Obama and McCain complicit in plan to destroy the nation

by Craig J. Cantoni

No, this is not a conspiracy theory hatched in an Idaho cabin by a crackpot. It's a fact, and a very alarming and sad fact at that.

The fact is this: Barack Obama and John McCain, along with most of the rest of Congress and the other two branches of the government, are complicit in a plan to destroy the nation from within. At best, that makes them unpatriotic; at worst, it makes them subversive.

The plan was first written in the early twentieth century and has been revised extensively by successive administrations and congresses. The key features of the plan are listed below. After that, a summary is provided of the progress that has been made to date in implementing the plan. And after that, you are given recommendations on what you can do to protect yourself from the plan.

The Plan

• Disconnect U.S. currency from gold or other precious metal, thereby allowing politicians to print money to hide their profligate spending. In the process, debase the currency, punish savers, and create bubbles and wild market fluctuations.

• Establish an unaccountable and unelected agency to manage the money supply and, in theory, to maintain the soundness of the dollar without political interference. Mandate that the agency's governors be elected by the banks they're supposed to supervise. Then later, tell the agency that in addition to maintaining the dollar, it also has the contradictory mission of maintaining full employment.

• Under the guise of fairness, implement a tax on personal income, thus allowing politicians to buy votes and campaign contributions by giving tax breaks, subsidies, and handouts to some people at the expense of other people. Then hide the tax by automatically withholding it from the pay of workers. At the same time, make the tax code so complicated that the nation's best and brightest students can make more money by becoming tax lawyers, tax accountants, and lobbyists instead of scientists and engineers.

• Discourage people from saving for old age, staying together as families, and being self-reliant--by establishing policies, programs, entitlements, and agencies to supposedly take care of them from cradle to grave and to protect them from their bad choices. Also, engage in Ponzi schemes and make promises that can't be kept. Then have the Supreme Court rule that Congress has no legal obligation to keep the promises it makes.

• Create market distortions, product shortages, and high prices by interfering with free markets and free trade. (Health care is a good place to start.) Blame CEOs and capitalism for the market failures caused by government interference. Then, in a vicious circle, use the market failures as a reason to increase government interference and political power, even nationalizing industries if possible.

• Maintain a government monopoly over K-12 education and a monopsony in textbook publishing. That way, students will grow up to be voters who don't know about the plan and what is being done to them by the government. And some of them will become reporters who don't have the education or intellectual curiosity to tell voters about the plan or ask presidential candidates why they support the plan.
  

Progress to Date

• Government now consumes 45 percent of national income. The total cost of government and government regulations is $27,000 per household, or 60 percent of average household income.

• The tax code is 40,000 pages, and there are 35,000 registered lobbyists in Washington, DC.

• A consumer-is-king market in health care was destroyed by the government 66 years ago, there are now over 100,000 pages of health care regulations, and most Americans now believe that the solution to what ails health care is more government control, which caused the problems in the first place.

• Nearly 60 percent of Americans get government subsidies or handouts, or live in a household in which the primary wage earner either works for the government or works in a job in private industry that depends on government regulations. Having moved beyond the tipping point, it is impossible to end the growth of government in the voting booth.

• Each American under the age of 18 is being bequeathed over $700,000 in government debt and unfunded liabilities for entitlements and public pensions. By 2060, 80 percent of gross domestic product will be consumed by the government, if present trends continue.

• The personal savings rate is now negative, the government-caused housing bubble has burst, the dollar has plummeted in value, the high school graduation rate has fallen to 70 percent nationally and to 35 percent in some inner cities, and the rates of out-of-wedlock births and single-parent families have skyrocketed, along with the social pathologies caused by both.

• Most Americans can't connect the above dots or even understand basic macroeconomics, such as how monetary policy affects the price of oil. As such, they are being duped by the two presidential candidates, who are complicit in the plan to destroy the nation from within.
  

Recommendations

The following recommendations are in descending order of satisfaction, with the most satisfying action listed first and the least satisfying, last.

1. Arrest Barack Obama and John McCain for their complicity and put them before a firing squad. On second thought, given what McCain had to endure as a POW, let him retire to his ranch in Arizona.
   
2. Arrest Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for their complicity and put their heads on pikes on the Capitol Mall as a warning to other members of Congress.
   
3. Vote Libertarian.
   
4. Get your money out of the country and in a stable currency.
   
5. Keep your passport current and bags packed.
   

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Mr. Cantoni is an author and columnist. He can be reached at the passport office or at ccan2@aol.com.