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All numbers and calculations
are destined to turn to zero unless they
are underwritten by philosophical
underpinnings which themselves have values as well
as clear cut, realistic and sustainable strategies.
After smoking two packets of cigarettes a day for
many years on credit, the United States has now
been diagnosed with what appears to be lung cancer. The symptoms and the warnings were there for years but the bravado and the denial made her feel indestructible. This diagnosis has come as such a shock that she
has now committed to cutting her two
packet a day habit down
to a packet and a half a day!!!
Her principal tobacconist
in China is worried that the USA's reduced consumption of
cigarettes might weaken her as well and that if she becomes
critically ill or dies, that she will
not pay the bill for all the cigarettes she consumed on credit. She is
so worried that she has been trying to sell the USA's IOU's in exchange for
real things that do not
go up in smoke such as commodities, farmland, ports
and gold.
Virtually everything the USA has
smoked has gone up in smoke.
Wars in foreign lands,
stimulus packages and rescue packages just to name a few. On top of
all this she has been supplementing her imported cigarettes from China with home made ones using a modified printing press to produce QE1's and
QE2's. A new line is now being secretly developed in the Fed Reserve Lab
by Professor Festa and it is believed
that this brand may have to be soon distributed by helicopter to meet the desperate pleas of the addicted masses.
Her guardians in Congress and the House of Representatives
have come up with a plan
to help her keep smoking without fear of dying. It's called
the Clinton Plan. It will allow
the USA to smoke but without
inhaling. Opinions are divided
over this.
The Government of the
USA is risking an uprising by its people because it also
appears that all the empty packets from the cigarettes were being stored in the Social
Security Trust Fund whilst
telling people that these packets were full of cigarettes for them
to consume in the future.
To make matters worse, the politicians on both sides have promised far more
cigarettes for future consumption than is actually
possible to produce or supply.
If all this is not enough, her children also took up the habit. The older ones with
degrees and jobs at banks even found
a way to smoke more than one cigarette at a time using the Leverage Pipe. The younger ones smoked so
much that their houses, shopping malls and factories caught fire and are now out of work as well.
There is of course an almost solitary voice that is
urging the USA to refuse payment
to the Chinese for all the cigarettes she bought on credit, to stop her soldiers smoking overseas, and
to burn the modified
printing press as well as
sack Professor Festa before closing down his Fed Reserve
Lab. His name is Ron Paul. In Ancient Athens there was a similar man with the name Socrates who also told the truth. The politicians poisoned him whereas today the politicians have gone one step further and are poisoning their nation.
Despite earlier doubts, resistance, criticism and slander, there are now many scientists and common folk who swear by the remedial and energizing effects of Gold and Silver Patches as a means of fighting the addiction to the imported
Chinese cigarettes. Those
children in the USA that
have been using them are
not only showing signs of recovery but are also gaining weight, strength and a longer life span. The beauty
of these patches is that they do not wear away or lose potency. They come with a life time guarantee and there is ample documentary evidence of them being used
throughout history.
Over at the Comex they have been continuing to
sabotage the use of patches with the use of Gold
and Silver Plated Patches
that contain no silver or gold on the inside.
It does appear however that their time is borrowed as well.
The other real fear that exists
in the USA is that there might not be any gold or silver stored in Fort Knox with which to make a reasonable number of patches. Who knows what the truth is when
a government refuses to account
to its people for the assets
it holds.
Over the last decade or
so, the demand for these patches has increased despite their escalating price. If anything, demand is getting stronger.
This is called a backward bending
demand curve and is caused by a system that is nearing
collapse.
For what it's worth, the United States is not alone in her predicament. The Piggies in Southern Europe have
smoked themselves into a similar
situation using borrowed
cigarettes and now the Mediterranean
breeze is sending their second hand smoke up north where it is
threatening the lives of
the French and Germans.
But even China, who is the biggest
tobacconist on the planet
is treading on dangerous ground. She has built too many cigarette factories and they are in
danger of collapsing. They
even build factories which are never operated. The man on the street in China is perhaps a little smarter due to low consumption of cigarettes and is
now buying up gold and silver nicotine patches instead.
Clearly the US Government needs to start using Gold and Silver Patches
but this is just the beginning.
A good start can be made by not paying the Chinese which in the longer run will actually
help them as well.
The next step is to throw
out the empty cigarette packets
being stored by the
Social Security Trust Fund and to replace them with whatever
unencumbered real assets
the nation has whether they
be buildings, roads, unclaimed mineral wealth and the like. No funny cigarette type paper or other empty packets.
I repeat, only REAL
ASSETS that can be kept track
of and be developed and managed in partnership with private enterprise and workers. In this way the debt to future retirees can be paid
off and no further interest
needs to be levied on current taxpayers for the worthless empty boxes on the shelf. A
good slice of the National Debt will
thus be wiped off.
To be honest I am fuming
as I write these words and it's not cigarette smoke. In my family's history there are great grandfathers and great uncles who sailed
into America under the gaze of the Statue of Liberty and made a living
and a future for themselves before
returning home. Today that Statue of Liberty has a cannula shoved up her arm and a drip line that extends all the way to China. Is this the way it was
meant to happen? I think not. Neither for the USA nor for China.
At a distance the USA still looks strong, powerful and attractive, but if the USA comes a little closer to the mirror and lets the smoke subside, the ugly truth of her condition should galvanize her into action. Perhaps it is time for America to stop smoking and to start
breathing lest she comes to the same painful end as the Marlboro Man.
So repeat after me: STOP SMOKING AMERICA AND START BREATHING !!!
Increasing the debt ceiling does not prolong the living. It simply prolongs the dying.
P.S. As I finished writing this at 10.57pm, August 4, 2011 (Sydney time) I see that gold has reached $1674 an oz. Some would call this fear. Perhaps that is true.
But remember that most fears are founded on common sense.
Peter
Souleles
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