office indefinitely while they become filthy rich on meager salaries.
3) Federal deficit spending is at critical levels, with our national debt growing at the rate of $1 trillion every 100 days.
4) Federal overreach in nearly every sector of American life is out of hand.
Let me demonstrate how ending the FED and returning to the gold standard could correct every one of these problems.
1) Fiat money IS inflation. Our modern education system has colluded with government and central banks to redefine “inflation” and deceive Americans to ignore the fact that fiat currency does not cause inflation, it is inflation.
Every single increase of the currency in circulation devalues every dollar in circulation, at a mathematical rate.
Gold and silver cannot be “printed.” It can only be mined. There will always be a finite amount of precious metals and the scarcity of metals coupled with its natural demand will determine its value in a free market. Presto, no more inflation.
2) In order to understand how the gold standard would reduce career politicians we must explore the motivation to become and remain public officeholders.
No matter the position within the government, a feature of the job is the distribution of money. Every single government employee receives a salary, benefits, and a pension. The allotment of federal monies by Congress is determined by the number of employees within government agencies.
This is not how finances are allotted in private-sector businesses. Outside of government, the available dollars determine how many people can be employed, their benefits, and their rate of pay.
Government decides what it wants to be done, hires the people to do it, and apportions the funds to finance these objectives. If there is a short-fall, they petition up the scale for more funds. If they do not use all of those funds, they spend them frivolously to guard against future cuts.
If the funding for these projects were to come solely from taxes, the American people would feel the squeeze, and protest.
3) If the amount of currency available for Congress to spend was limited by the amount of tax dollars collected, this would serve as a natural capping device. All loans would need to be repaid.
4) Without unlimited funding, federal overreach would be critically impaired.
As you can see, this one amendment, if it was enforced and not violated, would fix nearly every one of America’s out-of-control problems.
Such an amendment could be passed and enacted through the constitutional process of an Article V convention of states amendment.
You may be asking yourself, “Will THEY be able to call for an Article V convention of states?" Could such a convention successfully pass an amendment that would ‘End the Fed,’ (a book by Ron Paul,) and restore our currency to honest money?”
My question to you is, “Who is this THEY you refer to.” It is WE, (as in the WE THE PEOPLE in our Constitution,) that this duty falls to.
Many American Christians are ignorant of this duty because they have not been properly pastored.
Many of our Pastors teach their congregations to honor politicians as public servants and obey them as masters.
Until Christians begin to accept the duty that they have inherited, we will continue to suffer the erosion of liberty and the conquest of Marxists.
If you are a believing Christian, and your Pastor teaches that you should turn the other cheek and obey the tyrants who have captured the reigns of our government because they are in authority, you are duty-bound to correct them.
If they refuse to accept this correction, you are in the wrong church.
The Bible teaches us that when the blind leads the blind, they both end up in the ditch.
This is not a cute metaphor, it is a promise. If our spiritual leaders are spiritually blind, we are duty-bound to find new spiritual leaders.
You can learn more about inflation from my SubStack, “Inflation.”
You can learn more about Convention Of States at COS Action.
“Any power that government takes from the people, it will never return voluntarily.
Every power that government takes will ultimately be abused to the maximum extent possible.
Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism, the only thing we can do is resist.”__Robert Kennedy jr.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” __Ronald Reagan
God bless you, Dave