There is no answer too strong, there is no reason so
weak, there is no other cause so worthy, there is no other need
greater than our own. We have this idea for government that has
become so perverted and so mutilated, but we hold on to it for what
it once was rather than what it now is. We hold tight to the idea,
but that is not the reality and so we find ourselves on the outside
looking in at a surrealist image.
Bloomberg- "Rich shoppers
are driving an increase in consumer spending, bolstering a recovery
that masks reluctance among less affluent Americans to join in.
Sales are up at Tiffany & Co. and Coach Inc.,buoyed by
demand for $6,000 diamond pendants and $1,200 leather handbags as a
stock-market surge pads the wallets of the wealthy. At the other end
of the economic spectrum, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest
discount retailer, reports "everyday Americans" are living
paycheck to paycheck as they await an improvement in job
prospects."
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas, Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena (Astrodome) here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." (Barbara Bush)
Bloomberg- "The uneven progress in household expenditures, which account for about 70 percent of the economy, helps explain why Fed policy makers likely will keep interest rates near zero and complete a second round of Treasury purchases. Unemployment averaged 9.6 percent last year, the highest rate since 1983, even as the expansion gathered speed.
Consumer purchases reflect bigger
gains among high-income households and "financial pressures on
those of more-modest means," according to minutes of the Fed's
Dec. 14 meeting. Feroli estimates the top 20 percent of wage earners
account for about 40 percent of spending, while Dean Maki, chief U.S.
economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York, puts their
contribution at closer to 50 percent."
The Federal Reserve
puts in place policies which directly benefit the investor class and
then uses their failure to help the other 80 percent of the economy
as a reason to keep those policies in place. Bloomberg is telling on
itself, it is making the argument against the policies it loves.
Twenty percent of the economy? Fifty percent of the spending? It is
an endless stream of Orwelianism's in a top heavy propagandized
society.
Time magazine inside of its January 17th issue has on
the inside front cover the following, "How a strategy to help a
regional store go national is putting thousands of jobs back on the
map."
PROGRESS IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS
"When a chain
of retail stores needed capital to expand, we helped them find it.
Soon, new stores were opening in other towns and other parts of the
country. Providing value for families and job opportunities for
thousands of inventory specialists, warehouse supervisors and
managers in training."
Who is responsible for doing these
wondrous things? Who would buy a two page advertisement in a national
magazine to trumpet these amazing accomplishments? Goldman Sachs, why
everyone knows what a force for good works the Goldman Sachs people
are.
This campaign is designed to show us little people how
misunderstood investment banks like Goldman Sachs really are. Helping
companies grow, building wind turbines. Goldman Sachs, gives no names
of these companies and no specific examples of their good works, so
just trust them and don't ask any questions. Without companies named
or specific examples these advertisements should begin with, "Once
upon a time," they are fairy tales, little bits of corporate
whimsy.
Will buying the most expensive two pages in a magazine
help Goldman Sachs add to their bottom line?Will these ads help us
"less affluent" to overcome our reluctance and spend? Or is this
just more propaganda designed to effect and alter opinion?
This
entire issue of Time magazine was propaganda, "Afghanistan's
Endgame" Are we at the end of Afghanistan war? "Where the Jobs
Are" There are jobs available? Then in a degree of corporate
cuteness and in small print with an arrow, "And where they're not."
Which means of course, that if you can't find a job then it's because
you are looking in the wrong place or looking for the wrong type of
job.
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