Greetings good citizen,
The economy continues to shrink while the media pretends this is a perfectly natural outcome of a, er, ‘recession’ (I’m firmly in the Depression camp, believing that we ain’t seen nothing yet!)
The ‘more with less’ economy has left tens of millions of us ‘stranded’ up ‘shit creek without a paddle’.
There is a disturbing tendency to attribute this phenomenon to ‘overpopulation’ but if you don’t live in a war zone/disaster area, you aren’t starving (yet.)
Since ‘newsworthiness’ is determined by rich capitalists, we do not know for a fact what the ‘food security’ situation is globally, although it should be alarming that the number of people on ‘food assistance’ continues to climb here in the ‘you can only white-wash it so much’ USA.
Since the whole world is ‘nominally’ capitalist it wouldn’t do to point out the economic misery the ‘fuck you, pay me’ model usually fosters.
The ‘owners’ of the media want you to believe that everything capitalism touches turns to gold (if you can’t afford gold it’s not the capitalist’s problem, it’s yours!)
If we look back over the past two hundred years (a period the current oligarchy was cementing its authority over the rest of us.) The ‘owners’ prospered while everyone else sought ‘happiness’ under an increasingly heavier boot heel.
Which is to point out that what we are currently experiencing isn’t ‘new’; it merely took a couple of centuries to arrive at its inevitable conclusion.
What changed? We finally overran the ‘price/user’ balance. (Actually this is untrue, what we’re witnessing now is actually an ‘artificial’ crisis created to head off a pending disaster.)
As you know, that ‘pending disaster’ is ‘Peak Energy’ and it is closer than any of you imagine…although we are far from ‘out’…out isn’t the problem; enough to ‘go around’ is.
This is the unstated/unspecified part of the ‘Peak Oil/Energy’ debate. It is not the ‘availability’ that is going to screw our entire social model, there will still be plenty of oil long after only a few can afford it.
Sort of puts the situation in a new perspective, doesn’t it?
Here you’ve been, fearful of the ‘brawl’ that will break out over the last few million barrels of oil. Never realizing there will be plenty of oil around, the problem will be you won’t be able to afford it!
Understand the situation: once energy becomes ‘scarce’ our (their) social model stops working!
Instead of adopting a new social model, the cock-suckers have chosen to exercise ‘social Darwinism’. The self-centered fucks are going to ‘shrink’ civilization to fit the new reality.
IDEALLY, a whole bunch of you now redundant and over fifty would off yourselves, saving the self-appointed ‘worthwhile people’ the trouble of killing you.
Understand this means accusing YOU of being a ‘TERRORIST’.
Who knew the size of your bank account would be the determining factor in whether or not you and yours were allowed to live?
The real puzzle here is ‘what the fuck are the cops thinking?’
It is they who will be ordered to execute the terrorists.
Best friend or not, if he murders my kid he’s a dead man!
Respect and friendship only extend so far…and our self-professed ‘betters’ seldom ‘fraternize’ with ‘the hired help’.
This is why the inexplicable return of ‘mercenary forces’ is so worrisome. Most of them are foreigners who have few qualms about murdering Gringos.
Worse, most of them would take particular pleasure in murdering Gringos in police uniforms…
Not that our ‘betters’ are particularly fussed about that…so long as their precious asses are covered (by, ironically, Blackwater.)
Naturally good citizen, this whole explanation sounds nuttier than a squirrel poo BUT, and this should scare the pants right off of you, it also makes sense!
The ‘new normal’ doesn’t have a place for you.
The question is whether or not you are going to do something about it before it is too late?
Sadly, the catch here is ‘what’? If I tell you what needs doing, it becomes ‘sedition’ so we aren’t going there.
There are indeed some things you need to figure out on your own.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Monday, October 4, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Incompetents?
Greetings good citizen,
I think it’s working…
What do I think is working?
The ‘drive ‘em to distraction’ strategy. I think it’s working.
A few days ago I wrote about our readiness to believe the worst of our fellow citizens WHEN, truth be told, they actually share our anger/disbelief that nobody is doing the job they were elected to do
Worse, it has become obvious that more elections will do nothing to correct this situation.
Because whomever we elect will be subject to taking orders from the same people their predecessors took them from! (Just a hint here, that don’t mean you or anybody you know unless you wipe your ass with thousand dollar bills…)
The ‘mid-term’ elections are a month away and the ‘batshit crazy’ Republicans are holding themselves out as the ‘alternative’ to the ‘do nothing’ Democrats.
If we are to prove, once and for all that our system of government is corrupt beyond repair, we actually NEED to give the Democrats an ‘indisputable majority’ in BOTH houses of Congress.
The ‘Party of No’ must be eliminated from the equation…although some idiotic pundits claim ‘democrats from conservative districts’ have to ‘pretend’ they are Republicans if they want to keep their seat…
Like the people voted Democrat because they truly desired ‘more of the same’!
Are these people ‘brain damaged’ or do they just pretend that we are?
First we give one party (and I really don’t care which one, they both SUCK) a bulletproof majority, then, once they fail to enforce the laws they were elected to uphold, we try THEM for treason!
Naturally, this will require that ‘somebody’ seizes power…the problem with this ‘wildcard’ is that it is much more likely the ‘Pirates’ who caused this mess will seize control before the representatives of the people get their chance.
And if the, er, ‘upper middle class’ (the ‘usual source’ of replacements during revolutions) takes control…well. They were only a step removed from the ‘predators’ they replaced. They still have next to nothing in common with the average citizen.
They have NEVER lived as we live or suffered as we suffer.
This is why the ‘counter-revolutions’, those quiet coups that steal back the country from those it was originally stolen from usually succeeds ‘unopposed’.
This is why the set up (that replaces the existing system) has to be foolproof.
That upper middle class must suffer the same fate as their as their upper class masters.
You aren’t going to get ‘change’ from people who have no clue what change is…as evidenced by our current President.
If you want to know who is running this country you need look no further than ‘the party of no’. The same people who just defeated a proposal to end the subsidy for employers who ‘off-shore’ US jobs.
Voting as one ‘bulletproof’ block, the 40 Republicans in the Senate stopped legislation that would at least ‘slow’ the flow of US jobs overseas…real fucking ‘patriots’ aren’t they?
Like a veil being lifted from your eyes good citizen, you have to ‘grow up’ and admit that the ‘ballot box’ is no more credible than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.
They’re all ‘make believe’.
The ballot box was invented as a tool to ‘make decisions’, using it to ‘choose’ who will make decisions for you without ever consulting you does you zero good.
For the ballot box to be effective again it must be used as it was intended, as an avenue for YOU to make decisions!
Your ‘right to vote’ is a lot more important than the bullshit that was perpetrated upon our forebearers by their self-appointed ‘betters.’
That’s right good citizen, those (wealthy) founders who met in secret and by invitation only NEVER INTENDED for you to have any say. They stole YOUR RIGHT to choose because you weren’t ‘smart enough’ to choose ‘wisely’ (like they’ve done any better!)
Time to turn that on its head, you certainly couldn’t do any worse.
Although many of you don’t want the ‘responsibility’ of making these decisions, you’re ‘afraid’ something will go wrong.
Here, once again, we succumb to that willingness to believe that a majority of us are ‘stupid’ (instead of just being deprived of alternatives, which is actually the case!)
You many not enjoy a ‘perfect’ voting record BUT in the end it is not up to you. You have only one vote in two hundred and thirty million (sorry but we still aren’t going to let ‘kids’ vote…) and you won’t always be on the prevailing side. (Although you should be most of the time!)
Horses and carts, sometimes it feels premature to discuss what life under A Simple Plan would be like but if we don’t have these discussions (thought experiments) you will not be familiar with the ‘alternatives’ to what we suffer now.
Intestinal fortitude good citizen, do you have the ‘guts’ to take charge of how you will live your life…or will you let ‘others’ decide for you?
Sadly, those ‘others’ can’t be trusted to act wisely/selflessly, that’s why pushing this duty off on ‘others’ is both irresponsible AND dangerous.
Why do you think our civilization is on the brink of collapse?
Because there was no mechanism to stop the self-interested from corrupting the system.
That was one hell of a massive ‘oversight’ made by the founders…and we both know it was ‘intentional’…it just wasn’t supposed to ‘get out of hand’ like it has.
Now it’s too late!
Anyway, it’s time once again to take a look at where ‘we’ are headed.
Indisputably we are firmly on the path that leads to a Banana Republic. The ‘wildcard’ here is how bad things will get before ‘social order’ collapses?
Lower ‘tax revenues’ means fewer police resources. The ticking you hear in the background is the millions of unemployed/homeless searching for someplace warm to call home while they hunt for something to eat…
Desperate people will dare desperate acts. So just how much can an under-manned police force handle?
Um, it is said that civilization is only nine meals deep…do the math; that’s three days.
You go three days without a morsel of food and you’re gonna be ready to do some pretty crazy shit because while you can go roughly 30 days without eating, starving to death still hurts like hell!
Think about cannibalism and just try to imagine how hungry you’d have to be for such a repellant concept to become a possibility, never mind a reality!
Once again I apologize for conjuring, er, ‘unpleasant images’ into your mind but reality is what it is.
We can only hope it never comes to that…although, historically speaking, it has occurred far too often.
Worse, while you’re reading this, somebody somewhere is ‘eating the dead’…because that’s all there is.
I lay a lot of ‘evil’ at the feet of capitalism, unnecessary cannibalism isn’t the least of its crimes...but it isn’t the worst either.
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
I think it’s working…
What do I think is working?
The ‘drive ‘em to distraction’ strategy. I think it’s working.
A few days ago I wrote about our readiness to believe the worst of our fellow citizens WHEN, truth be told, they actually share our anger/disbelief that nobody is doing the job they were elected to do
Worse, it has become obvious that more elections will do nothing to correct this situation.
Because whomever we elect will be subject to taking orders from the same people their predecessors took them from! (Just a hint here, that don’t mean you or anybody you know unless you wipe your ass with thousand dollar bills…)
The ‘mid-term’ elections are a month away and the ‘batshit crazy’ Republicans are holding themselves out as the ‘alternative’ to the ‘do nothing’ Democrats.
If we are to prove, once and for all that our system of government is corrupt beyond repair, we actually NEED to give the Democrats an ‘indisputable majority’ in BOTH houses of Congress.
The ‘Party of No’ must be eliminated from the equation…although some idiotic pundits claim ‘democrats from conservative districts’ have to ‘pretend’ they are Republicans if they want to keep their seat…
Like the people voted Democrat because they truly desired ‘more of the same’!
Are these people ‘brain damaged’ or do they just pretend that we are?
First we give one party (and I really don’t care which one, they both SUCK) a bulletproof majority, then, once they fail to enforce the laws they were elected to uphold, we try THEM for treason!
Naturally, this will require that ‘somebody’ seizes power…the problem with this ‘wildcard’ is that it is much more likely the ‘Pirates’ who caused this mess will seize control before the representatives of the people get their chance.
And if the, er, ‘upper middle class’ (the ‘usual source’ of replacements during revolutions) takes control…well. They were only a step removed from the ‘predators’ they replaced. They still have next to nothing in common with the average citizen.
They have NEVER lived as we live or suffered as we suffer.
This is why the ‘counter-revolutions’, those quiet coups that steal back the country from those it was originally stolen from usually succeeds ‘unopposed’.
This is why the set up (that replaces the existing system) has to be foolproof.
That upper middle class must suffer the same fate as their as their upper class masters.
You aren’t going to get ‘change’ from people who have no clue what change is…as evidenced by our current President.
If you want to know who is running this country you need look no further than ‘the party of no’. The same people who just defeated a proposal to end the subsidy for employers who ‘off-shore’ US jobs.
Voting as one ‘bulletproof’ block, the 40 Republicans in the Senate stopped legislation that would at least ‘slow’ the flow of US jobs overseas…real fucking ‘patriots’ aren’t they?
Like a veil being lifted from your eyes good citizen, you have to ‘grow up’ and admit that the ‘ballot box’ is no more credible than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.
They’re all ‘make believe’.
The ballot box was invented as a tool to ‘make decisions’, using it to ‘choose’ who will make decisions for you without ever consulting you does you zero good.
For the ballot box to be effective again it must be used as it was intended, as an avenue for YOU to make decisions!
Your ‘right to vote’ is a lot more important than the bullshit that was perpetrated upon our forebearers by their self-appointed ‘betters.’
That’s right good citizen, those (wealthy) founders who met in secret and by invitation only NEVER INTENDED for you to have any say. They stole YOUR RIGHT to choose because you weren’t ‘smart enough’ to choose ‘wisely’ (like they’ve done any better!)
Time to turn that on its head, you certainly couldn’t do any worse.
Although many of you don’t want the ‘responsibility’ of making these decisions, you’re ‘afraid’ something will go wrong.
Here, once again, we succumb to that willingness to believe that a majority of us are ‘stupid’ (instead of just being deprived of alternatives, which is actually the case!)
You many not enjoy a ‘perfect’ voting record BUT in the end it is not up to you. You have only one vote in two hundred and thirty million (sorry but we still aren’t going to let ‘kids’ vote…) and you won’t always be on the prevailing side. (Although you should be most of the time!)
Horses and carts, sometimes it feels premature to discuss what life under A Simple Plan would be like but if we don’t have these discussions (thought experiments) you will not be familiar with the ‘alternatives’ to what we suffer now.
Intestinal fortitude good citizen, do you have the ‘guts’ to take charge of how you will live your life…or will you let ‘others’ decide for you?
Sadly, those ‘others’ can’t be trusted to act wisely/selflessly, that’s why pushing this duty off on ‘others’ is both irresponsible AND dangerous.
Why do you think our civilization is on the brink of collapse?
Because there was no mechanism to stop the self-interested from corrupting the system.
That was one hell of a massive ‘oversight’ made by the founders…and we both know it was ‘intentional’…it just wasn’t supposed to ‘get out of hand’ like it has.
Now it’s too late!
Anyway, it’s time once again to take a look at where ‘we’ are headed.
Indisputably we are firmly on the path that leads to a Banana Republic. The ‘wildcard’ here is how bad things will get before ‘social order’ collapses?
Lower ‘tax revenues’ means fewer police resources. The ticking you hear in the background is the millions of unemployed/homeless searching for someplace warm to call home while they hunt for something to eat…
Desperate people will dare desperate acts. So just how much can an under-manned police force handle?
Um, it is said that civilization is only nine meals deep…do the math; that’s three days.
You go three days without a morsel of food and you’re gonna be ready to do some pretty crazy shit because while you can go roughly 30 days without eating, starving to death still hurts like hell!
Think about cannibalism and just try to imagine how hungry you’d have to be for such a repellant concept to become a possibility, never mind a reality!
Once again I apologize for conjuring, er, ‘unpleasant images’ into your mind but reality is what it is.
We can only hope it never comes to that…although, historically speaking, it has occurred far too often.
Worse, while you’re reading this, somebody somewhere is ‘eating the dead’…because that’s all there is.
I lay a lot of ‘evil’ at the feet of capitalism, unnecessary cannibalism isn’t the least of its crimes...but it isn’t the worst either.
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Forewarned...
Greetings good citizen,
Today we back up a few hundred feet to get a look at the ‘big picture’, the ‘why’ behind what we do and how we go about it.
You don’t think much about ‘why’. You have your hands full dealing with the lesser of multiple evils on EVERY damned front you can imagine. Although most of it is simplified, you either do it (usually the only way available to you) or you don’t and that’s the end of that shit!
We’d like to think we have ‘endless’ choices available to us but the truth is quite the opposite…there’s a whole lot of ‘no’ before you arrive at ‘I guess so’ because option ‘b’ isn’t exactly, er, ‘appealing’…
It is what it is and you don’t trouble yourself with ‘why’ because you don’t have any say.
So you take it or you leave it, it doesn’t matter to anybody but you (and millions of others just like you, so you’re not as ‘alone’ in this as you’ve been lead to believe.)
Sometimes, when you’re especially frustrated by the unnecessary difficulty of accomplishing what should be a simple task, this hits you right between the eyes!
In a moment of sudden clarity you are thunderstruck that EVERYBODY has to go through this every time they are required to perform this simple task and that’s when ‘why’ bites you right on the ass!
Now that I’ve opened your eyes to the ‘frightening regularity’ with which you are subjected to these frustrating and ‘nonsensical’ hoops that block your access to things you may not even want very much…sort of puts the whole thing in a different perspective, doesn’t it?
Now ‘why’ isn’t as dumb a question as it initially appears to be. Worse, ‘because’ isn’t a particularly satisfying answer either.
Anyway, as I stated at the outset, our objective today was to revisit the Big Picture for a look at why we bother to get our asses out of bed at all.
Don’t have to go too far or expend too much mental horsepower on that one. It’s the ‘eating (regularly) and living indoors thing’ that provides the motivation to rub the sleep from our eyes and gird ourselves for battle every day.
Your ‘why’ is simple even if the ‘how’ isn’t.
Interestingly, the people who provide you with the means to obtain your ‘why’ have the exact same ‘motivation’ as you do, it’s their method of ‘compensation’ that differs…it is also the reason ‘why’ your life is so much more, er, ‘complicated’ than it needs to be.
All ‘rich’ people have ‘income streams’ while the rest of us ‘peasants’ have to make due with the paychecks the rich cut for us.
Understand that the primary ‘justification’ for this glaring disparity remains ‘The Will of God!’ Although some are too, er, ‘proud’ to hide behind ‘divine selection’ and fall back on their ‘work ethic’ and ‘superior breeding’ as the reason for their success.
This is even more true today now that psychiatry has reached the conclusion that it is NOT ‘normal’ to hear voices in your head, that the only person in your head is you, not God!
So claiming to ‘speak with God’ on any level other than spiritual is to call your own mental stability into question.
Anyone can claim that they ‘speak to God’, it’s the ‘answer’ part that is troublesome.
Talking to God is perfectly cool. Claiming God ‘answers’ you…not so much.
Removing ‘divine selection’ from the equation we are left with one small planet that needs to be ‘shared’ by an, er, unchecked number of people.
You need not be a genius to see that the current set-up is NOT ‘sharing’ in any way shape or form.
This is one group claiming (usually a ‘divine right’) to what is justly ours.
This is ‘why’ we work FOR them, and not the greater good.
Our current socio-economic set up according to the judiciary is intended to ‘enrich the owners’ and not to serve our species.
Take a moment to read the short, yet eye-popping article in the link above.
Sort of redefines the term ‘why’, doesn’t it?
Circling back to yesterday’s post for a moment, is there any doubt we are on a rudderless ship with no-one at the helm?
We can talk about what might happen ‘after’ this nation has been looted but it is pretty obvious that job was finished by the Bush administration, there’s nothing left but the bones.
Sadly, the most we can hope for is to avenge future generations.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Today we back up a few hundred feet to get a look at the ‘big picture’, the ‘why’ behind what we do and how we go about it.
You don’t think much about ‘why’. You have your hands full dealing with the lesser of multiple evils on EVERY damned front you can imagine. Although most of it is simplified, you either do it (usually the only way available to you) or you don’t and that’s the end of that shit!
We’d like to think we have ‘endless’ choices available to us but the truth is quite the opposite…there’s a whole lot of ‘no’ before you arrive at ‘I guess so’ because option ‘b’ isn’t exactly, er, ‘appealing’…
It is what it is and you don’t trouble yourself with ‘why’ because you don’t have any say.
So you take it or you leave it, it doesn’t matter to anybody but you (and millions of others just like you, so you’re not as ‘alone’ in this as you’ve been lead to believe.)
Sometimes, when you’re especially frustrated by the unnecessary difficulty of accomplishing what should be a simple task, this hits you right between the eyes!
In a moment of sudden clarity you are thunderstruck that EVERYBODY has to go through this every time they are required to perform this simple task and that’s when ‘why’ bites you right on the ass!
Now that I’ve opened your eyes to the ‘frightening regularity’ with which you are subjected to these frustrating and ‘nonsensical’ hoops that block your access to things you may not even want very much…sort of puts the whole thing in a different perspective, doesn’t it?
Now ‘why’ isn’t as dumb a question as it initially appears to be. Worse, ‘because’ isn’t a particularly satisfying answer either.
Anyway, as I stated at the outset, our objective today was to revisit the Big Picture for a look at why we bother to get our asses out of bed at all.
Don’t have to go too far or expend too much mental horsepower on that one. It’s the ‘eating (regularly) and living indoors thing’ that provides the motivation to rub the sleep from our eyes and gird ourselves for battle every day.
Your ‘why’ is simple even if the ‘how’ isn’t.
Interestingly, the people who provide you with the means to obtain your ‘why’ have the exact same ‘motivation’ as you do, it’s their method of ‘compensation’ that differs…it is also the reason ‘why’ your life is so much more, er, ‘complicated’ than it needs to be.
All ‘rich’ people have ‘income streams’ while the rest of us ‘peasants’ have to make due with the paychecks the rich cut for us.
Understand that the primary ‘justification’ for this glaring disparity remains ‘The Will of God!’ Although some are too, er, ‘proud’ to hide behind ‘divine selection’ and fall back on their ‘work ethic’ and ‘superior breeding’ as the reason for their success.
This is even more true today now that psychiatry has reached the conclusion that it is NOT ‘normal’ to hear voices in your head, that the only person in your head is you, not God!
So claiming to ‘speak with God’ on any level other than spiritual is to call your own mental stability into question.
Anyone can claim that they ‘speak to God’, it’s the ‘answer’ part that is troublesome.
Talking to God is perfectly cool. Claiming God ‘answers’ you…not so much.
Removing ‘divine selection’ from the equation we are left with one small planet that needs to be ‘shared’ by an, er, unchecked number of people.
You need not be a genius to see that the current set-up is NOT ‘sharing’ in any way shape or form.
This is one group claiming (usually a ‘divine right’) to what is justly ours.
This is ‘why’ we work FOR them, and not the greater good.
Our current socio-economic set up according to the judiciary is intended to ‘enrich the owners’ and not to serve our species.
Take a moment to read the short, yet eye-popping article in the link above.
Sort of redefines the term ‘why’, doesn’t it?
Circling back to yesterday’s post for a moment, is there any doubt we are on a rudderless ship with no-one at the helm?
We can talk about what might happen ‘after’ this nation has been looted but it is pretty obvious that job was finished by the Bush administration, there’s nothing left but the bones.
Sadly, the most we can hope for is to avenge future generations.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Politics...
Greetings good citizen,
It’s all related, which is why today’s offering is loaded with links. The first three links are from Alternet and the final link is from Some Assembly required.
Loosely, all of the stories have a political aspect to them.
Our first link poses the troubling question of just how large the disconnect is between ‘party leadership’ and the people it supposedly represents?
Democrats Continue to Lash Out At Their Own Base
Apparently, it fell to our less than loquacious Vice President to task grumbling minions for their ‘over-elevated expectations.’
It seems the Republicans aren’t alone in consistently ‘mis-reading’ the mood of the public.
The amazing part is both parties continue to get away with it!
So concludes installment one in our exploration of our badly broken political system…
Next up we have ‘the facts’ as to why normal people Never vote Republican! from the aptly titled:
Crony Capitalism: Wall Street’s Favorite Politicians
Curiously, you are more likely to find a Republican who ran as a Democrat down South than up North, make out of that what you will…
However, ‘the stones’ land in both directions. Equally as perplexing is how a decided minority has successfully blocked ALL attempts at reform, we could only wish that the people of this nation were as united!
If we ask the question of ‘who votes for these assholes?’ the moronic Republican’s seem to think the ‘libruls’ did! This is why the ‘Party of No’ is expecting to win big in this November’s mid-term elections.
What will be truly disturbing is if they indeed do! [Nobody’s THAT stupid…so it really proves that the ballot box has been hijacked by the corporate MSM!]
The next link provides evidence of just how much the economy shrank during the eight year reign of W.
The piece is inappropriately titled:
How the Bush Tax Cuts Made Us Poorer
When the information tells us the ‘booming economy’ experienced during the Bush years was in fact a ‘delusion’. Only the top one percent increased their ‘take’ while the overall economy shrank by almost 3 trillion dollars. That’s ‘Trillion with a ‘T’ or a thousand billion…which is a thousand million…so what we’re really saying is three hundred thousand million that the Bush administration PAID its contributors to ship overseas!
Unfortunately, if you are a Republican, you aren’t reading this…hell, chances are good if you’re a Democrat you aren’t hanging out here either. Only other sane people are reading this. Small comfort that it is…
Last up we have this article which adds more fuel to the already raging bonfire the mentally challenged Republican’s have built around their ‘base’…
Seriously good citizen, who ‘in their right mind’ would vote Republican (Tea Party or no) after witnessing what voting for Republicans produces?
As I have asked many times before, if we are ‘all in this together', who the fuck is the ‘opposition’?
And the answer is…the god damned rapacious rich who would skin you alive if there was a dime in it for them, never thinking that their own skin was just as worthless.
This is why government exists and why it is so disastrous when government ceases to work.
That has ALWAYS been the challenge good citizen. Your civilization will only survive as long as the government stays ‘on task’. Once it’s been ‘co-opted/corrupted’ it must be swept aside and replaced COMPLETELY (because the ‘mechanism’ itself has failed. Merely replacing the people is worthless, the ‘corruption’ will remain.)
Today we find ourselves faced with precisely that unhappy situation. What passes for ‘our’ government is gone. It is now ‘their’ government, they being the criminals who would exploit society for their own personal gain.
These people are not any better than the slavers of old, hell, truth be told, slavers FOUNDED this country! For that reason alone we can’t be too surprised at the outcome.
However, we don’t have to live with the mistakes of the past.
We CAN build something much better…but we’re going to have to ‘purge’ the opponents to a ‘free and fair’ society from our midst.
A tall order but it can be done!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
It’s all related, which is why today’s offering is loaded with links. The first three links are from Alternet and the final link is from Some Assembly required.
Loosely, all of the stories have a political aspect to them.
Our first link poses the troubling question of just how large the disconnect is between ‘party leadership’ and the people it supposedly represents?
Democrats Continue to Lash Out At Their Own Base
Apparently, it fell to our less than loquacious Vice President to task grumbling minions for their ‘over-elevated expectations.’
It seems the Republicans aren’t alone in consistently ‘mis-reading’ the mood of the public.
The amazing part is both parties continue to get away with it!
So concludes installment one in our exploration of our badly broken political system…
Next up we have ‘the facts’ as to why normal people Never vote Republican! from the aptly titled:
Crony Capitalism: Wall Street’s Favorite Politicians
Curiously, you are more likely to find a Republican who ran as a Democrat down South than up North, make out of that what you will…
However, ‘the stones’ land in both directions. Equally as perplexing is how a decided minority has successfully blocked ALL attempts at reform, we could only wish that the people of this nation were as united!
If we ask the question of ‘who votes for these assholes?’ the moronic Republican’s seem to think the ‘libruls’ did! This is why the ‘Party of No’ is expecting to win big in this November’s mid-term elections.
What will be truly disturbing is if they indeed do! [Nobody’s THAT stupid…so it really proves that the ballot box has been hijacked by the corporate MSM!]
The next link provides evidence of just how much the economy shrank during the eight year reign of W.
The piece is inappropriately titled:
How the Bush Tax Cuts Made Us Poorer
When the information tells us the ‘booming economy’ experienced during the Bush years was in fact a ‘delusion’. Only the top one percent increased their ‘take’ while the overall economy shrank by almost 3 trillion dollars. That’s ‘Trillion with a ‘T’ or a thousand billion…which is a thousand million…so what we’re really saying is three hundred thousand million that the Bush administration PAID its contributors to ship overseas!
Unfortunately, if you are a Republican, you aren’t reading this…hell, chances are good if you’re a Democrat you aren’t hanging out here either. Only other sane people are reading this. Small comfort that it is…
Last up we have this article which adds more fuel to the already raging bonfire the mentally challenged Republican’s have built around their ‘base’…
Seriously good citizen, who ‘in their right mind’ would vote Republican (Tea Party or no) after witnessing what voting for Republicans produces?
As I have asked many times before, if we are ‘all in this together', who the fuck is the ‘opposition’?
And the answer is…the god damned rapacious rich who would skin you alive if there was a dime in it for them, never thinking that their own skin was just as worthless.
This is why government exists and why it is so disastrous when government ceases to work.
That has ALWAYS been the challenge good citizen. Your civilization will only survive as long as the government stays ‘on task’. Once it’s been ‘co-opted/corrupted’ it must be swept aside and replaced COMPLETELY (because the ‘mechanism’ itself has failed. Merely replacing the people is worthless, the ‘corruption’ will remain.)
Today we find ourselves faced with precisely that unhappy situation. What passes for ‘our’ government is gone. It is now ‘their’ government, they being the criminals who would exploit society for their own personal gain.
These people are not any better than the slavers of old, hell, truth be told, slavers FOUNDED this country! For that reason alone we can’t be too surprised at the outcome.
However, we don’t have to live with the mistakes of the past.
We CAN build something much better…but we’re going to have to ‘purge’ the opponents to a ‘free and fair’ society from our midst.
A tall order but it can be done!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
It makes the world do what?
Greetings good citizen,
I have on many occasions preached the dangers/wonders of our much-abused ‘medium of exchange,’ to the point that many of you are inclined to conclude that I’m schizophrenic on the subject.
It’s not a love/hate thing…nor am I of two minds on the topic. While I keep repeating that money itself is ‘meaningless’, that doesn’t make it ‘useless’.
Needless to say, your confusion is perfectly understandable.
Anyway, I came across this article by Hellacious on Sudden Debt this morning.
While it is a very good treatment on the topic of moneys’, er, ‘multiple personalities’, more interestingly, he comes as close as anyone I have yet read in addressing the ‘heart’ of the matter…
I would quibble that this phenomenon he describes is not ‘new’…the difference he notes is this is the first time it has been pushed to this extreme! (Where government funds have been used to ‘bail out’ failed private investment…to save the financial system from collapsing; a mission that still hasn’t been accomplished!)
There is ‘too much’ funny money out there. We can’t even begin to put the economy back on track until the bulk of the, er, ‘illegal bets’ have been eliminated.
This ‘small minority’ he refers to is crucial because these are the same assholes who control (believe it or not) the ‘value’ of your money!
But you don’t ‘understand’ what that means, do you?
You can’t wrap your head around the idea that a, for lack of a better term, ‘bunch of suits’ sit around on any given day and decide how much a barrel of oil will go for.
Why oil? Our entire economy, our very way of life is based on cheap and abundant energy…and that way of life is rapidly exhausting the resource it was predicated on.
EVERYTHING is ‘keyed’ to the price of energy.
Worse, this price has no ‘basis in reality’! They can’t charge what’s its really worth or our civilization would collapse right here and now!
The whole capitalist ‘scheme’ of things will dissolve into chaos (not Anarchy, we should only be so lucky!)
FULL STOP! [You have to ‘get’ this!]
Oil is a ‘finite’ resource that we WILL run out of. [That’s a ‘statement of fact’.]
While fossil fuels ARE being created/processed by Mother Nature today, we are using them much faster than the millions of years it will take for the planet to produce more.
Now try to wrap your head around the idea of a world that plunges into pitch blackness from the time that the sun sets until it rises again.
Picture that same world in the dead of winter (in the northern/southern latitudes.) There are neither enough trees nor enough ‘whale oil’ to make those latitudes ‘habitable’.
Are you beginning to comprehend the ‘scope’ of the problem?
Let me refocus you upon a crucial fact: ALL OF THIS is being done by a ‘small handful’ of individuals.
These individuals have already made ‘choices’ which are not ‘favorable’ to you and yours.
In the infamous words of Goldfinger, they don’t expect you to cooperate, they expect you to die in the third world hell-hole they are creating for us.
And there isn’t a fucking thing you can do about it…well, ‘legally’ anyway.
I sincerely apologize for inflicting the ‘painful truth’ upon you…you are now free to enjoy your sunny day like none of this is happening.
Worse, I’m willing to bet that most of you will do just that.
Considering the alternatives we really don’t have much of a choice…
Which is to acknowledge that people that don’t have our best interests in mind are making those ‘choices’ for us!
Which, bizarrely, is precisely the way that all civilizations collapse!
This could be fun if it weren’t so friggin’ deadly!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
I have on many occasions preached the dangers/wonders of our much-abused ‘medium of exchange,’ to the point that many of you are inclined to conclude that I’m schizophrenic on the subject.
It’s not a love/hate thing…nor am I of two minds on the topic. While I keep repeating that money itself is ‘meaningless’, that doesn’t make it ‘useless’.
Needless to say, your confusion is perfectly understandable.
Anyway, I came across this article by Hellacious on Sudden Debt this morning.
While it is a very good treatment on the topic of moneys’, er, ‘multiple personalities’, more interestingly, he comes as close as anyone I have yet read in addressing the ‘heart’ of the matter…
As things have developed lately it is this small minority that is calling the shots for everyone else, i.e. the finance tail is wagging the entire economic dog, now more than ever before. The borrow-consume-grow economic model that was espoused - and is still espoused in the guise of government "bailouts" - led to such an explosion of debt world-wide that Holy Smoke! is now the only form of money that really matters, the state that calls the shots, if you want.
This is completely unprecedented in economic/monetary history. It is even entirely wrong to compare today with the Great Depression and to attempt to draw parallels, examples, lessons or possible solutions from it. This is a new reality, so new as to have become invisible to politicians and economists who operate under the principle that if you can't "see" it; it doesn't exist. (To be fair that's how most of us operate, day-to-day anyway.)
I would quibble that this phenomenon he describes is not ‘new’…the difference he notes is this is the first time it has been pushed to this extreme! (Where government funds have been used to ‘bail out’ failed private investment…to save the financial system from collapsing; a mission that still hasn’t been accomplished!)
There is ‘too much’ funny money out there. We can’t even begin to put the economy back on track until the bulk of the, er, ‘illegal bets’ have been eliminated.
This ‘small minority’ he refers to is crucial because these are the same assholes who control (believe it or not) the ‘value’ of your money!
But you don’t ‘understand’ what that means, do you?
You can’t wrap your head around the idea that a, for lack of a better term, ‘bunch of suits’ sit around on any given day and decide how much a barrel of oil will go for.
Why oil? Our entire economy, our very way of life is based on cheap and abundant energy…and that way of life is rapidly exhausting the resource it was predicated on.
EVERYTHING is ‘keyed’ to the price of energy.
Worse, this price has no ‘basis in reality’! They can’t charge what’s its really worth or our civilization would collapse right here and now!
The whole capitalist ‘scheme’ of things will dissolve into chaos (not Anarchy, we should only be so lucky!)
FULL STOP! [You have to ‘get’ this!]
Oil is a ‘finite’ resource that we WILL run out of. [That’s a ‘statement of fact’.]
While fossil fuels ARE being created/processed by Mother Nature today, we are using them much faster than the millions of years it will take for the planet to produce more.
Now try to wrap your head around the idea of a world that plunges into pitch blackness from the time that the sun sets until it rises again.
Picture that same world in the dead of winter (in the northern/southern latitudes.) There are neither enough trees nor enough ‘whale oil’ to make those latitudes ‘habitable’.
Are you beginning to comprehend the ‘scope’ of the problem?
Let me refocus you upon a crucial fact: ALL OF THIS is being done by a ‘small handful’ of individuals.
These individuals have already made ‘choices’ which are not ‘favorable’ to you and yours.
In the infamous words of Goldfinger, they don’t expect you to cooperate, they expect you to die in the third world hell-hole they are creating for us.
And there isn’t a fucking thing you can do about it…well, ‘legally’ anyway.
I sincerely apologize for inflicting the ‘painful truth’ upon you…you are now free to enjoy your sunny day like none of this is happening.
Worse, I’m willing to bet that most of you will do just that.
Considering the alternatives we really don’t have much of a choice…
Which is to acknowledge that people that don’t have our best interests in mind are making those ‘choices’ for us!
Which, bizarrely, is precisely the way that all civilizations collapse!
This could be fun if it weren’t so friggin’ deadly!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Monday, September 27, 2010
Structural Baloney
Greetings good citizen,
Every once in a while you come across something that confirms you aren’t the only one whose thoughts travel along a certain pathway.
A Simple Plan would solve the unemployment ‘crisis’ tomorrow and in a stunning admission, Paul Krugman AGREES
That ‘miracle’ aside, he also admits the major obstacle to correcting the unemployment situation is the, er, ‘political will’ to do so.
You see, the capitalists wouldn’t have any problem with cutting the workweek in half nor would it be any skin off of their nose if the workforce doubled as a result.
What would frost the capitalist’s cookies is that this is only ‘half’ of the solution…if we are to cut people’s pay in half we must also reduce how much they are required to lay out by a proportionate amount.
The first half is ‘painless’; it is basically twice the number of workers for the same amount of pay. It is the second half that is going to take some, er, ‘belt tightening’ on the part of the, er, ‘profit compensated’ crowd.
No irony should be lost on the fact that the obvious place to ‘cut’ this expense is already ‘reducing itself’…that is the amount of pay the average worker has to shell out for shelter.
Under A Simple Plan, shelter is a ‘gimme’, you NEVER pay for it…conversely, you can never buy nor sell it either. Which is cool because you don’t need to save for ‘retirement’. That’s a ‘gimme’ to. (Bizarrely, retirement was one of the principle arguments for ‘home ownership’, your ‘ever appreciating’ home WAS your retirement account!)
My how some things change!
Anyway, how did our Nobel Laureate do?
While I find such articles, er, ‘refreshing’, I am also ‘disappointed’ that Mr. Krugman wasn’t more specific about how to solve the crisis.
This is why I repeat that there is ‘No way out’ of this mess under capitalism. It can’t be done…it can be ‘postponed’ by things like Jubilees (debt forgiveness) but this does nothing to correct the underlying problems that brought us here in the first place.
This brings us full circle to the issue of why they don’t ‘forgive’ everybody’s onerous debts tomorrow.
They COULD do it very easily…but there’s a ‘downside’. Just how diligent would you be paying back future debt knowing they were able to ‘walk away’ from what you owed before?
The, er, ‘incentive’ to pay would go right out the window if they let you off the hook free and repossessing most of what you bought on credit is a non-starter!
Nobody is going to want it after you are done with it nor would they be willing to pay half price for used junk!
So even a Jubilee is, er, ‘problematic’…sets a bad ‘precedent’. Worse, how long would it be before people started ‘demanding’ Jubilees?
Now the whole idea of ‘credit’ goes right out the window and we are faced with the daunting prospects of a ‘gift economy.’ This could very rapidly erode the ‘work ethic’ and result in…you guessed it, another highway that leads directly to ‘economic collapse’!
Naturally, the purpose of these little ‘thought experiments’ is to illuminate rather than to confuse.
A.S.P. provides a concrete method for addressing the ‘population factor’ which has become more ominously labeled the ‘surplus population’ by die-hard capitalists.
Just another reason why capitalism should be abandoned as soon as possible!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Every once in a while you come across something that confirms you aren’t the only one whose thoughts travel along a certain pathway.
A Simple Plan would solve the unemployment ‘crisis’ tomorrow and in a stunning admission, Paul Krugman AGREES
That ‘miracle’ aside, he also admits the major obstacle to correcting the unemployment situation is the, er, ‘political will’ to do so.
You see, the capitalists wouldn’t have any problem with cutting the workweek in half nor would it be any skin off of their nose if the workforce doubled as a result.
What would frost the capitalist’s cookies is that this is only ‘half’ of the solution…if we are to cut people’s pay in half we must also reduce how much they are required to lay out by a proportionate amount.
The first half is ‘painless’; it is basically twice the number of workers for the same amount of pay. It is the second half that is going to take some, er, ‘belt tightening’ on the part of the, er, ‘profit compensated’ crowd.
No irony should be lost on the fact that the obvious place to ‘cut’ this expense is already ‘reducing itself’…that is the amount of pay the average worker has to shell out for shelter.
Under A Simple Plan, shelter is a ‘gimme’, you NEVER pay for it…conversely, you can never buy nor sell it either. Which is cool because you don’t need to save for ‘retirement’. That’s a ‘gimme’ to. (Bizarrely, retirement was one of the principle arguments for ‘home ownership’, your ‘ever appreciating’ home WAS your retirement account!)
My how some things change!
Anyway, how did our Nobel Laureate do?
All the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand — full stop.
Saying that there are no easy answers sounds wise, but it’s actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act. [The ‘pittance’ this would ‘cost’ in dollars is but a fraction of what doing nothing will cost in blood!]
In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.
[Were we to ‘address’ our unemployment problem, we would end up ‘shifting’ that problem to ‘exporting nations’, something we must do anyway before the ‘export model’ collapses! (Due to ‘peak energy’.)]
Who are these wise heads I’m talking about? The most widely quoted figure is Narayana Kocherlakota, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, who has attracted a lot of attention by insisting that dealing with high unemployment isn’t a Fed responsibility: “Firms have jobs, but can’t find appropriate workers. The workers want to work, but can’t find appropriate jobs,” he asserts, concluding that “It is hard to see how the Fed can do much to cure this problem.” [It’s an obvious ‘lie’ to claim that we are suffering from a ‘skills mis-match’ when many of the most qualified workers are actually suffering from ‘over fifty disease!’]
Now, the Minneapolis Fed is known for its conservative outlook, and claims that unemployment is mainly structural do tend to come from the right of the political spectrum. But some people on the other side of the aisle say similar things. For example, former President Bill Clinton recently told an interviewer that unemployment remained high because “people don’t have the job skills for the jobs that are open.”
[Good ol’ Bill Jefferson! Best Republican president we’ve had since Lincoln! Don’t let that D after his name fool you, like his sidekick ‘Barrack’, Billy boy is a dyed in the wool Republican from the word go.
Need proof? Look at who he ‘hangs out with’…]
Well, I’d respectfully suggest that Mr. Clinton talk to researchers at the Roosevelt Institute and the Economic Policy Institute, both of which have recently released important reports completely debunking claims of a surge in structural unemployment.
After all, what should we be seeing if statements like those of Mr. Kocherlakota or Mr. Clinton were true? The answer is, there should be significant labor shortages somewhere in America — major industries that are trying to expand but are having trouble hiring, major classes of workers who find their skills in great demand, major parts of the country with low unemployment even as the rest of the nation suffers.
None of these things exist. Job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared. Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category. Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5 percent. [It should come as a mystery to no one that those three States are A.) Red and B.) Specialize in Banking!]
Oh, and where are these firms that “can’t find appropriate workers”? The National Federation of Independent Business has been surveying small businesses for many years, asking them to name their most important problem; the percentage citing problems with labor quality is now at an all-time low, reflecting the reality that these days even highly skilled workers are desperate for employment.
So all the evidence contradicts the claim that we’re mainly suffering from structural unemployment. Why, then, has this claim become so popular? [Like he doesn’t know, working as he does for the ‘willful ignorance’ people!]
Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment — in part because pundits and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the work force is “unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.” A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs — and suddenly industry was eager to employ those “unadaptable and untrained” workers.
[Funny how a little thing like the prospects of ‘global subjugation’ changed everything, isn’t it?]
But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy. And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been proliferating: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society. [Worse, doing ‘nothing’ is a ‘non-starter’, you can’t leave millions of people out in the cold with no place to turn because they WILL destroy those who abandoned them!]
So what you need to know is that there is no evidence whatsoever to back these claims. We aren’t suffering from a shortage of needed skills; we’re suffering from a lack of policy resolve. As I said, structural unemployment isn’t a real problem, it’s an excuse — a reason not to act on America’s problems at a time when action is desperately needed.
While I find such articles, er, ‘refreshing’, I am also ‘disappointed’ that Mr. Krugman wasn’t more specific about how to solve the crisis.
This is why I repeat that there is ‘No way out’ of this mess under capitalism. It can’t be done…it can be ‘postponed’ by things like Jubilees (debt forgiveness) but this does nothing to correct the underlying problems that brought us here in the first place.
This brings us full circle to the issue of why they don’t ‘forgive’ everybody’s onerous debts tomorrow.
They COULD do it very easily…but there’s a ‘downside’. Just how diligent would you be paying back future debt knowing they were able to ‘walk away’ from what you owed before?
The, er, ‘incentive’ to pay would go right out the window if they let you off the hook free and repossessing most of what you bought on credit is a non-starter!
Nobody is going to want it after you are done with it nor would they be willing to pay half price for used junk!
So even a Jubilee is, er, ‘problematic’…sets a bad ‘precedent’. Worse, how long would it be before people started ‘demanding’ Jubilees?
Now the whole idea of ‘credit’ goes right out the window and we are faced with the daunting prospects of a ‘gift economy.’ This could very rapidly erode the ‘work ethic’ and result in…you guessed it, another highway that leads directly to ‘economic collapse’!
Naturally, the purpose of these little ‘thought experiments’ is to illuminate rather than to confuse.
A.S.P. provides a concrete method for addressing the ‘population factor’ which has become more ominously labeled the ‘surplus population’ by die-hard capitalists.
Just another reason why capitalism should be abandoned as soon as possible!
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Criminal Enterprise
Greetings good citizen,
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Two hundred and thirty plus years ago the founders of this nation revolted against what they considered a criminal regime. [While loosely held in check by the bankers and merchants, the Royals were a law unto themselves…]
Subtract the Royals and what have you got? You’ve got the bankers and the merchants playing ‘Guardians of Justice’ for everybody except themselves…for they can do no wrong.
While some wonder openly if we are headed down the path taken by Japan, it is not a meaningless question to ask if we aren’t more likely to find ourselves in Mexico’s lawless predicament?
Which is to point out that there isn’t a lot of difference between a Banana Republic and a nation run by outlaws.
No irony should be lost on the fact that one of the, er, ‘side effects’ of the Reagan Revolution is how everybody who was anybody suddenly started acting like they were ‘connected’.
Well, good citizen, maybe it was more than an act…
Behind the scenes many Washington bureaucracies were, er, ‘cleaned out’. A lot of old time civil servants were ‘shown the door’ and, totally against civil service hiring rules, new people took their place.
So thorough was this ‘house cleaning’ that we still have Reagan/Bush appointees in power today.
Regardless, the point is that since the ‘Reagan Era’ our government has ceased to ‘work’.
This is the outcome of electing people who don’t want government looking over their shoulders.
Understand that the people who don’t want the government watching them ARE criminals!
Now that we have a government run by criminals, how do we get rid of them?
You can’t vote them out. Many aren’t ‘elected’.
This is what the conservatives don’t fucking get.
The government exists to protect the average person from the ones that refuse to obey the rules.
If you listen to the run of the mill conservative, all they do is bitch about the rules (even the ones that aren’t enforced!)
In fact the conservative would LOVE to live in a world where there were no rules, that way if you didn’t do what you were told, the pricks would be free to kill you!
Put that shoe on the other foot and they’d be the first ones howling to form a posse to hunt your murdering ass down!
Because you know it’s OK if you’re a Republican!
If we lived in a conservative world, quitting time wouldn’t be until they said it was quitting time and if you don’t like it, don’t come back!
Oh yeah, no breaks and no lunch, you’d have to ‘eat on the fly’ and you’d probably get the ‘hairy eyeball’ no matter when you decided to sneak a few bites!
Oh yeah, if you didn’t inherit a business from your father, you couldn’t start one on your own. There’s only so much market share to go around and their kids will need as much as they can get there hands on.
You see, you don’t have what it takes. You weren’t ‘born to rule’ like they were.
Yeah, they’re ‘special’ and you’re not.
Wait for it…here it comes, you know what’s next!
It’s ‘God’s will!’
That’s what makes them so special…God told them personally that they were special, you just ask him yourself if you don’t believe me!
What’s that, God don’t ‘talk’ to you?
Just proves I’m special!
P.S. by the way good citizen; we have another term for people who hear voices inside their head, we call then psychotic! [There’s nobody inside your head but you!]
Haven’t I been telling you right along that conservatism has been proven to be a mental disorder?
Well good citizen, when the sham that passes for our legal system shuts down what will be left? We will have what they had in the old days, ‘self-appointed’ judges, juries and executioners all rolled onto one. All predicated on how ‘bad’ these self-styled bad-ass wannabes thought they were.
Naturally, no matter how bad you think you are there’s always someone somewhere who’s tougher and has the requisite balls to prove it.
It is only a matter of time until you meet your match.
Sadly, dickhead is incapable of wrapping his mind around anything longer term than the next ten minutes.
And sometimes the challenger is actually inferior to dickhead so dickhead comes out on top, making him even more insufferable. Which only serves to shorten the time until the next challenger darkens his doorstep.
Talk about being your own worst enemy!
Sorry, sort of went off track there…I was going to lead you down the path the poor Mexican civilian is currently facing.
Somebody takes it into their head that they want you to pay them, just a little, to protect you from the ‘bad people’.
Naturally, you pay taxes, that’s what the cops are for…so you tell big and creepy to screw or you’ll call the cops on him!
He just grins and breaks your nose…just to teach you a ‘lesson’.
So you go to the cops and swear out a complaint. The cops go out and drag big and ugly back to the station. What makes you nervous is all of a sudden the cops keep asking if you are SURE this is the guy who slugged you after he tried to shake you down.
They also ask if you are SURE you want to prosecute this guy? They might even suggest its not a ‘good idea’, if you know what’s good for you.
You’re ‘sure’ and yes, you will press charges.
Then the cops’ hit you with the clincher…do you have any witnesses?
Um, you think back and you realize there wasn’t anybody around who could say for sure what was going on. The big guy kept what he wanted quiet and you’re pretty sure nobody saw him slug you. (You’re also pretty sure if someone did see; they’d be reluctant to back you up.)
Big and ugly grins at you…he knew what he was doing and he also knows what the cops are going to do…nothing. You can’t prove he is the one who slugged you!
They ‘cut him loose’ before you astonished eyes and guess who is waiting for you outside the police station…
Yep, and now he wants double!
So you pay up. All the way home the only thing on your mind is where you are going to get your hands on an untraceable weapon and where you can dump the body so it will never be found.
Because that’s what you do when the law fails. You have to ‘fix’ things yourself.
But hey, most of us don’t have enough for a gorilla to bother with us, it’s not worth his while and he knows if he screws with people as desperate as he is, someone will inevitably ‘whack him’ rather than keep paying.
Then again, some of them really are ‘stupid’…which is neither here nor there.
Someone ‘leaning’ on you is just a remote possibility, right along with some chooch trying to squeeze some juice out of you for soaking up their shade (a common practice in Somalia.)
No, your real troubles have materialized on a front so far off your radar that you don’t even realize you’ve been ‘victimized’.
Let’s start with your ‘retirement funds’. You ‘invest’ a portion of your paycheck in a mutual fund hoping to reap a good return so you can retire ‘comfortably’…all the while knowing that investment involves ‘risk’.
You are TOLD that this risk is limited to business going ‘soft’ and profits falling to negligible levels or the investment not selling as well as it has in the past.
What you aren’t told is the risk that the creators of the investment vehicle don’t intend to do more than pocket your money and tell you it was lost! This too is a legitimate risk of investing.
And there ain’t a fucking thing you can do about it.
Good luck finding a lawyer willing to take these guys to court. It ain’t gonna happen.
Don’t get me wrong, you won’t find an attorney/law firm that will refuse the case, they’ll just bleed you dry until you give it up!
Theoretically, you can sue the law firm that takes your money and fails to produce results in a reasonable amount of time…but now we’re dancing in the realm of ‘what is reasonable’.
Did I mention that all money is funny?
Do you think Mr. Obama ‘had’ the 700+ billion to fund the stimulus program? Of course he didn’t… but he did have the power to cause that debt to be created!
Same deal with the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. Mr. Bush didn’t ‘have’ the money to fund either ‘adventure’, he just went ahead and did it.
While there is all sorts of claims that we ‘borrowed’ that money from the Chinese (among others) that didn’t slow us down for a moment…nor will it in the future.
Which leaves us in a pretty interesting position, considering what’s going on in Cuba lately…
But I digress.
A nation full of criminals good citizen, what are we going to do?
Do we roll over and play dead or do we ‘clean house’?
Thanks for letting me inside your head, (But I’m not really here, it’s still you!)
Gegner
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Two hundred and thirty plus years ago the founders of this nation revolted against what they considered a criminal regime. [While loosely held in check by the bankers and merchants, the Royals were a law unto themselves…]
Subtract the Royals and what have you got? You’ve got the bankers and the merchants playing ‘Guardians of Justice’ for everybody except themselves…for they can do no wrong.
While some wonder openly if we are headed down the path taken by Japan, it is not a meaningless question to ask if we aren’t more likely to find ourselves in Mexico’s lawless predicament?
Which is to point out that there isn’t a lot of difference between a Banana Republic and a nation run by outlaws.
No irony should be lost on the fact that one of the, er, ‘side effects’ of the Reagan Revolution is how everybody who was anybody suddenly started acting like they were ‘connected’.
Well, good citizen, maybe it was more than an act…
Behind the scenes many Washington bureaucracies were, er, ‘cleaned out’. A lot of old time civil servants were ‘shown the door’ and, totally against civil service hiring rules, new people took their place.
So thorough was this ‘house cleaning’ that we still have Reagan/Bush appointees in power today.
Regardless, the point is that since the ‘Reagan Era’ our government has ceased to ‘work’.
This is the outcome of electing people who don’t want government looking over their shoulders.
Understand that the people who don’t want the government watching them ARE criminals!
Now that we have a government run by criminals, how do we get rid of them?
You can’t vote them out. Many aren’t ‘elected’.
This is what the conservatives don’t fucking get.
The government exists to protect the average person from the ones that refuse to obey the rules.
If you listen to the run of the mill conservative, all they do is bitch about the rules (even the ones that aren’t enforced!)
In fact the conservative would LOVE to live in a world where there were no rules, that way if you didn’t do what you were told, the pricks would be free to kill you!
Put that shoe on the other foot and they’d be the first ones howling to form a posse to hunt your murdering ass down!
Because you know it’s OK if you’re a Republican!
If we lived in a conservative world, quitting time wouldn’t be until they said it was quitting time and if you don’t like it, don’t come back!
Oh yeah, no breaks and no lunch, you’d have to ‘eat on the fly’ and you’d probably get the ‘hairy eyeball’ no matter when you decided to sneak a few bites!
Oh yeah, if you didn’t inherit a business from your father, you couldn’t start one on your own. There’s only so much market share to go around and their kids will need as much as they can get there hands on.
You see, you don’t have what it takes. You weren’t ‘born to rule’ like they were.
Yeah, they’re ‘special’ and you’re not.
Wait for it…here it comes, you know what’s next!
It’s ‘God’s will!’
That’s what makes them so special…God told them personally that they were special, you just ask him yourself if you don’t believe me!
What’s that, God don’t ‘talk’ to you?
Just proves I’m special!
P.S. by the way good citizen; we have another term for people who hear voices inside their head, we call then psychotic! [There’s nobody inside your head but you!]
Haven’t I been telling you right along that conservatism has been proven to be a mental disorder?
Well good citizen, when the sham that passes for our legal system shuts down what will be left? We will have what they had in the old days, ‘self-appointed’ judges, juries and executioners all rolled onto one. All predicated on how ‘bad’ these self-styled bad-ass wannabes thought they were.
Naturally, no matter how bad you think you are there’s always someone somewhere who’s tougher and has the requisite balls to prove it.
It is only a matter of time until you meet your match.
Sadly, dickhead is incapable of wrapping his mind around anything longer term than the next ten minutes.
And sometimes the challenger is actually inferior to dickhead so dickhead comes out on top, making him even more insufferable. Which only serves to shorten the time until the next challenger darkens his doorstep.
Talk about being your own worst enemy!
Sorry, sort of went off track there…I was going to lead you down the path the poor Mexican civilian is currently facing.
Somebody takes it into their head that they want you to pay them, just a little, to protect you from the ‘bad people’.
Naturally, you pay taxes, that’s what the cops are for…so you tell big and creepy to screw or you’ll call the cops on him!
He just grins and breaks your nose…just to teach you a ‘lesson’.
So you go to the cops and swear out a complaint. The cops go out and drag big and ugly back to the station. What makes you nervous is all of a sudden the cops keep asking if you are SURE this is the guy who slugged you after he tried to shake you down.
They also ask if you are SURE you want to prosecute this guy? They might even suggest its not a ‘good idea’, if you know what’s good for you.
You’re ‘sure’ and yes, you will press charges.
Then the cops’ hit you with the clincher…do you have any witnesses?
Um, you think back and you realize there wasn’t anybody around who could say for sure what was going on. The big guy kept what he wanted quiet and you’re pretty sure nobody saw him slug you. (You’re also pretty sure if someone did see; they’d be reluctant to back you up.)
Big and ugly grins at you…he knew what he was doing and he also knows what the cops are going to do…nothing. You can’t prove he is the one who slugged you!
They ‘cut him loose’ before you astonished eyes and guess who is waiting for you outside the police station…
Yep, and now he wants double!
So you pay up. All the way home the only thing on your mind is where you are going to get your hands on an untraceable weapon and where you can dump the body so it will never be found.
Because that’s what you do when the law fails. You have to ‘fix’ things yourself.
But hey, most of us don’t have enough for a gorilla to bother with us, it’s not worth his while and he knows if he screws with people as desperate as he is, someone will inevitably ‘whack him’ rather than keep paying.
Then again, some of them really are ‘stupid’…which is neither here nor there.
Someone ‘leaning’ on you is just a remote possibility, right along with some chooch trying to squeeze some juice out of you for soaking up their shade (a common practice in Somalia.)
No, your real troubles have materialized on a front so far off your radar that you don’t even realize you’ve been ‘victimized’.
Let’s start with your ‘retirement funds’. You ‘invest’ a portion of your paycheck in a mutual fund hoping to reap a good return so you can retire ‘comfortably’…all the while knowing that investment involves ‘risk’.
You are TOLD that this risk is limited to business going ‘soft’ and profits falling to negligible levels or the investment not selling as well as it has in the past.
What you aren’t told is the risk that the creators of the investment vehicle don’t intend to do more than pocket your money and tell you it was lost! This too is a legitimate risk of investing.
And there ain’t a fucking thing you can do about it.
Good luck finding a lawyer willing to take these guys to court. It ain’t gonna happen.
Don’t get me wrong, you won’t find an attorney/law firm that will refuse the case, they’ll just bleed you dry until you give it up!
Theoretically, you can sue the law firm that takes your money and fails to produce results in a reasonable amount of time…but now we’re dancing in the realm of ‘what is reasonable’.
Did I mention that all money is funny?
Do you think Mr. Obama ‘had’ the 700+ billion to fund the stimulus program? Of course he didn’t… but he did have the power to cause that debt to be created!
Same deal with the Iraq/Afghanistan wars. Mr. Bush didn’t ‘have’ the money to fund either ‘adventure’, he just went ahead and did it.
While there is all sorts of claims that we ‘borrowed’ that money from the Chinese (among others) that didn’t slow us down for a moment…nor will it in the future.
Which leaves us in a pretty interesting position, considering what’s going on in Cuba lately…
But I digress.
A nation full of criminals good citizen, what are we going to do?
Do we roll over and play dead or do we ‘clean house’?
Thanks for letting me inside your head, (But I’m not really here, it’s still you!)
Gegner
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