Grandmothers all across the country are busy promoting their own poverty.
In a free market system, Grandma works all her life and saves $100,000 for retirement. She earns 5% per year in interest or $5000.00 per year in terms of dollars. Eventually Grandma dies and leaves $1,000 to charity and $33,000 to each of her children.
In a pro business system (fascist) banks and other corporations do not need to borrow from Americans who have earned and saved money. Instead, the Federal Reserve creates an endless amount of free money to lone to businesses for less than the rate of inflation. So, Grandma receives $500 per year on her savings instead of $5000.00.
Corporations lobby Congress and get bills passed to force Grandma to pay extra for gasoline because of the ethanol requirement. Free money to businesses allows them to maintain high profit margins and that costs Grannie also.
In a fascist system, government is not merely used to cheat ordinary Americans. In this system money goes to the top just like cream. When the public is completely squeezed out by using government, businesses start cheating one another. When that source dries up a war is often started to temporarily stimulate demand. Anyone who thinks the industrialists in Germany had no influence over Hitler, has not studied history. The industrialists were just as culpable as the bad man himself. Most German corporations survived WWII as did Japanese corporations.
Oddly, Americans don’t mind being cheated. This is fine except, the entire country is being destroyed along with the wellbeing of grandparents, children and grandchildren.
Students of history already know the greatest danger a population faces is from the consequences of its own country’s immoral activities.
All human beings are completely capable of thinking and acting independently, but by default they adopt group opinions and rarely entertain original thoughts. This is all part of mankind’s instinctive group behavior. People instinctively worship their leaders and view their government as righteous.
Government solutions are solutions of choice even if it is to the citizens’ detriment. People are hardwired to be dependent on government.
Although citizens are technically responsible for what government does, under no circumstances will they ever exercise any authority. Instinctively citizens are subservient to people they elect to office. Since 1776, it has always been that way.
The United States started out as a republic with a free market economy. Every year since 1776, the role of the individual has diminished. Today citizens have no authority over government policy at all, but insist they do. All governments over the years have shared one overriding characteristic. Each has served as a platform from which the politically powerful can make servants out of the general population. The United States has followed the same path as all of the others.
The danger is that citizens have become more servile over time, but describe themselves differently.
Since the democracy experiment first began a number of behaviors have emerged that were not anticipated. It turns out that people behave instinctively in groups and this renders them incapable of governing themselves.
The free market has been replaced by socialism and fascism. In general, Republicans are Fascists and Democrats are Socialists. Members of both parties promote both systems. Individual party members worship their leaders and trust them when they say they support small government or social justice. The rank and file are like cows on a dairy farm. They are kept well nourished and comfortable as long as they are profitable to the farmer. Change that and it’s off to the dog food factory.
In recent years, the Republican approach of fascist rigged markets has wrought havoc on the living standards and income of regular folks. The fascist efforts are still accelerating. Even though Americans don’t mind, fascist economies become highly unstable over time. The pursuit of profits under this system has no limit. War is a legitimate tool. Economic depressions are a given.
We understand now that central banks are buying equities directly, mostly in the form of exchange traded funds. The figures from the Bank of Japan are being published. No records from the U.S. central bank are available.
Under capitalism, citizens own the factors of production. When central banks buy stocks, the countries become owners. Early in the 1900s the communists took over an already failed Russia and made it even worse. They killed countless numbers of their own people. Germany used the democratic process to name Adolph Hitler as dictator. Germans loved him, died for him and worshipped him. His worshippers perished in war while he killed Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, retarded and others for the “good of Germany”.
Americans have adopted Hitler’s economic system, even though they insist the U.S. is a free market system. We have a population of Fascism deniers. Will that change when the economy collapses?
When Times Got Really Weird is a prophetic Curbside Jimmy tune that all should hear and share.
