Thank you Bud Hancock for yet another insightful article about the state of the whole Western World, not just America – Australia’s most powerful ally. Shame on PM Albanese and his deputy Penny Wong. for jeopardising this critical relationship, may God save my zoo and your country.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

Can America Be Made Great Again?

By Bud Hancock

Any discussion of MAGA, especially by those who insist that it is indeed possible to make our nation “great again” must assume that the United States was great at one time. I have no firsthand knowledge of what early America was like but from my time growing up in the post WW2 period up to, say the early 70s, my opinion is that this nation was the greatest by far. But, I have seen that greatness fade into something more akin to a mediocre failing nation. The biggest question then is: Can America be made great again?

While POTUS Donald Trump campaigned on Making America Great Again, the promises he made, if actually implemented as policy by the Federal Government, will only do so much to achieve the goal of MAGA. The implementation of those campaign promises rely heavily on the majority Party in Congress, currently the Republican Party. So, with the complete backing of a majority of his GOP compadres in Congress, Trump’s plans are a shoo-in for approval by Congress and eventual implementation, right? I mean, who in the GOP would NOT want to see out formerly great nation return to its previous status as the envy of the entire world? The plain simple truth is that the “so-called” conservatives in the US Congress are not getting behind the Trump MAGA train and agenda. Is there ONE specific reason why this is the case?

Well, the short answer is “YES”, and it all boils down to money. Remember that MAGA stands for “Make America Great Again”, which implies that America was at one time “Great”. With monetary policy used as a gauge of greatness, and a look at the financial situation we now see here in the US, with $37 trillion in debt, that may have been true in the distant past, but it has not been true for many decades, possibly a century. If you can accept that statement as truth, then you must ask “Why is it true?”

I offer a short version as to why it is true, as well as an explanation of why the RINO dominated US Congress is against the MAGA phenomenon started by Trump. (Hint, follow the money; it is ALWAYS ALL about the money).

First, I say that America has not truly been great for many decades, perhaps more than a century, because, in 1913, under the administration of Woodrow Wilson, (May he rot in his own special compartment of hell) introduced the epitome of banking corruption when he allowed the Federal Reserve System to come into existence and become entrenched in everything American, totally corrupting the plans of the nation’s founders, most of whom actually detested the idea of having any central bank in the US.
Consider that banks, ALL banks, exist for one main reason: NOT to “make money” but to CONTROL money; and it is important to remember that they desire not to control their own money (Every dollar under their control belonged at one time to someone else). In essence, they desire to MAKE (through devious banking actions, not through earing it) the money over which they gain control, their own. I’m talking about the money legally belonging to everyone foolish enough to deposit THEIR money into any bank. In this nation, there are many banks, most of which are “publicly-owned” (wink wink).
To begin with, the Federal Reserve Bank is NOT “federal”, but exists as a privately-owned banking cartel, an NGO, a non-government entity.

Secondly, it has no reserves since it has no value in and of itself. When it was granted the authority to print its own currency, known as “Federal Reserve Notes”, it assumed (actually was given) the authority of the United States Treasury which was to be the ONLY authority with the right to print U.S. currency. Any financial value it has as a result of those illegal, immoral and unethical actions has been stolen from the earnings of every taxpaying American citizen for the past 112 years.

The currency/money I grew up with consisted of REAL silver coins in denominations of the dime (one tenth dollar), quarter dollar, half dollar and the dollar. Higher denominations were issued as TRUE dollar bills in varying denominations which were backed by silver and gold (the only REAL money on this planet). The currency being peddled today as US currency is actually a series of “Federal Reserve Notes” which are backed by….nothing, other than the massive debt incurred since the Fed was instituted in 1913. How can a currency be backed by debt? In order to finance the massive cost of our federal government, the Fed regularly buys the treasury bills issued by the US Treasury, using their printed currency, thus the wealth of our nation becomes the property of the Banking Cartel, and holding the debt incurred that results from all those Treasury Bill purchases grants to the Fed the TRUE power over all the citizens of this nation. So now, instead of having a US Department of the Treasury be responsible for the printing, issuance and control of our money, we have become beholden to a non-United States-owned banking cartel that holds no allegiance to our government, our Constitution, our flag or our citizens.

Thirdly, and most importantly, this “bank”, as well as almost every other corporation calling itself a “bank”, cares not a whit about America, its people, or allowing either the nation, or its citizens, to be, or become, great again That is not in their best interests, never has been, never will be. Banks in general “make money” by lending money (other people’s) to borrowers who then repay their loans with interest, and of course, the interest rates are set by, you guessed it, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The interest collected by the banks enriches the banks and their owners or stockholders, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars each year. But what then becomes of all that “unearned” wealth that the banks collect? Of course, they spend almost all of it on charitable giving……NOT!

I dare say that if all of the money collected by banks could be traced with accuracy, it would be found that an unimaginable amount of it ends up in the hands of greedy political whores who gladly sell their votes for any amount offered to them by the banking cartels. But of course, the politicians then use that money to serve their constituents by sending their “unearned wealth” to local interests in their areas of representation………NOT!. If anyone desires to actually research the net worth of Congressional representatives, starting the day they are sworn into office and then every year thereafter, the growth in their total net worth’s would be found to be staggering, and it does NOT come from their meager $174,000 yearly salaries. Most of them live the high life while average Americans either barely scrape by, or live in abject poverty.

Again, if this information makes sense to you, then the question must be asked: What must transpire to actually Make America Great Again? The only possible answer to this question is for America to return to the status, financially, that it had before POTUS Wilson sold out to the money powers of the World. Wilson was a very weak man, giving in to the pressure of the globalists of his time and allowing a non-US Government central bank to be established in this nation.

However, we now have a new POTUS named Donald J. Trump, a man who campaigned on the rejuvenated promise from his first term to “Make America Great Again”. Being an independently wealthy man, Trump certainly has no need for additional wealth, so to some extent, he is not likely to be bought off by the offer of more money from the globalists, as was Woodrow Wilson, who was “moved” by money interests to establish a massive NON-federal bank*, one that is and always has been, privately-owned, and then have the unmitigated gall to call it “The Federal Reserve Bank”. This evil move was done at a time when the US Congress was adjourned for the Christmas holiday, literally in secret with no communication to the American people about what was happening behind the closed doors on Jekyll Island, Georgia, and what would be the effect on the freedom and financial wellbeing of them and their posterity.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/23/256326325/a-locked-door-a-secret-meeting-and-the-birth-of-the-fed
The total secrecy of what occurred when six men met to, supposedly create a plan that would eliminate the financial instability that led to the Panic of 1907**, a panic that created a run on banks, brought about by the (well-founded) distrust of banks in general by a large number of Americans.

*To understand what caused the Panic of 1907, which then led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System, use this link:

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-panic-of-1907-how-jp-morgan-took-over-wall-street

The greed of a group of wealthy men, who wanted so much more than they already possessed, was the basic cause of the Panic of 1907. That event, which actually lasted until 1910 when the secret meeting on Jekyll Island culminated in the 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve System was possibly caused deliberately by that same group of wealthy, greedy bankers and corporate giants of the time. They created a system that would eventually consist of twelve individual “central banks”, collectively owned by the big private banks around the world. The original plan that was to have eliminated the fear of one central bank becoming too large and strong, became the nightmare of the ONE system that controls nearly every aspect of financial life here in the United States, and to some extent, the entire world, since the real owners of the Fed are the most powerful “banking families” throughout the world. Originally opposed by Congress, the bill that was to create the first “Central Bank of the United States” was sent to POTUS Wilson on December 23, 1913, and was signed into law by him. While it was said at the time that the newly created Federal Reserve System (the FED) would improve the financial stability of the nation’s banks, it actually, in some ways, made what became known as the Great Depression of 1929, much worse, and only in 1930 did the truth about the secret Jekyll Island meetings that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System become public knowledge. I remember, as a child in the US south, where ANY money was hard to come by, people talking about the Almighty Dollar, as though it was something akin to God Himself. To be certain, the US dollar had been a powerhouse among all the currencies in the entire world at the time when greedy bankers were working in secret to bring a very powerful, privately-owned central bank into existence. The dollar had for a long time been the most desired currency to hold by most of the people and nations of the world. But 2023 statistics have shown that the value of the dollar has lost 96.8% of the value it had when the Fed was created; that calculates to nearly 1% (actually 0.88%) value loss per year. But that is actually a moot point since 1971 when POTUS Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of dollars into gold. But Nixon’s action was only a follow-up to the action by Lyndon B Johnson, who in 1968, signed into law a bill** removing the reserve backing by gold; that action allowed the Federal Reserve Banks to forego the previous requirement that they hold a gold certificate reserve of not less than 25% against their Federal Reserve note liability. The reserve requirement meant that banks in the Federal Reserve System had to show they held enough gold to back up the total amount of Federal Reserve notes in the system. How convenient that one of the most corrupt politicians in US political history was actually the force behind the removal of all gold backing from our currency (sorry, I meant to say the Fed’s currency).

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/who-really-killed-the-gold-standard-12435

Notice that we are not now talking about our historical currency known as “dollars”, which were printed by the US Treasury and were owned by the government of the United States of America, meaning WE THE PEOPLE. The currency we are now using BELONGS to (IS OWNED BY) the Banking Cartel known as the Federal Reserve System, hence the words “Federal Reserve Note” printed on each bill. Our earlier REAL currency had the words “United States Note” or possibly “Silver Certificate” printed on them, as well as the words “In Silver Payable to the Bearer On Demand”. When I was a young man, and I had a One Dollar United States Note, I could walk into any bank, present my paper note and receive a REAL silver dollar consisting of a specific amount of real silver. When the real money backing of the US currency was removed, those days ended forever. The American people are now forced to “borrow” notes printed by a private banking cartel, the same cartel that determines the value of said notes and the amount of interest they charge on all loans made by them to the borrowers.

Millions of Americans since then have lost fortunes that would have made their lives much easier and more prosperous, but the bankers grew more and more wealthy because of the power given to the Federal Reserve Bank by the U.S. Congress and Woodrow Wilson.

Can this nation ever become great again while the Federal Reserve System controls the currency of the United States? I think not. Until the monstrous Privately-Owned Banking Cartel known as the Federal Reserve System is totally dismantled, we will not see a return to a state of greatness in the United States, no matter what POTUS Trump, or his successor, regardless of political party, may do. When an inherently evil conglomerate owns what the American people “think” is their money, and which conglomerate then controls the value of that money, printing their own “Federal Reserve Notes” and lending them to the United States Treasury, and then setting interest rates that determine who can afford to borrow the Fed’s “money”, there can be absolutely NO hope of ever seeing a “Great America” again. It not only WILL NOT happen, it CANNOT happen.

Consider the way that God views banks. Read Matthew 21:11-13, “And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves”. At that time, the Jewish Temple was called the House of God; now however, the Word of God plainly says that the bodies of believers is the real “House of God”. If Jesus considered that the evil action of allowing money changing in the Temple corrupted the Temple, what would He think when He beholds the evil actions of those who have totally corrupted the Body of Christ by allowing money to become more important than their witness to a lost world, and refusing to confront evil whenever it appears? Human greed, that insane lust for more and more, regardless of the damages done because of it, has now corrupted the very nation we want to see become great again, and even Christians cannot claim to be innocent of allowing money to own them. Entire ministries, at one time dedicated to preaching the gospel to the lost, are now more concerned with their “revenues” needed to keep their monstrous organizations going.

I stated that the United States will NOT become great again without some major changes that address the monetary policies of this nation. Why do I say that? Ultimately, God is in charge of the Earth, he owns it in all its fullness. He allotted to mankind the authority over the resources of the earth in order to subdue it and to multiply/expand the human race. But God also has a strict policy of honesty in all the dealings of man. When a group of people, using totally dishonest means to obtain wealth, abuse a huge portion of the other people on this planet, God WILL intervene eventually to demand an accounting of their actions. If this nation survives until then, or even afterward, then and ONLY then, will America Become Great Again.

Maranatha and Blessings!

Bud Hancock

A note just in from Bud:

I have understood the reason for most of this terror seen in the UK, France, Germany and most other European nations, and beginning here in the US, for what it is: A direct result of God exercising His righteousness and His sovereign will related to Genesis 12:3, wherein those who disrespect, dishonor and curse Israel will themselves be disrespected, dishonored and cursed, usually in the same way they curse the Jews. The actions of so-called democratic western nations, allowing the overrun of Jewish land by the murderous Palestinians surrounding them, that cause a wave of terror, murder and rape of Jewish women, are then sent back on those nations. I know it is horrible to witness and read about, but, viewed in the eyes of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, it is just recompense for the evil that they caused to come to the Jewish people.

BUD’S BIOGRAPHY

Born and raised in a small textile town in North Carolina, Bud’s family moved to Michigan in the hope of finding better employment with General Motors.  After graduating from high school, Bud began an apprenticeship with General Motors to become a Metal Modelmaker.  Retiring after a 30 year career, which included an eight year stint as a Metrologist (Science of high precision measurement), he and his wife moved back to North Carolina to be near his elderly parents.  Shortly thereafter, with both of his parents having passed, he began a new career in the bank security/ATM business, advancing from an entry level technician to one of two North Carolina customer service managers for his employer.  Retiring again after 13 years, he and his wife of 51 years relocated to Tennessee where Bud began writing articles emphasizing Biblical teaching and geopolitical issues.  At age 75, he and his wife relocated to South Carolina with their Miniature Schnauzer, Baxter.  Bud continues to study God’s word and write articles on Christian living and geopolitical issues from the Biblical end times  perspective.