Whether one is one party or the other two things at least, should be self evident. One item is that any party wants you to drop some of your ideas to accomodate their agenda. The second item is that no single party has an exclusive grasp of good ideas, bad ideas, morality or lack thereof, etc.
As you probably know the fools in congress and senate have voted theirselves the legal ability to indulge in insider trading. Thus when the FDA or USDA for example approve or disprove some substance these amoral people use their knowledge to increase their personal income. The problem is vastly deeper than just personal greed however. This activity makes these lawmakers ALWAYS give the corporation precedence over your interests. They may choose not to vote against every bill that may help you, but in large, they will vote for the corporation.
Perhaps i should have titled this installment "Why the U.S. is inevitably going to fail in the next two years and the world will also do so." I am not an economist and therefore not under the illusion that i understand what is happening in the world economic arena. The reason an economist doesn't have a grasp of the economy is that his training is totally flawed. The markets are controlled by the super wealthy and economic theory ignores their control of the money. Two percent of the population which controls the 96% of the world's economy. Note that word control. It is not my line, it is the official line.
If they want the housing market to crash then regulations are put in place, advertisements are presented and the sheeple follow into the pen. What is the benefit of the crash? The entire economy becomes a buyer's market. The billionaires now have picked up companies on the cheap. The working population has become desperate for work so are now not going to demand a fair wage. Many will not insist on the whole spectrum of benefits. Kaching.
Let's look at the wealth of the world. The super rich people have their money because they control money and leverage deals, laws, regulations and whatever they can to maximize their personal profit at the expense of the worker. Some say that is the free market. Let's use a hypothetical example to show where people have lost track of the reality of wealth. Assume that this group of super wealthy have made much of their money from a group of technical objects and the knowledge and industry to support them. Something like cars, or computers, papers or chemicals. All of these substances must be manufactured from raw materials. All of the materials must be removed from the earth or harvested from biota. Not one person on the planet has placed these materials on the planet. It starts out as a planetary resource. So how does one person to the exclusion of billions of other people deserve virtually all of the wealth that derives from that resource? I see no logical explanation.
Next realize that worker bees like you and i have the job of pulling out the materials. We, the working man and woman, transport, process, transport, design, manufacture, transport, sell, maintain, etc. We the people of the world in essence have had stolen a common property gifted by the planet, we have placed every bit of value on the product throughout every step of the process, and then (drum roll) we, the common person, purchase the product for our personal benefit. At no stage in the process did the billionaire do any actual work. They did not purchase _____ number of units which brought the wealth and value into the company. Now they may have financed the means to get this product rolling through the process, but does that entitle them to 98% of the wealth (and power which wealth represents) when you and i have done over 99% of the work with the gift of planetary material?
Believe it or not, i am not advocating communism. i am looking at a big picture here and saying something is drastically wrong. Someone smarter than i will have to figure out where the fair compensation for work and financing should lie, but it is more likely that in a system that is forced to go through change, a sense of values which are not easy to articulate would form .
Now what do we know about the incredibly wealthy? Little. We do know that in the U.S. where the Jewish population makes up less than 10% of the general populace, approximately two thirds of the billionaires are Jewish. Is this a cultural thing? Is this a support group? I do know that while colleges were having to recruit students based on population percentages that Harvard was attacked by a Jewish group for cutting it's percentage of Jewish freshmen and accused of being anti-semitic. Somehow nobody understood reality and was able to point out that the number of Jewish freshmen being admitted was higher than the general population percentile of their race. Since money talks and leverage moves things, the freshman class that year was made up of about 30% Jewish people.
Now had the Hispanic community tried anything like that there would have been an incredible amount of screaming about how the Jewish people were being discriminated against. We do not hear the anti-defamation league screaming about how the Jewish people have been discriminated for. I don't know how to make this last bit sound non-racist. Do i have anything against any race? No. We all have our percentage of jerks and heroes. Do i believe that a huge percentage of any one race controlling huge portions of wealth (and therefore everybody's lives) is coincidental? Of course not. Conspiracy theory is one thing, but when (for example) the same political mistakes are made for over 70 years to benefit one segment of the population, perhaps there is something going on since it would be mathematically improbable to not have random benefit and non-benefit activity if something were not controlling the political outcome.
It has to be asked, if there were not such a huge percentage of Jewish billionaires in this country would we be supporting Israel the way we do? Personally i do not see Lebanon and Syria walling off portions of other countries and destroying local living conditions. I do not see Arabia and Egypt taking tanks and running over the houses of people where an enemy may have hidden from line of sight of my soldiers. Why not run over the evil trees, bushes, and ditches where enemy may hide? Because that would not cause hardship on the population whose land you are trying to steal and would not intimidate them.
Yes, this is a harsh assessment, but the things i see are harsh. Which Middle East country has nukes, wmd's and has invaded other countries multiple times, occupies another country's land, and claims the moral high ground? It looks like the biggest terrorist state in the world, now that George Bubbleyou Douche is no longer running us into personal wars.
Gotta stop for a bit. Just so painful, the idiocy of our world because of the leaders we have chosen. It is truly frightening to believe that this is our karma.
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