September 17, 2021
Now that every financial game in America has been rigged
to benefit the few at the expense of the many, trust and credibility has evaporated like an
ice cube on a summer day in Death Valley.
Here is America in a nutshell: we no longer solve problems, we manipulate the narrative and
then declare the problem has been solved. Actually solving problems is difficult and
generally requires sacrifices that are proportionate to one’s wealth and power. But since
America’s elite are no longer willing to sacrifice any of their vast power for the common good,
sacrifice is out in America unless it can be dumped on wage earners. But unfortunately for
America’s elite, four decades of hidden-by-manipulation sacrifices have stripmined average wage earners,
and so they no longer have anything left to sacrifice.
Enter the Ministry of Manipulation, which adjusts the visible bits to align with the narrative
that the problem has been fixed and the status quo is godlike in its technocratic powers.
All this manipulation doesn’t actually solve the problems, it simply hides the decay behind
gamed statistics, financial trickery and glossy PR. The problems fester until they
break through the manipulated gloss and the public witnesses the breakdown of all the systems
that were presented as rock-solid and forever.
Let’s take three core fields of manipulation: cost of living, Social Security and the
stock market bubble. Each is a key signifier of the status quo functioning as advertised,
and so manipulating them to fit the narrative is the elite’s direktif utama. Goodness
knows what would happen if people were exposed to the unmanipulated reality, but it wouldn’t
be good for America’s self-serving power elite.
The cost of living–the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a.k.a. inflation–is the most threadbare
trash heap of manipulation currently on display. Sepenuhnya 40% dari Indeks didasarkan pada
pendapat orang secara acak daripada dengan mudah membuat tabulasi data dunia nyata.
I refer to the government’s comically wacky method of reckoning the cost of housing: tanya a
random bunch of homeowners what they guess they could rent their house for.
But wait, why not simply tabulate the actual rents being paid? That data is easily available,
and could be made apples-to-apples by applying the methodology of the Case-Shiller housing
index, which is to track the cost data of the same homes / flats over time. This would provide
reliable data on the actual increase or decline in rents being paid.
Gathering actual real-world date is anathema because then the CPI would be much higher and
not so easily manipulated. The same can be said of all the other tricks of manipulating
the cost of living: seasonal adjustments (i.e., lop off price increases and attribute the reduction to “seasonality”) and hedonic adjustments (i.e., after adjusting for the better
stereo and the rear-view camera, today’s $40,000 car is tabulated as “cheaper” than yesteryear’s
$10,000 car of the same size).
If these same adjustments were applied to the weight and height of individuals, a 6-foot tall
individual weighing 200 pounds would be “adjusted” to 6 inches in height and a weight of 2 pounds.
This is a slight exaggeration but not by much, as today’s calculation of expenses are laughably
understated in the CPI: today’s cars haven’t risen in cost at all according to the CPI, even as
the number of work hours needed to buy a new car have skyrocketed–that is, when measured in
daya beli upah, kendaraan sekarang jauh lebih mahal.
Then there’s healthcare, which is a weighted as light as a feather in the CPI. Healthcare–
you know, that sector which routinely bankrupts American families with bills in the tens of
thousands?–is weighted as roughly equal to clothing. This is beyond absurd, but par for the
CPI course of endless manipulations, all aimed at reducing the CPI so the public can be
lulled into a fairyland belief that inflation has been trifling for decades, even as their paychecks
buy a third less than they did a decade ago.
Selanjutnya, manipulasi yang mengerikan terhadap Jaminan Sosial. The first step is manipulating
the CPI down so seniors’ annual increases can be held to near-zero (no better brand of cat food
for you, retirees–tighten your budget if you want the lights to stay on).
The truly big manipulation is the artifice that there is a mythical “trust fund” that
we are drawing down to pay Social Security benefits. The trick was pulled decades ago,
when Social Security taxes did in fact go into an independent agency account. President
Johnson decided that he needed all that “free money” to pay for his misadventure in Vietnam,
so the Social Security account was combined with the federal general fund, and an accounting
gimmick was created: a completely fake class of IOUs that were presented as a “trust fund”,
IOUs with no marketable value at all.
There is no trust fund. When Social Security runs a deficit, the Treasury borrows the
money in the same way it borrows all the other trillions of dollars needed to cover federal
defisit. The money borrowed to pay Social Security is borrowed exactly like the money
needed to pay the cost overruns on the F-35 aircraft or the fraud-riddled bills for meds
paid by Medicare.
It’s all smoke and mirrors and artful manipulation, designed to serve the interests of
those running the show. It’s the Big Con, intended to lull the public into a false confidence
in the status quo narratives and technocratic magic.
Speaking of magic, look at how the stock market hits a low and then roars higher the same day
setiap bulan. The “market” manipulation is so obvious that Comrade Powell of the
Federal Reserve Politburo doesn’t even bother explaining it. The Politburo cronies just
buy the dip, the Fed and its proxies (Blackrock, cough-cough) jam stocks higher and the Fed’s
cronies pocket billions–as shown on the chart below of the billionaires’ soaring Fed-generated
kekayaan.
No wonder public trust in America’s self-serving institutions has cratered, and the credibility
of the manipulators has been crushed. Now that every financial game in America has been rigged
to benefit the few at the expense of the many, trust and credibility has evaporated like an
ice cube on a summer day in Death Valley.
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