Are we headed for another Great Depression? Or worse, is the U.S. descending headlong into a Third World future? Or, is it all just Hype?
Can we prevent our worse fears from happening?
First, we need to stop the stealing. Unfortunately, we just can’t seem to find the time to get these cattlemen in line. We’re too distracted with our lives.
For instance, do you ever feel as though someone keeps moving the finish line?
Like, just when you think you’re about to catch up with, say — your bills, your work, some long, drawn out “issue” that just never seems to give an inch or go away, like a legal matter, say — a divorce, or a custody battle, or those pesky student loans, family squabbles?
And then something happens to just pull you back under. Like there is this grand conspiracy to just keep you distracted with petty, mindnumbing, BS! You know?
Maybe you don’t know. Maybe you’re one of the lucky few whose life is just rolling along on a highway to heaven, blue skies, bright sun, just enough rain. There you are whistling, smiling, happy go lucky you. Wink Wink. All XOXO.
It’s like there are these two parallel universes — one with people who keep getting close to the finish line, and it disappears, and they have to start over or keep going around in a circle to nowhere; and the other universe is filled with people who see the finish line clearly, cross it and move on to their next success.
The first group keeps glimpsing over at the second group and wondering “how did they get in that universe, that’s where I want to be”. And the second group looks back every once in awhile at the first group and thinks “how did they get in that situation, why can’t they get their act together? God never let me go there!”
It’s not like the first group of people are all unlucky. Because that first group represents most people. It’s more like, there’s a secret that the majority of the people don’t have access to. There’s some key to some door you can walk through, some ingredient that will make it all come together. And the second group keeps pretending to share that information, but it never quite works out, like they’ve left something out on purpose.
Because that is what the world feels like, especially on the political scene. There are these people who have always been on the right track, and they are smiling at us and telling us “this and that with a rattle a tat”, and like Jack Johnson sings in his song “Good People”:
“you win, it’s your show,
tell me what’s it gonna be?
people will tune in,
but how many train wrecks do we have to see,
before we lose touch, it’s bad, getting worse…
turn on the boob tube, I’m in the mood to obey, lead me astray…
where’d all the good people go?”
As Arsenio Hall use to say…”Things that make you go Hmmm”
How did the stock market suddenly go belly up just months before this administration ends it’s reign, some might say of terror? Other’s might say of greed. While still other’s might think it’s been a glorious ride of good deeds for the world. Mostly because the rich got stinky, funky rich, and they would be among that group.
It is undeniably the truth, that since Bush and Cheney took office, they have been demanding astronomical amounts of money…trillions of dollars for a war no one wanted, but them. And now 700 billion dollars for money that just disappeared down a rabbit hole. Where is that damn rabbit hole? Anybody?
Recent AP Headlines:
Bush asks Congress for $700 billion for bailout
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
And they are experts at getting people to believe that if they don’t give them the money, our world will come to an abrupt and devastating end.
September 20, 2008 8:30 AM EDT
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is asking Congress to let the government buy $700 billion in bad mortgages as part of the largest financial bailout since the Great Depression.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A half-trillion dollar bailout that the Bush administration and Congress are negotiating this weekend for faltering financial institutions could unload their bad debt on the government, and in turn the taxpayer.
Economists see financial bailout as necessaryBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER (AP Economics Writer)
From Associated Press
September 20, 2008 4:25 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – The economy could suffer a massive hangover from the government’s efforts to rescue the financial system in the form of a soaring debt burden. But the alternatives look infinitely worse.Bush says entire economy in danger without actionFrom Associated Press
September 24, 2008 8:17 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – Pressing urgently for a massive financial bailout, President Bush says the nation faces a “long and painful recession” if Congress fails to act. He says “our entire economy is in danger.”Speaking in dire terms, Bush pushed for a $700 billion government rescue plan during a prime-time address to the nation. His move was aimed at explaining the package to the American public, but also to keep pressure on frustrated and angry lawmakers to work out a bipartisan deal fast.
Bush said the goal is to help the government buy up troubled assets so that credit can start flowing again and the economy will rebound.
He said the rescue is aimed at helping the country, not individual companies.
How could we turn them down? They are in the happy universe, where we all want to be. They know something, and if we can just keep listening to them long enough and following them, they will open the door and let the rest of us — in the sad and miserable and struggling universe, where the finish line keeps moving — into their happy universe.
Here’s a tidbit: most of us were not even aware that billions and trillions of dollars were just sitting there, waiting for someone to just ask for it. But they knew. And they are getting it.
The question is, where did it come from, are they just printing it up, or did we put that much money into the pot? Cause no one ever reports how much money is actually collected every year?
And the final tidbit: If we give them this last big pot of money, we will be headed for a Third World existence? Will they have successfully stolen everything? Will there be nothing left. (is there more…and where is it?)
Or will there just be us, fighting one another, divided, mad, scared witless, destitute and …po? Broke and PO!
But mostly scared. and with good reason:
From Associated PressSeptember 24, 2008 6:17 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of carrying out the 2001 anthrax attacks, e-mailed himself last year saying he knew who the killer was, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.
“Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!!! I finally know who mailed the anthrax letters in the fall of 2001. I’ve pieced it together!” Ivins wrote in the e-mail dated Sept. 7, 2007, according to an FBI affidavit.
“I’m not looking forward to everybody getting dragged through the mud, but at least it will all be over,” Ivins allegedly wrote. “Finally! I should have it TOTALLY nailed down within the month. I should have been a private eye!!!!”
The e-mail did not say who Ivins thought was the anthrax killer.
Ivins committed suicide in July as prosecutors prepared to charge him in the mailings that killed five people and sickened 17 others.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The Suits are gonna get you!
Men In Black know something, man. Maybe they are all alien squids in human disguise.
And that would almost be a relief.