In a little while I am going to head out and do my duty as a citizen. I am going to vote. I happen to be voting for Scott Brown's truck because if he wins, that truck will drive him to Washington. And when he gets to Washington he is going to gum up the works of a machine that has gone out of control.
Now, at the risk of more reader defections - and frankly I don't run this blog as a popularity contest, so whoever is left is the proper audience and the rest well... thanks for having hung around a while, it's been real - I am not a Democrat and I am not a Republican. I am independent and a financial survivalist because as an old friend once put it, the financial system is 'fuck baked', and I have my children (our children) to think about.
All the abstractions that people so desperately want to put their beliefs and hopes in are not real to me. Obama's change... Brown's change... none of it is real because we have NO MONEY. Got it? We manipulate interest rates and confidence, sell debt to willing suckers and keep a giant Ponzi construct going. That is our financial system and while I am fairly retarded politically, I have been watching the thing that it all comes down to, the financial system, for years. No political wonk is going to school me there.
Interacting with people during this MA senate race has been extremely dissatisfying to me because I am once again reminded that I live down a rabbit hole while the nation carries on up on the surface as if things are symmetrical, maybe just needing the right influence from one of the two major political parties.
Well, the Republicans ushered us into this mess and the Democrats amped it up on steroids. It can be argued that Clinton had sewn the seeds leading into the GWB disaster, and on and on it goes. I could give fuck all about politics and people's conventional political opinions. Most of the wonks don't know thing one about finance, the financial system or where their money even comes from.
So I am off to vote for Scott's truck. One day, I hope to vote for a bulldozer that will flatten the Fed and the treasury, paving the way for sound institutions to be built on those grounds. Think I wear a tin foil hat? I am not saying anything the honest man who used to run the US General Accounting Office did not say - on US government letterhead, no less.
After this screed, it is back where I belong... the market. With all its defects, it is the place in which we must operate in order to protect ourselves financially and perhaps even benefit from the mayhem.
