Editor`s Rant: On Global Warming
Everywhere
you go, you bump into the Global Warming controversy. What bothers me is that
there are so many that don`t question the issue. When politicians say that it
is no longer a controversy; that should be a tip off to you that something is wrong.
Well, I think you know by now that I don`t take what politicians and other
high-visibility people say without question. The national media, a group that
spends more time `shaping opinion` rather than informing us, is resolute in the
idea that `mankind is the root cause of global warming and that we must do something
to reign in ourselves`. Do you buy that point without question? Is man-made global
warming as true as` death and taxes? Is it really an `inconvenient truth?`
It`s
time for some `INCONVENIENT QUESTIONS`:
- Fact:
Scientists now tell us that global warming is also happening on Mercury,
Venus and Mars. Another report tells us Neptune is warmer and brighter now
than in 1980. The question` is mankind causing global warming on those
planets as well? Is it a coincidence that every planet near us is warming
at the same exact time as Earth!?
- Fact: Some
scientists believe that man-made global warming is real, others don`t. Many scientists that
don`t specialize in climatology AND get paid by government grants, think
man-made global warming is real. Most scientists that DO specialize in
climatology AND don`t get paid by government grants don`t think
that man-made global warming is real. Why?
- Fact: in
the year 1000 A.D., Norseman were FARMING on Greenland. In 2006, Greenland
was a snowy, frozen tundra with no farming. Why was Greenland so WARM a thousand
years ago and not last year?
You see, everyone thinks that to question global warming
means that you`re some kind of troglodyte that hates the environment. But those
that are truly believe that global warming is a result of reckless human economic activity
need to answer those three inconvenient questions. After you think about it and
critically analyze from a logical and rational point of view, you may come out to the same
conclusion:
A. Global warming is real.
B. Man-Made global warming is NOT real.
So why am I making this `unpopular` point about this testy
issue in this forum? After all, the Prosperity Alert is about financial, business
& economic issues, why touch on this seemingly unrelated topic? Because the
global warming controversy will touch your prosperity in a very real and ominous way.
We can`t do anything about global warming. Even those that
think that we are the cause also admit that we can`t stop it at this point. The
top climate experts point out that global warming is a natural process and the
climate changes constantly. We don`t have a significant impact on the Earth`s
climate. But` here is the REAL problem. The real problem is not the expansion
of warmth in our atmosphere but the expansion of government right here on the ground.
Government leaders are saying `Yes! Global warming is a man-made
problem` we must do something about it!!!` Is it a coincidence that the solution
just happens to be` more government? Very few people are talking about the real
problem; global warming is being used as a Trojan horse to get more government
involvement in our businesses, our finances and our lives. The United Nations
and the European Community and now, unfortunately, our own government is
planning to intrude in our lives with more taxes, regulations and mandates in
the specious effort `to save us from global warming`. The negative impact on
our prosperity will be very real and quite negative.
The bottom line is that YOU will be penalized (taxes, etc.)
for something (global warming) that YOU did not cause! That is the issue. The
best commentary on global warming and intrusive government comes from a great
social commentator from days past:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep
the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it
with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
Remember: Ask those `inconvenient questions` above because
if all of us swallow hook, line & sinker what the mass media &
politicians are saying about global warming, then more government bureaucrats
will be telling you to pay more money and to relinquish more of your freedom. If
you don`t defend your prosperity, who will? Nuff said.
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May 03, 2007
The "Something for Nothing Army", on the March!
by Ty Andros
Today's Tedbits is about
broad social trends and what you can bank on in formulating your investment
strategies. It is not gloom and doom, it is reality! See it for what it is and
thrive. The world is changing, change provides opportunity: Globalization is
the future unfolding before our eyes. Understand it, don't be afraid of it,
none of us can prevent the future coming at us at one day at a time. Next week
will be doing an in-depth analysis of the Energy markets, don't miss it!!
The "Something for
Nothing Army", on the March!
The United States has finally
entered the plateau while other economies continue to grow run of
its demise as a global economic power. The broad majority of its Citizens now
pay NO income taxes and rather than relying on hard work and wealth producing
activities they now focus on how to TAKE what they want from a small minority
who pay virtually all of the cost of government. A cost so high that it
destroys the ability of these taxpayers to invest in the future jobs and
businesses which are vital to future growth and prosperity. The top forty
percent of all income earners pay 99% of all taxes. The top 1% pays 35% of all
taxes with that set to rise to 40% with current legislation in Congress.
Capital gains Taxes are slated to rise to 31% from the current rate of 15%,
further discouraging investment and risk taking in funding Capital and business
creation.
Taxes are now set to
increase as the broad middle class no longer pays taxes and are willing to gore
anybody who they believe can restore their lost former prosperity. Only the
people that destroyed their prosperity are the very same people "populous
politicians" who are leading the attacks on the most productive parts of
their economies. And the people under attack are the very same ones who are
their only hope for creating a more prosperous future. It is George Orwell's book
1984 brought to life! When I first read this book I couldn't imagine this
in the United States, now presto change-o, here we are.
The Congressional budget
office in a recent report outlined that the top 40%, those who make more than
$43,200 dollars pay 99% of all taxes. The top 10%, those who make more than
$87,300 pay 70.8% of all income taxes, an increase from their share of 48.1% in
1979. Politicians everywhere slowly but surely define the term rich lower and lower
as they destroy them systematically and move them lower on the income ladder. It is no
wonder that two incomes have now been made to replace one.
I don't believe anyone
would classify someone making $87,300 dollar a year as RICH, except one group.
POLITICIANS. Politicians point at corporate executives which make obscene
amounts of money (millions and millions of dollars), a handful of people, but
actually are going at the roots of American prosperity, the small businessman.
A man or woman who runs a small business with 1 to 50 employees, who makes a
quarter to a half a million dollars a year. Why is this important to you?
Because these are the entrepreneurs who take the risks necessary for most
people to have a job. These are the primary drivers of employment and wealth
generation throughout the economy. As the politicians destroy the American
dream of getting rich by working hard, and being well educated we will always
have fewer and fewer people reaching for the dream. Creating less and less
seeds of future growth. Why try hard to create something if you have no hope of reaping
the rewards of 13 hour days, risking your investment capital and exposing
yourself to the vagaries of global and local competition.
What are the implications
of this? The majority of Americans now do not understand the costs involved of
government. It is easy to vote for more irresponsible spending if the cost of
the spending never reaches you. For the majority of Americans this is now the
case, so they vote for the people that promise the most goodie bags, not
understanding that they pay for it one way or another. In this case they pay
the taxes through the printing press, the government prints the money and your
money is worth less every day as it is debased by the financial authorities. It
is a stealth tax that the voting majorities do not realize they are paying. If
the government expands the monetary base by 12%, that is a 12% tax they extract
from the dollar bills you have in your pocket, as it is now worth 12% less, add
the effects of compounding and the theft really gets UGLY!
The governing classes can
say wages are rising, but actually they are falling, only most people can't
grasp the illusion the Mandarins of Washington have conjured up. That is the
illusion of growth implied by phony inflation numbers. Inflation is supposedly
running at 2 to 3% a year as reflected in the core PPI and CPI (Producer Price
Index, Consumer Price Index); the headline number which includes "FOOD and
ENERGY" is running in the 4 to 6% range.
True inflation as measured
in purchasing power loss on a compounded basis is about 18% a year as can be
computed by the price of gold in dollars. This is the true loss income since 2002! It is no
wonder that people are running scared and grasping for "Political
solutions" to the true loss of the ability to buy groceries every time
they go to the store. Every year when they go to the grocery store what used to
buy 5 bags of groceries now buys 4, and this has now happened 5 years in a row.
Its no wonder the republicans are gone, we will all vote to end this type of
destruction to our way of life and standard of living. Unfortunately, the
latest group to be elected to office has planned even more aggressive doses of
the same medicine we have had since 2000.
Aiding and abetting this
atrocity is the financial and mainstream press and its support for politicians
of all stripes. The press believes people are stupid and need to be herded like
cows through life; actually it is herded like cows to slaughter or the milking machine.
The federal budget has increased by over 60% since 2000. The Congressional
budget office clearly reports that outstanding future obligations of the
federal government has now increased from 20 trillion dollars in 2000, to over
$47 trillion dollars today, an increase of almost 150%, and these obligations
do not include future state and municipal spending obligations which are
increasing at an alarming rate.
Spending restraint is never
considered, as all government boondoggles are deemed essential to one campaign
constituency or another, one of the latest and most wasteful programs set to
roar into your pocketbook is CORN BASED ethanol, as big a stupidity as can be
imagined, a technology which has NO Economic benefit, it yields nothing but
higher prices, bigger government deficits (money printing) and it is slated to
explode in costs over the next five years as congressional mandates drive the
cost of all your food into the stratosphere (see ethanol, in the Tedbits
Fingers of instability archives at (www.TraderView.com).
This abomination is going to waste 10's of billions if not 100's of billions of
dollars that could have gone into productive uses.
Spending restraint comes from
the impetus of accountability, if everyone is paying taxes they demand spending
accountability of elected officials. Since less and less pay taxes,
accountability goes out the window. In fact the opposite occurs, as the voters
then become oriented to elect people whose accountability is counted by how
much more they spend. This is now how it is in the United States and Much of
Europe. As the middle classes are impoverished, less accountability is the
result, a rising standard of living inspires accountability, and a receding one
creates less of it. As citizens in the developing world make more money they
demand more accountability of their governments, as the middle class is
impoverished in the developed world accountability recedes.
State Governments and the
US Congress have gone "HOG WILD" trying to buy the next election
through government pork barrel, and it doesn't matter which side of the aisle
you reside in, they both believe government spending is essential. Essential to
election reelection that is. The democrats are tax and spenders, the
republicans are borrowing and spenders, they both agree on the spending side of
the equation. The squandering of resources is an epidemic on the American economy.
The new Medicare drug
program is another source of future economic destruction, a health care program
that was unsustainable and bankrupt became more so, piling more than 20
trillion dollars of new obligations on present and future generations. The
immorality of the State and Federal politicians and the constituents that elect
them in the United States is breath taking in its enormity. Current retirees and
the Baby Boomers are spending the money now and sending the bill to our children
and grand children.
Most families throughout
history have worked hard so their children could have a future and life better
than their own. Not so in America and Central Europe, they are spending the money
now and sending future generations the bills. Creating debt slaves of their
children and grandchildren to fund their current lifestyles which they
themselves cannot afford. These debts are calls on future income and destroy the
ability to invest in the future. As that future investment is diverted into
current consumption as politicians and their something for nothing constituents
confiscate it for spending on non producing activities. How can people and
politicians look at themselves in the mirror? It is immoral what is unfolding.
One of the things I learned
as a young man when I first got a credit card was how easy it was to be
irresponsible with the ability to borrow. Credit cards are really meant to be a
means for facilitating commerce, not consumption. They are supposed to be used
because of their ubiquity in being accepted and as a convenience to everyone,
as the merchant can rely on being paid by the card issuer, negating the need to
accept cash (DO you want to walk around with wads of cash?) or checks which
could bounce. Also they create records which can be used for accounting purposes.
They have now morphed into
the means to having things you cannot afford now and put paying off into the
future, while paying USURIUOS interest rates, it is loan sharking made legal as
payoffs to the banking industry for campaign support. Now even this has gone to
newly absurd lengths as politicians have extended the noose even further with
"BANKRUPTCY" reform. Another disastrous sellout of the American
people by the ruling class which will exacerbate the coming bankruptcy of America.
Bankruptcy is important in a capitalist economy as it allows the creditor to clear
their balance sheets of cancer which prevent them from future borrowing: it
also allows the debtor to clear their books of the cancer of previous poor
decision making. As long as the vast majority behaves in a responsible manner,
this price is part of the costs of doing business and can be planned for by the
businessmen running their respective companies.
Since voters don't
understand the price we pay for fiscal irresponsibility by "PUBLIC SERVANTS"
and oxymoron of unbelievable proportions. They just know something's wrong and someone
must pay. Unfortunately it is themselves and they don't even know
it. At the recent Democratic presidential debate, lip service was paid to
building the economy and business always with the caveat that business must PAY
MORE for the privilege of providing people with a JOB. They told the mobs they
should have more health care, fatter retirement accounts, higher wages all at
the expense of the people who employ them. We all want more of these things,
but this cannot happen if the business and country is not profitable, domestically
and internationally!
Even though business taxes
in the US and Europe are the highest in the world. Corporations and Businesses
nationwide are slated for even more tax increases, and more mandated
"benefits" for their employees. The AMT (alternative minimum Tax) was
supposed to only tax about 150 to 350 of Americas richest families when it was
passed in the late 1980's, since it was never indexed for inflation, now it is
snaring 25 million people as inflation have moved into the category of RICH
people.
Not to mention the Tsunami
of new regulations politicians plan to further bring the wealth and income producing
corporations and businessmen to heel, further impeding their ability to save,
invest, in future growth. Local shackles impeding profitability, and Global
competitiveness. Why do you think capital spending has ground to a halt since Novembers
elections? Today's multinationals only invest in America for access to the
American markets; most if not all of future investment capital is targeted for
more business friendly climates.
These government inspired
costs are the nails in future job creation as a business that can't make a
profit is soon gone, and must curtail investing in the companies future growth.
Profits and wealth are now the purview of evil RICH people and corporate
exploiters, which are a now vanishing species in the United States. Government
school systems have trained the public to believe the government is great. As
the Democrats have set the sites of their most economically ignorant
constituents on them, marking them for further attacks after they are elected.
Selling the prospect of
something for nothing, to desperate people who have been impoverished through the same
politicians on the stage. Through their previous episodes of irresponsible
spending and government programs, and money printing. Government spending
destroys jobs and wealth creation, creating less wealth to be paid in salaries
and jobs. Government is not the source of security, it is the source of
insecurity, ask anyone from the former Soviet Union, China today or during Mao,
or Ireland during the potato famine. A politician talking about being
responsible is a contradiction in terms. In France political responsibility is
defined by the benefits the candidates pledge to spend, or the industries they
pledge to subsidize.
Republicans are dazed and
confused and in disarray as advocacy of fiscal responsibility and less government
spending is now a quick ticket to retirement. And no one would believe them if
they did after the spending orgy that was George Bush and the republican
congress. People no longer believe they can get ahead by the virtues of working
hard, saving and investing. And it is true, the politicians have now created a
society where that is now not a reasonable expectation. So more and more people
give up on working towards the American dream of getting rich on a daily basis.
Succumbing slowly to the siren song of the political class which is: if you
elect me I will get whatever it is you think you are entitled to for you, and
make somebody else pay, the implication that the person paying the bill somehow
stole it from the audience. And the politician is the white knight using government power
to ride to the rescue.
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There a concept that is
taught in Economics 101 at every university in the world and that is TANSTAFL,
"there ain't no such thing as a free lunch", as somebody always pays.
It is the basis of the Austrian school of economics. It should be taught in
preschool, and the 1st grade, and the 2nd and throughout the educational
process. Unfortunately Keynesian economists believe in the power and
benevolence of government, so the Keynesian view is the preferred school of
thought by politician's world wide. Whereas the true reality is power corrupts,
absolute power corrupts absolutely and that is now where the US and Central
Europe have now arrived.
Governments with few
exceptions are the biggest cancer infecting the world, their poorly thought
through policies and poor understanding of wealth creation i.e. ECONOMIC
GROWTH". They only know power and how to grab it through the illusion of
rhetoric, demagoguery, and misdirection. People know something is wrong in
their guts, they can feel it, they don't know what is specifically is wrong,
both congress and the president hold equally poor approval ratings of about 30%
and vast majorities say we are on the wrong track. This is the case in central
Europe as well. In the United States and central Europe wealth creation is only available
to the politically connected (CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS). If you are not connected
you can expect your competitor who is to soon have a government regulator knocking
at their doors using the regulatory system as a cudgel into submission. An
example of this is small businessmen who are tortured by regulators while their
bigger brethren are never touched as they have armies of lawyers and compliance
teams to fight them off.
These stupid regulators
think they are protecting the public, but they are actually protecting the
politically connected businesses that pay the toll to the politicians so they
can be reelected. In the US and Central Europe Capitalism and wealth creation
is now on the wane, moving to more friendly venues. The really big money sees
these things and are voting with their feet, all the banks and brokerages
concentrate their growth plans offshore. It no longer pays to invest in America or
Central Europe. Wall Street is now just on a downhill slide which will reach its end
point many years from now as the supertanker of entrepreneur's and wealth
creation that was the US economy slowly sinks from thousand of cuts in the hull
and slowly but surely sinks sometime in the future. Someone in London understands
these things as regulation is much more hands off, so capital markets
are migrating to there and other new growing financial hubs around the world.
I used to be a small
businessman, now I am part of a larger organization as the time and money spent
on compliance and government regulation destroyed my ability to spend time
helping investors. I try very hard to conform to the law, breaking the law is a
fool's game and I don't look good in pinstripes. I have a top CPA whom I pay
thousands of dollars to do my tax's, I tell him to comply to the law, don't play games,
but use the rules of the tax code, and I do not use tax shelters, but how could
I ever hope to comply with the tax code that is 9 million words long? How can I
hope that this professional can? When you have to keep in mind 9 million words
who can? When the tax code is 9 million words long and filled with
contradictory sections it is impossible to do them correctly. Impossible.
Even the IRS agents could
not and cannot do them correctly, which is the ultimate indictment of the
current tax code. They use these laws which they themselves cannot define to
beat people into submission, people who had no intention to break the law or
evade the taxes. They only had the unfortunate event of a random audit darken
their futures. This is government terrorism. It is the same thing with business
regulation in the United States and Europe. Capitalism and wealth creation
are being strangled on the alter of catering to the voters who pay little or no
taxes.
Five to six years ago I
spent 2 hours a day, by last fall it was 8, leaving 2 to 3 hours a day finding
and helping new customers will not be a business that has a future. Every year
my business shrank as I spent more and more time and money on compliance and made
less and less as my ability to grow my business continually shrank. The
people voting for something for nothing and more regulation of evil businessmen
don't understand that 3 jobs went out the window when I was forced into joining
the larger group so I could my time and experience to increasing my customers wealth
(www.TraderView.com). These people form the voting majorities in the developed
world.
The politicians making
these promises have no one in their sites but all businesses in the US,
Wal-Mart, Microsoft, GE, and small businesses all are slated to be slaughtered
on the alter of the "something for nothing" mentality that is the key
to their election or reelection. Every year more and more multi national firms
leave the United States, Halliburton just did so, and British Airways has just
announced they are DELISTING from the NYSE. Why is this? Because they have to
or they will perish in the competitive world that is globalization.
The broad social character
flaw of "something for nothing" is destroying the developed world and
now that the majority of people pay no taxes there is no hope of stopping it.
For every 40 people pulling the wagon of the economy there are 60 in the wagon
flogging the "HORSES".
Reducing spending,
eliminating pork barrel and ineffective programs are not to be considered as it
would reduce the government's power, and create problems for the something for
nothings among us, as they then would then have to do for themselves. So it's
Essential after that point. Invest accordingly as this is inflation writ large
as the politicians slowly chip away at the productive sectors and wealth
generators, tax receipts are reduced because of less profits and growth to tax,
and they are forced more and more to turn to the printing presses to fund their
spending plans.
Conversely, countries as
diverse as Ireland, Singapore, Viet Nam, China, India, Japan, Russia, The new
EU 15, and Hong Kong taxes are flat or falling, reducing regulation as quickly
as possible, part of the global effort to reward growth and foster more of it.
Capitalism cannot work when the broad majorities of citizens refuse to
participate; socialism and the poverty it engenders are now the order of the
day. Reaganomics is now dead in the place of its birth.
In Conclusion, This is not the end of the world,
the economic decline set to continue will just move The US and central Europe
more and more towards where France and Italy now are. Unproductive, High Tax,
semi banana republics. Where the mob is more and more in charge, taking from
others that which they themselves believe cannot be created by their own efforts. It will
happen in slow motion.
Italy used to use constant currency devaluations,
hasn't had a stable government which can implement growth policies in many
generations. France is now a comic book: the French way is that of 50% of GDP
gobbled up by government and the mob, high taxes, government control of the
economy and National Champion industries which are basically wards of the
State. Other parts of the world will thrive and grow. Globalization will
continue to marginalize and impoverish these nations in an increasing manner as
their politicians refuse to accept the future which they have no ability to
stop. Inflation is set to skyrocket. As to continue to create an illusion of
growth politicians will print their way to paying for their follies. These
themes are broad strokes of investment plans, set your sails accordingly and
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