The Great Conundrum
Our self-anointed owners - the real proprietors and beneficiaries of "government" at every level - face a fierce conundrum.
It's painfully well established that the freer the market is, the more wealth it produces. Thus, the more loot for the rulers. Thus Sweden is richer than North Korea (although, granted, heedless exploitation of abundant natural resources has a lot to do with Sweden's "success" as well.)
But socialism provides a far more efficient means of extracting that wealth from the many for the benefit of the few - conducing to outright looting, all while actually convincing many if not most people that it's being done (why would it be?) for their own good.
One thing I've seen for years has been that the people who really rule us have long been caught in a manic-depressive frenzy: swinging from wild-eyed optimism, that they'll soon exert total, unbreakable control over the populace and the planet; and utter, bleak despair that they're about to lose their power, privilege, and profits for good. Let's just say that for at least the last ten years I've seen nothing to contradict that.
Oddly, those opposite states promote the same behavior: our rulers getting all they can as quickly as they can.
Now the bipolar crisis has reached extreme frequency and amplitude. One sign of our rulers' rising madness is that they've now switched the dominant political rhetoric to socialist. Meaning they want to grab everything they can now. Because even the dimmest of them see the disaster they're steering us for.
It's not coincidental that "defense" spending, already bloated beyond reason, is actually increasing under the new sock-puppet administration: "social programs" and war (and what could be more socialist than war?) being the proven fastest conduits whereby wealth can be piped to the plutocrats.
That's also at the same time that, while generating plenty of smoke with "debate" over a penny-ante "bailout," the Federal Reserve has shipped trillions more dollars to the needy ultra-rich and powerful.
A personal observation: despite unprecedented highs in "defense" spending, none of my many friends in that industry seem to be benefiting from it. They're almost all facing cutbacks if not getting laid off themselves. Wherever all that loot's going, it isn't to them.
While I lack real evidence I suspect that might soon be seen across the board: the money's bypassing the middlemen ("employees," "the poor") and going straight to its intended destination: the pockets of the truly powerful.
Meanwhile, the greatest ripoff by the elite of everybody else - hyperinflation - is probably launching.
What can we do? Dig in. Stock up on non-perishable necessities: food, meds, water. Buy silver and ammo. And start figuring out what you'll do when government quits even pretending it provides services to the governed.
If you get nothing else from this screed, please absorb this: the sole purpose of all government, everywhere and ever, is to centralize benefit and socialize cost.