After much contemplation and mind-changing, I'm fully in the depths of the process of obtaining a visa for Saudi Arabia to take a job teaching university students. I'll be in the States for a few weeks more while the kinks get worked out and pieces are put together, and should hopefully be on my at the end of the month.
If you're in the US and want to hang out before I go, please submit a notarized copy of your birth certificate along with a copy of your passport, signed and with a raised seal from the Secretary of State of your state, a recent VD test result, a letter of intent as to why you would like to hang out, a money order for $16.22 and a self addressed stamp envelope, express USPS mail only, to me. Thank you.
The federal reserve has been in contact with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe to request assistance in devaluing the US dollar. With national debt levels soaring, the fed aims to inflate it's way out of debt, leaving China, Saudi Arabia, and US citizens with piles of greenish paper with pictures of dead guys. Mugabe's success in beating money into submission is well documented. The Zimbabwean dollar, known throughout Zimbabwe as 'fucking shit', is currently experiencing inflation rates of 13 quadrillion percent (13000000000000000%). On Mugabe's advice, the fed reduced it's target interest rate to 0%, and purchased a quadrillion more printing presses.
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been hired by the McCain campaign to assist in bringing American hearts and minds to the Republican candidate. The African leader "has been remarkably successful at winning elections in the face of public opposition" said a McCain staffer who declined to be named. Fox News analyst Karl Rove praised the move saying "If I was running, he would be the first one on my campaign team". Although Mugabe has been criticized in the past for his unorthodox campaigning techniques, "he knows how to get the job done" said Rove. Mugabe staffer hard at work
I get most of my news from the internet these days which has the virtue of being unmitigated by large corporations with a mind-controlling agenda. Just in case anyone who reads this blog didn't see this exemplary answer to a question from Katie Couric about the government bailout from hockey mom Sarah Palin, here it is:
Wha wha whaaaaaaat?!?!? Folks, this is scary. I don't know whether to go into a laughing fit, or cry. Just for fun, let's compare that with Ms. South Carolina:
Let the silence be broken. This blog officially supports Barack Obama in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The kind of intelligence and sincerity in his speech on race is impossible to fake. After eight years of systematic degradation to our country's well-being and reputation, we need a leader who can speak intelligently, act responsibly, think analytically and make wise decisions.
I'm back in the States for a quick stopover - just in time, it seems, to watch the country's economy plummet into complete chaos. Fortunately, Mr. GW Bush was on the scene today to reassure the public that "In the long run, our economy is going to be fine". Fox News reports that Mr. Bush also said he was "on top of the situation". Let's have a quick look at today's announcements:
Whew! I was worried for a second that the federal reserve had lost control of the financial system and was furiously printing dollars in order to bail out banks, thereby further diluting the value of the already pathetic dollar... oh wait, that's exactly what's happened, and from all signs will continue to happen. In effect, you, me, and everyone else who holds dollars is subsidizing the stupidity and greed of the financial institutions that allowed this to happen.
The principles are fairly easy to understand. The more money you print, the more there is in circulation, the more money in circulation, the less each dollar is actually worth. That's inflation. There are examples throughout history, like the Weimar Republic in 1930's Germany, the 1970s in this country, the list goes on. The federal reserve is panicking, throwing money around, and wreaking havoc on the poor little dollar. This will certainly not turn around tomorrow, nor probably this year or next.
Considering I have no money I'm not in the most authoritative position to be giving financial advice to those who do, but well this is my blog so I'm gonna do it any damn way (and there are plenty of financial experts behind me. Get rid of your dollars. Buy Gold. Do it now. Yeah, I hear you say, but gold is freakin' expensive right now. What if I shell out a thousand bucks for a gold coin, and tomorrow the dollar recovers and gold drops back down to reality? Well friend, you can be damn sure that's not gonna happen, what with the fed's printing presses coughing up greenbacks like, quite literally, there's no tomorrow.
But wait, what about that economic stimulus package that was signed into law? Won't that give the tired ol' economy a shot in the arm? I heard the IRS was going to send out checks for $600 in May! Aside from the obvious question of where the hell is this $140 billion coming from, considering the current account deficit, May is an awfully long time from now. That was clearly an election year political maneuver aimed at elating the very short-sighted, like a $2000 hand-job charged to a credit card.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Let's face it: economies have ups and and downs. They are cyclical. You can't have a booming, growing economy now and forever after. That's just not the way economies, or anything, really, works. The U.S. has been consuming far more than it produces, and far more than it's share of the world's resources for some time, and it looks as though that time is coming to an end. Accept it. Let a few weak and stupid banks fall. Today it's Bear Stearns, tomorrow there will be another. What kind of message does it send to private banks if they can be assured that the government will throw away everything to save them when their risky investments lead to disaster?
Swallow the medicine: have a recession. Let unemployment rise. Let consumer spending fall. There is no way to avoid it, but there is a hell of a lot of harm to be done by staying in denial about it. Hey, maybe when gas costs $6 a gallon like in most of the rest of the world Americans will have second thoughts about buying that bad-boy SUV and opt for a Prius.... or a bike?
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