If you feel bad about raising taxes on the rich, don’t. They don’t feel bad about manipulating you into taking on more debt or selling you below par goods or marketing foods that make you fat or give you cancer or your kids Attention Deficit Disorder.
You’re nothing to these people, nothing at all.
You’re just an ATM to finance their extravagant lifestyles and inflate their astronomical egos. You’re a pitiful slave to their infinite power.
You’re lower than low, dirtier than dirt, stupider than a snail. They pull your strings and yank your chain with such consummate ease it’s sickening.
While you’re quietly going about your life, raising the kids, saving for college, planning vacations, climbing the corporate ladder and paying the bills, there’s a vast financial aristocracy monitoring your every thought and move.
They know what your financial situation is, how you feel about the economy and your job situation. They know how in touch you are with current events, the weather and prices for food and cars.
These financial gurus use what they know about you to make a fast buck on virtually everything that happens. The big financial websites were all abuzz about how to profit from Hurricane Sandy, the elections and the looming financial cliff.
Everything good or bad that happens anywhere in the world, they make money off it.
Listen to the moderators and the experts on any of the three 24/7 cable news business shows. They discuss ways to force people into more debt so they buy more goods and services.
They worry about people saving more and taking on less debt because 60% of the U.S. economy is dependent on consumer spending. They wring their hands that the average consumer debt to income ration is only 75%.
You the consumer are totally insignificant to these people. Even less so to the CEOs and industry leaders who run the companies that you buy from. They all have experts in marketing and psychology that gauge the “consumer” and our spending habits.
How often can we roll out a new version of Windows? Will anybody buy a new iPhone with so few new enhancements? Will brand loyalty be hurt? Do we need to whip up a new marketing scheme to make our products “more cool”?
They have monthly readings on consumer confidence and spending and consumer debt and detailed data from a hundred other surveys. They know how millions affected from Sandy will spend less on Christmas this year and more on home repair items and other necessities.
They balance their portfolios to make a tidy profit from this subtle shift in consumer buying habits.
The advertising on the cable business news stations is telling. You only see luxury cars, luxury vacations and luxury jewelry.
There are ads for sophisticated computer programs that channel all this data right to your laptop so these rich tycoons can rip people off from the comfort of their living rooms.
These people are wealthier than Crosus and more ego-maniacal than Nero. They’re more isolated than the Pope and have more control over your soul than the Vatican and all other religions in the world combined.
They control Washington and members of Congress as easily as they control you. They are omniscient. They are God.
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimilated.
