America the Red and Blue.  Conservative and Liberal. Producer and Entitled.

Divided.

…Divided we fall. – from: Patrick Henry in his last public speech, given in March 1799, in which he denounced The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

And here we are, sharply divided as a people.  We are teetering on a possible depression except this time we have huge debts and no real industrial assets as we did in the nineteen thirties.  During the great depression we started out without large debt until Roosevelt got the “Great Society” started, and we were able (eventually) to build our way out of the depression.  Of course by the time WWII was over and we were “back on track” we were no longer on a gold standard, our money was no longer controlled and minted by the congress – but the shady quasi-private-governmental “Federal Reserve”, and we were well on our way to massive deficits and growing dept.  At first we were able to handle it, and sometimes even balanced our governmental budget, our country was now a super-power and we were on our way of building our country.

But governmental systems and bureaucracies never die, no instead they continue to grow and spawn new systems and new bureaucracies.  And politicians discover that the more they take from those who produce to give to those who do not, the easier it is to get reelected.  And so we end up with two different peoples in our country: The producers who work hard and want to acquire the American Dream: those who create businesses with the hope of wealth and success, and the entitled: those who receive government handouts and feel that their need is a blank check entitling them to it.  The entitled class also include those who work in the ever growing governmental systems and whose vested interest is to never solve problems – because then they would be out of a job.

The entitled class is growing and the producer class is shrinking, but the division between them has never been as clear as it is today.

The question is: “Would Patrick Henry say that divided we fall to this current division?” I don’t think so because he would recognize that the producers are the only part of the equation that matters.

Because nobody is entitled to anything.  You earn your way, you work hard, you use your head – you help those in need as you are drawn to do so by your own values.  You keep what you make, you exchange your goods and services for those of others.  No, the producers need to stand united against the entitled.

Because in reality they are not entitled to anything.

David T. McKee

 

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Tags: consumers, Patric Henry, producers

The American Greenback is worthless.  It has ability to buy only because of the belief that remains in the dollar – should consumer and foreign confidence in the dollar fail, then it will be worth the paper it is printed on and no more.

Here is a link to a Citizens guide to the way our government has been spending money and why we as a nation are currently Broke.

So enter the Brown Market. The brown market which I introduced in my first article here, is a market that works in spite of the government and the does not utilize it’s currency, but does not engage in the morally reprehensible actions that abrogate the rights of others to engage in commerce- that is theft, kidnapping, extortion, and other criminal activities.  I need to be careful here because the out of control rouge government declares many things as being “illegal” including Brown and Black markets, but when I say “criminal” I mean those things that specifically abrogate others natural rights.

I guess you might call a Brown Market a “good” Black Market.  The reason for it should be obvious: survival.  But why not thrive as well?  With the advent of today’s technology including the Internet and sophisticated cryptologic techniques it is fully possible to create currencies backed by gold or other precious metals and do business under the radar of the government approved economic system.

The biggest problem with the Brown Market is that it will come under fire by the government which will eventually declare war on it.  Regardless, when a government becomes socialistic it has already declared war on the producers and the best way to fight such a government is to starve it to death.  That is done by removing oneself from the economic system that feeds it.

David T. McKee

 

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Tags: Black Markets, Capitalism, Government, Money

I have decided to write a set of fundamental principles on how to create, survive and thrive in what I call a Brown Market, or alternatively, the Slightly Underground Market.

First lets get two things out of the way:

1. What differentiates a Brown Market from a Black Market?
2. Why would a Brown Market be desirable?

1.) We need to first define a black market: (from Wise Geek here)

The black market is not a physical place, but rather an economic activity in which merchandise and/or services are bought and sold illegally. Also called the “underground market,” the black market gets its name due to the fact that its activity is conducted out of sight and often “in the dark,” outside the sight of law enforcement. The black market can be illustrated by something as innocent and innocuous as selling gum on the playground, or by something as serious as the sale of smuggled weapons or drugs.

Many factors can make a transaction illegal, thus qualifying it as a black market transaction. The good or service itself may be illegal, such as illicit drugs, weapons, or prostitution. One prime example of a black market created because of an illegal product was the result of prohibition. After alcohol was outlawed in the U.S. in 1919, it was smuggled into the country and sold at speakeasies and private bars. The result was an era of organized crime and an estimated 500 million US dollars (USD) in lost tax revenues annually.

An example of an illegal service sold on the black market is prostitution. Outlawing the prostitution of women and children throughout most of the world has created a huge illicit sex trade. Countries where this type of black market flourishes are a destination spot for those seeking to pursue this activity.

In other cases, goods may be stolen and then re-sold on the black market. When a good is euphemistically referred to as having “fallen off the back of a truck,” usually it means that it has been stolen for the purpose of being sold on the black market. If you are purchasing a new stereo, for example, from an individual at an extremely low price, there’s a good chance that it’s been stolen. Another way that a transaction can be illegal is if it is an otherwise legal good or service that is bought or sold in such a way as to avoid proper licensing or taxes. This is the case with unregistered firearms and cigarettes, which usually include a hefty local, state, or federal tax.

Due to man’s inherently entrepreneurial nature, coupled with government’s pesky tendency to regulate, black markets can and do exist everywhere. They do, however, tend to develop more readily in states or countries with especially heavy regulation. Even though a good or service becomes outlawed or heavily regulated, the market may continue to demand it. As a result, the black market springs up to meet the market’s demand. This is the case when governments place price controls, rationing or complete prohibition on a good or service.

A Brown Market is a substitute market that operates just under the currently “lawful” legal market that allows the participants to keep the produce of their labor, but does not engage in “naturally unlawful” or immoral markets.  It is not therefore a Black Market because as stated above, black markets engage in activities such as slavery, extortion, stolen property, and other thuggish activities that abrogate the rights of individuals.  A Brown Market seeks trade (and may engage in “socially reprehensible” trades such as prostitution and drugs, but without force, or theft).  A Brown market is one that engages in business and usually uses “other currencies” (more on that later) and may mix to some extent with the “legal” markets.

2.) A Brown Market provides a means for businessmen, Industrialists, and entrepreneurs to survive and thrive despite the socialistic and communistic practices of a government gone out of control with liberalism and socialism via regulation and theft.  Brown Markets are where capitalists must live when a government or nation has gone to socialism–capitalists should join a strike of the kind outlined in Atlas Shrugged in such a case, but they must still survive personally.

So what is needed is the knowledge on how to start and maintain a Brown Market in the United Sates based on the current socialist direction it is going in.  How can we as capitalists use our capital to bring down the socialist system? How do we then reinstate the Constitutionally protected, free-enterprise capitalist system, and remove and replace the current set of politicians and socialist supreme court judges, peacefully if possible, by force if necessary?

Government power is created by the theft of wealth from individuals on a massive scale.  If the individuals refuse to play this game on a large enough scale, then government will starve and collapse, however government will attempt to punish individuals to force them to comply as long as it can, so those individuals must go underground with all the implicit threats to their persons that entails.

In the Internet age the way to perform commerce that is under the radar and out of reach of government is to place capital in safe neutral places (such as Switzerland?) as gold, and then create an electronic currency backed by this gold. Untaxed and unfettered, this will allow business to thrive and at the same time starve socialist governments.

By themselves Socialistic and Communistic collapse in on themselves, but this take time and grinds up most of the populace, and corrupts the rest.  Waiting is not a solution, “peaceful dissension” does not work and will be crushed by the leaders of these corrupt governmental system.  Only by going underground and undermining the government by doing what our forefathers did will actually work.  This is the genius of men like Franklin, Hancock, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Henry, etc. and the myriad of others that stood with them and came after them.  These men were real geniuses – committed to Liberty and to Godliness (in most cases) and real patriots should use the ideas and examples they outlined to destroy the sickness of liberalism we find in our country and world today.

David T. McKee

 

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Tags: Black Markets, Capitalism, Money

Capitalism is a force that no government can kill despite the onslaught against it by the socialists, communists, fascists, and all of the other nefarious liberal politico-economic systems that hate the free enterprise system.  Capitalism lives as long as there are men and woman who are free, at least in their minds if not their physical bodies, because it is part of what mankind is and does when it engages in a market.  Despite the controls that governments put on Capitalism, despite the use of force to oppose the free exchange of goods and services, the fact remains that human kind must exchange goods, service, and labor in order that survival continue.

It is the drive to survive that ensures that Capitalism cannot die.  Yes, like water that is constricted, Capitalism will seek its level – that is to say, when restrictions, and laws, and government regulation are imposed against Capitalism it simply changes its shape.

Capitalism in my definition is a market system that depends on a currency of exchange that holds value and is portable.  It is the perfection of the original “bartering system” where labor and goods were directly exchanged.  By having an exchange media, humans can truly market anywhere and at any time.

When the Free Market is curtailed, then Capitalism takes the form of the Black Market – the simple ignoring of law in order to carry on the exchange of goods, services, and labor in order to survive.  Most black markets are patchwork quilts of illegal activity, mixtures of gang and other violent market activities, and outright nose thumbing at government and law.  This is an unstable, unreliable, and usually self-destructive state that cannot be depended on, but exists because there is simply no other alternative.

There are, however, intelligent persons who can see further.  These people can, and have constructed markets that run under the “allowed” systems to avoid restrictive taxes, laws, and the like.  With today’s technology such networks of “intelligent black marketeers” will no doubt grow and thrive.

The true black market occurs when these individuals create a currency of exchange that is disentangled from the government and laws to which the market is rebelling against.  That would be the case of unregulated precious metals and stones being used as exchange media for a market that is unregulated and untaxed by government.

As governments steal the value of the currency from their citizens via inflation (such as the United States has been a is currently doing though its illegally created Federal Reserve System), or takes it outright by confiscatory taxes, men and women will either turn to government largess as welfare recipients, or will decide that they will fight the government by creating their own “economies” under the radar (ie: under the  “legal” economy).

I have been thinking that the advent of the internet and sophisticated ciphers and cryptographic systems that are practically unbreakable makes the idea of a precious metals based black market system viable.  This could be a system that runs as unopposed free market – a market where all goods and services imaginable are available, where break-ins by the government looters attempting to shut it down are detected and routed around almost instantaneously.  This market could grow in power to the point where the governments run scared from it, instead of the other way around.

There are already signs of this happening now, by no less a player than Google, see the post here: Google search finds seafaring solution to escape taxes and regulation…

Frankly the networked underground market may be the next big thing…
David T. McKee