I am NOT a Pessimist

I am NOT a Pessimist

When I wrote to the Dothan Eagle, some fifteen months ago, that with us going with the ethanol; people around the world will starve to death, I was not being a pessimist, I was only telling you what the president did not dare say, or cared enough to say. Are you to believe that no one, no one in the administration or in Washington DC can see the things I see, and their consequences. I was right about the economy, when I predicted a housing and banking debacle five years ago, and I was also right about the Iraq war, that it will not be considered liberation by the Iraqis and they will try to kill us. I was right about the factions in Iraq continuing to fight amongst themselves for the power and the money. I was also right about there not being any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I had said that Saddam was only posturing. So does all of this make me a pessimist?

I wrote about the FED and its destructive policies well before Mr. Greenspan published his book of excuses. It is not a “conspiracy theory” when the crime is being carried out in the open, and if it is a conspiracy then we have all colluded in the conspiracy against our own country, due to our lack of knowledge and may be our greed. As it is said of the drug abuse no one pours drugs down your throat, you have to do that yourself.

America is an optimistic country, it is said. Alan Greenspan had used the phrase “irrational exuberance”. In psychology, however, there is another word for irrational exuberance, it is called a “delusion“, (1. psychology false belief: a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of psychiatric disorder ,“Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.”).

There are many topics that I discuss on my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com”, from the economy to over population of the world, but this here only concerns the presidential race, just a little bit.

Whether you are a republican or a democrat, for Obama, Clinton or McCain, what do you think the next president will do for you? What can he or she do, there is one sure answer, not a Gosh Darn thing. The problem with the United States today is that we have only one thing shorter than our seven second attention span, our long term memory, we can not remember a darn thing. Knowledge depends not only on learning something; but also in retaining what you learn and using it in the future for reference.

Do you remember the president saying just seven months ago that seventy percent of the Americans own their own homes, well he was lying, and he was lying when he said four months ago that the US economy is solid. So that. Mr. President has yet retained his own irrational exuberance.

The US treasury is broke, our national and our personal net worth stinks, in this atmosphere we are told that we can provide health care for all, and can have everyone live for ever, and sink more money down the rat hole we call education, (a rat hole because we have few pupils and their parents interested in real learning, and even fewer teachers and administrators interested in teaching, or may be it is the other way around. On the other hand we are being told that we can afford tax cuts and that tax cuts increase government revenues. With John McCain it may be a symptom of more than a mere irrational exuberance. John McCain says he wants to give you federal tax break on gasoline for the summer, that is fourteen cents a gallon off from three dollar fifty, are you smiling? Do the math.

We are a broke country, we are paying more for gas and food because of choices the government has been making on our behalf. The choices we have allowed our government to make on our behalf. We have caused a few to get so rich that they can manipulate the whole world markets be it in corn or oil or rice. It was back in two thousand three when I wrote about the over population and poisoning of the earth, also when more people need more food and the rich can buy more than their fair share the poor must starve, what Egypt and Indonesia and India and Bangladesh and other poor countries need is population control, so do we.

An investment in the repairs, improvements or development of infra structures requires money.

In two thousand five I discussed the coming down turn in the economy and with it an increase in poverty and an increase in crime, since we have generations of people who are not used to having to work but living on handouts and free money. I also for decriminalization of prostitution since many with low or no skills or no jobs will soon be turning to the second oldest profession.

We have transferred the wealth of the United States to persons and governments overseas.
As the other countries and their people get ”richer” and buy more cars and food and goods. The cost of everything in this country also goes up. The problem is that the rich in those countries do not worry about the plight of their poor, and lately no rich in this country are staying awake the night worrying whether your children had enough to eat.

You can help yourself if you wish, STOP SPENDING and STOP BUYING, it is that old Christian thing. When you go to Wal Mart, or Lowes or , WHATEVER!, some of your money goes overseas and they compete against you in buying the things YOU need. Shopping makes you not happy but poorer. Have your kid ride a school bus, no after school activities or running around on dates allowed, turn off the cable, get rid of the cell phone, turn down the air conditioning, build smaller houses. This is not what I want you to do, this is what you will be doing soon any way, don’t you think?