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Waupaca.Info is an educational website about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under the U.S. Constitution combined with many wildlife photos of the Famous Chain O' Lakes Waupaca Wisconsin area! I hope you enjoy the readings and all my wildlife photography I took over 30 years in the area!

By, Ronald A. Blumenthal

Waupaca Wildlife Photos of The Chain O' Lakes Waupaca, Wisconsin Area by Season of the Year!

by Ronald A. Blumenthal

Waupaca Chain O' Lakes Video Tour! Take a four season wildlife photo tour of the beautiful Chain O' Lakes Waupaca, Wisconsin area in a video I made and call Beautiful Waupaca! View the area's many lakes, rivers, farms, forests and wild life.

by Ronald A. Blumenthal

Fiat Money in a Rigged and Fake Capitalist US Economy 1913 to 2019!

by Ronald A. Blumenthal

Menominee Indian History on The Chain O' Lakes Waupaca, Wisconsin. 1931 Archeological Survey Book and Map of the Menomini Indian Nation's Villages, Campsites, Mounds, Mound Groups, Effigy Mounds, Trails, Garden Beds, and Corn Hills around the Chain O' Lakes, Waupaca, Wisconsin Area.

The Waupaca Chain O' Lakes Indian History Survey Waupaca, Wisconsin By Charles Edward Brown. Published By The Chain O' Lakes Protective association 1931

Map from the Waupaca Chain O' Lakes Indian History Survey Waupaca, Wisconsin By Charles Edward Brown. Published By The Chain O' Lakes Protective association 1931

Sasha on Columbia lake

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Samuel Adams

Lime Kiln Lake

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

Minor Lake on The Chain O' Lakes Waupaca, Wisconsin

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

Emmons Creek

"The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it." ~

Genghis Khan

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New born Fawn at Emmons Creek

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Rene Descartes

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

H. G. Wells

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

Sunrise over Lime Kiln Lake and Round Lake on The Chain O' Lakes

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

Waupaca River at the Dam in Town by Kaye.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens

John Stuart Mill

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Aristotle

Lime Kiln Lake

It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

David Hume

This beautiful bird of prey on Columbia Lake swooped down and picked up a bite to eat, a little fish, and flew away leaving a water trail behind it!

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

Sunset Lake on The Chain O' Lakes

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

John Locke

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Rene Descartes

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

John Locke

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

John Adams

Fountain Lake

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

Abraham Lincoln

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

David Hume

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich August von Hayek

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Thomas Sowell

"Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.

Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Frederick Douglass

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

John Quincy Adams

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

John Quincy Adams

Lime Kiln Lake on The Chain O' Lakes

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

Walter E. Williams

Hartman Creek State Park

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

John Stuart Mill

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

Thomas Paine

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

"The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it." ~

Genghis Khan

Reflection of Trees off Marl Lake at Boat Launch on Whispering Pines Road

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

Theodore Roosevelt

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Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

Theodore Roosevelt

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.”
― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Marl Lake on the Upper chain O' Lakes Waupaca, WI

“Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.”

Karl Marx writing in the Communist Manifesto (1848).

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Vladimir Lenin

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

Vladimir Lenin

Geese Landing on Columbia Lake

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Daniel Webster

It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

Thomas A. Edison

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company.

This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.
Charles August Lindbergh

Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

Woodrow Wilson

Knight Lake Channel

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

Milton Friedman

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.

Barry Goldwater

Sand Hill Cranes on CNTY HWY Q

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.
Louis Thomas McFadden

When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is - The Fed has usurped the government!!
Louis Thomas McFadden

“… our whole monetary system is dishonest, as it is debt-based… We did not vote for it. It grew upon us gradually but markedly since 1971 when the commodity-based system was abandoned.”

The Earl of Caithnes, in a speech to the House of Lords, 1997.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

Ron Paul

Columbia lake

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Ron Paul

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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Ron Paul

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Columbia Lake

What's happening is there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have more billionaires than ever before.

Ron Paul

We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

Ron Paul