- Hi Jack,
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- I agreed with most all of the points you made in your
hit piece on Ronald Reagan (his increased spending, taxes, regulations,
etc.), except for your denunciation of Reagan's protectionism. Today, US
tariffs could give a boost to American manufacturing. How else can we compete
with the slave labor in China?
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- Hello Sweetheart,
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- Thank you for your in-put, it is appreciated. But, a
hit piece? Are you sure?
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- A "hit piece" could be defined as journalistic
fraud, filled with lies, half-truths and omitted, but important, information.
If you have data that corrects my assertions that President Reagan vastly
increased governmental spending, increased inflation, income taxes, regulations,
and governmental bureaucracy, please direct me to it. Reagan was
a "dream come true" for all fascists and socialists who want
big and intrusive governments.
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- Something I did not include in my "hit piece"
was Reagan's Iran Contra scandal, or how he did not win the Cold War, but
prolonged it. Before Reagan took office, Soviet leaders were trying to
retain their power, by saving their economy with cuts to their military
spending. Reagan's military build-ups actually empowered Soviet hard-liners
to continue the Cold War longer.
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- The Zionists of the International Monetary/Banking Cartel
demanded Reagan's militarized expansion, not to thwart the Soviets, but
to later be used in their unwarranted, unprovoked wars of aggression on
Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran, all at the expense of
the American economy, and her tax-payers.
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- There is a common big lie promoted by ill-informed, or
purposely deceptive, warmongers in academic and media circles, that "wars
are good for economies." Waging war requires enormous financial debts
to the Banking Cartel, debts which are never good for national economies.
The only possible justification for governmental debt is if the borrowed
money is used solely to repair and expand a nation's infrastructure, in
such a way as to enhance future domestic production, that could then quickly
eliminate the debt, hardly the approach pursued by the Reagan administration.
Thank you very much for your words, but not your actions, Mr. Reagan.
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- I apologize for not going more deeply, in my article
on Ronald Reagan, into how unwise were his protectionist policies, but
the subject has purposely been clouded, to provide cover for the nefarious
deeds of those in the Monetary/Banking Cartel, and is therefore a bit tricky
to explain. If, however, you can follow their stratagems, you'll be able
to see how the Cartel operates geopolitically, in their inexhaustible pursuit
of a one-world tyrannical government, controlled by them. Let us begin
by taking a look at how they have falsely defined "protectionism."
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- Protectionism, as defined by propagandists, is the government's
placement of tariffs, duties or quotas on imports, "to protect"
domestic manufacturing industries and farmers from global competition.
More factually, with protectionism, governments levy a tax on consumer
goods from abroad that will make them more expensive and less attractive
than domestic goods without such taxes.
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- The real motivation for protectionism, however, is actually
quite different than protecting domestic farmers and manufacturers. But
first of all, understand that protectionism doesn't work: putting a tariff
(tax) on say goods imported from Japan, causes Japan to put tariffs on
American goods they import. So American businesses and farmers gain nothing;
but, citizens of both of the US and Japan pay more for those imported goods.
And where do those increased taxes in Japan and the US go?
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- The tax revenues from protectionism largely go to the
private Monetary/Banking Cartel; but that is not the only reason the Cartel
has forced protectionism on so many nations for so long: Protectionism
leads to trade wars, which often lead to hot, shooting wars; both kinds
of wars are very lucrative for the private Banking Cartel. But first, let
us look at the actual definition of "trade wars."
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- Trade wars occur when trading partners begin to retaliate,
back and forth, with ever increasing taxes on imported goods. Trade wars
are the opposite of "free trade," wherein there is never any
protectionism, tariffs, duties, quotas, or taxes, of any sort, levied on
imported goods. Trade wars that lead to shooting wars, where millions
of people are killed and injured, end up with the warring nations having
no production of consumer goods left to export. So protectionism - that
pretends to protect domestic producers - can bring about a situation
in which there are few to no domestic manufacturers or farmers left to
protect.
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- Protectionism has been forced upon nations for centuries,
especially on European countries during the 17th and 18th centuries, when
it was called Mercantilism, a time when Europe was plagued with wars, all
enriching the International Monetary/Banking Cartel with tariffs and military
build-ups. And through Cartel agents in the US government, protectionism
was soon instituted in America.
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- One piece of US protectionism was so egregious it played
a major role in bringing about the American War Between the States: It
was the US Tariff of 1828, called the Tariff of Abominations by the antebellum
South. European countries countered this American tax on their exported
goods by inturn taxing American imports, like cotton, which was a major
blow to the Southern economy. The great economist Murray Rothbard said
true free trade might have prevented the American Civil War [caused by
Cartel agents in the American government].
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- When the Southern states finally seceded from the Union,
the Confederate Constitution guaranteed free trade, without the taxes imposed
by protectionism, an ideal our world has rarely enjoyed.
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- At one time, America's industrial might and farming outputs,
unfettered by taxes and government regulations, had no problem in out-producing
the entire world, and enjoying a favorable balance of trade, in spite of
slave labor in foreign countries. We do not need protectionism for our
productive sector, as today we have no such sector to protect. We need
a government that will usher in a new era of hundreds of thousands of business
entrepreneurs and family farms, and a quick extinction of the malignant
cancers spread by the private International Monetary/Banking Cartel. Trade
deficits are best handled with increased production of things people want
and need, not with war, destruction, and taxes on imports.
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- The ideal for international trade will come about when
governments pursue a path of free trade with all other nations, without
sanctions, embargoes, regulations, or taxes imposed by some international
body of private oligarchs, who create problems, that didn't priorly exist,
from which they provide "solutions" that are worse than the problems
they first created, and from which they gain more wealth, control, and
power.
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- After long creating the myriad disasters of their enforced
protectionism, the Cartel's media began championing the benefits of free
trade; but in reality, such trade would be anything but free. The Cartel
had in mind a supranational institution they would utterly control, with
the imposing name of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Their WTO would
be able to inflict economic and trade sanctions on any nation not marching
to the orders of the Cartel's New World Order. In fact, just such an organization,
called the World Trade Organization, came into existence on January the
1st 1995, during the compliant Clinton administration.
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- A WTO central planning agency for world trade, run by
the Monetary Cartel, is akin to having a police chief who is secretly a
Mafia Don (capo crimini).
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- After centuries of playing their protectionist cards,
and Reagan pushing it to the max, the Cartel's corporate media began advocating
the virtues of free trade, which helped to give birth to the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and to the General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT), which were major steps toward the WTO. Building on the Bretton
Woods Agreement of 1944, where the Cartel set up their International Monetary
Fund (IMF), their International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(IBRD), and GATT.
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- Those who opposed the coming WTO were called "protectionists,"
which was OK in earlier times, but had fallen out of vogue, with the coming
draconian World Trade Organization.
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- Than about 50 years later, GATT was officially replaced
with a 300 pound, 29,000 page charter for the WTO, with small print, that
replaced national sovereignty with Cartel supremacy; it does not foster
free trade, never has, and never will. The WTO is a contrivance for a few
hundred financial plutocrats to utterly control world trade, and use its
29,000 pages as weapons for national compliance.
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- One of Reagan's jobs was to push protectionism to the
max, so the US and the world would be ready for the promised free trade,
that never came. So whether it was with protectionism or controlled trade,
free trade has been rare in our world, and we've all paid the price of
its rarity.
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- Is it not truly amazing that a gang of outlaws have so
taken over our government, that our national leaders perpetuate crimes
against humanity?
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- Goethe wrote, "He alone deserves liberty and life
who daily must win them anew."
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- We have much to win anew, and it all begins with understanding
the machinations of the private International Monetary/Banking Cartel.
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- J. Speer-Williams
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- jsw4@mac.com
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