Thanksgiving At McDonalds
November 25, 2010
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Before we start....there really is no such concept of "investing" in an environment where there is no rule of law......there is only speculation on who will get bailed out or handouts, and who will not.
The fact that Buffett tells us that the only reason he is not celebrating Thanksgiving at McDonalds and Berkshire didn't go bankrupt is because he got bailed out.....while millions of Americans, not so fortunate to get such a large bailout, only wish they could have a hot meal this day confirms this perspective.
Soon, my blog will change its tone.....and Alstry will go into the clouds. Everything about my blog will focus on humanity's transition from our current system to one driven by cloud based computing which will impact every aspect of our life...which I call the Digital Age.
Getting there will be VERY CONVULSIVE....as almost nothing in our current system will transition easily....but, once we get there, the world will be set on a sustainable path for generations to come...
But in the mean time.......look around.... almost everything you see will be gone......the post office and 600K postal workers.......most of the restaurants and millions of workers......most of the stores and shopping centers......schools and hospitals.......the structure of governments......what you call home........
for example...distrubution will become concentrated.....it appears Walmart is the chosen one despite Motley Fool's attempt to convince you otherwise......our carbon footprint will drop dramatically and manufacturing of "things" will be cut back dramatically....please review the OSHA regs for next year and you will see many manufacturers simply will not be able to comply.
My guess is we will soon learn some things that shock us......and almost everything we currently know will shut down and morph into something different....
For example, ALL OF THE SONIC drive-ins will be shutting down in the Tampa Area.......all of the TGI Fridays shut down in Kansas City.....and all of the McDonalds shut down in Iceland.
Much of this will intitially be driven by an Engineered Depression around the world........how is this depression being engineered? Easy, by cutting off credit to a world that was dependent on credit to spend.....
The world simply borrowed too much Counterfeit Fiat money over the past ten years and was contaminated by a terminal dose toxic loans by banks and the shadow banking system.......
Why do I call it "counterfeit?".....because under the law.....when you know or have reason to know that the borrower can't pay back a loan......the loan is considered fraudulent at the inception. Why is it fraudulent?...because it is the equivelent of counterfeiting money by creating money that can never be fully backed by satisfactory production or a reasonbable expectation for production.
When you loan just a few trillion...you have a bubble...when the number morphs into tens of trillions, and hundreds of trillions of notional value including SWAPS, and infects every aspect of every economy....you have the end of a world as we know it....
Those so inclined to do the math, knew this was coming....what is unclear is who will be saved and who will not.....
Ireland is the perfect example....while borrowing, it was the Celtic Tiger.....once it was cut off of credit, its economy imploded and now its deficit is about 30% of GDP....10X the EU maximum. As Ireland is forced to make even more cuts.......its economy will contract even further and more and more of its economy will shut down......
Right now half of our economy is government spending factoring ALL levels of government. That spending drives a massive percentage of our private economy. If our government was forced to cut back spending.......our economy would collapse into a massive depression almost immediately.
This process is Zombulation and its outcome is 100% certain based on current government policies....
but my guess is as Zombulation gets too painful.....and the citizens revolt and start to turn against their governments.....War will be the only choice governments have to maintain order among their populations....
in war, you work for free, are willing to make massive sacrifices, and are willing to give up EVERYTHING you have.....
if you think about it, it is the perfect segway to bring us into the Digital Age. It will focus the population away from their own personal distress, it can provide a quick way to demolish much of the non functional Industrial Age infastructure.....and any issues we may have with overpopulation can quickly be resolved.....
When money is nothing more than paper being counterfeited by governments around the world.....and depressions are being engineered by offering credit/bailouts to only a limited chosen few......while the Industrial Age is shutting down all around you this Thanksgiving Day.....may I make this suggestion......
Run Turkey....Run
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