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The Rich are Enslaving the Rest of Us |
Edict Date: 02-18-2012
The national debt in the United States at this time is an artificial construct that creates an ownership class and a debtor class which artificially owes a great debt to the super rich. This relationship creates a form of debt driven slavery where the ownership class controls the slave class with debt. In the case of the United States at this time the debt is an artificial construct that is created by and imbalanced taxation system that favors the ownership class.
In 2000 the ownership class that controls the Supreme Court appointed President Bush who in turn managed to pass a series of huge tax cuts for the ownership class. This imbalance in taxation allows those at the top to pay a far lower percentage of tax than that of the working class, especially when you take income and payroll taxes together. This led to the reversal of the surplus left by the Clinton administration into a huge deficit.
The artificial imposition of debt is a form of slavery that we must not allow.
It of course wasn't just tax cuts for the rich that fueled the deficit. We had an incompetent president, two wars, and lots of bad policy that just wasted trillions of dollars. But because the ownership class got the huge tax cuts, they were able to use their money to extend their control over government and the infrastructures of society giving them stronger control.
So instead of getting tax revenue form the super rich we are now borrowing money from them. The government still gets their money either way. But when we get it in the form of a loan rather than a tax it creates and artificial debt that the slave class is obligated to pay back. So instead of balancing the budget we load the country up with artificial debt, and that debt creates the mechanism that allows the ownership class to enslave the rest of us and force us to give up our assets to pay off this debt that was artificially created.
In the period before the financial collapse of 2008 the ownership class was draining the wealth of this nation through artificial economic constructs credit default swap derivatives. Banks loaned money to people who they knew couldn't pay back the loans and because money was being handed out without controls real estate values soared to 2.5 times their normal value. Thus for families who wanted to buy a home to actually live in, they had to pay 2.5 times as much as they should have. That excess money went directly into the pockets of the ownership class.
Additionally the ownership class used their excess money to buy commodity futures like food and gasoline artificially inflating those prices. In 2008 $2.50 of the cost of every gallon of gas went to the ownership class. We now know this because in 2008 when all the investment banks failed the price of gasoline dropped $2.50 a gallon within weeks. All of a sudden the average person driving to work got to buy gas for what it was really worth.
The 2008 collapse also brought housing back down to what it was really worth. Within a few months the price of homes dropped 60% to the levels we see today. All of a sudden those who had no chance of owning a home all of a sudden could buy one. That is if you were lucky enough to be able to get the credit to borrow the money.
The 2008 collapse however resulted in another huge transfer of wealth to the ownership class. That's when the bailouts occurred which resulted in the bailouts. We handed out trillions of dollars to cover the investments of the ownership class to keep the banking system from failing. The excesses of the Bush administration nearly brought the world economy to a state of total collapse. In the panic to recover we passed out trillion, just gave it away, and added that to the public debt that the rest of us all have to pay. The ownership class tightened it's grip on the slave class. We borrowed from the rich to give money to the rich and now we have to pay the rich back for the money we borrowed - plus interest.
Then in 2010 the Supreme Court in their infamous "Citizens United" decision changed the principle of one person one vote to one dollar one vote. This has changed the political structure giving the ownership class control of the elections. They control the government - they spend it into debt - and then they foreclose on our freedoms creating an artificial construct where we owe them and they control the terms of the debt demanding we give up our freedoms.
One person one vote has now become one dollar one vote.
Gas and food prices are rising again due to commodities speculation. They can borrow money from the Federal Reserve at 0% interest to fund these investments, and we taxpayers have to pay interest on this money to fund them. The poor are paying welfare to the rich.
You may be asking - what does this have to do with the Church of Reality. The simple answer is - everything. This is a critical time in the evolution of humanity and we have to ensure that we protect our future. Slavery is the wrong solution for the evolution of the human race.
The Church of Reality starts with the Root Axiom that our continued existence is important. That through us the universe contemplates its own existence. We are reality becoming aware of itself. We have to continue to Evolve Forward, to increase our understanding of reality, and continue to exist so that we don't find ourselves Out of the Game.
To that end we Realists need to protect the structure of society itself so that we all evolve forward and that we not only continue to exist - but we thrive. In order to do that we have to make corrections in the structure of society to makes sure we don't end up on the Path of Destitution and Destruction.
A Better Way Forward
The Church of Reality opposes the direction towards an ownership/slave class society but rather one that is economically fair and competitive and has a safety net so that we can bring as many people on board and into a productive role as possible. A fair stable society allows humanity to have more Telescope Time to explore the universe and better understand reality to evolve forward.
We can not allow humanity to evolve into a slavery based society.
Although perhaps some day a society without money would be best, in the short term we need a balance between incentives where individuals get wealthy buy creating systems of value to society (capitalism), and providing opportunity and security for the masses (socialism). This structure is actually better for the wealthy because our total wealth is not a zero sum game. When we allow more people to be creative and work together for the whole we grow the total wealth of society through invention. Happy people who live in a sane stable society do better than slaves and there's more to go around.
We realist need to work to make this a better world and make sure we stay on track. We therefore have to do whatever we can to stop a small group of super wealthy individuals from ruling the planet. The first step is to spread this information and to unite the people of the world to commit to a fair society that we all can participate in. We have to come together to stop the meme and to not accept this artificial debt and take the financial infrastructure back and put it under the control of the people.
I ask all to link to this documents and to rise up and resist slavery.
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