Debt Ceiling, TARP, Jobless Rate, and once again, just where is the Bailout for the Regular Guy?

After reading the article on Yahoo! on 01 Aug.11 about the U.S. Debt Ceiling http://news.yahoo.com/responses-debt-deal-range-angry-angrier-023415505.html

I thought it was time for a update on my article.  The original article follows immediately after the end of this one.

Now I am a Flag waving, Liberty loving monster fan of being an American, but how is it we are going to get the short end of the stick, again, when is comes to what the Obama Adminstration does with our money.

This is twice now Obama has stuck it to We The People. THEY say there will not be any effect on interest rates, fuel prices, and other items of interest to the general public. Yeah and THEY said the recession wouldn't last very long either. As the saying goes, You Shall Know The Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Mad.

If the U.S. Gov't can 'raise their debt ceiling' does that mean we can call our creditors an say, 'oh, hey, yeah we're a little low on cash, so we're following the example the Gov't has set and raising our debt ceiling. So we'll be spending more, just not paying more." How well do you think that will fly? Like a lead balloon.

If The State is not working properly, it needs to be rebuilt!

As I have said in the past, the Gov't needs to give Big Banking and the Credit Bureaus a kick in the pants and say "Give the people a break." Don't you think you have enough money and have caused enough trouble for the U.S. Economy?

Moratoriums on foreclosures, mortgage payments, car payments, etc... are what we need until this recession is truly behind us, and will give We The People a chance to catch our breath and get caught back up.

Giving Big Banking those Billions in bailout money didn't help We The People's current financial situation has it? Has the Gov't even gotten much, if any, of that money back?

The Gov't is worried about 'Deflation' which means a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. YES! That is what the country needs! How is it that a gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of gas? Why is the cost of heating and cooling your home taking a large chunk of your income?

If We The People don't have enough money to buy that gallon of milk then 'Deflation' which is in essence a decrease in the amount of money each person has, should be just the thing we need to jump start our economy as it will increase the value of our real money, it also is a benefit to those on fixed incomes. I'm sure most of you know at least one Baby Boomer. They are a large percentage of those on fixed incomes as well as those who are disabled and the unemployed.

Now, I know, lower prices means less demand which means less production, but that then leads to a lower prices which encourages people to buy.

I have said that I am in no way an Economist and those poor suckers should be without jobs considering what a mess they have gotten this country into, but it seems that deflation is exactly what is needed here in the Good Ol' U.S. of A.

We want our money to go farther right?! 'Inflation' makes it so that it doesn't go as far as it used to. Inflation causes a loss as it effects the real value our Dollar. We NEED to keep a balance between Inflation and Deflation next to Zero so our money can purchase more and our Gov't will understand what We The People are going through. Big Business and Big Banking should NOT be getting the bailouts,
WE SHOULD!

I am sure I will be adding more to this as time goes on, but I am looking forward to your comments.

***** Original Article *****

After reading the article on Yahoo! on 01 Apr., 10 about U.S. Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner I was reminded of the way I and many others felt when our Gov't started bailing out the financial institutions to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars.

Yet we, the Average Joe got a paltry $250.00. How's that help? It barely would fill a Humvee gas tank.

I make no pretention as to being an Economist, and Heaven help those poor schmucks, but to me it makes more financial sense to let the big institutions and credit bureau's breathe their last, as they failed to do what they were hired and paid to do. That is protect We The People from what happened during the Great Depression. Now that this Depression/Recession
is even greater than the previous historic one.

The Gov't should have forgiven We The People our debts across the board, which in Biblical times was done after 7 years. This would have immediately improved the economy. Sure it would have killed many banks, credit unions, auto makers/dealers and other businesses worldwide, but at the same time it would have saved many global citizens from foreclosure, bankruptcy, and numerous other bills, etc...

This in turn would have ensured that the "Big Guys" would have to retune and rethink their business models and the way they have treated their customers.

Also how is it "good" for our jobless rate & economy to let American businesses take their shops overseas or out of the country where labor is cheaper. Of course the U.S. jobless rate would skyrocket.

Next is, and I know this will rattle some cages, if we cut down on what we import, for example Cars, and we "Buy American" then unemployment will go down and the economy will go up. How simple can it be?

Now I know it is 'good for business' and Gov't trade negotions to favor certain countries, read Most Favored Nation status, but come on! Open your eyes Big Gov't! How do you think we got in this mess? Simple... by sending our jobs, factories, et al out of the country and allowing other countries to import their goods to us.

I know we export to them as well and thus that does assist with the economy, but in a disaster of this magnitude we need to be keeping our money, our people, and our jobs in the United States, not exporting them.

Now from the link listed below the Chinese workers are finally realizing they have been getting a raw deal, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Companies-brace-for-end-of-apf-2437567795.html?x=0

It is time the U.S. Gov't stops granting foreign companies tax breaks and not to mention other benefits and incentives. Offer those to our homegrown employers to keep their companies in the U.S.A.!

Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, has said, "The new game is to find a way to do the domestic market." Meaning here in the United States. Let's 'do the domestic market' some good and get those companies back in the United States.

Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" mocked Frisbee company Wham-O for returning half of the production for Frisbee and production for some other products back to the United States.

I say we should praise and reward Wham-O for returning to the U.S. and bringing jobs along with it. Then perhaps other American companies with production overseas would return to their native soil.

How is it that we have relinquished our freedom and liberty to tell those in positions of authority that we don't like the way they are governing?

Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although I also appreciate the paraphrasing of Jefferson's quote from the character V in V for Vendetta,
"People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."

We The People should be critical of our government because the government is only interested in maintaining its power, which we in turn stupidly grant it.

A foretaste of a future article begins below.

It depends on who has the weapons. As long as we have the 2nd Amendment the government has to be afraid of the people...citizen or subject...a bullet stands in the way.

The reason our Colonies were able to have a successful break from England was because they had the firepower to do so. The balance of weapons and firearms in the United States is equal to or greater than all the combined U.S. Armed Forces.

Those nations who take the firearms from their masses convince their subjects that they will take care of them in their hour of need. The people believe it not realizing the reason the government took their firearms was to remove the threat to their governmental authority.

Mad Doc

Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*


Two of my favorite sayings in closing.

1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.

2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"

More on the Police State and Surveillance in the U.S

How do We The People protect our freedom to our privacy, our anonymity, and most of all to NOT be observed 24/7, by the various public and private surveillance cameras placed around our cities, in our states and our country?

I have been writing and talking about this for years and now it has come to fruition!

Sooner or later these will be combined into a single network, an All Seeing network, likely to be placed under the auspices of Homeland Security.

Then OUR Gov’t will of course invent a scenario to create the aforementioned surveillance network and instate laws to enforce its use.

Sure to be exploited by the various Alphabet Agencies we all know and hate. Let’s call it SATAN, Scan And Track All Nationals, now isn’t that special.

Isn’t it bad enough that THEY monitor every form of domestic electronic communication, cell phone, & e-mail.  THEY have invaded our computers, have cameras at every stoplight, as well as on almost every corner, and monitor what we watch on TV for alleged ‘criminal activity’.

Once THEY have SATAN, combined with the UAV’s, which as I have said in previous posts, some of which are small enough to fly in our windows, then you can kiss the 1st and 4th Amendments goodbye.  PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LINK as of  21 Feb., 13!: http://news.yahoo.com/drones-large-small-coming-us-010537668.html

Lest we forget, THEY have access to a photo of everyone in the United States who is old enough or needs to have a form of Government I.D. Then of course we all know that THEY have facial recognition software.

THEY also have a large portion of the U.S. population fingerprints thanks to requirements for background checks needed for employment, military service, and other reasons. Even if you don’t have a criminal record, you could with a little electronic manipulation.

Should we not consider whether existing laws affords us a principle which can properly be invoked to protect the privacy of We The People and, if the Gov’t doesn’t, what should we do to enforce the nature and extent of such protection.

The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world, and people, under the refining influence of culture, have become more sensitive to publicity, so that solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon our privacy, subjected us to mental pain and distress, far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury.

With all the video doctoring software available, and THEY will have the best, THEY will be able to make us see what THEY want us to see. Some poor schmuck ranting on the web about what THEY are doing, just catch a video clip from one of SATAN’s cameras, doctor it to show the schmuck killing someone and then submit as evidence in court. As I am sure there will be ‘laws’ in place to protect the validity of whatever SATAN captures. Then voila, off to some Re-Education Camp, read as prison, never to be seen or heard from again. We will believe whatever THEY want us to believe.

THEY already have computerized voting, so then THEY could, theoretically, put whoever toes the party line into office, any office in the land. Think about it!

What, you say! I vote! Yes and we all watch as the results come in on our nightly news, votes that have been tallied electronically. Send the signal and the vote for your candidate, has been changed to one for the other.

Come on people! We have Wi-Fi right? THEY have satellites than can beam a signal anywhere in the country to any voting precinct in a matter of seconds!

Think About It!

Those who can give essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety. Ben Franklin, 1775

Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*


Two of my favorite sayings in closing:

1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.

2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"

U.S. Becoming More of a Police State

Let me me preface this by saying I am a card carrying lover of the United States and the rights & liberties we enjoy as citizens of it.

Although, sadly, I am seeing more and more of those liberties and rights being violated under the guise of "National Security".  Any country or state for that matter, in my opinion, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.

If you want to see what the Good Ol' U.S. of A. could be turning into just watch the movie V for Vendetta or read George Orwell's 1984 written in 1948 by the way.

The NSA and other alphabet agencies seem to be taking their cues from the Committee for State Security otherwise known as the Cold War Soviet Union's KGB.

The KGB was known for 'Supressing Ideoloical Subversives' or in other words those with thoughts and ideas that are not in line with what the Gov't wants.

Leonid Brezhnev, and those who came before and after him, ordered the State and KGB to actively perform routine house searches, rifle through trash, to seize documents, listen in on phone calls, and if it had existed then I am sure he would have been nosing around in our e-mails, and other private communications and he also had the KGB on continual monitoring of dissidents and residents. Sound eerily familiar?

I am sure if you do your reading on the KGB and compare it to current U.S. Policies and Practices you will find quite a few similarities.

As you know from my previous posts concerning Surveillance Devices in our home, Increased Surveillance in The U.S., & Florida, Arizona, and The Police State know that bit by bit our civil liberties and rights are being taken away right under our noses.

This piece has been kicking around in my head for a while now, and due to a recent article I read on Yahoo today, 14 June, 2011 concerning how the F.B.I. has granted itself, with no oversight whatsoever, new abilities and powers I thought it was time to emerge from mere thought into words of black and white.

The article which can be read here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110613/ts_atlantic/newpowersfbijustgranteditself38763

The above states that the Feebs have given themselves 'more autonomy than ever to conduct low-level searches without a paper trail.'

Example 1) Undocumented Database Searches - Under the new rules, agents will be allowed to search such databases without making a record about their decision, according to the FBI's General Counsel it is too cumbersome to require agents to open formal inquiries before running quick checks. Or for that matter it must be too much of a hassle to bother with the 4th Amendment.

Example 2) Lie Detector Tests (AKA Psychological Stress Evaluator Tests) Under current rules Agents can't administer a Lie-Detector test until they open a 'Preliminary Investigation,' which in turn requires a factual basis for wrongdoing.

Well, Gosh fellow citizen, they need actual evidence that you are guilty of something before they, the mighty F.B.I., can poke their nose into your personal business. Sure sounds like a good idea to me, what about you?

The new rules will allow Agents to use Lie-Detector tests not just on those suspected of criminal activity, but also on potential informants, and from the way it sounds to me, whoever they feel like as long as their investigation is considered an 'Assessment'.

Example 3) Trash Searches – Agents will be able to search the trash of a 'potential informant', or your average Joe Blow as part of an 'assessment'. “Agents have asked for that power in part because they want the ability to use information found in a subject's trash to put pressure on that person to assist the government in the investigation of other people.” The F.B.I. General Counsel said information gathered that way could be useful for other reasons. Apparently like Nazi Germany and the former USSR our Gov't wants We The People to turn into snitches on our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and more than likely our families.

Maybe as with the old Soviet Union to cause neighbor to snitch on neighbor for personal gain or favor and then the Gov't could wrongfully imprison or persecute/prosecute those that they feel are a threat to their agenda. 

Remimds me of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and the
Red Scares/ McCarthyism of the 1950's and 1960's.

Example 4) Surveillance Squads - The current guide stipulates that these highly trained squads can only be used on a target once during an assessment. The new rules would allow them to be used multiple times, but keep in place limits on the duration of physical surveillance. Read my article on Increased Surveillance in the U.S.

In the context of preventing governmental intrusions into personal life, Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the writers of the U.S. Constitution conferred:

The right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

In other words the U.S. Gov't is in violation of the 4th Amendment every time they utilize any of the above, in what, We The People, feel is an unauthorized intrusion into our personal lives and business.

How about our trash. There is a reason why trash bags are, black, green, or brown, because even with our garbage we expect some measure of privacy.

Most of us do not set our cans on the street, but on our lawn or driveway next to the street. Which means it is still on private property and not public lands. It is not as if there isn't the technology for clear garbage bags for use in our homes. We see them in offices everyday.

I think a judge in a Florida appellate court said it well:

"In my view, a homeowner, upon placing items in a closed garbage container and placing the container in a position on his property where the container can be conveniently removed by authorized trash collectors, is entitled to reasonably expect that the container and the trash therein will be removed from his property only by those authorized to do so, and that such trash will be disposed of in the manner provided by ordinance or private contract. By sealing the containers in a secure manner and placing the containers on his own property, the owner has done everything within his own means to insure the privacy of the contents thereof, short of delivering the containers to a central disposal site himself."

So beware the next time you e-mail, take the trash out, make a call or text on your cell, Big Brother is observing and listening to you with Satellites from space, small UAV's hovering at your window as you watch TV, and going through your trash while you sleep.

As an added piece of food for thought, I believe we need to make a addition to the Article 2 of the Constitution, As such, to be considered for President of the United States, and as Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces the candidate MUST HAVE served in the Armed Forces. How can the President order our men and women into battle if he has never served himself and does not understand what it entails.

Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*

Two of my favorite sayings in closing:

1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.

2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"

Do we all have a Surveillance Device in our home

Most people would say, No Way!  I value my privacy too much.

Apparently the U.S. Gov't and American business does not.  Alright, you'll say, now we know you have gone off the deep end.

Not really.  I am sure all of you have some form of cable/satellite television, a computer, and a cell phone.  Well sure we do, we don't live in the Stone Age, you say.  You may want to reconsider that statement after this.

*Cue scary music*  Your TV is watching you. 

Quick get on the phone we need some help here!  Paranoid Psychosis has taken him over.

Your TV and the cable box can and does hold tens of thousands of pieces of information concerning what you watch and don't watch, what types of commercials make you change the channel or stay on it,  and if you have a service that provides, TV, Internet, and Phone the amount of information you are providing is enormous.

Companies use a program to analyze your channel surfing pattern and from that which member of a household is utilizing the remote. 

Guys machine gun (and some women, like my wife) through the channels while women rarely change the channel, perhaps  1 or 2 times (like myself), once they have selected a program.  They can even tell if someone else is in the room with you based on how you change channels.

From this they compile a profile on you and your personality and can predict what you want to watch along with other targeted information on you.  Your DVR, cable box, satellite receiver and tv come standard with programs designed to mine and process personal information, store it and report to monitors.

Your TV will be able to show you one commercial, monitor how you respond, and then show you something else – working on you over time until your TV gets the behavior or attitude change your TV wants.

It is not just a quiet night with you cuddled up with your remote and a TV bathing you in warm radiation.  In reality your TV is the one cuddled up to you and sucking information from you like an electronic vampire and sending it straight out to someone else snuggled up to some business computer to find your likes and dislikes and how to entice you to watch their commercial, show or make you buy their product.  Reference The Manchurian Candidate.

Now these businesses would say that this is coercive persuasion (defined as mind control), not in anyway close to mind control. 

WHOA!  you say.  How in the world could you say a nice evening vegetating in front of the boob tube be linked to mind control?  Glad you asked.

Mind Control IS defined as: a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator."

Technically we have volunteered for this grand longitudinal experiment. 

How so?  We buy the manipulation unit of own volition.  We voluntarily place ourselves in the laboratory everyday, whether it be our living room, bedroom, car, work, etc..., and we choose how we wish to be programmed, by our personal selection of thought control. 

Think about this the next time you plop Junior down to watch a large purple dinosaur for a few minutes so you can have a little time to yourself.

An uncomplicated example of manipulation would be grocery shopping.  How many times have you been in the store looking for, let's say lunch meat.  What pops into your head?  My bologna has a first name it's O-S-C-A-R my bologna has a second name it's M-A-Y-E-R of course.  So your shopping habits have been steered by a commercial to purchase a certain item which has been implanted in your brain by television.

It appears that the father of Gareth Roberts was right in calling it an 'Idiot's Lantern'.  Why?  Look at the name, we as intelligent idiots are drawn to the TV as a moth is to a lantern.  Want an interesting watch catch the Doctor Who episode of the same name episode number 173.  Below is a pic from the episode.

Seems just like the way TV sometimes grips us.  Anyway back to mind control and your friendly neighborhood TV.

Now mind control is in essence to decrease our cerebral cohesion.  Now your basic evil villain would use brain washing to assist with mind control.  Now just like that TV uses many techniques that are in common with brain washing. 

Yeah Yeah, still with the craziness. 

Ok now follow along Grasshopper.
 

Techniques such as: Sleep Deprivation ("I just gotta stay up to see the Olympics), Sensory Deprivation ("The TV's just on for background noise"), Constant verbal and psychological harrassment (seeing the same commercial 4 or 5 times during a TV show sound familiar), and directly and indirectly by group social pressure are all aspects used in brain washing.

An example of group social pressure: 'Dude, got new the Iphone or Car or Computer, etc... yet?  Everybody has got one. What, you don't have it yet?  I'll talk to you when you do.'

Think of what a politican could do knowing how you watch TV. They send out a harmless little survey, which you don't think about it invading your privacy and you either fill it out or trash it.
 

If you do fill it in they'll find out where you stand on the issues, they already have your viewing preferences; so months ahead of the election everytime while you watch Doctor Who they'll play and ad directed at you saying "I am the Science candidate or the Education candidate", while your next door neighbor maybe be watching Dexter and get an ad from the same politician saying "I'm the Crime Candidate".

 

Saves money on printing and paper for a survey you may not even look at twice, but they will know you watch Doctor Who every day at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM on BBC America.

We are programmed from birth to death by being bombarded constantly with a plethora of advertisements, information, and agendas from a variety of Princes of the Powers of the Air.  Whether we let those princes rule us or make them answer to We The People is totally up to ourselves.