Clueless.

Clueless! In a word, the best description of the American mindless masses. They move about in a world seeing and not seeing, hearing and not hearing, and wrapped in the fantasy created by their manipulators.

What is this system of things? The system has one rule, acquire all the wealth. From this wealth springs power. From the power springs the ability to get more wealth. It is perpetuating, barring a stumble.

To see, you need to understand the game. Such as why the rich keep getting richer in seemingly dismal economic times? The answer is simple. Their wealth is based on increasing the return on investments or “growth”. Now you know why in America we only hear about “growth” and making it rise. The rise of growth increases their wealth, literally money from nothing.

What is the engine of “growth”? It is simply money’s movement in the economic system.  This is why Goldman and Morgan Stanley make money regardless if their clients do so or not. Who was the hands down winner in the FaceBook IPO fiasco? It is the brokerage firm.

Now you can understand why the rich panicked initially with the 2008 Financial Crisis. Money stopped moving causing their wealth engine to crash to a halt. They quickly regrouped and marshaled their “owned” politicians to inject massive amounts of money in the financial system. This restarted a movement of money. The result? The rich today are wealthier than they have ever been.

If things are going so well for the rich, why push an austerity public agenda? The answer is America is a business welfare state. The benefits heaped on industry in tax breaks, legislation exemption, unbelievably low fees for licenses of resources in the public trust, low interest loans and wars that facilitate privateering are not enough today to feed their "growth" engine.

America has two sets of financial books like any business. There is the publicly presented balance sheet and the real private accounting. The really rich and powerful know that for decades the public trust has been looted on their behalf. There have been several attempts to see what gold is left in Fort Knox. The real big issue with Social Security, that does not get mentioned, is where is the money that was there? The account was mysteriously edited to be less and create fear at the time investing it in the stock market was being pushed. There is a recurring rumor that money was siphoned to fund the wars. 

There have been gargantuan amounts of money spent in America over the years that is off the balance sheet, especially related the military industrial complex. This is money that was obfuscated in sanguine legislation or cloaked in secrecy. The response to the incident of 911 should have been merely a "police action". It was labeled a "war" for political and financial reasons. As a police action it would have cost closer to several hundred million dollars, as opposed to many hundreds of billions of dollars lining pockets and dramatically increasing the budgets of certain agencies.

The rich people's traditional indirect methods of acquiring wealth in the public domain is running dry. More direct methods are being employed. This fact is being cloaked in the "austerity" panic as money is shifted from the public to the private sector. For the rich to continue to get rich at public expense, they now need to tap public fund allocations directly under the guise of austerity savings. Look closely where the retrieved funds of austerity end up.

In this game if you want the rich to scream and cry bloody tears, restrict the movement of money or curtail “growth”. Can anyone be a player? You just need two things. First,  a sizable amount of money in the financial system at moderate to high risk with the potential of tremendous short term returns. Second, access to privileged information that can be painted as a "grey" legal area if need be by your lawyers. The SEC and IRS do not have a good track record with prosecution and avoids them.