When The World In Running Down...

Fuck, why did I get so many credit cards!?!!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

You make the best of what’s still around… a favorite line from a great Sting song called, “Another Day”; steal the mp3 from somewhere (like gomusic.ru) if you haven’t heard it. It was written in the early 80s, so it’s most poignant today… as we’re re-living those harsh economic times… although our times might be harsher than the ear of Stagflation.

People are scared these days, really scared because under the last three GOP administrations the country has scurrilously outsourced too many jobs. People are looking for scapegoats, best be sure; point in fact (this isn’t funny, but it’s hilarious) Lehman Brothers C.E.O., Richard Fuld, got punched in the company gym after it was announced that the firm was going under.

Allan Greenspan, the so-called maestro, admitted today, “I made a mistake in trusting that free markets could regulate themselves without government oversight.” First of all, the free market NEEDS to be regulated, it always has been – just think about the early days of the industrial revolution in England when kids were put to work in factories, because they were cheap labor. And the “Free market” demands the cheapest possible inputs.

FUCK THAT!

The Free Market is so rapacious and insatiable with its desire for continued growth at the expense of damn near everybody. And the sick joke is, American Culture still inculcates its citizens with the antiquated concept of “fair play.”

Greenspan expressed the real problem with this statement, “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.” The financial markets have been run since the mid 80s by a bunch of modern day robber barons – but this time they aren’t being so magnanimous with their wealth when it’s time to die. It was pretty much writ in stone and writ large the members of the corporatocracy (see Secret History Of the American Empire) would rape and pillage – even at the expense of shareholder value and the integrity of the firm – with impunity ever since Enron was found out to be molesting its stockholders and the public at large. All so those “smart guys” could have these multiple multimillion dollar houses all over the US.

People are actually scaling back on medications – which is why we need to have an overhauled healthcare system. One in which the Insurance companies are cut the fuck out of the picture. Why is that if you get sick that you have to ask the insurance company if you can get treatment? You don’t ask the doctor what kind of treatment you require, you ask the claims adjuster if you can even have treatment that isn’t just a Johnson’s & Johnson’s band-aid, a slap on the back and a plastic smile!?!?