from 2009
February 18, 2009
Well thanks to the fine folks who have brought you: The Department of
Education, The Department of Energy, The Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA, and every single other thing that regulates your life, your liberty, and your pursuit of Happiness I am unable to tell you about what is happening with me due to a curious piece of shi--legislation known as HIPPA.
Please do a Google search, I don't have the stomach to explain it. Onward.
You all should read a blog by Jerry Pournelle, he has named the stimulus bill the largest spending bill in the history of the world. Its fitting and descriptive.
I think about a lot of stuff lately since, as a nurse, I have my job duties determined by the same kind of minds who have led us to the brink of economic ruin, the people who have always told me that I lacked the education to have their jobs, I lacked the intellectual background to actually do their jobs. Does anyone believe that if we had chimpanzees in charge that our crisis would be any worse?
Here is what I think--American banks are insolvent, practically all of them are broke, California is certainly broke, many states are in the same situation. The United States is now held hostage by several foreign governments because those governments hold our debt. Should those governments decide that the writing on the wall is true, and they begin to sell those treasury bills, and God knows what else they have, the United States will, like the Emperor in the fairy tale, be seen for what it is, broke, homeless, and without clothing.
The evidence for this bleak outlook is in the amounts of money this government is willing to spend to keep this truth from being perceived, we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and are apparently willing to spend "whatever it takes" to keep this economy from crashing. The government will spend without end. They don't know how much money it will take, but they are willing to spend it. This is unprecedented in our history, and it is the clearest sign that some very important people are very scared of something very big. We would not be seriously thinking of keeping people in homes they cannot afford if the alternative was something we could handle.
Here is my take--no amount of money is going to help, and in fact throwing money at this problem may be making things worse, and may be lengthening this mess. What needs to happen is that layoffs need to occur, and as tough as this is to contemplate, maybe some businesses need to go away, including the car companies. The pride of American capitalism needs to contract because they have been feeding at the trough of fiat money, money with no intrinsic value, money that has been chasing an economy that for at least thirty years or more has been based on hope rather than real wealth. No one knows for certain what needs to be done, including me. But certainly this crisis has been the result of some very bad decisions, made by people who claimed that they knew better than you or me. And now that the mistakes have been made, those people who are responsible are now going to the government and asking for a bailout, that money will come from taxes sometime, and that means that you and I are going to help play for our betters mistakes. Is anyone going to get angry about this? Where are the people who come from the point of view that founded this country?
