lala_says_so
06-03-2009, 03:28 AM
I live in NYC; no doubt, the epicenter of this whole Economic Meltdown.
However, instead of standing outside of Wall Street waiting to stone the Illuminati backed, Zionist, Reptilian-Influenced Bankers, I wanna take my perfect credit score, Platinum AmEx and beat the nearest son-of-a-- within an inch of their life.
Despite what the media would like you to believe; I highly doubt the wealthy are responsible for this crisis (well, 99% of them). & if they continue to be victimized by the media & U.S. government; well, the Swiss Banks are gonna get a whole new influx of customers, while the Government will lose a significant amount of tax money.
From Money@360 (http://www.a360view.com/060208/The-economic-meltdown-in-United-States-American-Consumer-craze-for-credit.php):
United States, the most powerful nation in the world is suddenly facing the economic crises. The economic crises that United States is currently into did not arise all of a sudden and the crises won’t go away that fast either. There are several reasons that attribute for the economic problems of US and we would focus on the American Consumer and put aside democrats, republicans, oil, Osama, Iraq….
Monster Consumer of the world
It is strange, when we consider that the vast majority of the world lives on less than $ 2 a day and that the vast majority of Americans are enamored with technology and voracious consumerism. Appetite for consumer goods is unending as people just won’t think twice before spending that buck. Everyone wants the big ticket items, like the big house, a new car, a great vacation and what not. The hunger for small ticket consumption is also big. The ready availability of consumer goods has a psychological impact on people and as a result the volume of consumption increases. You can see obese people lined up at the general store buying loaded shopping carts of items, as if they can’t live without those items. Americans want to live life King Size and why not, that is what everyone dreams for, but I wonder why they forget that every thing they buy comes with a price tag.
Let us look into the spending pattern and obligations of majority of Americans.
* House Mortgage
payments.
* Vehicle Payments
* Cost of keeping everything neat and tidy.
* The big vacation.
* Regular household items.
* Study Loans.
You might be thinking that these are the regular expenses of any person in this world. But I would disagree with it, because the proportion of people who would like to be neck deep in debt to get the above items is more in United States than in any other country. People over here just don’t want to save money. Even the sole saving mode (401K), is connected with stock market
. The just can’t live away with the gambler instinct. The economy has become more of a casino economy. The idea of reckless consumerism has been planted into the mind of people by the business houses. Another, big idea that is promoted is the power to realize dreams by easy credit (wow, what a way to live life to fullest.)
What is wrong with America is simply that it is not America at all anymore. The forefathers of America wanted people to live a life of freedom and outlined the constitution that stated.
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
But look what has happened now. America has become a spoiled, detached, blameless, myopic “victim nation”. Gas prices are high because of speculators or Wall Street or Saudi Arabia not because we drive the largest cars on earth to go to a convenience store for a loaf of bread and a dozen donuts. Heating oil is at a record high because we haven’t dug up all of Alaska or Wyoming or built oil platforms off of Cape Cod not because we heat Jacuzzis, swimming pools or trophy homes. The mortgage
problem is because of wall street or the lack of government regulation not because we signed documents we were too stupid to understand or too lazy to have an attorney explain or because we just wanted what we wanted when we wanted it. This nation now lives or dies at the discretion of the consumer. He or she stops consuming and the nation grinds to a halt, unless of course we can prime the pump of consumerism in other lands. We have chosen to live beyond our means and the tools for that have been readily handed out by the merchants of consumption...credit cards by the billions, home equity loans, cash outs, borrowings from 401k plans...anything and everything to keep America doing what it has no choice but to do now and every desire to continue doing, consume without care or consequence. They provided the means but you made the choice.
It is not a political problem it is a value problem, a greed problem, a selfishness problem and lack of awareness problem. It is our problem and one of our creations. We chose, we consume, we want or don’t want, we are aware or we are not, we subscribed to the priests of profits pontifications and allowed Wall Street to build a ponzi scheme that made it the largest single industry on earth. WS convinced us that we can not have a life, an education, a retirement, a future without being tied to them. And we signed on. Planned and perceived obsolescence convinced us that we are not worthy as a human being unless we upgrade, stay in style, have a super sized high def. surround sound plasma instant message gadget plugged into our head all hours of the day and night. No one told us how Newton's law of “action and reaction” “cause and effect” plays into all of this. None of us put slightest thought to the consequences of this mindless pursuit. We just want what we want when we want it and as an American it is your birthright and if we fail at achieving consumer nirvana then it is your government’s obligation to bring you home to your entitled paradise sans virgins perhaps.
Let me note, I am not rich. I'm middle class (barely, NYC is so expensive. It's about 11 dollars for a pack of cigarettes, and don't get me started on liquor...) However, I haven't been affected by the crisis 'cause I pay my bills on time; I don't charge for things I can't pay in full. I jog outside instead of paying 200 bucks for a Gym membership. However, with the unlimited credit the banks seemed to throw at people, it was easy for them to assume they can afford such luxuries.
The banks may have been unregulated, but the banks didn't force people to sign the dotted line.
I'm sure Obama knows the truth (it's the public's fault just as much as the bank's); he just manipulated the truth so people would support his NWO-type policies.
...Ignorance is bliss, but for how long?
However, instead of standing outside of Wall Street waiting to stone the Illuminati backed, Zionist, Reptilian-Influenced Bankers, I wanna take my perfect credit score, Platinum AmEx and beat the nearest son-of-a-- within an inch of their life.
Despite what the media would like you to believe; I highly doubt the wealthy are responsible for this crisis (well, 99% of them). & if they continue to be victimized by the media & U.S. government; well, the Swiss Banks are gonna get a whole new influx of customers, while the Government will lose a significant amount of tax money.
From Money@360 (http://www.a360view.com/060208/The-economic-meltdown-in-United-States-American-Consumer-craze-for-credit.php):
United States, the most powerful nation in the world is suddenly facing the economic crises. The economic crises that United States is currently into did not arise all of a sudden and the crises won’t go away that fast either. There are several reasons that attribute for the economic problems of US and we would focus on the American Consumer and put aside democrats, republicans, oil, Osama, Iraq….
Monster Consumer of the world
It is strange, when we consider that the vast majority of the world lives on less than $ 2 a day and that the vast majority of Americans are enamored with technology and voracious consumerism. Appetite for consumer goods is unending as people just won’t think twice before spending that buck. Everyone wants the big ticket items, like the big house, a new car, a great vacation and what not. The hunger for small ticket consumption is also big. The ready availability of consumer goods has a psychological impact on people and as a result the volume of consumption increases. You can see obese people lined up at the general store buying loaded shopping carts of items, as if they can’t live without those items. Americans want to live life King Size and why not, that is what everyone dreams for, but I wonder why they forget that every thing they buy comes with a price tag.
Let us look into the spending pattern and obligations of majority of Americans.
* House Mortgage
payments.
* Vehicle Payments
* Cost of keeping everything neat and tidy.
* The big vacation.
* Regular household items.
* Study Loans.
You might be thinking that these are the regular expenses of any person in this world. But I would disagree with it, because the proportion of people who would like to be neck deep in debt to get the above items is more in United States than in any other country. People over here just don’t want to save money. Even the sole saving mode (401K), is connected with stock market
. The just can’t live away with the gambler instinct. The economy has become more of a casino economy. The idea of reckless consumerism has been planted into the mind of people by the business houses. Another, big idea that is promoted is the power to realize dreams by easy credit (wow, what a way to live life to fullest.)
What is wrong with America is simply that it is not America at all anymore. The forefathers of America wanted people to live a life of freedom and outlined the constitution that stated.
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
But look what has happened now. America has become a spoiled, detached, blameless, myopic “victim nation”. Gas prices are high because of speculators or Wall Street or Saudi Arabia not because we drive the largest cars on earth to go to a convenience store for a loaf of bread and a dozen donuts. Heating oil is at a record high because we haven’t dug up all of Alaska or Wyoming or built oil platforms off of Cape Cod not because we heat Jacuzzis, swimming pools or trophy homes. The mortgage
problem is because of wall street or the lack of government regulation not because we signed documents we were too stupid to understand or too lazy to have an attorney explain or because we just wanted what we wanted when we wanted it. This nation now lives or dies at the discretion of the consumer. He or she stops consuming and the nation grinds to a halt, unless of course we can prime the pump of consumerism in other lands. We have chosen to live beyond our means and the tools for that have been readily handed out by the merchants of consumption...credit cards by the billions, home equity loans, cash outs, borrowings from 401k plans...anything and everything to keep America doing what it has no choice but to do now and every desire to continue doing, consume without care or consequence. They provided the means but you made the choice.
It is not a political problem it is a value problem, a greed problem, a selfishness problem and lack of awareness problem. It is our problem and one of our creations. We chose, we consume, we want or don’t want, we are aware or we are not, we subscribed to the priests of profits pontifications and allowed Wall Street to build a ponzi scheme that made it the largest single industry on earth. WS convinced us that we can not have a life, an education, a retirement, a future without being tied to them. And we signed on. Planned and perceived obsolescence convinced us that we are not worthy as a human being unless we upgrade, stay in style, have a super sized high def. surround sound plasma instant message gadget plugged into our head all hours of the day and night. No one told us how Newton's law of “action and reaction” “cause and effect” plays into all of this. None of us put slightest thought to the consequences of this mindless pursuit. We just want what we want when we want it and as an American it is your birthright and if we fail at achieving consumer nirvana then it is your government’s obligation to bring you home to your entitled paradise sans virgins perhaps.
Let me note, I am not rich. I'm middle class (barely, NYC is so expensive. It's about 11 dollars for a pack of cigarettes, and don't get me started on liquor...) However, I haven't been affected by the crisis 'cause I pay my bills on time; I don't charge for things I can't pay in full. I jog outside instead of paying 200 bucks for a Gym membership. However, with the unlimited credit the banks seemed to throw at people, it was easy for them to assume they can afford such luxuries.
The banks may have been unregulated, but the banks didn't force people to sign the dotted line.
I'm sure Obama knows the truth (it's the public's fault just as much as the bank's); he just manipulated the truth so people would support his NWO-type policies.
...Ignorance is bliss, but for how long?