At some point in our lives, we’ve had wildly different perceptions about the world than we do today. No matter our political philosophy, we can all agree there is a lot to be done in order to fix the system.
Corruption and immorality are running rampant in the highest parts of our society. Whether it’s an authoritarian dictatorship where self-elected officials pad their pockets with their nation’s wealth, or it’s a group of transnational elites subverting democracy in order to control the economy, these two unique forms of oppression share the same end result: Sabotaging society to increase their own freedom at the expense of ours.
Specifically for America, and considering I live here, I have a list of goals we must accomplish in order to achieve maximum freedom. I want to break these down and carefully explain why we desperately need to achieve these goals.
1.) End All War, Bring Back Our Troops, Sell All Our Bases
You might notice this first goal has three different steps, but that’s because they all specifically coordinate with one another. Ending war abroad is going to be the most difficult thing we face. This will take massive amounts of public pressure. The never-ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to bankrupt us and another major war in Syria will completely sabatoge our military’s morale and our government’s budget.
Bringing back our troops goes hand in hand with selling our bases. We will save hundreds of millions of dollars alone in food, clothing, and equipment costs for soldiers to live on foreign soil. Not only are we occupying these foreign bases by force, we have no business continuing to police the world. A great way to paying back some of our seemingly endless debt is to sell off our foreign bases to the nations we’re occupying.
2.) End The Fed and Return to the Gold Standard
Since 1913, the Federal Reserve has had an illegitimate strangle on the U.S. economy. The nation was fooled into accepting a fraudulent central bank and it has long overstayed it’s welcome. The USD has depcreiated nearly 100% since the secretive central bank’s creation. They stole the nation’s gold and replaced it with fiat currency. The largest heist in recorded history has long been undisputed and simply glossed over by mainstream economists and politicians.
Returning to the gold standard might be the last hope to save the dollar. It would prevent the Fed from limitless printing and would virtually safeguard our money from manipulation or hyperinflation. Without a fiat currency, the government wouldn’t be able to run the national debt through the roof. This would enforce fiscal discipline and would allow We the People to slowly begin to take back control of this fleeting government.
3.) Privatize Everything
Yes, you read that right. I said privatize everything. Now this doesn’t mean do it all at once, because this process itself could take several years. But we don’t need the federal government overseeing our insurance or our retirement savings accounts. We don’t need the federal government funding education all across the country. We don’t need bureaucrats in D.C. managing infrastructure reform. These are matters that can either be taken into our own hands personally or issues our local community can manage. Everything becomes incredibly dysfunctional and lethargic when the federal government puts their hands on it.
Not only does government lower the standard of quality, it severely limits our freedom. This is the most important reason to support a complete privatization of everything. It’s about letting people live on their own accord. You wouldn’t stay in an abusive relationship for the rest of your life, would you? So why would you do that with your government?
If we made a serious effort to achieve these important goals and reestablish a system of freedom like our nation once had long ago, we could set the precedent for the rest of the world to follow. I have faith we can continue to spread the ideas of liberty and educate others on the truth of freedom.
I think we have to end the concept of militarism period. Not just America.
End all centralized everything. The Fed, The government, and All Bureaucracy. The gold standard is not going to free anyone, all currency needs to be replaced by voluntary means of transaction, IE: barter with whatever you want.
Privatize everything to the point where a person can claim what they can take care of. The rest of everything could remain natural.
The problem with how do we free this world is that it requires personal responsibility from every individual here. Most are not willing to be responsible for their own actions. Until that time nothing will change
Agreed, agreed, and agreed. I just wanted to point out the very three obvious steps I believe we need to take if we want any hope of reestablishing true peace and true prosperity.
Bringing back bartering would be great too, I didn't mean to leave that out. But taking the dollar back to the gold standard would legitimize the bank notes as strong currency, because of it would be backed by real wealth. Doing this immediately would create such wealth disparities and tremendous problems, but once hyperinflation corrects itself, having that secure wealth will strengthen freedom. All in all, I want to see a diverse amount of currencies and alternatives to what we have now. It will only strengthen the free market.
We'll be seeing rough times ahead. Everything changes in cycles.
Keep working, stop paying.
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