The Global Crisis - What's Wrong with the Economy?

SUMMARY - The Global Economic Crisis consists of a global children's slave trade PLUS an adult slave trade in the tens of millions, added to a widespread and growing militarism which under-girds and drives the world economic production. Many assume we must kill to prosper and use slaves to build wealth. I disagree. The rest is excuse making. Read on and consider this...

1 - The Ailment

There is much speculation about what ails the global economy and those local ones like Greece, Italy, America, and others which are trembling as though under some great invisible weight.

All of the experts [pundits and analysts on CNN, BNN, CTV, CBC, BBC, governments, and so on] agree that there are certain symptoms which they can read and use to help investors be wise in their decisions. The markets seem to be ignoring their opinions. Of course the Market IS imaginary. lol

I see the whole thing differently. I see a looming and simmering Crisis of global magnitude and historic proportions hovering in the shadows ready to break into the daylight and surprise the experts and the innocent alike. It is my opinion that if we do not solve the two central problems with the global economy then it will fail – irreversibly and critically.

Rapidly escalating war and militarism globally added to a dependency upon slavery to acquire wealth are the core of the real problem. This is not Sustainable and neither is the rapid destruction of the Earth for industrial extraction purposes.

I prefer to live a life that is clean, respectable and ethically responsible and urge all others to do the same – “no murder and no 'footprint'.” Perhaps this is partly the Oriental influence in my life, which teaches Simplicity in living. I call this “Success with Less.”

The causes of instability and of this economic Problem are really no secret. All media sources bombard our children with the details of this complex crisis all day long every single day. Many grown-ups seem able to filter out this Truth. It is the main message of the Data Flow.

Kids HEAR it...loud and clear. They do the Math and want to be part of the Solution and no longer excluded and lied to. This Crisis I describe is the scary Elephant in the dark room of every child's heart.

Yet governments and leaders [and experts of all kinds] pretend it's not happening...and say it must be about houses or oil or gold. Young people see this pretense as a betrayal. This is not economics. It's self-deception on a grand scale - which is a bad thing when managing international economies. It's about greed and bad [self-] government.

The problem is simple in my eyes. The main industry that drives the global economy is militarism – manufacturing of bullets of all sizes, bombs, missiles, drones, radar systems, transportation, satellite, intelligence, and naval systems and all kinds of aircraft - equipping, arming, warring, and all that goes with it – what President Eisenhower called “the military industrial complex”. We need to stop killing and making war for profit.

2 – The Diagnosis

People seem to accept it as – well 'acceptable' to generate wealth by violence. I do not. I refuse to earn a living by killing anyone let alone innocent children on the other side of the world whom I should be helping. And I don't want anybody killing anybody for me even if it does generate great wealth for some rich folks I don't know.

The other engine of the global economy is slavery. This secret underside of the global economy includes tens of millions of child slaves of many kinds - industrial, commercial, household, agricultural [like chocolate], mining & extraction, recycling, manufacturing, child soldiers, child prostitutes and sex slaves of both genders and all ages in many places, and others who make invisible contributions to the Wealth of Nations.

Their child labouring is increased and magnified by the much larger human slavery problem. Slavery requires tyranny and that's a steep and slippery slope away from democracy and free and fair market capitalism, thereby destroying democracy.

The exclusion of some from Equality excludes us all mathematically. It's the turning of the back on decency and humanity. It's the end of all that makes life meaningful and tolerable and wonderful.

I estimate that the profits from slavery constitute some ten to fifteen percent [10-15%] of the GGP [ Gross Global Product]. This is the buffer that western cultures of entitlement believe that they are entitled to. It appears that it actually belongs to others who are presently in chains and despair and in the grip of seemingly inescapable injustice that is driven by our prosperity and justified by our religions.

We can do better than this. We should do better than this. We MUST do better than this or the human and natural worlds will come to collect what we owe them. They will be angry. They will be armed, for we will have sold them the means to destroy us and all whom we love. That's business!

3 - The Prescription

What is my Prescription to end this injustice and self-destructive behaviour that is terrorizing our youth? A peace-based economy and an end to slavery. We can do this.

Democratically minded people in the past have done it and we must do as they did, which requires strength and courage. We must do it to survive and solve the Crisis – which is a combination of military, environmental, ethical and other crises all combined into a destructive complex Menace.

I have not heard any of this analysis or solutions to it from Mr. Flaherty the Minister of Finance or the Prime Minister Mr. Harper. They're putting their money on the banks. This problem I describe here is just not part of their analysis while it is the larger part of the danger that confronts us.

We need a new national consciousness that includes these dirty details about our wealth and how we get – through violence and exploitation and injustice.

4 – Who We Are

All the while we say Canada and Canadians love justice and peace. Nonsense...but we should. If we do not alter these truths instead of ignoring them, they will find us and make us pay.

We are like those sometimes cruel and exaggerated characterizations of the citizens of the Confederate States in the American Civil War – “content in our arrogant cruelty.”

I say pay now out of goodwill and good economics practice. My calculations tell me that the taxes and penalties on that historic debt will be too much for humanity to bear individually or altogether if it continues to accrue interest much longer.

Widespread terrorism is at least partly due to the consequences of this arrogance. We must find common ground that is decorated with Justice and Peace.

Peace Pays!
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