DATELINE: 2/14/2012
RE: "The Shell Game"
When I was a young man a small carnival passed through Nankipooh, and we was all excited about things like havin a Gypsy tell our fortune, and getin to see an elephant. One of the things I remember most was a man with three walnut shells and a green pea, and for a quarter, you got to guess which shell the pea was under. Of course that's hard to do even if the game is honest, but if it ain't, then you got no chance at all of winnin.
Well folks, we got a shell game of sorts goin on right now in the good old USA, and it is effectin everybody, includin the folks down here in Nankipooh. You see the name of the shell game is distraction, so that you take your eye off of the pea. Lets say we got three shells, the National Economy, Unemployment, and all the big Social Issues, and the pea is your money.
While the government is distractin you with those three big shells, your money is dissapearin just as fast as that pea bein palmed by the carnival man. Take the way the Federal Reserve is givin your tax money free to the banks, and then they turn around and loan it to you for three to five percent interest. Now if you are lucky enough to have any extra money to save back, the bank won't pay you more than one percent to keep it for you, and why should they, when they can get money to loan for free from the federal bank.
Now I ain't much for math, but figure this. If you was lucky enough to have $10,000 extra money, like that Skunk Candidate who was willin to make a bet for $10,000, and you put that money in the bank, if you was lucky you would get 1% interest. At the end of one year, you would have made $100. Of course, last year the inflation rate was 3% so your original $10,000 is only worth $9700 plus the $100, so you now got $9800. Don't forget though, that Uncle Sam wants taxes on the $100 in interest, which is about $20, so what you really got is $9780.
Meanwhile the bank loaned out your money at 5% interest to your neighbor Silas Jones, and they made $500 off of him for the year. So the bank made money, and so did the government, but you and Silas are just gettin deeper in the hole. This ain't gonna stop till the federal bank stops givin the banks money for free, so they don't have to pay you anything for usin your money. That's why Mr. Thomas Jefferson was against a big National Bank two hundred years ago, because he knew what would happen, and it has!
The big question is, how long are you goin to be distracted by big banks, big government, and professional politicans? If you don't get your eye on that pea, and your money, there won't be nothin left in a few more years. Wake Up America! No more Skunks and Polecats stealin you money, let's make a change. Vote for the man from Nankipooh, he won't steal near as much, and will let you get a little bit ahead. It would be like havin a man with a shotgun guardin your henhouse, so the Skunks and Polecats don't get all the eggs. You could also take him with you when the carnival comes to town so that the pea don't end up in the palm of the man runnin the shell game.
"Now, That's the way I see it, and you can tell'em I said so."
Bascomb Biggers
