Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

mythfighter.com — So here we have two tools, Planned Parenthood and guns, that are tools, and as tools, their use is not determined by the tool but by the user. The purposes of Planned Parenthood primarily are educational and self-protection, and secondarily to kill. The purposes of guns secondarily are entertainment and self-protection, but primarily to threaten and kill. A real weirdness is revealed when you realize that the people who most avidly defend guns often are the same people who most avidly oppose Planned Parenthood. Another interesting thought: Those people who favor guns, while opposing Planned Parenthood, seem to care nothing about the aftermaths. That is, what do gun owners do about people who have been shot? What care is provided by, for instance, the National Rifle Association (NRA) or any gun-owner group, for the people who survive a shooting, but are left with horrible disabilities, disfigurements, and terrible pain? What care is provided by gun owners for the families of people who are shot? Similarly, what care is provided by abortion opponents, for unwanted children who sadly often suffer a lifetime of parental neglect? What care do pro-lifers provide to impoverished parents trying to care for those unwanted children? What care do anti-abortionists provide to mothers whose health is damaged by an unwanted pregnancy? Ironically, it is the abortion providers, not the abortion opponents, who are more active in “sex education, reducing the spread of STDs through testing and treatment, and screening for cervical, breast, and other cancers.”

mythfighter.com — No one can do a better job of describing how to thoroughly destroy the American economy than Maya MacGuineas, head of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB). She not only writes articles for the CRFB web site, but she often is invited to spew her wisdom before Congress. Does “unsustainable“ mean people will refuse to use the U.S. dollar? No, Despite an 80-year supply increase of more than 50,000%, the U.S. dollar remains a trusted currency. No knowledgeable person fears U.S. insolvency. So what does the oft-used term “unsustainable“ mean? It is a term that has no specific meaning, but is used to hint at some dark, unspecified, future event, to make you believe the federal debt is too high, without your knowing why. This high and rising debt could have significant economic, generational, fiscal and distributional consequences. What are the consequences of a high and rising debt? Answer: Economic growth and prosperity.

mythfighter.com — There are scores of armed groups, with thousands of members who identify themselves as “militias,” though they are not “well-regulated,” as the useless and meaningless words in the Constitution demand. From the look of those heavily-armed, “militia” people, perhaps the Supreme Court might have second thoughts about ignoring the well-regulated phrase. But, I’m sure these guys will come to your defense if the crazy libs force you to receive Medicare, Social Security, and unemployment benefits. What do you think?

mythfighter.com — Where there is money, there will be criminals stealing the money -- the more money, the more criminals -- and banks control more money than anyone. Number 9 in the "Ten Steps to Prosperity" is this one: Federal ownership of all banks. A few excerpts from that article: Banks are involved in most U.S. Rather than passing more laws that will be broken, the federal government should merely remove the profit motive from banking by eliminating private banking. All banks should be owned by the federal government, which has no need for profits.

mythfighter.com — If the federal government funded a comprehensive plan that covered all your hospital, doctor, equipment, and long-term care costs, not only could your salary be higher, but your employer would not “own” you. Losing your job would be far less traumatic. The federal government already has done the hard work by creating Medicare for All (over 65), so the functional problems have been solved. It would be a simple matter to reduce the qualifying age to 0, and to eliminate deductibles and co-pays. Except, that is not what the rich want. They want to widen the Gap between the rich and the rest, and one sneaky way to do it is via employer-provided healthcare insurance.

mythfighter.com — I just received the following letter from a woman, Elizabeth Estrada Lopez, who read the recent post, Lack of money or low wages is a valid point. Affordable housing is not fair housing. Many below & poverty level wage people, like myself, who work very hard and need affordable housing, are placed in impoverished areas or areas where there is no public transportation and end up paying more in gasoline to travel back and forth to work & grocery shopping that is it a lose-lose proposition. People fail to thrive grouped in impoverished communities. The environment is a daily discouragement creating more stress and low self-esteem. This is my experience and is not a blanket statement that covers the world.

mythfighter.com — The United States has one of the worst medical programs of any major nation. The reason solely is due to debt fear-mongers who falsely proclaim that federal spending is “unsustainable.” Given the federal government’s unlimited access to dollars, a simpler, more comprehensive health-care plan, totally funded by the federal government, can and should be instituted. The fact that America doesn’t have one is a disgrace. We have a whole suite of expensive, yet inferior, incomplete plans, foisted on us by Congressional and Presidential cowardice and ignorance. You deserve better.

mythfighter.com — Vote Trump and the GOP Congress out. Their Democratic replacements will vote to provide healthcare insurance for every man, woman, and child in America. No longer will you have to worry about the potentially disastrous costs of healthcare. No longer will you have to worry about whether you will receive care at all. Your doctor will be paid. Your hospital will be paid. And you will receive the same care as the rich receive. The cost can be borne entirely by the U.S. federal government, which being Monetarily Sovereign, has the unlimited financial ability to pay for anything, without levying taxes.

mythfighter.com — Affordable housing laws are not a solution. They are not even a partial solution. They are, at best, tokenism. The solution to housing unaffordability, indeed the solution to all unaffordability by the poor, is for the federal government to give people money. The Ten Steps to Prosperity (below) provides one set of solutions. Rather than having politicians decide what universal percentage of household income counts as “affordable housing,” let each individual and each family make that decision. A 35-year-old man, with three children, surely will have different needs and make a different decision than a 55-year-old widow living alone. Laws are expensive. At the local level, money spent to create and enforce laws does not benefit the populace. By contrast, federal spending costs people nothing, and it can solve the real problems facing the poor. They are poor. They are short of money. The federal government has infinite money. The solution is clear. Help people improve their own lives by simply giving them money. We should replace “affordable housing” laws with the Ten Steps to Prosperity.

mythfighter.com — Question: Which is the greater danger to America and your freedoms: Protesters against bigotry and police brutality, or a dictator aided by a brutal military? Lest you believe that for some unknown reason, America is immune to the horrors of a dictatorship, that also is what Chileans believed.

mythfighter.com — Way, way back, on May 5th, 2020, we published, "The surprisingly simple way to open America in 14 days and avoid a depression." It said: "COVID-19 transmits primarily through the air by droplets. Stop the droplets and you stop the transmission. The incubation period is 14 days.

mythfighter.com — COVID-19 may kill at least a half-million Americans and five-million worldwide, just in the next two or three years, unless we are able to develop a vaccine and unless people will be encouraged to take it. That is an awful lot of deaths, but it pales in comparison to the people who will suffer and.die The world is dying right before our eyes. Donald Trump is lying, denying, hampering, and hindering. The sand is running down the hourglass. The time to save the planet for our species rapidly is disappearing. While Biden’s recommended $2 trillion is a notable start in saving the world, it is far too little and may be too late. How much is the future of humankind worth, especially when the money is free? Efforts to save the planet not only will help assure our grandchildren’s futures, but money spent today will grow our economy today, providing jobs and money to those who need it, while narrowing the Gap between the rich and the rest. Act now, or too soon there will come a tipping point, when having squandered all our opportunities, we watch helplessly as our little lifeboat in this vast ocean, sinks.

mythfighter.com — The U.S. economy is in deep trouble. President Trump's re-election chances would improve greatly if the economy were healthy. But the GOP(!) is reluctant to provide enough stimulus. Why? Let's begin with the basics: Millions of Americans suffer because they lack money. Many are jobless and many slave in low-paying jobs. The federal government has all the financial power it needs to pull America out of this recession and to help the states, counties, and cities return to solvency. To do the bidding of the rich, the politicians rely on the ignorance of the public. That is why the GOP rescue package is so skimpy. Big business wants desperate workers.

mythfighter.com — The U.S. economy is in deep trouble. President Trump's re-election chances would improve greatly if the economy were healthy. But the GOP(!) is reluctant to provide enough stimulus. Why? Let's begin with the basics: Millions of Americans suffer because they lack money. Many are jobless and many slave in low-paying jobs. The federal government has all the financial power it needs to pull America out of this recession and to help the states, counties, and cities return to solvency. To do the bidding of the rich, the politicians rely on the ignorance of the public. That is why the GOP rescue package is so skimpy. Big business wants desperate workers.

mythfighter.com — Bigotry works because it appeals to our fundamental emotions of fear and hatred, but bigotry is self-consuming, and those who follow Trump are being led into the darkness.

mythfighter.com — Here is your periodic reminder. After 80 years, the federal debt still is being called a "ticking time bomb," the slowest time-bomb in history. We don't need to go into too much detail. We've said it often enough: The federal "debt" is not debt in the usual sense.

mythfighter.com — When will the Libertarians, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the media tell the American people that: A growing economy requires a growing supply of money Federal deficit spending supplies those growth dollars. The U.S. federal government, being Monetarily Sovereign, has infinite dollars. It never can run short. It never can be insolvent. The federal government never can be unaffordable.

mythfighter.com — We should stop scurrying in all directions trying to cure symptoms with treatments that are doomed to fail because they don’t treat the disease. We should stop blaming the impoverished for “laziness” or “immorality.” We should stop claiming that all poverty aids are “socialism,” or “paternalism” when they need to be neither. We should stop false envy of the poor if they get something for not working; the rich do it all the time. The key to ending police brutality and so many other evils of the world is to narrow the Gap between the rich and the rest. Our federal government has the power to do this at no cost to ourselves. The Ten Steps to Prosperity (below) is a good starting point.

mythfighter.com — Street crime is a bigot's excuse for bigotry. Street crime hurts all America. It punishes the poor and the rich. The primary cause of street crime is poverty, or more accurately, the wide Gap between the rich and the rest. Given a strong, compassionate leader, the federal government has the means to narrow the Gap and eliminate the primary cause of street crime.

mythfighter.com — Monetary Sovereignty: This term describes the unlimited ability to issue and control a currency. Even without collecting taxes, a Monetarily Sovereign can spend forever. Gap Psychology: This term refers to the desire to distance oneself from those below, in any social ranking, and to come nearer to those above. In Summary, Biden doesn’t understand Monetary Sovereignty, Gap Psychology, and this misunderstanding leads him to tell The Big Lie. Assuming he wishes to help the underclasses, narrow the Gap, and stimulate the economy he should begin by eliminating FICA, while leaving the funding of Medicare and Social Security to the federal government. Contrary to popular wisdom, FICA does not fund Social Security or Medicare. Like all federal taxes (but unlike state/local taxes) FICA funds nothing. The federal government could fund unlimited spending with no taxes. FICA is the most regressive tax in America. Eliminating FICA would benefit workers and businesses. It would decrease unemployment by making employment cheaper. It has been suggested seriously by just one politician, none other than Donald J.Trump. But, in perhaps the only time the GOP toadies have stood up to Trump, they said “No.” Ironically, this may have been the only good idea Trump has had during his term.

mythfighter.com — Biden is correct that small businesses need help, but this will not be accomplished by taxing large businesses, however one defines “large” and “small.” That a business employing more than 50 people should be considered “large” and taxed more, is ludicrous. The number of employees is not relevant to “making excessive amounts of money and paying no taxes.” What is relevant? Profits and taxes. Why penalize businesses for hiring? It makes no sense to penalize businesses at all, because businesses provide goods, services, and money to the economy. To narrow the Gap between the rich and the rest, the highest personal incomes should be taxed, not businesses.

mythfighter.com — Question: Why did Americans fight and give their lives in the Revolutionary War? Answer: To achieve and protect our freedom. Question: Which freedom? Answer: The single, most important, most fundamental freedom of all -- the freedom to select our political leaders, i.e. the freedom to vote in free, fair elections. Free elections are necessary and fundamental to American freedoms. The Postal Service is necessary and fundamental to free, fair elections. Anyone who attempts or succeeds in delaying or subverting American elections is a traitor to America, and should be treated as such. Donald Trump claims with no evidence, that mailed ballots are fraudulent, so he has begun to sabotage the entire postal system. He first attempted to delay, and now is in the process of subverting American elections, in a treasonous attempt to remain in office. America is now in its greatest danger since the Civil War. There is a traitor in our midst. If he succeeds, America, as you know it, is lost. We will become a dictatorship, like China and Russia and many African nations. Never think it can’t happen here. It is happening before your eyes.

mythfighter.com — Essentially, Mises wants you to believe there is no difference between Monetary Sovereignty and monetary non-sovereignty, and the growing federal debt is unsustainable, and if federal deficit spending is not stopped, the economy is doomed. They have been saying the same things for more years than I have been alive (in other words, a long, long time). Their philosophy continues to ignore the reality that in the past 80 years the federal debt has grown an astounding 55,000% and we have not experienced the disasters Mises continually predicts. On the contrary, our economy is the strongest it ever has been, or will be as soon as we find the vaccine or cure for COVID-19. So Mises has been wrong, wrong, wrong, like the cult leader who continually predicts the end of the world, and never is dissuaded by the fact that the world continues to exist.

mythfighter.com — Most economists claim that inflations are caused by "excessive" federal deficit spending. I suspect the notion is that pumping dollars into the economy puts more dollars into consumers' pockets, and having more dollars causes consumers to buy more, and these increased purchases cause inflation. It's the "too many dollars chasing too few products" mantra. Not only do federal deficits not cause inflation, but federal deficit spending, properly directed, actually is the best cure for inflations.