We can only wonder how (the irrelevant) stock markets decided to reverse yesterday’s losses during this morning trading, the mysterious uptick hasn’t been attributed to anything (Not that this particularly matters; movements of the markets seldom make sense.)
Nor is the ‘trading day’ over, markets may well end where they started and we’d be none the wiser.
Who cares about the corporate sponsored Kabuki Dance put on for your benefit by the MSM?
Makes you wonder what the ‘real news’ would look like, doesn’t it?
Well, tonight’s first offering is a refutation of ‘the dance’ itself, not that you, Dear reader/Good Citizen is in need of such enlightenment…
No. 330: September Production and Housing Starts: Subscription required: October 19th, 2010
• Third-Quarter Production Growth Slowed and Housing Contracted
• Third-Quarter GDP Should Have Slowed, But the Heavily-Politicized and Guesstimated Series Is Virtually Worthless...
How’s that for ‘short and to the point’?
We are left to ponder if misery can exist in the absence of official recognition?
Would Marie Antoinette have kept her head if she had today’s media to put a positive spin on an otherwise retched economy?
How retched is it?
5 Pieces of Advice for the New Paupers
Tonight’s second offering is but the most fleeting of glimpses of today’s economic reality. What the writer shares here fails to hammer home what the actual experience is really like.
I have often railed about how much we take things for granted. When we walk over to a light switch, we expect something to happen when we toggle it.
When nothing happens, we are genuinely perplexed! The light switch is a relatively recent invention yet they have become so ingrained into our existence that we expect them to function whenever we encounter one (within reason.)
Naturally, the light switch doesn’t function if there isn’t one to flip, a situation many of the homeless find themselves confronted with. Then there’s the ‘running water’ situation, which also has multiple aspects to it.
You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til its gone.
Worse is the realization that your ‘privation’ (being deprived of these, er, ‘basic necessities’) was caused by some greed head’s decision to ship your job to a third world cesspool! (This assumes you had a marketable skill at some point in the past, many recent grads don’t even have that…which is a whole other can of worms!)
Yes good citizen, it all comes down to choices AND YOU HAVEN’T BEEN GIVEN ANY THAT MATTER!
Knowing what you know today, would you have voted Republican EVEN ONCE over the past forty years?
Many of you are too young to remember (and conservatives conveniently ‘forget’) that the first time anybody EVER heard the acronym NAFTA, it was being touted by none other than ‘The Great Communicator’ (of ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ fame!)
Don’t know who that is? Probably better forgotten anyway.
No amount of Monday morning quarterbacking can alter the past, but it is even more disturbing to acknowledge that it is already too late to alter the political landscape (via the political machinery provided) too.
You won’t get to ‘vote’ for who will run things or what laws you will forced to live under; history has shown we are used to being the victims of tyranny.
MAYBE future historians will ask how, in such an interconnected society, we let it all slip away? Why didn’t we use the resources available to us to unite against this obvious threat?
Like any of us had a choice!
Our ‘problem’ in a nutshell is the same one we’ve always faced, Treason.
It is far too easy to ‘buy off’ those elected to defend the public from the criminals among us.
Worse, the criminals have an astounding number of, er, ‘defenders’.
It is not until the criminals start to prey upon the people who ‘thought’ they enjoyed the criminal’s protection that the cries for justice are heard.
Yes, once upon a time politicians would run on ‘Law & Order’ issues, now that there is going to be a huge uptick in, er, ‘criminal activity’ they’ll be at it again.
Unfortunately you will NOT be given the option of prosecuting the criminals responsible for the increase in ‘social unrest’.
And that’s beyond being a damn shame.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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