The G.D. Stock Market

America has become a bubble.  As industry and jobs in manufacturing have left the country, a large percentage of our GNP,  only online retail has emerged as a possible replacement.  We have seen how that goes.  Online retail.  The spoils stay close to the tree.  The money no longer is dispersed in a logical way that supports our system of Capitalism.  The recent scoop has been trillions of dollars are shelved in Switzerland and Grand Cayman.  Private banks have been created to provide a tax shelter for the wealthy.  No surprise here.  I have known that for years.  Capitalism is not working, because the money has been sucked out of the system and is sitting in banks not circulating.  Circulating.  Money which circulates is a quintessential element of Capitalism.  It would seem this has been forgotten, so in a nutshell our socioeconomic has been abandoned.  The system responsible for creating the great wealth that sits in overseas banks, has been deemed defunct.  Enough money has been made by the oligarchy that they are content with their fortunes.  We as American citizens must recognize, acknowledge, and concede that the system that created America is no longer.  Capitalism is extinct.  This is why the country is floundering, and yet prices still are rising.  Part of it is the holidays, a time when many of us are programmed to spend.  It is part of our nature, and will we do it regardless of inflated consumer prices?  That is yet to be seen.  Cyber Monday was a huge success, so the internet it seems has become our new system.  The converse side of that equation is that our spent money also is not being dispersed or circulated to those who need it.  It also is being hoarded into those great fortunes sitting in Swiss and Caymen banks.  It would seem that amassing money is more important than America herself.  I have known this for a long time as well.  Globalization murdered the American Dream.  What CEO in their right mind would pay an American work force when foreigners will do the same job for a fraction of the cost?  American made.  American made used to mean something, and it meant quality.  It meant products were manufactured by people, and those people took pride in their work.  This pride was a result of a dedication to an aesthetic, a work ethic that is incorporated in a lifestyle.  That lifestyle was America.  For the cycle to complete itself, one must take pride in their work.  They must care about it.  It becomes part of them, and that work supports their lives.  Then there was slavery.  There was slavery, and bigot elitists felt they had the right to demand labor for free from lesser beings.  They were entitled.  This sentiment again has emerged in America, and again we as Americans who should understand Capitalism has been rendered extinct also should understand the ruling oligarchy in America cares naught for us.  We are lesser beings.  We are stupid, and how can we not be when the building blocks of a fruitful life have been eradicated.  Our environment.  Our system of public education.  Religion.  God.  Fairness.  Peace.  These components systematically have been removed from American society with the intent of dumbing down our populace.  It has worked.  We are hooked.  Each and every day is a struggle to stay above water when our entire system is trying to make us fail.  The idea of helping people.  The idea of providing opportunity and nurturing for talent.  All of it.  Instead we have the cheapest, lowest, superficial system, like Mother, like Big Brother, like a giant computer who only is playing odds, gambling on a two bit one armed bandit with the future of America the Beautiful.  Take Amtrak for instance.  Anyone who is familiar with American history knows.  Amtrak was a dog, a dog Washington decided to bail out.  Never was it any shining star.  It was a mule, a low performing mule which like city buses provide root level services to the poor.  In the new and exciting aesthetic of Wall Street, sprinkle a little sugar on a turd and sell it as a pooled mortgage disguised as a financial instrument that promises the holy grail.  Deception.  Deception is trying to turn Amtrak, a decrepit skeleton of decaying America into a stealth European bullet train.  With no high tech infrastructure, only the dying bones of a neglected American landscape, emulate a high earning, successful, progressive investment built with thousands of employees, jobs, and support.  Like the internet, Big Brother, Mother, a guy in a cubicle run Amtrak trains faster than they are capable and sell it for quick profit.  What's the fucking rush?  Unlike winding highways, rail lines cut through middle America.  They are the most direct route to get anywhere, but they are old.  Consequently you should not run a Porsche on a dirt track, but they did.  Without proper vetting, without the oversight of the National Transportation Safety Board, or the Federal Railroad Administration, or anyone they decided to open a new quicker route promising holiday shoppers something special.  It is America on Crack.  America on Meth.  America on Sacklers.  We are operating in a drug induced delirium, stoned on opiates, and in denial of the condition of the human race.  It is called Delusions of Grandeur.  It is called Trump.