Posted on 10/09/2011 4:02:47 PM PDT by Razzz42
We as a society must stop pretending. Most of us think that we still have money in the bank to protect, so we go along with the game of extend and pretend. For some of us, the game has already ended. The rapacious zero interest rate policy that I call Bernankecide has already robbed millions of savers of their life savings. This is the reality that has yet to hit home for many Americans who are content to wallow in the status quo. Unfortunately, the longer it takes for them to wake up, the worse their, and our, fate will be.
My mother and millions of other senior citizens are among the victims of the game that policy makers and those who empower them are playing. Their life savings are gone because Bernankecide, the financial genocide of the elderly, forced them to spend their principal. Now the government is indirectly confiscating 8% of my income because I must support my mother. That percentage is likely to grow as her health deteriorates.
Millions of other boomers are in the same boat. They are forced to pay this immoral hidden tax because Ben Bernanke decided that the innocent must pay for the sins of the guilty. While Bernanke’s ZIRP goes on allowing the banksters to continue to collect their fat bonuses, it steals the savings of millions of Americans, eliminates their disposable income, and cuts the spending power of millions of others who must now support those rendered destitute. The guilty benefit, and the innocent are punished.
Bernanke knows that, yet he continues to side with the criminal bankers in support of the financial genocide of the super elderly, and their children, the baby boomers who must increasingly support them.
Among the OWS protesters are those calling for forgiveness of student loans. They may be acting in their own self interest, but it is a just cause, and must be a part of the cleansing of the system. The student loan thing is a long running racket that preys on the inexperience of children and young people just starting out in life. When I was 20 years old I trusted the system (wrongly). What did you know at age 18 or 20?
The fact is that the people’s “savings” that funded those loans, including the fake savings backed by phony assets that have yet to be written down, are already gone. These loans cannot be repaid. Bond holders must get wiped out. Then we’re all going to have to take a haircut. The student loans can’t be repaid because these kids either can’t get jobs at all or can’t get jobs with pay high enough to pay the loans. These loans never had any backing. They were fake from the moment they were issued. But the issuers didn’t care. They got their fees up front.
The student loans are the tip of the iceberg. Bankers have made and sold trillions of dollars worth of loans that they knew, or should have known, could not be repaid. That’s fraud. It must be prosecuted. Today, central bankers and governments are refunding those loans, knowing that a substantial portion of them cannot be repaid. Worse, they are buying them above par because of today’s fake low interest rates. Then they guarantee them by obligating us and future generations to repay them. This is criminal.
I figure that at least a third of our deposits are worthless because they have no assets behind them. Those running the scam know that. Those investing in the scam know it. But they don’t care because they get to collect their fees off the top. That is a system that institutionalizes theft. It must be changed to a performance based model. If you don’t earn a positive return, you don’t get paid. Instead, governments have taken over the scam while transferring wealth to and protecting the criminals who built the system.
If you are blaming the protesters, or are mystified by them, then you just don’t get it. Denial is part of the problem. Too many people have yet to wake up to the fact that they have already been victimized. They are playing along with the dishonest shell game of extend and pretend that the Fed and other central banks and governments are running. It’s time to get real, wake up, and face the music. The longer the game goes on, the worse the consequences for the 99%, and ultimately for the 1%, whose ranks will be decimated at some point, and probably not peacefully if this scam is allowed to continue for much longer.
As long as we continue to avoid cleansing the system of the fraud, as long as we refuse to put the fraudsters in jail, they will continue to bleed us dry. If those in charge of administering justice, like President See No Evil Obama and his worthless AG Eric Holder, refuse to do their jobs and seek to punish the guilty, our society and our culture could spiral into chaos and mob rule. Those in the top 1% who are responsible for this fraud, either directly by running it, or indirectly by supporting it financially, must ultimately be brought to justice or society will perish. There’s no way out other than reform, or revolution, or societal collapse. Those are the choices I see. We had better take the first one, and take it now.
So stop worrying about yourself, and start worrying about the future of your children and grandchildren. The government practice of constantly doubling down in support of the fraud is only digging a deeper and deeper hole. Demand reform of the system now. End the fraud now. Make the guilty pay. Instead of rewarding the bankers, prosecute them. They knew, or should have known, that the loans they were making and selling to others could never be repaid. But they did not care. They only cared that they got their fees up front, and their bonuses in the end.
It’s time to reset and start over. We will all pay a price in the short run, but the longer we wait, the steeper the price will become. Reform and reset now is the only way to begin a real recovery. Stop the fraud, return to the rule of law, prosecute the bankers, punish the guilty, figure out what our assets are really worth and pay us a fair return, and most importantly, return basic standards of fairness and ethical behavior, something that many in society must relearn. It must be done. There is no other way, no other reasonable choice. Failure to act now will consign us to a future in hell.
This is how Hilter came to power during unrest, with deep debts being owed by the public, so one has to becareful that another Hilter type doesn’t take control during our own unrest. People are reall really stupid when emotional.
Congress is not going to throw itself in jail (like they should) so they will have to be voted out.
Capitalism is not all it is cut out to be with their commericalism to sell products you don’t need and lobbying (for tax breaks and to cap losses by limiting claim payouts, etc) to ensure a profit at someone else’s expense. So, don’t confuse Capitalism with a free market place.
In reality, we need a slow and controlled growth rate to limited the amount of debt we can get into. The free spending, pie in the sky promises brings us to this point in time. People trust and elect candidates to have them turn on them and do the exact opposite they were voted in for. What’s a people to do?
I would like to know if these protesters believe wrong doers should be punished (at any level).
One could infer from the article that Adler supports Obamacare or a close facsimile and one would be right. He also constantly praises the Canadian health system where he spends the summer.
most of these protesters are fools no doubt - but we need to protest the banking cartel and the govt again.
You are probably correct about Adler on that point. It’s difficult to be weaned off the government tit.
As long as assistance is available for necessary hands on care, preferably through the pooling of unused private insurance money, I’m sure the monetary relief would be welcomed for potential and current users.
Where is the Barf Alert? This communist ought to have his neck stepped on.
So you are saying you agree with the protestors?
Which one of the protestors are you speaking of or are they all cut from the same mold and on the same page?
lol
You did a good job of dancing around the question when most right-minded conservatives are aware that these protestors are nothing but socialist/communist scum. They represent the ultimate downfall of America and should be opposed by every means necessary.
Its easy to sit behind a typewriter and spew. Get a sleeping bag and sleep with the bugs.
A better question to both of you is, “What are you going to do about it?”
; )
It’s a tough life for sure even when the engine is firing on all cylinders it seems like traveling up a hill.
I shall do whatever I can.
BTW - You still failed to answer the question - Do you side with the protesters?
I lump protesters into one group because of what they represent - communist, anti-capitalism. To hell with all of them. In addition, Cain is right, the White house would be a good place to protest as well. Of course we know that will not happen because these scumbags support Obama.
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