Episode-42- Five Lies that Attack Individual Freedom and Liberty
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Today’s podcast covers five lies that have been marketed to people by both industry and government and how they take away individual liberty and national freedom. This show is a long one but these were some things I feel honestly called to speak about and I have a great deal of passion for them.
I know many listeners are more interested in practical preparation but one can not separate survival mentality from individual liberty. Where as the sheeple follow the government and seek solutions from them, the individualist knows that he or she is the master of their own fate.
Today’s podcast may challenge some of your beliefs and might even make you angry at times. That just means is isn’t the same old – same old. Tune in to get my thoughts about,
- The lie that “its a consumer driven economy and there is nothing wrong with that” and how it is driving people and our nation into the oppression of debt.
- The lie of “no child left behind” and that “everyone should go to college” and how it is destroying our economy and making us dependent on illegal immigrant labor
- The noble professions no one goes to college to do and why we need quality people to do them
- The lie that “The Constitution gives us rights” and how that lie grants government power that it does not and should not have
- Why The Constitution does not “apply to Americans” and how it actually applies to humans
- The lie of class warfare and how it convinces you that you don’t have what you want because of some other group
- The class structure of Europe that we left behind and why it needs to stay there
- The lie that “you can’t do it” or “you can’t make it” with out government help and how the government is actually the problem that limits individual achievement
- The lie of being told what you want or told what is a success or a failure or what you need
- Why no matter who runs Washington we all still have the ability to declare individual liberty
- How we lost the attitude of “this family doesn’t take charity” and how that is killing us
- How the individual spirit and personal fortitude is stronger then any law, government or situation
- How many of the “poor” are really free and many of the most “successful” are enslaved by life and debt
- How your personal action, personal spirit and determination are your greatest survival asset
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Here’s the commercial I think you were referring to. It’s amazing how ridiculous this commercial to anyone with an ounce of common sense. Yet I find myself looking at the pretty people with their nice stuff, the soothing music, and I think “Wow, Discover Card really DOES care!” Ugh. No wonder you got so heated today!
I saw the commercial I think you were referring to. Look it up on YouTube under “Discover Card Brighter.” It’s amazing how ridiculous this commercial to anyone with an ounce of common sense. Yet I find myself looking at the pretty people with their nice stuff, the soothing music, and I think “Wow, Discover Card really DOES care!” Ugh. No wonder you got so heated today!
That’s it! How did you find it? I guess you knew it was Discover and I thought it was Amex. I tried to find it so I could provide a link, I figured it was on YouTube somewhere.
“We are a nation of consumers and there’s nothing wrong with that” ARGH!
We help you save too hey? Soooo they “care” by ensuring you buy crap you can’t afford and if by some mericle you actually have some savings they want to get their hands on that to perhaps so when many of their customers don’t pay the few that only use a card responsibly can loose their money in another “bank failure”?
In the end the message is not, don’t spend or have less debt it is if you go into debt with Discover it is spending smarter then going into debt with Master Card or Visa. What a load of bull shit! The solution to the 3 Trillion dollars in consumer debt that Americans have is to stop using credit cards, not one you feel better about committing financial suicide with.
Hi, on the subject of degree’s.. Like Jack i also do not have a degree, however it rarely is a topic of conversation. I do have a more vocation (degree level) qualification a higher national diploma in electronic engineering which i took in my late 20’s. I have held director level position in major corporates and set up several entrepreneurial start up companies. I also know of employers that always ask for degree level candidates, and have argued until I am blue in the face that this does not guarantee success.
In the UK we have degree qualified graduates working in McDonald’s but you struggle to find a carpenter, electrician or plumber (most are coming from Poland!!). A good plumber can earn £70k (approx $140k). Apprenticeships (i did one) have all but disappeared. There is a ray of light. It has been recognised at all levels that this is a crazy situation and more vocational qualifications are now being pushed. Not everyone should have a degree, they don’t need one and shouldn’t be forced to try (and possibly fail) to get one or even worse get one in a useless subject.
I firmly believe that you need to understand society today in order to survive tomorrow. I appreciate Jack’s hard work to get the message out there, I think the sound quality of the podcast is fine, much better than your earlier episodes. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Chris, I am learning as I go about audio and compression, etc. It is a lot better, I think today’s show is even better based on another discovery. Except for that fact that every semi truck seemed to want to match my course and speed at my side today. I hate those trucks!
@Steve, many I so agree with your take on “degrees”. It is not right for everyone. That message sounds good, sounds noble and attracts votes but it is destroying the blue collar middle class and imprisoning people into lives that are just not what they really want. Not to mentioning ruining the ability of great nations (like the UK and US) to build and manufacture their own needs.
Thank you Jack for another great show!
“We are a nation of consumers and there’s nothing wrong with that” Retch! The first time I watched that I was stunned, unsure of what I had just seen then as it sunk in I was sickened. I don’t understand how Discover thought that line was good advertising.
On degrees, I worked for several years in a job that paid very well and didn’t require a degree. After being injured on the job I went back to school, got a degree and now years later I am finally making what I had been before my injury. Did my degree help me? Not really. I work with people that are doing the same thing I do without one and we all make about the same wage. My brother who never went to college makes about twice what I do so no I don’t believe you need a degree to do well.
While I agree with most of what is being said, I have some trouble with this some what delusional thinking, that land = freedom. A person only has to look through countless historical references, to see how many ways one’s land can be taken. In todays world, there are plenty of ways in which individuals have been, are, and will be screwed out of their land.
RE: Degree’d Education- As a person with a general knowledge of science & math – I find most people have “delusional degrees”. By this I mean (for example) that nurses are taught by the pharmacies who wrote many of the college books. The basis of the education of a nurse is to promote their “product” of drugs and illness. There is not an educational program which is not driven by a commercial sector.
These kids are being to taught to “go by the book” (if they learned it in college – it must be true -right?). I find “the educated” so misinformed and taught NOT TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES! Every now and then – I find older professionals with that same mentality.
Here’s to a great harvest of beans under my bed . . =)
RE: Everybody “deserves” an education. I have a niece who is told since 6th grade – she “can get a college degree” when she is in special ed for 80% of her classes! She can’t do a high school class without a lot of help – so Who would pay for her education?
Great sound quality Jack!
The last part of this hit me….. I am 43, working in a job and career I no longer want, stuck in place due to the salary. I’ve been killing my debt but it’s hard to get the family to understand the way I feel about debt (a major no-no).
Great podcast Jack! Really spoke to me. Im 28 and right now I work a 9-5 job in the Advertising industry. It is amazing how companies try to mold consumer perception. To tell the consumer what they want and need.
By using emotional appeal and whatever they can to influence a potential buyer. What we have is an individualistic and materialistic society. We go to school to get a “good” job, so we can have a big house and lots of shiny things we don’t need. We work our whole lives for a pile of stuff and at the end of the day, none of it really matters. We forget how to actually enjoy life cause we are so busy chasing crap. We are told this is the American Dream.
Thanks for sharing the message. Keep up the good work.
I studied architecture in a well known school. The experience changed my life for the better. Did it make me into an entrepreneur? It’s difficult to say, but my feeling is that I had it in me anyways. Proof: I have a second profession. I divide my day between design and music. Apart from some private lessons and a couple of night classes, all that I’ve learned about music has been self taught. At certain periods in my life, music has paid me even more than my college degree has.
If you have the caliber, you’ll make it anyways. And “making-it” has little to do with how many figures you write into your tax forms, IMO. We have a saying down here that says: happiness, is not who has more, but who needs less.
Thanks Jack, for the inspiration.