Why We Should Throw Away Our Dollars

Here are a few very telling articles concerning our (soon to be worthless) currency

Senate must raise debt ceiling above $12T

Dollar hits low for year as gold tops $1,000

China alarmed by US money printing

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar

To tell the truth I'm a little scared at the effects of our currency being destroyed. I talked earlier about how hyperinflation destroyed Zimbabwe here, and its real stuff. Just hope it can wait till I can actually afford some gold...

Michael Moore's New Movie Misses Point (once again)

"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film - Reuters Link

How many movies is this guy going to make where he totally misses the big picture? In his latest release, documentary star Michael (theres no way I'm paying for his fat ass's health care) Moore tackles the "evil" system of Capitalism in "Capitalism: A Love Story". However, Moore focuses more on Fascism than Capitalism but hey, they're just terms right?

Wrong. With Moore focusing on the recent billion dollar bailouts he exposes not the evils of Capitalism, but the evils of Fascism. Fascism is the unholy alliance of big business with big government, resulting in Wall St. essentially owning Washington. The men with the money controlling the men with the guns. This is not free-market Capitalism, this is a failure of government. Moore should attack the enabler, not the enabled. Peter Schiff has a brilliant anaolgy summing this up:

"If a kindergarten school teacher leaves the classroom and gives the kids pixie sticks and soda pop and when the teacher comes back and sees the classroom wrecked and all the kids have gone wild, who are you going to blame?"

The point is that greed will not simply disappear with more regulation, more control, and more intervention. Combining the greed of money in Wall St. with the greed of power in Washington you do not cancel out greed, but exponentially increase its effects. I wholehearted agree with Moore when he claims AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the rest stole from the taxpayer, but it was only through the force of government we had our money stolen from.

Moore misses the point in this movie as he did in his last movie, SICKO, in that he attacks what he claims are "free-market failures" but what are in reality the effects of bad government policies. It's amazing how people can attack an ideology by simply blaming all the problems of theirs on it. Guess it works when you have a nation of sheep willing to listen to anyone with catchy slogans and entertaining "documentaries".

New Blog Up

Hey all (meaning me)

I have a new blog up documenting my internship experience at the Heritage Foundation at http://campus.albion.edu/mrgentilegoestowashington/ so check it out if you want.

As for my personal thoughts about the internship: First of all I'm extremely happy to get an internship this semester (especially one that pays its interns). I'm also happy to get one at one of the more well known political think-tanks in D.C. for that all important resume booster. Second of all being in Washington at this time will be quite insane with Health Care, Afghanistan, and "Climate Change" all being hotly debated (well I hope Afghanistan becomes more debated actually. How the Left can protest madly when its Bush than shut up fast when its Obama is hypocrisy at its worst, but I digress). Thirdly, I'm hoping this internship will give me some real direction for future career ambitions. I'm very passionate about politics but have no desire to make it a career. I'd much rather do something in property management/development, but I don't know if its more important for me to fight for what I really believe in before I see our country (and world) fall apart. Only time and reflection will help me out.

Anyways, I hope to get back to my early days of blogging where I would post at least once a day. I've been quite lazy but think I'll be able to enter a good routine while on my internship. I've done a bit of writing on a few subjects this summer but they are much too long to post on a blog.

Check out the new blog soon, and I'll be writing soon.