On December 13, 1799, George Washington was engaged in some remodeling activities at Mt. Vernon and found himself working for a good part of the day in a cold and hard rain. He concluded his work and entered the house soaking wet and shortly thereafter he found himself aching and sick. That night he worked in his study, retired to bed after midnight and summoned physicians the next day as he found himself feeling worse than the day before.
There is considerable controversy surrounding Washington’s death because the medicine of the day called for a cleansing of the system through a type of bloodletting. Veins were cut and the system was allegedly purged through the bleeding.
Given the medical knowledge of the day, no one can fault the attending physicians for weakening their highly regarded patient by depriving him of the vital function of the blood supply. The procedure greatly weakened Washington and essentially the cure killed the patient.
This is analogous to what is happening with our economy today. The economy is anemic. The economic voodoo bloodletting has been going on for a long time. Because freedom has produced the most robust economy the world has ever known the illusion of invincibility is easily exploited.
The fact is, because of vast unprecedented debt, our financial system is sick and the solution proposed by the liberals and the Obama administration is to bleed the patient even more.
However, there is a substantive difference that makes the comparisons very dissimilar. Washington’s doctors were misinformed. They did not know better. They in good conscience were doing the best they knew how so as to achieve the best possible outcome for their sick and dying patient.
That cannot be said about the economic doctors today. The analogy would only hold had Washington’s doctors known that their cure would kill their patient and they had proceeded anyway.
There is no instance in history where any nation has successfully spent its way out of economic bankruptcy. There is no example in the history of humanity of any nation achieving prosperity by slaying the productive segment of society, deliberately stupefying its population, and placing future generations into financial bondage.
There is no record of any time where the destruction of a national currency was remediated by more of the actions that caused the problem in the first place.
It would take a blind leap of faith to believe that those who are cutting the veins of America’s economy today are not aware that bleeding kills the patient. So what we really have is an assassination of the currency and the free market system that is planned and purposeful.
One can speculate as to what the reasons might be. There are certainly plenty of credible theories offered that are plausible and likely. I won’t explore the murdering doctors’ motives or intentions here. I merely want to point out the obvious truth that is for some reason ignored and obscured by the media.
This is economic murder. The evidence is in. There are no arguments that can be suggested that allow for any conclusion other than that the physicians cutting the veins of America’s economy are doing so knowingly. This is not well intentioned ignorance with unintended consequences. This is a conscious, willful, cunning, ruthless, ignominious and unconscionable slaughter of the blessings of liberty and free enterprise.
This is economic barbarism and its perpetrators are enemies of the people they serve. No man with an agenda can call himself a friend whose actions and alliances seek to undermine the foundations of individual liberty and the engines of prosperity.
I pray we may be spared the consequences of their delusions. May they reap the whirlwind they have sown and may it fall particularly on them and theirs and history so record it to their everlasting shame.
Paul Phaneuf
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