A Call to Revolution
Politics / Social Issues Aug 24, 2014 - 06:05 PM GMTWilliam Wallace writes: Income inequality on a massive scale is well discussed on this site regularily. Taxes and regulations have increased diabolically during this "recovery" making it almost impossible to independently create wealth through your own hard work and enterprise. Incomes are stagnant and declining, industry is lost to Asia, debt has accumulated at every level to try to keep things going, and companies with access to cheap fed funny money are gobbling up competition causing rationalization and further concentration of wealth. Costs of higher education have soared and caused those of limited resources to get buried in debt while having less likely prospects to get the employment necessary to get out of debt. In addition to education, social connection is required to access higher levels of employment keeping the poor poor.
In short, this system is broken, and broken badly. The extraordinary policies of the federal reserve have intensified the breakdown of the system into the few haves and the many have nots. All that is offered to the middle class and below by these financial manipulations and funny money is more debt to be taken on personally, and collectively through all levels of government. Imagine how foolish we all are to be enslaved by mortgages, car loans, pay day loans, credit card debt, taxes to pay debt, unfunded pensions caused by repressed interest, destruction of savings by policy, obamacare which seems to represent the healthcare corporations, and thousands of pages of regulations on any personal activity that might help you economically.
Now imagine for a minute that the unit of montary exchange that you are mandated by law to exchange economically is controlled by a few private individuals at the top of a giant banking scheme. That dollar which to get to provide your necessities for your families can be created at will by a keystroke to introduce into the system in a way that guarantees the survival and enrichment of the wealthiest bankers and oligarchs. Ask yourself if "quantitative easing" has made you any wealthier, or has it just stuffed more servitude and slavery upon you and your loved ones while the bankers and one percent get richer and richer on bonuses, stock options, stock buybacks, and acquisitons. In the meantime, they can lend you out a few falling value dollars to try to keep it going.
Ask yourself what would have happened if they hadn't saved themselves with quantitative easing what would have happened? If the banks and too big to fail had collapsed? Who benefitted? Was it you? Would you have lost a few hundred dollars of savings or would your servitude and debt have been destroyed instead? Or did they take a corrupt and deceitful system and make it even worse? They spin it that we must be saved by doing quantative easing (to increase employment!) while 95 % of people see no benefit at all. All they see is creeping inflation, more debt and servitude, and costs hidden by the corruption of the official data such as the CPI. There can be no doubt that the money created out of no where has ended up in banks, government debt, and the stock market. None of these benefit regular people, just those who already have wealth and power. Markets are undoubtably manipulated.
Companies buy there shares, and competitors with cheap low interest loans to keep the ponzi market going. Jobs are lost as the incentives to employ and invest are gone. Instead they are rewarded for moving factories to cheap offshore locations, and for buying competiors with cheap federal reserve money and closing them down by rationalization. Student loans and cheap car loans are stuffed down peoples throats that they cannot ever repay. Military adventures are created to keep the rich who own the military industrial complex in swag. Their children will never fight the wars they create, yours will. Who really needed to pick a fight with Russia over territory on their border? Who benefits with the chaos we created in Ukraine? Not you, not Ukrainians, not Russians, not the supposed separists. Who benefitted from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now with ISIS?
Why do private interests control the currency? Why do donors, lobbyists, and corporations control the congress and senate? Why are we all enslaved in debt, taxes, and regulations while the rich get richer and richer? Why is our income going down, expenses going up, debt going up while our friends at the federal reserve are saving us with "quantitative easing"? Why are we having military adventures in the middle east and Ukraine while we essentially are all broke including the government? If a secret cabal of bankers and men can create currency at will and then control us all including our government by debt enslavemet, then how do we know anything that is done in our name is real? How do we know what motivations these very few have to get us into wars, to write our laws with policy makers they own, and to enrich their banking and corporate cabal ? Is it a democracy anymore? Is the constitution respected anymore? Have we any freedom anymore when the government, military, police, national guard, and federal agents are armed to the teeth paid for and funded at the largesse of private bankers who we really don't even understand who controls? Is Janet Yellen really in control, or does she follow orders? Who knows, the point is that this is and unfortunate way to do business for the most powerful nation on the earth and in history, and it does not benefit the citizens of this incredible enterprise anymore. To have such power controlled by a very few is dangerous and stupid. It will either end in economic collapse, or a war that none of us needed or wanted unless the system is changed.
How could it be fixed?
audit the fed, take control of the fed as a federal agency, reform election laws to allow no more than 100 dollars of donations per registerd voter and no corporate donors, sift hrough all federal laws and regulations to see if they honour the constitution, no military action without approval of all three levels of government, scale back deficit financing, and seriously reform the banking system.
Could it happen?
Not a chance, the rich are living like gods now and they will never give it up. The system has to break down first
How then, without bloodshed?
Fight them with their own weapon of control, which is debt. Think about that, there is an answer there.
William Wallace, modern version
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