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10 Signs We Live in a False Economy
It's time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors
are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it's all an
elaborate illusion.
http://www.theidealistrevolution.com/10-signs-we-live-in-a-false-economy/
problemi biti riješeni 1. srpnja 2013. ...
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10 Signs We Live in a False Economy
It's time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors
are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it's all an
elaborate illusion.
http://www.theidealistrevolution.com/10-signs-we-live-in-a-false-economy/
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10 Signs We Live in a False Economy
December 27, 2012 Filed under Economy Posted by The Idealist
It's time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors
are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it's all an
elaborate illusion.
Out of one side of the establishment's mouth we hear excitement about
"green shoots", and out of the other side comes breathless warnings of
fiscal cliffs and the urgent need for unlimited bailouts by the Fed.
We hear the people begging for jobs and the politicians promising
them, but politicians can't create jobs. We see people camped out to
buy stuff on Black Friday indicating the consumer economy is seemingly
thriving, only to find out everything was bought on credit.
The corporate media does their best to distract us from seeing
anything real. We see the media glorify Kim Kardashian who got rich by
being famous, and became famous merely by being rich. She got front
page coverage on Huffington Post this week because her cat died.
Enough said.
Meanwhile the financial media makes the economy seem complicated and
they ban anyone who speaks truthfully about the economy from their
airwaves.
Is it any wonder why people are angry and confused about the economy?
Well, hopefully these signs that we live in a false economy will help
clear up some of that confusion.
1. Fake Jobs: It's not just that the "official" unemployment numbers
are a fraud, the actual jobs are fake as well. Ask yourself how many
professions actually produce something of value? 80% of jobs could
disappear tomorrow and it wouldn't affect basic human survival or
happiness in the least. Yes, in our society we need money to survive -
and jobs equal money - but that doesn't mean a "job" has any actual
benefit to society. More on this in the next point...
2. Problems Create Jobs, Not Solutions: We can't fix real problems,
because it would destroy more fake jobs. We can't end the wars and
bring all of the personnel home when the jobless rate is already
suffering. We can't end the War on Drugs because where would the DEA
agents, prison guards, the court system, parole officers, and the rest
of their support staff work. We can't simplify the tax code because
the bookkeepers, CPAs, accounting professors, and tax attorneys would
be unemployed. We cannot reduce the bureaucracy of government or
streamline healthcare because paper pushers have few other notable
skills. We can't stop spying on Americans because it now employs
millions of people. We can't restrict the Wall Street casino, or
hardly anyone will be left with a job. Finally, what will happen to
university jobs when people either realize their product is not worth
the cost or they discover they can get the same education online for
nearly free? In other words, we need these manufactured problems to
create phony employment.
3. Money Has No Value: Money is the biggest illusion of all. Our
money is loaned into existence with arbitrary interest rates by a
private monopoly. It is an IOU. It only has value because a law says
it has value, and that value fluctuates based on how much supply is in
the economy which, again, is controlled by a for-profit monopoly. It's
actual value is zero since it is just a piece of paper with fancy ink
on it. The only things with real value to humans are skills (labor),
tools and materials, food and water, and energy.
4. The Fed Now Buys 90% of the Nation's Debt: Speaking of money, the
Federal Reserve loans money to the US government who issues bonds to
cover their spending. Those bonds are sold on the open market through
auctions to investors who believe in the ability of the United States
to make good on those bonds. Apparently, the US has no more investors
because the Fed is now buying 90% of new Treasury bonds. This is
called monetizing debt, or, essentially, monetizing money. That's what
a Ponzi scheme does. This acts to keep interest rates artificially low
because they'd have to raise them to attract outside "investors". In
layman terms, our whole monetary system is a paper tiger, a house of
cards, or whatever metaphor you want to use for fake.
5. What is the Value of Anything? The price discovery mechanism, or
the process to determine the value of an asset in the marketplace, has
become so convoluted that determining the genuine value of anything
has become nearly impossible. Between government subsidizes for things
like food, fuel, education, housing, insurance and even cars; taxes,
regulations and laws; the manipulation of the value of money and
interest rates; Wall Street gambling on commodities; what is the real
value of something? For example, why does an ounce of marijuana (a
weed that can grow anywhere) cost up to $500? Is that the real value
based on labor and materials, and supply and demand? Of course not.
Its value is inflated mainly due to laws and regulations.
6. Failure is Rewarded: You know we live in a false economy when
failure is rewarded and success is penalized. Citizens everywhere are
being told they need to tighten their belts, work harder so we can
bailout the failed government, banks, insurance companies and even car
companies. And when we work harder and achieve some success, they tax
it heavily to indefinitely pay for these fraudulent institutions. Yet
this infinite money creation and taxation is light years from solving
the root cause of the problem. The reality is that the banks'
solutions are the problem, enriching the investor class at the expense
of the middle class. Global bankers are playing with taxpayer money -
and the money of many future generations - in a global casino royale
that is destined to fail so they can take the people's assets. They
are all-in; but their money is fake, and our assets put at risk are
real.
7. Corporate entities have the same rights as humans, but not the same
punishments: When the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have free-
speech rights of people, it was one of the final nails in the coffin
of the republic. Monied interests can now openly finance elections and
buy the legislation they need to operate with impunity. Corporations
may be comprised of humans, but they are not subjected to the same
standard of humanity. It was profoundly argued in the article What if
BP Were a Human Being? that judged by common standards of morality,
decency, and previously agreed-upon definitions of criminality, BP
would be judged a psychopathic killer ... and immortal. Ditto for the
rest leading the predatory corporate pack; the most obvious being
defense contractors. And since these corporations are now joined at
the hip with government itself, what does that make government? By
changing definitions, they are attempting to change reality. But that
still doesn't make it the truth.
8. People buy things they don't need with money they don't have: In a
type of trickle-down debt whirlpool, the government's rampant spending
without sufficient assets to back it up is mirrored in the behavior of
the American consumer. Despite inflation, rising unemployment, and a
continued collapse in real estate, it hasn't stopped credit spending.
The Associated Press just reported that for the month of October:
Americans swiped their credit cards more often in October and
borrowed more to attend school and buy cars. The increases drove U.S.
consumer debt to an all-time high.
The Federal Reserve said Friday that consumers increased their
borrowing by $14.2 billion in October from September. Total borrowing
rose to a record $2.75 trillion.
Borrowing in the category that covers autos and student loans
increased by $10.8 billion. Borrowing on credit cards rose by $3.4
billion, only the second monthly increase in the past five months.
(Source)
Most troubling is the type of borrowing highlighted. The worst
possible borrowing would be these negative-return investments such as
student loans, credit cards, and cars. It is magical thinking taken to
the highest degree.
9. Entrepreneurs are punished: It has become nearly impossible to make
a simple living on your own. America has become a land filled with
bureaucratic red tape that actively thwarts small business creation
and criminalizes independence. There is perhaps no better example of
this than the attacks waged against the ultimate entrepreneurial
endeavor of self-reliance: the family farm. Through collectivist
models such as Agenda 21, long-running family farms are being shut
down and supplanted with "protected zones." In the most recent case, a
family oyster farm was shut downbased on provably false scientific
data that aimed to demonstrate negative environmental and economic
impacts. It was completely fake, ending an 80-year local business that
generated 50,000 tourists per year and employed 30 full-time local
residents. In many of these cases the federally stolen property winds
up in the hands of developers who have no interest in a true local
economy. It is an inherent part of any false economy to create
dependence where none should exist at all. A five-minute video that
can be seen here sums up the American economy of illusions and the
death of the American Dream.
10. Engineered Slavery: Do you think slavery died in the 1800s? Think
again. Economic hitmen (lenders) have successfully enslaved-by-debt
everything from nations, entire industries, state and local
governments and nearly every person on the planet. And they bought
your servitude with money they never had, they simply created it out
of thin air. Even if an individual doesn't have any bank financing or
credit cards, they still pay the private Federal Reserve through
inflation and income taxes. As author of Confessions of an Economic
Hit Man, John Perkins, would say: the time has come for the banks to
collect their "pound of flesh" from average citizens by way of higher
taxes, less social services, and taking your pensions -- "austerity."
For an enlightening explanation of how economic hitmen work their dark
magic please watch this video. If you're still confused, see these10
signs you might be a slave. Another, more obvious, form of engineered
slavery is prison labor. Laws and regulations are specifically created
to add to the prison population which enriches the corporations that
own them, while local communities actually become poorer and more
dangerous (source).
As George Carlin said, "It's called the American Dream, because you
have to be asleep to believe it." It would be bad enough if it were
contained to only one country, but we are now experiencing a global
collective dreaming that fantasizes about a government figuring things
out just in the nick of time. However, in the real world, the collapse
has begun in earnest. Until we are committed to counter the 10 points
above, we will remain in the grip of an hallucination. However, there
are encouraging signs through protests worldwide, alternative currency
movements, and myriad creative solutions in the most affected
countries like Iceland, Greece, and Spain that people are beginning to
shake off their sleep, look in the mirror and realize that the dream
economy they have been sold was designed to make them seek solutions
in entirely the wrong direction.
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10 Signs We Live in a False Economy
It's time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors
are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it's all an
elaborate illusion.
"green shoots", and out of the other side comes breathless warnings of
fiscal cliffs and the urgent need for unlimited bailouts by the Fed.
We hear the people begging for jobs and the politicians promising
them, but politicians can't create jobs. We see people camped out to
buy stuff on Black Friday indicating the consumer economy is seemingly
thriving, only to find out everything was bought on credit.
The corporate media does their best to distract us from seeing
anything real. We see the media glorify Kim Kardashian who got rich by
being famous, and became famous merely by being rich. She got front
page coverage on Huffington Post this week because her cat died.
Enough said.
Meanwhile the financial media makes the economy seem complicated and
they ban anyone who speaks truthfully about the economy from their
airwaves.
Is it any wonder why people are angry and confused about the economy?
Well, hopefully these signs that we live in a false economy will help
clear up some of that confusion.
1. Fake Jobs: It's not just that the "official" unemployment numbers
are a fraud, the actual jobs are fake as well. Ask yourself how many
professions actually produce something of value? 80% of jobs could
disappear tomorrow and it wouldn't affect basic human survival or
happiness in the least. Yes, in our society we need money to survive -
and jobs equal money - but that doesn't mean a "job" has any actual
benefit to society. More on this in the next point...
2. Problems Create Jobs, Not Solutions: We can't fix real problems,
because it would destroy more fake jobs. We can't end the wars and
bring all of the personnel home when the jobless rate is already
suffering. We can't end the War on Drugs because where would the DEA
agents, prison guards, the court system, parole officers, and the rest
of their support staff work. We can't simplify the tax code because
the bookkeepers, CPAs, accounting professors, and tax attorneys would
be unemployed. We cannot reduce the bureaucracy of government or
streamline healthcare because paper pushers have few other notable
skills. We can't stop spying on Americans because it now employs
millions of people. We can't restrict the Wall Street casino, or
hardly anyone will be left with a job. Finally, what will happen to
university jobs when people either realize their product is not worth
the cost or they discover they can get the same education online for
nearly free? In other words, we need these manufactured problems to
create phony employment.
3. Money Has No Value: Money is the biggest illusion of all. Our
money is loaned into existence with arbitrary interest rates by a
private monopoly. It is an IOU. It only has value because a law says
it has value, and that value fluctuates based on how much supply is in
the economy which, again, is controlled by a for-profit monopoly. It's
actual value is zero since it is just a piece of paper with fancy ink
on it. The only things with real value to humans are skills (labor),
tools and materials, food and water, and energy.
4. The Fed Now Buys 90% of the Nation's Debt: Speaking of money, the
Federal Reserve loans money to the US government who issues bonds to
cover their spending. Those bonds are sold on the open market through
auctions to investors who believe in the ability of the United States
to make good on those bonds. Apparently, the US has no more investors
because the Fed is now buying 90% of new Treasury bonds. This is
called monetizing debt, or, essentially, monetizing money. That's what
a Ponzi scheme does. This acts to keep interest rates artificially low
because they'd have to raise them to attract outside "investors". In
layman terms, our whole monetary system is a paper tiger, a house of
cards, or whatever metaphor you want to use for fake.
5. What is the Value of Anything? The price discovery mechanism, or
the process to determine the value of an asset in the marketplace, has
become so convoluted that determining the genuine value of anything
has become nearly impossible. Between government subsidizes for things
like food, fuel, education, housing, insurance and even cars; taxes,
regulations and laws; the manipulation of the value of money and
interest rates; Wall Street gambling on commodities; what is the real
value of something? For example, why does an ounce of marijuana (a
weed that can grow anywhere) cost up to $500? Is that the real value
based on labor and materials, and supply and demand? Of course not.
Its value is inflated mainly due to laws and regulations.
6. Failure is Rewarded: You know we live in a false economy when
failure is rewarded and success is penalized. Citizens everywhere are
being told they need to tighten their belts, work harder so we can
bailout the failed government, banks, insurance companies and even car
companies. And when we work harder and achieve some success, they tax
it heavily to indefinitely pay for these fraudulent institutions. Yet
this infinite money creation and taxation is light years from solving
the root cause of the problem. The reality is that the banks'
solutions are the problem, enriching the investor class at the expense
of the middle class. Global bankers are playing with taxpayer money -
and the money of many future generations - in a global casino royale
that is destined to fail so they can take the people's assets. They
are all-in; but their money is fake, and our assets put at risk are
real.
7. Corporate entities have the same rights as humans, but not the same
punishments: When the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have free-
speech rights of people, it was one of the final nails in the coffin
of the republic. Monied interests can now openly finance elections and
buy the legislation they need to operate with impunity. Corporations
may be comprised of humans, but they are not subjected to the same
standard of humanity. It was profoundly argued in the article What if
BP Were a Human Being? that judged by common standards of morality,
decency, and previously agreed-upon definitions of criminality, BP
would be judged a psychopathic killer ... and immortal. Ditto for the
rest leading the predatory corporate pack; the most obvious being
defense contractors. And since these corporations are now joined at
the hip with government itself, what does that make government? By
changing definitions, they are attempting to change reality. But that
still doesn't make it the truth.
8. People buy things they don't need with money they don't have: In a
type of trickle-down debt whirlpool, the government's rampant spending
without sufficient assets to back it up is mirrored in the behavior of
the American consumer. Despite inflation, rising unemployment, and a
continued collapse in real estate, it hasn't stopped credit spending.
The Associated Press just reported that for the month of October:
Americans swiped their credit cards more often in October and
borrowed more to attend school and buy cars. The increases drove U.S.
consumer debt to an all-time high.
The Federal Reserve said Friday that consumers increased their
borrowing by $14.2 billion in October from September. Total borrowing
rose to a record $2.75 trillion.
Borrowing in the category that covers autos and student loans
increased by $10.8 billion. Borrowing on credit cards rose by $3.4
billion, only the second monthly increase in the past five months.
(Source)
Most troubling is the type of borrowing highlighted. The worst
possible borrowing would be these negative-return investments such as
student loans, credit cards, and cars. It is magical thinking taken to
the highest degree.
9. Entrepreneurs are punished: It has become nearly impossible to make
a simple living on your own. America has become a land filled with
bureaucratic red tape that actively thwarts small business creation
and criminalizes independence. There is perhaps no better example of
this than the attacks waged against the ultimate entrepreneurial
endeavor of self-reliance: the family farm. Through collectivist
models such as Agenda 21, long-running family farms are being shut
down and supplanted with "protected zones." In the most recent case, a
family oyster farm was shut downbased on provably false scientific
data that aimed to demonstrate negative environmental and economic
impacts. It was completely fake, ending an 80-year local business that
generated 50,000 tourists per year and employed 30 full-time local
residents. In many of these cases the federally stolen property winds
up in the hands of developers who have no interest in a true local
economy. It is an inherent part of any false economy to create
dependence where none should exist at all. A five-minute video that
can be seen here sums up the American economy of illusions and the
death of the American Dream.
10. Engineered Slavery: Do you think slavery died in the 1800s? Think
again. Economic hitmen (lenders) have successfully enslaved-by-debt
everything from nations, entire industries, state and local
governments and nearly every person on the planet. And they bought
your servitude with money they never had, they simply created it out
of thin air. Even if an individual doesn't have any bank financing or
credit cards, they still pay the private Federal Reserve through
inflation and income taxes. As author of Confessions of an Economic
Hit Man, John Perkins, would say: the time has come for the banks to
collect their "pound of flesh" from average citizens by way of higher
taxes, less social services, and taking your pensions -- "austerity."
For an enlightening explanation of how economic hitmen work their dark
magic please watch this video. If you're still confused, see these10
signs you might be a slave. Another, more obvious, form of engineered
slavery is prison labor. Laws and regulations are specifically created
to add to the prison population which enriches the corporations that
own them, while local communities actually become poorer and more
dangerous (source).
As George Carlin said, "It's called the American Dream, because you
have to be asleep to believe it." It would be bad enough if it were
contained to only one country, but we are now experiencing a global
collective dreaming that fantasizes about a government figuring things
out just in the nick of time. However, in the real world, the collapse
has begun in earnest. Until we are committed to counter the 10 points
above, we will remain in the grip of an hallucination. However, there
are encouraging signs through protests worldwide, alternative currency
movements, and myriad creative solutions in the most affected
countries like Iceland, Greece, and Spain that people are beginning to
shake off their sleep, look in the mirror and realize that the dream
economy they have been sold was designed to make them seek solutions
in entirely the wrong direction.
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