I’m Tired

I’ll admit it:

I’m tired,
Tired of playing the game
Ain’t it a crying shame
I’m so tired
God dammit I’m exhausted

I read Cindy Sheehan’s piece yesterday and I can sympathize to a certain extent. No, I haven’t given my all to and for the cause. I never camped out at Bush’s dude ranch. I have not been arrested for my anti-war stance or protest. To be truthful, I am afraid to do what Cindy does simply because I am trying to balance raising my daughter and caring for my wife. There is not enough of me to go around (at least that seems like a good excuse).

But even more important is this nagging feeling I have that it appears that Americans are so far gone into oblivion, or more likely, are too caught up in their own life’s struggles to be able to care fully: hoping that what is apparent to many of us will work itself out and then we can move on with our consumer society and in-debt ourselves to the rest of the world even more deeply. Maybe you are watching more TV than spend time on the intertubes, so your view will be clouded by all their fluffy talk. But as George Washington points out, “Happy Talk, Can NOT Fix The Economy“.

This “Happy Talk” is bogus because the leadership (Big Money, not the pols, themselves, for the pols only do the bidding of Big Money). This is glaringly obvious if you simply do a cursory view of their campaign finances at OpenSecrets. Nobody takes the kind of money that Big Money gives these crooks without indebtedness. Guido the Enforcer doesn’t like it when the pawn Pols take money, then spit in the face of The Don. George lays out the procession of corruption below (although the grip of Big Money has had a handhold since way before Nixon):

Indeed, the government has been gaming the fundamental economic indicators with more and more blatant attempts to hide the true state of affairs from the public for decades:

• Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard because the U.S. defaulted on its ability to pay debts in gold

• The social security trust fund was long ago raided

• The government has been cooking its books and hiding debt through various accounting tricks for years

• The government deletes the 2 most important classes of inflation (food and energy) from the “core” inflation figures, has suspended reporting of the M3 monetary supply, and uses the fake U-3 instead of more accurate U-6 employment figures

• The Fed has blown bubble after bubble with artificially low interest rates

The government has supsended mark-to-market, is letting banks cook their books, rolled out the fraudulent stress tests, and is engaging in every conceivable scheme to hide the true state of affairs.

The point is that they are using the “smoke and mirrors”, “sleight-of-hand” trickery to keep you in the dark. The Happy Talk is just some handsome devil whispering sweet nothingness in to your desirous ears.

We so much want to believe them (and many of us do).

But, as Mr Washington points out, as well, there are many economists and political scientists that are expressing a totally different tune than what you will hear in the MSM. This is no coincedence, but purposeful to keep you in the dark, for these folks believe we are already in a Depression:

• Merrill Lynch’s chief economist

• The former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission

• Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz

• The former Secretary of Labor

• The UK’s prime minister

• Leading investment advisor Ray Dalio

• Well-known investment advisor Doug Casey

• And many others.

George goes on to explain that the following say what we are experiencing could be WORSE than the Great Depression:

• Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke

• Economics professors Barry Eichengreen and and Kevin H. O’Rourke (updated here)

• Investment advisor, risk expert and “Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker

• Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

• Economics scholar and former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin

• Well-known PhD economist Marc Faber

• Former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead

• Morgan Stanley’s UK equity strategist Graham Secker

• Former chief credit officer at Fannie Mae Edward J. Pinto

• Billionaire investor George Sorors

• Senior British minister Ed Balls

So, keep in mind that the TV, by and large, is lying to you. Newspapers, by and large are lying to you. If you want to know the truth about the situation, you need to tap in to the sources that the MSM keeps out (many of the above publish in various places and/or have their own blogs).

Back to my initial point about being tired. How does this affect those who have been truly working to stop the shenanigans? What would end up being the outcome of trying so hard with so little results? Cindy asks the poignant question below:

It’s pathetic to me that so many people are apathetic about children dying at the hands of this monstrous military empire, but I can’t force people to care and we can’t physically drag people out into the streets with us against their wills.

I went into my very pregnant daughter’s room to lie next to her and with tears streaming down my face, I asked her for guidance.

She said: “Mom, you can’t stop wars, look how hard you’ve been trying for years and not one troop has come home. Maybe you can stop trying to kill yourself and just do your small part like everyone else.”

Maybe that’s good advice?

It does seem hopeless and perhaps she asks the right question.