It Is Not A Swamp

It Is an occupying force

By The Market Ticker May 19, 2023

It is an occupying force.

And like all occupying forces it has two characteristics:

• It gatekeeps for everyone else not part of it.  That is, said occupying force prevents the free flow of commerce and people from one place to another via all means both fair and foul.
  

• It requires sustenance without which it will die.

The second is its Achilles heel.

You see, an occupying force does not have either the means or the willingness to create its own necessities of life.  In the modern era this is more than just food and shelter; it is also money, energy sources of all sorts, transportation and the means of both defense and offense, all of which said occupying force thinks you are obligated to provide.

By what means is such an obligation to be enforced when you outnumber them by more than 100:1?

It truly amazes me when I read of such rank corruption as was revealed by the Durham Report.  Yes, I read the whole thing.  That was why my article on it posted a day after it was made available rather than earlier; unlike the various hyperventilating media people who could not have possibly read the entire report first and thus were stenographers for someone behind the curtain I did read it, just as I read the PPACA Bill ("Obamacare") before it was passed and before I opined on it.

Meanwhile the FBI is allegedly going to get a new headquarters building because, you see, rewarding corruption with a few billion dollars of public money -- that is, from you -- is also ok and thus their base of operations and reach of said corruption must be expanded.

Right?

Isn't it interesting that people talk about simply "protesting."  Well, maybe peaceful and maybe not, ala summer of 2020 when it was allegedly too dangerous to be able to hike in a national park yet it was perfectly safe to loot and burn businesses in downtown Minneapolis.

One was good for a $5,000 fine -- the other you got a pat on the back and the media calling same a "mostly-peaceful" protest.

All Americans had to do to stop any or all of this stupidity is cut off the supplies.

No violence required and, I remind you, its not illegal to refuse to labor.  It can't be; we passed a Constitutional Amendment on that point about 150 years ago if I recall correctly.

Of course this means you might have to go without some things too.

And that gets to the crux of the matter, doesn't it?

You apparently do not care about the corruption even when it screws you; as long as its indirect you don't believe it exists at all!  The inflation of the last couple of years and the rank fraud related to countermeasures for a virus that, on balance was nearly harmless to anyone healthy and under 50 and while quite dangerous to some most who were at highest risk made themselves so through their deliberate personal actions didn't hurt enough it would appear.

After all nobody has done anything to put a stop to either happening again, have they?

Meanwhile we think its perfectly good that your children in second grade can check out a library book at school describing explicit sexual acts but reading parts of that same book to a school board meeting is deemed obscene.

You'll have to pardon me if I stop caring about your kids if you don't care enough about them to expect that their teacher can actually make change for a $20 in their head, or cares enough about his or her health to be reasonably healthy and thus willing to accept the basic, inescapable risk when engaged in the task of teaching children who always have been and always will be little germ factories simply because their immune system has had less time and training in this world.  This is a known risk of the profession just as it is a known risk of being a parent and should never be cause to impose on said kids -- if you can't accept the inherent risk of the job then you should go do something else.

I hear repeatedly how terrible of a person I am if I express the belief that every illegal alien in this nation should be deported immediately and, until we can get to them neither they or their offspring should have any access of any sort to any taxpayer-funded anything.  Yes, I understand that under the law those born here are citizens.  But coming here illegally and then having a child does not confer citizenship on the parents by that very same Constitution and since abandoning a child is felony abuse mommy and/or daddy must go and, by any reasonable interpretation they must take the kid with them or be charged with said felony and forever barred from re-entry into the United States.  Explain this choice to them and let them choose.

To allow otherwise is to allow children to be exploited by a criminal enterprise and that is the very definition of child abuse just as it is if a drug dealer uses a baby as a human shield when in a gunfight over who gets to sell dope on a street corner.

We have a problem with affordability of housing and reasonable wages, particularly for young people starting out and desiring to create families.  This, I remind you, is an essential element of the continuation of society: Without it when you die that's all there is and the nation and its people are finished.  That may be abstract and diffuse to you but it certainly isn't to the young couple who has their available wages suppressed by illegal labor and their housing costs jacked to the moon by the same illegal labor as it places demand pressure on the available housing supply.

Were you personally assaulted by the FBI and DOJ in their most-recent schemes with regard to Hunter Biden and Trump before that prior to and during the 2016 election?  No.  Flynn was, however, and so were many others -- often at literal gunpoint.  At the same time Hillary literally ran an illegal classified document storage device in her home bathroom and neither the FBI or DOJ did a thing about it.  When challenged she and her staff physically destroyed evidence by taking hammers to cellphones to prevent the recovery of said data.  Did anyone get prosecuted for that?  No.

But that an injury to you and this nation was or is diffuse doesn't mean it didn't happen and didn't have an impact on you.

It did.

Your local hospital took monstrous "incentive payments" for patients with a specific disease -- provided they followed whatever protocol the CDC and NIH demanded.  It didn't matter if any of it worked or what the results were like.  Our local county hospital -- the only one here in the county and thus by the public data our State published daily -- had almost 9 out of 10 admissions for said condition across a six month period in the back half of 2021 leave in a pine box.  They got paid their bonuses anyway and thus so did their employees, and let me remind you that the medical system is one of the largest employers virtually everywhere.

Those payments irrespective of failure rather than only paying for success and keeping people out of these expensive institutions in turn drove up price pressure on cars, housing, hospitality services and even groceries because that's just how supply and demand works.  If you think the cost of all those travel nurses at two, three, four or five times what an employee nurse costs was vapor and didn't screw you personally you're flat-out nuts.

The injury everyone else suffered as a result of these schemes, even though you personally did not wind up dead and perhaps nobody you knew did either still hit you directly in the wallet and continues to do so to this day.

There is not a "swamp" in both the State and Federal governments.

It is an occupying force that gives not one whit for the Constitution and its constraints, in fact is full of people with guns and yet it requires exactly zero violence to stop it, other than possibly entirely-lawful and justified acts of self-defense if they were to choose to initiate force to steal from you at gunpoint when you simply say in response to their demand to produce something for them one single word: "NO!"

Stopping them and dismantling this requires only starving them of the ability to acquire anything they cannot or will not personally make on their own by simply refusing to provide it.  None of them are capable of producing what they need to continue to survive -- food, fuel, power, clean water, sewage treatment, communications and similar -- on their own.  Do you really think Lori Lightfoot could grow her own food or generate her own electricity?  Could Congress?  How about your Governor, State Legislature or Mayor?

Contemplate what would have happened if in response to every single demand for a mandate of any sort over the last three years the response was one word: NO.

"Wear a mask!" - NO.
"Take a shot!" - NO.
"Show up at 5:00 AM to stock shelves while the guy next door is smoking bongs and hurling empty beer bottles out the window because we are paying him $600 a week to stay home out of YOUR tax money!" - NO.

How long would the "mandates" have lasted if, in response to "close the bars and restaurants" all the grocery workers, power company workers, the people running the water and sewer plant and similar walked off the job and said "we'll come back when we can go with our friends to the bar for a beer after work exactly as we have done for the last 20+ years, no mitigations and no excuses, and not one second before"?

How long would the nonsense with the FBI and DOJ persist if the people of this nation refused to supply any federal employee or agency with anything -- yes, I do mean anything -- until and unless this crap stopped?  Oh sure, there are some who would try to step in and do so but there aren't enough of them if the majority of the population was tired of this and simply refused to labor -- at all -- until it stopped.  Indeed if even ten percent of the population had done so it would have been over within days.

And how long would the illegal invasion continue if nobody would give a job, a place to stay or so much as a loaf of bread to anyone who was here illegally in the United States?  Yes, some would because they profit from it (duh) so target those who do that and exclude them too as accessories after the fact to said unlawful acts.

You think not?

A beer company found out that mocking women cost them 25% of their sales -- and counting.  How many of those government officials would keep it up as the days, weeks and months went on and a quarter or more of everything they wanted and tried to buy they simply didn't get because the person they tried to get it from told them to pound sand?

Don't tell me "you can't do it" or "that wouldn't do anything" when you just saw it happen with something so trivial as a brand of beer.

The word NO is the most-powerful in the English language.

Especially when you have a 300:1 -- or more -- numerical advantage.

If, that is, you use it.