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Maybe I'm way out there, but anyone else see the similarities between the recent goings on in the economy and the soryline from the Matrix movie?
Huh, you say? Well follow along a bit.
We're all fuel for other people and other nations to get rich. But we're sputtering along in that role. Some higher-ups decide to feed us easy money and the vehicle used is near unlimited mortgages/home equities. Of course, people question this in the beginning, but the story is told that home prices will all go up, so keep borrowing. We do. We buy new cars. We buy plasma and lcd tvs. We buy designer clothes. We buy Italian Tile for our working class bungalows. We buy steak and veal. We buy and buy.
Now, this can't go on unless someone buys these mortgages to keep the ball rolling. No problem, since the Koreans are willing to finance this deal so we keep buying their Plasmas and LCD televisions. They're making a killing. The Germans invest so we keep buying their cars. Sales are at all time highs. Ditto for the Japanese, Italians and everyone else. Too bad America doesn't make anything anymore, all the better to use us.
Because the american consumer is plugged in to this retail milking machine, feeding the bottom line of others. And we're okay with it because we've got Italian Travertine Tiled bathrooms with lcd's built into the wall and a new car in the driveway. And we keep buying the dream and they keep selling. We think we're shiney happy people and they're willing to tell us we are as long as we keep buying. And we're the engine for others benefit, sure we're using up our own economic bodies in the process, but it feels grand.
See the parallels?
Then a hiccup occurs, the fuel is cutoff, and because it was so big, everyone is left holding the bag. But we're not done being others' engines. Nope the cycle must continue. So foreign governments complain that they want their money guaranteed, otherwise they'll stop buying T-Bills and other bonds and we won't be able to finance our all time record high enormous debt. And then we'll all be flushed. So, the system (feds) guarantee the other's success and moves to stick it to us, the little engines, by having us pay for it. And we have a choice, if we don't re-up, we're flushed. If we do re-up, well the whole thing will start new again, and we can eventually go back to being shiney happy people driving Priuses and enjoying double organic mocha decaf soy splenda frappacino with only two pumps and low fat whipped cream.
Yeah, I'm crazy. But the parallels are there. And yes, there were multiple gunmen on the grassy knoll and the Moon mission was staged in a hollywood movie studio lot.
Huh, you say? Well follow along a bit.
We're all fuel for other people and other nations to get rich. But we're sputtering along in that role. Some higher-ups decide to feed us easy money and the vehicle used is near unlimited mortgages/home equities. Of course, people question this in the beginning, but the story is told that home prices will all go up, so keep borrowing. We do. We buy new cars. We buy plasma and lcd tvs. We buy designer clothes. We buy Italian Tile for our working class bungalows. We buy steak and veal. We buy and buy.
Now, this can't go on unless someone buys these mortgages to keep the ball rolling. No problem, since the Koreans are willing to finance this deal so we keep buying their Plasmas and LCD televisions. They're making a killing. The Germans invest so we keep buying their cars. Sales are at all time highs. Ditto for the Japanese, Italians and everyone else. Too bad America doesn't make anything anymore, all the better to use us.
Because the american consumer is plugged in to this retail milking machine, feeding the bottom line of others. And we're okay with it because we've got Italian Travertine Tiled bathrooms with lcd's built into the wall and a new car in the driveway. And we keep buying the dream and they keep selling. We think we're shiney happy people and they're willing to tell us we are as long as we keep buying. And we're the engine for others benefit, sure we're using up our own economic bodies in the process, but it feels grand.
See the parallels?
Then a hiccup occurs, the fuel is cutoff, and because it was so big, everyone is left holding the bag. But we're not done being others' engines. Nope the cycle must continue. So foreign governments complain that they want their money guaranteed, otherwise they'll stop buying T-Bills and other bonds and we won't be able to finance our all time record high enormous debt. And then we'll all be flushed. So, the system (feds) guarantee the other's success and moves to stick it to us, the little engines, by having us pay for it. And we have a choice, if we don't re-up, we're flushed. If we do re-up, well the whole thing will start new again, and we can eventually go back to being shiney happy people driving Priuses and enjoying double organic mocha decaf soy splenda frappacino with only two pumps and low fat whipped cream.
Yeah, I'm crazy. But the parallels are there. And yes, there were multiple gunmen on the grassy knoll and the Moon mission was staged in a hollywood movie studio lot.
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