If I remember the biblical story of The Tower of Babel correctly – it’s when no one was making sense to anyone anymore – thanks to divine intervention (intended to right the mess that the socio-economic world had come to [in some far distant point of the human past]).
The point-of-the-allusion was: that no one was making any sense to anyone else; and, judging by the content of the business section of my beloved Times (on any given day) – we have erected a new Tower of Babel in-the-here-and-now.
When I open my Business Times – I can read about new home sales being up at-the-same-time the foreclosure inventory continues growing; or the unemployment rate being up while personnel income is-on-the-rise; or the number of number of failing banks is contrasted with stingy lenders; or the median price of homes is growing while the tax-base is dwindling; and, what does the price of gas have to do with anything and everything?! If such information doesn’t confuse you – I gotta tell you – it sure confuses-the-Hell-out-of-me.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not being suckered into thinking that the United States is going to pull out of its downward economic spiral — engendered by conspicuous consumption and unbridled greed – in any neat or elegant fashion. No. I see the 30,000 extra troops allegedly required for Afghanistan as part of the American vanguard for the occupational force in Iran. If Obama can’t bring in the Amero-dollar (and judging by his struggle to set up a national health care plan [which I must believe is the logical precursor to the de-valuation of the Yankee Dollar]) – then we may-as-well be sitting on the third largest oil reserves in the world; and, Hell! Iranians still love American disco. The CIA does know how to do its job! (Did I ever write about suspicions of my former neighbor? That’s a whole ‘nother story…)
The babbling tower is myopic: sweating little details — like some terrorist/freedom fighter attempting to blow up an airliner – instead of focusing in on realistic possibilities like the absolute and total devaluation of the American Dollar. People I talk to from-across-the-seas tell me that folks are desperately trying to unload American Dollars. The tsunami is upon us – and all my beloved Times is doing is — muddying the waters – instead of recommending…recommending?! Hell! What our economic pundits should be doing is prescribing solutions! We need creative thinkers demanding that our pasty-faced, cuckolded politicians enact solutions for the betterment of the masses, and no,t the Fat Cats (as Obama and Jim Morrison have so eloquently stated).
How much longer are economic pundits going to look to the Wall Street smokescreen in their efforts to suggest that there is a golden egg atop the caterpillar pillar (a reference to ‘Hope for the Flowers’). What is the U.S. – from-top-to-bottom – doing differently?! Don’t give me this “green” shit. Who-in-the-world wants to purchase green shit from the country which, for years, used 60% of the world’s energy, to produce 60% of the world’s pollution with only 6% of the world’s population?! Come on! All the world ever wanted from the U.S. was Westerns and Chevrolets – and maybe some Macintosh and Microsoft stuff…stuff that showed black and white; the good guys from the bad guys; improved transportation and generally facilitated improved communications. Damn! Why didn’t this stuff work?! Why is everyone still babbling?!