Overwhelmed!
Ladies and gentlemen:
Currently it is Christmas Day, December 25, 2008. I haven’t written for some time due to personal reasons. But a New Year is soon to arrive and I see many new beginnings. The article below was penned in early December. I think it is necessary that we acknowledge the past in a truthful manner so we can move forward towards a better future. We don’t want to live in the past or even dwell on it but we do need to understand it. The Country is now focused on financial survival and that is where we will go in the very next article. I wish you all the best of holidays and a New Year that brings you all that you wish for.
Now, more than ever, Americans need hope. A vast majority of Americans are in challenging times in their lives. More than any other factor, Americans need hope. I along with some friends of mine, would like to offer that hope along with some ideas of creating some financial success. It is a journey we will take together. I cannot guarantee anything other than my best efforts. Please write to me at seacoastpub.com and tell me of your personal situations. We want to build an email list that will offer us some power in terms of numbers. Of course, everyone wants that. Your email address will not be distributed to anyone, but used for alerts.
I personally believe that 2009 will be a difficult year for many but I also believe that gold and the precious metals complex is the vehicle that can change the financial landscape for many of us. But we have to recognize the past, learn from it, and then move forward. Most importantly we have to gain a positive attitude and leave the negative ones behind.
The article penned below illustrates that to which I am referring. But I think the article is positive in so far as it gives us a root, a foundation, from which to build “a new reality”.
On Friday, December 5, 2008, a gentleman named “Spence: penned an article titled The American People for www.leMetropolecafe.com, which I felt was an excellent piece of work and that deserved to be shared. It was clear, concise, linear, and accurate. I think that many of the Café members (www.lemetropolecafe.com) and those of us who’ve been following this gold market along with GATA for these past 10 years feel exactly the same way as does he. What we have been witnessing is nothing less than the destruction of the financial and now the social fabric of the United States of America. For those who do not belong to www.lemetropolecafe.com, I’m going to offer some highlights of that article below. By all means consider subscribing to the Cafe because there is no better place to acquire the pulse of the precious metals market. Additionally, all sorts of geopolitical truths are presented.
…and now The American People by Spence and copyrighted by lemetropolecafe.com
* The American people don’t want to know the truth. It is too comforting and reassuring to go along with the lies. Lies provide hope, albeit counterfeit.
* The American people could care less if the small precious metals market is being adversely manipulated (even if they knew) because although wrong, they do not think it affects them. The entire mainstream financial system is set up for advancing the vaporous paper asset dynamic. Everyone (and there are millions) involved in the current system has a vested interest in its continuation. Few, in relative terms, have a direct interest in precious metals, thus it is a lamb that easily and conveniently can be sacrificed without garnering attention, but with great impact.
* The American people are clueless about the obvious market manipulation going on every day right in front of them. Besides, they love it when Hammering Hank, Benevolent Ben and the sugar daddy PPT comes to the rescue in the first and/or last hour of the trading day to resurrect a plunging market in light of horrible economic news. Why question good fortune?
* The American people are not aware that our real economic base (manufacturing) has been exported and that we have no existing foundation upon which to rebuild. We have been lied to about the viability of an unproductive financial services based economy, and have accepted those lies.
* The American people have little concept of basic economics and are therefore incapable of figuring out how they are being taken advantage of by the bankers, the government and unscrupulous corporations. Those who do have an awareness of basic economics, only know the lies of Keynesian economic theory. Our leaders continue to destroy the economy by using Keynesian tools that are designed to help bankers, politicians, and non competitive large corporations to the detriment of the people. We accept inflation as normal and natural, even as it makes us more poor every day. We accept false government statistics even as they are clearly wrong and make no sense.
* The American people have not held accountable those responsible for financial and legislative corruption. Seldom, if ever do you hear of a banker or politician being brought to justice. In the few instances their crimes are brought to light, they either call in their favors to avoid prosecution, or if prosecuted, go away with a snicker and laugh while walking away with millions and a small fine.
**I cannot help but think on this 15th day of December 2008 about the Bernard Madus fiasco where $50 billion was stolen from right under the nose of the SEC!
* The American people have not demanded an honest and inquisitive news media that exposes financial and governmental corruption. Bankers and politicians generally are off limits.
* The American people have become slaves, not only to the bankers, politicians, and corporate heads, but also to the culture of consumption. As a people we work too many hours and take too little time off to enjoy life. We are on an endless treadmill that is speeding up beyond our ability to keep up.
* The American people no longer have the desire or perhaps the ability (both political parties behave the same) to hold bankers, politicians, and corporate heads responsible for the mess they have made.
* The American people have no concept of the enormous amount of money that has been put into the system in the last several years (and especially the last several months) and how it will adversely affect them, their children, and their children’s progeny in the future. The insane number of dollars being created out of thin air is mind-boggling, to say the least.
* The American people have allowed those in power:
a.) To abuse the privilege and trust of office.
b.) We allowed FDR to set the tone for uncontrolled and socialistic government/economic power during the thirties and forties.
c.) We allowed LBJ’s guns and butter policy in the 1960’s to run up a national debt that keeps growing and will never be repaid.
c.) We allowed Richard Nixon in 1971 to default on our nations promise to convert dollars to gold.
d.) We allowed Ronald Reagan in 1988 to create the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets by Executive Order 12631, thus initiating the formal apparatus for manipulating our financial markets.
e.) We allowed the federal legislative and judicial bodies to far exceed the powers granted to them in the constitution.
f.) We allowed large corporate executives to pay themselves ridiculous amounts of money.
e.) We allowed too many financial institutions to become too big to fail. There is no bail out clause in the constitution.
* The American people now feel helpless to change anything. The financial and government system is completely out of control.
* The American people are ultimately responsible for these problems because we have allowed them to occur and continue unchecked. We have let things go, and have allowed “bigness” in financial institutions, government and business to overcome and control us. The American government and our financial system has been discredited throughout the world. We are seen as not only greedy, but dangerous. Thanks to our financial, government and big ineffective corporate leaders, we are now viewed by the world as “The Evil Empire”.
Copyright: LemetropoleCafe.com
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Ladies and gentlemen, when we read the above I think the word “accountability” comes to mind. No one wants to own up to what Spence is writing about but if we are to move forward as a nation, as a Republic we absolutely must be accountable for what has occurred in the past. Most importantly where is the National Outrage? The Madoff story has been the big deal of the Day (weeks of early to mid-December 2008) but this is just the tip of the iceberg and this is a staggering $50 billion.
I’m absolutely positive we can make a list of 1000 reasons why this scenario has unfolded but it all comes down to one word: APATHY. Apathy that the politicians in power have used against us and continue to use against us. I will also emphasize the fact that this apathy and the things that Spence pens above have always been part and parcel of America.The times have changed but this sentiment has not and it probably won’t because we live in a free society.
The “big money”; the rich and powerful–slug it out and the rest of us just watch because we believe we can’t compete in that arena. This is where you are wrong because just as every journey begins with the first step, every moment starts with the first action–the first idea. The real changes always come from within ourselves and due to the examples we set for our children, our friends, our family, our co-workers; only then does change emerge. Violence isn’t necessary. Intelligence is. Gandhi and Martin Luther King taught us that. It is now time for our generation–the sixties generation to pick up the mantle of freedom and the ideals of our forefathers and move them forward.
I think what is especially important to recognize is the fact that the American people have indeed become slaves and it is happened ever so slowly; just like the power elite planned it. The very same generation which said we will never get old, let’s party dude, we will never be tied down, is now tied down so tightly that we cannot move. Now the generation of “free love and peace, man is also tied down!
I thought that Spence’s piece above was so vitally important that it really needed to be reinforced and I thank him for the insights and I thank GATA and Bill Murphy for posting it. After all, is not a shining reflection on the average American is it? Currently we feel helpless to change anything but I believe that this scenario has been carved out of history by design and if we have any intestinal fortitude as a nation, we will find a constructive outlet for the outrage in order to reconstruct our Constitution. We certainly have the reasons. This “by design” scenario deserves a second look.
If we don’t get involved we will have no one to blame but ourselves. What can we do? Is it too late? Can we undo the last 50 years of blatant manipulation, lies, and deceipt? I honestly don’t know. What I do know is that most of us are more concerned with surviving, getting our portfolios back inot some semblance of strength, keeping our jobs and avoiding foreclosure on our homes. Somewhere in that matrix of incoherency, we need to find the time to literally save the US.
Stand up for Real Freedom.
What we see occurring in our country is frustrating, nauseating, and most importantly it is dangerous! Why? Because these kinds of scenarios lead to war. When a nation loses hope of ever regaining its status as a first world country, loses its hope of resurrecting its currency, repaying its debts, of regaining its positive self image, and experiences a serious decline in its standard of living, the next step is to find some reason to accuse some other country for taking what does not belong to them when in fact it is we who are doing that which we accuse others. I say these things because I want us all to be aware– significantly aware that it is our country and that if there was ever a time to stand up for America is now.
You know the funny thing is that I think most of the people who serve in the government, in the administrations are really strong, loyal Americans. They do not like what’s going on around them any more than you do. For many of the career government workers, it’s a job. They are frustrated with the bureaucracy but they stick with it because there is a pension at the end of the road. But they are not people who are trying to ‘monopolize” the country; they are simply people that have a job and I’ll bet you dollars to donuts some of them are reading this article right now.
The American people are good people for the most part. Yes there is greed and I think there is a slow disintegration in the ethics and morals of the country but it is something that can certainly be turned around if parents simply taught their children the Golden rule: do unto others what you’d like them to do unto you. There are so many wonderful educators who are doing their best to educate the children of this country and yet it’s always an uphill battle– especially in the inner cities.
The corruption must end.
When the corruption becomes so ingrained within a society and a government worked so diligently to disparage the rights of the American citizens, it is time to stand up and be counted. We have always appreciated the foundation upon which America was created and so let no one say that we’re not patriotic although what is patriotic? Patriotic is simply standing up and doing the right thing for the right reasons in an honorable fashion for your country and your fellow man. It’s not about being right wing, left wing, Republican, Democrat, or any of the other reasons used to divide the country. Bush came into office as the man who was going to unify the country by working both sides of the aisle. What does he do? Well, he starts an illegal war that was not for liberty and freedom for the Iraqi people. It was simply a guise used to conceal and then to appropriate the oil that belongs to the Iraqi people. It would not be the first time that this has occurred in the annals of US foreign policy. Politicians are always sticking their noses in places where it does not belong under the guise of freedom, democracy and National Security. However, that does not mean that the majority of Americans agree with what they are doing. The exact opposite is occurring — more and more people do not feel part of their own country and become afraid of their own government. This has to stop. The Founding Fathers set us this Republic so that we are all part of the government. The last thing they wanted was for the average American to be afraid of them.
A positive future both financially and natioanlly can lie ahead but we must act quickly. A good place to start is Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty and GATA.org.
Until next time,
D. Stewart Armstrong,
Consultant to the US Constitution (and the Junior Mining Sector)
Posted by D.Stewart Armstrong in Articles