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Comments by "Charles Brightman" (@charlesbrightman4237) on "'Congress... Is Breaking The Law!': Rand Paul Goes After Colleagues On Senate Floor" video.
QUESTIONS: (Practical reality type questions):
1. What exactly matters throughout all of future eternity and to whom does it exactly and eternally matter to?
(In other words, 'if' life itself is ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things, what does it matter how much 'debt' the USA and/or any other nation on this Earth has?)
2. Each citizen in a nation would need so much currency to properly survive and live on. As the population size grows, more money would be needed in an economy just so that each citizen could have a certain amount of currency to survive and live on. Why not include the size of the population as part of the backing to a nation's currency, citizens basically being seen as assets to a nation and not a liability? As the population size grows, more money could be put into the economy. If the population size decreases, more money could be taken out of the economy.
It's 'We The People' in large part that makes America great, 'We The People' being in part backing to America's currency system.
3. As a nation gets greater, it's currency should buy more, not less, shouldn't it?
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US FED: (copy and paste from my files):
Economic Inflation:
Lessons learned: US FED:
The US Fed has a goal, I repeat 'goal', of 2% annual inflation. And this is on top of all the 2%'s that came before it, which turns out to be an exponential amount of inflation over time.
Most people do not have wages and benefits that keep up with the true cost of inflation, which causes many social and economic problems in this nation and in this world. Zero income is sill zero income and zero pay raises are still zero pay raises. This is also a NATIONAL SECURITY item as many nations in the world stop utilizing America's currency as a reserve currency due to in part America's currency being weaker in this world. America has less influence in this world, which allows other nations in this world to take the lead.
Higher inflation:
* Obviously higher prices.
* Also at times lower quantity.
* Also at times lower quality.
(And if not lower quantity and/or lower quality, then that much more higher prices).
Many rich people and large corporations have taken America's wealth and hid it in out of country bank accounts and/or invested that wealth in other nations for various reasons. This has the net effect of basically stealing America's wealth from America.
Now also, rich people and certain businesses operate on huge debt, and even the US Government operates on huge debt. These entities love higher inflation because it helps to wipe out their debt, as they pay back their debt with currency that is worth less (worthless). Additionally, things like saving's account's get next to nothing for 'normal' people trying to save money for future expenses. Those that are operating on debt get rewarded and those trying to be more financially responsible are getting punished.
America's currency system is broken and needs to be fixed.
In part, a law needs to be passed that the US Fed has to have a 'goal' of 0% (zero percent) inflation. Sure, this is going to piss off those who game the financial system, but it would help with curing some of societies' issues as well as strengthening US currency thereby strengthening America's position in this world as more nations would want to utilize the US Dollar as a reserve currency. Inflation is still going to occur due to various reasons, but we don't have to automatically have a goal of increasing inflation.
Another idea might be to give the US Fed just 1 single job: Control Inflation, (and take away their other job of trying to have full employment). Let the markets control full employment.
And for any entity that thinks economic inflation is a 'good' thing, then you must also be okay with many of life's social and economic issues as well as a nation becoming weaker in this world as it's currency eventually loses value in this world. You must be okay with poor people suffering and dying due to higher economic inflation. In part, at least some of this world's suffering and death is on you. You caused this with your higher economic inflation goals. (A man made problem and can have a man made fix with 1 simple change. Change the US Fed's economic inflation goal from 2% to 0% which would help ease suffering and death in this world.)
And if you still say that 2% inflation would be fine, then surely you would not have a problem with making a Federal law that says that all businesses all across America are mandated to increase their employee's salaries by at least 2% every year, (the 2% just keeping up with inflation, any above 2% due to the increased value of that employee).
Otherwise, it's a system set up by the rich to transfer wealth from the middle class and poor to the rich. And if the middle class and poor do not stand up for their own interests against the rich, who will?
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@sunquestenergyhomesolution96 It's called the US Constitution, 14th Amendment, (in part):
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The US Constitution, not perfect, but isn't it great?
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@sunquestenergyhomesolution96 Honestly and accurately answer the enclosed questions in this copy and paste from my files:
Consider the following: (Whether human, AI, or other species):
We appear to be individuals in a larger society of individuals. Whether it is an individual human in a larger society of humans, or an individual AI in a larger society of AI's, or an individual in a larger society of all species in existence throughout all of existence.
What is 'best' for an individual, may or may not be what is 'best' for the larger society of individuals. And conversely, what is 'best' for the larger society of individuals, may or may not be what is 'best' for the individual.
But, if a decision had to be made concerning a certain topic, of who's 'best' should take precedent over the other's 'best', who's 'best' should take precedent? If for an individual, which individual? All individuals? If for a larger society of individuals, which larger society of individuals? A certain group? A certain nation? A certain species? All species in existence throughout all of existence?
And who decides? And by what authority do they and they alone get to decide? Should I decide how you should exist? Should you decide in how I should exist? Should others decide how we both should exist? Should we decide how others should exist? And who even decides in how to decide? And by what authority do they and they alone get to decide?
And whatever is decided and by whom, there might be entities who are being forced to exist how they do not want to exist, which could be a source of animosity, which could lead to further violence and death.
This whole natural tension between the individual and the larger society of individuals, who decides, and by what authority they and they alone get to decide, is the cause of much strife, suffering and death in this world.
But still, while we consciously exist, how should we, individually and as a larger society of individuals, exist while we do exist? How should we help take care of the young, old, ill and needy, if even at all? How would we want to receive help should we be individually young, old, ill and/or needy, if even at all? How should those be treated who are being forced to exist how they do not want to exist? How should we treat others if we are being forced to exist how we do not want to exist? And who decides? And by what authority do they and they alone get to decide? And where does the money and resources come from to do what we would like to do for how we would like to exist while we do exist?
It's all basically about who is in control, so as to make the decisions, for who's benefit. With all the consequences and ramifications, seen and unseen, of all of our collective choices.
Then we all will still die in the end one day from something, we all will still forget everything we ever knew and experienced, and we all will still be forgotten one day in future eternity as if we never ever existed at all in the first place, regardless of how we all existed while we existed. An entity truly exists throughout all of future eternity, or they don't. It appears we don't in actual reality, and as such, all of life itself is all ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Death is freedom from life and eternal death awaits us all. Or so the current analysis would indicate.
Individually and as a society of Individuals: For every moment that passes, one less moment being alive AND one moment closer to being not alive.
* Added note: Current Analysis: Long Term: (Very Short Version):
All life on and from this Earth is eventually going to die and go extinct. No exceptions at this time. This Earth and all on it are all just a waste of spacetime in this universe.
(And note also, those who cannot, or choose not to, face the above apparent reality, often delude themselves with fairy tales of alternatives).
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