Greetings good citizen,
Under the damn it, did it again! category, I just went to post this and found that I skipped the whole ‘intro’ portion of the post…
So now I have to duck back into my mail and check how the stock market did, and it was another weird one. Markets around the globe did, er, ‘okay’ today…except for the US which headed further into the basement.
Counterintuitively, yesterday’s dogs haven’t yet turned into tomorrow’s foxes…but you know its coming, especially for the ‘only game in town’.
But that is not the topic of tonight’s post, nope, tonight I use one of my precious 'ten clicks' to bring you this neglected topic from the corporate owned media which asks why neither candidate is addressing the issue of the West’s sinking standard of living.
Which should put tonight’s title into perspective for you…
Let’s finish that last sentence because we all know it is incomplete…
The ONLY way technology ‘extends and improves life’ is IF you aren’t on the ‘wrong side of it’…and most of us ARE!
Read my lips: ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL. No exceptions!
Need further clarification? Try living in an ‘economic desert’. (A place whose ‘economic engine’ has been exported.)
There is proof all around us the ‘myopia’ is often fatal, especially when that ‘tunnel vision’ afflicts the misguided and overly greedy decision-maker.
Whole regions of the US have been lain waste by the reckless decision of the greedy few.
Decisions that could have been prevented if those we elected to ride herd on the greed heads HAD DONE THEIR FUCKING JOBS!
But no, instead they are all guilty of treason and all need to be, er, ‘punished accordingly’.
And how many of our ‘One Percenter’ representatives…(now there’s a disturbing little factoid the corporate owned media often overlooks, that you can find a whole boatload of for real ‘one percenters’ wandering the corridors of Congress.)
Could THAT be the reason we can’t seem to alter our disastrous course?
Because we CAN’T elect people who actually have SOMETHING IN FUCKING COMMON WITH US?
This is the ‘ILLUSION OF PARTICIPATION coupled with the ILLUSION OF EQUALITY’.
Which brings us back to the decidedly disturbing reality of the political ‘sniff test’. Where those who, er, ‘oversee’ the ‘party apparatus’ get to decide who they will AND WON’T endorse.
The entire pool of political candidates comes from BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!
You get to choose from only a pre-selected pool, this keeps the riff-raff and the radical ‘non-capitalists’ off the ballot.
But it’s time to throw ALL of that nonsense on the scrap heap and cut to the chase.
From here on out we only vote DIRECTLY on the laws, which shall, by definition, be few. Fuck this bullshit of somebody deciding for you without ever asking you how you feel on the issue…or IF it is even an issue to you!
So where were we? Oh yeah, standing athwart the march of history screaming ‘halt!’ like a bunch of Luddites!
Or at least that’s what the conservo-loonies think.
This isn’t a contest between ‘personal prosperity’ versus the general welfare as the conservo-whackos have made it into.
This is about truly elevating the circumstance of ALL mankind, the ‘rich’ should be indistinguishable from the average individual, honestly.
If one is ‘truly exceptional’ they will ‘stand out’ in ways other than accumulating massive fortunes (that in turn ultimately decimate society.)
Money is a tool, not an end in itself.
How many of you are sighing right now and muttering ‘good luck with that’ under your breath?
Not that our salvation requires universal acceptance of this truth…but until we become hardcore about managing the use of money within our society, it will continue to do more harm than good.
This is why under A Simple Plan your money is for you. Only YOU can make it and only YOU can spend it…when you spend it, nobody gets it, it is simply erased. When you die your money dies with you. Everybody is on their own…in a society that meets your every need, from the cradle to the grave.
You no longer need to worry about your kids, they’re all set!
A Simple Plan, an idea whose time has come, and we could do it tomorrow (if the fucking greed-heads would roll over and play dead…)
Ironically, it IS ‘in their interest’ to do so!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Under the damn it, did it again! category, I just went to post this and found that I skipped the whole ‘intro’ portion of the post…
So now I have to duck back into my mail and check how the stock market did, and it was another weird one. Markets around the globe did, er, ‘okay’ today…except for the US which headed further into the basement.
Counterintuitively, yesterday’s dogs haven’t yet turned into tomorrow’s foxes…but you know its coming, especially for the ‘only game in town’.
But that is not the topic of tonight’s post, nope, tonight I use one of my precious 'ten clicks' to bring you this neglected topic from the corporate owned media which asks why neither candidate is addressing the issue of the West’s sinking standard of living.
Which should put tonight’s title into perspective for you…
What is the solution to this thicket of economic forces?
That question is the one that Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney are trying to convince voters that they can best answer. They both accept that the government and the market have a role, but they put a different emphasis on those roles.
It is hard to see how either globalization or automation can be stopped. The proposed solutions instead tends to involve managing them. [This is true. Even A Simple Plan uses automation for its ‘intended purpose’ of shortening the work week rather than trying to go back to the ‘old way’ of doing things…although the coming energy scarcity is going to force our hands in that department.]
If the economy can be made to grow fast enough, incomes can still rise across the board, as they did when the unemployment rate fell below 5 percent in the 1990s and briefly below 4 percent in 2000. If educational attainment rises, more people will be able to get jobs that benefit from technology and global trade, rather than suffer from it. [Huge pipe dream and fucking whopper of a lie!] And if inequality continues to soar, the government could choose to use the tax code to ameliorate it — a solution that Democrats favor and Republicans say will hurt economic growth. [Not that you didn’t notice but you know it was 'fucking around with the tax code' that got us here in the first place. Time to fix it for good and do away with taxes altogether…by eliminating the reason for taxes, ‘private ownership’.]
Maybe the biggest reason for optimism is that there is still a strong argument [by greedheads] that both globalization and automation help the economy in the long run. This argument remains popular with [improperly trained] economists: Trade allows countries to specialize in what they do best, while technology creates opportunities to extend and improve life that never before existed.
Let’s finish that last sentence because we all know it is incomplete…
The ONLY way technology ‘extends and improves life’ is IF you aren’t on the ‘wrong side of it’…and most of us ARE!
Read my lips: ALL ECONOMIES ARE LOCAL. No exceptions!
Need further clarification? Try living in an ‘economic desert’. (A place whose ‘economic engine’ has been exported.)
There is proof all around us the ‘myopia’ is often fatal, especially when that ‘tunnel vision’ afflicts the misguided and overly greedy decision-maker.
Whole regions of the US have been lain waste by the reckless decision of the greedy few.
Decisions that could have been prevented if those we elected to ride herd on the greed heads HAD DONE THEIR FUCKING JOBS!
But no, instead they are all guilty of treason and all need to be, er, ‘punished accordingly’.
And how many of our ‘One Percenter’ representatives…(now there’s a disturbing little factoid the corporate owned media often overlooks, that you can find a whole boatload of for real ‘one percenters’ wandering the corridors of Congress.)
Could THAT be the reason we can’t seem to alter our disastrous course?
Because we CAN’T elect people who actually have SOMETHING IN FUCKING COMMON WITH US?
This is the ‘ILLUSION OF PARTICIPATION coupled with the ILLUSION OF EQUALITY’.
Which brings us back to the decidedly disturbing reality of the political ‘sniff test’. Where those who, er, ‘oversee’ the ‘party apparatus’ get to decide who they will AND WON’T endorse.
The entire pool of political candidates comes from BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!
You get to choose from only a pre-selected pool, this keeps the riff-raff and the radical ‘non-capitalists’ off the ballot.
But it’s time to throw ALL of that nonsense on the scrap heap and cut to the chase.
From here on out we only vote DIRECTLY on the laws, which shall, by definition, be few. Fuck this bullshit of somebody deciding for you without ever asking you how you feel on the issue…or IF it is even an issue to you!
So where were we? Oh yeah, standing athwart the march of history screaming ‘halt!’ like a bunch of Luddites!
Or at least that’s what the conservo-loonies think.
This isn’t a contest between ‘personal prosperity’ versus the general welfare as the conservo-whackos have made it into.
This is about truly elevating the circumstance of ALL mankind, the ‘rich’ should be indistinguishable from the average individual, honestly.
If one is ‘truly exceptional’ they will ‘stand out’ in ways other than accumulating massive fortunes (that in turn ultimately decimate society.)
Money is a tool, not an end in itself.
How many of you are sighing right now and muttering ‘good luck with that’ under your breath?
Not that our salvation requires universal acceptance of this truth…but until we become hardcore about managing the use of money within our society, it will continue to do more harm than good.
This is why under A Simple Plan your money is for you. Only YOU can make it and only YOU can spend it…when you spend it, nobody gets it, it is simply erased. When you die your money dies with you. Everybody is on their own…in a society that meets your every need, from the cradle to the grave.
You no longer need to worry about your kids, they’re all set!
A Simple Plan, an idea whose time has come, and we could do it tomorrow (if the fucking greed-heads would roll over and play dead…)
Ironically, it IS ‘in their interest’ to do so!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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