I find humor in almost everything; because everything is funny, incidentally. For example: look at government employees, like garbage men or cops. They bust their collective asses helping out the government, in exchange for a little money. In the past, they were able to tuck that money away and earn interest on it, via CD’s or preferred savings accounts. Here’s where it starts to get really funny.
Without even a single protest, the government has fucked, mind you, the entire country out of their right to pursue happiness (money=happiness, fuck what you heard to the contrary). Not only is the retired cop with 200k in savings not earning interest on his nest egg, he’s getting fucked at the grocery store, the pump, his electricity bill and most certainly when he travels abroad—because the U.S. dollar drops 10% every other year.
Instead of reducing risk, our government, post credit crisis, has turned up the dial, only transferring it to the people. By taking away interest on accounts, they’ve forced millions of people into the stock market, where the inherent risks are exponentially higher. Because of this simple fact, it is my belief they will kick the can down the road, until FEMA has enough plastic coffins ready to store the entire state of Utah.
Without the stock market, this country is finished. In many respects, it’s the final frontier. We will either financially manufacture our way out of this mess, via creative and innovative financing. Or, we will fold and see the savings of millions evaporate into thin air, leading the way to a total and absolute disintegration of social obedience and eventual dismantling of the power apparatus in this great nation.
In other words, they need the market to trade up.
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