ROBERT WELCH, A PREDICTION FROM 1958

Thank you to Martin Armstrong @ Armstrong Economics.

Robert Welch, the Co-Founder of the John Birch Society, gives a speech in 1958 on a plan to "induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty."

A part of that plan of course is to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty piece by piece and step by step to various International organizations of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example.  Here are the aims for the United States:

1.  Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means for getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.

2.  Higher and then much higher taxes.

3.  And increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.

4.  Wild inflation of our currency.

5.  Government controls of prices wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.

6.  Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives.  This is to be a company naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy in both the cost and the reach of our domestic government.. 

7.  Far more centralization of power in Washington and the practical elimination of our state lines.  There is a many-faceted drive at work to have our state lines eventually mean no more within the nation then our county lines do now within the states.  

8.  The steady advance of Federal Aid to and control over our educational system, leading to complete federalization of our education system.

9.  A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare, the beauties and the absolute necessities of peace, peace always on communist terms, of course. 

10.  The consequent willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by our government, which amount to a piecemeal surrender of the rest of the free world.