Greetings good citizen, I'm taken back a step by the realization that a decade has passed since the global economy crashed due to collateralized debt obligations {it has since crashed again due to market saturation and classic capitalistic greed, the old 'more for me' syndrome that drives civilizations into death spirals.
In yet the, er...I lost track, 4th I think CONSECUTIVE jobless recovery without an appreciable [which is to say detectable] salary increase and Wall Street inexplicably declares that the REAL ESTATE MARKET IS CLIMBING AGAIN!
A decade means a lot of 'fish' have come of age ignorant of the last crash. [As a society we have an extreme problem with 'selective memory'...especially when it comes to commerce or politics. If the corporate owned media is to be believed a HUGE number of us suffer from amnesia regarding who is responsible for what over the past 4 decades when the answer is a single word, Republicans!]
So it must be mind-blowing to see housing prices beginning to spike again when the number of qualified buyers has shrunk to a tiny number.
Which leads us to believe (like the non-leathality of tasers or the 'dietary benefits' of diet soda) that the only thing one needs to qualify for a modern mortgage is the ability to fog a mirror.
Like the Ad says, "Push Button, GET mortgage!" (Don't even need the damn mirror! The ability to push the button is proof enough!)
Which leaves us where, good citizen?
The 'Smart ones' will jump on this as their 'last chance' to catch themselves a 'greater fool'. The Wise ones will avoid this scam like the plague that it is and stand pat with the 'Devil they know'.
Will today's post save even one innocent individual from making a monumental mistake? Extremely doubtful, the 'greater fool' always believes they have it 'under control'.
How sad is it that this variety of hubris defines the (often miles wide) rift between ignorance and stupidity?
Fuel prices are on the rise again (because summer is here and heating is no longer a factor, can't/won't leave that money on YOUR table now can they?
Which is to point out, since fewer people are working it also means fewer are driving, [hell there isn't even the need to drive to job interviews anymore, so effective is over 50 disease!]
BUT it's one of the tools the elite use to keep YOU 'pauperized'.
Which leads us to yet another IQ test...
How many of you are 'aware' [without my telling you] that your poverty is forced upon you? That YOU can't get a job that offers you a better life because you weren't born to the 'right parents'?
[Which leads to the more disturbing question of how many of you resent your parents for not being rich?]
More perplexing, how many of you AGREE with the notion that a 'surplus population' even exists? [Two parter: If yes then are you a member of the surplus or the vital population?]
How did you arrive at your answer?
Does your head hurt thinking about these things?
Thanks for letting me inside your head, now take a couple of ibuprofen and try not to over-do it next time!
Gegner
In yet the, er...I lost track, 4th I think CONSECUTIVE jobless recovery without an appreciable [which is to say detectable] salary increase and Wall Street inexplicably declares that the REAL ESTATE MARKET IS CLIMBING AGAIN!
A decade means a lot of 'fish' have come of age ignorant of the last crash. [As a society we have an extreme problem with 'selective memory'...especially when it comes to commerce or politics. If the corporate owned media is to be believed a HUGE number of us suffer from amnesia regarding who is responsible for what over the past 4 decades when the answer is a single word, Republicans!]
So it must be mind-blowing to see housing prices beginning to spike again when the number of qualified buyers has shrunk to a tiny number.
Which leads us to believe (like the non-leathality of tasers or the 'dietary benefits' of diet soda) that the only thing one needs to qualify for a modern mortgage is the ability to fog a mirror.
Like the Ad says, "Push Button, GET mortgage!" (Don't even need the damn mirror! The ability to push the button is proof enough!)
Which leaves us where, good citizen?
The 'Smart ones' will jump on this as their 'last chance' to catch themselves a 'greater fool'. The Wise ones will avoid this scam like the plague that it is and stand pat with the 'Devil they know'.
Will today's post save even one innocent individual from making a monumental mistake? Extremely doubtful, the 'greater fool' always believes they have it 'under control'.
How sad is it that this variety of hubris defines the (often miles wide) rift between ignorance and stupidity?
Fuel prices are on the rise again (because summer is here and heating is no longer a factor, can't/won't leave that money on YOUR table now can they?
Which is to point out, since fewer people are working it also means fewer are driving, [hell there isn't even the need to drive to job interviews anymore, so effective is over 50 disease!]
BUT it's one of the tools the elite use to keep YOU 'pauperized'.
Which leads us to yet another IQ test...
How many of you are 'aware' [without my telling you] that your poverty is forced upon you? That YOU can't get a job that offers you a better life because you weren't born to the 'right parents'?
[Which leads to the more disturbing question of how many of you resent your parents for not being rich?]
More perplexing, how many of you AGREE with the notion that a 'surplus population' even exists? [Two parter: If yes then are you a member of the surplus or the vital population?]
How did you arrive at your answer?
Does your head hurt thinking about these things?
Thanks for letting me inside your head, now take a couple of ibuprofen and try not to over-do it next time!
Gegner
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