HOW MUCH PIE IS ENOUGH?
Are we more possessive of the pie we can eat, or the fruit of our labor?
In a recent post I spoke about the root of our currency problem. I compared the expansion of currency to a fraction. I believe that this is an accurate illustration, though it has come to my attention that it is illusive for many.
I am not criticizing anyone who’s eyes glaze over when fractions are invoked, we all have subjects that allude our full understanding, and those that fascinate us. Fractions rarely fall into the category of fascinating subjects.
Pie, on the other hand, often is able to grab our attention. There are those who have talents in the kitchen that mesmerize them that are able to sample the fruit of their labor. My friend, Paula Lipker is a pure artist with an oven and a pie plate. The fruit of her labor, as pertains to pies, is both inspiring, and delicious.
With that said, let us replace the fraction illustration with a pie. Let’s say that this particular pie is your favorite. You have labored intently to acquire a number of pieces of this extremely desirable pie, and your mouth is watering in anticipation of its consumption. You have envisioned the lustrous texture of the perfectly browned upper crust, and the luscious fruit filling beneath as you labored to earn the right to a prescribed number of pieces of this pie. You have counted the coupons as you have collected them, in anticipation of the enjoyment you intend to experience once you have redeemed them for the actual slices of this work of culinary art.
Now that you have attained these coupons, (represented by Federal Reserve notes,) unbeknownst to you, the Federal Reserve has continued to cut the pie into more and more, smaller, and smaller pieces. Your coupons,(or dollars,) only entitle you to a prescribed number of pieces of this pie. It makes no mention of the size of the pieces. Now that you have come to redeem these coupons for the actually pie for which you labored, you find that they are not what you had envisioned. These slices of pie are much smaller than you had expected. You protest, this is not what I paid for, I expected to enjoy much more pie than this!
The Federal Reserve says that this is what we agreed to. They insist that they gave you this certain number of notes in exchange for your labor, and you agreed to it.
Do you accept this miscarriage of justice? Do you walk away satisfied, or do you become intent on overcoming this injustice?
The only reason that Americans are not better acquainted with this truths is because seemingly well intentioned, brilliant, and well-spoken people have convinced many Americans that this situation is equitable. They have introduced myriad ingredients into the conversation, many of which seem plausible in isolated illustrations, and have thereby convinced the plurality, if not majority of Americans, of the equitability, yea even righteousness of this systematic theft.
We are so intent on playing by the rules, as has been directed by the Federal Reserve, that we barely notice that our pieces of pie have become smaller, and smaller.
The ingenuity of the American people is such that almost without even recognizing the forces opposed to them, Americans expend much physical, and intellectual effort toward overcoming these evil forces. This, and the blessings of God on His disciples, are the only only reasons that America has not yet experienced the fate of Venezuela, Zimbabwe, vand the Weimar Republic.
I am including a link to a blog on the Weimar Republic, and the hyperinflation that resulted from the very progression that America is experiencing early stages of.
http://scihi.org/hyperinflation-weimar-republic/
God bless you, Dave