10 Signs We Live In a False Economy
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
(
Activist Post)
It’s time to admit that we live in a false economy. Smoke and mirrors
are used to make us believe the economy is real, but it’s all an
elaborate illusion.
Out of one side of the establishment’s mouth we hear excitement about
“green shoots”, and out of the other side comes breathless warnings of
fiscal cliffs and the urgent need for
unlimited bailouts by the Fed.
We hear the people begging for jobs and the politicians promising them,
but politicians can’t create jobs. We see people camped out to buy
stuff on Black Friday indicating the consumer economy is seemingly
thriving, only to find out
everything was bought on credit.
The corporate media does their best to distract us from seeing
anything real. We see the media glorify Kim Kardashian who got rich by
being famous, and became famous merely by being rich. She got front page
coverage on Huffington Post this week because
her cat died. Enough said.
Meanwhile the financial media makes the economy seem complicated and
they ban anyone who speaks truthfully about the economy from their
airwaves.
Is it any wonder why people are angry and confused about the
economy? Well, hopefully these signs that we live in a false economy
will help clear up some of that confusion.
1.
Fake Jobs: It’s not just that the “official”
unemployment numbers are a fraud,
the actual jobs are fake as well. Ask yourself how many professions
actually produce something of value? 80% of jobs could disappear
tomorrow and it wouldn’t affect basic human survival or happiness in the
least. Yes, in our society we need money to survive – and jobs equal
money – but that doesn’t mean a “job” has any actual benefit to society.
More on this in the next point…
2.
Problems Create Jobs, Not Solutions: We can’t fix real problems, because it would destroy more
fake jobs.
We can’t end the wars and bring all of the personnel home when the
jobless rate is already suffering. We can’t end the War on Drugs because
where would the DEA agents, prison guards, the court system, parole
officers, and the rest of their support staff work. We can’t simplify
the tax code because the bookkeepers, CPAs, accounting professors, and
tax attorneys would be unemployed. We cannot reduce the bureaucracy of
government or streamline healthcare because paper pushers have few other
notable skills. We can’t stop spying on Americans because it now
employs millions of people. We can’t restrict the Wall Street casino, or
hardly anyone will be left with a job. Finally, what will happen to
university jobs when people either realize their product is not worth
the cost or they discover they can get the same education online for
nearly free? In other words, we need these manufactured problems to
create phony employment.
3.
Money Has No Value: Money is the biggest
illusion of all. Our money is loaned into existence with arbitrary
interest rates by a private monopoly. It is an IOU. It only has value
because a law says it has value, and that value fluctuates based on how
much supply is in the economy which, again, is controlled by a
for-profit monopoly. It’s actual value is zero since it is just a piece
of
paper with fancy ink on it. The only things with real value to humans are skills (labor), tools and materials, food and water, and energy.
4.
The Fed Now Buys 90% of the Nation’s Debt:
Speaking of money, the Federal Reserve loans money to the US government
who issues bonds to cover their spending. Those bonds are sold on the
open market through auctions to investors who believe in the ability of
the United States to make good on those bonds. Apparently, the US has no
more investors because the
Fed is now buying 90% of new Treasury bonds.
This is called monetizing debt, or, essentially, monetizing money.
That’s what a Ponzi scheme does. This acts to keep interest rates
artificially low because they’d have to raise them to attract outside
“investors”. In layman terms, our whole monetary system is a paper
tiger, a house of cards, or whatever metaphor you want to use for fake.
5.
What is the Value of Anything? The price
discovery mechanism, or the process to determine the value of an asset
in the marketplace, has become so convoluted that determining the
genuine value of anything has become nearly impossible. Between
government subsidizes for things like food, fuel, education, housing,
insurance and even cars; taxes, regulations and laws; the manipulation
of the value of money and interest rates; Wall Street gambling on
commodities; what is the real value of something? For example, why does
an ounce of marijuana (a weed that can grow anywhere) cost up to $500?
Is that the real value based on labor and materials, and supply and
demand? Of course not. Its value is inflated mainly due to laws and
regulations.
6.
Failure is Rewarded: You know we live in a false
economy when failure is rewarded and success is penalized. Citizens
everywhere are being told they need to tighten their belts, work harder
so we can bailout the failed government, banks, insurance companies and
even car companies. And when we work harder and achieve some success,
they tax it heavily to indefinitely pay for these fraudulent
institutions. Yet this
infinite money creation and
taxation is light years from solving the root cause of the problem. The reality is that the banks’ solutions
are the
problem, enriching the investor class at the expense of the middle
class. Global bankers are playing with taxpayer money – and the money of
many future generations – in a global casino royale that is destined to
fail so they can take the people’s assets. They are all-in; but their
money is fake, and our assets put at risk are real.
7.
Corporate entities have the same rights as humans, but not the same punishments: When
the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have free-speech rights of
people, it was one of the final nails in the coffin of the republic.
Monied interests can now openly finance elections and buy the
legislation they need to operate with impunity. Corporations may be
comprised of humans, but they are not subjected to the same standard of
humanity. It was profoundly argued in the article
What if BP Were a Human Being?
that judged by common standards of morality, decency, and previously
agreed-upon definitions of criminality, BP would be judged a
psychopathic killer … and immortal. Ditto for the rest leading the
predatory corporate pack; the most obvious being defense contractors.
And since these corporations are now joined at the hip with government
itself, what does that make government? By changing definitions, they
are attempting to change reality. But that still doesn’t make it the
truth.
8.
People buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have: In
a type of trickle-down debt whirlpool, the government’s rampant
spending without sufficient assets to back it up is mirrored in the
behavior of the American consumer. Despite inflation,
rising unemployment,
and a continued collapse in real estate, it hasn’t stopped credit
spending. The Associated Press just reported that for the month of
October:
Americans swiped their credit cards more often in October and
borrowed more to attend school and buy cars. The increases drove U.S.
consumer debt to an all-time high.
The Federal Reserve said Friday that consumers increased their
borrowing by $14.2 billion in October from September. Total borrowing
rose to a record $2.75 trillion.
Borrowing in the category that covers autos and student loans
increased by $10.8 billion. Borrowing on credit cards rose by $3.4
billion, only the second monthly increase in the past five months. (
Source)
Most troubling is the
type of borrowing highlighted. The
worst possible borrowing would be these negative-return investments such
as student loans, credit cards, and cars. It is magical thinking taken
to the highest degree.
9.
Entrepreneurs are punished: It has become nearly
impossible to make a simple living on your own. America has become a
land filled with bureaucratic red tape that actively thwarts small
business creation and criminalizes independence. There is perhaps no
better example of this than the attacks waged against the ultimate
entrepreneurial endeavor of self-reliance: the family farm. Through
collectivist models such as Agenda 21, long-running family farms are
being shut down and supplanted with “protected zones.” In the most
recent case, a family oyster farm
was shut down
based on provably false scientific data that aimed to demonstrate
negative environmental and economic impacts. It was completely fake,
ending an 80-year local business that generated 50,000 tourists per year
and employed 30 full-time local residents. In many of these cases the
federally stolen property winds up in the hands of developers who have
no interest in a true local economy. It is an inherent part of any false
economy to create dependence where none should exist at all. A
five-minute video that can
be seen here sums up the American economy of illusions and the death of the American Dream.
10.
Engineered Slavery: Do you think slavery died in the 1800s?
Think again.
Economic hitmen (lenders) have successfully enslaved-by-debt everything
from nations, entire industries, state and local governments and nearly
every person on the planet. And they bought your servitude with money
they never had, they simply created it out of thin air. Even if an
individual doesn’t have any bank financing or credit cards, they still
pay the private Federal Reserve through inflation and income taxes. As
author of
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins, would say: the time has come for the banks to collect their “pound of flesh” from
average citizens by
way of higher taxes, less social services, and taking your pensions —
“austerity.” For an enlightening explanation of how economic hitmen work
their dark magic please watch
this video. If you’re still confused, see these
10 signs you might be a slave. Another, more obvious, form of engineered slavery is
prison labor.
Laws and regulations are specifically created to add to the prison
population which enriches the corporations that own them, while local
communities actually become poorer and more dangerous (
source).
As George Carlin said, “It’s called the American Dream, because you
have to be asleep to believe it.” It would be bad enough if it were
contained to only one country, but we are now experiencing a global
collective dreaming that fantasizes about a government figuring things
out just in the nick of time. However, in the real world, the collapse
has begun in earnest. Until we are committed to counter the 10 points
above, we will remain in the grip of an hallucination. However, there
are encouraging signs through protests worldwide, alternative currency
movements, and myriad creative solutions in the most affected countries
like Iceland, Greece, and Spain that people are beginning to shake off
their sleep, look in the mirror and realize that the dream economy they
have been sold was designed to make them seek solutions in entirely the
wrong direction.
