"As things build, they build slowly. When they fall apart, they do it all at once.”
That’s something I said a long time ago, and look how relevant it still is. EVEN AFTER Trump won definitely the most important election of our time. That must be a big deal, right?
A President can restore many things. Is it possible to Make the Dollar Great Again?
Let me just say for the record, I voted for Trump with no hesitation. Do I like most of us, shudder at the times he shoots off and says nonsensical things? Of course. But, I at 54 have become aware enough to know if you take the thorns off the rose somehow the rose would change and it wouldn’t be a rose.
I have pointed out this election for president is not a popularity contest and it’s not a place to test our social vindication for small groups of people to whack the country with unfounded structures we would all have to abide by if they fail. The White House is for candidates who have built or inspired large or at least important teams, or businesses.
It’s for executives, not lawyers like Clinton or Obama or Kamala. We must, must have a country that operates efficiently and productively for there to be any new runs at alerting societal norms. That requires prior experience by a leader in charge of an organization where success couldn’t be theoretical. It is essentially about known vetted experience in choice-making.
Producing Trump as the choice, is monumental for restoration, I’m sick of the constant use of the word change, its restoration that’s needed. So, when I say this election will not matter as much as we will hope for at the end of Trumps term, this is what I mean; there’s a force at work that cannot be stopped and its ultimately the most destructive force in our world.
Now, if there’s one thing I believe, it’s this: the beginning – the source of anything tells you a lot. Every complicated thing in life starts out simple—because it comes from the earth. Like dirt. Yep, good old dirt. There’s your basic building block. Food, water, shelter, all of it. But fast-forward to today, and we’re swimming in technology, surrounded by glowing screens, each one eating up data on us like we’re an all-you-can-eat buffet for the algorithm gods. It’s hard to remember that behind all this digital overload, we’re still just people, in need of the basics.
Life’s basics have kinda become gardens in the sky, unrooted to the soil that actually is the only source for life and its systems of living, as you and I know it to be true.
So, let’s try a thought experiment: what if, tomorrow, the internet just stopped working?
Imagine—no GPS, no social media, no one watching every move we make, and all that personal data we’ve been giving up like free samples at Costco suddenly becomes useless to marketers, corporations, governments—whoever’s hoarding it. Without technology guiding and nudging every choice, we might remember there are actually two worlds: the digital and the analog.
By “analog,” I mean the real world. You know, where if you’re hungry, you actually eat food—not just scroll through photos of it. Sure, you can microwave dinner, but somewhere, the food had to be cultivated, raised, or grown. And, believe it or not, that process doesn’t start in the digital realm; it starts in dirt. When you think about it, satisfying daily recurring hunger is probably our top priority in life. Even the most important parts of life, like family, can’t thrive without food. And food? It spoils. It needs real work and cooperation to sustain daily production of it.
Now, cast your mind back to a simpler time when your grandparents—or maybe your parents—relied on ice boxes. Not fancy fridges, but literal ice blocks stored in sawdust to keep food cool. This was before electricity did all the work; people depended on rivers freezing over and delivery guys lugging ice chunks. Back then, your community wasn’t just a “Facebook Friends List”; it was a necessity. People lived close to shared resources, and breathed the same air—not just swapped emojis through a screen.
It’s not that I’m against the internet; I mean, who doesn’t love streaming a good show? But we’re so immersed in it that we’re practically documented by it. We live in it and are defined by it, which raises a good question: is this how we actually want to live?
Technology, by its very nature, is artificial. Watching a great movie or a gripping TV show, it’s thrilling—but let’s be honest, it’s not real life. At this point, even live sports might be the only true reality TV left.
Only by technology, can the government create this debt fueled falsehood of financial power. So it's fake. Let - that - sink in. Deeply.
Think about the major things shaping our world today. How much is driven by our smartphones? How much comfort does tech give us, and what’s the cost? On the horizon, we see the looming presence of AI, government-issued digital currency, and global surveillance systems tracking every human transaction. You start to get a sense of creeping claustrophobia, a tightening leash on our freedom. The solution might be as drastic as ditching the smartphone and moving somewhere far from cell towers, focusing on what’s real—people, nature, a sense of purpose that isn’t tied to Wi-Fi.
Now, let’s talk about the dollar—the big dog of the global financial system. The U.S. dollar has been the reserve currency since World War II, the go-to for central banks. Countries keep dollar reserves for a “rainy day,” and as of now, it accounts for 60% of global reserves. Key commodities like oil, gold, and even around 80% of international contracts are priced in dollars. This dominance means there’s a perpetual demand for U.S. government bonds, which lets the U.S. borrow cheaply. This setup has kept the U.S. economy on top, at least financially.
But here’s the twist: some developing economies, particularly the BRICS nations, are saying, “Maybe we’re a little too dependent on this dollar business.” They’re starting to diversify, reducing their reliance on the dollar—and here’s where gold comes in.
As confidence in the dollar wavers, people are flocking to gold, the original “safe haven.” This year alone, gold’s price jumped over 30%. And why not? Gold’s track record as a store of value goes back thousands of years. But here’s the irony for the BRICS nations: if they need to cash in that gold, odds are, they’ll have to trade it for… dollars. So much for ditching the greenback.
Now, Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC, gave us a pretty blunt take on the dollar’s situation in a brilliant piece of writing she recently posted in Barron’s.
She called the dollar “the best-looking horse in the glue factory,” which says it all. The U.S. might still be the prettiest pony, but it’s in a lineup with some rough ugly competition. Foreign ownership of U.S. Treasuries fell from 34% in 2012 to 28% today. The dollar’s share of global reserves has slipped from over 70% in 2000 to 58% now. There’s a shift happening, and it’s no longer subtle.
Stopping this process will not be fixed by the recent election. It is beyond human influence, certainly one person. The BRICS group would have to stop their march toward dispelling the dollar of its place, that’s one but ever most importantly – absolutely stop printing money which means not one more dollar in debt creation by the government which would literally end financial dealings in our economy from venture capital to paychecks. Can’t hear that? If the U.S. does $25trillion in sales with the government spending $7 trillion.
Removing 35% of the money swirling in our economy would be like air having 35% less oxygen content. There is one helluva struggle with diminished air, its why you would mentally fade above 10,000 feet and those who are climbing Everest are literally dying as the make the ascent. Not exaggerating. Oxygen at Everest peak is one-fifth what it is at base camp. Our economy without the Federal spending would be like living at 16,500-foot elevation. Got it?
Bair warns that if we keep running up the national debt, foreign investors could lose confidence in our bonds. It could be a slow burn, or it could collapse suddenly, but the consequences won’t be pretty. Interest payments are already sky-high at $892 billion for 2024. If investors demand higher returns, U.S. borrowing costs will jump, forcing painful tax hikes or cuts to government spending. Private sector borrowing would get pricier too, hurting businesses and slowing growth. Every bank, fund, and insurance company sitting on Treasury bonds would see their value plummet, which could trigger a financial meltdown.
If you think the financial experts are optimistic, think again. A recent survey from the CFA Institute found that 77% of investment analysts believe U.S. finances are on an unsustainable path. Over 60% say the U.S. lacks the political will to fix it, and almost two-thirds think we’ll lose our reserve currency status within 15 years.
One potential solution? Instead of focusing solely on drastic spending cuts or tax hikes, we could prioritize economic growth along with the gut-wrenching cuts. Before any situation would exist on retarding the $35 trillion in debt, it would have to stop being added to.
And that, dear readers, a Trump victory will absolutely restore sound and proven infrastructure back in the life systems Americans require for pursuing happiness, but I write this so no one lays back and awaits the grand revival that includes fixing the massive black hole in our financial structure. WHY must the government spend!?
What is the source? That is how whether you are nine or ninety we can learn what the hell the problem sources from. Once we know that then we know the truth. The black hole is this, now truly visualize this. You own a farm, a 10,000,000-acre farm with 1 million workers from back in 1960. In 1997 three hundred thousand workers retired. They quit producing and you must build them cottages to live in on the farm and pay them a little something so they aren’t eating Alpo on the sidewalks. You now have a reality very different from how it all started.
When social security was invented, there were 44 workers for every retiree. Today there are three workers. Get it. The farm cannot function profitably anymore, so you borrow. You owed $4 trillion in the year 2000, today you owe $35 trillion. But dammit when you borrowed it was from our financial future, your debt isn’t debt. It is death.
You printed money, which kills the money already in existence. Regarding the potency of the dollar…it’d be like having a party, and the bottles of booze that still have some in it, you add water to and fill back up to full for – your next party. Eventually that’s not booze its dirty water. Our dollars’ worth three cents, when it used to be worth 100. This has been the policy of all our government of all our presidents and it will continue as it must or it all stops, the whole damn show in America living would stop. Mathematically speaking anyway.
Friggin math.. IT DOES – NOT – BEND… It breaks.
To fully restore America, one would have to restore its currency to wholeness. Can the dollar be made great again? If not, all the effort toward restoration of life systems happening within our dying dollar will not be the fundamental, at-the-soil-level change needed for real change to then spring forth.