heavenlyboy34
08-16-2009, 02:53 PM
Tax-Qualified Retirement Plans, etc. (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/nash2.1.1.html)
Back in 2000 I wrote Becoming Your Own Banker – The Infinite Banking Concept (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NZO1DS?ie=UTF8&tag=lewrockwell&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001NZO1DS) and in it I briefly addressed the subject of retirement plans and specifically Tax-Qualified Retirement Plans. Since that time it has become more apparent to me that this idea needs to be addressed more fully. Americans have become increasingly dependent on an idea that is defective and won’t work. Basically, it is a Socialist idea and history has proved conclusively that Socialism won’t work.
There is a fundamental reason that this is so, that most people fail to recognize. To make my position on this subject perfectly clear let me state that, as of this writing, I am 78 years old. I have been a Christian since age 9 and have studied the Bible through and through during these years. I have also studied, with a passion, the teachings of the "Austrian" school of economics for over 52 years. From this background it is very evident to me that all government programs are nothing more than a manifestation of man trying to play God, in the pagan sense of the word. The book of Exodus in the Bible tells you that God is a jealous God. He won’t put up with such efforts by man trying to displace Him in the order of things.
All government programs are initiated under the guise of "helping" citizens – when the real object is to control their lives. There is always the "hidden agenda" that is never stated. And Americans swallow the apparent immediate benefit, never realizing that there is a hook in that bait. In fact, as a student of Austrian Economics, if you give me the mission statement of any government plan I can predict, in due course, the eventual outcome with absolute certainty. As Shakespeare said, "The Truth Will Out." Just give it enough time. But man sees things over a very short time span as compared with that of God. His time table and ours are different.
All such efforts by man eventually fail but they do so over a long enough time frame that man does not see it happening to him. He is subject to the "boiled frog syndrome." Put a frog in water his temperature and he is comfortable. Add a tiny bit of heat and he is still comfortable. He gets used to it. Add a tiny bit more and he is still comfortable, etc. Keep that process up and you can boil him! Now, I don’t know whether that is true or not, but it is a great word picture of what has happened in the economic world of America.
Another object of this writing is to demonstrate that we live in a world of lies! Everywhere we turn we are confronted with lies to the point of not being able to recognize this fact. John Stossel wrote a book in the recent past entitled Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SCHAY4?ie=UTF8&tag=lewrockwell&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000SCHAY4) in which he demonstrates this truth. Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with the observation, "History is lies agreed upon."
Just a few days after September 11, 2001 Stephen Yates, a Philosophy Professor affiliated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute wrote an article on LewRockwell.com about a book he had read recently where the two authors had predicted that something like 9/11 was going to occur somewhere about that time frame – give or take a couple of years on either side – that would change the world forever. Has the world changed since that time? Unless you are a "boiled frog" just look at what is happening all around you. Try taking a trip in an airplane. The world had changed significantly! All kinds of nonsense is going on under the supposed mission of protecting us.
(continued at article link)
Back in 2000 I wrote Becoming Your Own Banker – The Infinite Banking Concept (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NZO1DS?ie=UTF8&tag=lewrockwell&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001NZO1DS) and in it I briefly addressed the subject of retirement plans and specifically Tax-Qualified Retirement Plans. Since that time it has become more apparent to me that this idea needs to be addressed more fully. Americans have become increasingly dependent on an idea that is defective and won’t work. Basically, it is a Socialist idea and history has proved conclusively that Socialism won’t work.
There is a fundamental reason that this is so, that most people fail to recognize. To make my position on this subject perfectly clear let me state that, as of this writing, I am 78 years old. I have been a Christian since age 9 and have studied the Bible through and through during these years. I have also studied, with a passion, the teachings of the "Austrian" school of economics for over 52 years. From this background it is very evident to me that all government programs are nothing more than a manifestation of man trying to play God, in the pagan sense of the word. The book of Exodus in the Bible tells you that God is a jealous God. He won’t put up with such efforts by man trying to displace Him in the order of things.
All government programs are initiated under the guise of "helping" citizens – when the real object is to control their lives. There is always the "hidden agenda" that is never stated. And Americans swallow the apparent immediate benefit, never realizing that there is a hook in that bait. In fact, as a student of Austrian Economics, if you give me the mission statement of any government plan I can predict, in due course, the eventual outcome with absolute certainty. As Shakespeare said, "The Truth Will Out." Just give it enough time. But man sees things over a very short time span as compared with that of God. His time table and ours are different.
All such efforts by man eventually fail but they do so over a long enough time frame that man does not see it happening to him. He is subject to the "boiled frog syndrome." Put a frog in water his temperature and he is comfortable. Add a tiny bit of heat and he is still comfortable. He gets used to it. Add a tiny bit more and he is still comfortable, etc. Keep that process up and you can boil him! Now, I don’t know whether that is true or not, but it is a great word picture of what has happened in the economic world of America.
Another object of this writing is to demonstrate that we live in a world of lies! Everywhere we turn we are confronted with lies to the point of not being able to recognize this fact. John Stossel wrote a book in the recent past entitled Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SCHAY4?ie=UTF8&tag=lewrockwell&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000SCHAY4) in which he demonstrates this truth. Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with the observation, "History is lies agreed upon."
Just a few days after September 11, 2001 Stephen Yates, a Philosophy Professor affiliated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute wrote an article on LewRockwell.com about a book he had read recently where the two authors had predicted that something like 9/11 was going to occur somewhere about that time frame – give or take a couple of years on either side – that would change the world forever. Has the world changed since that time? Unless you are a "boiled frog" just look at what is happening all around you. Try taking a trip in an airplane. The world had changed significantly! All kinds of nonsense is going on under the supposed mission of protecting us.
(continued at article link)