The title of this post was inspired by the frustrating conversations I have had with friends and acquaintances on the subjects of politics, energy and the economy. Normally, I keep my BIG TRAP SHUT. As one gets older (and supposedly wiser), you realize that people don’t change. Conservatives will more than likely die as conservatives. The majority of Liberals will also take their liberal philosophy to the grave. Furthermore, those who practice one of the organized flavors of religion will probably be buried by that same variety of church they were lifetime members.
People have been slowly programmed over their lifetime to believe and behave a certain way. Trying to convince someone their ideology is invalid is trying to input software that is not recognized by their own programming. Basically… it spits out the data and does not allow it to compute. A few paragraphs or a page of information is not going to change millions of pages of programming in a person’s mind.
That being said: every once in a great while, even I can’t help myself from following my own wisdom. The majority of conversations I have with friends and local acquaintances are based upon SUPERFICIAL SMALL TALK. Lately though, the conversations have moved to subjects of politics and the economy. I gather the overall situation in the country and the world is become so GRIM, that the public is starting to catch wind.
I was at a local coffee house when one of my acquaintances started to talk to me about Obama and how he was screwing up everything. I live in a very conservative state located in the southwest. One of the pastimes of many of the folks here is to listen to TALK RADIO starting with Glenn Beck, then Rush Limbaugh and finishing up the jam-packed extravaganza with Sean Hannity. After 7-8 hours back to back of this sort of programming, these folks really believe they got the SKINNY on everything they need to know.
It does take a lot of will-power to keep my mouth shut, but this morning this fella starting to go off about all these things I gather he heard on one of those fine upstanding radio talk shows about Obama. Let me clarify my position before going further. I am AGNOSTIC when it comes to politics. I don’t belong to any parties or ideologies. However, I do believe both parties are completely FOS (full of sheet).
This gentlemen was going off about how Obama’s lousy Secret Service men were caught fooling around with some prostitute and how the Obama Health Care Plan was passed and now the USA was nothing more than a SOCIALIST COUNTRY. It was then (out of severe frustration) I took a pen and put a dot on a piece of paper. I said that Dot was the Secret Service Men. I then made another dot next to the first dot and said that was Obama Health Care. I went on a roll and placed dozens of other dots giving each one a label of meaningless subject matter. I then took the pen and drew a huge eight foot imaginary circle around the dots and said this is:
“THOSE DOTS ARE ZITS ON AN ELEPHANTS ARSE…… Why on earth are you concerned about ZITS when you should be worried that the ELEPHANT is getting ready to sit and crush the life out of you?”
I told him the whole Wall Street controlled US Govt… Fiat Money… Derivatives Monster… Peak Oil… Massive Debts were all wrapped up as one big fat elephant ass. I asked him if the elephant was ready to come down on you, why would you be concerned about the ZITS ON THE ELEPHANTS ARSE
He looked at me sort of puzzled. Furthermore, I must have spoken with a little passion as several other people had overheard my diatribe and were looking at me kind of funny. There was one individual who looked me and said, “You’re not one of those DOOM & GLOOMERS are you?” I looked back and responded by saying, “If I had a choice, I’d rather be a well prepared Doom & Gloomer than a flattened pancake that waited until the last minute.” I did hear someone laugh, but I decided to finish my tea and make my exit.
As I drove home, I realized this term would become my new response… whether or not the individual knew what I was talking about or not. It would be my inside joke. When I later told my wife, we both had a good laugh.
THE ELEPHANT’S BACKSIDE NEEDS TO BE CONSTANTLY MANIPULATED
The strategy by the folks in charge of the pulling the strings in the GOVT & ECONOMY is to keep the public on focusing on the supposed nasty ZITS, while manipulating the elephant’s bum on a constant basis. If we look at the chart below, we can see how successful this strategy has been when we consider the seemingly magical elevation of the U.S. Retirement Market while at the same time economic indicators disintegrate:
In the third quarter of 2011, the U.S Retirement Market stood at $17 trillion. Within only a half a year, the total U.S. Retirement Market increased 11.1% to $18.9 trillion. This was a wonderful accomplishment by the folks working the dials at the PPT – Plunge Protection Team. However, not all the dials were turned higher. If we look at the following GOLD & SILVER price changes from the same time period:
SILVER AVERAGE PRICE Q3 2011 = $38.79
SILVER AVERAGE PRICE Q1 2012 = $32.62
CHANGE IN PRICE = -16%
NET CHANGE COMPARED TO US RETIRMENT MARKET = -27%
GOLD AVERAGE PRICE Q3 2011 = $1700.17
GOLD AVERAGE PRICE Q1 2012 = $1690.84
CHANGE IN PRICE = -0.5%
NET CHANGE COMPARED TO US RETIREMENT MARKET = -16.5%
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We can see that the PPT’s FLOW OF FUNDS found its way into the U.S. Retirement market while the precious metals declined in net value in comparison.
Fortunately for the precious metals investors, the strategy of keeping the public focused on the superficial blemishes is starting to show cracks as further cases of fraud such as the PFG bankruptcy and the manipulation of the LIBOR become household words. Those who think this will be 2008 all over again fail to comprehend that ALL ASSET CLASSES declined at that time. Here we can see that there is an orchestrated effort to keep the public happy by inflating Retirement Accounts while deflating commodities and precious metals.
Furthermore, if we add up all the FAT on the elephants bum we can see that there is a great deal of DEBT masquerading as WEALTH. If we look at the next graphic, we can see that the total OUTSTANDING US TREASURIES are over $11 trillion:
Lets do some numbers:
TOTAL U.S. RETIREMENT MARKET = $18.9 Trillion
TOTAL OUTSTANDING US TREASURIES = $11.04 Trillion
TOTAL PAPER PONZI = $30 Trillion
Here is my chart from my article THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN SILVER showing just how lopsided the Paper Ponzi Wealth is compared to precious metals:
As you can see this chart shows the US Retirement Market back when I wrote the article at only $17 trillion. Just look how precious metals compares to US Retirement market. Now, add the total US TREASURY’s outstanding… and you can see oh what a bloody mess we have on our hands.
So… anytime anyone starts to talk about nonsense issues, you can blurt out “ZITS ON AN ELEPHANTS ARSE”.
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You do great work Steve; Glad your on our side!
“When through the process
of law the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and
more easily governed through the strong arm of government applied by a central
power of wealth under leading financiers. These truths are well known among our
principal men who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world.
By dividing the voter through the political party system we can get them to
expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. It is thus by
discreet action we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned
and so successfully accomplished.” – 1924 US Banker’s Association Magazine
Government is thus an elaborately staged Punch and Judy Puppet Show. The extravaganza is intended to transfix the rapt attention of The People while government’s cohort bankers work the crowd picking every pocket clean.
Bi-partisan agreement in legislatures is gang-rape of The People.
After reading that (and i agree 100%) I have to admit I’m in the same boat.
To this day I personally have not come across anyone around my area to have a full concept of what is going on in this world. They are mentally reduced to what the TV box / Mainstream Media has to offer and don’t want to think outside the box.
I have given up trying to open the eyes of sheep. Let them be slaughtered when the time(s) come.
Love the US retirement graph SRS. The plunger protection team is about ready to take on a serious load of…beep!
PATFIELDS…. correct. The DOG & PONY SHOW continues. Furthermore, if we add up all the FAT on the elephants bum we can see that there is a great deal of DEBT masquerading as WEALTH.
Lets do some numbers:
TOTAL U.S. RETIREMENT MARKET = $18.9 Trillion
TOTAL OUTSTANDING US TREASURIES = $11.04 Trillion
TOTAL PAPER PONZI = $30 Trillion
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Here is my chart from my article THE COMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN SILVER showing just how lopsided the Paper Ponzi Wealth is compared to precious metals:
As you can see this chart shows the US Retirement Market back when I wrote the article at only $17 trillion. Just look how precious metals compares to US Retirement market. Now, add the total US TREASURY’s outstanding… and you can see oh what a bloody mess we have on our hands.
Great article, SRS! Love the charts!!
I am with you on this Steve. Over the last several months I’ve been thinking about a subject I call MY SECRET LIFE. First off, notwithstanding the zits, what about the crack in the elephant’s ass. That is growing. The zits of just good targets for someone with a rifle zeroed on those carbuncles. Zing them enough time and you start to get the elephant’s attention, maybe doing some damage. The crack then widens
But back to the secret life.
I think many of us adhere to this notion that there is much more to the discussion than zits. We see most of the elephant if we don’t hear its roar. The fable of the 6 blind men comes to mind as well. Each grabbed a portion of the elephant and with an ear, tail, leg, trunk or side, they described the elephant.
We try to see the big picture. Many of us see this but it is so confounding and unbelievable that to describe it to the Dittoheads and Hannity fans, they won’t grasp what you are saying. Their brains start leaking out their ears. So it’s often best left unsaid. The Matrix is alive and well and determined to keep us in the dark. We have to go undercover and present our finding to other like-minded people; our familiars in our secret life. Just being heavily invested in gold and silver will have people giving you the hairy eyeball. Knowing what we see in the corruption, debt slavery and other insanities of the everyday world we can’t really share this with others.They just don’t get it. Heck, I don’t even tell my wife that I subscribe to The Dollar Vigilante, rense.com and Alex Jones Info wars much less what’s found there. Now that’s secret.
And PS That $18 trillion dollar stack of FIAT is ripe for the picking. We got fleeced in 2001, 2008. The next fleecing will make us envious of the Baa3 ratings of Italy and Spain. They’ll get off light compared to us if we don’t avoid being flattened by the elephant’s bum.
Yup. I can get myself into a conversation like that very easy. Only I walk out like Mohamad Ali every time. (Saw that guy at O’Hare once. Man he’s BIG)
It’s not so much of being a doom and gloomer than it is to know where to put your money. Call me what you want, but I’ve deciced to retire at 55, from that terrible mistake I made 10 years ago called “All in (physical) Silver”. So to those of you who didn’t and still don’t listen to me, get to work, you’re late.
AGXIIK…. I totally agree with you. My wife and I sold our business back in the big city in 2006 and moved to a small FARM-RANCHETTE in the southwest. We like the small town we now live in that just recently got their first TRAFFIC LIGHT.
These folks here are brought up using firearms respectfully. You won’t see anyone here pointing a gun sideways because it looks cool. If the economic system did break down, I would have pitty on anyone who thought they could come here and try to steal food-money-goods at gun point. That is a battle they would most certainly lose.
Anyhow… we enjoy tending our organic garden, fruit trees, livestock and grounds. Living debt free and enjoying the good life is where I think GOOD LIVING is at.
AGX and SRS
Along those same lines of thought. First, let me say that my secret life is becoming harder to maintain. I now have to go deeper undercover, reduced to whispers among those that I can trust, yet trying to vet others from which to have a survivable base. I am sure you know the drill.
I read as much as I can from as many different sources as possible. I stopped listening to talk radio some time ago, but I put Alex Jones into that same category. While I try to glean kernels of truth and insight from all of the pundits, I have become hardened to what I think may transpire. Where I believe our efforts should be directed is toward our children. They will have to live and survive during any collapse of any hub. We are on this earth but a short time. Our responsibility is to those we have brought into this world.
I guess I am one of those Gloom and Doomers because the world is not rosy. The world is brutal and unforgiving. It was never intended to be “fair.” The most we can ask for is to survive and strive for a world where we can self actualize within enclaves of people with the same goal. That enclave was the US, but the world forces have encroached upon the very fabric of the US and have ripped it asunder.
Thank you SRS for your essay. It helps to hear from those who get it and to know that there are others out there.
I’ve largely given up trying to alert and convert, as well. As Dirty Harry said, ‘A man’s got to know his limitations’; mine is being able to convince folks in the grip of Normalcy Bias that we are on the cusp of a paradigm-shifting event. Yet, they act like a man who curses the weatherman for predicting rain because he doesn’t want to cancel the picnic.
“First off, notwithstanding the zits, what about the crack in the elephant’s ass. That is growing. The zits of just good targets for someone with a rifle zeroed on those carbuncles. Zing them enough time and you start to get the elephant’s attention, maybe doing some damage. The crack then widens”
Beware the widening crack! No telling what may happen as it opens fully! Well, actually, it seems pretty obvious. Come to think of it, I would rather be sat on than buried in 8′ of elephant poop. At least it is a faster and cleaner end! :-(
As to the Sheeple… no, they will not wake up because they have zero desire to awaken. The world is filled with stuff that we on here know but that they have no desire to know. They don’t know and they don’t want to know. Can’t say that I blame them. Knowledge of this kind is power but it is also a heavy burden… and I grow tired more easily these days. :-/
Not too tired to stack, however. :-)