I continue to be amazed by how ignorant and blind so many people are. TV says the economy is doing fine, to go spend your money, business as usual, and people so desperate to believe it, nod their heads and continue to pretend everything is peachy. There's also that most are so goddam worried that somebody is not going to like them, or might call them "negative", so that adds to an already pathetic state of affairs. Yeah, go ahead and be a chicken shit all your life, that way everybody will like you.
I've driven thousands of miles across this country over my lifetime - starting in 1973, and zig zagging to and from, till now. I watched all those little towns shut down starting around 2009, when I first got back from Peru. All these once thriving towns have since been boarded up; no businesses, no residents, nothing, gone. On my way here just a couple weeks ago, it was more of the same, these little towns remain boarded up and deserted. If the economy was doing well, wouldn't people be starting to move back out to these places?
Next, I just came from Carson City, where commercial real estate was largely empty - space after space being vacant the whole three years+ that I spent there. The downtown area of Carson is a ghost town - no matter what time of day or night. Before that it was Reno, which was once a thriving place - the past six years - another ghost town.
I spent four years up in South Lake Tahoe. The first two years, the tourism seemed to be doing very well. The second two years - noticeably less people visiting. Being smack in the middle of the tourist area, I noticed the past two years, 95% of the people were the rich, snotty types - people who would go into a fine dining restaurant, order a $30, $40 lunch, and waste most of it - and the food at this particular restaurant was out of this world. Such people with their attitude of, "I'm too good for this food, please take it away". I digress, sorry. My point is that the past two years, I saw very few people who were not of the Rich and the Ruthless. I was used to that during the ski season - mostly spoiled rich kids, but the summers - from fun people who were your everyday people the first two years(2015, 2016), to the hopelessly snobbish who try desperately to establish their superiority, dragging the overall attitude down a bunch, the second two years (2017, 2018). So, being that regular people haven't been up there the past couple of years, tells me that the media, the government, Corporate America, are lying to beat hell. No, folks, the economy is not doing well.
I keep hearing our pos media saying, "We have created thousands and thousands of jobs...". I say again, PLEASE, we do not need anybody to create jobs, we need laws to get huge corporations to get out of the way, quit monopolizing all the prime real estate, quit being able to pay off government regulatory agencies - not only to keep them off their backs, but to harass smaller business into oblivion. Small businesses were the backbone of this once great country, but since huge franchised corporations have taken over, our economy continues its massive decline. This decline in turn has destroyed families, friendships, and lives. But who cares, all the ills of the world are caused by poor people, and the Rich and the Ruthless are the answer, right, Rush, right, Sean??? Idiots.
My prediction is that this bubble we're all in at the moment will burst within the next two years, and that's on top of some other major worldwide catastrophes that are now just looking for a time and place to happen. Oh, and all caused directly by human greed.
So, goo back to sleep, you bunch of lazy, spineless dimwits, make sure everybody likes you, be like grandma, who never said a "bad" word about anybody or anything, see how that works out.
AMF.
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