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Strategies & Market Trends : The Financial Collapse of 2001 Unwinding -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (13807)	1/7/2026 7:52:46 AM
From: IC720	2 Recommendations Recommended By E_K_S elmatador Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13879

Could be you're missing part of the equation...In the US, was not Obama known as the Food Stamp, Welfare King? Bombing M.E., promoting racism, possibly war with Russia,..dividing the US? Could be off on 1..About that time doing a 180 along with DC began opening US borders, followed by Germany's Merkel opening borders, 2020 Biden Admin all out opening paying illegals , Europe/UK, Canada, Australia naming a few.. "The expansion of the welfare state requires ever-higher taxes, and those taxes do not fall evenly. They fall disproportionately on those who actually work, produce, and take risk. Britain has created a system in which the marginal benefit of working harder is weak or outright negative, once taxes, lost benefits, compliance costs, and inflation are taken into account. Under those conditions, rational people become unproductive. What is especially telling is that this is no longer confined to low-income workers. Highly skilled professionals are opting to reduce hours, shift into part-time roles, or deliberately cap income to avoid punitive tax thresholds. When doctors, engineers, accountants, and executives start making lifestyle decisions based on avoiding taxation rather than maximizing productivity, the system is already broke Governments always pretend this is about “work-life balance.” That is propaganda. People have always valued their time. What has changed is confidence. When people believe that extra effort will improve their future, they work harder. When they believe the state will confiscate the reward while increasing the risk, they stop. Productivity collapses not because people cannot work, but because they no longer believe it is worth it. People no longer believe the system is fair, and once that belief is gone, productivity never recovers without a crisis. .... 2026 will bring change? Term Limits and Congressional Insider Trading. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna presented an agenda. Anna Paulina Luna is behind the prohibition of Congressional Insider Trading with bipartisan support. In addition to throwing his support behind Luna’s bill to end Congressional Insider Trading, Governor DeSantis also said he is leading the effort across the country to have states certify a Constitutional Amendment for term limits for members of Congress. Don’t believe the press is fairly reporting what is going on. So far, possibly 28 states have agreed to propose a Constitutional Amendment for Term Limits. To PROPOSE an amendment via state application: 34 states (two-thirds). To RATIFY an amendment and add it to the Constitution: 38 states (three-fourths). This is the effort and with 2026 being the 250th year anniversary and political change lies on the horizon, we have have a shot at at getting to the formal proposal stage. <Even Ron DeSantis said clearly that when he was in Congress decades ago, they knew about the fraud in Minnesota. They would even talk about it back then but do nothing.> If this were solely up to Congress, it would be a real uphill battle. The only way to do that would be to say those who are there now are grandfathered in, but any replacement would then be confined to one term and out. Congress passes a law saying “the FDA must make rules to ensure safe food” (the statute). The FDA (like the SEC) then creates a specific rule that “eggs must be refrigerated at 40°F” (the rule). The insider trading ban works the same way. Congress NEVER created an insider trading statute. This is all done under the rules of the SEC. The real problem is that the bureaucracy has become so outrageous and vast that we are NOT represented by Congress and this is, in my opinion, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, because we the people have no right to vote for anyone on the bureaucracy. The SEC will NEVER prosecute a politicians for what they have completely distorted. They can argue that the information is coming from lawyers, not directors. But essentially, the entire “Inside Trading” is completely vague at best and is selectively applied if they want your ass. Most assume there is a LAW and Congress exempted themselves. This is an abomination created by the SEC. Because other countries did not understand the reality of the SEC “rule” in the slightest, various countries passed laws that were not really about privileged “insider” info, but it was just ant-rich Marxism. I have informed them that the best way to disguise a bribe is to set up two futures accounts. They enter a buy and sell trade on whatever and at the end of the day, they they allocate the win to the politician and the loss to the payee. This will NEVER show up as “insider trading” just that they were a fantastic trader one time in some commodity.