OOOPS-----Missed a FEW ThingsSorry Cruisie----my memory ain't as good as it once was.
RE Big Ben Bernanke----Helicopter Ben
I don't really know. Perhaps an informed American can better judge him----I do know that
History WILL. His "reign" so far to me doesn't look too good.
He is supposed to be completely independant----but you do have to wonder!
He certainly is well educated---but by whom?
In university, there were a lot of (OK----most) students who worked far harder and longer than I.
They read more books, had higher grades, had far higher IQs than I, and worse, were better looking than I.
These people think that they are smarter than they actually were----but why wouldn't they?
They had, so far, never failed---they even really scared me. However; i had it figured out that what
we as students were told----"This is an intellectual community, to experience new things, exchange
ideas, share and grow for the betterment of all---you have been given the chance of a lifetime, that
few people get---the persuit of knowledge" etc. etc. was pure and absolute garbage. I was there to
learn---yes---but the more important stuff----to weed things out and get there the fastest and easiest way
as possible---I wanted the highest grades, to pass and graduate, and to carry on to a higher level.
I wanted to learn to better myself and get ahead with the highest paid jobs possible. They said that
wasn't the real desired goal in the purest sense of the whole idea, and Ideals of upper learning!
Right off I knew that it was really a war---a competition against each and every other student. An end
game, brutally controlled and ruled by the infamous BELL CURVE.
Besides reading all of the also recommended books and articals etc. severely cut down on my drinking
time at the student pub!!!
The further one goes on, the harder and fiercer it got---one, by one my supposed superior students
finally found that indeed there was a wall----and sure enough they hit it hard and down they went.
Being smart and intelligent, isn't the ALL and END ALL----you see they never believed there was a wall
for them to hit, and if there was they could go right through it. Like always, by working harder and harder. FOOLS!
What they had missed out on, and lacked almost completely was WISDOM---they just don't teach that
at school. You have to stop and climb that highest tree, and figure things out for yourselff, as best as
possible!!! Maybe that is where the saying comes from: "It's lonely at the TOP"!!!
It sure is, I can tell you, because when you get to the top of the tree----there is absolutely no room on the
last small branch whatsoever----only one person at a time!!!!
OOOPS----got sort of carried away again---
Big Ben----incompetent or a great actor who is competent. I favour the actor part. Wasn't a guy named
Ronald Reagan, once president of the USA, a long term former ACTOR. He did a lot of movies, got a lot
of parts---but he wasn't that good. Nor was he rated as a very good president by the History books.
You see, I don't really think he, BEN, is INDEPENDANT. I believe he is a good actor. I believe, competemt
OR INcompetent is NOT the real choice here. I believe that in fact he is a PUPPET---and that someone
else, or some body of people are calling the shots. Big Ben is in fact just another BUFFER LAYER to
deflect and confuse the average citizen there in the USA.
He may not be doing what he knows and thinks is right-----he's just doing what he is told---and yes in that
way, he is a VERY GOOD ACTOR!!!!!
There is a big fundamental difference, you see?
It something like being brilliant at avoiding taxes----not evading them illegally and against the law!
Brilliance in this is finding out the loop-holes and using them to your benefit. The trouble is, the tax man
then finds the loop-hole and enacts legislation to fix and close that. So the smart avoiding person has
to go out and find another loop-hole, hopefully even better. It gets harder and harder because, as time
goes by there are less and less holes to find!!!
So WHAT!!!----you say?
WELL, the same thing goes on with Big Ben and his job (and the archetects controlling him). The
public catches on, the old and proven tricks are no good any more-----so what does he or his controllers do?
They desperately try to find something different to meet their agenda(S) regarding what to do for and with
the US economy. "Sugar-Coating" the same thing, or calling it by different names is getting stale and harder
and harder to do
.
For example----releasing the strategic emergency fuel reserves to lower the price of gas and inspire public
confidence---just in time for good old 4th. of July Independance Day long weekend. A stop gap measure
if there ever was one----in an upcoming re-election year when the campaigning in the USA has already
started. Give the dumb citizens what they want.
In truth, people should see right through this----smart economists will point out that they know this is
dangerous and a foolish policy especially have any real positive effect. It was done for the sole purpose
basically to BUY VOTES. If used effectively it SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE when the price of gas
was at its highest and still rising---a year ago? remember $ 140 or so per barrel----(which "they" didn't)-----
Not now when actually the price per barrel is under a dollar and falling ANYWAY!!!
Do you see what I mean now?
AS for the so called CENTRAL BANKS----fooey!!! Just another clog and buffer in the system, managed and controlled by the elected government officials-----or really is it controlled by "some one or some other body",
that doesn't want to be fingered----ooops I mean identified. Ever hear of "Plead the Fourth amendment"?
I am a Canadian, but is that why the Americans celebrate the FOURTH of July? Where is Scoutaz when
you need him???
Like I said in the previous article, I ain't no expert in the European Banking Arena----you tell me if it is any
different over there. I'll bet it somehow is somewhat the same. Maybee better disguised. The Europeans
I believe are much more sophisticatet and cultured than in the "West" as you put it.
You must be getting tired of me by now!!!
Re the ECU and the goal of a huge Big protected Mass Market.
I had thought of it once before but your ECU question brought it back to the front of my mind again.
I guess it is because I don't know the answer, and having thought and thought about it I STILL HAVE NO CLUE
WHAT-SO-EVER--------------and it does bother me being Canadian and putting oneself in another one's
SHOES.
Being so isolated, but in a like situation----what can AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND do????
Any thoughts----anyone???
It's been a slice, gotta go, INTI wants in, and I'm hungry----hope she did her thing and got me dinner like I asked,
because I got nothing in the fridge!
BARN BREATH