Weekly Newspaper Columns 7/19/23 "A Penny for Your Thoughts"

 A Penny for Your Thoughts?

These days, if I said that phrase in the title to you, you should say "more like a grand for your thoughts" Even if we're able to keep the federal government from destroying the Constitution (and the apparent apathy about that is very concerning), the economic path we're on will still destroy us.

I loved basic Math in Junior and Senior High School (not Algebra, Geometry or Trigonometry though). It doesn't take an Accountant or Math Genuis to figure out why prices are soaring and what inflation is. People just aren't paying attention. Uncle Sam spends more than they bring in from taxpayers causing the value of the dollar to go down and the prices to go up. BULLETIN!!! Prices aren't going to go back down people! The best we can do is to keep prices where they are, and to do that, the federal government would have to stop spending more than they take in. And the only way that's going to happen is if "we the people" make them do it.

I was born in 1958. Since that year, inflation has gone up an average of 3.69% per year until now. The cumulative price increase is 952.34% folks, which is about 10 1/2 times higher than that year. Did you know that there wasn't even a federal income tax until Feb. 1913? Did you know that the National Debt has gone up about 3.5 TRILLION dollars since Nov. 25, 2021? Did you know that currently the National Debt is almost 32.5 TRILLION dollars and that it comes to about $97,000 per citizen which includes our children and grandchildren? Did you know that China owns the biggest portion of our bond debt? Did you know that the FedNow digital payment system started this month and is likely a foot in the door for digital currency that could lead to government control of our finances? Did you know that the Constitution talks about Congress coining money, and that the U.S. Mint is a government agency but the Federal Reserve is not and therefore arguably not constitutional? Did you know that the Constitution has the 10th Amendment which gives States, Counties and Cities the right to nullify unconstitutional federal actions? Did you know that by the grace of God there are things that "we the people" including the Church can and must do, and that is much more than just voting every 2 years?

So let's just all keep enjoying our sports and recreation, stay uninvolved, and keep whining about how much prices are going up until one day it's too late and wonder what happened. I mean, after all, we know for sure that Jesus will come back before anything like that happens to our country, right? Be careful with that fellow Christian. Don't get lost in the sea of distraction and one day wish you listened to a small handful of people including that guy Pester Brat that wrote articles in the local newspaper. 

Pester Brat is the Founder & Director of the local La-Fayette Constitutional Patriots and national Fellowship of Concerned Constitutional Patriots. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Rumble, watch his thrice annual patriot services and weekly Gimme 5 Videos on the same, and meet him sometime somewhere for a drink. You can email him with comments and questions at pesterbratdotcom@aol.com.