No Worries, Bush Says All Is Well

Despite the largest bank collapse in recent history with IndyMac, despite the problems with mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, despite oil prices through the roof for no real good reason, despite massive layoffs, despite wars, despite growing problems with gangs and drugs and crime across the country, all is well, according to our President.

Sort of brings to mind the whole ostrich with its head in the sand image, doesn’t it?

And isn’t it funny how the two mortgage leeches…errr…lenders and even the collapsing bank, have the same sort of names, right down to the syllablic emphasis? It’s basically “la-de-da.” Which is pretty much what President Bush is saying about all the bad stuff wrong with our nation and its current situation and direction.

It seems like someone spoke the secret codeword and “all financial institutions with the 3 syllable la-de-da sort of name should fail this week.” Kind of makes you wonder about conspiracy theories and who controls the world’s wealth all over again, doesn’t it?

Maybe since oil dropped a whopping $7.33 (For light sweet crude. I wonder, by the way, if that’s what the oil companies call it because of geological characteristics or what it means to their bank accounts?) Bush thinks all is well? There’s been no real reason for rising oil or gas prices in the past several years other than speculators driving it up to their benefit, right? The situation around the world hasn’t changed really, and while demand has increased a bit, there has always been a surplus in supply it seems to me.

Or, are there other reasons, such as other commodities and products growing scarcer, other markets that are in part responsible for driving up prices in all other sectors? Some certainly think so.

A lot of the argument is fear over supply availability if there’s a war with Iran, which is being driven largely by American war rhetoric. I wonder how much of that media war drumming is paid for by those with their hands dipping into the pockets of big oil companies? But there should be no need for war with Iran if we start drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, right? Wrong, greedy corporations never have enough, and nothing we do will change that.

I hope Congress DOES NOT OK drilling in the Gulf. It won’t “reverse the psychology” as Bush suggested. What the hell does that mean anyway, really? That people won’t fear oil shortages for a few more years because 8 years from now there will be a few more drops in the bucket?

It’s time to stop wasting billions of dollars on Iraq already, and start pouring that money into our nation’s own infrastructure and finding sustainable energy and development paradigms for the future without oil, which will arrive. It doesn’t matter when, it IS coming, and the sooner we prepare for it instead of squandering our resources trying to hang on to a sinking ship, the better off we’ll be as a society. People need to start asking their city councils and elected officials what they’re doing right now, today, to ensure their communities will have power and agricultural and other resources a generation from now.

What will become of your children and grandchildren? A time is approaching when communities (especially larger cities) are going to face large scale predicaments when they have no sustainable local economies, utilities infrastructure and agriculture. Small towns ought to be coming up with solutions today for how they will provide power generations and sustainable local economies 10, 20 and 50 years from now. Those that don’t are signing the death warrants for their communities.

With food rationing in parts of the world, and hoarding in others—including the USA—(and the UN predicting even worse to come), will your community survive if no one locally farms? Will retailers be able to have food brought in from the outside with skyrocketing fuel costs? And what of the rising epidemics of salmonella and ecoli outbreaks, which show every sign of increasing in frequency and intensity? What will your community do when there is no more petroleum or coal or natural gas? Sure, that may be even several generations away, but when that time comes, it will be too late to address the issue for most communities.

After all, if EVERY community in America has the same issues of resources drying up at the same time, do you think the Federal government can possibly come up with the money and resources to create solutions for them all at once? Hell, we can’t even keep pot holes fixed on highways as it is as a nation, or get water to a major city hit by a hurricane for nearly a week—what makes you think an event of civilization-altering scale will be something the government is equipped to handle? The government is trying its best to keep you in the dark that such a time is even coming.

Most people probably don’t give a damn, it’s sad to say. But those who will be retiring 5 or more years from now are going to find their retirement shrinking as inflation and costs of living (costs of everything in fact) continuing to climb at rates that will far outpace any wage increases. Especially on a global scale. The US dollar is pitiful against the Euro right now, partly because of our President’s lack of concern for the economy and partly because no one in government right now has the slightest clue how to fix it all (aside from Ron Paul, who understands economics and monetary policy better than any member of Congress or anyone in the President’s administration).

And now that Swiss Banks are losing their luster and rolling over for the IRS, a lot of other economic issues are going to crop up in the near future—just wait and see. The US government is going to become the most aggressive wage garnisher/tax collector on the face of the Earth by 2020 and there are a myriad reasons why. That is, if it survives that long.

Honestly, I think we’re in as bad a situation as any that we’ve been in since this nation’s founding with the sole exceptions of The Great Depression and the American Civil War.

With the recent formation of a Mediterranean Union, the European Union, the African Union and so forth…does anyone really believe still that the North American Union (let’s call it what it is though, the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership, which our political leaders keep trying to hide, or else they will deny any such agenda exists…) is not in the works? Already, Canadian and Mexican militaries have the OK to enter the sovereign territory of the USA in event of major disasters, and our military has the OK to enter theirs as well—under the auspices of helping restore civil order and so forth.

I know there will be a lot of Americans who simply won’t accept that. I sure as hell would view any Mexican troops entering the USA as an invasion and sufficient grounds for throwing off our government for having turned on us. Our own nation was formed on several arguments for independence, one of which was that King George was quartering troops among the citizenry in times of peace. I wonder what the hell makes our present government think for a minute that not only quartering foreign troops among us in times of peace but having them restricting the freedoms and rights of American citizens or arresting them or physically imprisoning them will be anything less than cause for another Revolution? Same goes for Canadian troops. Any foreign troops being invited into our borders under any such guise of restoring civil order will spark the Second American Revolution or the Second American Civil War.

They know it will, which is precisely why they are sure to invite both country’s militaries, because they know it will take overwhelming odds to defeat any American citizens who choose to rise up and throw up an oppressive government. Which probably means that the renewed talk of another assault weapons ban isn’t just coincidental.

Or does everyone else think that American laws and policies are not starting to line up more generally with those such as found in the Europe, Canada and Australia?

By the way, the smart thing to do in the future is to ask your bank about their mortgage/lending policy, debt outstanding and so forth, and to avoid those heavy on mortgage lending, you think? Given the current state of the USA’s economy, it would make a lot of sense to start stuffing your rainy day money away in overseas banks or investments.

Just thinking out loud…