JS> The following editorial is interesting, not only for what
 JS> it says, but also for what it does NOT say.

 JS> Think about this. If what this author states is true, then
 JS> under the right conditions, a similar method could be used
 JS> to herd people towards accepting the infamous Mark of the
 JS> Beast, or 666 global, computerized identification and
 JS> credit system.

 Yet that same system could be perfectly innocent.

 JS> In other words, if the powerful elite of the world -- the
 JS> International Jewish Bankers and their ilk -- are
 JS> currently, and purposely, manipulating the global economy
 JS> in order to fuel a high level of unemployment -- and I do
 JS> believe that the economy is ALWAYS being manipulated --
 JS> what might the end goal of this process be?

 More likely the international Christian Bankers.

 Or the international
 Christian-Muslim-Buddhist-Hindu-Jewish-Atheist bankers.

 JS> Well, one of the fruits of high unemployment is that it
 JS> makes people more dependent on the government for
 JS> hand-outs, without which they might not be able to survive.

 Which they don't want to be. And which is the cause of the
 extreme right wing trying to reduce this country to third world
 status, where they can be feudal lords and the rest of us their
 serfs.

 JS> In other words, during times of high employment, people
 JS> become more vulnerable; they become more weakened; and due

 For a short time, after which they become more hardened and more
 dangerous.

 JS> to their desperate situation, they also become more open to
 JS> accepting certain government measures which they might not
 JS> normally accept, which might even limit their personal
 JS> freedoms.

 Or they become rebellious and a threat to government.

 JS> In short, as I have said before, governments -- and the
 JS> global elite which controls them -- will sometimes
 JS> intentionally create problems, and force people to suffer,

 Yes, the Grover Norquist syndrome.

 JS> so that at the right time, after the people have been
 JS> softened and weakened, they will be willing to accept
 JS> whatever solution the government has already previously
 JS> concocted, and that solution will enslave them to, and make
 JS> them dependent upon, the government even further. People

 No, they will become vulnerable to the Grover Norquist plan to
 shrink the government till it's small enough to drown it in a
 bathtub. After which the right will become the feudal lords over
 a third world nation.

 JS> will opt to swallow the government's bitter pill, simply
 JS> because there is no other choice available . . . at least
 JS> so they are led to believe.

 The country will disolve in rebellion or resort to fascism long
 before that.

 JS> Having said that, do you now understand how the global
 JS> elite could use extended high unemployment as a mechanism
 JS> to introduce the Mark of the Beast system? People might not
 JS> like it, but they will be forced to accept it; that is, if
 JS> they want to survive, and continue doing business as usual.

 Since there is no business as usual, and the government has
 nothing to offer under that scenario, that is not likely.

 JS> Think about it. It may be later than you think!

 It is later than you think. The national safety net and Keynsian
 economics protected this country against depression for 60
 years. The repeal of the national safety net, the repeal of
 trade restrictions, and the imposition of supply side economics
 brought us to the very brink of depression.

 JS> Defining Prosperity Down

 JS> By PAUL KRUGMAN - NYT

 JS> August 1, 2010

 I have read this. Krugman has this right. What you don't realize
 is, this is a new defining down, not the first time. When 5%
 unemployment was declared "structural" we started on this road.
 That was when the public started to be conditioned. The
 seperation of those who need a job but have given up from the
 official unemployment stats was the next step.

 The decision by the FED that their job it to control inflation,
 and not unemployment, was the step that is destroying this
 country.

 JS> I'm starting to have a sick feeling about prospects for
 JS> American workers -- but not, or not entirely, for the
 JS> reasons you might think.

 JS> Yes, growth is slowing, and the odds are that unemployment
 JS> will rise, not fall, in the months ahead. That's bad. But
 JS> what's worse is the growing evidence that our governing
 JS> elite just doesn't care -- that a once-unthinkable level of
 JS> economic distress is in the process of becoming the new
 JS> normal.

 JS> And I worry that those in power, rather than taking
 JS> responsibility for job creation, will soon declare that
 JS> high unemployment is "structural," a permanent part of the
 JS> economic landscape -- and that by condemning large numbers
 JS> of Americans to long-term joblessness, they'll turn that
 JS> excuse into dismal reality.

 ...

 JS> The point is that a large part of Congress -- large enough
 JS> to block any action on jobs -- cares a lot about taxes on
 JS> the richest 1 percent of the population, but very little
 JS> about the plight of Americans who can't find work.

 Class warfare -  Class warfare -  Class warfare -  Class warfare

 JS> Well, if Congress won't act, what about the Federal
 JS> Reserve? The Fed, after all, is supposed to pursue two
 JS> goals: full employment and price stability, usually defined
 JS> in practice as an inflation rate of about 2 percent. Since
 JS> unemployment is very high and inflation well below target,
 JS> you might expect the Fed to be taking aggressive action to
 JS> boost the economy. But it isn't.

 Just as I said above. They abandoned full employment long ago.

 ...

 JS> But the Fed hasn't done any of these things. Instead, some
 JS> officials are defining success down.

 Sound familiar?

 ...

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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