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We have a new newsletter: "The Evergreen State
Constitutionalist" (1.3 MB 
)!
What you will find inside:
- STATESIDE, a column written each edition by the State Chairman, currently Glenn Freeman.
- The National Beat, news from the national Constitution Party
- And Now A Word From, thoughts from guest columnists
- Upcoming events, links to our website, forum, and blogs
- Minuteman Activism...what Constitution Party members are doing around the state
- Minuteman Alert...what you need to be aware of
- Report on the Liberty Fair
- and more...
State Rep. (4th District) Matt Shea's speech on "Constitutionalism" which includes his slideshow presentation for download, presented during the May 2009 Spokane monthly meeting.
Constitution Party of Washington joins the Washington Values Alliance
in support of Referendum 71 which seeks to overturn Senate Bill 5688!
The Constitution Party of Washington announces its decision to support Referendum 71. Referendum 71 would overturn SB 5688, a recently-passed bill which "expands the rights and responsibilities of state registered domestic partners." Read the CP statement in support of Referendum 71.
While the Constitution Party of Washington is fully in favor of slowing, halting and reversing illegal immigration in Washington State, there are good ways and there are harmful ways of achieving this good end. Laws must be carefully crafted to ensure there are no unintended consequences. Initiative 1043 is a good example of a well-intentioned proposal that has unintended consequences.
The initiative passes the burden of securing the border to the employer by requiring them to participate in the current voluntary E-Verify system which is a step in implementing a national ID. Will every Washington worker need to be E-Verified? Does this equal security, or just a license to work?
Read a summary analysis of Initiative 1043 regarding this issue by Robert W. Peck, Vice-Chairman of the Constitution Party of Washington.
Nothing New
by Steve Taylor, Webmaster
What is happening now in America is nothing new. In 1896, Andrew Dickson White wrote a
book called "Fiat Money Inflation in France" (3.4
MB ), describing how
the French government destroyed their economy during the French Revolution by issuing paper
money, which led to the rise of Napoleon and further destruction of their country. Here are
some insightful quotations from the book:
"They [the National Assembly of France] had then learned how easy it is to issue it; how difficult it is to check its overissue; how seductively it leads to the absorption of the means of the workingmen and men of small fortunes; how heavily it falls on all those living on fixed incomes, salaries or wages; how securely it creates on the ruins of the prosperity of all men of meagre means a class of debauched speculators, the most injurious class that a nation can harbor,-more injurious, indeed, than professional criminals whom the law recognizes and can throttle; how it stimulates overproduction at first and leaves every industry flaccid afterward; how it breaks down thrift and develops political and social immorality. All this France had been thoroughly taught by experience." (Pgs 15-16)
(in the Mississippi CompanyBubble of speculation and free paper money; 1716-1720)
They learned, however, they still succumbed to the temptation of the "easy fix". For us, it was the desire to expand social programs in the 1960's, coupled with the rise of Keynesian economics which encouraged deficit spending to encourage growth, that led to our downfall.
"Whenever a great quantity of paper money is suddenly issued we invariably see a rapid increase of trade. The great quantity of the circulating medium sets in motion all the energies of commerce and manufactures; capital for investment is more easily found than usual and trade perpetually receives fresh nutriment." (Pg 34)
And the consequences?
"Then arose the clamor for more paper money. At first, new issues were made with great difficulty; but, the dyke once broken, the current of irredeemable currency poured through; and, the breach thus enlarging, this currency was soon swollen beyond control. It was urged on by speculators for a rise in values; by demagogues who persuaded the mob that a nation, by its simple fiat, could stamp real value to any amount upon valueless objects. As a natural consequence a great debtor class grew rapidly, and this class gave its influence to depreciate more and more the currency in which its debts were to be paid.
The government now began, and continued by spasms to grind out still more paper; commerce was at first stimulated by the difference in exchange; but this cause soon ceased to operate, and commerce, having been stimulated unhealthfully, wasted away.
Manufactures at first received a great impulse; but, ere long, this overproduction and overstimulus proved as fatal to them as to commerce." (Pg 72, Final Analysis)
So, the current collapse of the economy was very predictable.
"A still worse outgrowth was the increase of speculation and gambling. With the plethora of paper currency in 1791 appeared the first evidences of that cancerous disease which always follows large issues of irredeemable currency,-a disease more permanently injurious to a nation than war, pestilence or famine. For at the great metropolitan centers grew a luxurious, speculative, stock-gambling body, which, like a malignant tumor, absorbed into itself the strength of the nation and sent out its cancerous fibres to the remotest hamlets. At these city centers abundant wealth seemed to be piled up: in the country at large there grew a dislike of steady labor and a contempt for moderate gains and simple living." (Pg 37-38)
Can you see that this has happened in America now, both economically and socially? It's been going on for so long, we scarcely know any other way of managing the economy. We have come so low we are going to have to come out of this disaster the hard way - there are no easy ways left.
Having said that, there is still time to work. Personally, get out of debt as fast as you can. Save what you can at the same time, food as well as money. Write to our state government demanding an end to deficit spending. If many entitlement programs have to go to do that, well then. This state will go the way of California if we're not careful and learn from them.
