fill the petri dish

FILL THE PETRI DISH
Despite legions of loyal minions sending me a barrage of questions for article fodder, I was at a bit of a loss for motivation as to what to write today. At the last minute I pulled this bit of drivel out of my hindquarters. If it smells, you know why. Last week I had a list I was eager to tackle each day, idea wise. This week I'm not very driven. See what happens when I take a few days off and relax? I turn in to a working stiff blanking out all outside stimuli, uncaring of the tidal wave of disaster bearing down on us. This paranoia stuff takes a lot of work and doesn't brook any time off. A 24/7 job.
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I think a basic mistake made by most people, myself included, is that we believe that the banker elites act rationally. Well, they do, but they act on a different set of assumptions. They would never kill off the Golden Goose, right? I mean, despite their utter hatred and contempt for the great unwashed masses, despite the wish that we would all crowd into a few Wal-Mart's and never emerge again to pollute their pristine environment, they still need us as the engines that generate their wealth. We don't actually create the wealth, they are much smarter than everyone else, having been born into money, but we are needed to copulate and consume so that their wealth grows or at least doesn't shrink. They don't care about the masses, but they do care about their spawn who mustn't dirty their hands in productive work but must be given an inherited estate to manage. Very much a British class system attitude. Now, sure, once upon a time any Joe Blow could rise up out of the gutter and through ruthlessness and lack of morals make his fortune. But that was way back when we had unexploited resources to use. Since our resource base has started to shrink, the elites now desperately need a class system to preserve the wealth left.
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The bankers, and their prostitutes who eagerly spread their butt cheeks for hard lubricant-less penetration in exchange for a position at least one rung up from the bottom of the ladder such as government officials including the President and business leaders who rise and fall on credit as they produce little of real value, have rigged the system for their survival. Let me take a not so obscure example. Zoning rules. You can't usually live in anything other than a green stick and Sheetrock, uncured cement and press board plaster box that costs you a third of your lives wages. Is it because the building contractor benefits? A bit. Is it because the government gets a lot more taxes out of that? A little. Is it because legions of lawyers make a living manipulating every aspect of the economy? Somewhat. But mostly it is because bankers make more than everyone else combined in the shelter business, the expense now so great that everyone must buy on credit. Who gains the most from a welfare state? The recipients, to include Social Security swilling old farts, crack bitches in trailer parks and defense contractor Union workers? No. Is it the legions of parasitic hoards that inhabit the cubicles that administer the programs? No. Is it the government that divides and conquers the masses through envy and bribery? No. It is the bankers that sell the government trillions of dollars in debt ( created out of devaluing the money supply ) and get interest on that loan. It has already passed the point where it can never be paid back, but the interest is sufficient for them.
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Now, the derivatives bubble has been created to wring the last bit of wealth globally. Don't the bankers see that this can't last? That logically this should be the very last possible bubble? That by taking down the globe financially that they will also fall? I don't think they look at it that way. The Druid Dude talked about the fallacy in economics that totally ignores the resource base that is the real source of wealth. People focus on dollars. They don't focus on energy allowing any activity to take place that creates wealth that is measured in currency. I think that bankers are so focused on paper wealth, this being the source of their riches and power, that they actually believe paper is as good as gold. Now, don't get sidetracked on gold being nothing more than a perceived unit of wealth, you can't eat gold, etc. I'm aware of all that. Gold can't replace food and ammunition in bad times, but gold works everywhere else outside a Dark Age/Total Collapse.
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The bankers aren't stupid, obviously. They just got done amassing untold wealth for almost a century by devaluing the dollar and sucking up a good portion of taxes. They are very smart at finances. Their plan currently unfolding wonderfully is the government bailout. Where do you think the majority of the new debt went? Forget the AIG $200 billion. That was eye candy for the masses. A patsy. Oh, the big boys sucked up some of that money, they always do. But just like a trader going to jail for a Ponzi scheme is used to placate those getting ripped off, the real players are unexposed and safely behind the scenes. The bankers running the show get trillions. Perhaps a lot of that is needed to keep the derivatives bubble going, but enough is left over for a mansion in the Keys with a Rolls in the driveway, with a bit left over. A bit measured in billions, of course.
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Our job is to keep filling the petri dish. Keep reproducing for more consumption units. Keep up illegal immigration to adjust for falling birth rates. Never mind the rate of illegal immigration has plummeted with the crash of the housing market, it worked long enough to get the needed breeder base into the country. Keep getting more and more people in debt. Because enough is never enough for the bankers. And they can't envision failure. They won hugely in the last Depression ( of their own making ) and think they can do so again. Because it is all about paper and politics with them. They can't see that the petri dish collapses after it fills. At least the bastards will go down with us.
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