We're Rebelling

America is like an amusement park where the rides are in motion but all the seats are empty. It's the house where all the lights are on but nobody's home. It's like the jeweler's table on which all the wheels, gears, cogs and springs of the watch lie disassembled.

It's not because there's no money. We could all pretend that there is - like our government does - and proceed as usual. No, it's not a lack of money that has brought everything to a standstill. It's the American people having decided, they will no longer participate in this scam that knots the government, the Fed and the banks in opposition against them. They’re sitting on their hands, scaling back, spending only on the bare necessities. In some cases they've decided not to work, or do only the bare minimum; certainly giving no thought to expanding their businesses - to risk anything in this uncertain economic climate.

Whether we know it or not, we're rebelling; we're attempting to deprive our government of oxygen. We’re instinctively curtailing our natural instincts with respect to economic activity: first, because we’re no longer sure that the possibility still exists to reap benefit from taking a serendipitous calculated risk; second, we vehemently oppose what we perceive our government is intending on a broad range of issues, and we want it to fail.

We no longer see ourselves as working in consort with our government. Instead, we’ve come to view government as a cancer that is threatening to put us all under. It’s become impossible to carry on as if nothing were wrong.

Nothing our government says can be believed. In fact, the very opposite is likely true of anything our government may venture on any subject. So, if they say, ‘go out and spend,’ we should probably lay low and save our money. If they should say, ‘invest,’ we would know that we’ve already been there, done that. If they should demand that we get flu shots, better to refuse because we’re not scientists or medical professionals and we don’t know what’s in those needles.

For most of us, our politicians have torn up their ‘trust’ cards by the many lies they’ve told over the years. They’ve made too many promises; issued too many threats – all of which we’ve fallen for. (Fool me once…) Well, it’s over now. We’re finally wide awake. We can see what’s coming. No need to help it along by pretending that everything is just peachy.

This is not the ‘change’ we voted for - for our kids to inherit a third world nation racked by brutality and insatiable need – just so that a handful of Washington elites can jet off to Copenhagen or Paris on a whim. Which NGO will come to our rescue with tents and rations after we’ve been driven from our homes and into open-air barbwire camps? We’ve got to join hands now, save what we can and hold them back; keep asking for three more cards (‘till our odds improve); sit on our hands; strangle the life out of them by playing dead, and doing nothing that would continue to feed their blatant disregard of us.