The Masons are awfully proud of their record of how many of their brotherhood have been in positions of power.

http://www.calodges.org/no406/FAMASONS.HTM

Stepping back and looking at the big picture, you “might” just start to see a pattern, here.

I’m not even saying there’s a back-room conspiracy per se. It’s just that the rich & powerful always want to do what the rich & powerful want to do, and that is exclude the not rich & powerful.

For goodness sake, just look at the 0.7 Trillon Dollar Bail Out For The Wealthy Bankers, the 0.63 Trillion Dollar “Liquid” Bail Out which happened the day after the Senate failed to pass the 0.7 Trillion (then adding 0.15 Trillion of pork to it and passing it only days later).

Our children and grand children are going to hate our memory for all of this, from their mud huts.

I knew it!

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!

Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!

Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!

Who robs cavefish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!

Go back to root causes; 1913, when the 2nd coup happened and the then government (Congress and President too) allowed bankers to essentially take control of our country. It’s called “The Federal Reserve” and it is – neither.

Now let’s go back to near the beginning*. Here I will quote the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 10.

“No State Shall… Make Anything But Gold and Silver Coin a Tender In Payment of Debt.”

Understand the underlying problem now? Without fakey-do money totally being manipulated, the usual AND NORMAL business cycles (including what used to be called “depressions” now PC’d into “recessions”) lasted no more than a few years and cleared the decks of the bad operators, allowing fresh businesses to flourish.

Nowadays we have got total manipulation and a “currency” based upon nothing more than lies, rather than real money (”coin”).

Until we fix that problem, nothing will be fixed.

Putting it another way, doing more of the same is not going to fix the problem but only continue to make it worse, when the reckoning comes finally.

But since all of about 2-3% of the U.S. population believes this at this time (i.e. Libertarians and Constitutionalists, as well as disenfranchised Ron Paul voters) we’re going to be in the economic wilderness for some time.

Possibly forever. As in, that’s how it went for the Roman Empire.

The last Caesars debased their currency, too. Look where it got them.

Into the history books.

* the actual beginning of our nation was in 1776, not 1789, with President Washington. Who, in fact, was the FIRST President of the Colonies which made up the breakaway United States? He was a devout Lutheran, Peyton Randolph, and he served from 1776-1777 and then served another 1 year term later. Why is this important? Because, 1789 was the “first coup” of sorts. Because, you see, devout Lutherans cannot be Masons. How many Lutheran Presidents of the U.S. have there been since 1789? With Lutherans making up about 1/4th of the U.S. population, mind you? 1/4 of them? 1/8th? 1/16th? 1/32? Nope.
NONE. Can’t be Masons and Lutheran, you see. . . hmmm, it’s only a “coincidence” right? Until you realize how many Presidents have been Masons. Virtually all of them. As well as members of Congress – a huge majority of them. Interesting…..

Capitalism can’t run unchecked, and if it gets out of control, it can’t be allowed to self-correct, because the corrections are too severe. We’re supposed to learn from history, and history has taught us this lesson several times now. We can point fingers and lay blame anywhere and everywhere, but we are where we are, and if we just sit back and allow the simultaneous failure of the banking systems and our biggest corporations, saying things like “I didn’t cause this mess, why should my taxpayer dollars pay for it…” then you won’t have to worry long, because soon you won’t have a job either, and so you won’t have to pay any taxes.

The guy who owns the barber shop on the corner and thinks he’s insulated from all this is in for a surprise when the small company down the street that supplies blank circuit boards to Delphi to put in controllers to sell to GM goes out of business, and all those ex-workers figure out how to cut their own hair. Then the barber and a bazillion folks like him don’t go Christmas shopping and retail businesses start to fail.

Yep…we’d recover, eventually, but it might take 20 years (it took Japan about 15 years, the Great Depression lasted 10 and ended with the WWII war economy). My Grandmother used to tell me stories about how there was no way you’d pass a penny that someone had dropped on the street without picking it up. Personally, I don’t want to go there. And if I magically escaped the worst of it, I don’t want my friends and relatives to go there either.

We can sit back in our armchairs and call all the economists that are struggling with this thing a bunch of idiots, but I don’t believe that. These are smart people or they wouldn’t have gotten where they are. They’ve been studying economies all their lives. Bernanke is an expert in the Great Depression. I am, at the very least, willing to concede that they are smarter at how to prop up the economy than I am. And what I’ve heard makes sense to me…based on my limited understanding of history (see paragraph 1).

A-M-E-N. This too big to fail mantra is double talk bullshit. They weren’t too big when they made loans to people that couldn’t pay them back, sold them and made a mint.

Funny how our expectation is that we only have to experience good times… never bad. No responsibility for bad decisions ought be experienced. Since when did capitalism guarantee anything to anyone?

Same thing with the housing bailout – people bought homes they couldn’t afford and still cannot afford, yet both McCain and Obama want to do anything to keep these folks in homes they still can’t afford. Complete nonsense.

Bailouts are not going to solve any of the underlying financial problems.

Call it like it is. “Congress passed and the President signed”. Even provide a link to the reader to see who voted “yea” and who voted “nay.” And who voted “present.”

Anything else is a watering down of what happened.

Sorry to be a party-pooper. I’m in a mood today…

Thanks for reminding me that I had it. Been a few years since I cracked it open.

Jimmy is out of prison, BTW, and was at book signings in Nevada.

I agree with you–if a GM or a Chrysler went down we are funked up.

But throwing money at these cos is really flushing it down the crapper, isn’t it?

If the govt really wants to help, they should buy 3 Sebrings and 2 Trailblazers for every post office, military base, and VA hospital and then they would at least get something for their $$$s

TSpeed, you are 30+ years too late, my friend.

The “Japanese Invasion” is long gone. Are you still looking to buy a high-flying Internet stock?

What you and your kind fail to grasp is that this “implosion” HAS been occurring in “slow burn” fashion.

What don’t you get?

This “slow burn” has been alive and well since 1970 at least!!!

No, I will stick to my words when I say “Go to Hell” to every last one who says “it’s for the better”…because it sure as hell is NOT.

I would rather see the gov’t bail out detroit, and not wallstreet…

Assuming, of course, the government has to bail out someone.

Sorry, sometimes we get so excited the numbers get away from us. Fixed now.

Where’s the responsibility? Where’s the owning up to one’s OWN mistakes? Why should *I* or anyone ELSE have to pay for you sorry asses who screw the pooch?

In prison, there is a saying: “You’ve got Nothing Coming”.

http://www.amazon.com/You-Got-Nothing-Coming-Prison/dp/0767909186

These people who feel Entitled…you’re disgraceful. You are a disgrace to every hard-working person, regardless of national origin. A pygmy from Africa who works and feeds his family has more dignity than you swine.

To everyone out there who feels I (and every one ELSE) owes YOU a living: Go to Hell!!

…every last one of you corrupt bastards. Sincerely.

You’ve got nothing coming.