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Requiem for America
America, that grand experiment created to probe the limits of human freedom, liberty and equality, has succumbed to its many injuries and passed away. The exact time of death is uncertain, the causes many.
America was always, until its demise, a work in progress, but that progress stopped. The country lost its way, forgot where it was headed, and fell prey to a host of enemies, all of them coming from within.
The coroner has yet to announce the cause of death, not yet sure if it was murder or suicide. That almost does not matter, however, since dead is dead.
I’ll admit I had a hand in America’s death, but I’m not taking all of the blame, nor even the lion’s share. Like original sin, you, too, share the guilt, if you claim the deceased as your next of kin. For those of you who do not know the pecking order of sin in the Catholic faith, there are degrees of wrongdoing. Most of us are guilty of minor transgressions, the venal sins. Though small in a relative sense, we are not absolved of responsibility for America’s death. We also committed another type of sin, called the sin of omission, which means we failed to do the needful when the survival of our country demanded it.
The greater responsibility, however, rests in the hands of those who committed the mortal sins. They struck the fatal blow, though we stood back and let them do it. In a just and fair Universe their punishment would exceed our own, but such a Universe does not exist.
We all die the same death, no matter the extent of our individual culpability.
The mortal sins, and those who committed them, are well known. The list is too long to relate in totality here, but some of the key players and their acts deserve special attention.
Those who abused the trust of the people and abrogated their responsibility to the state and the citizenry are most guilty. They go by the names of Bernanke and Greenspan, Geithner and Paulson, Rubin and Frank, Bush and Obama, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and many more. They are guilty of a host of crimes and failings. Some lied. Some are corrupt. Some are hypocrites. Some suffer from bloated egos. Some are simply fools and incompetent. Some are all of the above. All abused their power, quite often simply for their own personal gain.
Our elected and appointed leaders are not the only ones guilty of mortal sins. Private individuals---some fools, some psychopaths, and all self-serving and avaricious---had a hand equal to our leaders in America’s death. That list, too, is long, but special mention must be made of one named Dimon and one named Blankfein. One seems to be a psychopath, while the other just a fool blinded by his own greed, though that does not excuse him.
As individual citizens we helped facilitate the wrongdoings of the leadership and the elite. We gave in to the siren song of false gods.
We came to believe, because we wanted to believe, that growth could exceed input, that reward could exceed effort. Indeed, we came to feel that reward should exceed effort, because…well…we deserved it.
We took on debts we could not pay, merely to accumulate things we did not need. We found money where it did not really exist, such as in the delusional value of our homes. We lost patience. We had no discipline. We suspended logic. We rationalized that it was all okay because everyone else was doing it.
We had good teachers, and even better facilitators. Our leaders, beginning with a fool named Reagan, told us debt did not matter and that the appearance of wealth was all that mattered, repayment be damned as that would fall on someone else. Every leader after him tried to tell us that the bills never came due and that sacrifice was just a quaint and outdated concept. One of our leaders started a silly war, with an undetermined goal, with an ever-changing justification steeped in lies and deceits, then told us all to go shopping, as if both the dying and the payment were someone else’
responsibility.
We let them get away with it because we wanted to believe. We spent our days adding to the list of unalienable rights our founders had enumerated for us. Two hundred some odd years ago those men had given us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We came to like the last one best of all, and redefined it as needed. We assumed a right to live beyond our means. We took a dream, the so-called American Dream, and not only determined it was a reality, but that it was a birthright.
We became hypocrites along the way, something illustrated to perfection by a man who long has had an active hand in our demise. We came to believe our own hype, that we were the best, and that we knew best. We forced others to accept our way of life when force was in our own interest, and we lectured when force was not a viable option.
We made no friends either way, leaving destruction most everywhere we tread. We did to others as we would never want nor allow others to do to us.
Regarding that illustration noted above, consider Timothy Geithner, now our Treasury Secretary, but late of both the New York Federal Reserve and the IMF. When East Asia stumbled as a result of its own failings in 1997, Geithner demanded that they face up to their own errors and accept their earned pain. Budgets were to be balanced, interest rates raised, and the weak and incompetent allowed to fail.
Years later, as both Fed Governor and Treasury Secretary, Geithner’s prescription was the exact opposite. The weak, corrupt and incompetent were to be saved at the expense of the innocent, and economic policy should be a continuation of the very things that led to the economy’s collapse.
In partnership with an equally incompetent Fed Chairman named Bernanke, America engaged in the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the world, from the most innocent to the most guilty.
These two men, along with those who appointed or confirmed them, had the audacity---or stupidity---to tell us that the solution is the problem is the solution.
A collapse resulting from excess debt was to be solved…with more debt. A country suffering from excess spending was to…spend more. The people whose actions had been the prime cause of the collapse…were to be made more than whole again with someone else’s money. The existence of institutions whose enormous size afforded them a finger on the financial nuclear trigger…were not only to be allowed to remain too big to fail, but they actually were encouraged to become even larger.
We were told this was a necessary evil and that it was for our greater good. We were intimidated. We were threatened. We were spun in circles so that we’d be too dizzy and confused to see the many ways we were all on the hook for someone else’s crimes. The contempt of our leadership was so great that they dared to say that those who were forced to pay for others' corruption were actually making a profit on our unintended and unwilling generosity.
Many lost faith early on. Some saw all the lies, and that affected them so deeply that all they could see was lies, even when they were told the occasional truth. While I personally take exception to what this complete loss of faith has bred, I understand its genesis.
Without going into detail, I trust the reader knows what I mean.
As of this writing, nothing has changed. We are still being taken for fools. The guilty continue to run free, and for them times have never been better, though even for them it will be temporary. The wealth transfer continues unabated, and the prescription given to the masses is as it has always been: spend more. So isolated is the leadership and the elite, or so callous and cold is their soul, that they act unaware that more spending is not a option.
We’ve just embarked on something called QE2, with the association of its name (a cruise ship on vacation) a cruel joke. QE2 is an academic’s solution to a problem whose only real solution is a realization that real gain only comes from real sacrifice. QE2 is an economist’s answer. Like most every economic theory---economics is a dismal science at best, alchemy and fraud at its worst---it starts with an assumption. In the case of QE2 this is: assume infinite money.
So far the reaction is such that the economists are patting themselves on the back. They not only think they are correct---despite the historical fact that they, from Bernanke to Greenspan to Summers have never been right once in their entire lives---they continue to take the masses for fools.
Maybe we are fools. Certainly we are lazy. We are probably also cowards. We are lazy because we failed to demand real change, not the silly change that spews from a politician’s lips as easily as all of his other lies. We let them do this to us. We let them fool us. We let them put the final stake in the heart of America and guarantee its demise. We are too late. That is our sin.
Talk to your neighbors. Read the press. Watch TV, especially the business shows. Do you see anything different this week that you have not seen before? Do you feel the mood, even among the most optimistic, is different than it was a year, or even two years ago?
It is. It is clear in the faces of even the formerly optimistic.
They know it’s over. They know we’re dead and that QE2---assumed and endless money for real and endless maladies---is the final blow. They see it in the collapse of the once almighty dollar. Yes, they are all partying, but they know the lifeboats are all gone and all they’re doing is emptying the liquor cabinet on the Titanic, maybe hoping to be in a stupor when the cold or the water steals their final breath.
We are cowards because we did not do what our founding fathers did to rid themselves of the oppression and corruption under which they suffered. They put their lives on the line. They took up arms when such action was the only solution. What the current leadership has inflicted upon the citizenry is at least as egregious as anything suffered under King George. All of the debt and none of the glories.
The Founding Fathers never intended to concentrate so much power in the hands of so few people, as now rests in the hands of Ben Bernanke and the Fed. The system supposedly has built in checks and balances, but it is clear there are none, given that a non-elected official in a semi-private entity can determine our collective fate. That his mandate, if what mandate he has is even constitutional, is to defend the integrity of the currency and maintain price stability is being ignored. That he is prohibited from monetizing the government’s debt is also being ignored. Such is our leaderships’ enforcement of the laws. We need to be our own enforcers, since those who ostensibly have the job refuse to do so.
As a country we have used violence to eliminate those who pose a real or perceived threat against our well being. As individuals we have all played the parlor game of asking what we would have done, had we had the opportunity, to eliminate Hitler early in his career. Most of us, despite our abhorrence of violence, would say Hitler should have been eliminated. The world would have been a better place.
Some future citizens will play that same game when they discuss the decline and fall of America. I wonder what they will decide? I wonder if they will blame us for our failure to act before it was too late, when the system did not allow us a workable solution, and when the only thing that would have saved the country was the elimination through any means those who actions were destroying it.
Is this sedition? Were the Founding Fathers seditionists? They would have been if they had failed, but they won. We are too late, however, so the consideration for us is a moot point, to be debated by our grandchildren in some future parlor game.
What right do I have to even suggest such things? None, other than the right to defend myself and my country, since our elected leaders fail to do so. Our democracy---for some reason limited to two virtually identical parties---is but an illusion. More importantly, our leaders have decided that laws do not apply to them and to those who feed their egos. They even have decided that we, the people, have no right to know the machinations behind those who manipulate the value of the currency we are forced to use. We are all supposed to simply shut up and pay so that our betters can prosper at our expense.
Since the law is not applied equally, can it be any surprise that eventually the people will also opt out of obeying the law, too?
Strategic default and squatting are merely the opening shots in the abandonment of all pretense. As frustration builds, other laws will be ignored, until the time comes when those who should have been responsible will be held responsible. When all is lost and everything the country was or should have been is gone, the only satisfaction that remains will be taking a pound of flesh from the ones who brought the country down.
Those pounds will be taken, one by one, and a degree of fairness will be restored to the Universe. That is the law; the law of the jungle, to which we are now returning.
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What do you make of the pro-Ben arguments that state he is helping the poor and the debtors by holding down interest rates while generating inflation, which supports the debtor over the creditor. And...that the recent attacks on the Fed by your big boys reflect exactly disgust with this attempt at redistribution.
That's one side of the story, as I read today. Viewpoints?
ZH has gone from great financial blog to being just as delusional about it's insightful philosophy and self-importance. I look at the articles and now think, meh. Sorry Tyler, your off my bookmarks now.
I couldn't think of a better way to solidify my notion than getting junked. Goodbye ZH.
i would be most curious as to what bookmarks remain...
Oh, goodie! That means you're leaving. Buh-bye.
I feel the author, but this thing ain't over until the petrodollar ends and military rusts. Why do you think all the other nations we just declared war against with QE2 are essentially helpless except to tax hot money or take other dangerous risks with capital? Because they are equally or more helpless.
Petrodollar. Power. We're making up the rules as we go along....
This, look at the entourage Obama is bringing to India right now, the whole Navel Fleet as well. Look at us! We spend ridiculous amounts of money on our Military! We just invaded Iraq to make them sell their oil in the shit that we simply print! And nobody could do shit! HaHa, bow before us and we might sell you 2nd tier military equipment to police your own people!
We just ordered a new air force. This air force is designed for power projection and control. The US dollar is directly tied to the US military which is why this isn't over and we're going to take a few mulligans, which we have. The question is what happens if we over leverage it? Will we need to start another war to put another commodity under our control? Perhaps. We were going to take a reduction in the standard of living EITHER WAY. We knew that crossing into the 00's.
That's why Bush gets an F for being a good emperor or a good president. An emperor had choices to start smart wars to increase our standard of living and other realpolitik options. Bush was even offered a grand pre-text. Even with that pre-text, the child emperor couldn't figure out how to generate a profit for his nation, but he put massive profits in the hands of few, at the expense of the Treasury. The Greenspan, Bush, Cheney kelpto-conservatives cut themselves a deal at the nation's expense. They're traitors.
This could have been very different.
That's what I'm talkin about.
I was all aflutter with hope until I read your last sentence. No disagreement, just looking for a bright spot. Can't see one (still)(yet?).
One of my favorite books is Annals of the Former World, which is a narrative geological tour of the United States. In it there is a section devoted to a US Geological Survey geologist named David Love. His father was a scottish adventurer who eventually homesteaded in Wyoming in the late 19th century. The story tells, among other things, of several dinner guests they had of colorful character. It also tells of a sort of frontier justice where, in the absence of acces to real law enforcement, the people sort of just decided when someone "needed killin' " and the community would just look the other way when that happened.
This sad article is saying that there are a great many who are on the list of people that just "need killin' " but that those sentences are likely to be stayed until law and order breaks down, something the Fed just made more likely yesterday. Whether things will get to the point where you see widespread vigilantism is an open question still. It will be ugly if we get there. But if we do not get there, there will be a great many who escape the justice that is due.
People, like traders and bankers who base their models of the world and their decision-making on Gaussian statistical models, tend to think the future will be just like the past. Most have very little notion of history and little imagination that syetems wax and they also wane. They will be surprised if we wane past certain thresholds that beget a state of affairs they have not heretofore imagined possible.
Re: "Those who abused the trust of the people and abrogated their responsibility to the state and the citizenry are most guilty."
Like almost all who reach into the darkness of the ethical and moral foundations of this fall and death, the author misses Screwtape; Warren Buffett.
If the players mentioned were heinous mortal sinners, WB is the archtype of the morality of those who are most responsible.
While WB claimed CDO derivatives were weapons of financial mass destruction, the banks he held huge positions in were the primary players in the building and selling in this market.
But it does not stop there, Moody's credit rating agency, which his Berksire Hathaway held a huge position, played a critical role by giving its imprimatur of AAA to the lies and garbage.
And it continued when he lobbied congress and publicly claimed the TARP bailouts and Fed actions were necessary, necessary to save his wealth. Berkshire Hathaway would have been essentially wiped out if it were not for the government taking your tax payer money, and the money of your children and grandchildren, and give it to WB. How? Because his baby Berkshire would have been on the hook for the "insurance" side of the CDO's and the banks Berkshire held would have been wiped-out on the equity side.
So though I may agree with much of the piece, I think it fails to include the event's Screwtape. Yet the old man still ambles around percieved by the sheeple as the greatest investor of all time.
And I think that image, of the "greatest investor of all time" - Warren Buffett, being bailed out of bankruptcy and failure on the backs of sheeple taxpayers and their children, is the single image that tells the whole of what needs to be known and is the requiem's idol.
I did a search of this page before posting, strange he was never numbered among the mortal sinners. Not even by the ZH cabal....
AMDG
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I'm not taking this blame. I was against the useless wars based on lies from the start. I was against the Bush tax cuts because I wanted to see the debt paid down instead. I was against the American Empire. I was against deregulating the banks. I was against the ultra-low interest rates.
I was vocal about all these things. No one wanted to listen, and I didn't have the money or connections to even slow it down, much less stop it.
I hear that. Sedition charges can't begin and end at the Federal Reserve and banking, either, although they're a large part of the massive fraud.
But - that's harder for people to understand. What is EASIER and what they still failed to understand was allowing the gains of our collective assets (foreign policy, research, and yes WAR) to be privatized and looted from within. We were looted at every angle and phase of growth. That's the biggest shame of the American people. You could easily see that. Massive U.S. Treasury debts and death from war but not a soul questions why a bunch of private offshore corporations are feeding at the trough in Iraq and Afghanistan?
The media is deadly silent on this massive transfer of spoils from the American citizens into the hands of internationally owned multi-national corporations.
That's pretty easy to spot, unlike monetary policy. We couldn't spot it, discuss it, or do anything about it. That's a big shame. Monetary policy? Forget it.
i felt that tinge of frustration too as i read the piece. but i did not feel accused.
i also feel i would have acted much differently given some magical absolute dictatorial power. "not my fault", i say.
but i also look at the cultural momentum of brittany vs bernanke, and can't help but appreciate the author's point.
it's frustrating to be 'bailing my part of the Titanic' (as i like to say). i hope a few of the good ones make it.
it was a worthwhile read to me, as it changes the tone from denial to acceptance, which makes it possible to move on to resolution. a sort of AA 7 steps-like thing.
Perhaps the most guilty are the most offended. It would fit the model.
BTW the AA bunch has 12 steps. Been there, doing that.
It's time to CLAW-BACK the money that was stolen from this country.
95% of the bonuses given to Wall Street bankers from 2008 through today, 100% of the bonuses generated by fraudulent securitizations between 2002-2007. Seize it, art, property, bank accounts, whatever. Use that to pay back the Treasury, fire the executives and re-cap the banks under new regulated management.
Then claw-back all windfall profits, anything over 30% net, for government war and security contractors since 2001.
Probably find a few trillion all in all.
There's your two great heists that broke the nation. Both done under Bush and Greenspan, ideological twins. Good luck getting your money, the media won't help you, the GOP won't, the tea party won't, the Dems won't.
Right... let's appoint a strongman to hunt down all those evil-doers and steal all their money, so those of us who are proven righteous can have it all!
I think I saw this movie before, in about 1938.
I kind of agree with George that the Constitution IS just a piece of paper.
Man, I can't believe this comments thread.
This article was a Call to Arms.
And all the comments are bitching and waffling on about trivia and sideshows.
Grow some backbone people.
And just to spice the equation up a bit and raise the stakes...
Consider this: (Civil War 2)
http://www.resist.com/CWII.pdf
BTW, ignore the "white power" overtones, keep reading and consider the argument and implications contained.
If you want to do something meaningful, withdraw from the system and build a new way outside of it. Otherwise, you are just one more conqueror, riding in with weapons, hoping to dethrone the old boss and take his place. I'm not interested in playing that game.
We are simply waiting for the rest of the developed world to deteriorate as to justify a default, followed by more Force than we have ever seen the USA capable of.
That is when the True Imperialistic USA will rip off it's "Nice" mask to reveal the real creature lurking beneath. I am just hoping that monster lying underneath will protect me in this new world, and not feast on My Liver with a nice Chianti and some Fava beans. I am hoping he prefers Panda Express.
Pretty good, and I agree with you. I think people know that the game is over and for so long have been to much of a coward to do anything about it. What I think will happen is the US will implode via the financial schemes and liabilities that we can't afford. Then it will break apart into regions that will go it alone and become their own countries. Because central govt. will have failed and the rest of the country won't trust them anymore. If not that then when the country implodes we will be a country of 10,000 dictators, where every 50 miles you go you are in a local politicians fiefdom and central control of the country is no more.
It's time..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Mf9j8co70&feature=related
"Most of us are guilty of minor transgressions, the venal sins."
Make that "venial."
"Venal" means bribable, dishonorable, mercenary.
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I've bookmarked this page. I would love to share it with those I care for...But maybe not.
Better to belive in Santa claus perhaps. Children and the simple have it so good?
America a sinking ship? Hasn't anyone noticed that the ship of state is sailing into India on the Maharaja-bama Outsource America 2010 Tour? Gotta get America exporting again. Okay, so it's exporting jobs, but one has to start somewhere. Export jobs, and prosperity will follow. Sure, that prosperity will be in India, but at least it's the same planet. Policy, after all, is a blunt instrument at best.
Meanwhile, back in the engine room, Bernanke is tossing in another $600 billion plus to fan the flames of the inflation that is supposed to drive us toward the appearance of prosperity, especially when the GDP deflator is not going to take into consideration the changes in prices of things people actually buy. When one controls the dictionary, one controls the definition.
See, the reason we all got into so much trouble is that money was not easy enough, spending was not high enough and banks were not big enough. I'm an MBA, and from the worst school at that; I know these things. Nothing succeeds like excess. Lucky for us Ben, Tim and Congress know this, too. And with K Street so near by, we can rest assured they will never forget. That is what is meant by checks and balances.
Look, we were all kids once. Remember Bazooka Bubble Gum? What did you do when you wanted to blow a bigger bubble? That's right. Add more gum. Bernanke, still a child at heart, understands this, godblessim. Paulson was a Bazooka in name only; Benny's got the gum where it counts.
So long as the masses accept the bread and circuses with open arms, the ship will keep sailing, until it eventually runs aground at Point Minsky or Mako. No doubt the great unwashed will be pleased to learn that they actually made a profit on AIG, savvy traders that they are. Hey, those Enron accountants had to land somewhere. Government seems a good a place as any for them to ply their skills. As for me, I think I'll pick up a Korean-made 52" LED with my share of the AIG profits. Or is that too "venial"?
And pay no attention to that look of bewilderment on the faces of those who bring you the TRUTH (c) on the business shows. Contrary to their deer-in-the-headlights looks this week after the christening of the QE2, they really do believe that the cure for what ails us is more funny money.
As Bam_Man pointed out on the Fleck post, finally Ben has realized that the way to a housing recovery is not through a flat yield curve, but through a rising stock market. Let the 10 year go. Same with the thirty. Who needs them anyway, especially since Tim now needn't look past the 2-year for his funding needs, since just like the note, he'll be long gone by 2012.
bless you for writing this chindit. somewhere Mr. Twain is smirking.
chindit13,
i wish you could spend more time 'round here. i can't either lately, but when i do get here, it's always good to see your hand at work.
cheers
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