This is an answer to a question on another forum but gets close enough without a re-write in my estimation.
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Actually I've been thinking the stealth socialism has been going on for decades and sucking our ecconomy dry.
Every time our country spends money it doesn't have for things it devalues the money people hold at the time. No matter where your Aunt Martha hides the cookie jar with her money in it, the government can get right into it and suck all of the life out of it.
This first chart shows how in the past during times of war we printed up money and injected it into the real money supply. You can see the little bump rise showing the loss of purchasing power of the currency.
The slow rise of inflation has tricked me my whole life basically. Every raise I got I thought I was getting ahead. I was sadly mistaken. I was getting ahead less than I was falling behind.
Even playing the stock market was fun and I thought I was getting ahead. Big mistake there also. Sure things went up but things went up in lock step with the devaluation of the currency. When the money became worth half as much it took twice as much to by the same stock. Once again I was sadly mistaken. Not only did I need to pay the stock broker a percentage when I bought the stock but also when I sold it. On top of it was something called capital gains which was owed even though I never made a real gain I just exchanged the stock for more, less valuable, dollars.
I never really caught on until I was noticing the government seemed to always have all the money it wanted to get its way on things like illegal immigration.
No matter how much honest money people raise to build their country the way they want there are a few that can fire up the fake money presses and print up what ever they want to get their way.
We are going to have to regain control of our currency before we can regain control country.
P.S. It sort of seems to me that without any auditing we leave the door wide open for entities like central banks to buy politicians that spend like we see some of ours spend. After all they are in the business of charging us interest on loaning us our own fake money.