The phrase “cash and carry” was the way credit was once described. You put down a small amount of cash and “carried” the rest of the amount you paid for something as a debt. The person you bought the item from “carried” the amount you owed them as accounts receivable, in other words future income.
Well, we in the US don’t have a cash-and-carry government, do we?
Nope, we have an in-hock-up-to-the-eyeballs government. We’ve been propped up for a while now with loans and underwriting courtesy of China, Japan and Russia. I hope that isn’t news to you. If it is…then do your own research on the subject. Be prepared for some dry tedious reading interspersed with horror and anger.
Actually I started my research quite unwittingly two and a half years ago. I wanted to know who manufactured Target’s line of Simply Shabby Chic furniture, and why they’d moved from furniture made out of pieces of trees (formerly known as “wood”) to furniture made out of MDF (now known as “wood”) and the price had gone up.
Dang!
A simple search to find out something I considered of little importance, on a lazy Sunday morning, had me blind with rage before noon, and took up the rest of the week, until I decided I’d have been a much happier human being if I’d never started. So, I stopped looking.
I literally felt like I’d fallen down Alice’s rabbit hole. I was in a world of slave labor owned by Americans using Chinese fronts…or maybe I was in a world of Chinese-American partnerships…or maybe I just needed to examine a bit more closely the boring stuff I’d read about China propping up America financially.
Being an ex-hippie, bleeding heart liberal, my biggest beef was the individual (rich) Americans who were making money off of Chinese slave labor. I mean, these websites had no shame in showing pictures of the “manufacturing plants” with their appalling work conditions and dormitories, all behind high fences. They looked like the German work camps of WWII. If you haven’t read “The Arms of Krupp,” start your research there.
So, yeah, the US is filled with human beings who act like human beings, which means that a small percentage of the humans in the US are so foul that nobody in their right mind would hang out with them. But we do. We hang out with, admire, read about, elect, deify and envy people who’d squish us like bugs if we got in the way of their greed and hubris. And that’s not news, now is it?
Remember what I wrote in Obama The Cereal Killer? Well, the collective unconscious, or the international cabal of conspirators, or the Merry Prankster, or pick your own responsible party, has presented us with another person whose name conveniently reminds our sub-consciouses of something he isn’t…yet…maybe some part of us wishes he were.
As soon as our elected officials dug a deeper hole in the wallets of us and our offspring unto the umpteenth generation, a man was raised up to administer, or maybe dole out is a better description, the kazillion dollar bailout of our financial superiors.
Neel Kashkari.
Oh boy, there’s another name just ripe for the misinterpretation of our simple human minds, you know, the ones we use to live daily, but will never be able to use for pulling ourselves out of the lower economic classes and raising ourselves up to the level of brilliance necessary to figure out into which Chinese People’s Liberation Army slave labor camp we can drop our excess bucks to maximize our portfolio. Yeah, those simple minds.
Let’s see how simply we can look at the man who’s been appointed (not elected, appointed) to help “us” through the current currency crisis.
Well, first we have Neel.
Neel = kneel, something people do in church or royal courts to show respect to a higher authority, or something people do in a garden while encouraging growth.
Then we have Kashkari.
Kash = cash, currency or money which we use to exchange for things we need or want.
kari = carry, tote, move from one place to another, or (particularly to older people) to assume the burden of risk in extending credit…”carrying charges” used to be the term used to describe the interest on a loan.
Put it all together and we have, in our simple minds, a picture of someone on their knees fiddling around with money.
Feel free to speculate on other mental pictures you might have of someone on their knees doing something connected to money.
We’re still not a cash and carry country are we? We don’t put down any cash, and we don’t pay our loans. It doesn’t much matter who we have doling out the bailout money, Neel Kashkari, Bourne Richelieu, Gimmie Buckshorn, or Iman Idiot. No matter how our perceptions might be manipulated, very few Americans have incomes large enough to provide the necessary tax revenue. And the Americans who do have incomes large enough to bail out the greedy goobers…well, they’re the greedy goobers, aren’t they?
If you had started the day Jesus was born spending a million dollars a day, you’d have spent very little more than the “official” 700 billion dollars we’re being told will bail us out. The doom and gloom websites say the US bailout will actually cost us 4 trillion dollars.
We don’t have the money. We’re not going to have the money. Our great-great-grandchildren won’t have the money. Unless the next president of the US is named Icann Schitzbukz, we will never be a cash ‘n’ carry country.
If you’re interested in NLP and Obama, go here.
If You’re interested in who the People’s Liberation Army was doing business with in the US a few years back, go here courtesy of the Wayback Machine.
