God preserve me from idiots and if we must regulate then let us regulate stupidity.

First if I hear another tea party type call for less government and then more police and homeland security to combat crime and illegal immigration I will–well no I won’t!. But don’t you get it guys, being tough on crime and hard on Immigration requires larger government. No, I mean, really, it does.

Here’s the thing, and it is totally obvious to anyone who turns down the deafening noise of their own opinions, the people who are screaming for less regulation are actually only looking for less regulation on themselves while severe regulations are placed on everyone else. This is variously called an uneven playing field, unfair advantage and so on.

And isn’t it really something pathetic that when you can afford like a gazillion bucks to send your lobbyist/fraudster/briber/huckster to Washington to tell our illustrious elected representatives how to write law, that you should also feel the need to pay/instruct/order the media (which you own) to bombard our senses with hyperbole and stuff to make us somehow believe that it is a good thing for us to be subject to regulation while they are not.

It’s kind of like asking “we” the people to be complicate (a willing and active participant) in our own screwing.

I personally would like to see a zero regulation scenario where everyone gets to do what they want and then we would see how the tea party dolts like it. OH! let regulate crime and immigration and poor people but let the good guys do as they please!

Hasn’t anyone told the tea party poor the they are not in the good guys grouping, no, no, no, no, the good guy seats are so way out of the range of the tea party folk that they wouldn’t know one if it fell form a 30 story building and landed on their head.

If you are a tea party activist you have not got a pot to P  in and you are merely a fully paid up member of the deluded poor.

And for the last time welfare is not and was never intended to assist the poor, needy or those down on their luck. Welfare is designed to give  those with nothing to lose something to lose and thereby keep them in their ghetto’s and as far as possible removed from the weak wealthy.

I personally have little to lose except my sanity which is walking the edge at the moment, I mean am I the only one who is actually awake and observing the game that the world is playing.

Imagine for a moment that you are sitting at a card table playing a game of poker and you are really good at poker and you are being dealt unbelievable cards but for some reason you just can’t win a game.

This is the scenario that most people find themselves in, they are up at the plate swinging for all that they are worth, doing their very best with the gifts that God bestowed on them but for some reason they just can’t seem to buy a hit! Sound familiar.

Well here’s the deal (no pun intended) while you are playing your very best game of poker with the excellent cards that you are dealt the people who are pulling in the chips are actually playing bridge or snap or some other obscure card game.

You can’t win because you are playing the wrong game. You are playing the game that the government, the church, your misguided parents and all the rhetoric/propaganda in the media told you was the game of choice.

They told you a lie, you believed and now you are second guessing yourself, sucking Prozac and generally living out the life of a neutered could have been.

This is the problem that the very screwed up tea party types face. Mostly they are lower middle class which is double dutch for dirt poor snobs who want to believe that they are better than the other poor types.

Their intentions are in the right place, they have been playing the game hard for oh so long and here they are rooted to the bottom rung and the guys on Fox tell them that the problem is crime, welfare and illegal immigration not to mention big government.

The problem is that someone else has their money, someone else is driving their Ferrari, someone else is drinker their Dom Perignon, someone else is dating the hot chicks that wouldn’t look twice at a nobody from rung one who insists on playing poker at the roulette table.

So if you are mad as hell and you’re not going to take it any more then why not open your stupid eyes and look at the reality of why you and your precious country are going down the proverbial drain.

And let me tell you that like the protestants and catholics who slaughtered each other for years in Northern Ireland found out, the trick is divide and conquer.

If the guys on the top rung (the tiny minority) can succeed in splitting the masses (the vast majority) and have them (the vast majority) blame each other for the mess that they (the tiny minority) have made of society so that they can have all the stuff (money etc) then all is good in the land of the free and capitalism is toast of the few.

Of course the only ones who actually believe in capitalism are the poor, the wealthy know that capitalism is the stupidest idea. I mean who in their right mind actual believes in the free enterprise system, and this in a country where the only requirement for being elected president is like 500 million dollars, go figure!

How to Fix the Economy

Is there an elephant in the room or better yet in the economy?

It is 21 months since Lehman Brothers failed emitting shock waves that rocked the economies of the world to their very core, the housing market collapsed, foreclosure became an everyday ordinary event, the money supply dried up and jobless figures soared upwards.

Countless commentators babble on about the reasons and legislators formulate countless bills to ensure that the events of September 2008 will never occur again.

And I just woke up and a question keeps rattling around in my head. What exactly was/is the problem? What exactly caused the economic collapse that we are now suffering through?

Ask anyone you know what caused the economic collapse and you will get as many answers as people asked. The truth is that no one knows what caused the economy to collapse. One day everything was fine, the banks where lending, jobs where available, houses prices where high, confidence was abundant and the next day Mount Vesuvius erupted on wall Street and the rest is like Lehman Brothers is as they say history.

So what exactly happened to bring about the economic meltdown was it really sub prime lending or is that way too simple a hook to hang the blame on.

Is it possible that the problem is the system itself?

Is it possible that a natural function of our financial system is meltdown?

Is it really possible that most people are supposed to lose their shirt every ten to fifteen years so that the aristocracy of the finalcal universe can harvest what sowed?

The large pink elephant in your living room that won’t go away is there because you want to believe any old junk that suits you and deny the realities that are jumping screaming right before your eyes.

It’s the economy stupid.

So the banks are too big to fail and George Bush speaks reality into existence.

Imagine just for a moment what would happen if all the banks and Wall Street vanished right now. Everyone would still be breathing oxygen, everyone who didn’t from panic that is. And if everyone decided to go on as before everything would go on as before with the exception of financial institutions.

The government who prints the money could control it and dish it out as it saw fit. I mean who do we need banks in the first place? Oh! You don’t know. We need banks because rich people need somewhere safe to store their cash and because banks are a great way of enslaving the vast hordes under mountains of debt.

The system didn’t fail in September 2008; it did exactly what it is supposed to do. The system isn’t broken it is operating at optimum performance. This is as good as it gets.

The 10% unemployment rate for the nation when examined closely holds an almost 40% blue collar factor. This recession like all recessions is a poor mans recession. It’s the Status Quo baby. Poor people are supposed to be poor and rich folk are supposed to get richer at their expense. And man is this system working just exactly as it was meant to work.

The elephant in the room is there to tell you that you are one stupid mother. The elephant in the room is there to tell you that the system isn’t broken and doesn’t need fixing. The elephant in the room is there to tell you that all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men are telling you what you need to hear to keep you from waking up to the realities of capitalism.

Before you burst a blood vessel, no I am not a commie; however I have been known to look at the world without the blindfold of sacred cows that the masses wear.

Socialism is supposed to be a societal system with people as it basis. I say “supposed” because socialism in practice has turned out to be nothing more than oppressive monarchy. This is not socialisms fault this is merely opportunistic men at work. All law in a socialist society should be formulated for the protection of people.

Capitalism is a societal system with money as its basis. All law in a capitalistic society is formulated for the protection of money.

Within a capitalistic society people are viewed as a resource for the creation of wealth.

However there is a need to keep the unruly masses under control while they are worked to the bone for the good of their betters, so they are fed garbage like liberty, morality, religion and patriotism.

There is nothing like a conscience to control a man.

There is nothing like conditioning to control a conscience.

There is nothing like money to control conditioning.

So your homework for tonight is to turn off the TV, radio and any other source of garbage that is telling you what your betters want you to believe and examine the evidence that the elephant has assembled for your perusal.

Of course you could decide that it is easier to do nothing and bitch.