Reader's Questions Adressed; A Clarification; Things

After reading all the comments over the last couple of days, I'm not sure you guys need me anymore. A lot of you are getting it, I'm certainly impressed. But, I'll hang out until you all toss me out. I feel like the US Government should feel, needed until the world tires of our bullshit, and then goes on without us, flushing us down the toilet in the process. (just kidding, I'm not whining today)

Warning, This Might Be Long Today

First, I want to clear something up. I apparently wasn't real coherent on what I meant when I was talking about gold, so I'm going to try again. What I was trying to convey is that gold is the best way to make money right now. I don't mean that the dollar is going to disappear, it is going to go through a "correction," and a severe one. Gold will also buy more dollars after the "correction" process is over. Gold is respected worldwide and that's not going to change, so the more gold one has the more dollars they will be able to purchase in the future. The price of gold will take a hit, but nowhere near what will happen to the dollar. And, the de-valued money can be recovered with gold, it won't be with dollars. Alright, that still doesn't satisfy what I'm trying to convey, so I'll keep working on it and try to put into words what is in my head later. Sorry, maybe I only confused the issue more. Help, qrswave, or somebody. I'm struggling with explaining this.

To the Comments and Questions

Freeacre, there are no dumb questions, given the state that we are in. It's confusing to everyone, so keep firing and maybe somebody can come up with a satisfactory answer or solution.

Anonymous said that I am either 100% right or 100% wrong, but either way we are fried. He/she is correct. I am assuming that he is talking about Cheney and Boosh and whether they are deposed or not. I am right, but that is beside the point. It may not make any difference, in the grand scheme of things, who is leading us. More on that in a little bit.

Paula, post all the links that you want. I don't do it, but I have my own reasons for not doing so. Don't let that stop you, though. Any information that might be helpful is welcome, we're all in this hellhole together.

The next several comments are connected, in a way. So, we'll make some ghoulash and hope it makes some sense in the end. EfSaturn wondered what we would see first, the dollar collapse or $5 per gallon gasoline. My bet is that the collapse will occur first. This is not going to be an announced collapse, but a carefully orchestrated one. Announcing it would defeat the purpose. The collapse is going to be swift and painfully dramatic, and could happen at any moment. This economy is nothing but smoke and mirrors, all of the numbers that are thrown around by the "economic geniuses" are simply bullshit. Technofreak, from Australia, mentioned that the DOW and the ASX (Australian version of the DOW) aren't showing "cracks." I won't speak for the ASX, but the DOW is not showing any cracks because it's all fiction anyway. It won't show cracks, it will dissolve. In a hurry, without warning. Think about how quickly the backs of the middle class have been broken. The next level of Americans will be broken overnight, with the Grand Crash. That will happen when the puppetmasters decide that we have all been sufficienly bled, and it could be as bad or worse than the '29 depression. Sean wondered if the "Booshvics have so many people in place that we are powerless." In short, yes, we are powerless. I can't believe what is about to come off of my keyboard, but here it comes. This economic crash is not the fault of George Boosh. Through total incompetence and insane policy, he is absolutely responsible for moving the timetable up by a decade or two. But, it was going to happen eventually, regardless of who was in charge. Our entire corrupt political structure has made our crash inevitable. (Whew, not blaming this on Boosh was tougher than I expected)

I lived through what is soon to happen to our economy once before. The state that I was raised in, Oklahoma, went bankrupt literally overnight. Paper multi-millionaires woke up one day and they were broke. Absolutely penniless. So, it's probably easier for me to see what's coming than it is for most of you. Maybe tomorrow I'll tell that story. It's sad, yet fascinating. But, as we know, history repeats itself. Always. This time it is going to repeat itself on the grandest of scales, and all but the super rich are going to be drastically and negatively effected by it. There will be no winners in the short term, it may well save our country in the long term. I hope so, anyway.

What is really important in all of this is what happens after the crash. We will find out how incestuous the Democrats and Republicans really are, once and for all, and we will maybe find out who the true puppet masters are. It can play one of two ways that immediately come to mind. More will undoubtedly follow.

One, the economy can crash and we can continue on the current course to a degree, with different leadership and a similar agenda to what we see today. The new leadership will tell us little beyond "we're in bad shape" but we still have a war on terror to fight, we'll all have to make sacrifices, blah blah blah, and the military complex that I have talked about will begin to emerge. When the upper middle class realizes that they really aren't wealthy, and that the government doesn't give any more of a damn about them than they did the victims of Katrina, the suicides will begin. I mean that literally, I've seen it happen before, right here in America. As Morpheus so wisely stated in one of the comments, we can "only speculate on the degree of chaos that will ensue in the fallout." He is exactly on point with this, it depends on a few things. One, if the Democrats are heavily involved in this entire mess, meaning they are as guilty as the neocons and have in essence been a party to this madness all along, we will be expected to merrily follow the new leadership further into oblivion. Should that be "the plan," after the dust settles, we the people will either buy the new package, accepting government jobs in the New America at ridiculously low pay, that sacrifice thing, you know, or we can summon the courage to revolt, and some form of a civil war will ensue.

The other option is much more appealing. If we really do have people in power positions who want to do the right thing, then you will see a new government that pulls the troops out of Iraq and from the rest of the world, exposes the neocon agenda and the "war on terror" for what they really are, and begs for forgiveness from others in the world. We will begin rebuilding this country for the right reasons, much like we did in the 30's. Together. We clean up politics, strip the corporations of their power, forget about taking over the world, greatly reduce defense spending and use what is put in that piece of the pie for defense only, rather than offense, put education, healthcare, and people back in the agenda. In simple terms, build the America that most of us hope to see, one that puts the welfare of its people first. If that turns out to be the case, people will come together much like we did immediately after 9/11. People will work hard, help each other out, become a caring country again, and people will accept making the sacrifices that will be necessary after a crash of the economy.

Both of these possibilities obviously have many other factors, and will include much pain and carnage. In the immediate aftermath of the crash, no one will have much money, and may not have a way to spend what they do have. And, we have a percentage of the population who don't mind killing people for what others have, and those people will have to be dealt with. That is where Murph's community planning comes into play. Everyone is going to need such a group to band together to fight lawlessness, watch each others backs, and take each others strengths and combine them into a working order that allows for survival. For a while, that is all it will be about, mere survival. If you can, imagine the aftermath of Katrina, minus the flooding, in your neighborhood. The situation will be similar for a while. Cops won't show up for work, looting will be rampant, resources will be scarce. So, good people are going to have to take care of each other. Trying to guess how long such conditions will exist is impossible, but you can bet it will be a good long while. Suffice it to say that it will be ugly, uglier than anything you have seen or can imagine happening in your neighborhood.

The thing that people need to understand is that how this plays out is not in our control. It is strictly in the hands of the true power brokers, and they will make the rules. They will decide how much a dollar is worth, they will decide who runs the government, they will decide whether we continue on the current path or change for the good of all humanity. The only card that we will be able to play is the revolt card, and frankly I doubt the ability or the stomach of most Americans to stand up and fight for what they believe in, should it become necessary. It would be so much easier to accept what follows, just as we've accepted Booshco for 5 years. But, as we can see, that didn't turn out too well. So when is enough enough? That's what we must decide.

We will be given a blessing. A blessing of removing the most corrupt government in the history of our Republic from power. In the long run, the crashing of the American economy is probably a blessing as well. It allows us to re-evaluate who we really want to be, something that is long overdue. We have spun out of control over the last who knows how many years, without paying our fair share. We have taken, but we haven't tithed. You can only get away with that for so long, as every empire in history has learned. Now the rest of the world has had enough of us. I told you a long time ago that there were saviors out there. I also told you that they don't work for free. We are soon to find out just how much they charge.

To be continued,

Cyclone