Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 28 2012, 11:07 PM BSTThe Government are the lesser of two evils in this country. We tried to partner up with private companies to reform our transport, prisons and healthcare and in each instance, the private companies ran up massive debts, grabbed as much cash as they could, overcharged the government for every single thing they could, provided a poorer service and eventually buggered off with their pockets bulging with cash, leaving the tax payer to pick up the bill.
I'm having a Carlito Brigante moment: "Every time I think I've got out, they pull me right back in again.."
It's not the debt that's the real killer: it's the interest. It's the reason why usury was illegal for so many centuries.. and why it still is in many parts of the world. The notional mathematical equation upon which the western monetary system is based, is fatally flawed. Usurers know this, but there is a conspiracy of silence about it.
Example: let's call the total global money supply a notional 100%.. but it's been created as loans with interest. Let's call the interest 1%. So 100% has been loaned to the world, but 101% is owed.
But there is no extra 1% to be found. There is only 100% out there. So how does the money plus interest ever get repaid? Answer? It doesn't. Ever. A few people get more than their "fair" share of the money supply, which means that most people don't, and sooner or later default on their repayments, leading to repossession and seizure of property and assets, which go to the usurers. These lenders quite quickly end up owning everything, at which point they create more "money" (these days electronic credit) and loan it out with interest to people to try to buy all the property and assets that were seized.
.. and this system has been going on since about 2,500 BC. It brought down the greeks, egyptians and romans back in the day.. and periodically brings down regimes throughout the subsequent centuries.
The protection of this system is the real reason behind the two world wars, the cold war, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan, to name but a few. It's why Hitler and Stalin had such a thing about the Jews: they blamed the whole jewish people (which was ignorant) for the western banking system which holds people in economic slavery, with no hope of ever escaping. They wanted to break out of it.. and the western world went to war over it.
Today's bête noire is fundamentalist Islam. The moneylenders are terrified of Sharia Law for no other reason than usury is illegal under such law. Anything that ever threatens their global system of usury will engender a violent reaction from them (armed conflict) always dressed up with socio-political expediency so that the people believe in the "justice" of going to war. So the grunts get killed and the moneylenders sit back and watch, secure in the knowledge that whoever wins the conflict will still owe them money.. and whoever loses will as well.
I think that while we all argue about the ins-and-outs of moving debt around and taking out more loans with interest, bail-outs etc. etc., the moneylenders sit back in the knowledge that, whatever happens, they will still be owed the loans plus interest. They can't lose.
Rant over.
Stylee for President.
