A few more warm days have passed on the coast and now forecasters speculate on the possibility of rain. This is often the time of year when the dry mountains easily burst into flames, just before the first good soaking of the wet season. The deciduous trees in town have hardly begun to shed their leaves, still clinging to summer bliss. One liquid amber near me always turns red when all the others are green, signaling caution for the others to get ready for fall.

Congress remains stupidly grid locked over budget and health care issues, grabbing the attention of all the news people and political commentators in the media. I tend to pass on saying much about politics in general. I don't trust my own opinions enough to argue and defend them, because in the past people have argued my ideas right out of me anyhow. What is the use of thinking that I know what is right, when someone else can so easily convince me that I am wrong? The experience leaves me nothing to record in my journal but discouragement and ambivalence.

Money dictates how the country is run. Most of the arguments coming from our leaders have to do with how to manage the money. Some would like to have the government cut way back on spending, so that money can go to individuals, while the contrary argument is to put the money into the hands of government, so that the money can be managed better for all. Somewhere between these two philosophies is where our common ideas tend to dwell.

In my estimation, most of the damage to our economy occurs before our leaders even get to the point of discussing how money should best be spent. The money itself is managed by private banking before it ever gets into public hands. Our leaders argue over the spending of money that Wall Street allows them to argue over, while the rest of the wealth that is pumped out of the money-producing machine is siphoned off by a handful of people that the rest of America never hears about.

Several books and documentaries have been published in recent years to show how the hidden economic system in place has more influence over us than does our leadership group. Here are a couple of free online documentaries that describe how the banking scheme works:

Banker Wars

Web of Debt


This is public knowledge that has been available for years, and yet our politicians continue to act as if we have never heard and do not know. Instead, we are told that the problem lies in political disunity. I don't believe their stories. If they were truly elected to serve the American people, we'd be getting to the bottom of this problem we constantly seem to be having with money and get it fixed once and for all. DC is controlled by private interests and our leaders won't fess up to it because the game would then be over for all of them.