What's the Frequency Kenneth?

On October 4, 1986 anchorman Dan Rather was attacked and mugged by a man while he was returning home. The man did not know Mr.Rather personaly but was convinced that the media was out to get him and was secretly sending signals through his television. Suffice it to say that this man, later identified as William Tager, was mentally disturbed. He was not arrested after the incident because he fled the scene. While he hit Mr.Rather from behind he kept on uttering the phrase "What's the frequency Kenneth!?" No one knows what the phrase means to this day but it has become somewhat popular in todays culture; hence my using it as the title for this article. Mr.Rather was attcked for no reason and the assaliant got away with it. What happened to Willaim Tager? That question will be answered later. When I heard about the recent bailout plan proposed by the government this is actually the first thing that came to mind. Why? What does an attack on a news anchor almost 22 years ago have to do with todays economic crisis?

The current chairman of the Federal Reserve is a man named Ben Bernanke. He is a scholar of the American Great Depression and did a college thesis in which he said that the Fed could have avoided the depression by inflating and printing more money. He has a chance to prove his thesis correct right now. Bernanke is one of the driving forces behind this bailout and seems to be ignoring all the evidence of how printing more money will destroy our nations currency's purchasing power. Bernanke thinks that since the Fed didn't print money during the 1930's depression the answer is to print more of it. He is going by the logical fallacy of "if not A then B." But if he were to read history; specifically the history of Germany post WWI he would see that Germany tried this method of printing more and more money and it crushed their currency. People would have wheelbarrel's full of paper money just to by one loaf of bread. Bernanke is declaring war on American's savings and the ability of people to buy food and other goods. He has no reason for attacking the market and the people and yet he insists on staying the course and adopting even more coercive and intrusive government policies. In fact it was government policy that led us to this crisis in the first place. He seems to think that the market can not be trusted and that he and his ilk must step in and make everything right.

Mr.Bernanke, the president and this congress remind me of the assailaint who got away with assaulting Dan Rather. Willaim Tager mugged and beat an innocent man. Ben Bernanke and the congress are robbing the savings and purchasing power of every American citizens dollars; and they are getting away with it. And like Tager; Bernanke and the members of congress are misguided and their actions are directly hurting innocent people. This is not to suggest that they are mentally ill; I would never suggest that. In this case they are one of three things. They either do not care; are misguided and do not understand the long term effects of what they are doing; or the last option is that they are under serious political pressure and are being pressed into this; showing that they do not have any real principles and do not really care what the solution is; so long as their IS on. And of course by solution I mean a government solution. Either answer is bad news for the American people. So as this country which is already trillions of dollars in debt; proposes a bailout of 700 billion which is guarnteed to increase over time, I am compelled to ask the Congress, the President, the American people who support this and Chairman Bernanke "What's the frequency Kenneth?"

As for what heppened to Willaim Tager? He was not persued or caught after he assaulted Dan Rather. On August 31, 1994 he mugged, shot and killed Campbell Theron Montgomery who was a technician employed by NBC. He was arrested but the damage had been done; he had taken an innocent life. Imagine this heartache happening economicaly to over 300 million people. It is amazing what happens when criminals are not brought to justice; it seems that they end up hurting more people. "What's the frequency America?"

In Liberty,
Mr. Jefferson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
-Thomas Jefferson