He can be repetitive (it’s what people do when they have a clear idea, but it doesn’t seem to resonate adequately), but from the perspective of a European-American POV, this was pretty clear.
This crisis seems to me to be largely contrived. Those most interested in returning to a laissez faire, feudalistic/social darwinistic world, maneuvered us into a crisis. Because of their economic and political strength, they made sure that they would be bailed out for their efforts, and because of their economic and political strength, they have been able to force us to subscribe to their economic ideology despite, or perhaps because of, the depth of their failure.
Drown the government in a bathtub has become a universal desire of those with the real power, in the US and abroad. The only difference between Europe and the US is that in the US, a large proportion of people have been brainwashed into actually believing their tripe, while in Europe it is politically expedient to hide the agenda and to paint the anti-safety net as a victim of a crisis that cannot be controlled.
It’s not from the likes of a Goldman-Sachs administration that we will find a solution to this, and it certainly isn’t the Merkles of the world that will lead us back to the right path.
Thus 15-M and OWS.
Anyhow, I find this all very depressing. For a brief period it seemed that the Keynesians were back, but O’s adoption of Goldman Sachs soon put that out of the picture.
We’re being played like fiddles.
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Just wondering have you read this book it’s now in paper back? I have 2 copies I give to friends to read so they’ll understand what’s coming. Then have one friend who refused to read it because she just didn’t believe the govt would do this to us. Head in Sand.
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
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We’ve talked about Naomi Klein and her book, before. I think there are some pretty good videos on YouTube of her speaking, too.
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“This crisis seems to me to be largely contrived.”
Whether beginning was contrived, or not, may be debatable, but there’s no question (in my mind) that making it worse is intentional. The reasons may differ in Europe vs. the US, but RW extremists hate government in either case. Here, because we have a socialist Kenyan community organizer in the WH, there because, well, too much of the money is still getting back into (or staying in) the hands of the poor and middle class due to things like socialized medicine and payments to the unemployed.
The RW, and especially the 1%ers of the RW, won’t be happy until they just make the rules (no voting) and leaving us with the choice of following them or dying.
What I still can’t wrap my mind around is how anyone could vote for them.
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What I still can’t wrap my mind around is how anyone could vote for them
Still beyond me also, but when finance ministers in almost all of the big nations come from gs then yes they did work hard in putting this in play in Europe and soon in Amerika. One of the reasons Russia/Putin dislikes Amerika so much.
Did work today or head home? Hopefully headed home on Friday.
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I’m exhausted. I’m awake at 1AM because I’m too tired to sleep.
Worked 7 hours Friday, then drove home; 2 /12 hours due to flooding on the beltway and tornado warnings all over the East coast. Got home at 9:30 PM.
Worked all day Saturday. Didn’t get the lawn mowed, or anything else, but got another case posted.
Tomorrow (Sunday) I expect I’ll log in and do some searching while the washing machine and drier run, or at least look at what I should work on next, then drive back to DC. Put away the clothes and dishes, get the coffee ready to turn itself on in the morning, and go to bed. Then, in the immotal words of Jackson Browne, Get up and Do It Again.
I expect the next two weeks, the last bi-week of the quarter, to be especially brutal. I have to do roughly twice the work I normally am able to do, just to be “fully successful”. And if I’m less than “fully successful” I’m on the “cut soon” list, and not eligible for other bonuses.
The really shitty thing is, I’m not unusual. Another guy in his 50s who got laid off the same day I did is still unemployed, and well beyond 99 weeks. My previous company has also laid off hundreds more since I was let go. It’s little compensation that the VP of research was in tears, when he gave his retirement speech, about having to let me (specifically me) go. I’m still laid off, and my career is in tatters.
The 1% have won. Even Ph.D. jobs are being outsourced. Why not, when you can hire 3 American educated Ph.D.s living in India or China for the cost of one living in the USA? The internet has truly set the corporations free!
I dunno, man. I’m a simple guy. I don’t need a lot of money to be happy, but I need enough to survive and I’m tired of answering to anyone. I need to retire, and 3 years and 8 months from now I can retire with health insurance for the rest of my life. It’s worth working for, and VERY few people have the opportunity to do it, but it’s fucking brutal.
(Edit: I should have pointed out that I wouldn’t be working so hard if it weren’t for the fact that we don’t have nationalized health care in America. We’re slaves to the health care industry, one major illness away from being destitute or dead. We just don’t realize it until we get older.)
I hope I can hang in there.
And I can’t believe I’m better off than most, but I am.
Why do we “settle” for shit like this?
And the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor…
Between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender.
There’s a train every day, leaving either way;
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You get angry and you fight back. That is the solution.
You image what you want. And in that image, you better make sure that there is some kind of horrible event that kills all the globalists power-mongers that are ruining our Constitutional rights.
I x V = R
Imagination times vividness equals reality
For the last month have had a mantra, said many times a day, and at all times when I think of it.
“the price of gas will fall to $2 per gallon by June 2012. It will remain at $2 per gallon until Oct. 2012. Andthe price of gas will never ever again reach $4 per gallon or above.”
I suggest you do the mantra too. This is not a selfish act on my behalf. If I were selfish, I would want the price of oil to rise because Mom owns three oil wells, paid by the price of the barrel, and she shares her money while she is alive. But I would rather see all people benefit from the world I envision. Help me out here.You must think about the commerce that will happen if this condition comes true, how the economy will blossom.
I am fighting back by envisioning the world I want, because that is how you do it, you work with the quantum and string by using your head, by consciousness.
I am a creator.
So are you.
God damm it, create!! Do it!!No more moping!!
And now, It is 330a where I am. I am thinking of running outside in a near-full moon and doing some gardening, … while chanting that above montra. The minor solar flare might be just what i need to create.
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
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Told ya so!
Since you would not hear it from me, I am sure Paul laid it down for you quite nicely.
Today, It is NOT about a presidential election.
It is a struggle for freedom and autonomy of The People vs. the control-mongering of the repressive globalists.This is truly a divide and conquer situation, where schisms between American political parties is maliciously enforced as one way to keep people off the track of freedom and beat down desires for revolution track (by giving people FALSE HOPE), to keep them far off balance.
Obama is a globalist. He might not always have been. But when your wife and children are threatened, as I am sure they have been, when you want to keep your brains bullet-free, you play the game and sell out America. Right?
JFK didn’t sell out. King didn’t sell out. But Obama did.The issue that stands today, when you cut thru the crap on the news, when you ignore the inflammatory mainstream media that is merely a state mouthpiece and only lets you know what they want you to know, …
… the issue that stands today as being in the greatest compromise is yours and ours freedom that the US Constitution provided for you.
So what are you going to do about it?
Think that duelism is still the way to change the world?
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