Wolves at the Door

It's very likely that somebody will call me crazy for what I'm going to write here, but I really believe it's true. So, crazy is as crazy does, I suppose.

I've been thinking lately about our current economic troubles, and it occurs to me, in hindsight, of course, that's it's all too perfect, too neat, tidy. It's as if this has all been planned and constructed to happen in a particular way, at a particular time. Bear with me here, and allow me to try and describe what I see in my mind's eye.

In the late 1990's, there was a push by government liberals to get lending institutions to increase mortgage lending to minorities and those of low income. In fact, there was an article in the NY Times to that effect, that I have referenced before. With looser lending rules, more people were able to buy homes, and more people were able to place themselves in tenuous and unwise financial situations.

Then, when gas prices approached $4 per gallon in the United States, the cost of living rose to unprecedented and unanticipated levels. Not only did fuel prices rise, but so did the prices of all of those items that require petroleum products for manufacture, production and transport. In short, when gas prices rise, the prices of everything else rise, too.

Therefore, those people who were in a dangerous position already, with a house they couldn't really afford and a mortgage hanging over their heads, were placed in the position of having to choose between paying the mortgage and buying food. So, since hungry bellies always win, they defaulted on their mortgages, bringing us to the housing and financial industry meltdowns.

Now, we are ripe for the government takeover of a number of major financial institutions, accompanied by draconian rules for for how these businesses should be run, included "fairness" in wages and other such Marxist* ideas, and the people who have been foreclosed on are screaming in agreement. In a short time, something will happen (most likely a terrorist attack) that will justify the government taking over other businesses and organizations, and then we are in the grips of fascism*.

This seems to be a concentrated effort to reduce the power and influence of the United States and its people, and to keep us on the edge of desperation. Why? To keep us subjugated, in line, and powerless. When we are always working to keep our families fed, clothed and housed, then we have very little resources to put into any kind of complaint or protest, to resist the encroachments on our freedom. When we are busy surviving, we are not able to protect our liberty. Also, a people on edge are also more likely to favor socialist* government programs that promise to keep them safe from the wolves just outside the door. Unfortunately, it seems that we have already allowed the wolves in, for "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

So, who is doing this, and how? I'm not sure, and I don't know how to find out, but our national leadership seems to be implicit the scheme. Here's a start:

In 1944 Norman Thomas, the head of the Socialist Party of America said:

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. . . . I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.

I mourn for our nation and our freedom.

* In my mind, at least for the purposes of my point in this post, the words "Marxist", socialist" and "fascist", and the concepts for which they stand, are synonymous and interchangeable.