JosephThePoet's Blog

Does everyone feel safer now that the greedy banks and financial companies got their massive bailout? Now will you just go back to your life having forgotten this event and without even bothering to try to understand what all this actually means to your future?

Just smile and be happy everyone. Come on don’t worry, spend your money. It’s just a taxpayer supported correction of our free market system to protect a lot of greedy people and companies from having to accept the consequences of their actions because we’ll all suffer otherwise. Don’t worry because we politicians will fix it so this specific action won’t be able to be used to create this threat exactly the same way again. And the next time they find a way to do it we’ll give them more money again to protect you, if the country still exists.

We are told this bailout is necessary to protect everyone’s pensions and to prevent a worldwide financial collapse. Were we not also told that the best thing to always do is to allow the markets to find their own direction and to correct themselves? Isn’t the philosophy of everyone just doing what they want and grabbing what they can, and the consumers should just beware and protect their own butts not working? But it’s all about individual freedom isn’t it? If the greediest get their $Millions or $Billions while they threaten the democratic countries economies it’s their individual right to free choice isn’t it? After all it’s not up to our leaders to lead and protect our country by constructing responsible frameworks for companies to operate within but instead it’s the job of companies whose sole interest is to make a quick buck to decide the direction our countries will take, right?

Our leaders also decided to allow all our manufacturing companies the opportunity to cater to greed by helping tear down our country’s economy while building up the strength of China. People who don’t have jobs can’t pay mortgages, buy homes, or purchase much of anything else to contribute to the continuation of a country’s economic stability. And because of the lack of foresight or leadership from our politicians, China has gotten easier access to our technologies and is increasingly more able to purchase our country’s assets while also holding the ability to promote the crippling and bankruptcy of the US at the moment of their choice by dumping large amounts of American dollars onto international markets to cause massive US inflation. Add in the fact that so many other countries that support terrorism and other policies that threaten our countries also have leverage against our countries because of this same lack of foresight from our leaders to promote local energy production so as to prevent our country from having to rely on foreign countries for our energy needs regardless of the consequences. So why did our politicians choose to protect the financial markets when they have proven that they don’t care about the average citizen or the many economic threats to the country? Is it because they are finally starting to understand that their fiscal mismanagement and foolish unfettered capitalistic practices have allowed the country to come to the brink of total financial collapse, or are they just trying to protect their and their very wealthy friend’s assets?

Our system of catering to individual and corporate greed ensures that an eventual massive financial collapse will occur, and the fact that our leaders are incapable of and unwilling to responsibly lead our people to protect the security of us all means the collapse will be extremely severe when it does occur. This bailout may delay the collapse of the US economy but it will also add to the ease with which the country will eventually be forced into bankruptcy and massive inflation which will allow for the assets of the whole country to be more easily taken from us. The people will be slaves to their masters then and their pensions will be worthless, but the very wealthy will be able to flee the country and only we peons will be left to suffer the results of promoting the right to the freedom to pursue individual greed even to the cost of the whole country. Everyone get up now and yell Freedom! Freedom! Now bow down and worship our democratic system that is so willing to destroy the lives of the many to cater to the rights of the vile and greedy few to do anything they please regardless of the eventual consequences to the country and the majority of us who make up the country.

Christians have been told to be watchful for the time of the return of Jesus and we were told of signs to look for. Can you read the signs yet of increased weather and environmental upheavals, increased disease threats, food shortages and high prices, worldwide unrest and rioting, wars and rumors of wars, the promoting of everything vile and immoral, and the increased disbelief of and blaspheming of God? Is the time when we will be brought to our knees to shake us awake from our arrogance and to pay the price for our turning away from following God’s laws and principles in every aspect of our lives soon to occur?