I need to focus more on my mission. My mission is for the political Right to follow the Word of God, and not be greedy, selfish, or rude. It is very good that most (not all) of the political Right identifies as Christian and defends Christians from The Left when needed, BUT what's really important is to BE Christian. To follow the Teachings, to show love, to be kind to others, to be forgiving, and to have "the system" work for everyone. That's my mission. My mission should not be to bash the Left, no matter how much I am upset that most of The Left (not all) wants to minimize Jesus and all of religion, and deter our Youth from following the Word of God.

My primary mission is advocacy on banking and housing matters, something that not enough believers in God understand or respect. I am pursuing ways for the government to provide affordable housing for purchase. My primary suggestion involves erecting and selling pre-fabricated single-family houses. If properly pursued, it won’t cost taxpayers anything, because the sale price will slightly exceed the cost. As people’s housing costs reduce by many hundreds of dollars per month, that frees up money in the budget to be openly spent in the consumer economy. The entire economy should focus on consumers spending money, not on consumers being consumed. Sometimes I think that the bankers, insurance executives, and mega landlords are meeting every year on some island in the Bahamas, and dividing us up >>>

“OK, their houses were foreclosed, so now these stupid people have to rent, and all these people having to rent will drive up rents. So we make more money on the rent, perfect. Higher rents will also drive up housing prices so the houses that we now own can recover in price from that wave of foreclosures. How convenient for us, hehehe. Now, Mark you can have “x” on renting their houses back to them, and David, you can have “y” for those who are now renting in apartment buildings in urban areas, and that leaves enough to pay insurance to Jonathan. We’re taking the rest on their credit card interest payments. And Verizon, we’ll let you have a slice as well. And if the people can’t get by, the government can simply subsidize more families with food stamps and Section 8. The Democrats will love that, because the more that people are subsidized and live as tenants, especially at high density, the more solidly they will vote for Democrats. As long as us business interests can suck on their blood and take all of their money, that’s fine. We don’t care how many people are government-subsidized. In fact, let’s have the government pay everyone a universal guaranteed income, and then each person will have EVEN MORE MONEY for us to consume, and we can each increase our take. We’ll pretend we don’t like that program for political cover, but it’s actually perfect for us. Let’s work on that one this year in secret, and we’ll talk about the progress next year. And for this coming year, we especially don’t want the urban minorities to be politically aligned with working class Whites in rural areas. Let’s have them fighting each other on political and culture war issues so they are too divided to direct any attention towards what we are actually doing to them. We own the media too, we can keep them divided. Hehehe”.

They are looking at the consumer simply as an entity to be sucked of their money. They are not looking at consumers as spending freely, enjoying their lives, and building the economy from the ground up. I am an unabashed capitalist on this point. Consumers must spend, and without open consumer spending, all other industries suffer and our GDP lags. I learned this lesson in Newark.

I am no longer living in Newark, and no longer working on rent control matters, but what I accomplished in Newark continues. This year, the 26,000 families (approximately 70,000 people) living in market-rate rental units collectively saved at least $50 million on rent due to the 2014 Newark Rent Control Ordinance. And that figure will go up at least $10 million every year, indefinitely. I was one of the primary authors, and I ran the website that advocated rent control in Newark. In an instant, Newark’s rent control ordinance went from pathetic to being the strongest in the United States. Now, four years later every family is saving over $2,000 a year, and some over $3,000. By the way, rent control covers working class and middle class people, not Section 8 tenants. That $2,000+ has made the difference between renting and eviction for countless families, something that we all need to reflect upon during this Christmas season. For other families, the extra $2,000+ is being saved to move to a better apartment building, or to buy a home and live the American Dream. But for most of the 26,000 families, that $2,000+ is being spent in the Newark area. Spending is what tenants do, and that is part of the reason why they are tenants. That money is powering the consumer economy in the truest manner of capitalism. I advocated rent control in the name of increasing consumer spending and economic growth, and in the
name of helping people per the Word of God. On both counts, that really
annoyed most of my fellow rent control advocates, as they had a completely
different perspective.

It’s more than interesting to note that Newark is suddenly booming economically, and just in the last few years. Less families are stressed for cash, spending is up, crime is down, school performance has improved, and employment is up. Isn’t that’s what we should expect in Newark when money is being spent locally, not siphoned away and spent in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or South Jersey, which is where most of the landlords live. The 2014 Newark rent control ordinance was a giant step backwards for colonialism, and a giant leap forwards for personal liberation and economic growth.

To some extent, the rental industry is analogous to colonialism, in which money and resources are siphoned away to wealthy nations, and the native people are left destitute. And then the Christians in those wealthy nations look down on the natives and smugly say “Isn’t it a shame that they can’t they get their act together like us educated and industrious people, so let’s give them some charity”. Charity is fine, but what is much better is to ALLOW people and nations to get their act together, and to uplift themselves. To not be held back. Nobody should be prey in some predator-prey economic relationship. There is nothing Christian about that.

Part of me wishes I was still doing rent control, but my time for that has passed. Others still in Newark can fight to protect rent control from the attacks to dismantle it. Organizing tenants is like herding cats, and in any case, I am renting in a house now. Without a large apartment building to serve, I have no “base”.

On banking, I am still researching the evils of the Federal Reserve banking system, and openly advocating for major reductions in credit card interest rates. Again, vital money is being siphoned away, and millions of families are suffering. It is simply not justifiable for any bank to charge more than 10%, given today’s low prime rate. And as the people struggle under debt and usury-level interest payments, there is less spending and less economic growth. I believe that America’s GDP would be surging to at least 7% a year if so much money wasn’t being siphoned away by the banks. That should be the Republican goal, not maintaining a system in which the consumers are consumed. Money needs to circulate, it needs to be spent. Stop holding us back. We don’t want any charity, we want to succeed, we want to prosper, and we want to spend. We want to be happy and free. And with banking, the playing field isn’t just Newark, it’s all of America.