{"id":58021,"date":"2025-01-15T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58021"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:04:21","slug":"how-to-bring-prosperity-back-to-average-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58021","title":{"rendered":"How To Bring Prosperity Back To Average Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American economy was designed to be based on free market capitalism. Somewhere along the way it began to look more like crony capitalism. That is what I think we have become. So how do we get back to the place where every man has an equal opportunity to become wealthy? Oddly enough, Elon Musk has a few ideas on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/setonmotley\/2025\/01\/14\/elon-musk-is-correct-end-the-fed-and-the-cfpb-n2650466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Townhall<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What people actually paying attention know? Is Big Business and Big Government work in tandem &#8211; to their ongoing mutual benefit. And the country\u2019s destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Big Business writes laws making Big Government bigger. \u00a0Which Big Government then passes. \u00a0Bigger Big Government then works to make Big Business even bigger. \u00a0Bigger Big Business then writes laws\u2026 Lather, rinse, repeat\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Nauseatingly over-remunerated Big Bank employees become Big Government bureaucrats. \u00a0Who then help the Big Banks get even bigger. \u00a0Then the Big Government bureaucrats are rewarded by becoming nauseatingly over-remunerated Big Bank employees. Who then become&#8230; \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/slowing-the-federal-revolving-door\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lather, rinse, repeat<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>To wit: I give you the United States\u2019 financial sector. \u00a0The Big Banks are titanic, dominant forces that control great and growing percentages of the market. \u00a0The Big Government agencies that allegedly exist to prevent Big Bank abuses? \u00a0The Federal Reserve and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) chief amongst them? \u00a0Are titanic, dominant forces that control great and growing percentages of the market.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Together? \u00a0They dominate and have destroyed their huge portion of the US economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article reminds us:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Dodd-Frank <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/hblr\/2011\/06\/why-the-federal-reserve-is-dodd-franks-big-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massively increased the power<\/a> of the unconstitutional, unaccountable Fed. \u00a0And created the unconstitutional, unaccountable CFPB. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lessgovernment.org\/p\/111-independent-agencies-deadlocked?utm_source=publication-search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cindependent\u201d<\/a> Fed and CFPB have now been so powerful and so unaccountable for so long? \u00a0Their bureaucrats respond with anger and revulsion to even the thought of anyone even prospectively reining them in. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Fed chairman Jerome Powell is a government villain too cartoonish even for <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/jay-powell-says-donald-trump-couldnt-fire-him-even-if-he-tried-203952244.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ayn Rand<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cJay Powell says Donald Trump couldn&#8217;t fire him even if he tried\u2026.\u2019Not permitted under the law,\u2019 the central bank chair said Thursday in curt but clear responses to reporters who asked about his views on any legal authorities Trump might have in terms of firing or demoting him or any other top Fed officials.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Which brings us back to the Trump Administration and its DOGE &#8211; The Department of Government Efficiency. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>One of the two co-czars of DOGE is Elon Musk. \u00a0Who has said some VERY promising things about both the CFPB and the Fed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankingdive.com\/news\/musk-end-cfpb-duplicative-trump-chopra\/734214\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Musk Calls for End to CFPB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/elon-musk-reposts-call-end-federal-reserve-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk Reposts Call to End the US Federal Reserve Bank<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Yes, please. \u00a0And yes, please. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The first two letter of DOGE are \u201cDO.\u201d \u00a0As in it let\u2019s DO it. \u00a0Times two.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Just a reminder:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NoIncomeTaxNoFederalReserve-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NoIncomeTaxNoFederalReserve-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NoIncomeTaxNoFederalReserve-1.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NoIncomeTaxNoFederalReserve-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/NoIncomeTaxNoFederalReserve-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American economy was designed to be based on free market capitalism. 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