Bankers' Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene

The Census and the Welfare State

March 11, 2010

Hornberger's Blog - The letter that Ralph Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, recently sent to the American people reflects what America has become under the welfare state. Here is what the letter states in part:

“Your response is important. Results from the 2010 Census will be used to help each community get its fair share of government funds for highways, schools, health facilities, and many other programs you and your neighbors need. Without a complete, accurate census, your community may not receive its fair share.”

In that one paragraph lies the plunderbund society in all it majestic glory. Everyone is supposed to feel morally obligated to answer all those intrusive questions in order to ensure that his community receives its fair share of the loot forcibly collected by the Internal Revenue Service during the course of the year, but especially on April 15.

You see, all that IRS-collected money goes into a gigantic pool that the president and Congress then have at their disposal to distribute to people.

As Groves points out, some of that IRS-collected money is sent to your “community.” What does “community” mean? Alas, it doesn’t mean you. If it did, that would mean that the federal government would simply be returning your hard-earned money to you.

No, by “community” Groves means your state and local elected and appointed politicians and bureaucrats, who send complicated and expensive proposals to Washington begging and pleading for help to construct some new highway, health-care facility, school, recreational facility, or some other project or program.

Federal grants are announced with tremendous fanfare. The distributing federal agency issues a press release announcing that the city has received a grant of several million dollars to build, say, its new recreation center. The congressman for that district humbly takes credit for the grant. Area newspapers publish editorials extolling local officials for their genius is securing the grant and effusively praising the effectiveness of their congressman.

In the process, most everyone forgets where the money originally came from, or they simply don’t care. All that people focus on is that they’re receiving free money that is coming from the federal government, the all-good, all-caring, all-compassionate entity whose job it is to take care of the citizenry.

A particular sign oftentimes is posted on the project site for passersby to see:

“Jobs for your community!”

Not only has the federal government provided free funds for your community, it also uses local people to help build the project.

It’s all so grand, so glorious. Who could possibly object to such a process?

Well, that’s where libertarians come in. Libertarians object to the process because it is immoral, crooked, corrupt, fraudulent, and destructive to the core.

The process entails an all-out battle between public officials in different states and cities to get their dirty little hands on as large a portion of the money that has been forcibly taken from people as they can.

Millions of people across the country are struggling financially, but does anyone suggest a moratorium on the payment of income taxes to the IRS? Of course not (well, except for libertarians, who call for a permanent moratorium on income taxation). Nothing must be permitted to interfere with that giant pool of IRS-collected money that federal officials have at their disposal to send to grateful state and local officials.

And no, the process does not create jobs, it simply redistributes them from productive, private-sector projects to politically motivated projects. You see, all the money that the IRS took from people would have brought jobs into existence if people had been left free to keep their own hard-earned money instead of sending it to the IRS. Since those jobs were never permitted to come into existence, you don’t see them. All you see is that “free” health-care facility which federal, state, and local politicians and bureaucrats can point to and say:

“Here it is — your free facility that has provided free jobs for your community.”

The sad part of all this is that all too many Americans continue to play right into the celebration and even praise it. Failing to think through what has been done to them and their fellow citizens, they haplessly and pathetically play the role of a theft victim celebrating what has been done to them.

G. Edward Griffin on the New World Order, Ending the Fed, and Returning to the Gold Standard

On May 17, 2009, G. Edward Griffin joined Gary Franchi on Restore the Republic's Reality Report (video above). Here is an excerpt from the transcript of that interview:

Gary Franchi: You have been fighting the New World Order for many, many years and your hindsight, looking back at the progression and the speed of things that are taking place right now, would you say that the plans for the New World Order are now accelerating at an increased rate?

G. Edward Griffin: No doubt about it. I think they’re running for the finish line right now. I think they want to tie this all up with the absolute loss of national sovereignty within the next few years.

That’s my opinion and I’d like to say something I’ve said before, and it’s so true today still; and that is there will be no date, no particular point in history where you can say, “On this date, the New World Order was ushered in.”

To a very large extent, Gary, we’re already in it. We’ve been in it for a long, long time. What they’re really doing is just building the walls a little bit at a time with the passage of each day, and we’re in it. We will never be able to say, “Gee, it started on this date.”

That’s all I wanted to say, is that the New World Order is here; and yes, I’ve been fighting it for a long time. If there was to be a date that historians might want to put on the arrival of this monster, I suppose it would be the date on which all of the nations of the world surrendered control over their money and over their military, because those are the two legs on which national sovereignty stands.

If you’ve got a strong military and a strong money system, you’re a sovereign nation. If you don’t have those things, you’re nothing. You’re just a territory that is controlled by someone who does have strong money or a strong military.

So we’re very close to the surrender of our money right now. I suppose that would be a date that historians might choose for the crossover point. Let’s hope it doesn’t get there.