monitoring the abyss

You know, I think the "business suit" may soon be a thing of the past.

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Goldman Sachs puts its people in government.

Goldman Sachs people in government give AIG truckoads of money.

AIG gives some of those truckloads of money (2.6 billion or so) to Goldman Sachs.

AIG also gives some truckloads of money to foreign banks, like France's "Societe Generale" and "Deutchebank". To the tune of $6 billion or so.

American workers are pretty stupid. They are perfectly willing to work at minimum wage jobs in order to provide lifestyles for the rich and famous. But, right now they don't have any jobs. That makes it rather difficult to support the rich & famous and they are not too happy about having to put it on mastercard and visa at 30% interest. Stupid, yes, but the monthly credit card bill they understand, especially as the collection agent keeps calling to remind them the payment is overdue.

In addition, the lack of jobs gives them a lot of time to sit around and think about how stupid they are.

As they say, idle minds are the devil's playground.

The executives at AIG want to make certain American workers understand that they are stupid wage slaves. Or, stupid unemployed wage slaves, as the case may be. It's not sufficient that they merely BE wage slaves, they must UNDERSTAND the true depth of their humiliation.

That is, AIG executives do not want any misunderstandings, such as wage slaves imagining they are real people just like AIG executives. It's important the wage slaves know their place in life; that they are completely and totally impotent. After all, wage slaves do their work flawlessly, show up to work punctually, don't miss any workdays. For this effort, they lose their jobs, lose their pensions, can't afford health care and are forced into bankruptcy.

AIG Executives, on the other hand, spend their time at three-martini lunches, do not do any actual work and drive their company deep into insolvency. Oh, yes, they manage to simultaneously destroy the world economy. Not only do the keep their jobs, they receive multi-million dollar bonuses and also have pretty decent health care plans -- all of this paid for by their very own 300,000,000 personal wage slaves. None of whom get any actual representation in government, by the way ... there is only room for members of the actual financial industry.

Are we understanding how this works yet? It's time to ask, which terrorist organization has done the US public more harm -- Al Qaida or AIG (and its cronies)? Oh, wait -- look! Over there! A Flock of Flying Turtles!!!

Or, "Girls in Bikinis! On Spring Break in Cancun! Soon to be killed by Mexican Drug Lords!" What's the difference. Either way, you've been properly distracted, haven't you?

Of course actual logic tells us one would only get a multi-million dollar bonus for destroying the entire world's economy if destroying the entire world's economy were the actual corporate objective. Hmmm.

Could it be that for the mega-wealthy, creating and bursting financial bubbles is a VERY lucrative enterprise? Could it be that getting the US government to send truckloads of free money, compliments of unemployed US workers, is an outstanding business coup? (I would say. Here! Have some millions as a bonus for a job well-done! I could never have done that ...)

Most people still don't understand that Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford and the like are not an aberration. They are merely members of the theftocracy who felt it would be far easier and operationally more profitable to do away with the messy paperwork normally used to make Wall Street operations look like actual businesses.

Now, about those business suits. In days of yore, the theftocracy wore lace, brocades and powdered wigs. But, those costumes have not been in vogue for some time. After all, it's a bit difficult to ply a criminal trade when you wear a uniform that makes you so easy to spot.

So, a coat and tie became de rigeur. "We're just ordinary guys, like you! Nothing to see here!" declared the new costume.

It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict the business suit, the symbolic costume of the present-day theftocracy, will soon go the way of lace and powdered wigs. Wearing over-sized t-shirts and saggy pants is going to take some getting used to. But hey, I can read the handwriting on the wall -- can't you?

Why? Well, I suspect many of the people with pitchforks and torches are giving serious thought to the unbalanced nature of a legal system that puts a guy in jail for stealing $50 from 7-11 -- and "mandates" that criminally insane executives at a corporation on the public dole receive multi-million dollar bonuses.

Are you kidding me???

If government lawyers couldn't write agreements and regulations for the bailouts that prevented such a thing, they should have their law licenses revoked. They're either incompetent or crooks.

And if you ask me, the entire system that made this all possible is looking at a very serious fall from grace.