May 2020 – Public Voter

Spy Web

I had mentioned the need for a citizen’s network in the ‘remote voting’ post. This post shows how the government provides their spies with something similar.

Facebook for spies, with functionality like google, youtube, and twitter, is what the government should be providing to all citizens as a public utility.

I’m not going to take the time to impugn the spies today, but I will point out that their historical failures are self evident and their continued purpose is highly dubious at best.

On the other hand, citizens have a constitutionally guaranteed right to an adequate voting system. Spies do not.

The government does not fear the cost of the system, they fear the result of the system. That’s why it’s resisted, for the public.

When an organization like a political party controls the government, that’s not a democracy. That’s an organization that controls the government.

A democracy creates an organization that becomes the government. That’s different than an organization that competes for control of the government.

Political parties are private organizations that compete for control of the government. That is not compatible with constitutional intent. That is not a democracy.

The political parties are inherently divisive. They also create divisive policies, like providing spies with a fancy digital interface to spy on the public while depriving the public of a credible democratic process.

The spies congregate on their secret “spy web” and coordinate campaigns to manipulate public opinion.

Counters are twisted and bots and shills skew the numbers to make it look like the minority opinion is the majority, when it’s not.

Don’t you agree?

Whoever is against voting, raise your hand.

The president, it’s reported, is about to sign an executive order in an attempt to make social media companies liable for the content of their users. He says they have a monopoly. Others say they fact-checked one of his lies and called him out on it. So now it’s payback time. Both comments are obviously true.

The president is lying and the big tech companies are monopolies. It’s all true. Trump is always ready to insult a limb of the corrupt system to play pretend hero for the public. The president is attacking big tech to distract from their allegiance to the scam. They need each other. They are each other. There’s nothing benevolent happening here, so let’s move along, away from their narrative and back to mine.

It’s an absurd tightrope of self-serving deception the establishment must walk in order to deprive the public of a social media utility. As if the mere mention of the word capitalism justifies their decision.

Investing, speculating, and extracting, it is our economic philosophy, they dont say, while mailing you a ballot.

The government must now print money because its revenues have been wiped out, in large part, due to the digital revolution and the social media monopolies, who pay their taxes to shareholders instead of the public.

The result is what is happening now. The government is broke and your allegiance is to the money that’s invested in a government sanctioned global tax extraction scam. Your retirement depends on the perpetuation of that scam, regardless of what flag you fly.

Giant global social media monopolies will be ‘forced’ to “fact check” free speech because the government refuses to provide a citizen’s network to the public that is honest and verifiable. The result will be conflict and confusion because our system is based on competition. If it was based on cooperation and credibility we would already have a citizens network.

The idea of putting your personal electronic history on a private platform instead of a taxpayer funded citizens network is ridiculous. That’s what we have now and it’s a problem, in so many ways.

The solution to the social media problem is not censorship or to limit free speech. The solution is to provide an official government forum for debate and consensus where the truth becomes self evident and dissent is noted and accessible to anybody and everybody who wants to search the database. A citizens netwok would provide to ourselves and our posterity a permanent record of our progress as a people and a country, as citizens, not subscribers. We are citizens, not subscribers.

We deserve a citizen interface.

Printing Money

The most important takeaway from this piece, Printing Money, and the last piece, Illiquid Assets, is that they demonstrate the language being used to describe what is being done is an obfuscation.

Alternative words are used to confuse people from what’s actually happening. A good example is calling bad debt an illiquid asset, or saying stimulus, instead of taxpayer money. It’s lizard language.

Human Language;

“We need taxpayer money to buy our bad debt”.

Lizard Language;

“We need stimulus to unfreeze our illiquid assets”.

See how that works? It’s no big deal in lizard language. Sure, take some stimulus. Why not? You just need a little oil to grease up your assets.

But in human language you would say no way. The taxpayers are not going to buy your bad debt. That’s a perfect example of moral hazard being normalized. You need to fix your business model.

Notice the first thing the lizard says, (no offense, Henry) is that the Fed has to take extraordinary action to protect the economy. As if counterfeiting• is our heroic saviour, and only hope. Wrong!

The lizard was asked to explain simply, “Why are the markets going up on such bad economic news?” But he obfuscated, as lizards do, and was corrected with the term, “printing money”.

The lizard then praises the decision as the only choice. Professionally paid corporate lizards never mention the public interest choice. I’ll do that right here: Tax Billionaires!

The choice is to either print the money or tax massive profits properly. I say tax big money big time. It would be about time. It’s long overdue.

The Lizard says, “Another benefit of the Fed buying corporate junk bonds is that it gives investors confidence the market will rebound.”

Really? Ya think? Their previously profitable investments, now gone bad, get bailed out so investors can be confident enough to keep reinvesting in them until they go bad again and need another bailout, which is inevitable because that’s how it works.

This is the tax extraction scam that keeps the public broke. The business model is a political choice that needs to be corrected. It must be corrected, by law, to remedy the national demise.

A representative government would regulate its entire financial industry for economic balance, ethical compliance, and the common good.

Market gains are supposed to be based on economic growth. They are not supposed to be determined by people’s need for them. That’s not a market at all. That’s a scam.

The lizard goes on to say “Markets could be wrong”.

As if we can’t be sure how much money it will take to stabilize investor confidence in ‘The Market’. Is this stimulus for the current scam or the last scam? We don’t know! We might need to dump endless amounts of stimulus into the markets to keep investors confident, that their money will continue to be prosperous for them, in the tax extraction scam.

The markets are themselves now a business model nearly independent of economic performance. They are selling the dream of getting rich by investing in taxpayer bailouts. And it’s working.

Private investors profit from public debt. They don’t suffer from inflation because of their own economic growth. Investors are insulated from inflation and public debt. The uninvested taxpayer is not.

Inflation and public debt increase inequality.

The lizard correctly admits people won’t have enough money to support themselves, or the economy, without assistance. He assumes printing money is our best defense, which sanctions the entire extraction scam. So he’s not only wrong, the lizard is lying. He knows better.

The inflation problem is not that there’s too much money chasing too few goods, as the lizard said, ironically contradicting his own previous comment that people won’t have enough money. The problem is that those making the money aren’t chasing the goods. They are investing it back into the scam for more profits. That’s the problem.

The money is extracted from the economy and deposited into the scam, whose profits are then reinvested into the scam for more profits, instead of being spent into the economy, on people.

The reason the Fed has to perpetually print emergency money is because the government condones market profiteering retroactively insured by the taxpayers.

The public doesn’t have any money, only credit, because of the scam. That’s why investors prefer printing money. They don’t want to tax themselves and their ill-gotten gains. Gains they got from the scam.

• Note: The use of the word counterfeit is intentionally inflammatory, yet arguably accurate.

Illiquid Assets

“Our Illiquid Assets are freezing credit,” they say. “Nobody can get a loan, money just won’t move. We need more stimulus!”

When the corporate lizards say they have illiquid assets, that are freezing credit, what they really mean is they spent the money on themselves and it’s game over unless the public buys their debt with taxpayer money. They call that free money, “stimulus”.

They made a fortune “investing” but will lose it unless the public buys their “bad assets”. That’s how it works, by failing. It works for the investors but it fails for the taxpayers, every bailout.

The bad assets come in both illiquid and junk, but in the end it’s all the same. It’s a taxpayer extraction scam legislated as legal.

The taxpayer retroactively pays for the overcompensated corporate establishment lifestyle. The “system” then declares itself a success while it continues to fail in a “cycle” of over-leveraged credit and politically approved bailouts.

The corporate lizards say some funny things. Illiquid Asset is my personal favorite. The language describes an asset nobody wants.

The lizards call it an asset because it sounds like a better deal than a tax extraction scam, but it’s not. It’s the same thing.

Illiquid Assets are the byproduct of the extraction scam. The taxpayers are buying corporate lizard prosperity, called illiquid assets, or some similar linguistical derivitave intended to obfuscate the truth from the taxpaying public about what it is that they are actually buying.