Dr. Robert Owens Chronicles the History of the Future

Trump Triumph to Dream the Impossible Dream November 2, 2016

According to Albert Einstein, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

If We the People want to restore the Republic we will have to rise above the shop worn politics presented by the two-headed party of power and as described by the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media.

We cannot be diverted into the channels of thought and discussion that inevitably lead to the same conclusions.  We debate where and when we should intervene in overseas adventures not if we should intervene.  We debate how much money the Fed should create not if the Fed should create money or if there should be a central bank at all.  We debate how big the deficit should be instead of should we run deficits at all.  As long as we allow the advocates of big government to dictate the debate we lose before the first words are spoken because the answers are prescribed by the questions.

In an article as short as this I cannot cover all the many schemes, swindles, and boondoggles that have led us to the precipice.  Let me examine one that is rarely thought about, barely understood, and never mentioned in political campaigns.

Fractional Reserve Banking is the prescription that causes the disease.  The attempt to create prosperity by inflating bubbles leads inevitably to the bursting of bubbles.  This bubble blowing is a result of the so-called “multiplier effect.  According to Investopedia:

The multiplier effect is the expansion of a country’s money supply that results from banks being able to lend. The size of the multiplier effect depends on the percentage of deposits that banks are required to hold as reserves. In other words, it is the money used to create more money and is calculated by dividing total bank deposits by the reserve requirement.

BREAKING DOWN ‘Multiplier Effect’

To calculate the effect of the multiplier effect on the money supply, start with the amount banks initially take in through deposits, and divide this by the reserve ratio. If, for example, the reserve requirement is 20%, for every $100 a customer deposits into a bank, $20 must be kept in reserve. However, the remaining $80 can be loaned out to other bank customers. This $80 is then deposited by these customers into another bank, which in turn must also keep 20%, or $16, in reserve but can lend out the remaining $64.

This cycle continues as more people deposit money and more banks continue lending it until finally the $100 initially deposited creates a total of $500 ($100/0.2) in deposits. This creation of deposits is the multiplier effect.

Required Reserves

The reserve requirement is set by the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, and it varies based on the total amount of liabilities held by a particular depository institution. For example, as of 2016, institutions with more than $110.2 million in deposits are required to hold 10% of their total liabilities in reserve.

Ten percent!  That is all the banks are required to keep out of every dollar deposited.  No wonder there are so many balls in the air at once, and no wonder they periodically come crashing down.  For every one hundred dollars deposited the banks make another 609 dollars appear as if by magic.  How could this ever go wrong?  When the music stops there never seems to be a chair for everyone, and as the dominos tumble they always take down the next in line.

Enter the government which legalized Fractional Reserve Banking to begin with to solve the problems caused by Fractional Reserve Banking.  After George Bush II declared, “I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system” and went on to bail out the main perpetrators of the government mandated sub-prime loans, for some reason the 99% became upset.

All the little people who pay the bills burned out on bail outs.  It was time for the next dog and pony show, so the government steps in to fix the situation they caused by trying to fix the situation they caused passing the Dodd-Frank Bill.  In classic government cure the disease by amplifying the infection mode Dodd-Frank actually enshrines too big to fail and sets the stage for the next big bail out of the crony capitalists who are one of the three legs of the Washington fascist economy.  A classic case of doing what feels good instead of doing what is good.  Some may think that my use of the word fascist to describe the current American economy is hyperbole.  It is not.  A fascist economic system, also known as Corporatism, is a union of the government, crony capitalists, and big unions.  Sound familiar?

From a rigged economic system to a rigged political system our once proud Republic has devolved from a nation of the people by the people and for the people to a dysfunctional oligarchy masquerading as a functional democracy.

If you listen to the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media and their cable network step sisters we are poised to elect the most corrupt person to have ever run, the head of a crime family, and the wife of the defiler of the oval office.  No matter what the next scandal, no matter the prospect of a failed presidency racked by serial investigations these bought and paid for pundits act as if her victory is inevitable.

I don’t think so.  As I have predicted since January 31 I believe the Donald will win in the greatest landslide since Reagan in 1984.  After decades of Progressives who have sold us down the river and regaled us with lies such as “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor” we finally have a man who inspires us with his dream of making America great again.

In a recent speech Mr. Trump said we should dream big.  He said that if we will unlock the potential of the American people no dream will be beyond our reach.  I have always been a dreamer and now like someone waking up from the fever dream of the Obamapocalypse I am joining with Donald Trump to dream the impossible dream: to make America great again.

To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To be better far than you are

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest, to follow that star

No matter how hopeless, no matter how far

To be willing to give when there’s no more to give

To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live

And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest

That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this

That one man scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star

Let us join together on November 8^th to elect Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States.  Let us dream the impossible dream.  Let us stop doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.  Let us make that impossible dream possible once again.  Let us make America great again.

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion.  He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2016 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com  Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens