Greetings good citizen,
The cheats on Wall Street are ‘taking a break’ from pushing the Dow (which is mostly bank dominated) higher.
We are supposed to ‘assume’ this condition is natural when nothing could be further from the truth.
The Dow could be pegged at 20,000 TOMORROW and NOTHING would change except the one percent would be richer and YOU’D be poorer…on paper of course.
How sad is it that the ‘back of the envelope’ is ‘as good as it gets’ for most of us?
Once again we must ask ourselves how did we come to this place?
Let’s have a look at our predatory commerce system:
How sad is it good citizen that the people who control the printing presses keep selling the rest of us out?
What is the ‘inevitable outcome’ of profits before people? You’ve been living in it’s ‘death spiral’ for decades.
Why can’t Japan ‘recover’ from being robbed by its corrupt?
Predation, plain and simple.
Those who are robbing you blind ‘own’ the government that was established to ‘protect’ you.
This is the thing ‘treason’ (and it’s terrible punishment) are made from.
So…where is our White Knight? Who will rescue us from the nasty, evil predators?
Historically it has been the ‘professional class’ that has led and nurtured revolutions but our better educated rabble now know there is barely a nickle’s worth of difference between the predators and their well paid lackeys.
Why these ‘stupid people’ continue to replace the system they’re rescuing us from with a virtually identical one defies comprehension.
I suspect a ‘lack of imagination’ has nothing to do with it.
In many ways a revolt can be like hitting the lottery for the sublimely mentally deficient.
Which is a big reason why so many revolts are ‘stillborn’ technically dead before they start.
But people are stupid and continue to believe the funny money they’re bought off with is actually worth something more than it really is.
Worse, a reliance on scrip that has no actual value can be a powerful weapon in the, er, ‘wrong hands’.
(Or so argue the gold bugs/hard money crowd.)
Read my lips, ALL MONEY IS FUNNY!
When taken in this context ‘the tragedy of the commons’ is put in its proper perspective.
Usually followed by the, er, ‘swift sword of justice’ cutting down those who would cheat you out of your just share.
Those who would privatize the commons for their own benefit.
How tragic is it good citizen that besides suspending rights you have enjoyed for 900 years our bought and paid for ‘Supreme Court’ has also re-purposed commerce to ‘profit’ the shareowner at society’s expense?
Which is to ask why is there no revolt? (Are the lackeys so well paid this time or have they become so stupid as to be blind to the danger our current course represents to themselves as well as their ‘masters’?
A truly troubling question good citizen.
It can’t be because we’re afraid of dying, those who rob us with impunity have taken everything worth living for!
Government, it’s supposed to work FOR YOU, not for THEM!
Just another painfully obvious point I felt compelled to belabor.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
The cheats on Wall Street are ‘taking a break’ from pushing the Dow (which is mostly bank dominated) higher.
We are supposed to ‘assume’ this condition is natural when nothing could be further from the truth.
The Dow could be pegged at 20,000 TOMORROW and NOTHING would change except the one percent would be richer and YOU’D be poorer…on paper of course.
How sad is it that the ‘back of the envelope’ is ‘as good as it gets’ for most of us?
Once again we must ask ourselves how did we come to this place?
Let’s have a look at our predatory commerce system:
5 Ways Privatization Is Poisoning AmericaLong recognized as an elementary evil, the ‘tragedy of the commons’ is the very reason we have/establish government.
We all live better lives when the common good is not for sale.
March 10, 2013 |
This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.
It gets more maddening every day. Essential human needs are being packaged into products to be bought and sold. The right to food and water, education, health care, public spaces, and unrestricted speech shouldn't be based on who can pay the most, or on who can generate profits with the slickest marketing pitch.
The free-market capitalism that drives our economy is a doctrine of individuals pursuing profit. Nothing else matters. An executive for Roche, a healthcare company, said "We are not in the business to save lives, but to make money."
With privatization of the common good we risk losing both our heritage and our humanness.
How sad is it good citizen that the people who control the printing presses keep selling the rest of us out?
What is the ‘inevitable outcome’ of profits before people? You’ve been living in it’s ‘death spiral’ for decades.
Why can’t Japan ‘recover’ from being robbed by its corrupt?
Predation, plain and simple.
Those who are robbing you blind ‘own’ the government that was established to ‘protect’ you.
This is the thing ‘treason’ (and it’s terrible punishment) are made from.
So…where is our White Knight? Who will rescue us from the nasty, evil predators?
Historically it has been the ‘professional class’ that has led and nurtured revolutions but our better educated rabble now know there is barely a nickle’s worth of difference between the predators and their well paid lackeys.
Why these ‘stupid people’ continue to replace the system they’re rescuing us from with a virtually identical one defies comprehension.
I suspect a ‘lack of imagination’ has nothing to do with it.
In many ways a revolt can be like hitting the lottery for the sublimely mentally deficient.
Which is a big reason why so many revolts are ‘stillborn’ technically dead before they start.
But people are stupid and continue to believe the funny money they’re bought off with is actually worth something more than it really is.
Worse, a reliance on scrip that has no actual value can be a powerful weapon in the, er, ‘wrong hands’.
(Or so argue the gold bugs/hard money crowd.)
Read my lips, ALL MONEY IS FUNNY!
When taken in this context ‘the tragedy of the commons’ is put in its proper perspective.
Usually followed by the, er, ‘swift sword of justice’ cutting down those who would cheat you out of your just share.
Those who would privatize the commons for their own benefit.
How tragic is it good citizen that besides suspending rights you have enjoyed for 900 years our bought and paid for ‘Supreme Court’ has also re-purposed commerce to ‘profit’ the shareowner at society’s expense?
Which is to ask why is there no revolt? (Are the lackeys so well paid this time or have they become so stupid as to be blind to the danger our current course represents to themselves as well as their ‘masters’?
A truly troubling question good citizen.
It can’t be because we’re afraid of dying, those who rob us with impunity have taken everything worth living for!
Government, it’s supposed to work FOR YOU, not for THEM!
Just another painfully obvious point I felt compelled to belabor.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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