Central Planning: More, More, More Gives Us Less, Less, Less - Freedom

From every corner of the news media and every corner of the internet we continually hear one story after another about the erosion of individual freedoms on multiple fronts throughout the country, and in large part, around the world. The enemy of these freedoms is centralized planning and authority. Whether it is healthcare, Wall Street, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, big banks, little banks and every other sector of the economy where the Fed, the Treasury, The Congress and the President continue to meddle, and think more market intervention, more government control and more centralized planning is the solution. Well, the solution to what? Problems caused by: more market intervention, more government control and more centralized planning, in the first place.

It's a vicious cycle and a common mistake. When you start essentially with a free market and individual freedoms, it's sometimes difficult to see the incremental restrictions that pile up after decades of legislation and political favors. Then all of a sudden it's plain as day, and the cumulative threat to personal freedom from decades of unnoticed legislation rears its ugly head, and freedom is suddenly staring into the abyss. The abyss is before us, and we are staring into it. The question is: who will blink first.

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This week, housing and jobless numbers worsened dramatically. A report by Greg Hunter at USAwatchdog.com suggests that the oil in the gulf isn't gone, it's just hidden from view under the waters surface by chemical dispersants. Talk abounds of QE2. Quantitative Easing Round 2. In other words, money printing like there's no tomorrow. According to a Reuters article, Connecticut may be down to 1 week's worth of cash. There are pressure points all over the world. It's only going to take a calamity in one of these areas to set off a chain reaction into countless others. The cause of the ensuing firestorm will then become impossible to ascertain. So much could potentially happen within a short period of time that blame and responsibility will be hard, if not impossible, to assign.

Mathematically it is not possible with current levels of production to pay down, let alone service, the expanding debt and deficit. What we hear each day in mainstream financial media is the echo of the music that has already stopped. Soon that echo will become distorted and shortly after that people will realize the music has indeed stopped. When this realization occurs, there will be only a handful of chairs left on the dance floor. Namely real, stuff: Gold, silver, base metals, energy and agriculture.

There will be a whole lot more people and a whole lot more money that will want into these real, tangible items, some of which are a store of wealth and the others, necessary for survival. When that day comes, whatever you hold in your portfolio one night when you go to bed, may dramatically influence the amount of wealth you possess the next day, the next month and possibly for many years to come. When it comes to resources like gold, silver, base metals, energy and agriculture, you will either cash up, or pay up, based on what you do right now.