Money, Inflation, and how to FIX IT ALL!

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate
thefreedomfarm@gmail.com 

May 1, 2024

Let’s talk MONEY

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

It should now apparent to all, that the unconstitutional, wholly corrupt, inherently divisive “Two Party System” puppet show we’d been warned against since our nation’s founding, is driving us to destruction.  My book, “Relighting the Torch,” goes into much more detail of the constitutional and pragmatic aspects of money, banking and inflation.  But the simplified gist is that the more dollars our central bank prints in relation to market activity, the less each one is worth; which is why prices in those devaluating dollars go up.  In the words of Milton Friedman, it’s “too many dollars chasing too few goods.”  Our nation’s founders had experienced disaster with the hidden taxation, market distortion and inflation with fiat currency, and crafted solutions in both state and federal constitutions.  We only need to learn, and use them.

Bankers don’t have to be, “a den of vipers and thieves,” as described by Andrew Jackson.  Sound money, as both state and federal constitutions still demand, would make over-issuance of monetary debt instruments to cover government overspending, and the market distortion, and persistent inflation that invariably results, practically impossible.  Our current, unconstitutional fiat currency, central bank, and so-called “Modern Monetary Theory,” or MMT, on the other hand, helps the rich get richer at the expense of everybody else.  So today, if you’re not in the “investment class,” you’re paying for it.

MMT, with it’s inevitable “Cantillon Effect,” was doomed to failure from our government’s implementation of it in 1913, because it’s based on a few catastrophically and invariably debunked notions:

1. Fiat currency – or the creation of unbacked literal monopoly money out of nothing.  This becomes a “hidden tax,” debt engine, and means of transferring wealth from the bottom-up.
2. Zero reserve banking – or lending money, even fiat currency, that the bank doesn’t own, or have even a fraction of other people’s money, on hand.  Fractional reserve banking isn’t all bad, but The Fed eliminated the requirement to hold even a fraction of deposits on reserve, during the COVID madness.  This practically ensures bank runs and closures, fairly soon.
3. Forever debt – the idea that a government can keep spending fake money that doesn’t exist, and  doesn’t belong to it anyway, which both increases debt costs, requires the Fed to fabricate more devaluating dollars, which erodes the trust of the whole system until it inevitably collapses.

As economist Herbert Stein said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”  So before our monetary monster dies and collapses down upon us (let’s do hurry), I propose all states invoke, Article I, Section 10, of the federal constitution, which forbids states from making “… any thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts,” including, quite literally, our unconstitutional and inflationary Federal Reserve US dollars.  Indiana’s constitution Article 10 Section 3 already demands that “…all paper credit designed to be circulated as money… be readily convertible into specie, for the redemption of the same in gold or silver.” 

The Indiana Constitution’s Article 11, Section 7 says, “All bills or notes issued as money shall be, at all times, redeemable in gold or silver; and no law shall be passed, sanctioning, directly or indirectly, the suspension, by any bank or banking company of specie payments.” 

In other words, a return to a monetary system that’s been proven to be stable, functional, and a means for the poor to get richer, for over three thousand years… is already, and still, the law. 

Several states, and indeed many nations, are already making moves to return to sanity.  Texas is on the cusp of a state-issued gold-backed digital currency.  The state will hold gold on behalf of the digital currency holders, with trade being 1:1, without fractional reserve fudging.  Utah already passed a bill to accept federally issued gold and silver coins as legal tender to pay taxes.  There are commercial apps like Glint Pay, that are backed by physical gold holdings, yet allow simple digital transactions that are at least as easy as a credit card.  And past court cases held that increases in the value of monetary gold against the Fed’s fiat USD would not be taxable.  In other words, this is very doable, right now, and would give us a stable means for business, savings growth and daily life, even when today’s banking systems fail (and they will).

At the federal level I’d reintroduce Ron Paul’s “Free Competition in Currency Act” to repeal the Coinage Act of 1965, which unconstitutionally decrees that, “Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banks, are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.”  And I also propose we, of course, End the Fed.

But let’s be very clear:  None of this will happen as long as voters keep reelecting the status quo cronies who benefit from the transfer of wealth from you, to them.  We have to vote out these liars, thieves, puppets and bums.  All of them; both the ones we see on the ballot, and those that lurk behind the curtains, and closed doors.  That is what Election Day is for, you know.  It’s our power of peaceful revolution.  And God Knows we need such an epiphany in action right now.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

No “lesser evil” in the Duopoly

For Immediate Release

Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate

April 25, 2024

It’s no secret why politicians “change”

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

Despite their campaign rhetoric, every one of Indiana’s federal politicians has voted for more cronyism, spying, lying, silencing, spending, foreign entanglements, subterfuge and debt…quite the opposite of what most voters want.  Every one of these incumbents, and both crony parties, have robbed you of money, rights, autonomy and opportunity.  No exceptions.  Not one from Indiana, anyway.

So today, a common question on alternative media interviews is, “why do you think politician X spoke common sense before the election, but has now become yet another cog in the status quo corruption machine?”  I’m astonished how few ever answer correctly, when the answer has been known for generations.  It’s corruption – by either The Carrot, or The Stick.

Harry S Truman famously wrote that, “We want no Gestapo or secret police.  FBI is tending in that direction.  They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail… Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.” 

In other words, “knowledge” (particularly of the leverageable, dark sort) is power.  That’s The Stick.  Intimidation, personal attacks and smear campaigns, faked “evidence,” lawfare…and assassinations are quite the inducement to toe the line.

But even before the existence of the “military-industrial complex” and “scientific-technological elite” that Eisenhower, and even our founders, warned against, behind-the-scenes tyrants like John D Rockefeller and other Malthusian eugenicists bent on global domination, used their money to take over entertainment, healthcare and of course, education.  They created tax-exempt NGOs and INGOs to build the stage and attach strings to our present political puppet show.  Campaigns are expensive – too expensive (that’s an issue I’ll discuss later).  And that makes candidates open to The Carrot; i.e., campaign donations, insider trading, and other corruptions of money and other bribes.  Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum succeeded where the Fabians, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations did not, by assembling a corporatocracy of wealthy corporations and the ultrarich, by what he calls “Stakeholder Capitalism;” i.e., globalist corporatist mercantilism; i.e., fascism or National Socialism, as only dreamed by Mussolini and Hitler.  Their money base includes all traditional media and entertainment groups like Disney, financial powers like Blackrock, of course the whole of our military-industrial and scientific-technological elite including the CIA, FBI, Raytheon, Boeing, Google, Facebook…  The money and power is both immense, and mighty.  So, our visible, elected government, has become a protection racket for a shadow government of ruling class elites.

Fortunately, those of us who’ve been decrying this for decades are no longer a tiny number of fringe voices.  New media, and new documentation such as Whitney Webb’s exhaustively researched, two-volume, “One Nation Under Blackmail,” have detailed the connections from our government’s first employments of The Mob, to the CIA’s purchase of Civil Air Transport, and what really was the story with Jeffrey Epstein’s clients.

The simple fact, and the correct answer to the aforementioned interview question is that…while We The People slept, our politicians sold out, and we kept reelecting them anyway.  We The People have not been the ones supplying either carrots or sticks.  The unconstitutional, inherently divisive and self-appointed Two Party System has over time become only a red-herring smokescreen puppet show diversion from the real powers behind the curtain.  Enough of us now know it that we should stop reelecting this whole system of corruption.  And we can.

We still have the power to tear away the curtain and see the truth.  We still have the power to fire not only the puppeteers, but the entire consortium of kingmakers, bundlers, partisan staffers, corporate cronies, three-letter agents and globalist NGOs.  That is, in fact, the whole point of elections.  Our votes are our weapons of peaceful revolution, and it’s time we use them.  And that’s not all the power we’ve got.  Let’s talk.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”

The Taking of TikTok

For Immediate Release
(Sorry…I’m posting this late)
Contact: Andrew Horning
Horning for US Senate
March 14, 2024

The GOP is more than half the problem

Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.

EVERY ONE of Indiana’s US House Reps. voted for the massive censorship, power grab, TikTok bill.  It has nothing to do with China’s CCP.  It had much more to do with the three popular topics on TikTok that our “Blob” shadow government has made taboo:

1. The 2020 Election.
2. Anything related to Fauci’s bioweapon and corporate corruption.
3. Israel/Gaza.

Our own government spies on everybody, all the time, at our expense.  Our own politicians and their cronies line their pockets, lie, and kill worldwide at our expense.  Our own government funds, trains and arms both sides of every conflict on the planet…at our expense.  Our own government is bringing foreign agents and criminals across our own border…and encouraging them to vote in our elections…at our expense.

The so-called “Public-Private Partnerships” that comprise much of today’s “shadow government” (rich corporations like Blackrock, Tech firm CIA cutouts like Google and Facebook, and media censor conglomerates like the Trusted News Initiative) have been promoted by not only Republicans, but also by Klaus Scwhab’s WEF, the UN’s Agenda 2030, and Benito Mussolini.  The GOP has controlled our USA government many times over the decades, but the last time there was an actual reduction in federal spending was during the 1975–76 recession.  Any dispassionate analysis shows that Republicans are no better than Democrats with debt, inflation, spies, lies, the military industrial complex, and the massive corruption that’s been building for over a century that we call the “Deep State,” “The Blob,” or “The Swamp.”  In claiming to be better than Democrats, they only our waste time, money, and good people.  And they create only false hope. 

Several GOP congressmen are almost certainly quitting…possibly before the election.  Guess who’d then be in charge of congress during the election?  Guess what’ll happen next, when our POTUS has all this power?

And this TikTok ban got lighting-fast agreement and approval as Social Security goes broke and our society divides against itself? 

One of our US House Reps voting yes to this, who used to be fairly libertarian before he went native, is the GOP’s anointed for Indiana’s 2024 US Senate race.  Yet, as with every election in my lifetime, I’ve heard too many people say, “yes, Andy, you’re right.  But THIS election is too important,” to stop our tribal, Election Day ritual suicide.  “We have to keep voting the way we’ve been voting if we want anything to get better,” they seem to say.

But there are finally good signs.  A recent Gallup poll shows that, “Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults currently agree with the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties do ‘such a poor job’ of representing the American people that ‘a third major party is needed.’”  More people than ever have started listening to Libertarians.  Many have told me they’ve had enough of the obviously sold-out, unconstitutional and inherently divisive Two Party System. 

So now, we just need to vote the way we talk.  Let’s finally use our weapons of peaceful revolution (our votes) to finally put right what has gone very, very wrong for far too long.

Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning

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“‘Relighting the Torch‘ presents a historical and moral picture of our founders’ better ideas, where we failed those ideas, and some proposals for setting things right…for the first time..”