These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us - that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: It is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right not only to tax but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God. Thomas Paine – 1776

Who would have thought two short years ago that the American people would be discussing revolutions in a somewhat serious context. The two revolutions most discussed are the American Revolution of which Founding Father, Thomas Paine gave us the above quotation from his pamphlets “The Crisis Papers.” The other revolution in this country relates to the Vietnam War, the last period of critical social distress. The important reference from that era that related directly to today is, “You Don’t Need a Weatherman To Know Which Way the Wind Blows.”

Adding to the national angst is the reality of actual wars. The Iraq War is in the process of hopefully winding down to a successful nation building operation. The War in Afghanistan is quite different. Iraq was a real nation in the twentieth century definition, at least since the end of WWII. The same cannot be said for Afghanistan, which is more akin to a historic tribal region, not successfully colonized by any western culture in its history.

Under the auspices of the War on Terror and after a traditional military invasion of Iraq the United States, became involved in a counterinsurgency to root out Al Qaeda, other foreign insurgents, and quench the historic conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

In Iraq and Iran the Shia are the majority of the population. In Afghanistan the numbers are reversed and the Taliban are essentially the Sunni insurgents to which the United States and a number of NATO allies, through the escalation of the Obama Administration, are now attempting to develop a successful counterinsurgency nation-building exercise.
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Tags: Thomas Paine, Iraq, Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, Top Secret America, USA, God, American Revolution

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. Mark 12:17, Matthew 22:21, Luke 20:25 ESV

Many years ago I was a team leader of a small group from our church that went out Monday evenings to call on visitors from our Sunday service. As we parked outside a small apartment in north Seattle, I couldn’t help making a stupid remark about the name of the person we were about to visit. Even with my ignorance, the visit turned out to be quite productive and the young woman became an active member of the congregation.

She moved away a year or so later and within a few years she returned for a visit. Through the course of events I learned at the very instant I was making a spontaneous remark that could be considered flippant, inside her apartment things were quite serious. Her remarks were much more prayerful, which went something like: “God I would like to believe you are real, but I am having a very difficult time. If you don’t show me some sign of your reality, I have no reason now to live and before morning I fear I will use this gun to commit suicide.” At that time, we a small group of, in the larger context, complete fools rang her doorbell.

When I learned the true events of that evening not only was I humbled, but I realized in our lost and dying world just how thoughtless is much of what Christianity and the church says and does. Put in the broader context of recent world events, the problems of the recent Great Recession, were not caused by the greedy money grubbers on Wall Street, financial institutions, and real estate, they knew no better, they were just sinners sinning.

The real problem that caused the current mess, was that Christians, as individuals and in community as the church, played religious games, and sought political power, while the world, as it should be, crumbled. The church of Jesus Christ has one calling, to proclaim the Good News of the redemption of the world found in Jesus Christ alone. Instead of proclaiming the gospel, and being the leaders of the common community, the church has attempted to become so earthly relevant that its of no earthly good. Instead of being a restraining force of evil, to use the words of Revelation 3, the post modern church has become tepid.

As I was watching Glenn Beck one day last week, he and Stephen Broden, a church pastor from Texas were talking about this very subject, when Glenn interjected a comment about church leaders needing to protect their nonprofit status. It was just a few, off the cuff words, and the conversation moved on. Those nonprofit status words however have stuck with me since that time and are the founding principle for this message today. Read More...

Tags: Christianity, Glenn Beck, separation of church and state, 501(c)3 exemption, Jesus, God, sin cosmos, Natural Law, Holmes on Homes

One score months ago the voters of America brought forth a new presidential administration on this continent. The stated goal of the election was to issue in a new age of change we can believe in. That presupposes either one of two alternatives. At that time number one was, we were having change we didn’t want to believe in, or two we didn’t want any change from our vision of what we were told was a future of human engineered eternal prosperity.

It seems in the intervening period that all change has accelerated rapidly and those changes are beyond anything we can believe in and furthermore most of the stupendous changes are only exacerbating previous problems.

For as long as I can remember American presidents have turned out worse than my predilections. My worries about George W. Bush was that he would be beholden to what we have recently publicly defined as crony capitalists to the default of other values of not only governance but also personal responsibility. So I voted for the guy twice, my public reason was we share the same initials, but the secret reason was I thought that both Al Gore and John Kerry were truly without hope for being effective leaders. But most liberal juice drinkers don’t like any reality with their cocktail, so voicing the truth really wasn’t worth the return of stressful noise.

So my more than worst fears of George W. Bush turned out to be true. Those fears manifested themselves in the financial meltdown which began in late 2007 and continues to this day. Essentially what we saw under the Bush administration was the continuance of debt financed consumption based upon real estate. Those inflated values are still highly leveraged over the current wealth of most of the folks, but that is another topic for another time.

So those twenty months ago, Barack Obama was elected president. I didn’t vote for the man, not because I am a racist, but I thought he lacked experience to handle the tough job of being president. I wasn’t all that keen on John McCain either, especially during the campaign where it seemed that his goal was to be the Republican nominee rather than getting elected. Perhaps during the campaign McCain was able to get a glimpse of future trouble and decided either he was not up to the task, or was aware that current American problems are beyond the pale of human leadership. That surely was not something that Barack Obama would ever discern.
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Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, NIcholas Carr, Belshazzar, Charles Darwin, Social Darwinism, Collectivist Elitists, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, God, Romans 12:2

Two hundred and thirty-four years ago today, the seed of the United States of America was sown when our founders signed the Declaration of Independence. The national holiday still continues to be celebrated as the concept of individual freedom.

Those who give speeches today will phrase their remarks along two philosophical paradigms. The first is, “I am free because I can do what I want.” The other is, “I am free because I am protected from the tyranny of others.” Both of those concepts are present in the Declaration of Independence, but today we have pretty much redefined those freedom concepts in terms of selfish materialism.

As a founding principle, personal freedom was defined basically as I am free to be what I was created to be and no wrongly appropriated divine right of some foreign authority has any jurisdiction on my ability to pursue that goal. Today we have dumbed-down that concept to mean I am free to what makes me feel good about myself and I should receive external rewards to help me achieve those ends.

Those rewards might be a trophy, or pay just for showing up on a somewhat regular basis, or receiving a right to something such as healthcare, a pension, or other security, simply because I did nothing or very little to deserve those rewards. In other words, I have substituted my personal divine will, into, and over the lives of others.

However there is another underlying principle within the American Declaration that was part of the founding genre that we no longer are willing to understand. The principle came from a natural or common understanding of the human condition that resurfaced during the Reformation and that principle was and understanding of the human will to sin. Martin Luther’s most famous written work is entitled, “The Bondage of the Will.”

What we are no longer willing to believe is that the greatest freedom a human being can obtain in this life is to be free from the bondage to my own selfish desires. That is the central theme of historic Christianity. Succinctly stated, that means the sinless life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the propitiatory and justifying sacrifice that absolutely provides the freedom for me to pursue the eternal personality I was created by God to be.

In the broadest concept possible, we all seek security to the maximum extent. The external imputed righteousness of Christ gives me eternal security and in the process allows me to accept temporal security in this life on a more transient basis. In other words, I don’t need to secure my own security and future, because I know the source of my security and know He directs my future.

Over the last few weeks I have heard again in various forums that the decline in American excellence began when we took the Ten Commandments and prayer out of our schools. I have a good friend that states the school decline was just the simple result of taking the Ten Commandments and true prayer out of our churches — years earlier.

What this really means is we like to blame all the problems we face today on those bad guys, the greedy, the selfish, the exploiters, the them. Who is never blamed in the American religion is the church that has become a cloister of the Pharisees. As such, not only has that been responsible for the faux creation of a political righteousness, it has also created physical divide between the enlightened Christians in contrast with the enlightened sinful heathens.

Instead of stating, “There by the grace of God, go I.” the proper response should be, “There by the grace of God alone, can I find true freedom from my personal bondage.” That is a much different and more humble message, than, “I don’t, do this and that, because I can,” but rather, “Any ability I have to do anything other than the wickedly perverse, is nothing but a gift of God’s grace.”

On this Independence Day, this Sunday, what this means is that the focus should be on the redemption and justification found in Jesus Christ alone, and not the national debt, socialism, and a whole host of good or bad things. If the focus of Christians is on Christ alone, then God will provide the power to change the culture, just as he did during the Reformation.

That Reformation time was not without turmoil, it was truly a revolution of human understanding. The same can be said of the American revolution. The result of the American revolution was freedom from the bondage of the culture to a foreign monarch, but the more profound result was the freedom of the individual to more deeply appreciate the gift of life provided to all from the God of nature, who is the same eternal personality as the God of the Bible.

So today, most people in America will celebrate the concept to be free to do what we want to do. The really blessed will be those who understand that true freedom, is to not be in bondage to your personal desires, but rather to make your life a gift to others, by God’s grace.

Tags: Declaration of Independence, Martin Luther, Jesus, Bondage of the Will, grace, God

This last week, where unflattering remarks by the staff of Gen. Stanley McChrystal found their way into Rolling Stone magazine, and led to his subsequent resignation from being the commander of forces in Afghanistan, I have reflected upon my military service in Europe during Vietnam. Even though I was a reluctant volunteer, compared with the reluctant draftee, I have always looked at that time as a tremendous growing experience, that in many ways I see as a Divinely controlled adventure, giving me priceless insight into strategic world events that could have not been gained in such a brief encounter anywhere other than that time and place.

I read the Rolling Stone article, which is quite long and detailed for what passes for twenty-first century journalism. It sounded to me to be a relatively good assessment of a highly motivated general officer with a very tight staff. All good things, when you have a mission to bring a war action in Afghanistan to a reasonable conclusion as rapidly as possible.

My dad was not a military person, he was 4-F when asked to serve in WWII, he had a strong heart murmur, but he was a very successful school administrator. I can say he only had one absolute rule when it came to people management. That rule was, “Always support your staff, no matter whether they are right or wrong. Always support your staff and let the chips fall where they may.” It seems that Gen. Stanley McChrystal lives by the same absolute.

When I was in ROTC in college, we had the opportunity to be taught the science behind the art of military leadership. Many of the questions we were tested upon, outlined a role, mission, or objective to be obtained, and a number of different means to obtain the required results. Maybe to keep things light, somewhere in the options was the always wrong response generally following the line “give and order and say, if you need me I will be in my tent.” In the Rolling Stone article you find out quite rapidly that Gen. McChrystal was and is not a, “I will be in my tent kind of leader.”
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Tags: Stanley McChrystal, Rolling Stone, ROTC, Army Security Agency, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Charles Denholm, David Petraeus

Well, we really don’t know what happened, but when we went to post this Sunday’s Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon, we discovered that all the posts from Monday, 14 June — yesterday 25 June, had disappeared from the server. Since they were also gone from our saved copy, we tried to pin it on Brute’. He denied anything to do with the happening unless it might help to get him on “The cover of Rolling Stone.”

So if you tried to read any of those four major article in that time frame, they have been restored. Those Special Reports were, “The Summer of Progressive Ferment” and “The Chaos of American Energy.” “Redux Rendezvous IV” dealt generally with the Gulf Oil Spill and “Redux Rendezvous V” dealt with the Gen. McChrystal affair and a new model for startup company funding.

Liebig’s law of the minimum, states crop yields are proportional to the amount of the most limiting nutrient. However that is just a subclass of a more universal natural law, in that productivity of any entity is limited to the extent of the limiting contributor. Broadening that into the fields of human enterprise it could read, wealth creation is limited by the applications of energy, financial liquidity, and information all functioning within the limits of natural laws.

Now plug that concept into a Vietnam era saying:

We the unwilling, led by the incompetent, to do the impossible, for the ungrateful, have struggled so long, with so little, we are now able to create anything out of nothing.

That needs to be modified in the early twenty-first century to conclude: create nothing out of everything. The limiting factor? Basically human knowledge and wisdom! Put in an enlightened Green Street context, “The blowhards that are in charge, or think they know what is happening, are so full of themselves, that they are in the process of exploding human civilization with their excreted methane gas.”

Last week as I watched President Obama’s address to the nation concerning the Gulf oil catastrophe, I ended up yelling that the television screen. Then while watching all the commentators after the President’s address I yelled even more. In that illumination I refer you to the Green Street context above!

One of the two things that I found worth repeating was Sarah Palin’s comment that, “You can’t trust oil industry information, you must verify it yourself.” Having spent the first years of my professional career embedded in the intelligence culture, that truth must become a Kantian universal law. In the Vietnam context, the industry spokesmen are relying on information provided by the unwilling, which they are incompetent to understand. Furthermore many times these unwilling don’t know the answer demanded of them, and for a multitude of reasons, they create something out of nothing.

The other speech rebuttal statement worthy of development is, “The United States doesn’t have a comprehensive energy policy even though we have been trying for over forty years.”

“Yep! The difficult we do right away, the impossible takes a little longer.”

So where do we begin?
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Tags: Lebigs Law, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, USA, oil companies, ethanol, ObamaCare, ObamaParalysis, hybrid vehicles, NIMBY, Environmental Imperialism, Chernobyl disaster, Gulf oil spill

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi was heckled Tuesday at the America’s Futures Now conference in Washington, DC. So the third person in line to the Presidency, the queen of the attempted remake of the nation into a warm fuzzy progressive utopia, was hissed continually by what we normal folks would believe should be her strongest supporters. Where’s the love?

What we are beginning to see, not only with the Speaker, but also with the whole Obama team, is that their renaissance plans to transform American into the leader of a new universe of Oz, has been defeated by the natural law of inertia. All the lofty rhetoric, back room political deals, and hope in vapor, can’t do the heavy lifting. So the alternative is attempting to elevate the angst into chaos to see if any of the stress will create some composted material that may stick to the wall.

I have long stated if I had a donkey I would name her Patience, fully recognizing that patience is part of the human condition to know what we want, and we want it now. So while I can understand the impatience in the hecklers of the Speaker, I also realize that hope naturally becomes reality by persistence and hard work. Furthermore true miracles are impossible in the natural world of these Social Darwinists.

Over the last couple of months we have mentioned the present plight of the Social Darwinists and in the “The Social Darwinist Conundrum,” we explained the juxtaposed views of the religion, especially as it related to the formation of the Soviet Union. In that context we see communist collective as being the true antithesis of the views of Ayn Rand. Rand being the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and the philosophy of Objectivism, all behind the laissez faire tenure of Alan Greenspan at the Fed.

So in the struggle of worldviews within the evolving religion of the Social Darwinists, it doesn’t really seem to be that difficult to choose a winner between the academy gene pool of collectivists and the wild west greedy speculators. Show me the money will win out all the time, especially in the United States where our culture has always been tensioned, through design, between selfish self determination and the common good.

A common good defined as even a European social democracy is not part of the American subspecies of humanity. Furthermore it seems totally absurd, if not insane, to attempt a radical transformation into collectivism, when really the only true believer nations that remain are Cuba and Venezuela. Even more importantly nothing in Social Darwinism allows for the existence of God, or even gods for that matter. While I disagree with many that the United States was formed as a Christian nation, I would submit that the Founding Fathers definitely miraculously created a secular nation based upon Godly created natural law and Judeo-Christian moral values. They also further understood that that God centered reality was a necessity for the continued prosperity of the culture they created.
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Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Social Darwinism, Alan Greenspan, Ronald Reagan, U S Constitution, energetics, sin cosmos, Glenn Beck, Soviet Union

The Wonder Springs Chronicle in cooperation with PREFER Ltd, have launched a new Redux Rendezvous website. The site is very much under construction, but the enterprise model we are using for the design indicates the Redux Rendezvous could make a significant contribution to small enterprise wealth creation and growth.

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Give me that old fashioned (like last year), change we can believe in. Last Tuesday’s primary elections signaled, throw out all the bums, and let us choose the less — most desirable between who is left. The grizzly bears moved back to a very realistic position on Wall Street. The Senate finally passed a financial reform bill which will help the 2 Big 2 Fail, sort of, not change a whole lot and provide bennies for some others to continue to over leverage our worthless money supply. On Sunday we heard from the Feds, that if BP continues to miss the deadlines on stopping the Gulf oil spill that they are going to take over. That will surely help, I’m sure?

Through it all Americans continue to learn about, and demand a redux of our founding constitutional principles, but all the pundits, spinners, commentators, and politicians think this will help them, when in reality the issue really is much more complex than can be articulated in a brief media story. Furthermore even if they could, their spin is so dumbed down and politically correct, that it could be shown that they would be quickly eliminated from the TV show, and then must announce that they are not smarter than a fifth grader.

So in the finest efforts of the Texas Board of Education’s textbook curriculum revisions, let us develop some context of what is really happening.

Way back in Colonial days, the people of the revolutionary era were very religious and in the process of writing a formal constitution they did a miraculous job of creating a secular government based on Absolute Christian religious principles.

Today we live in a very secular world and what we are trying to do is to take secular principles and redux them to Absolutes that will provide security in a rapidly changing world. In simple terms, back then most were committed to their religion, and a very few were secular. Now most are very secular, and a very few are committed to religion. Read More...

Tags: Absolutes, Founding Prinicples, religion, PREFER Ltd, money, wealth, God, Natural Law

It was only a week ago when we woke up to understand that with a little encouragement from President Obama, European countries had come up with a trillion dollar plan to save the Euro and everything would soon be back to change we can believe in. One week later, we are wondering compared to the dollar how far the Euro will fall, or even if the currency will continue to exist.

Then there is all that dirty air over there, caused by that pesky volcano in Iceland. How in the world are we supposed to fly around from here to there, showing everybody how wonderful all the stuff we have created is doing, when we are thwarted by our efforts by some tiny airborne particles of abrasive rocks?

Here in the good old USA the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill continues, with no apparent understanding of how well the funny pipe thing fix installed yesterday is going to work. So in the absence of any news on that front, concern has shifted to what is happening to all the oil that is now floating around. Should we use dispersants that may cause more ecological problems than the oil itself? How far will the oil go, how fast? Can BP even continue to exist as a company in light of all the expenses and legal claims? One thing I did learn is that deep sea water is about 3 degrees Celsius, (35 Fahrenheit), and at those depths and pressures that is really a different place than what we naturally can understand, so perhaps we should cut those engineers a little slack.

Less we forget, there is no real news on what caused the near 1000 point fall in the Dow a week ago last Thursday. There was some discussion of a big trade(s) made by somebody about that time, but whoever they were, denied that they had anything to do with it. So the search goes on, but with markets being controlled by computers using models based upon past histories and triggered by various algorithms of risk, we should really have nothing to worry about. That is especially true if we are big and sophisticated enough to buy some credit default swaps, to insure our leverage, so that the white holes in the universe that spew out money will remain our back stop.

Let’s see what else caught our attention? Out of Washington, if Elena Kagan becomes the next Supreme Court Justice, this Washington state’s governor, Kristine Gregoire is favored to be the next Solicitor General. That would be a real blessing out here, for after her life as both a mediocre state Attorney General and Governor, the best we could ever hope to do is shuffle her off to that other Washington and get her out of the state, hopefully for good.

Then again maybe she could replace Eric Holder as the national Attorney General, she is wise enough to understand before you go spouting off about the Arizona Immigration Law, she would have read the 16 or 10 pages of the Arizona bill, before and after amendments. Read More...

Tags: Euro, Gulf oil spill, Elena Kagan, Kristine Gregoire, Eric Holder, Glenn Beck, money, Deep Woods Moola

It only took a week for Federal government officials to determine that the 1 May terrorist attack in New York’s Time Square was not the work of a lone disgruntled new American citizen, but that he had training, finances and other resources at his disposal from Pakistan’s Taliban. So again we see that even though America’s politically correct do not believe that Islamic jihadis are trying to create chaos here in the United States, it is just those poor misguided religious people just don’t understand how warm, caring, we infidels really are. It is such a shame that they are too primitive to understand our evolutionary scheme, not only for America but the whole world.

Likewise on Sunday we learned that the Obama Administration’s homeland security and counterterrorism team has no evidence that Thursday’s near 1000 point drop of the Dow Jones was caused by any cyber attack. So from the guys that were behind the lone disgruntled bomber spin, we are to believe that they finally got something right. Just like they were busy with the Gulf oil spill, “From day one.”

It is just nine days until the world celebrates the 110th anniversary of the publishing of the prophetic book “The Wonderful Wizard of OZ.” For now it seems the Wizards of Washington and the Wizards of Wall Street want us to believe that they are not part of that fable, but for now they are not doing a very good job. So we are told to believe some computer glitch somewhere somehow was responsible for the mystery of the disappearance of roughly a trillion dollars and then a return of a good chunk of it a few minutes later. We could blame it on an act of God, but that would require a belief in a Supreme Being and since that is currently un-American we will have to leave that Godly interpretation in the hands of Islamic human caused disaster creators.

So today business is back to our usual yellow brick road to a unified kerfuffle theory and we will have to wait until we learn what really happened as America’s financial wizards try to determine what really happened last Thursday — from day one. Meanwhile over in Europe the wizards of the European Union have come up with a trillion dollar plan to stabilize the Euro as Greece continues to hemorrhage financially and physically. So that they don’t feel lonely the citizens of Great Britain have to wonder when their election results will finally lead to a new Prime Minister wizard, who will cobble together a government.

Maybe a stupendous tornado will come about and we can be all transported back to Kansas, 110 years ago!
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Tags: Moola, money, Wall Street, Euro, Washington DC, New York City, Moola Redux

Record snow falls in the eastern United States and in Europe, and again we see an exponential growth in vitriol revolving around the global warming or climate change debate. This really looks backward to the Enlightenment birth of what we call science, that originally went under the term natural philosophy, which grew out of the discussions between applied and theoretical theology. So we hear some people calling global warming a religion and others calling it settled science. The truth is that none of us now alive will be around when it makes all that much difference, but that sure doesn’t keep pundits and know-it-alls from making popish balderdash.

Back in the 1970s when the fear that the world was known to be heading towards another ice age, one of the discussions against cleaning up the air, was that it may lead to global warming. What we are now told in essence, when we saved the world from dirty pollution, we condemned the world to invisible pollution. So the cheap and simple solution should be let’s get dirty again. Of course that is really just a straight-forward fix that doesn’t fit within our self-righteousness coin flipping to save the planet — get rich.

If we could ask the Wooly Mammoths they would tell us to watch those ocean effect snowfalls because they could cause you to freeze to death in the stupendous snowy change that would start an ice age. Of course they did freeze to death during the start of an ice age. So in all our human smarts we know that we really don’t want to have that enter into our frigid natural philosophy discussions.
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Tags: Wooly Mammoths, ice age, global warming, climate change, green energy, crude oil, windmills, solar panels

This past Wednesday Glenn Beck had a segment on the Cure Worse Than Disease, in which he discussed the depression of 1920-21. As Glenn mentioned himself, I also had never heard much about that time in United States history. What I had heard was something about continuing booms and busts of the economy as America closed the western frontier, became a world power through WWI, and had the Roaring ’20s ,which ended in the Great Depression. Then thankfully the New Deal was issued in by FDR, America was saved from total anarchy until we were forced to fight Japan and those terrible Nazis.

I had begun to question this whole New Deal salvation when I read the “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” by Amity Shales, earlier this year, So I wondered what I might find online, to increase my knowledge of this unknown earlier depression that Glenn had used as a model for fixing our country’s and the world’s economic mess. After some searching I came across “The U. S. Economy in the 1920s” an article by Gene Smiley of Marquette University. This is a very thorough discussion of that decade of almost twenty six thousand words and graphs that took up sixty four pages in my computer’s PDF format.

What the Smiley article showed, and as Beck addressed, the Depression that began in 1920 was much more severe that anything we have faced in the current meltdown and bailouts. Furthermore the fix of letting the markets work to rebuild, or as Glenn said, “reboot the system” accomplished an economic miracle in which unemployment fell from over 11% to less than 2% in short order.

As with our current situation, speculation in securities coupled with tight money policies, was a correct but simplistic description of the beginning of the Great Depression. However if you link the growth of the 1920s followed by the Depression of the 1930s, this broader historical context more vividly displays the reality pointed out so well in “The Forgotten Man.” In this larger context Roosevelt’s New Deal was truly the antithesis of what the economy really needed.
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Tags: Glenn Beck, 1920-21 Depression, New Deal, Nazi, Audacity of Wrong

In our effort to create more effective resources here at Wonder Springs, we have deleted the Phylogenesis Tab and replaced it with an off site link under a new Leadership Tab. This link will take you to The Creation Leadership Center we are developing using our Wonder Springs Chronicle Archives as well as other teaching resources we have developed over the years. Eventually The Creation Leadership Center will be offering hands on learning experiences in Business Ecology, Leadership, Economic and Personal Survival, as well as other programs to allow you to understand the growth opportunities, that times of stupendous change create.

Tags: Creation Leadership Center, Business Ecology, leadership, survival, stupendous change

The President has issued his new budget for the new fiscal year. From the conservative Republicans we hear that the deficit spending will sink the country into a morass of unsustainable debt. On the progressive Democrat side, they imply that the only way forward is through more government spending as the only way we can again obtain prosperity.

What is never discussed is the fact that before the recession began over 70% of the American economy was based upon consumer spending. It is assumed by both sides of the budget debate that if we just follow their perspectives, which can be summarized as tax cuts or tax increases, all will again be peachy keen in no time.

The meltdowns and the bailouts were enacted, because a consumer economy based upon cheap debt, fueled by a housing bubble, has run out of gas. To assume, by either plan, and a whole lot of positive thinking we will find our way out of the deep woods has no basis in real reality.

Both parties recent political histories of either tax and spend or tax breaks and spend are based on a dumbed down views of not only human enterprise but also human culture. The basis in both of these paradigms is that we are smart enough to manage everything, generally under the faith in the premise that we specifically are promoting alone, and really not much else.

What both concepts do is combine leadership principles of power and authority essentially in the Federal government. First of all, authority means you have the lawful and common right to lead. Power means you have the actual ability to make it happen. The U. S. Constitution really rests very limited authority in the Federal government and even less power. Most of both are left to the states and to the people themselves.

Finally natural ecosystems grow to maturity and then reach a climax state, where energetic utilization becomes greater essentially through true diversification. This means that naturally we will find ways to replace the material consumerism if the politicians and their special interest get out of the way and let the system work. If they do not the whole culture will collapse and we will have to begin again at some lower level of both information and energetics. That is not spin just the wisdom of Deep Woods Moola.

Tags: tax cuts, tax and spend, leadership, U S Constitution