Perhaps, … now is NOT the time to tell you I ‘told you so,’ but all American states and cities are rushing up to the mother pig, jockeying for position, elbowing each other for a gut full of mother’s sweet milk. The economic stimulus program, in terms of size, is the equivalent of a giant country, the 15th largest in the entire world of mankind. In terms of federal expansionist fiscal policy it is the greatest spigate of cash into the American economy since LBJ’s Great Society program. It will bring the total federal taxpayer involvement to a little over $10 Trillion dollars since Lehman Monday. As everyone and their uncle strives with panic to stop the flooding with cash and hopes and sheer attitude, the American ship is soon to list over its side and the roads and bridges and sewer lines and the massive temporary diversion for cops and prosecutors and courts, including equipment like cruisers and SWAT weapons and dogs and the like when nobody is looking will have been for nothing.
Far from being fatalistic, this is the reality ladies and gentlemen, and the reasons why are fairly straight forward and they are not at all difficult to see. The little piglets are, irrespective of our preference for labeling what is white as black and that which is black, white, going to grow into something for certainty–pigs. And they will eat themselves right out of house and home. The problems are such that nobody really dares to look at them because all policy makers, and the mass media which serves them like a cheerleader, knod knowingly among themselves, saying–what we spend money on is something we largely have no choice but to spend money on. We cannot stop spending money on cops because the streets are dangerous. Hiding behind the bushes of their own scares, there is a sex offender underneath every bush, a terrorist behind every trash can. They–policy makers and the media–never read the latest assessments of the so-called National Security establishment, which holds that the economic crisis is now more of a threat than is any terrorist organization on earth. Threat to what?
To the piglets becoming full-grown pigs. To maintaining something that is not sustainable in the first instance and something that is immoral in the second instance–the American ‘Way of Life.’ The American consumer of the 1990’s and through the 9/11 scares and until now is more often than not a greedy and selfish pig and serving such a filthy appetite for such an unclean animal is precisely what has brought the American economy to its knees. The most important thought of the 20th Century, that we could have and we should desire ‘unlimited economic growth,’ is a prescription for the nihilistic excess that produced the dotcom bomb and financial contagion swiftly behind its heels. Now … it is truly payday, consequences, and as one surveys the landscape all around them it is not at all difficult to attain to the truth–the end long ago foretold is fast approaching, like a historic East Wind of unprecedented humanitarian crisis and singularly exclusive glory for the sole and only rightful rule over the whole of mankind. Whether any of us like it or not is utterly irrelevant for it was a dastardly lie and an equally dramatic impossibility that mankind was ever able to rightly govern anyone, especially not him- or herself. All that mankind has done is govern his fellow man to his or her injury. More of the same is exactly what will ensure the end arrives much sooner than anyone now thinks possible.
Today’s press will again tell you all about it, a glimmer here and a tidbit there, and between the lines is a persisting context that squeals like a litter of new puppies, telling us that something new and precious is now among us and that beyond the despair and the loss is a most radiant glory, long ago promised by the One who does not lie, ever. To see it, though, you have to let go of everything you thought valuable, pursuant to the American ‘Way of Life.”
A teaser pony is a chance to see whether or not the mare is willing to go into the breeding barn with a prospective stallion. If she is going to kick the living tar out of any male that gets within striking distance to her let it be something other than a stallion that garners maybe $200,000.00 a whack. If she presents herself, meaning she is ready to go into the barn, the stallion is brought out and plans consumated as it were. This mare the world faces is no more interested in breeding than is the Man-in-the-Moon. Unemployment and fiscal demands are going to kick the living tar out of state and local governments and it will soon enough become plain to anyone looking on that there will not be any more new colts or fillies from this mare. The only thing this mare will bring into this world is this: the final seeds of the end. In “States and Cities in Scramble for Stimulus Cash,” NY Times …
“For every job the bill creates, American taxpayers will spend $223,000,” … “If we add the cost of this bill to the previous efforts of the federal government to deal with the financial crisis, the American taxpayer is on the hook for $9.7 trillion.”
The economic crisis is literally consuming the American landscape like a voracious monster. “With each passing hour, it seems, the avalanche of bad economic news, forecasts and anecdotes continues.” NY Times.com, “Economists’ Forecasts: Chance of Change 100%.” The story by David W. Chen continues:
“An unemployment rate of 7.4 percent in December, compared with 5.1 percent two years ago. A projected hemorrhaging of 294,000 jobs — 46,000 from Wall Street alone — by the summer of 2010.”
“A 41 percent drop in condominium sales from 2006 to 2008, and a 58 percent plunge for multifamily homes.”
“A city budget deficit of $4 billion this year, and as much as $7 billion the next.”
Listen plainly to this and gather the sense of this thing, where anyone with true courage only dares to look; From NY Times.com, David W. Chen, supra,
“I’m concerned about people being so desperate that they lose the fear of losing their own lives and they become so desperate that they’re willing to endanger other people’s lives,”–John Tepper Marlin, Former Chief Economist, City Comptroller’s Office, City of New York.
“You could say that there are wrong-way signs everywhere,” Nicole Gelinas, Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute
Japan’s economy, utterly tied to its exports of things to buy and own, is in a spinning free fall of loss and despair. See: “Japan’s Recession Deepens,” Washington Post.com
“The grim numbers are likely to increase popular pressure on the government to do more to stimulate economic recovery. But there may be little that the current government can do.”
You are going to hear that more and more, that there is little the current government can do, and with increasing urgency and deeper and deeper and ever widening circles of despair. That woman sitting on top of the wild beast is and must become the horror of all human focus and her full and complete reach into the affairs of mankind is, once realized with the benefit of certainty, the near future giving all of mankind that accurate vision, properly described as “horrific.” The consequences are Draconian to say the least. She has aroked hard for this ending and this wicked thing of man’s making will soon become a widow and her children will be lost to her. The scriptures have long foretold it and the only amazing thing, really, is that few are talking about that, perhaps fearful of being labeled a wing nut or worse by the very mob that will try to dig its way out of this mess by doing exactly what created this mess in the first place.
Everyone of any policy-making account will try to spend and borrow their way out of this. Wrong move. It was what brought this problem on in the first place. Buying and seeling will not solve this problem of mankind’s making but it was long ago foretold that this would be mankind’s approach, all the way to the time when the whole world looks upon the Great Harlot’s grisly remains, and the whole world knows with certainty who has judged her and executed judgment against her. Until then, they will simply take no note. The real remaining oddity is the arrogance of mankind in actually believing that by disbelieving something it made it untrue. Oh, it is true alright. It is ultimate reality. And it is at the gates!
Matthew 24:37-39
“. . .For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.”
