Despite the 11th hour rush to pass this shit-storm (word is hyphenated because self-correct told me it was better that way :P ) of a financial policy, the U.S. financial markets still took a dive and though they raised slightly after the vigorous downward spiral, the stock market is still very volatile as investors around the world are coming to grips with the American government's supreme ineptness at handling its business.
Dow average still heading down
Wall St. Turns Positive
My thoughts about the average American citizen's ideal next move in all of this? Watch as the investors and those who depended on the U.S. for support financial (so..the entire world basically) begin to take heed of these repeated financial downturns as a result of financial stupidity at the individual level (yes, I'm talking to you average citizen who spent more than you damn well knew that you could afford)...to the highest branches of the U.S. government, who I will not blame here.
Why you ask, do I refuse to chastise our government, and rather turn the blame to the American citizen? It is because they are politicians. It is in their job description to be uncaring, ruthless, selfish, conniving, greedy, malicious, self-righteous bastards. It is well document throughout history lol.
I chastise instead myself and my fellow countrymen, for knowing the nature of these men and women and STILL being complacent and watching them gut our once great country and throw it to the metaphorical lion's den.
Economic Issues Remain in Wake of Debt Resolution
But given the country's love for preemptive striking against "potential" national threats both internationally AND DOMESTICALLY (I won't go into my theories about 9/11 and the wars we've currently lodged ourselves in, in this post lol), I won't start touting ideas about becoming vigilant crime fighters and making citizen militias and shit like that.
No, fellow country men, the revolution I think that needs to come instead is one that removes our dependency on such volatile markets. I invite you all to visit the Backwoods Home Magazine (I will post a link to it on the home page after this post, or you can just google it if ye don't wanna wait) and learn how to live self-reliantly.
We as a people depend on the American government and the markets they influence for food, shelter, tools, and money to buy those necessities from them. Just as well we also depend on them for the gasoline, cars/buses/other forms of transportation, and JOBS needed to get the money to even survive. I urge you all to take steps to become more self-reliant. Because just as foreign investors would do themselves a disservice by putting more of their time and money into a broken and obviously malfunctioning system...so would we as U.S. citizens or as I should better call us...domestic investors.
Trust me, there is no harm in learning to survive apart from the system.
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And there you have it, your daily organic--T.V. dinner?--- requirements. Satisifed. (>^_^)>#
Hrm..although I agree with a lot of what you said, I'm not certain I agree with all of it. Indeed, it is the fault of the citizens of this country, including myself, however, is it really our fault for being born into a corrupt and broken system by default? Agreed, something should be done, but to blame someone just for that, I think, is neglecting the major issue. Why do we have these constant economic problems? Because the fucking government doesn't have a clue as to what they're doing, and insists on being involved in everything. If we decentralized our economy, and shrank the power and size of the government, the free market could do what it does best. Grow. The bailouts, and reforms and everything that the Government imposes time and time again onto the US economy drags down the market. If something is about to go bankrupt, then it goes bankrupt. If you save it, they don't learn from their mistakes. Hence why I'm opposed to raising the debt ceiling. It doesn't solve the problem. It puts a big ass tarp over it so no one can see it, but it still smells like rotten milk and moldy ass.
ReplyDeleteThis is true, and I don't mean to make it seem as though only the citizens are at fault here, because it is quite obvious that they may take only a partial amount of the blame, and a small percentage at that.
ReplyDeleteBut there is also the fact that these ruses and as one put it, what amounts to "badly-staged plays"..occur again and again. How many times will people allow themselves to be fooled by the same ill-thought out farce, before they are compelled to do something about it?
And furthermore, what can we do about it? Many people believe that come election time we should just vote all the politicians and such out of office, but I don't think this would cut it by far. After all, a politician by any other name is STILL a politician, and many of those we vote in will still be bought by lobbyists and major corporations.
Is there anything to do short of nation-wide protesting lol?