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by Jason Bounda · January 21, 2014
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There’s no doubt that it’s an extremely difficult time to
be alive. On one hand, we have soaring levels of individuals and families
quickly heading towards third world style poverty, seemingly unable to purchase
the basic necessities of life. On the other hand we see thousands of people
camped outside their favourite stores on Black Friday, ready to purchase and consume
whatever they can get their hands on.
We see people begging for jobs and the government promising
them, but they never come. One day we hear encouraging news of recovery and
economic growth, only to be warned the next day of looming disasters and the urgent
need for unlimited Federal bailouts. Dazed and confused by the conflicting
information and experiences we see and hear on a daily basis, we turn to the
mainstream media for answers. Instead we’re confronted with the latest
celebrity news on Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber.
Is it any wonder that people are angry and confused about
the current state of the U.S.? Here are 10 signs that our current economy is a
carefully crafted illusion. Hopefully after reading them, our current situation
will make a lot more sense to you.
1: The Majority of Jobs
Are Fake and Pointless
Despite the overwhelming evidence that official employment
figures are a fraud, the majority of genuine jobs in our society are fake too.
Take a minute to ask yourself a question. How many professions in our modern
society actually produce something of genuine value? Try to think of a list. If
your list is any more than a few professions long, you’re doing well. The
unspoken truth is that 80% of jobs could completely disappear tomorrow and it
wouldn’t affect our basic human survival or happiness one bit. Of course, as it
stands, we need money to live and jobs provide us with money, but that doesn’t
mean they have any real value or use to society.
2: Problems in Society
Creates Even More Jobs, Not Genuine Solutions
Our politicians have backed themselves into a corner and as
a result, we are subjected to an endless cycle of misery. The worrying truth is
that if we genuinely find real solutions to our problems as a society, many
people will lose their jobs. We can’t end the wars because thousands of
military personnel will be unemployed. We can’t end the war on drugs because
there are hundreds of thousands of people employed in the DEA, prisons, the
courts and parole system, not to mention all of their support staff. Where
would all of these people work? Simplifying the tax systems would be a disaster
for bookkeepers, CPAs, accounting professors and tax attorneys. We cannot
reduce the bureaucracy in government or simplify healthcare because the thousands
of paper pushers employed in these institutions have few other real skills.
Where would they work? Spying on Americans employs millions of people. To stop
spying would mean all of those people lose their jobs too. Restricting the Wall
Street gambling machine would mean even more people lose their jobs, as they’re
paid out of Wall Street’s huge profits. Unfortunately, a society has been
created where we need these manufactured problems to keep the ever growing
number of Americans employed.
3: Money Has No Real
Value
This is one of the biggest illusions in our economy. The
only way money enters the economy is by a private bank lending it. It is
created out of thin air and is simply an IOU. The unfortunate side effect of
this is that for every dollar in the economy, someone else is a dollar in debt.
The only reason it has any value at all is because the law says so. Even that
value fluctuates daily depending on how much is in the economy, which again, is
controlled by a private for-profit monopoly. Is real value is nothing. If I was
to take a piece of paper and print it with fancy ink, would you say it was
worth anything? The only real value in a society is human skills and labour,
tools and materials, food, water and energy.
4: 90% of the National
Debt Is Now Purchased By the Fed
Although difficult to fully understand, the Federal Reserve
loans money to the U.S. government who issues them with government bonds in
return. These bonds are freely sold and traded on the open market and purchased
by investors who believe and hope that the United States will eventually pay
these bonds back. Unfortunately, it seems investors no longer trust the U.S. as
90% of treasury bonds are now purchased by the Fed. This process is officially
known as “monetizing debt” or “monetizing money”, but in the real world, this
is commonly known as a Ponzi scheme. In simple terms, our whole monetary system
is a house of cards that could collapse at any minute, the same way a Ponzi
scheme always eventually does.
5: The Value of Most Things
Is Now Hugely Distorted
The “price discovery mechanism” or the way in which assets
in the marketplace are valued has become so corrupt, it’s almost impossible to
determine the true value of anything. Government subsidies for food, fuel,
education, insurance and even cars artificially distort prices and values.
Taxes, laws and regulations create an artificially higher price than an assets
true value. As an example, an ounce of Marijuana can cost up to $500. Is an
ounce of a common weed that can grow everywhere really worth $500? Of course
not. Its value is inflated due to government laws and regulations.
6: Failure Is Now
Rewarded and Subsidized
Hard working citizens across the U.S. are being told to
tighten their belts and work harder so we can bailout the failed banks,
insurance companies and government. When people do work harder, any income is
taxed heavily to continue bailing out these fraudulent institutions. You know
the economy is an illusion when the success of the people is punished and the
failure of huge organizations is rewarded and subsidized.
7: Corporations Have the
Same Legal Rights as Humans, But Not the Same Punishments
When the Supreme Court ruled that artificial corporate
entities had the same rights as a human being, a whole new dark and sinister
chapter was opened in the history of our country and the world. Extremely
wealthy corporations can now openly finance elections and purchase any
favourable legislation they want. Corporations are operated by human beings,
but they do not have the same inbuilt morality and ethics that a human being
naturally does. It was recently argued that if BP were subject to the same
definitions of decency and criminality as a human being, it would be deemed a
psychopathic killer. It should be a concern to all of us that “psychopathic
killers” are in such close contact to our supposedly democratic government.
8: People Now Buy Things
They Don’t Need On Credit
Our government’s out-of-control spending and borrowing is
being reflected in the actions of American citizens. It has recently been
reported that consumer debt is at an all-time high, most of this is credit card
debt. When consumer debt increases by $14.2 billion in a single month, you know
that there are problems with the economy.
9: Entrepreneurs and
Those Seeking Self Reliance Are Punished
The entrepreneurial spirit that the sucess of our country
relied on has become almost impossible today. The piles of bureaucracy and red
tape stops small business creation and criminalizes independence. With policies
like Agenda 21, long running family farms, probably the ultimate in American
entrepreneurship, are being shut down in the name of negative environmental and
economic impacts. In many cases, these federally stolen properties end up in
the hands of developers whose only aim is to make as much money as quickly as
possible. It is a requirement of an economy built on an illusion to create
dependence and scarcity where none existed before.
10: Slavery Is Alive
Although we are led to believe that slavery ended in the
1800’s, economic hitmen (money lenders) have successfully enslaved everything
from countries, entire industries, state and local governments and nearly every
person on the planet. They didn’t do it in any overt way. Slaves that know
they’re slaves are more likely to revolt and more difficult to control. They
bought your servitude with money. As if that wasn’t bad enough, it was with
money they created out of thin air.
Comedian and writer George Carlin once said: “It’s called
the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it”. Although it
would be bad enough if the situation we are now experiencing was contained only
within the United States, unfortunately it can be seen across the entire globe.
Society is in a state of dreaming where we believe the government will help us
and everything will be ok in the end, however in the real world, the collapse
of this fragile system it already well underway. Until we wake up from our
collective hallucination, refuse to be slaves and work to change the 10 points
above, the system will continue dragging us to the very bottom until it’s too
hard to get back up.
It’s not all bad news though. There are encouraging signs
of the beginning of change worldwide. Mass protests, alternative currency
movements and hundreds of other creative solutions are being discussed and set
up worldwide. When we all wake up, look in the mirror and realize that we’ve
been deceived and the only people that can change it is ourselves, a brighter
future that we can all be proud of will be just around the corner.
Source: “10 Signs We Live in a False
Economy,” from activistpost.com
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Jason Bounda
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