Making a Buck off War Rhetoric: Part 2
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As I've said on radio shows before (just to be confrontational) from the time you were born until now, everything you've learned has been a lie and everything you've ever been taught is a lie. People have a hard time fathoming it.
Most of everything your history textbooks have taught you was a lie, either an outright lie or a lie by omission. Everything you were ever taught about government or the way markets work is a lie.
In this country every politician, regardless of party, runs on the concept that Washington is Fantasyland and the rest of Heartland America, where the American Flag waves, where there is right and wrong, where there is a benchmark and the magic touchstone of truth, is Realityland - but in fact its always been just the opposite.
Washington is Realityland and the rest of the country is Fantasyland. If it weren't that way, our government could not work. Nothing would work If everyone knew the truth as Al Martin knows the truth, having been on the inside at one time.
Why do you think the government, no matter what party is in power, so desperately and incessantly attempts to cover up the truth, about any and all subject matters? If people really knew the truth, the country wouldn't operate and it would simply fall apart. Everyone would just smash windows and do what they want, wandering around the streets, aimless and listless, with bottles of Prozac and Jack.
You have to give the people the lie. The truth is the ultimate anarchy. You have to maintain the lie. Every political regime that has ever existed in history understood that the lie must be maintained and that the truth is where the anarchy is.
The only way around this would be to have a society in which each person is so enlightened that each individual would be a philosopher-king. This is Plato's concept referring to every citizen as a philosopher-king. And that is the only way that democracy really works, when everyone is enlightened to the same extent, so they understand what needs to be done. Until our society or species has evolved or matured to that level, the lie must continue.
If you read "Mein Kampf," Hitler often referred to the Big Lie Principle, which, of course, is what the Bushes were so enamored of. But it's not just the Bushes. Everybody is enamored of the Big Lie Principle because as Hitler said in his book, it is necessary to maintain order. It is necessary for government to rule
Truth is the ultimate evil from that perspective because as Hitler said, there is chaos and anarchy in truth - unless everyone has the attainment of being able to navigate in this kind of universe. Like Hitler said, you have to give the people a set of heroes to worship because everybody wants to be a patriot and everybody wants a set of national heroes to worship and that's why every lie must be employed to give those people a set of national heroes to continue a national spirit.
People invariably want to worship somebody that they believe is smarter than themselves, braver than themselves, and I think that's part of the human condition to want to do that. That's why we so want to venerate the Founding Fathers. You can't say anything ill about Washington, Franklin, or Jefferson. We put them up on pedestals and every administration except their own went to every length imaginable to cover up things and to lie about them.
You read children's history books and they have changed very little. When the liberals took over our public education in the mid 1960s and began to change the content of a lot of schoolbooks, the one thing that was left sacrosanct was the Founding Fathers because of our need to put them up on a pedestal. That's why I say that they should be honored for their deeds but not as individual men. They themselves in their own writings warned against that.
To update the Al Martin Raw.com "Smart Republican Money Index," a proprietary index we created, despite recent attempts at rallies in the market, rallies of a short-covering nature, the preferred strategy of shorting the rallies and covering on the dips remains intact. Also the Smart Republican Money Index gold-dollar spread closed last week at a +14, indicating continued holding of the spread (Short Dollar; Long Gold).
To reiterate, obviously the "Smart Republican Money Index" went short the day George Bush was elected. When a Bush gets elected, that's what all the Smart Republican Money does in recognition of what Bushonomics does to our economy. That's why Republicans are so cohesive as a vote.
Unlike Democrats, Republicans indeed do vote their wallet knowing that the big money is made on the short side and that when you put a Republican in office, they're going to wreak havoc with the economy. It becomes a very safe play to institute long-term short positions (contracts known as LEAPS).
Since forty million Americans have lost half or more of their IRA/ 401(K) accounts by being long, they are the suckers.
The proof is to look at another coincidental index maintained by the American Policy Institute which tracks the total amount of private wealth held by the top one percent of the people, of whom 78% are Republicans.
It's not exactly true when economic pundits say that since the election of George Bush II, there has been $5 trillion of market equity lost. The stock market is after all a zero sum game. The $5 trillion that was lost just belongs to other people. And who are those other people? People who were short. It was just a giant transfer of wealth.
And who owns that $5 trillion, which was previously in the possession of all the little people? Just look at the coincidental indicator of the top 1% of the nation. On the very day that George Bush was elected, the top 1% of the American people controlled 61.9% of all of the private capital in the United States. Twenty months later, the top 1% of the population now controls 66.5% of all the private wealth of the nation. Therefore it isn't hard to figure out where the $5 trillion went.
This is what the Bushonian Regime is all about - the massive transfer of wealth from the little people to the Republican hierarchy at the very top. Declining stock market prices, which in turn are purposely instituted by Bushonian economics -- this is something, which is done by design. Bushonian economics purposely hurt the economy, which in turn causes markets to decline, which in turn causes those are short, principally Big Money Republicans, to make money.
On a more humorous note, I ran into one of the Neighborhood Watch Association oldsters who stopped me to complain about the Fluffster (See Adventures of Fluffy story).
Anyway he's standing there wearing his white naugahyde shoes and white naugahyde belt, and to deflect the conversation, I was looking at him and I said, "Don't you know it's not politically correct anymore to wear all that naugahyde?"
And he looks down at himself and says, "What are you talking about?" And I said, "Where do you think naugahide comes from? It comes from naugas, those little white furry creatures that live in the Arctic that get beat over the head with clubs. And he got real serious, "Oh I didn't know that." And he got a really concerned look on his face.
Another guy I told this story to took it very seriously. He was going to put a poster on the clubhouse wall and tell everybody that "naugas were on the endangered species list."
Those poor little naugas. There really should be somebody looking out for their interest. |
