Monday, September 4

While I'm thinking about the subject  

As I mentioned in an earlier post

I must be getting old or at least cynical. It's getting to the point where any political statements that I hear, regardless of whether or not I actually believe in the matter, have no connection whatsoever with reality. In fact, I'm feeling another post about that later.

This is that post.

If you have been paying attention to what I have actually been doing in my Bloglines blogroll, I have always lumped the economy blogs in with the politics, which I have just rename to reflect that.  Politics-Economy.  They go hand in fist for me now.  It doesn't seem that you can have any discussion about economics without bringing up/in politics.  Maybe I'm just bad. 

The point is, politics is careening out of control without any relation to reality.  It's been obvious for quite some time, especially now.  And now that I have merged politics and economics together in my mind now, statements made in reference to the economy have now become circumspect in my view.

You can argue all you want that they are separate, and I know that they truly should be, it just doesn't seem like they are any more.  The government lists this statistic, the government lists that statistic.  The markets, and the economy that follow from that react to those statistics.  That means that the government has a hand in how it works, and with the hand of politics guiding that hand, the two have become intertwined in my mind

I don't trust the current administration.  Not in the least.  We've gotten ourselves into a war based on lies.  We have been lead by a string of lies, some of which are still believed to this day.  They cannot be the only lies that the American public has been told.  How easy would it be to skew stock prices?  Already, we've got 10 year bonds that are returning less revenue than what the Federal bank's are lending out on a daily basis.  Does that truly make sense, or is that a Wall Street behavior that points to something else?  I don't know at this point.

Maybe down the road, I'll think differently.  Maybe I won't be so cynical.  But I also think that will be some time after the next administration, the administration after that, and possibly the administration after that before I will have any confidence in my government especially at the federal level.

I can't help the feeling that if something radical doesn't change things peacefully, it might take something radical like having a second American civil war.  And the anarchy that would bring down on the whole world, let alone here would last for decades, and could throw everyone into the dark ages.

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