Fed Govt. Like Muggers Who Say…Give Me Your Money Or Your Life

“Give me your money or your life.”  This is a sometimes commonly spoken threat when muggers and thieves are holding a gun to a person’s head while in the act of robbing them.

Sadly, the U.S. Federal Government has quietly and effectively been doing the same thing to its unsuspecting citizens for years with its bogus fiat currency scam.  Below are my musings on the role that sound money and free markets serve in a truly free society.

——————————————————————————————————————————————————-My “Money IS My Life” Copyright 2011 Robert E. Lehman

My life is marked by the time that passes while I live. I age as I travel through time. When I die, I am out of time. My life is my time and my time is my life. They are one and the same. I choose to spend my time doing things that add value to my life experience and support my being.  Things that I find worthy or important or useful to me are things I value. My time is valuable to me; therefore my life is valuable – at least to me. My time is mine and only mine. Nobody else can lay claim to my time without my willing consent.

Years ago, I chose to spend a great amount of my time earning my college education – both studying and working a job to earn the money to pay for it. I chose my profession to get the type of job that allows me to trade my time working at doing things I really enjoy while making the most money I possibly can. I provide very important and desired services that are valuable to others in exchange for their money. My time is mine. I choose to spend it doing things that add value to my life experience and support my being.

Trading the productive results of my time with other people who willingly want to pay me an agreed upon price for those results is good for me. Their willingness to pay me what I want for the products of my time is an indication that they value what I produce with my time. Therefore they value me.

When others do not want to trade with me, either my price is too high or my product is not in demand. I willingly adjust my asking price to make it competitive to trade the products of my time, yet I do so at top dollar when I know I my product is in demand, as I value money and I value myself.

Money is supposed to be a tool that holds value. Money permits people the opportunity to willingly trade the products of their individual time with each other. Money is the tool that equalizes the exchange of different products of people’s time (goods or services) for those who are seeking to do so. Money is traded for things of value. Those products that are valued can be rated at a price. The value of money can fluctuate; ideally it would be stable.  Money can be exchanged with other money from other economies.  Some monies have better purchasing power than others based on the health of the economies from which they are used.

Money’s value (purchase power) is largely set in relation to the amount of it that is available for use. The more money in circulation for use, the less valuable it is and the more of it is needed to buy things with it. Money is not to be created or obtained easily, as it must have value. Things of value must not be easy to come by.   They should be precious and desired – not infinite but limited in supply.  Money is a representation of the life I live. My life is not infinite.  My time is limited.  I am not easy to come by, so my money should not be easy either. There is only one me.  I have only this one life. My money should be like me and me like it.  My life is tied to my time.  I earn money with my time.  Time is money and therefore my money is my life. I would die to protect my money because my money is a representation of my life.

Money is to be earned. It is strengthened when respected and protected from frivolous policy.  Money is to be respected and protected from devaluation. That is why over the centuries of its use, it has been directly tied to a precious metal such as gold. Gold, which is in limited supply, secures the value of money.  Gold used to be immediately redeemable for money.  Unfortunately, that is no longer the case with money.  Now money is not backed by gold, but instead the good faith credit of the American people.  Therefore it is debt based.  Debt is bad.  Debt is negative.  Debt is not like me.  I , being of limited supply as a result of my having limited time, need my money to be secure since my money is earned in exchange for the products I created with time.  Why would I trade my time for worthless money?  Why would I want to save money that won’t be worth anything when it comes time for me to use it?

Money as a tool must hold its own value in order for me to derive any benefit from it. If I trade my time for worthless money, I am giving my time away for nothing. Since I value my time because my time is my life, I do myself harm when I allow the products of my time to be given away for worthless money. For money to have purpose, it must serve me by holding its own value. I will not accept worthless money in exchange for the products of my time. My time is too valuable, as my time is my life and I value my life.

Time is money. I spend my time creating products or services that others may wish to buy. If time is money, then money is important to my life, since my life is limited to the time I am alive. Money is good because I am good. Money represents the best I have to offer this world as I can get it in exchange for the products brought forth to the world from me and my time.  I am not ashamed of wanting money and expecting it to serve my purpose for as long as I want, as it is a reflection of what worth I offer.

When I am forced to provide to others the products of my time at prices that are below what is fair market value, especially when those products of my time are in tremendously great demand by others, I become a slave to those who force me to accept a lower payment in money than what I know my time is worth to me. Again, my time is my life. It is harmful to myself to be forced to spend my time doing things that do not benefit me. Trading the products of my time for less than top dollar (against my willingness to do so) harms me.

When others are forced to accept the products of my time or else face fines, and I am forced to accept a payment for forcing the products of my time upon them at a price that is well below what I consider equal to the value of my time, that is coercion.  This makes me a slave and them a ward or subject to those who force us to make this unwanted trade or exchange.  Me forced to provide and them forced to receive the products of my time are clear indications that neither of us are valued by the enforcer who compels us. Such coercion is a direct threat to my life and theirs. We are devalued by those who force us to engage in such activity that violates our time and money.

When I am made to be a slave that forcefully provides the products of my time to unwilling buyers at prices that are much less than I desire, accepting money that is soon to be of no value to me because it is printed out of thin air with nothing to secure its value, I live in a totalitarian, dictatorship type of state.

I will not be a slave that is forced to push the valuable products of my time and life onto unwilling buyers for money that is not worth the paper that it is printed on. My life is mine. My time is mine and only mine. Nobody else can lay claim to my time without my willing consent.   Imagine what it must be like to be a physician living in the United States in 2010.  I do not consent to universal healthcare in the United States on my time.