No more trips to Europe Sad No more trips anywhere!
Ahh, but you miss those other aspects of Feudalism, the epic quests, the epic contests, the endless war and the Crusades,
What do you mean no more travel, I'm talking the Holy Land here. Liberated and all. And you, along with your horse and squire, can visit there and slay the infidel that lives therein. Forsooth, and zound's you can invade France, quell peasant uprisings (plenty of those) and in your spare time hunt for witches. Tell me not of the lack of trips in Feudal times, I'm off to join the Templars. Perhaps from that I might get into banking, which is what the Templars did after a time.
Banking is a troubling deal. Always has been. Bankers are trustworthy, but not to be trusted. Did not the great master Jefferson himself warn that:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
Great, we now have standing armies too, brought to us by those banks and the corporations that grew up around them.
We can not allow the banking and finance companies to dip into the the well of American Debt and pull out $700 Billion, with a B, no strings attached. Its mindblowing that they even thought this out, much less put it on paper. Give us the money. You can't review it.
Its like Vinnie and Guido showed up from Jersey and were hanging around saying "Nice economy youze gots here, be a shame if something were to happen to it, you know what I'm saying." Except its not Vinnie and Guido - who at least have the common decency to at least know they are criminals - its Throckmorton, Winslow, and Percy who all think they are beyond the law. The hubris of this is just awesome. Really, I mean that.
We can not give you the money because you lost it thinking this thought, which you still seem to hold true,
Our economy today is based on the movement of capital.
Nope, its not. Never has been. That's an illusion. Its based partly on land, as it always has been, and partly on production. Without production, what's capital exactly worth?
And, while all the banks were busy out financing the movement of production from the US to other places, they lost sight of the fact that they were no longer acting in their own best interest. There are a lot of people who should be in jail over all this, like thousands really, who knew what was going on and did nothing about it.
This is not an overnight problem, its coming was warned about for a long time and no one did anything, until this week, when presto! Hey Rocky, I need over half a trillion dollars please. Really, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
Cause here is the deal. What these dunderheaded morons with MBAs missed in all this, is that their 30 year effort to sell off America's production capacity and their pet republican spending money at rate that is also criminal. So, about the $700 Billion with a B, you need. We ain't got it. Everybody's tapped out round these parts, what with few jobs, gas at a record high and the national debt that you allowed to happen.
I don't think the world ends if these people have to sell the summer homes to pay off bad decisions they made.
