A Few Sentences on the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus

Resource Consumption Acceleration

What is good for the Economy may not be good for the Earth

by Joseph_Sixpack

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Abstract:  This chapter tries to chase the dollar bills 
around that were created or generated under a fiscal 
stimulus rebate package and see what happens to them, and 
then to see just what, in fact, gets stimulated.

In short, we are tracking the squirmy, wormy, dollar bills 
as they speed around at high velocity to the different hands 
that are out to grab them.

Dollar bills have a short half life, then are burned, and 
then reincarnated into a fresh crispy green dollar bill.  
The government issues the original dollar bills on its FULL 
faith and credit status and does not issue or reissue new 
amounts of them on the basis of anticipated tax revenue.  

Our government has never fully functioned on anticipated tax 
revenue alone, and since the invention of the Fractional 
Reserve Banking System, the government just prints what it 
thinks it needs, and usually a just little to a lot more for 
pork, corruption, foreign bribes, infrastructure, bullets, 
and last but not least, a lot of WPA (whistle, piss, and 
argue) programs to keep all its citizens employed and off 
starvation to enable it to function without disruption.  
Hungry citizens are not happy citizens and the money needed 
and used for paying for jobs (employment) is just a 
bookkeeping entry anyway.

If you want to see earnest poverty and starvation in this 
country, just go back to the gold standard and see how fast 
the gold leaves the country due to our profligate spending.  
With a rapidly shrinking (gold based) money supply 
controlling the human labor market you will have more to 
fear than fear itself.  Read: Massive Monetary Deflation.

Look at it this way:  Put a cup of sand in a serving tray.  
Begin tapping the tray until the sand is pretty evenly 
distributed.  Mark one side as America, and then slightly 
tilt the tray away to one side or the other to show the 
direction of dollar outflows to the creditor nations, and 
keep tapping.

Notice how the sand all goes to the tipped down side of the 
tray.  Notice that the section of America has little sand 
left as the sand has all moved off to the other side to the 
creditor nations.

That is what will happen to all the gold based dollars of 
the country whose money supply is not illusionary or 
fractional.  The gold leaves the country, wages and prices 
become very, very, depressed because there is no more 
currency in circulation.  All the sand was 'washed' away.

It happened lots of times.  Romans!  Are you ready for coin 
clipping?

Not so with fiat money.  Countries just keep inflating until 
a country gets out of control and goes into hyper-inflation.  
Lot of books on the subject.  Lot of real economic history 
to revisit. 

In the latter instances, human labor was freed under 
fractional reserve banking, giving unmanaged human labor an 
unrestricted and a free reign to work its waste upon the 
landscape and environment.

Truly it is written:  We are a nation that is UNDER God.  
And that means that we are not along side of Him, or with 
Him.  We are below Him.  Under Him.  Beneath Him.

The government, and the government of the earth, have all 
demonstrated that they can pound 'full faith and credit' 
with gifted expertise into the ground in order to keep the 
mindless, misguided, population from screaming their heads 
off about their inabiltiy to buy a new twelve mile per 
gallon Buick.  Feeding our children and keeping them warm is 
going to be a serious challenge during the declining oil 
years.  Oil will go away and so will the asphalt.

None of us ever consider what our thoughtless consumption 
habits are doing to the world that we leave to our 
grandchildren and their grandchildren.  

But let's get back on track to examine the economic stimulus 
packages that are often presented by our "keep them from 
shouting" government.


So... Let's examine the Fiscal Stimulus Package Mr. & Mrs. America take receipt of a one time lump sum of free 'tax refund' monies from the federal government to help 'stimulate the economy'. Everybody is smiling at the new economic windfall that has occured to them, ostensibly to spend in 'stimulating the economy'. Many people, the actual percentage probably hovering around umm... say 60%, will run to Walmart or its equivalent to spend their rebate on whatever it is they want that week. I myself will run to purchase a spiffy new laptop from Best Buy. For some, a down payment on a new automobile will be the ticket, for others they will just pay down some bills. That one just changes red ink to black ink with no stimulus effect whatsoever. Who gets what? Well the sales tax of 8.25% plus or minus gets all the states some of the rebate spent on items manufactured overseas. Let's see 8.25% of 160 billion dollars if all spent at Walmart divided by an uneven 50 states purchasing of foreign goods is about 13.2 billion dollars. California would get about 1 billion, Rhode Island would get $49.50 being a tad smaller... anyhow you get the idea. Some of it even goes back to the fed Any jobs created? Sure! Walmart hires a couple of sales trainees for the minimum wage. Best Buy doesn't lay off a couple of employees for a while longer. Jobs created? Sure! in China, where all the purchased items are manufactured. My new laptop is made in China, the new car is made in Japan, and most of the gizmos from Walmart are made as well in Asia somewhere, usually China. Fiscal stimulus okay... just the wrong country. Okay, so all the rebate monies go to China. The Chinese banks have taken receipt of a lot more monies from Chinese manufacturers windfall from American purchasers, so the Chinese banks reserves have increased from sources in America spent on chinese stuff. What are the Chinese banks going to do with the money? Why they are going to purchase U.S.A. Treasury bonds or notes that are continually weakening in purchasing power as America continues to spend beyond its full faith and credit limits. Stimulate the economy? sure... I hope the people of China appreciate our purchases to keep them employed manufacturing what we no longer manufacture. The economic puddles of mud that the current economic processes create and are fed to the American public boggle the mind. But there are far deeper, darker, vaster, realities hidden beneath the surface of economic issues, and these concern the realities and the continum of God's 4th Dimensional Theoretically Perfect Justice and the alternate institution of Darknesse's invisible black holes in waiting. Economic stimulus package indeed... The Multi-National companies no longer wave any American flag, or probably any flag at all. America has been reduced in their eyes, to just a 'profit center'. We can make it here and sell it there, and f*ck the people's of the various nations involved. Patrolling all the Earth to and fro indeed... The only thing getting stimulated is the American public's asshole and the further rape of the earth by six billion people all cheering them on for additional consumption. The nice thing about democracies is that they tend to give people freedom. The bad thing about democracies is that people feel free under freedom to consume the earth. No one is taught that freedom carries with it responsibilities that include protecting the earth for our own children by disciplining our own consumptions... The multi-nationals should be throttled way the hell back and forced to into "sustainable consumption by the billions of people mode" Economic stimulus... yeah right...
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