INTEREST RATES: DEADLY SERIOUS GAME
As promised a couple of comments ago, I want to address the issue of interest rates and a couple of other matters (I might do in additional post so this one won't be huge).
INTEREST RATES
Beginning with interest rates, the Federal Reserve is lowering rates. It is doing that in coordination with the other major central banks in the world. This is to make renting money less expensive. It is to make renting money alluring, tempting, etc. The idea is to re-prime the pump. The idea is to stimulate the circulation of money. There are other ways to do it, historically proven ways so far being avoided. The money-changers wanted to get as much free money from the people's so-called representatives as possible before the people gained too much momentum in stopping the wasteful and fraudulent bailout.
NEW DEAL: PUBLIC WORKS
What other ways are there to prime the pump? The New Deal showed plenty. Spend on public works. Have the public sector hire and pay people to do public works. That means the people (the government) hires the people. The people hire each other. They hire themselves to build things in which they all share equal ownership. Public works are collectively owned. The U.S. super highway system is an example.
The government, the people, all own those roads. Through their representatives (at least this is how it is supposed to work as far as the people are told), the people make the rules concerning those roads. Driving down them is free, per se. There are costs associated with driving on them of course. There are no tolls, per se, however.
PRIVATIZERS
The privatizers want to change all that though. They want to make a profit by excluding the poor from being able to drive down the public roads that those privatizers want to make private, of course. It's a terrible idea. It's an evil idea. It's a selfish idea. It will not make the roads better or cheaper in general. I guarantee that's the truth.
PUBLIC WORKS WITH PRIVATE CONTRACTORS
Now, the government can also contract for the public works with private contractors who hire the unemployed to do the work. That was done during the New Deal in many cases. The government though was an employer where the private sector couldn't hire up enough workers. Frankly, we need full employment, and that's where interest rates come in here.
FULL EMPLOYMENT AND INFLATION TRICKS
When everyone is working, workers have more say over how much they are paid. They are more valuable in the mundane, capitalistic sense. Employers supposedly can't afford to be without them or to have a hole that is more expensive to fill where the potential employee may demand more before agreeing to work. He or she will just go elsewhere since there are other job openings.
By raising interest rates and making business contract, workers are laid off. The pressure on wages and salaries goes down. The rich are then in a more powerful position to demand more work for less and less pay.
When more workers have jobs, wages usually go up. Employers raise prices to cover the cost of higher wages. More people have more money to buy more things and manufacturing things usually lags demand. Hence, prices of goods and services go up for that reason too. That's inflation.
PRINTING MORE MONEY
Another way inflation occurs is by printing more money than needed or more money than productivity suggests would keep prices stable. That second thing is what is happening right now as unemployment is also increasing.
THE FALL WILL CONTINUE
The dollar is going to keep falling on account of it and for other reasons as well. Prices are going to continue rising. People are going to continue losing jobs. More unemployed people are going to be chasing fewer and fewer jobs and be willing to work for less and less just to eat. The ultra-rich will be slavishly served, just the way they want it. People will be willing to suffer all sorts of indignities to eat, just the way the superrich want it.
THE CYCLE WILL BE REVERSED
This won't last though. Some prices will go down as demand falls but supply and inventories remain relatively high. Oil is a prime example. It is always one of the first indicators of how things are about to go over the subsequent few years (yes, it can take years). Historically, if you watch oil and construction you can read the signs of the economic times. That has to change though due to global warming. The oil rich hate this.
Now, all the rate cutting will slowly attract the timid and fearful back into the economy. They will find it difficult, because the economy will still be sluggish, as planned, as foreseen, as milked.
INTEREST RATES WILL BE RAISED: THE BANKERS GET RICHER
The economy will start to heat up. When employment numbers rise, the interest rates will be jacked up to slow wages. The bankers will reap the profits. Those who planned it all, their families (oligarchs, plutocrats), who consolidated more during their planned-and-caused downturn, will be that much richer relative to everyone else, they think.
UNNATURAL ECONOMIC CYCLE: CONTROLLED BOOMS AND BUSTS: EVIL
This is no natural business or economic cycle we're going through. It's a planned happening. It's the imperialist, banker chess masters cleaning out the competition that they set up for the kill in the first place. Trust me. That's the mentality.
CONSPIRACY: MEGALOMANIACS
It doesn't take many at the so-called top to be that way to have caused all of this to happen. It doesn't matter that billions below think it isn't possible that anyone can or does conspire on that level. When it comes to the Alexander the Great syndrome, there are people who will assert their will over others no matter the expense to the general welfare or well-being of all the others on the planet. It's competition, and the biggest ego (megalomaniac) wins (loses if you believe Jesus, as I do).
Stop falling for the idea that those at the top of the money pyramid are sentimental about the common people to the degree that they will forego wealth, power, and control for the sakes of those common folk. One just doesn't get to the top of the current worldly system by being a good person. It doesn't happen. It can't happen. The rules don't allow for it. The Machiavellians made the rules. The only way to "win" is to join them or change the system. It's the changing the system part that scares them to death, literally.
Are those people devoid of humanity? It depends upon how you view it. From Jesus's perspective, they don't know him and he doesn't know them. They live and feel in a different universe even while Jesus does acknowledge their pain and suffering and takes no joy in it but rather takes joy in the relief of the righteous downtrodden.
It isn't Jesus's fault that the unrighteous are unrighteous and get what they set up in their ignorance that they falsely imagine is clever.
CHRISTIAN COMMONS PROJECT
The right system is the Christian Commons Project™. It is a step in the progression toward the conflation of Heaven and Earth, both New. It is not the wrong direction. We can move through it to the level of faith shown by the feeding of the five thousand and beyond, as Jesus said.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.