The lies have come from banks, from real estate developers, from realtors, from the government, from lobbyists, from government backed lenders, from the media and from each other.
We listened to too many lies and we bought the ones that sounded the most delightful, and paid for them with credit.
We: we as individuals, we as voters, we as ‘we the people,’ and we as one country amongst a world of countries many of whom have participated in this same contagion of greed, entitlement, credit and debt.
I am no political or financial authority, but having received nothing but lies and mistakes from those who are political and financial authorities, I must don my own hat of responsibility and decide what is real and what is not.
These are my views.
The stage was set by a strengthening of federalism. People being what they are, we seemed to have needed federalism to protect against feudalism. Our sovereign States have, bit by bit, given up pieces of their sovereignty over the years and ‘States Rights’ is a term no longer heard.
Instead of localized feudal states, what we have become is a generalized federal feudalism that has set our Constitution on the shelf as a mere artifact and has taken the three sanctioned branches of government and subversively created three additional branches, constructed of greed, by greed, and for greed: of the few, by the few, and for the few. Branch number four is the Media, number five, Big Business Corporations.
In collusion with Big Business, is number six: the Central Bank, ie: The Federal Reserve Bank which has the ultimate power to ring the life blood from your working day, your inheritance, even your sanity, if you let it.
The true role of the United States Government is simple: To provide for the common defense, to construct and maintain ports of entry while securing our borders, to provide for essential services such as roads, bridges, schools (and other elements of our infrastructure), maintain our standing armed forces, conduct beneficent diplomatic relations with other nations of the world in a fiduciary manner for the benefit of our citizenry and the moral obligations of brotherhood, and to ensure domestic tranquility.
It was not designed to become a regulatory body, nor a self-serving entitlement program for elected elitists.
That we were founded as ‘One Nation Under God, With Liberty and Justice For All’, includes in it the given obligation to provide for these services with the guidance of the Ten Commandments, The Golden Rule, and The Beatitudes as the over riding inspiration: the heartbeat.
It may be in our best interest for the government to provide oversight for other essential services such as water quality and safe delivery of fuel and electricity, but it is counterproductive to prohibit safe development of alternative sources for any of the above.
Due to the greed of the giant corporations, a beneficent government would prohibit out-sourcing of American jobs, but were it not for the desire to avoid fees, constrictions of bureaucratic expense for employers and other disincentives, employers would not wish to incur the expense of outsourcing.
Giving corporations the status of a citizen entity with the rights of protection from the results of misconduct, not to mention tax breaks, has been contributory to our economic downfall in a very large measure, both for the country as a whole and to the financial woes of Us, the People.
I’m not clear on the historical names and dates, on who did what and which conspiracy theory is the real one, however, it is apparent to me that it is simply another phase of a very long-going condition begun with the rise of royalty and feudalism in the very earliest phases of human civilization.
Okay, now you think I’m sounding like a real wack job, if you didn’t think so before. In the words of what’s his name in a movie from the 90’s, “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.”
I invite you to give this some serious thought. If you do much reading, if you took some history courses that were more than ‘Columbus in 1492’ then I double-dog-dare you to truly think about how things have changed and how in very real and fundamental ways they have remained the same.
At this point I have written 725 words on this topic. I have more to say. I am told I should always write blog posts of less than 500 words.
I would hope that my readers have the mental capacity and attention span to read more than 500 words. I often read as many as five books a week.
The sister blogs: Just Enough, and 100 Things We Can Do to Fix Our Mess are being updated as we speak with related information.
I have invited you to think. Now I will challenge you to participate by commenting and engaging in discourse on this as well as my other blog sites.
Blessed Be and Be Well
Love, Victoria
