Post by KG on Jan 18, 2011 3:56:16 GMT -5
Well it's time for our annual predictions for the future. I was wondering what everyone sees for the coming year and perhaps beyond.
I see a lot of possibilities, and I have been pondering this recession and the very nature of poverty... You remember Mercy declared war on poverty about six months to a year ago, and so far it's kicking my butt. LOL Mine personally here on Earth. Mercy's still at war and she's doing OK with it, but I am having a hell of a time dealing with the fall out.
So far though I have learned a lot. I have realized that I am spoiled, and that there are people who have had it so much worse in this world, and still do. I've realized that I am physically soft, and mentally undiciplined. I have tried to correct these problems, but I am still not strong enough or focused enough.
I have also realized that this recession is necessary and that globalization is inevitable, even if it isn't beneficial to anyone in the short run, eventually it will be for the best... not for many years though, and in the mean time it will cause many problems in all nations. I used to be a firm isolationist when it came to the economy, but I see that this is going to happen, like it or not.
I also see that people have to make their own way, through hard work and a lot of planning and figuring out what to do next. It's not as easy as it used to be, and everyone has to take their own fate into their own hands, and find a way to make a living, even if they can't find a traditional job. There isn't an easy answer or some kind of bail out coming from God or Government. I think people in Government are trying, but they can't fix it either by themselves.
Anyway the problem is world wide in one form or another, with only the most rich and powerful coming out on top over and over. There is no one to control International corporations who exploit everyone in their path. There are no laws to govern them, or rules to constrain them in any way, once they are freed from national borders.
Anyway I see that my prayers for the starving children in India have been answered. Things are much better over there. I also see that Some of Africa is better and some of it is worse. Nigeria is having a recession, as bad or worse than in America, and they were OK 10 years ago also. I see that the Congo is suffering as always but somewhat worse. Zimbabwe is trying very hard to crawl out from under their past occupation by Britain and make a go of it, and they have had some progress.
I see two potential paths for the world and for America. Either we try, as individuals and as a group to come out of this recession, and prove ourselves by working hard at whatever trade we can master, or we will fall to the wayside. Industrialization made slaves of us all, and like slaves we forgot how to make it on our own. Now it is time for small businesses to spring up and use whatever resources they have to make it. It's time to make a path because there isn't one. Either we rise to the challenge or we don't.
I really think that in the long term, everything will be fine, and that the overall situation will improve in America by summer, but at the same time, improving isn't being fixed, and being fixed does not mean returning to something like the 90's, or the 60's or any other past period of time. It's never going to be the same, ever again. Nothing ever is. As I look back to my childhood in the 60's I realize that those times have passed and cannot be recaptured. Neither can we expect the 10's to be like the 90's. Time goes forward and not back.
The corporations have screwed us and then abandoned us. What I meant by enslaving us earlier is that they made us dependent, economically on their jobs, sold us goods we didn't need, used us as a consumer base to buy things we didn't need, at inflated prices. Then they said our wages were too high, and moved all the factories to third world countries. They still expected us to keep buying stuff... and we simply can't. Corporations have taken over farming even, and now they are even exporting farming. Did anyone notice that the swine flu came from A Smithfield Farm in Mexico? It was an American corporate farm in Mexico that had such filthy conditions that it incubated a whole new disease!
It will be hard to live without these corporations, but we need to wriggle ourselves free of them, since they have deserted us, and still expect us to buy their cheaply made Chinese clothes, and their filthy foreign meat. I'd rather buy food from a real Mexican farmer, than an American Corporation who ran south of the border to avoid the FDA.
Americans are still one of the largest consumer bases in the world, and we have to consider what we buy now. Eventually we will have more and more trade with other nations, and that's really not the problem. The problem is the international corporations which used to be American and European corporations are now exploiting the whole world, especially the third world for cheap labor and previously untapped resources. If the poor people of the world are to survive we must find a way to cut out these billionaire middle men who are taking everything like the Imperialists of 200 years ago.
My problem with all this though, is that we loved it when they were exploiting us for our labor and resources. We enjoyed the profits and ignored the pollution, despite the fact we were not poverty stricken before they came along. How can we expect foreign people who are poor to realize how exploited they are, as they work for two dollars a day, considering two dollars a day in India provides a middle class lifestyle. Never mind it won't buy a burger, fries and a coke over here! It's good money for them... India has a rapid inflation rate, but not that rapid....
Anyway I have been seeing this stuff with increasing clarity like a vision, and I am not sure there is a lot I can do about it, but what I have said is a combination of information that has come to me without trying to obtain it, and it just keeps nagging at me... I do not know the outcome, but I do know that we have to take back some control over our lives, our income and our purchases, if we are to survive and possibly win over the fat cats who are ending up with everything, and leaving very little for the rest of us.
IDK I am rambling, and I am not sure if this makes any sense. It isn't exactly what I intended to say when I started writing... but it's what I have been seeing, both in visions, and in information that I keep running across. IDK what I am supposed to do about it, but it's what I am concerned about for the future this January.
I would like to see what everyone else has been getting as far as visions of the future. I am seeing globalization, and the only problem with the picture is greedy billionaires profiteering, monopolizing and strangling everyone else's success.
Kim
I see a lot of possibilities, and I have been pondering this recession and the very nature of poverty... You remember Mercy declared war on poverty about six months to a year ago, and so far it's kicking my butt. LOL Mine personally here on Earth. Mercy's still at war and she's doing OK with it, but I am having a hell of a time dealing with the fall out.
So far though I have learned a lot. I have realized that I am spoiled, and that there are people who have had it so much worse in this world, and still do. I've realized that I am physically soft, and mentally undiciplined. I have tried to correct these problems, but I am still not strong enough or focused enough.
I have also realized that this recession is necessary and that globalization is inevitable, even if it isn't beneficial to anyone in the short run, eventually it will be for the best... not for many years though, and in the mean time it will cause many problems in all nations. I used to be a firm isolationist when it came to the economy, but I see that this is going to happen, like it or not.
I also see that people have to make their own way, through hard work and a lot of planning and figuring out what to do next. It's not as easy as it used to be, and everyone has to take their own fate into their own hands, and find a way to make a living, even if they can't find a traditional job. There isn't an easy answer or some kind of bail out coming from God or Government. I think people in Government are trying, but they can't fix it either by themselves.
Anyway the problem is world wide in one form or another, with only the most rich and powerful coming out on top over and over. There is no one to control International corporations who exploit everyone in their path. There are no laws to govern them, or rules to constrain them in any way, once they are freed from national borders.
Anyway I see that my prayers for the starving children in India have been answered. Things are much better over there. I also see that Some of Africa is better and some of it is worse. Nigeria is having a recession, as bad or worse than in America, and they were OK 10 years ago also. I see that the Congo is suffering as always but somewhat worse. Zimbabwe is trying very hard to crawl out from under their past occupation by Britain and make a go of it, and they have had some progress.
I see two potential paths for the world and for America. Either we try, as individuals and as a group to come out of this recession, and prove ourselves by working hard at whatever trade we can master, or we will fall to the wayside. Industrialization made slaves of us all, and like slaves we forgot how to make it on our own. Now it is time for small businesses to spring up and use whatever resources they have to make it. It's time to make a path because there isn't one. Either we rise to the challenge or we don't.
I really think that in the long term, everything will be fine, and that the overall situation will improve in America by summer, but at the same time, improving isn't being fixed, and being fixed does not mean returning to something like the 90's, or the 60's or any other past period of time. It's never going to be the same, ever again. Nothing ever is. As I look back to my childhood in the 60's I realize that those times have passed and cannot be recaptured. Neither can we expect the 10's to be like the 90's. Time goes forward and not back.
The corporations have screwed us and then abandoned us. What I meant by enslaving us earlier is that they made us dependent, economically on their jobs, sold us goods we didn't need, used us as a consumer base to buy things we didn't need, at inflated prices. Then they said our wages were too high, and moved all the factories to third world countries. They still expected us to keep buying stuff... and we simply can't. Corporations have taken over farming even, and now they are even exporting farming. Did anyone notice that the swine flu came from A Smithfield Farm in Mexico? It was an American corporate farm in Mexico that had such filthy conditions that it incubated a whole new disease!
It will be hard to live without these corporations, but we need to wriggle ourselves free of them, since they have deserted us, and still expect us to buy their cheaply made Chinese clothes, and their filthy foreign meat. I'd rather buy food from a real Mexican farmer, than an American Corporation who ran south of the border to avoid the FDA.
Americans are still one of the largest consumer bases in the world, and we have to consider what we buy now. Eventually we will have more and more trade with other nations, and that's really not the problem. The problem is the international corporations which used to be American and European corporations are now exploiting the whole world, especially the third world for cheap labor and previously untapped resources. If the poor people of the world are to survive we must find a way to cut out these billionaire middle men who are taking everything like the Imperialists of 200 years ago.
My problem with all this though, is that we loved it when they were exploiting us for our labor and resources. We enjoyed the profits and ignored the pollution, despite the fact we were not poverty stricken before they came along. How can we expect foreign people who are poor to realize how exploited they are, as they work for two dollars a day, considering two dollars a day in India provides a middle class lifestyle. Never mind it won't buy a burger, fries and a coke over here! It's good money for them... India has a rapid inflation rate, but not that rapid....
Anyway I have been seeing this stuff with increasing clarity like a vision, and I am not sure there is a lot I can do about it, but what I have said is a combination of information that has come to me without trying to obtain it, and it just keeps nagging at me... I do not know the outcome, but I do know that we have to take back some control over our lives, our income and our purchases, if we are to survive and possibly win over the fat cats who are ending up with everything, and leaving very little for the rest of us.
IDK I am rambling, and I am not sure if this makes any sense. It isn't exactly what I intended to say when I started writing... but it's what I have been seeing, both in visions, and in information that I keep running across. IDK what I am supposed to do about it, but it's what I am concerned about for the future this January.
I would like to see what everyone else has been getting as far as visions of the future. I am seeing globalization, and the only problem with the picture is greedy billionaires profiteering, monopolizing and strangling everyone else's success.
Kim