Amputate or Die" An excellent column from Jack Wheeler

Please take the time to read this article Via Melissa Jenkins "Amputate or Die"
An excellent column from Jack Wheeler

It was a sobering dinner party last night (6/16). Hosted by a London
billionaire in his exquisite home - a Boccaccio hung on the wall behind
me - the wine flowed liberally, but the conversation among the ten of us
was stone-cold serious.

There were lighter moments, as when I proposed a toast to "a great hero
of Europe - Geert Wilders." Every one raised their glass in a smile, but
the biggest smile was that of a spectacularly gorgeous super-model
(you've seen her in many a high-fashion ad). She was from Holland.

Then a well-known Hollywood producer raised his glass to toast his hero -
Ronald Reagan. "We need him again," he commented. I guarantee you've
watched one of his TV shows.

But when a self-made billionaire with an 11-figure private equity fund
and a clear grasp of Austrian economics starts to talk about America's
prospects, you listen. So we all listened.

Being in London, he started there. "To call (new Brit PM David) Cameron a
disaster is like calling Hurricane Katrina a squall. He's as much a
Conservative as I am a Moslem. I have already started preparing to
relocate to Switzerland. If he succeeds in his current push to raise
capital gains taxes from 18% to 50% -- and it looks like he will - the
British economy and the London real estate market will crash. The best
play around will be to short the pound.

"In short, Cameron and Osborne (George Osborne, David Cameron's Oxford
classmate and now in Cameron's cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer,
equivalent to our Treasury Secretary) lead secret lives. Just as they
hide from the public that they are homosexual behind the pretense of a
marriage, they hide their liberal agenda behind the pretense of being
conservative. They will destroy Britain's economy just as sure as Obama
is destroying America's."

There followed a spirited exchange about financial escape hatches -- if
the euro, the pound, and the dollar fall off their respective cliffs,
where does anybody go? The time-worn adage of "buy gold, buy silver, buy
Swiss Francs" may work for individuals, but world equity markets are in
a trap from which there is no clear exit.

One opinion was, "The best run governments around today are those of
Canada and Singapore - having one's savings denominated in their
currencies is not a bad idea." Then we got back to America.

"You know what my biggest fear is?" our host asked. "It's not really
Obama, for what he's done is to accelerate what the liberals have been
slowly doing for decades - so quickly that their socialism is obvious to
everyone. Which means the solution is obvious to everyone. My biggest
fear is that voters will give Republicans the power to repair America on
November 2nd - and the Republicans won't have the courage to do it."

All I could respond with was "Ouch," to shake my head and sigh. I
mentioned an email I just got from a friend of many years in Las Vegas.
He's a very successful banker and businessman who knows everyone in
Republican politics in Nevada - and I had asked his opinion of how
Sharron Angle might possibly beat Harry Reid. The reply I got back
shocked me. He will do nothing to help her, he said, as she is too
"extreme."

Why is she considered extreme? our host asked, not on intimate terms
with Nevada primary elections. Because she wants a government restricted
to constitutional activities, I replied, which means, for example,
eliminating such things as the Department of Education and the
Environmental Protection Agency.

Our host leaned over the table to look at me as if his eyes were lasers.
"Jack, you need to explain something to your friend. You need to
explain something to America and all those Congressmen you know.
Amputate or die. That's the choice America has right now. That's the
choice Republicans will have after November 2nd, because they're the
only surgeons around who can do the surgery."

Everyone was quiet so he continued. "Gangrene will kill you. If you
don't amputate a finger or other limb that's gangrenous, it will spread
bacterially [viaClostridium perfringens], and you will die. Look at
these unconstitutional growths of government on the body public as
gangrenous infections that have to be amputated for the body to continue
living."

He looked around the table at all of us. "You know that I know all the
main players in the world economy. Some are fools who don't know what
they are doing like Strauss-Kahn (Dominque Strauss-Kahn, head of the
IMF, International Monetary Fund), some are not like Trichet
(Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank). America
has no adult on the economy's lever - Geithner is more of a hopeless
disaster than Bush's Paulson was, and Bernanke is worse than Greenspan.

"So I don't know any player whose smarts I really respect who has much
hope for America, who doesn't see an alternative future than the
destruction of America's wealth through hyper-inflation. They think
elephants will fly before Republican elephants will do what is necessary
if the voters give them the power to do it."

He looked at me - so everyone else did. "Are they wrong, Jack?" The
question hung in the air as I felt my face redden.

"Thanks, pal," I responded with a smile to gain a little time. Everyone
did laugh for just a moment, then I had to jump into the waiting
silence. Here's what I said.

"The situation is dire, there is no doubt, the gravest since the Civil
War. The only hope I see is with the anger of the TeaPartyers. That
anger is directed just as much towards Republican cowards as towards
Democrat fascists. We don't have to wait long to see the power of that
anger. Just six days from now (6/22) in South Carolina, Nikki Haley the
TeaPartyer is going to wipe out Gresham Barrett the RINO, even though
the state GOP establishment is doing everything slimy to smear her.

"I think your player-friends have to see things not as Democrat vs.
Republican but as the Court Party - the establishment in power be they
Democrat or GOP - vs. the Country Party, the TeaPartyers who want an end
to all the corruption, Dem or GOP. Your players are part of the Court
Party. The TeaPartyers you might think are like those who led the French
Revolution - but they are like those who led the American Revolution
instead.

"Yes, the TeaPartyers own most of the 300 million guns in America, but
they don't want blood unless there's no choice. Note the ‘unless.'
November 2ndbetter be an honest election. What the TeaPartyers must
grasp is Churchill's call after the battle of El Alamein [November
1942], that November is only ‘the end of the beginning.'

"So you are right - the only hope is radical surgery to cut out all the
metastasizing cancer, to amputate unconstitutional gangrene, or another
metaphor, to be like Alexander and cut the Gordian Knot with a
swordstroke.

"But the question really is not whether Republicans have the courage to
perform the surgery, to defund ObamaCare, to defund the entire Obama
agenda, to defund entire agencies like the Department of Education,
Energy, and the EPA. It is whether the TeaPartyers have the courage and
capacity to force the Republicans to. I mean, how is eliminating the EPA
extreme, and EPA unconstitutional fascism not extreme? We'll find out,
because they are America's only hope now."

Everyone waited for our host's response. "And the hyper-inflation? The
debt's already baked in the cake, no matter what future spending is
cut."

"Hyper-inflation is only another word for total default. The only way to
avoid it is a government default on its debts only. Then we can switch
from a worthless fiat currency to an asset-backed currency." I smiled.
"Gold brings freedom."

He smiled in return and raised his glass. "We can all drink to that. To
gold, to freedom, and these TeaPartyers - may Jack be right about them.
May they amputate fascism before the fascists amputate our freedom."