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Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don't Even Know It
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Most Americans spend their lives working for others, paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they “must” do. These days, we don’t like to think of ourselves as “servants” or “slaves”, but that is what the vast majority of us are. It is just that the mechanisms of our enslavement have become much more sophisticated over time. It has been said that the borrower is the servant of the lender, and most of us start going into debt very early into our adult years. In fact, those that go to college to “get an education” are likely to enter the “real world” with a staggering amount of debt. And of course that is just the beginning of the debt accumulation.
Today, when you add up all mortgage debt, all credit card debt and all student loan debt, the average American household is carrying a grand total of 203,163 dollars of debt. Overall, American households are more than 11 trillion dollars in debt at this point. And even though most Americans don’t realize this, over the course of our lifetimes the amount of money that we will repay on our debts is far greater than the amount that we originally borrowed. In fact, when it comes to credit card debt you can easily end up repaying several times the amount of money that you originally borrowed. So we work our fingers to the bone to pay off these debts, and the vast majority of us are not even working for ourselves. Instead, our work makes the businesses that other people own more profitable. So if we spend the best years of our lives building businesses for others, servicing debts that we owe to others and making others wealthier, what does that make us?
In 2015, the words “servant” and “slave” have very negative connotations, and we typically don’t use them very much.
Instead, we use words like “employee” because they make us feel so much better.
But is there really that much of a difference?
This is how Google defines “servant”…
“a person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.”
This is how Google defines “slave”…
“a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.”
This is how Google defines “employee”…
“a person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.”
Yes, most of us might not be “legal property” of someone else in a very narrow sense, but in a broader sense we all have to answer to someone.
We all have someone that we must obey.
And we all have obligations that we must meet or else face the consequences.
At this point, Americans are more dependent on the system than ever before. Small business ownership in the U.S. is at a record low, and the percentage of Americans that are self-employed has fallen to unprecedented levels in recent years. From a very early age, we are trained to study hard so that we can get a good “job” (“just over broke”) and be good cogs in the system.
But is that what life is about?
Is it about being a cog in a system that ultimately benefits others?
Perhaps you don’t think that any of this applies to you personally.
Well, if someone came up to you and asked you what you truly own, what would you say?
Do you own your vehicle?
Most Americans don’t.
In fact, today the average auto loan at signing is approximately $27,000, and many of them stretch on for six or seven years.
What about your home?
Do you own it?
Most Americans don’t.
In fact, overall the banks have a much greater “ownership” interest in our homes and our land than we do.
But even if you have your home totally “paid off”, does that mean that you actually “own” it?
Well, no, not really.
Just see what happens if you quit paying your property taxes (rent) to the proper authorities.
So if they can take your home away from you for not paying rent (property taxes), do you really own it?
That is something to think about it.
What about all of your stuff?
Do you own it?
Perhaps.
But a very large percentage of us have willingly enslaved ourselves in order to acquire all of that stuff.
Today, the typical U.S. household that has at least one credit card has approximately $15,950 in credit card debt.
And if you do not pay off those credit card balances, the credit card companies will unleash the hounds on you.
Have you ever had an encounter with a debt collector?
They can be absolutely brutal. And they use those tactics because they work. In fact, they are so good at what they do that many of those that own debt collection companies have become exceedingly wealthy. The following is from a recent CNN article…
Yachts. Mansions. Extravagant dinner parties. Life is good for the founders of one of the nation’s biggest government debt collectors.
That firm, Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, rakes in big money from government contracts that allow it to pursue debtors over toll violations, taxes and parking tickets. While the debts often start small, the Austin-based firm charges high fees, which can add hundreds or even thousands of dollars to the bill.
After growing this business from a small Texas law firm in the late 1970’s to a nationwide debt collection powerhouse, the firm’s founders and top brass have walked away with millions of dollars.
And I haven’t even mentioned our collective debts yet.
We have willingly chosen to collectively enslave ourselves on a local, a state and a national level.
It is bad enough that we are doing this to ourselves. But we are also cruelly saddling future generations of Americans with the largest mountain of debt in the history of the planet. The following is from my previous article entitled “Barack Obama Says That What America Really Needs Is Lots More Debt“…
When Barack Obama took the oath of office, the U.S. national debt was 10.6 trillion dollars. Today, it has surpassed the 18 trillion dollar mark. And even though we are being told that “deficits are going down”, the truth is that the U.S. national debt increased by more than a trillion dollars in fiscal 2014. But that isn’t good enough for Obama. He says that we need to come out of this period of “mindless austerity” and steal money from our children and our grandchildren even faster. In addition, Obama wants to raise taxes again. His budget calls for 2 trillion dollars in tax increases over the next decade. He always touts these tax increases as “tax hikes on the rich”, but somehow they almost always seem to end up hitting the middle class too. But whether or not Congress ever adopts Obama’s new budget is not really the issue. The reality of the matter is that the “tax and spend Democrats” and the “tax and spend Republicans” are both responsible for getting us into this mess. Future generations of Americans are already facing the largest mountain of debt in the history of the planet, and both parties want to make this mountain of debt even higher. The only disagreement is about how fast it should happen. It is a national disgrace, but most Americans have come to accept this as “normal”. If our children and our grandchildren get the opportunity, they will curse us for what we have done to them.
So can we really call ourselves the “home of the brave and the land of the free”?
Isn’t the truth that the vast majority of us are actually deeply enslaved?
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People enslave themselves by allowing their children to attend Public (brainwashing) School and then grow up to be " law enforcement". And we all know for sure there are no laws for the criminals in " Government".
my co-worker's mom makes $87 an hour on the laptop . She has been without work for 8 months but last month her pay check was $15653 just working on the laptop for a few hours. try this website... www.globe-report.com
A slave?
How the fuck can this article talk about slavery without once mentioning the income tax?? Even if you don't have any debt, you are a slave in this country because the Federal Government gets paid for your labor before you do. When you don't own the fruits of your own labor, you are a SLAVE.
Without property tax, we would all be free from the system entirely. That's evil number 1.
People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over. - Paul Craig Roberts
They don't want to know.
I love how the article refers to Jew owned Google propaganda as a real source of information...
We are all born into forced survitude of the collective from the day we are born.
The cost of everything we need is going up. Food, Shelter...
While our Full time jobs get replaced by Lower paying Part Time jobs.
Working harder and harder for less and less
Job Situation: http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
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I feel for people who have real problems, and try to help when I am able, but even with 70 hour work weeks, my life is easier than my parents, grandparents, and great-grand parents.
Some people's expectations are too high.
Why are we looking to google for defining words? Google is now a dictionary too? Wtf. "Just google it"? What is happening here? Fuck google.
debt slaves, or a slave to the jewish form of banking, that replaced the patriot one. or both.
The WILL of Rights.
You WILL buy healthcare.
Yes.....you're still free.....kinda anyway.
"How the fuck can this article talk about slavery without once mentioning the income tax?"
Add in state and local income tax, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, and all the myriad of other taxe, fees and licenses, and EVERYONE is paying at LEAST 50% of their income (work) to the government in one way shape or form. If you are in the higher tax brackets it is probably more like 70%.
THat means for every 10 days you work, you work for the government 5 to 7 of those days. Slave is ABSOLUTELY what we are.
Americans are so broke it aint funny. This has been one of Barry's most 'exceptional' accomplishments.
I live in a town of 35000 I advertised my business on Gooogle I may have 15 competitors but when you search for the business mine is Most of my competitirs come up on the first page but not mine, mine comes up all alone on the 4th page.
why I ask? Well because gooogle wants $2,000 then it will come up on the first page.
So I told them that I thought they were a search engine not an advertising engine.
Now they keep calling me with this long song and dance trying to get $2,ooo from me.
Gooogle and their c-i-a masters can go f**k themselves!
Seriously F them, IF I search Gooogle, I start on page 3, but I use DuckDuckGo mainly, it doesn't spy on me.
Is that 70 hours a week being a shill on forums?
Yeah, I am a shill for living within one's means.
"70 hour work weeks" and "my life is easier" do not belong in the same sentence.
My great grandparents were chased out of Ukraine, for supporting the czar. They were given an axe, shovel, some nails and dropped off in Foxford, Saskatchewan - which is north of Prince Albert.
My life is easier, it's all a matter of maintaining a proper perspective.
Your life is more comfortable but not necessarily easier nor more free in the overall scheme of things. It's all a matter of maintaining a proper perspective :)
We all live better than kings and queens did before 1900 as far as comfort goes. But I agree, that doesn't mean we should tolerate rich a-holes stealing the fruits of our productivity. That said, the more we choose to scale down, the less we are enslaved. We don't even need half the junk for which we work, the endless consumerism enslaves us. Now that some of us are waking up to that and changing it, the government is forcing us to buy things = slavery 100%.
Freedom is a state of mind, and I am sure that I am more free than any of my relatives that I have met.
tyler, why do you post this drivel by this bonehead author?
only an idiot like michael snyder could attempt to conflate slavery with employment.
any rational, sane person understands that one is forced, another is a voluntary exchange of services for compensation.
conflating slavery with employment is like saying rape and marriage are the same thing because they both involve sex.
and then this piece of complete idiocy takes the cake:
"And we all have obligations that we must meet or else face the consequences."
it's called life, mr snyder. it is ALWAYS the case that we must face the consequences of our actions. the fact that you rented a house and voluntarily agreed to pay $1500 a month for use of that house, does not mean there is some vast conspiracy to get you.
if that's too much responsibility for you, then go back home to live in your parents' basement.
Sooo..did your congrescritter or Senator give you and yours and your grandkids an out on all that debt the capitol hill felons have racked up in the rest of our names?
I know they're wonderful people.....cause they told me so.
Okay so laws suck, if only unoccupied dwellings were taxed, guess what would not be $1500, or kids living in the basement. Don't blame the victim here, you soon could become one.
How much difference between a rape and an arranged marriage?
Never been a fan of Snyder either. He's a slave to his religion. At least we didn't get a numbered list this time.
Of course some goon with "stacking" in his name is the first to defend the MBA thesis of "its a privilege to be employed".
Yeah, so completely OPTIONAL that if you don't have a job, you're on the fucking street. Seems like you forgot that part, eh? What other "choices" do you have, eating gravel or twigs? Face it, the USA is a doddering old grandpa about to shit itself, and being employed in this "great nation" is just a gilded cage to feed the tax machine.
You never were free, so no wonder you have no idea how to wrap your feeble mind around it. You MUST be employed, or you are out on the street, and that kind of binary decision sure seems more like slavery than anything else, especially when you have to fund the madmen at the top by paying income tax and state taxes.
But I'm sure you'll just turn around and "HURR DURR EMPLOYMENT INNOVATION BLARGLE" or some other nonsense, so I'll just close this with - Go fuck yourself.
I just had a flashback.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu17cuXw-dM
I was taught by my brainwashers that I was supposed to feel sorry for this guy. While, at the same time, feel superior within my own white slavery.
Oh no! Say it ain't so! /sarc
And I love how some people come to ZH just so they can let their real feelings show.
It's all the Jews fault. You've been tricked by a whole race of sneaky bastards that are smarter than you are and boy are they going to get theirs when you're in charge of things, right?
Kopfen rollen
I don't know about anyone else, but I can assure you of the following:
1. THE FED wasn't my idea [& even if the whole central banking system as it exists today were to come crumbling down ~ I would neither seek to, nor support anyone who tried to rebuild it whether the system was asymmetrically run by Harvard Grads, Trekkies, Pastafarians, or any other groups who are allegedly "smarter than" me].
2. The IRS wasn't my idea
3. The Balfour Agreement wasn't my idea
4. I do not belong to any political action groups, [real, mythical, or otherwise], such as the 'Luciferian Anti-Defamation Society'.
5. I'm neither interested in building a pipeline across Syria, nor starting a war with Iran or Russia, or anyone else for that matter
6. I'm not interested in taking over or otherwise occupying Palestinian Land.
7. I don't support Apartheid
8. I don't participate, actively or otherwise, in spying operations, meddle in foreign politics, or see to it that the meddling I do creates a system whereby the citizens of another country foot the bill both in terms of money, lives, & liberty.
9. I don't steal nuclear technology, then use it as an undeclared & unregulated 'Samson Option' against the world [while bringing to bear everything in my power to prevent my enemies from developing their own programs by way of propaganda & lies]
10. If I'm a 'slave' [as this thread suggests], If & when I do become freed, I have no intentions of scrambling out into the desert & building Golden Calfs.
11. If a man like Jesus of Nazereth were to walk the earth today, I believe I would recognize him and NOT hold him in contempt because he got pissed at moneychangers.
12. I don't run Hollywood [hell, I barely even watch TV]
13. I don't publish newspapers, or run network news channels that have been proved to be propaganda machines.
14. I'm not involved in internet or communications, such as Google, or Facebook [which have been proved to be backdoor operations for the NSA].
15. I'm 100% for free speech, and am therefore 100% against efforts towards 'censorship' [whether that means deleting comments on blogs, or creating a system whereby one has to pass through FILTERS, such as Facebook, to be able to even make a comment, therefore, effectively rendering free speech useless because it is well known that certain types of comments, & accounts, get deleted].
16. I respect your right to disagree with everything I've said here
Other than that [& perhaps one or two more things that I forgot], any subset of 'sneaky bastards' are just fine with me. That is to say that if you're 'ALINGNED' with my thought process on most of those things, I'll gladly treat you as a fellow human being. If, INSTEAD, you'd prefer to align with 'folks' who either actively participate in the things on my list, OR, acknowledge 'silent participation' by not policing their own ranks, or being vocal about injustices, then yes, you swim with the pool of aforementioned 'sneaky bastards' which would make it very difficult for me to trust you or be friends with you. And it may even compel me to speak out against you, or take the opportunity to caution others as to the risk that they might be being schemed against in an organized [loosely or not] manner.
Lastly, the 'boy are they going to get theirs when you're in charge of things', part would not apply to me because:
- I'm not looking for retribution
- I'm not looking to be 'IN CHARGE'
- I'd just prefer to be left alone
Have a nice day!
nice post.
don't agree with the "policing their ranks" bit, however.
each of us is strictly responsible for our own actions, not for anyone else's.
I'll admit I struggled with that part a little. Generally speaking, I agree with what you say.
Let's say that my distinction leans more towards the side of deflecting legitimate criticisms [playing 'the race card', so to speak], and/or other 'ad hominem' tactics that make a mockery out of legitimate debate [of which, the comment by tarabel was an example and thus, compelled me to post a comment in the first place].
You mean all those brand new purple Escalades in the Walmart parking lot are subject to loans?
It's hard for me to say because I haven't been to a WalMart in quite some time.
I don't get out much....I don't like the company of other people much anymore....people I like and respect are so bought into this system it's hard to talk to them about anything other than sports without wanting to punch them in the face....I was in a public building the other day - Fox News on one TV CNN on the other...the sound was down but all I could see was an overflow of information about ISIS and terrorism and Russia with American flags waving in the background....it made me light-headed
I wish I could change things but walking up and telling someone they have an ugly baby is not a good start
Perhaps you're just in need of a few 'LUCIFERIAN' friends to help perk you up a little bit about the positive things that surround you. ~ lol
That is what should make America, America. He has his views, you have your views. As long as the 'basic' tenants are in place, life, liberty, property, then the others can be settled on a local level and if you don't like it then you can shut the hell up or move.
From the dawn of Hall’s career in the early 1920s until his death in 1990, the Los Angeles teacher wrote about America’s “secret destiny.” The United States, in Hall’s view, was a society that had been planned and founded by secret esoteric orders to spread enlightenment and liberty to the world.
Top CIA post.
WHATS GUNNA HAPPEN WHEN ALL RELIGION IS TAKEN AWAY DUE TO WW3
The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." 4
If you do not tell the truth I will put a pike to the head of every person who lies and burn down every secret society till they tell people the fucking truth
And if do tell the truth you will put a pike to the head of every person who lies...... you're an animal inside just waiting to kill yourself with gluttony was the truth.
Pointless... Unless you completely disagree with the definitions.Relax, Mel Gibson.
Without property tax..
I live in a state that has a relatively low tax base but a property tax on everything that you purchased 20 years ago and paid tax on...20 years ago. If you buy a boat..you pay tax then property tax every fucking year there after. If you buy a hammer you pay the initial tax then get taxed on it for every year there after. If you own a business. Total bullshit.
Son, you are living in the state of Slavery.
Like everyone but those who live off taxes.
Time to start putting the REAL criminals behind bars...
Time to start putting the REAL criminals behind bars...
Great! You go ahead - I'll hold your jacket.
Sounds like Texas.
and if you sell that boat or car the new owner pays the sales tax again! Theoretically, if a vehicle is bought & sold enough times, the sales tax alone could exceed the initial cost of the vehicle! Not to mention the yearly property tax. It's bullshit!
all while distracted by some silly color of a 150,000 dollar dress by the fake society.
doomed society of it's own making. the synical part of me laughs, but i know this gets serious soon. running out of rope, hehe, ha...
print rope, plez?
Recently a state had an election to continue or stop property taxes (Iowa??).... They supposedly voted overwhelmingly for the tax.
Now that's Stupid with a capitol 'S'.
Note: I say supposedly because you know they now control the elections via Mr. Digital.
It was some state with much oil revenue, from the mid-west, I believe.
I'd google it, but it's too depressing.
But you are right - the public unions and the unions spent HUGE money, much of it funneled in from outside 'cause this kind of thinking cannot be allowed, and the cunts voted down getting rid of the property tax.
The main argument was oil money was transitory...so we'd better not rely on it!
So, I suppose they didn't realize they could add the property tax back if revenue fell? Stupid, fucking, useless cunts.
Well, I'm tempted to laugh at their idiocy but I live in a state that passes propositions to fund high speed rail to nowhere and believes it can bridge budgetary gaps with future tax revenues from Facebook's IPO. Is there any state left where you don't need to wear the perpetual Hat of Shame?
Miffed
Why criticize a union of workers earning a fair living?
Why not criticize the union of criminal parasites that just print themselves money instead of working and earning it.
Don't be a troll.
the tap root of the tree of evil-the fed...
“While boasting of our noble deeds we’re careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery. – Horace Greeley Editor, New York Tribune
in·iq·ui·tous
i?nikwid?s/
adjective
adjective: iniquitous
grossly unfair and morally wrong.
what is unreasonably high - who gets to determine that?
why not let people decide for themselves, and vote with their wallets?
if you think a rate is too high, don't take the deal - pretty simple, no?
Enablers, the Sheriff of Nottinghams are necessary for evil to proliferate, wake up get a job that produces not consumes, don't be an idiot..
All taxes serve as an indenturing collar to the slaving masses, fact.
It's indicative to charging a shoe maker 5 shoes for every 10 he makes.... (It's so unreal!)
in the state of mn, huge surplus in a socialist greek style guv.org. so now what? cut taxes or return to payor? you know the answer- governor dayton-whacko nut case to begin with. befor i say anything else, i'll let you fill in th blanks. seriously hopeless as the majority elected him twice. at local level the plebs think republicans would do the right thing. naw, not falling for that fucking bullshit either...
Demand from masses for mOar government services?
Over time government growth feeds off itself. They are entitled to higher wages. They are entitled to retirements. Just look at municipalities in hock to pay what amounts to the STEALTH tax. The cost of money in our current system.
The lack of real money enslaves us all to debt.
The lack of real money will never allow freedom.
The system depends on inflation to tax.
The system depends on debt for growth.
When you get close to zero rates you bow and run away like Greenspan.
If you are an idiot, you step up and begin splitting hairs (dividing rates by 2) along with massive printing thinking you are smart. Then you run off and write a book. Grandma in charge now, will say nothing, and do nothing until the attack, and official war. The joining of all the skirmishes to one.
For most people, they can't even achieve property because of income taxes. You know, those living hand to mouth? Not everyone pays property tax. But if you work legally, you pay income tax.
Additionally, property taxes are generally levied at the local level. While income taxes are levied at the state (most states) and at the Federal level. I get hit with double taxation on income - by the state and federal.
Property tax is a farce. Do the people have an inalienable right to property or not? They most certainly do. It is a God given, natural right. Other entities (other than churches) do not have that right. There is only one 'hopper' for property taxation. That is an administrative machine. The people get thrown in that same hopper and it is up to them individually to realize it and react properly. The people however are ignorant (by design of the state education system), so most do nothing, and most others that do something, fail to exit the administrative machine and do not prevail.
Home ownership (and property too) in the US is a scam. You buy this house and maintain and insure it but you never really own it, because there are always property taxes due and non-payment will result in seizure and loss of it. There are only a few places in the US where allodial title is allowed and even then you have to pay more for it.
The purchase of a house is nothing more than the securing of a future decline in rent costs once the property is 'paid for' and nothing more than that. If you perpetually owe someone taxes (payments) you don't really own it.
It's one thing for a government to impose a tax system that would ensure its own survival. What really gets me though, is the enthusiasm with wich so many people are blindly and willingly walking (some are even running) into long term servitude (read debt) just to own some useless shit. Self-induced slavery is probably the worst because, on top of everything else, it also implies a huge amount of ignorance and downright stupidity...
Bullshit.
It is not slavery if I borrow money for my own perceived benefit.
It is if someone steals part of my life represented by my earnings.
IMO,,, If you owe part of your income to someone over a log term it is a form of slavery. Just because you entered the relationship voluntarily doesn't change it.
If that's your belief, don't ever borrow money.
I do borrow money. I also do my damnest to pay it back in the quickest manner and with the minimum amount of interest. All my credit cards are fully paid before their deadline, so charged interest is zero. Not a very good client for my banks I'm affraid...
Part of what you are perhaps missing here [intentionally or unintentionally] are the 'fractional reserve' implications.
I don't want to waste a lot of space here attempting to explain it in an inferior way, but the following link provides a nice illustration as to how even tiny little flames of debt [by individuals], turn into bonfires of debt within the banking system.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-problem-fractional-reserve-banking
The old term was indentured servitude. Several of my ancestors were IS's. They honestly worked their way into this country. Imagine that.
Now, with non dischargeable (since 2006) student loans, slavery has officially returned.
there is no loan, you never borrow money from a bank.....banks are borrowers, not lenders....you access your own credit....you create the money when you sign the credit card receipt or mortgage docs........the parasite banker charges you interest (USURY) for this......so your labor gets paid to the banker.......
If you create the money, how come you have to pay it back (with interest) to somebody else ? In fact, you borrow money from some institution. The fact that the above mentioned institution does indeed create those money out of thin air, doesn't make you less of a debtor. Permanent (or even long term) debt limits your freedom of action, hence the servitude situation.
You clearly have a lot to learn...
Well, you clearly are not helping so...
The money printing press belongs to the people.
The parasites are currently in possession of it.
It belongs to we the people.
Debt is a con, it's a scam.
Just like everything else the parasites perpetuate.
the money printing press is a scam.
smash it to pieces!
real money is not printed. real money is mined out of the earth, with real human labor, and it is minted into coins or bars. it can not be printed out of thin air and debased, it has scarcity, and that gives it value.
When you borrow from a bank, the currency does NOT come from the deposits of other bank clients, it is created out of thin air via a fraudulent system called fractional reserve banking, whereby a bank with X deposits can legally lend out 10X, 40X, 100X, infinityX... depending on local banking regulations.
You do this, you go to jail.
It's one of those privileges our glorious state bequeathes on those it deems worthy.
The point is, you cannot create money yourself (it's against the law, and it doesn't matter if you agree with it or not). So, the only legal way to get the money you need is to either earn them, or borrow them. Well, borrowing money has consequences; that's a fact that many Americans seem to be unaware of...
Allowing any group to live by a different set of laws, in effect privileges denied the rest of society, has very deleterious effects on society as a whole:
-the bankster creation of currency out of thin air inflates the currency, which in turn drives inflation (i.e. in the 50's most homes were bought cash, now mortgages are standard, the US dollar has lost 98% of it's value since 1913...))
-bankster profits are used to buy influence and corrupt government
-bankster profits are used to influence public policy (i.e. banning all medical care other than allopathic, removing reason as a subject from public schools, advancing any agenda that destroys the community and the family ...)
-Imbibing society with a culture of theft and fraud
I could go on, but you see where I am going with this, you must look past the tip of your nose as to how you may benefit personally from this or that facet of fractional reserve lending and look at the big picture
The Money Masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq9yjt_JbWs
A classic by Bill Still
Until present society changes fundamentally, it is what it is. I'm not talking about changing the rules of the country (something out of my reach), but living with them so that you won't make your life worse by getting into debt unnecessarily. Feel free to fight the wind mills of TBTF, if that's what floats your boat. While doing that, remember though that Heaven is said to be a wonderful place however, in order to reach it, you have to die first...
... Bullshit. It is not slavery if I borrow money for my own perceived benefit.
The only bullshit here, is the one in your head ! First of all, and regardless of your perceived benefits (which might be entirely illusory, in some cases), the fact that you owe a debt to somebody does limit your actions, as you have to dedicate time and resources to paying back said debt. If you borrow in order to create something of value that can be sold in profit, then your debt is perfectly OK. That's actually what credit was created for. However, if you borrow in order to satisfy your personal vanities, then you're most definitely agreeing to enter servitude, and for the dumbest of all reasons: a short dose of "feeling good" about yourself.
Second of all, the gov has exactly the same justification for imposing its taxes: at least part of it, depending on the type of gov, is for your own benefit (perceived or not). Go ask them if you don't believe it... they'll even tell you that taxes are the price to be paid for living in a civilized society (that one always cracks me up ;)
someone who doesn't understand the difference between entering into a voluntary agreement vs extortion that is put upon you by threat of force (pay us these taxes, or else!), does not belong in a free society.
There will always be a group of people willing to do that, those are the unfortunate. Think about it from the perspective of a normal distributions or bell curve (which aren't natural by the way).
every product you purchase has interest (usury) attached to it........some say up to 40%.........that is parasite bankers stealing your labor.........
Tax on labor or income tax was supposed to be temporary and is unconstitutional and against the law. You are a % of a slave. The amount you pay in tax is the percentage of slave that you are. You may use some services like roads, but that is state. If you own a house, property taxes are due, don't pay? not your house anymore. so you don't fully own shit. Property taxes pay for schools, even if you don't have kids... You do not see increased quality of life from Federal Taxes.
Sales tax reduces sales, labor tax reduces labor. That is if ppl are smart enough to realize if it doesn't make dollars it doesn't make sense (cents).
"Freedom ain't free" and I am not talking about money or bombs here. I'm talking about the notion of freedom being oxymoronic.
The 16th amendment that was questionably ratified allows them to tax whatever the income made you a slave. This occurred at the same time the Central Bank was created which destroyed the Peoples money. There had to be a way to pay the debt and interest. Tariffs and other taxes they had don't fit well in a global economy. And they ratified the 17th amendment to end the states suffrage.
All in the same year. A complete takeover.
Try again. The 16th amendment conferred no new power of taxation.
This act preceded all the above in 1914
http://www.14thamendment.us/apportionment/apportionment.html
It "forever" fixed the House at 435 seats-; original congressional apportionment was 1:30000;
fixing it at 435 seats allowed that eventually all districts could be controlled.
Recipe for freedom:
1) Sales tax instead of income tax.
2) Privatized retirement account rather than SS
Result:
No reason for the government to give you a number.
proposes solution for freedom is a tax.
sounds legit...
Tarabel is a Jewish troll.
while both of those are a step in a positive direction, tax of any sort is never a recipe for freedom.
tax of any sort supports your oppressors, it feeds the beast.
"it feeds the beast"
It's unbelievable how true & ubiquitous that is ON EVERY LEVEL.
I pay a homeowners association fee. The homeowners association has a Board of Directors [which I could become part of if I wanted, but things like that don't interest me]. Mostly what they decide on are expenditures for communal upgrades, like speed bumps, snow clearing, community dock, etc.
We used to have this guy with an operation that was very reliable & did things at a very reasonable cost. But then a new HA President was elected, who had both a personal feud with the prior service contractor, plus a good relationship with another guy who was getting into business doing the same type of contract work.
Long story short:
- old guy is out
- new guy is in
- service is FAR inferior
- homeowners association [DUES] are going up
The homeowners association has a Board of Directors [which I could become part of if I wanted, but things like that don't interest me].
I suppose it is a lot easier to sit on the sidelines and bitch.
@Rocky
To address your snarky comment directly...
Yes ~ You're absolutely CORRECT... It 'IS' "a lot easier to sit on the sidelines and bitch."
Why? Because in this instance, I've weighed my options & figured out that the extra hundred bucks [or two] that it costs me [per year], isn't worth the 'time value' it would cost me to pursue what might seem to be the more compelling option...
In a similar fashion [hypothetically, of course], I have ZERO plans to 'self immolate' on the steps of the US Capitol in protest of other things [because I've weighed the ramifications, & decided that, not only would it hurt, but that doing so would]:
- probably never even get me my 15 minutes of fame
- If it DID succeed in getting 15 minutes of fame, I'd be usurped by Kardashian & Beiber b4 it even made the nightly news
- Most likely, be a story that ended up being 'REPACKAGED' & sold to the public as behavior from a CRAZED LUNATIC, [which might, for a time, actually be counter-productive to any message that I may or may not have intended].
If there are any other suppositions that you'd like to share, please feel free...
I would have to agree, but at the present time I don't see any way of getting those two things accomplished.
Sales tax is a far more equitable way of funding, and those who consume the most would pay the most. For #2 however, the pay-in for SS is so far behind the pay-out that 1) if you could get back what you paid in for SS from the Fed it wouldn't be much and 2) since SS doesn't really exist where is .gov going to find the $$ to give people back what they paid in?
While I agree it should have been mentioned the property tax is more enslaving. One has to have income to pay the property tax. Without property tax one could purchase a place to live and then drop off the income radar.
The whole system is built to enslave us where the only way out is living an impoverished existence owning nothing. Having one's own business isn't enough to escape. One has to be a member of the club and we ain't in it and it takes Bill Gates like money to get in.
Inflation and punishing savers is deliberate to keep people who are building up a cache of 'f-you' money to get out of the system from being able to. We can't even buy our freedom these days. Three centuries ago a slave could buy his freedom from his wages. As I learned it slaves could be lent out as employees of various businesses and the required practice was that the slave's owner would get half the wages and the slave would keep the other half. But so much for that in today's system. We get far less than half after all the masters take a cut and then what we can save is decimated by monetary policy.
Income tax is theft at gunpoint, not slavery. There is a difference.
Americans are slaves financially. They are also slaves mentally to education and propaganda. From this lower position it is easy to corrupt them as well.
From the tax code;
"(c) Employee
For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" includes an
officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a
State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of
Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of
the foregoing. The term "employee" also includes an officer of a
corporation."
Income is defined as corporate profit per the USSC first in: FLINT v. STONE TRACY CO., 220 U.S. 107 (1911)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=220&invol=107
A W4 is a contract that makes you a corporate government entity.
The federal income tax is an excise taken on the privilege of government service.
I hate bitches that don't really reply to a comment, but instead just reply so their comment can be close to the top. Page whore.
As I get ready to pay about $550, almost all of which is tax for my car plates it occurs to me that I am a tax mule. My job in the grand leftist utopian vision is to work ever harder to supply more money to support their dreams.
Taxes are far and away the largest expense item for anyone who is actually productive and working hard enough to theoretically have a pretty good life. It is the real slavery as it comes with force. Government debt including taxes are nondischargeable. So, even if I go bankrupt, all my creditors will get stiffed except for the government. Now, that is real coercion.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. " – Goethe
They are free. They are as free as they wish to be. The cage door is open and they have but to spread their wings. They choose not to for any number of reasons, but chiefly because freedom is terrifying.
your co-worker's mom is blowing up tires with her anal sphincter, she might only have a couple years left before it gives out and she's left to shit on the floor involuntarilly, then the $87/ hr won't seem so worth it.
"my co-worker's mom makes $87 an hour on the laptop . "
What she has her own porn site?
Meh, I don't get on the laptop for less than $200 per hour.
Now me, I just spend all day telling everyone else about this great money-making oportunity that someone else does but not me.
Why not?
Well, because you need to be the mother of a co-worker in order to land this wonderful deal. Everyone else gets a vomit milkshake instead, right?
The moment, the instant a child is born today they are saddled with over $800,000 in debt (US Debt Clock). How the hell isn't that slavery? The 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve Act are the two main "whips" used to subdue people. Eliminate just those two things and the US would thrive.
All the more reason to not instantly produce a child, huh?
The 'system' is designed to enslave. To comment that we can all exist outside that system by doing the things you suggest is not possible.
Not without putting the parasites behind bars first.
This system of 'Enslave' might be finally catching up to Americans, but when you born in South America, it’s all too familiar.
Let me show you how: By Don Stewart, of OFW.
The US solution is always to offer credit, usually only good for buying stuff made in the US. Take Cuba. What do you think the conversation is like?
US…we will extend billions in credit, to purchase US goods
Cuba…and then how do we repay the debts?
US…we will make the debt a balloon payment due in 25 years (like California school districts)
Cuba…but what about our children paying off the balloon note?
US…We will have incinerated the world in a nuclear war long before then
Don Stewart
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2015/02/25/role-of-wages-of-the-common-worker-in-oil-prices-collapse/#comment-54269
Go away troll.
Poop
Serious question: are you a hermaphrodite? Who or what is in your pic?
you sound like you are curious & aroused.
Or Curiously Aroused.
JOMG fetish?
[Pay attention here 'Miffed', a wondrous world of discovery awaits here] ~ lol
Pretty close. Escrava is delivering a message that few want to hear but is true.
Read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. By John Perkins...
Read??? A book???
Surely you jest.
Yeah, but the Jive is more than just a one liner. They might include the notion that population increases will spread out the debt among the people so it won't hurt.
Then John Perkins can get out his Survey and chart based on Cuban Government Data to prove the rate of population growth.
Just one way you probably picked up in Perkins books.
Self-enslavement
Wrong!
Any ability of awareness by the sheeple has been destroyed by religion believes, corporate propaganda, television, and our indoctrinated educational system.
So, the sheeple is too simplistic, thus incapable of critical thinking and honest inquiry.
The sheeple wants a job, health insurance, and a rising 401k statement.
Thank your selfishite friends troll.
Go easy there, cowboy.
We’re all doing god’s work.
Good point. So you also believe Satan will turn into an angel of light at the right time?
public schools are incubators of fascism
it would be much more straightforward if tax rates were cut down to zero, and govt would just print the money instead... wait... they re pritning it anyway, so why the fuck they need taxes???
probably just to make people more miserable with each passing year...
The system enslaves us. It is not designed to makes us free.
It's a cookie cutter enslavement system, and we enforce it on ourselves.
But its sites like this and many others that is waking people up. First a critical mass of awakened people, then the solution.
The solution is the same one that is working for religions.
No one forces their belief system on others but you are free to join with others inclined to live in accordance with a shared belief system.
That describes the US before 1861.
Why do we allow them to tax us if they print themselves money for nothing?
Why? Because "They" have the capability to make the individual's existence very unpleasant indeed. and "They" have absolutely no problem in demonstrating this.
Power, connections, full ownership of the assets that count (Banking / Finance / Media), and all the right connections at the International level.
That's why.
Why don't we the people take our money printing press back from them?
Technically there are no Printing Presses involved.
I think what you want to do is Amend the Banking Charters for Wall Street Banks, FED Prime Dealer Banks, and Shadow Banks/Hedge Funds. Reduce the power of the bank to Create money out of thin air.
But of course you have to reform:
- Standardized Accounting
- Standardize Financial Instruments
- Standardized Financial Ratings
- Make Compensation, Administrative Costs, Overhead for fringe benefits & expensive Offices part of the Financial Rating as it indicates "Looting of the Corporation"
Wall Street Banks can create Derivatives and brand new financial Schemes all day long since they are not Standardized.
- And guess what if US Citizens refuse to bailout the Banks, the bank & the Executives can just Fly Out of the Country taking all the US Capital they control
Is that what you want?
Simple. An industrial economy requires a small handful to own the means of production and the rest to be at least a little bit dispossessed. Think about it for a moment... the whole economy and infrastructure rests on hundreds of millions of jobs that absolutely nobody would do if they had a choice. Without some form of forced labor it'd be back to the stone age, virtually overnight. I would consider that an acceptable tradeoff, but I have a feeling I'm the exception.
Because they'll send a man with a gun to take you away............................ and your property.
I wondered that myself and think that they do it cause it slows down inflation to a realistic 7-9% (not fucking 2% as stated). Also it makes ppl think that is where the money comes from and they are being patriotic rather than understanding fractional reserve banking and corporate tax loopholes/offshore banking. The money mostly comes from loans, loans are creating money out of nothing. They make money off of fees and interest. Tangilbe federal reserve notes are a very small percentage of actual money. Most money is a number on a screen nowadays.
I'd like to see gold in the strip of those 100's instead of some hologram.
why? because they are evil joooooos, and they don't bow down to a plastic statue depicting a dead guy from a long time ago who got nailed to a couple of boards, like we do.
Blame Putin. All is well.
Putin threatens American Freedom. I know that for a fact! CNN said it!
I believe every word John Kerry and that guy McCain say. Just because they work for a bunch of Jewish criminals doesn't mean they would lie to us good citizens. Never. Nope. No way.
yep, my moniker