It's the Economy Stupid

One of the fastest ways to derail a presidential career is to point out the state of the economy... which we will go into in a second.

The presidential election of 2008 went as it did because people were sick of it. Tired of the gas prices, which in some localities had reached or surpassed $5 a gallon. Tired of the hemorrhage of jobs to overseas locations. (The majority of Americans lack the means to go chase them, and even if they did, there is no guarantee that they would be hired over someone willing to work for peanuts in a sweat shop in Beijing somewhere.) Tired of the nonsensical rhetoric of the Republican party, and balking at four years at the prospect of a John McCain administration, whom they perceived to promise more of the same.

Now we have Mr. Hope and Change in office because "hope and change" were electrifying sentiments in 2008. Hope to most Americans means "Things will be better tomorrow". And "Change"??? "Hey, he's NOT A REPUBLICAN..."

And the discontent has mounted over the last 365 days. Severely. In one town, a billboard popped up with Bush Jr. on it, with the caption "Miss Me Yet?" It's truly gone downhill when the previous failed administration looks good in comparison with the current one. (I say failed, only to describe the Bush ADMINISTRATION. He didn't find Osama Bin Laden, changed his wartime strategic goal several times, and during his administration the economy tanked... I believe the man himself is a genius with an IQ that is off the charts and pushing his neurons into a borderline psychotic state...)

Yes, take that, fuckers.

Enter Obama. He's not Bush, but any idiot can see, that isn't necessarily always a good thing.Started off as a wet-behind the ears junior Senator from Illinois. Hung out with the likes of Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright. If that alone doesn't scare the fuck out of you it should. Does he know what he's doing? Does he know what's in the Constitution? CAN he exist without imploding when giving a speech in front of sixth grade children without a teleprompter? For that matter, can he properly pronounce words like "Corpsman"?

These are all minor, minor flaws when compared with his stimulus package.. Corporate welfare had long been the domain of Republicans eager to find the back room deals from lobbyist funding for their campaigns, their pork barrel expenses and their pet legislation, the same type of "transparency" they are now bitching about from Democrats health care reform (funny how when you point a finger at someone you have three point back at you isn't it???) And for some reason, Mr. Hope and Change adopted it as his own policy, which normally enough would be viewed as a lame attempt at bipartisanship; after all, when you think about it, Repubs and Dems are the flip sides of the same old coin...

Except it completely antagonized and electrified every thinking, breathing, American with two brain cells to rub together, who had ever dealt with a bank, been a customer at a bank, gotten a loan from a bank, owned a credit card from a bank, and gotten anally raped by a bank... yes, this is your story and mine too.

The old adage "Don't live beyond your means" had been forgotten, laying in the dust, shot between the eyeballs, bleeding from an open head wound, and present at its own closed casket ceremony since the 1950's... when banks started encouraging its customers to "buy now, pay later" and mass mailing its credit cards by the millions in the 70's. I shit you not... this was before it was discovered that holding onto a credit card for emergency cases only was not only a good idea, it was mandatory for people to be able to hold their heads above water.

The ideal solution when one finds oneself in a hole is to toss the fucking shovel aside and STOP DIGGING. That would be the ideal solution. And restrict unnecessary expenditures (e.g. don't go out and buy a $50,000 car when a $1,000 one will do) And pay down on your debt until its paid off. Not the banks!!!

They spent, and spent, and spent, and spent, and spent, and spent, and spent like crazy to attract new customers. Hey! Open a new checking account at XYZ Bank and we'll give you $500!!! No bullshit!!! And if you act now we'll throw in a credit card with 29.4 APR interest after your 12.5 APR is up... yah, no kidding.

Only when they found themselves teetering on the brink of financial extinction... only after they went hog fucking wild, and wound up with a severe dollar sign shaped hangover, did they yell for help.

In capitalist theory, any business that fails in its overall service to the customer should rightfully collapse, and leave the business of commerce to its more successful and competitive rivals. That's in Synapses' capitalist little imaginary world. In Obama's, it was to pump trillions of dollars in bailouts to these irresponsible bunch of thieving money whores whose bad financial planning had gotten them into this fix to begin with.

The government has been committing the same mortal sins as the banks have for decades. Spend more than you bring in, rape your customers for the difference, and when things get really out of control bad, ask someone else for a loan (insert name of foreign banks here) One thing that the government has that the banks lack is the power to confiscate income by force (IRS, taxes, any of that ring a bell?)

So basically after we woke up and found our very selves in the morass of financial destitution, being ejected from our foreclosed homes, stripped of our repossessed cars, having to sell off most of what we owned, just to be able to pay down our principal balance (to say nothing of interest accrued on our debt) and having our credit ruined, we no longer carried a credit card of any kind... from here on out, it was cash only, if you didn't have the money on you for it you didn't fuckin need it...

And who does the government bail out? Not you!!! And certainly not me!!! It was these supercapitalist morons who didn't understand that every dollar is based on a promise by the United States government that basically says, "You can exchange me for $1 worth of gold." Admittedly it is an empty promise nowadays, as there simply isn't enough gold to back up all of the dollars now floating around, and inflation has claimed the dollar's value, and there is no more gold in Fort Knox, bla bla bla...

In doing that, the government committed a massive act of treason. Going against every molecule of the American dream, every grain of common sense, every shred of capitalist venture, it declared one thing.

We have become Communists.

Now mind you, I am about to pull the blanket off of the whole thing so you had better sit down and prepare yourselves for one undeniable truth. Because its what Donald Trump probably already knows.

We do not need MONEY... Not physically, not emotionally, not even really socially. We need the things that money can buy. Food, clothing, shelter. Freedom from sickness and pain. Transportation, electricity, gas, etc. What good is money in and of itself? Can't eat it, can't wear it, it won't keep your home warm in winter. Can't even really wipe your ass with it. It's a medium of exchange, and that's it. Cave men used sea shells. Ancient historic civilizations used salt. Indians just traded this for that. When you free your mind enough to know that money is based on a promise, and isn't truly real, your ass will follow.

Its the belief in money that they use to continue to control people.

It's the economy stupid.