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Expect These Eight Steps From The Government’s Playbook
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
To anyone paying attention, reality is now painfully obvious. These bankrupt, insolvent governments have just about run out of fingers to plug the dikes. And history shows that, once this happens, governments fall back on a very limited playbook:
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Direct confiscation
As Cyprus showed us, bankrupt governments are quite happy to plunder people’s bank accounts, especially if it’s a wealthy minority.
Aside from bank levies, though, this also includes things like seizing retirement accounts (Argentina), increases in civil asset forfeiture (United States), and gold criminalization.
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Taxes
Just another form of confiscation, taxation plunders the hard work and talent of the citizenry. But thanks to decades of brainwashing, it’s more socially acceptable. We’ve come to regard taxes as a ‘necessary evil,’ not realizing that the country existed for decades, even centuries, without an income tax.
Yet when bankrupt governments get desperate enough, they begin imposing new taxes… primarily WEALTH taxes (Argentina) or windfall profits taxes (United States in the 1970s).
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Inflation
This is indirect confiscation– the slow, gradual plundering of people’s savings. Again, governments have been quite successful at inculcating a belief that inflation is also a necessary evil. They’re also adept at fooling people with phony inflation statistics.
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Capital Controls
Governments can, do, and will restrict the free-flow of capital across borders. They’ll prevent you from moving your own money to a safer jurisdiction, forcing you to keep your hard earned savings at home where it can be plundered and devalued.
We’re seeing this everywhere in the developed world… from withdrawal limits in Europe to cash-sniffing dogs at border checkpoints. And it certainly doesn’t help when everyone from the IMF to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman argue in favor of Capital Controls.
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Wage and Price controls
When even the lowest common denominator in society realizes that prices are getting higher, governments step in and ‘fix’ things by imposing price controls.
Occasionally this also includes wage controls… though wage increases tend to be vastly outpaced by price increases.
Of course, as any basic economics textbook can illustrate, price controls never work and typically lead to shortages and massive misallocations.
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Wage and Price controls– on STEROIDS
When the first round of price controls don’t work, the next step is to impose severe penalties for not abiding by the terms.
In the days of Diocletian’s Edict on Prices in the 4th century AD, any Roman caught violating the price controls was put to death.
In post-revolutionary France, shopkeepers who violated the “Law of Maximum” were fleeced of their private property… and a national spy system was put into place to enforce the measures.
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Increased regulation
Despite being completely broke, governments will dramatically expand their ranks in a last desperate gasp to envelop the problem in sheer size.
In the early 1920s, for example, the number of bureaucratic officials in the Weimar Republic increased 242%, even though the country was flat broke from its Great War reparation payments and hyperinflation episode.
The increase in both regulations and government officials criminalizes and/or controls almost every aspect of our existence… from what we can/cannot put in our bodies to how we are allowed to raise our own children.
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War and National Emergency
When all else fails, just invade another country. Pick a fight. Keep people distracted by work them into a frenzy over men in caves… or some completely irrelevant island.
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If plugging dykes is the remedy, then I'm the doctor.
She's really not that into you.
It's all good fun, till one of her hair spikes pokes out your eye.
Or any of the other industrial equipment stuck to her face.
Ummm... Pot v kettle?
Like, ummm, mirror?
When the Levy breaks...
mama you got to go...
No offense but your face looks like you got shot in the face with a squirt gun full of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid – but I’m sure you’re a nice guy on inside.
What? You can't make fun of the ridiculous uniforms people wear to show their 'individualism'?
The speed that they are implemented in will make your head spin.
After number two, then they kinda run all together.
For the win.
who can possibly down-vote these comments?
must have a plug in their hole...
funny...
thanks for the laugh
Agreed. We can only assume they are socialist fun-nazis :?
They even down-voted you for some WTF reason????
Anyway I hereby give you a virtual +100 MOAR votes... take that humourless stazi-trolls!
The playbook is much less effective when the other team knows the plays.
Even if they know your next play they still gotta stop you.
<The real question is.....what are we gonna do about it folks?>
The real question is.....what are we gonna do about it folks?
And "complain" is not an acceptable answer.
Exchange any US Dollars that you have into gold and silver coins.
Preferably US Gold and Silver Eagles as they have the best liquidity.
Wait until the shit hits the fan.
Buy everything at a discount with your gold and silver.
that's the plan, yeah, but life in sovereign fiat hyperinflation could be a little different than what we can imagine. it's uncharted territory.
You mean, all my snarky comments on websites aren't helping?
A bunch of people and I plan to grill Simon on this, this coming weekend. At the Workshop in Santiago.
Stay tuned, while I put my money where my mouth is.
OK, Capt. Kirk! Please do report back with your findings, and let us know what you think of CHILE!
A nice place to visit, but I would not want to live there. I mean, you are lying on a beach, and out of the surf slides a killer whale who eats you.
Nor is watching American Idiot, the DeBaucherette or Filandering with the Stars.
read comic books, it's nostalgic, you might even think for a minute there are superheroes who give a shit about you
What have I been doing? Well my custom Ruger 10/22 build is going much better than expected. Lower than expected cost along with better than expected performance. The BUIS/reflex & red-dot are now are co-witnessed and that was not easy on a Ruger 10/22 which still has the standard synthetic stock. The last issue is finding an additional rail that will provide enough additional height so I can add the scope on QR rings without removing the rear iron sight (Monday I found it!). I will have the perfect SHTF zombie dispatching back-up platform once I get it sighted in for CCI high velocity stingers at 25, 50,75 and 100 metres. It's already a tack driver with a standard barrel using CCI .22 standard velocity and should be lethal out to 50 to 100 metres with the high velocity .22 rounds assuming accurate placement. At worse it's a distraction/nuisance and I can fucking run. 1st and 2nd rules will of course always apply should this scenario arrise.
So to summarise:
That is what I have been doing...
Everyone knows what to do, CD. They just do not want to live without the (perceived and current) perks, or have their friends think they are 'conspiracy theorists'.
Who has not seen 'War Games'.
That is all, folks.
We are all herd animals.....some more than others. This is our great denial and the leverage most often used against us.
HERE'S A TRULY GREAT VIDEO...GLENN BECK GETS A HELLUVA SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
WE ARE NO LONGER IN A 'CAPITALIST' SYSTEM....WE ARE IN A "CREDITIST" SYSTEM
RICHARD DUNCAN LAYS IT OUT FOR GLENN BECK, IN ALL ITS UGLY GLORY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iyCt0uwNWs
Caveat emptor on this video. I wonder how Duncan's overly simple plan of turning massive money printing toward corporate insiders won't further deepen our corrupt economic and monetary system, government and culture? How can he possibly beleive that living outside of our means - and massively so - will lead to no toxic unintended consequences? I never thought I'd hear a man invoke Mises and Krugmanism simultaneoudly, but behold... Richard Duncan.
duncan is a logician / utilitarian idealist.
there is nothing wrong and right.
there is only more and less suffering, now or later or possibly never.
All caps = unread.
Salah, you got excited over nothing but no need to worry it happens to everyone!
Read CD's post which is, ironically, just above you.
"We are all herd animals.....some more than others. This is our great denial and the leverage most often used against us"
I'm sure there's a Dick van Dyke joke in there somewhere. If only I could find one.
yeah Toys, someone has to do it...
funny
let the 8 ball roll
I got my money on the bolded
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Remember the rules... 8 ball last Junior.
I was amazed that the ECB/EU went for the Cyprus 1 ball into the banksters side pocket shot while all those other easier balls were still in play...
They are playing billiards.
"These cards are gonna fall like a house of dominoes -- checkmate!" -- Zap Brannigan
Or they could be snookered?
..just sayin'
So, does gold rally before it becomes illegal (again) or not?
You bet, the government needs to inflate the price before and during the confiscation.
Of course gold will rally, straight up until the government confiscates it. But the key at that point is that your gold will be maintaining its buying power against the strongest currency left standing, and will INCREASE your buying power against all other currencies. Nothing else can do that.
Gold is like garlic to vampire squid fiatists, to hear them talk. Protest too much?
Wait a minute, you mean I should not have sold all of my gold and silver to buy bit coins.
Damn it.
Fuck Bitcoins, they are just another fiat money scam.
They ARE NOT MONEY.
Don't get fooled!!!
Magic 8 Ball says, "Ask again later"
Rally? I didn't think gold actually did "rally". Is gold not the absolute and finite standard by which these paper lies fluctuate and diminish? The lower it's paper price falls, the more we can accumulate..
Agreed, suits and steak dinners and all that
You forgot the pay raise they're giving everyone at CNBC.
( 8 )balls are used in the game of billiards. (9) balls are used in the game of banking.
I thought (_!_) were all that there were in banking...
In Soviet Amerika banks launder you.
Korea nukes Washington!!! Wait.....missile went off course, hits Beijing instead.
"When all else fails, just invade another country. Pick a fight. Keep people distracted by work them into a frenzy over men in caves… or some completely irrelevant island."
War, what is it good for?
<Distraction and scapegoating to mention just two. Plus it's the greatest invested capital destruction method known to man. Time to rebuild boyz.>
"War, what is it good for?"
For controlling the domestic agenda (and, of course, for controlling the agenda of the guy whose face you just pushed into the dirt).
What is war good for? Population reduction and weeding of potential resistance. The allure of a snappy uniform, a 'family' and steady income is a very old formula for shutting off young brains.
"The allure of a snappy uniform, a 'family' and steady income is a very old formula for shutting off young brains."
That.....and a pretty or handsome member of the opposite sex making eyes at you.
<We're not just talking about the boys here. Plenty of girls go dumb when a handsome hunk fashes a smile their way.>
Read "The Selfish Gene". By Dawkins. War kills off competing genetic lines. Genocide's the primary reason for war.
"Genocide's the primary reason for war."
Hush! Not with your out-loud voice. We aren't supposed to say things like that in public.
<For genetic purposes or otherwise, it's still very often Genocide.>
Absolutely nuttin.......
9. Blame and punish the victims.
That's interesting.
i have no suficient sight on the agenda or how bad and flat broke we are so far ... and i don't think anyone is thanks to our lame medias. All i know is you're right, history is right and repeats itself.
No clue how bad it will get nor how fast it will come but one thing is pretty sure : we're closer to that hedge we've ever been for centuries
9. Execution.
You skipped rehabilitation and reeducation. You know, for people who are too mentally ill to believe in the equity markets, etc.
It can be summarized simply as 'Confiscation', or heads you loose, tails you loose.
2.5 billion confiscated total in 2010, when the national debt increases 3.8 Billion dollars Per Day????
What happens when confiscation doesnt work, because it never will be enough. Its already 'Game Over'.
Loose = adjective.
Lose = verb.
Expression= "Heads, I win, tails you lose."
But I still gave you a +1 for being a Chuck Jones character.
You also forgot giant hides of censured goods for the governing party...
What about Argentina?
Or should we just start a list of the countries that haven't defaulted/required a bailout?
Small list.
Switzerland I think is the only one.
It was only 1971 when the USA defaulted last.One for the road ?
I don't know what you guys are worried about- Krugman has the answers! He's a Nobel Prize winner don't ya know!! Just like der Fuehrer Obama! >sarc<
left out fema camps MOAR FEMA CAMPS
Tent cities first
AA only has three steps and Texas has the "3 step."
It's a lot easier.
They must be very confused and desperate...
You forgot an important step. When price controls fail, then nationalization of businesses hit. Farmers for instance wont sell for the low prices. They will get absorbed by the govt as critical for "the people."
I'd bet more on those smaller farmers continuing on, on their own "Collective" farms.
Reward Failure, Penalize Successs........it's exactly what the O'Bowel Movement is about in the USA.
It's a shame so many Ron Paul voters were fooled by the MSM into believing that "both parties are the same"
Shame on you stupes.........at least the knee grows who voted Obama 98% got weffare an foodstanpz!
What did you clowns get?
More ammo.
Just about everyone here got more ammo.......
Or did your quote "more ammo" refer to the seven rounds of hollow points that Homeland "Security" bought to "give" to each American?
Two 3-round bursts and a headshot oughta do it...
The unlucky ones will get the DHS ammo first-hand; others will be able to pick it up second-hand.
Along with a dropped or slightly blood-stained AR Platform OF DEATH you where told you could not have and didn't need. Plus they are true assault weapons and probably have a Trijicon, etc, along with plenty of bling. Not that you would ever waste the ammo on full-auto but the Trijicom on the otherhand? I'll buy that for a dollar!
Avoid grabbing the keys of the tricked out MRCV SUX6000 though they are just drone magnets. Resist the temptation.
MOAR TOY'S BITCHEZ!
goody one cowardly clown gives me the down arrow already, yet is too cowardly to even attempt to refute the facts!!!
Coward.
Cowardly clown strikes again!
Since you clowns say "both parties are the same" are you saying that Romney would be buying light tanks and hollow points to be used on Americans?
Thanks for Cowering!
Sniveling cowards always attack what they cannot refute!
I strongly suspect that the alphabet agencies have morphed beyond the control of the executive branch.
DHS is morphing into the Brown Shirt civilian agency Dear Leader wanted to be as strong as the military.
Remember what happened to the Brownshirts? They were purged.
I was "fooled" into believing that both parties are the same by Mitt Romney.
What do we do about it....solution is as simple as running to the bank to expedite the program.
Anyone heard from the Krugman lately?
Maybe Krugman can pull another "well if you look at the data over the last 50 years" model out of his ass and then parrot a few times how his PhD makes more right than everyone else.
If you look at the data from the last fifty years, it is clear that Paul Krugman is immortal, and will live forever.
He hasn't died in a half century, clearly it will never happen. Duh. You can't argue with science.
A bit off thread but relevant. An article that most everyone seemed to miss. Big indicator that USD as reserve currency is going bye bye faster than most would imagine. The West is disintegrating and the wealth and activity is heading to East and the BRICs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/brics-consider-pooling-foreign-...
Right on schedule.
Dollar is over as GRC next year,.
Watch the G20 meeting in September, in Moscow,a surprise (?) coming.
The Cypriot, and SWIFT fiatsco are coming home to bite.
So, just how long has America been "desperate?" Because I've seen all of those since Nixon, who implemented wage and price controls before shutting the gold window.
Really, Skeezix, we dun bin fricked for years, I tells ya'.
Has technology like nuclear weapons in mass been discounted for in the use of #8 that the US seems to like so much? The rules are the same, the annihilation capabilities are much different.
Playbook #9: Start mass imprisonment and executions of reactionaries, terrorists, and anyone who isn't patriotic.
Playbook #10: Flee the country to a corrupt safe haven. Enjoy your billions in spoils.
True but the useful idiots will be left to be 'purged' and that in itself will be amusing and somewhat theraputic to those that have suffered (Paul Krugman being chopped up by a raging hoard of SNAP card zombies springs to mind). The so called elite-victors will have to live like Pablo Escobar. It's expensive and you can never trust anyone ever again. Even your favoured son, who has a 'Cypher' moment, and decides he want out and sells out daddy. Because he can never leave the luxury jail. Also, with this much damage, after a time, many will be willing to fund, bribe and track them down.
I, for one, would contribute to such a voluntary fund. If they go to Thailand or some other corrupt domicile they can be found and the next higher bidder will grant full access and look the other way. BTW that was assuming I survive LOL!
So, the baby sharks piled into real estate rentals, assuming the Fed will maintain its course in perpetuity. Now, you know who they are and where they are, and, more importantly, you know their common characteristics. If you don’t want big sharks, don’t feed the babies, and they will consume each other. If you are in the middle class, what you care about is equality between capital and labor. All other arguments are misdirection. Teach your children not to lie so they can see their path to the future, beyond all the lies.
Labor does not incorporate, lies in its foundation; that’s capital’s gig. Liar loan anyone? anyone? anyone...?
Uh, thinkin' that the nationalization of lead mines and the seizure of brass fabrication/production facilities is in the plan??? CB
9. devaluation.
They could sell-off intellectual property rights.
The plan is to skip to step 8 well before, say, step 5.
MArket MAnipulation by the Federal Reserve is treason. They crashed the economy nd then stole everyones assets.
The Federal Reserve members are mortal criminals and traitors to the people of the US.
WE DEMAND THE FED IS SHUT DOWN WE DEMAND REPERATIONS FOR 2008 ASSET DESTRUCTION AND FED INDUCED POVERTY. KILL ALL THE TRAITORS
Isn't this what Hugo Chavez did in Venzuela?
The Washington,D.C.,streets will look like downtown Kabul. Oh wait...
The Detroit streets will look like downtown Fallujah. Oh shit,wait again.
The streets of South central Los Angeles will look like....Ah fuggit.....
Off topic but here's todays foreign language lesson,so pay attention boys and girls.
The german word for horse is Pferd. The French word for shit is merde.Put them together and whaddya get?
Pferd Merde
Krugman is intellectually bankrupt. His approach to reality tv, er, reality economics is to personalize attacks on those who disagree with his script. There's got to be some daddy issues, or something with an old man and a trench coat when he was a kid. It's either that or he has some sort of learning disorder, which has impeded his ability to relate to people.
When I see his name, I develop almost turret-like symptoms where I want to throw something at my computer screen.
He's an 'educated fool' (Lenin). Even Greenspan in an interview dated 2011 and reported in Forbes last week said some form of new gold standard is needed; end the Fed.
Hey ho. These pretty pets of politics and academia serve a purpose for a limited period of time, and their puppeteers loathe them as much as every rational person does.
Bye bye Crookman, and other smart arses.
When the enemy shouts 8... shout 10 immediately. Attack is the best form of defense. Winners do that.
All the precious pets who sit comfy at home and deride the miltary who fight for their right to vote will be culled because they are so busy being smart arses, making condescending points about gene pools etc. and proving the point that they are weak, unwilling or unable to stand next to their brother and defend him, body and soul, come what may.
Count your money, and the drones, pets.
Well said, Simon, as always. You can give someone the facts. You cannot give him good judgement, let alone the courage to act wisely.
Buy gold, silver, land.
9. Kill
8! 8! 8! Who do we appreciate?! 8! 8! 8!