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Paul R. Hollrah, O.E.
Obama-Soros Hyperinflation
July 8,
2009
While economists tell us that there
is no precise numerical definition of hyperinflation, it is often
defined as a period when the monthly inflation rate is greater than 50
percent. At a monthly inflation rate of 50 percent, an item that sold
for $1 on January 1, 2009 would cost nearly $130 on January 1, 2010.
During the early 1920s, the monthly inflation rate reached 3.25 million
percent in Germany, 275 percent in Poland, 213 percent in Russia, 134
percent in Austria, and 98 percent in Hungary. But the worst inflation
on record was found in the years following World War II when the monthly
inflation rate reached 4.19 quintillion percent in Hungary and 8.55
billion percent in Greece.
It was in this volatile economic arena, when the Hungarian government
maintained two separate currencies, that a young man named György
Schwartz learned how to trade currencies and acquire properties, making
money by exploiting other people’s misfortunes.
Schwartz was born in Budapest on August 12, 1930. He was just thirteen
years old when the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944 and began the
extermination of Jews. Schwartz went undetected by posing as the godson
of a non-Jewish government official and by working for the Nazis,
delivering deportation orders to Jewish lawyers. A year later, in 1945,
Russian forces drove the Nazis out of Budapest and Hungary came under
Soviet domination. They arrived just in time to see the Hungarian
hyperinflation rate reach 50% per month, and just four months later the
inflation rate reached several hundred percent per month.
Schwartz eventually defected to England where he enrolled at the
prestigious London School of Economics. He graduated in 1952 and in 1956
he moved to the United States. But by that time the young man was no
longer known as György Schwartz. When the Schwartz family became
concerned about Nazi anti-Semitism during the mid-1930s they changed
their surname from Schwartz to something more ethnically Hungarian.
The young man who helped the Nazis deport Hungarian Jews in 1944-45, and
who learned how to make money trading currencies and acquiring
distressed properties during the Hungarian hyperinflation, is none other
than Barack Obama’s principal financial backer, the man who gave the
Democrats $23.6 million in 2003-04 to defeat George W. Bush, the man who
has totally subverted the American left and purchased the soul of the
Democratic Party… George Soros.
Executive Intelligence Report (EIR) gives us a brief sketch of what
Soros has been up to in more recent times. They report that, “Following
the crisis of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism of September 1992,
when the Bank of England was forced to abandon efforts to stabilize the
pound sterling, a little-known financial figure emerged from the shadows
to boast that he had personally made over $1 billion in speculation
against the British pound.”
That speculator was none other than George Soros, who once helped the
Nazis expropriate the property of his wealthy fellow Jews. Is there a
man alive who truly believes that George Soros has the best interests of
the United States and the American people at heart? This is the man who
now pulls Obama’s strings… who whispers behind-the-scenes economic
advice into Obama’s ear as he engineers the most dangerous slide toward
economic chaos since the Great Depression.
So what assurances do we have that the Soros-Obama cabal is not working
toward a period of ruinous hyperinflation in the United States… a period
of hyperinflation designed to make Soros the wealthiest man on Earth and
Obama the most powerful? What assurances do we have that Soros and Obama
are not purposely designing economic policies that could quickly turn
the United States into just another Third World country, smothered in
foreign debt?
In Soros we have a man with a history of satisfying his greed by betting
against the economic interests of his own country and his own people,
while in Obama we have a man who has spent almost his entire adult life
learning at the knee of America-haters such as the Communist Frank
Marshall Davis; radical activist Saul Alinsky; the anti-Semitic guru of
black liberation theology, Rev. Jeremiah Wright; the unrepentant 1960s
terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and numerous other Marxist
college professors, America-haters, and assorted homegrown radicals.
There is not a single free-market capitalist in Obama’s entire political
lineage.
Individually, Obama and Soros are dangerous men. But together… given
Soros’s wealth, now estimated at over $11 billion, and Obama’s skills as
a “snake oil” salesman of the first order… they have the potential to
serve as the catalysts for worldwide economic calamity.
When Obama arrived in the Oval Office he found the economy in a
shambles… the direct result of the Democratic Party’s decades-long
effort to insure its own political invincibility by making home
mortgages available to the poorest of the poor through sub-prime loans,
backed by the taxpayer-supported largesse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Confronted with these problems, Obama had two alternatives. He could
restore economic health by instituting austerity in spending and by
following the tried and proven fiscal policies of the Kennedy and Reagan
administrations. Or he could copy the failed tax-and-spend policies of
the Roosevelt and Johnson administrations. He could cut taxes and reduce
government spending, or he could try to reverse the economic downturn by
spending our way to prosperity on borrowed money. He chose the latter
path, a path that only a fool or a subversive would take.
Fortunately for Obama, there was a gift horse roaming the pasture that
made his decision an easy one. George W. Bush and the Republican
Congress had just spent eight years proving that they could spend money
as foolishly and as recklessly as Democrats.
With George W. Bush in the White House, Trent Lott and Bill Frist
running the Senate, and the House of Representatives run by the likes of
Dennis Hastert and Tom Delay, it was as if we’d suddenly been
transported to the Land of Oz. They were the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and
the Cowardly Lion of American politics. They had turned the party of
Goldwater and Reagan into something unrecognizable that no conservative
and no Republican could easily defend.
Obama and Soros were free to have their way with us. They could do
anything they wanted and get away with it because, if anything went
wrong, they always had a convenient bogey-man waiting in the wings. They
could blame it all on George Bush and the Republican Congress, and who
could prove them wrong?
Since the day he entered the Oval Office, Barack Obama’s every action
has been designed to prevent economic recovery; to increase joblessness
here at home while exporting high-paying jobs overseas; to discourage
energy production at home while increasing our reliance on foreign oil;
to allow rogue states such as Iran and North Korea to build nuclear
power plants while banning them here at home; to discourage capital
formation and investment; to expropriate private business and turn
ownership over to the labor bosses; to increase deficit spending to
unprecedented levels; to increase our borrowing from the Chinese,
inflating the U.S. Dollar; and to grow the size and scope of government
at the expense of the private sector.
Every move Obama has made and every initiative he has proposed have all
been in exactly the wrong direction. If there was ever a doubt that
Obama has dreamed of the day when he could bring the most powerful
nation in the world to its knees, we need only study the major
provisions of the radical wealth-destroying, job-killing, “cap and
trade” legislation that Democrats rammed through the U.S. House of
Representatives on Friday, June 26, 2009.
Obama is a slick operator. He has a way of inoculating himself from
criticism by building a fence of words around himself. In announcing a
massive new spending program or a new set of government regulations,
he’ll glance at one teleprompter, and say, “Some critics have said we’ve
gone too far.” Then, turning to the other teleprompter, he’ll say, “But
on the other hand, some say we haven’t gone far enough.” It is his way
of making himself appear moderate while introducing more and more left
wing radicalism into our economy and into our society.
If we think back to the 1930s and ‘40s, two of the cruelest, most
bloodthirsty regimes in recorded history conquered most of Europe and
Asia. But salvation was always just around the corner in the form of
American ships, planes, tanks, and guns, manned by brave young Americans
willing to risk their lives so that the people of those countries could
live free.
But that was then, this is now. Barack Obama gives every indication that
he is as much of a national socialist as were the leaders of Nazi
Germany. If he is allowed to realize his plans for America, who will
come ashore here with ships, planes, tanks, and guns to liberate us from
Obama and his brown-shirted legions? England? France? Germany? Israel?
Japan? South Korea? No, we can count on none of them. Our immediate and
long term salvation is up to us.
We can begin by seeing to it that the centerpieces of Obama’s fascist
plot… cap-and-trade energy tax increases and job-killing environmental
regulations, coupled with Canadian and European-style healthcare reform…
never get to his desk for his signature. If we fail in that, we may just
see a round of Obama-Soros hyperinflation that will destroy this
once-great country.
Better yet, we can force Obama to produce his birth certificate, his
passports and visas, and his college records. And once we’re convinced
that he is not a natural born U.S. citizen, ineligible to serve as
President of the United States, we can tar and feather him and ride him
out of town on a rail. |