Woe to the average American.  The US Government has taken all the worst parts of every heinous government system and combined them all into one viral new strain.

If you were to say the US is fascist, you'd be right.

FASCISM

Fascism, according to Wikipedia, is defined as "a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology. It advocates the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy (such as eugenics)."

Let's break that down word by word.

I used to viscerally dislike the term "expatriate".  First of all, I didn't feel like I was an "ex" anything.  And I thought it implied I was an ex-patriot.  And since I don't subscribe to the validity of a nation-state to exist I certainly would never be patriotic to a nation-state and therefore could never be an "ex"-patriot. 

But, actually wanting to understand the meaning of the word I was regularly using - something that is rather rare nowadays - I looked it up a while back.

According to Wikipedia, "An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing".  That is a definition I can live with.

(The following is an excerpt from the September issue of The Dollar Vigilante)

Last month we marked the 40th anniversary of the Federal Reserve Note being a completely unbacked fiat currency.  This month marks another major event in the demise of the US dollar, September the 11th.

While we’ve been on a one way road to monetary ruin since at least 1913 the response to the events of September 11, 2001 have greatly accelerated the process.

On September 11, 2001, the total US Federal Government debt was $5,773,172,068,291.89 ($5.77 trillion).  Today, on September 11, 2011, the total debt is $14,685,550,385,913.19 ($14.68 trillion).  A 154% increase in total treasury debt in only the span of a decade.

I write to you today again from the back seat of my rental car on my way back to the beautiful city of  Guadalajara and then Cabo.

After a long night at the police station and spending the morning at the lawyers (the below photo was taken from my hotel at the crack of dawn this morning in Tepic) we have successfully bailed out my driver.  The total bail is actually much less than all the other costs in this fiasco.  I don’t know if that makes me happy or angrier.  Bail was the equivalent of $250.

You can accuse me of being many things but you can't say I am boring.

I mentioned yesterday that I recently rented a house in Cabo and have been spending time there.  I wanted to bring up some items from Acapulco and thought the easiest way to bring them would be to take my car up with all things I wanted.  But, it's about a 20 hour drive followed by an 18 hour ferry ride (from Mazatlan to La Paz) and I have been so busy I didn't want to lose two days so my fiance found a relative of hers who was willing to drive it up for us.

Well, late last night we got a call.  He's in jail.  Charged with kidnapping.  In Tepic in Nayarit state.

Ever heard of Tepic?  Me neither.

I recently rented a house north of Cabo.  I still have my apartments in Acapulco but now I have two kids and two dogs (that's up one kid and one dog in the last few months alone!) and the apartment lifestyle wasn't working very well for such a big family.

Duque the Neapolitan Mastiff (third largest dog in the world) and Bruce Lee the Chihuahua (smallest dog on earth) - Guess who drew blood first? Bruce Lee!

These are grand times to be dollar vigilantes.

The whole premise of being a dollar vigilante is the acknowledgement that the entire global financial system is an artificial and oppressive system that is nearing the end of its road (and purchasing hard assets and internationalizing our assets to protect ourselves).

What then is better than having a multi-billion dollar global banking behemoth, like UBS, say these words:

I would have blissfully not even known it was Labor Day until I noticed the stock markets in the US & Canada didn't open on Monday.  I glanced at my calendar.  Oh, it's time to celebrate the great communist holiday.  The day where we honor the proletariats.  Those who, as Marx says, create all the wealth.

Interestingly, and not surprisingly, this holiday started in the Socialist Republic of Canuckistan (Kanada) and was taken up by trade unions in the US in the late 19th century.

A WARPED VIEW ON LIFE

As with everything Marx dreamt up after having been born into a rich family and having died a pauper (as would most who followed his unworkable theories) this view on life is completely warped.

Hello all,

I've had quite a day.  For reasons I don't have time to fully explain I have rented a house in Cabo and will be splitting my time between Cabo and Acapulco for the foreseeable future (the next year or so).

The move mostly came about because I found an absolutely amazing deal on a 3 bedroom, multi-million dollar house with a pool on a 5 square kilometer lot, five minutes north of Cabo San Lucas.  Want to guess how much I rented it for?  $1,080/month!  I told that to a friend of mine who is looking to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in San Francisco right now and he can't find anything under $3,500/month.  I bet he nearly choked on his own tongue after hearing that.

It is perhaps the saddest story ever told and it has been told over and over again for millennia.  It is the never-ending urge to dismantle capitalism after it has created great amounts of wealth.

This has been going on since Roman times as can be seen in this quote from Cicero circa 50 B.C.:

"The budget should be balanced,the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."