Are you American or a Globalist? Are you sure? UPDATED
Posted July 23rd, 2008 by FireTeamforFreedom
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This is the question for the election of 2008 and going forward...
Be sure to write it on banners and ask it at any political event. But then you need to ask yourself the same question.
Because although we say we're American... we sure act like globalists. Everyday we buy junk from around the world, even our food comes from far away places... I live in Florida and can't find Orange juice that isn't at least partially from Brazil or Mexico for God's sake!!
If we're going to be Americans we need to start acting like Americans and this realization could be a huge turning point in getting this country back on track.
Here's the begining of a checklist.
Where does your food come from?
Where do your clothes come from?
Where does your fuel come from?
Where does your car come from?
Where does the rest of the junk you buy come from?
Can these be substituted with American made products?
In addition, check out your local and state politicians.. do a little research and start finding out if their actions are of an a American or a globalist... and confront them with it.
As individuals and as communities we can still right this ship... but it starts right there at you. You first have to govern yourself, then your family, then your community. Then we will have the basis to throw off the nanny state.
We have a choice to make. We can determine our future or have it determined for us. It's up to each one of us. But we have to come together as a whole on this one. And I think we can get a consensus if we're able to start asking the right questions!
Feel free to contribute to this idea.
Update#1
I have created a page on our website to address this idea. Please Check it out and feel free to contribute, two heads is better than one!
See you in Minneapolis!
www.mikeandjake.com
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So your saying to be American is to be an isolationist?
Americans believe in freedom...but right now we have a reverse tariff... the products made in this country are heavily taxed and regulated and the products made elsewhere aren't. We are driving all the wealth out of this nation... bottomline... and there will come a day... when we just can't afford to pay for the food to be shipped to us...
A country that is dependent on other countries for it's necessities is not free.
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
Trade with all nations, entangling aliances with none.
What you are talking about is economic isolation. The point of being American vs. globalist pertains to our unwillingness to dominate or be dominated by other governments.
It's a thrill
to go to a small business instead of walking like a robot into wal-mart. Sometimes you have to pay more, but not always. I paid 44.97 for an fishing pole that I found for 29.00 at a small fishing store later on.
Have you checked out the micro farm ideas?
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Revolutionary Business"
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If you've checked out the Meet your Meat video...
Localization i.e. locally raised food is one solution. Small local farms used to feed the nation... why not now?
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
Monsanto
The first hurdle is cross contamination. Solution? Grow indoors. Problem? Not enough real estate. Solution? Build up. ^ Problem? Regulations barring the construction of tall buildings not within the centralized population centers.
It is important to have a direction though.
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." - Thomas Jefferson
Don't be fooled by the system....
We don't need to be a global economy!
We could do just fine with a localized economy... just think with the technology we have today... we could create small local manufacturers that could create any part or product. The only necessity in a localized economy would be natural resources, 90-95% of the products we need could be produced locally which would dramatically reduce our need for transportation...
If you look up Peter Drucker you'll find that over the many years of progress... manufacturing costs are dramatically less than they were years ago... the only thing that has gone up is transportation... It would make allot of sense to locate products closer to the marketplace than to transport finished products accross the planet.
In addition, the true cost of products in terms of pollution, damage to the environment, damage to humanity are not realized in the "Global" concept. The "Global" concept is just a way for Multi-National Corporations to thwart government regulations... if we reign in these criminal entities... this will end.
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
IMO
What makes us globalists is our willingness to pay unjust, unconstitutional taxes. More so if you collect taxes for the government.
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another point
Fortune Favors the Bold
I think this is something of a false dichotomy. As I have mentioned before, we are in a global economy. That's not going to change, and it shouldn't. The question is whether it will be a globalism based on individual rights and true free markets, or a centrally managed new world order style globalism, which we currently have, where the rules are made up by unaccountable elites.
True, but
why not make ours stronger by purchasing our products.
The market forces work...
Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization
By LARRY ROHTER
Published: August 3, 2008
When Tesla Motors, a pioneer in electric-powered cars, set out to make a luxury roadster for the American market, it had the global supply chain in mind. Tesla planned to manufacture 1,000-pound battery packs in Thailand, ship them to Britain for installation, then bring the mostly assembled cars back to the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/20...
Where I live it's becoming more feasible to raise more food locally, trade locally and through the wonderful incorporation laws keep our money from going to Washington D.C.
We can show paper losses and support our local government services directly through tax deductible donations to schools, police/fire/ems, eldercare etc. Keepin' it local.
"PunJab! Bring me my checkbook!"
isolationism
By prohibiting trade and imposing embargoes on Cuba, we practice isolationism.
I support talking with and trading with other countries. This does not make me a globalist.
Rejecting trade and talk with other nations is a step in the direction of isolationism.
I don't believe in isolationism.
I am not a one-world globalist.
I do believe in trading with other countries.
free trade in principle
Fortune Favors the Bold
is good. But what we have is managed neo-mercantilism, not free trade. (in true free trade, for example, we would actually have to produce things to exchange with China, not buy products that are financed by currency which in turn is driven by chinese loans, exploiting the Chinese workers while creating wealth for the Chinese upper class, and crippling the manufacturing base of this country.)
Still looking for help on..
compiling some questions for individuals and businesses.
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
I found this gem...
This is the central downfall of the globalization idea. As David Rothkopf observes in this Newsweek column, having a global economy is great for the pirates, but is devasting for democracy, sovereignty, and justice.
The key to any government and especially any democratic republic is information and the public's thirst for the truth.
A uninformed or misinformed lazy population in a democracy is just as dangerous as a dictatorship!
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
I must disagree with you on
I must disagree with you on one point:
An uninformed or misinformed lazy population in a democracy IS a dictatorship.
SUPPORT OUR FOUNDERS' AMERICA
Support the Constitution of the United States
The sad fact is that all the
regulation of business activity has made most businesses leave and the ones that remain are wrapped up in pay to play government protection rackets. While it is true that taking the alms of thieves is wrong, there will always be those who want a piece of the power. This is the downfall of government. (one of them anyway) It attracts the worst people to its ranks and then grows itself by using its monopoly on force. Logic suggests the solution to this problem. What do you think it is?
'Live for yourself, there's no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more...'
The fact is McCain and Obama are Un-American
They are bought and paid for by interests that don't have America or it's citizens in mind. These people have demonstrated that they are traitors to this country.
In just the past few weeks Barack Obama voted for the unconstitutional FISA bill and then gave a speech on being a "citizen of the world" meanwhile McCain, who defied his Code of Conduct as a servicemember, met with LaRaza, a group that favors breaking off a piece of the United States and amnesty for millions of illegals.
These two are clowns at best!
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
I think
you are responding to my post below. I agree that Obama and McCain are un-American, but all the people who are mistakenly voting for them cannot be called un-American. Also, apparently, Reagan also said he was a citizen of the world. Now, personally, I think they were coming from two different perspectives and I too was turned off by Obama's speech. I agree with everything you say in your post. But I don't think we can say, "Are you an American or a Globalist."
I don't like that distinction
You will turn many off who don't understand yet. It isn't "Americans" or "globalists." It is "sovereignists or globalists." I think it is a big mistake to say that people are unamerican if they vote for Obama or McCain. We are trying to win people here, not turn them away.
Suddenly, Daily Paul has made this distinction and we seem to be sticking with it. Mistake.
I hear ya! I used to think that was still the case...
But just about everything has changed about the company... just the name has remained the same... I think if we really wanted to get it correct Walmart should be changed to CHINAmart!
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
Find local political events and bring this question up!
If you haven't seen YES MEN ...check it out!
http://www.theyesmen.org/
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
Is there any Americans left? Socialist takeover without a shot
fired.... Apparently the flouride did the trick...
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
Thanks for the info!
I've included some updated information. An American or Globalist page on mike and Jake! Please check it out!
Mike
"Fire Team for Freedom", "Operation Daily Paul" and "Revolutionary Business"
visit www.mikeandjake.com
Wow..what a banner day at DP...
..I've been here for hours and hours and still have not read all the posts...this was a thought-provoking read....
There is nothing that says people
couln't start making deals with local farmers. Why couldn't a group of investers start a store like walmart that only sells American made products. I have no Idea how this would be done but it would be very interesting to see it happen.
I'm old enough to remember
I'm old enough to remember that when Walmart started they advertised that they were selling only made in America products. Ever read Animal Farm?
"FED FREE Festival" is how we are trying to make it happen
First one this Saturday in Idaho! We plan to make them a monthly event.
In our back yard, we are hosting an invitation only event, although one need only contact us and chat with us a bit to garner an invite, we aren't snobs! It will be a swap meet / flea market / idea exchange for people to network and begin practicing economic models that do not involve the Fed. (As I type, the third helicopter of the morning flies overhead. I live in the middle of nowhere. Paranoid? Maybe, but some days...)
Anyway, NO FED NOTES allowed. People will be allowed to access the internet to try to determine fair market values, but they will be free to negotiate whatever deals they can. Our hope is that if the economy collapses, at least our little town will know how to cope because we will have had some practice.
Our motto with this is "bringing the message of liberty to our own back yard."
Trade
Yes but what do we trade? We no longer have industries to support fair ( whats fair?) trade. Continuing to buy cheap/trash products from China is not the type of trade that Paul advocates. America needs to get back in the business of making quality products.
Farmers markets and veggies in every bodies yard/patio is an easy way to start being self sufficient.
What do you mean, what to trade?
You forget we are a very creative and resourceful people!!! EVERYONE has a talent, a knowledge, a gift that can be traded. Homemade anything, food, clothes, furniture, can be traded. Can you change the oil on any car? Can you make a jar of jam? Do you know how to fix your jeans? How about our kids needing to learn basic reading, science and math skills? I bet there'd be plenty of ex-teachers willing to trade for plumbing/electrical work, oil change, maybe even retirees that physically cannot cut wood that would trade knowledge for labor. My God, the list is endless, the possibilities staggering. What to trade????? Quit trading the counterfeit FRN's. Start now!!! The backyard idea is fantastic.
PyraBang for Liberty
Thank you for posting this
I believe that conserving America is not only electing the right people, but we also have to become rugged individuals with a strong community and nationalist streak.
Buy US made...hell ya!
http://www.howtobuyameric...
Also, we need to replace employer benefits with self-insurance...and then save up enough to not need insurance at all! See Dave Ramsey.
And rugged individuality also covers being in great shape, knowing surviver skills, agricultural skills, etc.
No government can oppress a strong people. If we really want to correct our government if we want to be able to elect people like Ron Paul, we'd better become a much stronger people.
Ron Paul is the great uniter, the income tax fighter...the military-supported, defender of the border...the political apathy solution and the champion of the Constitution! Doctor Paul is on-call!
Not too bright, are you?
Trade is a good thing. I suggest you look up what Dr. Paul has said about promoting free trade with the rest of the world.
-jcr
borrowing money from china
Fortune Favors the Bold
to buy crap from china is not a viable long term trading policy. Sooner or later, they will want something real in return, not our petrodollars.
Our current money supply is crap, and so are the products
we get from overseas...China. Sounds like a fair trade to me!
don't get me wrong
Fortune Favors the Bold
real trade is good. Not self-destructive neo-mercantilism/imperialism.