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samboct -> This Meltdown was Planned! (12/24/2008 3:47:17 PM)
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OK, I'm not much for conspiracy theories....But try this one on and see if you get a chuckle...
I pay very little attention to Fox news. But it seems that people that do watch Fox news tend to start political conversations with the mantra - The government is the source of all our problems. I've gathered that some pundits have been taken with the idea that the beast (government) needs to be strangled- first tried back in Ronnie Raygun's day. Since chopping off the supply of money was unpalatable to most folks since that paid for things like social security, the next idea was to bankrupt the beast. Ronnie and GWB 1 did a good job of starting on this process, but then that bastard Clinton got elected and worse was to come- developing the Internet actually created jobs and an industry- not only a bubble for idiotic investors to lose their shirts (not like the smart guys who always watch Fox news and listen to what Rupert Murdoch has to say.) and the damn economy grew- as did tax receipts. Greenspan, our boy from the get go, was backed into a corner and had to opine that the best thing to do with all the extra money rolling in was....pay down the deficit! NOOOOO!!!!- it had taken years to get it to grow nice and big! Drat.....
But then our boy GWB II got elected and he was our wet dreams come true. First he declares an expensive, unwinnable war which further adds to the deficit (but cunningly doesn't develop new weapons or tactics which would build the economy and might make the war winnable) and then he gives us rich, deeply deserving folks a tax break!!! YAYYYYY!!!
It doesn't matter that our guy McCain didn't get elected- we weren't crazy about him anyhow, he's got too much of a backbone and a brain for our taste- but Obama's screwed from the get go. The deficit's are so high that nobody will buy US treasuries, and with this financial bailout of the "banks" heh heh heh- our hedge funds and derivatives have swallowed up EVERYBODYS money. WE WIN!!!! We've bankrupted the beast, and we've got all the MONEY!!!!
Now, we've got to muddy the trail a little bit....
Basically we want a depression, because we'll be in charge, we've got all the money and everybody will have to do what we say. But people are too smart- they'll recognize that what we're trying to set up is the same thing that Herbert Hoover did for our granddaddys back in the 1920s. Wait- I have it- let's fund some "scholars" who will start throwing dirt in what used to be the clear stream of how the Great Depression occurred and we'll muddy the waters. So how do we do that?
Well, people are unhappy with our boy Ronnie Rayguns back in the early 1980s. Boy, his economic policies threw the country into a recession by 1982. Let's jigger the unemployment statistics and redefine things so that the employment picture looks better. Rather than saying that someone who hasn't worked in 6 months is unemployed- we'll say that they're unemployable and don't need to be counted. So we'll trumpet our new numbers from the rooftops, and since we've got some news media under out control, we'll be able to get our message out. It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong- it's the same principle as advertising- keep repeating something often enough and people will believe it. Especially if we start calling all those smart folks "liberals" like its something dirty and claim that they're elitist and aren't looking out for the average joe. Nobody likes eggheads anyhow and we can use T + A to get people to watch and listen to us instead.
Now we've got to set things up the same way the depression occurred with Herbert Hoover. Let's see, back in the 1920s, the new exotic financial instruments were margins, so that you could buy lots of stock with little money. Well, people might catch on if we did the same thing twice, so we need something new- got it- let's start using "derivatives" and rebundling mortgages so that nobody knows what anything is any more. Better keep muddying the waters though, that damn internet, some folks might figure out that we're trying to set up another depression. Well, the first time that we jiggerypokered the statistics on unemployment, we got away with it. Let's try it again. And our boy George- he's so good to us. He classifies stuff as "secret" then claims that the classification doesn't exist, just like he locked up them towelheads in Cuba without giving them a trial. So we've got our boys saying that Herbert Hoover didn't do anything wrong, and if Roosevelt hadn't done anything, the country would have come out of the depression a lot faster. It's pure BS, but only an egghead would figure this out, and we know how to shut them up. And those guys writing this fertilizer- heck, they've got everything so twisted around nobody knows what unemployment is any more, and we've got everybody believing that the depression never really ended. Of course, we know that actually if you add in the number of people that Roosevelt put to work on those WPA projects, unemployment was actually a lot lower and the country was doing just fine with his programs. Besides, when WWII broke out, we managed to build lots more airplanes, ships, and tanks than everybody else put together, which meant that there couldn't have been much of a depression by 1935 or so because there wouldn't have been the machines, the factories or the workers. Just look at the number of cars that were being built. But heck, who's gonna figure that one out?
But there are still those pesky regulations that they passed when they caught on to what our grandpappy's did back in the 20s- we have to keep hollerin' that those regulations are preventing us from making more money than everybody else. Woops, better not say that. Aw heck, the great unwashed are stupid- why not bellyache that we can't make more money than everybody else without working. We deserve it.. right? Now we're rolling... our boy Greenspan is incomprehensible and has got everybody convinced that he's a genius because they're too stupid to admit that they can't figure out what he's saying, and he's gotten rid of the regulations that were holding us back. Now we're making TONS of MONEY, and everybody is jealous- saying look at how smart those guys are.
And now- we've WON!!!
Sam
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