dastardly designed depression

DASTARDLY DESIGNED DEPRESSION
Dastardly designed depressions are diabolically dangerous and will deliberately doom decades of democracy. Which is good as we are not supposed to be a democracy but a Constitutional Republic, but I could not put that into a sentence containing mostly words starting in D. Please take a look at yesterdays post if you have forgotten. As I said, I know we are all going to die a horrible elongated death at the hands of evil zombie hoards. Eventually. One day the economy will totally collapse and we will all be doomed and civilization will be set back generations as all of our oil dries up. I just have no idea when it will happen or what tourist type destinations we will stop at along the way. We know it will happen but the timing and the path there are unknown. But for now I want to play a fun game. Called, What If.
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What If…the current economic troubles over the sub prime mortgage market are part of a deliberate design to scale back our economy so as to help us survive global resources running out as our population explodes. Not that The Powers That Be care one whit about us as individuals but they realize that it benefits them if we are kept breathing. Don’t immediately dismiss this as the wild jabbering of a lunatic until you hear me out. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that the Evil Banking Cartel that rules us and the fascist pigs in office and the corporates are actually aware of the coming troubles. And as they have no intention of giving up their power and wealth and everything that those things bring, they are going to do what it takes to survive and thrive. We tend to think of those in charge as some really stupid bastards, but what if the idiocy we see around us is deliberate on their parts?
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The bankers effectively took power in 1913 as the Federal Reserve Bank was created. They wasted no time in making sure that we got involved in World War One. Not necessarily to make obscene profits, which they did, but to safeguard the investments already made by the banks. After the war the Fed goosed the economy with plenty of credit. The first problem was the farm commodity deflation, then later came the entire economic explosion as too much credit created a Wall Street bubble. The Fed destroyed those banks that refused to play by its rules and made a killing repossessing everything in sight. Their crippled little puppet FDR devalued the currency by 40% and confiscated everyone’s gold so that a fiat currency could take over a gold backed one. The global economic superpower and mightiest industrial superpower was now a pale shadow of its former self.
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Hitler probably had help getting into power, or maybe not. Perhaps it was a natural for Germany to go with the only guy with enough evil to get them going again the only way possible, through a total war economy. But Hitler was never the major enemy the bankers wanted. The Pacific was the prize we coveted and Japan won the prize as Enemy Of The Week Poster Boy. We would have attacked her if she hadn’t responded to our embargos. Our country needed a war to get out of the Depression. The Depression was a grand prize for the bankers, but the natural progression was for a total wartime economy. Everyone got re-employed and the factories started producing again.
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These are the same people in power today. The same ones that will kill millions of enemy civilians ( fire bombing in Germany and Japan ) and hundreds of thousands of our own, to stay in power and to make big bucks. I’m sorry if I offend your sensibilities, but the war was never about defending our country or saving the world for ( or was it from? ) democracy. It was about power and profit and greed and control. It was noble that many made sacrifices, but unfortunately they died for the wrong cause. In effect, the bankers murdered them. The bankers of today are just as capable of atrocities as their grandfathers. And they will not hesitate to do what is necessary. They will keep the majority of us alive, perhaps ( don’t bet the farm on it ), only because the nation with the population will have a better change militarily than those where famine and pestilence are rampant.
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They start out by scaling back our insane growth. You can’t keep Suburbia Nation alive as the oil starts running out. And you can’t feed a population scattered over three thousand miles with semi-trucks as the oil stick level drops. A great way to start re-clustering people is to kill the mortgage market. Make their mortgages too expensive. In time the government agrees to trade in your adjustable rate for a lower fixed one. But there is a catch. You must move closer to the urban core, to a repo home. Others are free to stay in the burbs, paying higher mortgages and insane prices for gas ( until they give the house back to the bank ). They will cite environmental concerns, or oil independence concerns, or both. As the economy melts down, more government make work jobs are offered. In the private sector to avoid benefits and retirement, but existing only because of government spending as is the case in the medical field today. But they will only be available near the urban core. Then generous welfare benefits will be offered. But housing will only be available near the urban core. And food distribution centers. The point is to easily control the population and to drastically cut back on fuel use.
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Eventually the military will get a lot more recruits, if only because the job market is non-existent. They can stay local, border patrol and riot control. Herding dissidents into concentration camps. Or we could go global and try to steal more oil. The good thing about the local Gestapo route is there is no need to try to sustain a long supply chain and use up a lot of higher power ordinance that our lack of oil or factories has a hard time producing. The bankers don’t need a total war this time, just a total government control of the economy. We won’t be turning Communist. The bankers and big business will still make obscene profits. But the government will direct the economy for the benefit of those private sector entities. The important part about the Second World War was not that we had to keep building new stuff as we blew up the old ones, but that the government ordered and paid for production.
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With little oil or industrial output a war on that scale is not possible. So the government will create demand in service and information industries. They take little more than wages and electricity ( we have plenty of printing presses and coal ). And the bankers will get just as rich. They are going for quantity instead of quality this time around. A little off the top everywhere. They can keep their game going a lot longer this way. Currently we are simply using too much energy to enrich the bankers. If our life styles are seriously curtailed and we are herded together to use less energy the dwindling supplies will last a lot longer. For us to merely focus on the government and the coming dictatorship we miss who benefits. Of course the politicians do, but only with personal power. That is chump change. The bankers benefit off of everyone else’s theft. The politicians and the corporate lackeys are there to enrich the bankers. After JFK, only the stupid ones failed to get the message. I hope you have.
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