Archive for April, 2010

After watching the Zeitgeist videos, I mentioned I was disappointed in the “punchline,” that they had offered up a very unrealistic resource-based society as a viable and reasonable alternative to our current paradigm, the monetary-based system.

Most of the propaganda that they delivered to support their theories–debasing religion, government, and multinational (global) corporations–were used in the same way that they tried to justify the need for this radical shift in ideology.

I don’t think this will work, as I think man’s own ethical limitations will destroy it before it has a chance of succeeding. Don’t get me wrong: I think that the idea is nice, but utopian societies are about as plausible as perpetual motion machines. You can draw it out on paper all you want, but it will just never work.

Granted, I believe the Federal Reserve Bank needs to be done away with, for the same reason that Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and countless others have cited: that the debt generated by this fractional reserve system will eventually impose a binary social class: the haves and have-nots, the lords and the serfs, the rich and the poor, the eventual dissolution of the middle class and then ever-increasing poverty.

Of course, no single person can be blamed for our woes. We are relentlessly inundated with all sorts of propaganda and dis-information to the point where it all becomes shit and barring our possession of scatological prowess, we are wont for the ability to filter it.

I think a pretty good estimation of our current situation is that there may be 5 or 6 National politicians with their hearts in the right place, and the rest receive money for their votes. Are there enough people in this country that could be put in their place, that they could not be bought for the right price to push some special interest agenda? It is doubtful. The people that wouldn’t want the money or power would already have to be rich and/or powerful from some other source, which probably would be someone who was already a beneficiary of special interest favor during their non-public careers.

Don’t get me wrong: I haven’t lost faith in our country or humanity. I believe that a great deal of misinformed people do what they think is right, and for the right reasons, but they don’t know what they are doing, just what they are told or convinced they believe is right. I have heard them called “sheeple,” (or sheep people), herd-folk that don’t deviate from the status quo or what they are told to believe by whatever group they identify with, whether it be some religious organization or fraternity or whatever.

Special interest favor is rampant and quite insidious, as it is wrongfully valued the same way congressional constituency is valued: that if a company has considerable resources (money) then it clearly has influence and its voice should be heard by by being able to contribute to the campaign funds of those who listen. So, basically, after you elect these people, they make decisions either based on what would be good for its constituency (who pay them nothing) or special interest (who pay them money). Not hard to see who they would go with. There has been a law passed that allows you to see who pays whom what, but you seldom see this information as the mainstream media really has no motivation to show it. In the last couple of elections, it was used as fodder to discredit someone politically by their competition.

Quite honestly, the more favors these companies solicit enables greater and greater control, and ensures that the contributions will be more and more plentiful.

The largest of these are insurance companies and banks. Insurance companies reap enormous profits by collecting money to cover health issues and make money by denying coverage. Either refusing procedures or discounting what they pay doctors. This wrangling with insurance makes it less lucrative for the doctors, who have to raise the price of their procedures so that they can receive a little larger amount to keep up with inflation. This further justifies insurance premium increases, etc.

Banks, on the other hand, directly benefit from money given them by the Federal Reserve Bank, which through fractional banking, allows them to create their own money out of thin air. They like this arrangement, and they can create their own money to pay for votes. Great arrangement.

I agree wholeheartedly that the Fed needs to go. It was bought and paid for by bankers for bankers and it does nothing to help the American people. Unfortunately, they have a stranglehold on our government and they have shit upon our Constitution. By the people, for the people…right, if they are bankers.

So, how can we get rid of it? We have to elect people that are independent thinkers, unpopular people that want to do good for the betterment of their country without asking for anything in return. People that are willing to put up one hell of a fight…to subject themselves to the slander of the media (that is owned by powerful people who already have special interest favor) and don’t mind suffering threats and their lives made public: uncorrupted and moral people. People who are in very short supply in this day and age.

Which means we are probably doomed to endure the current system (or something progressively worse) indefinitely…