Barack Obama has yet to warm the chair in the Oval Office and yet he is going along with giving away $1.3 trillion and assuring us that it is the only way to fend off financial disaster. I would posit that we already have financial disaster and handing out dollars by the billions that have no real value will only make it worse.

I don’t know if Obama really believes what he is saying about the economy, or if he is merely acting out a scenario that includes ruination of the dollar to make room for the new currency which, according to authoritative crackpots, in itself is the opening wedge for the New World Order.

Too conspiratorial for you? One thing is certain, there are major government-backed efforts to sell to the American people all sorts of things that are simply not true, things that are pivotal and all in a rush we seldom see in Washington.

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Obama says the planet is heating up and if we don’t stop it, there will be worldwide famine. That might be a useful observation except that it is not even remotely true. Respectable scientists, that is scientists not subsumed by political considerations, know that if anything, the earth is cooling as part of a natural cycle. And even if it were warming, mere humans are not powerful enough to affect the weather one way or the other. It is mega-hubris to assert otherwise.

There’s a lot more to this than meets the eye. A few people are getting rich off the climate change scare. But most of us are going to pay through a reduced standard of living.

Most everyone else in the world envies Americans for our lifestyle. “What right do they have to be so prosperous? They’re no better than us. How come with only 5 percent of the world’s population, they produce so much of the world’s wealth. How come, huh? They must be doing something sneaky. We have to level that playing field. This climate change scam is perfect.”

Actually, a World Bank study attributes it to an economy with a very efficient judicial system and clear property rights. That’s just what is under attack now.

Am I wrong about this? We would be hard-pressed to gear up this quickly for a war, yet here we are taking all sorts of shortcuts around the constitutional limitations on spending money, and it has to be done instantly. Something is wrong with this picture.

Even before Tuesday’s (Jan. 20) inauguration, Obama moved in, effectively, to the White House even if he has been operating out of temporary quarters and took over presidential duties and prerogatives. He waits for no one. And maybe that will prove to have been admirable.

I only know that every time the government has to close its eyes to established precedent and prosecute an “emergency,” a few people get rich and most of us wind up paying for it.

Spewing out trillions of worthless dollars on the world will make us stronger? More respected? Freer? Warmer? Cooler? No. None of those things. On the contrary, we will be rebuilding our infrastructure with nonexistent money. Do we really think that can work?

I know there is building anxiety in the nation over finances. Is it in response to real things or was it planned that way? It’s an easy scenario to follow: “discover” horrible formerly hidden events that threaten our very existence, propose emergency measures we don’t have time to consider carefully, panic Congress and the people so they beg the government (“Only the government can fix it.”) to do something, (“They’re the government; they must know what they’re doing.”)

Maybe they do and maybe they don’t. I suspect they do. To my old eyes it looks like the old carnival razzmatazz. Hurry, hurry ladies and gentlemen. Come see the egress. This way to the egress.

When the dust settles what do you think will have been accomplished? I think we will be blinking in the sunlight asking “How did that happen?”

To me, it looks like the biggest swindle of all time. Bernie Madoff is a piker, a goat, chum thrown to the sharks, compared to what’s going on in the Halls of Power. It’s just too big for mere people to grasp. And it looks like they’re going to get away with it.

Contact Lionel Waxman at territorial@waxmanmedia.com or visit his website: www.waxmanmedia.com. Lionel Waxman’s Flashpoint commentaries are published in The Daily Territorial.