Economics Tricks

A new dawning has occurred, bringing with it an epidemic of truly false euphemisms. Our techno-gadget society has fallen prey to a vector so shrewd and unassuming that when the completely ridiculous is displayed, new millennium, politically correct terminology illuminates with little resistance. This misrepresented peril in particular has become a major erosion to our country, faith and justice system. Pacification as well as profit has replaced justice.

To begin with, when is it proper to attend a birthday celebration without acknowledgment of the birthday recipient? Maybe this is a petulant squabble. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus. Using the content of your wallet and maxing out your credit/debit card has little to do with the celebratory act but as not to offend--further, you are often greeted with 'Happy holidays; Season's Greetings but not the expected salutation, 'Merry Christmas!' The entire atmosphere created nowadays is an inept bombardment of high expectations of savings on items you don't really need, for family and associates that you feel compelled to spend for -all the while hearing, listening and even participating in the traditional Christmas music overhead. Spending is the celebration.

It is especially apparent when daily news reports are focused on the pitiful condition reflected in our economy, the grim forecast of a company's future, massive layoffs and the actual value of a 'green back.' Christmas is no longer the season of giving and wishing well of others; instead it has become the elongation of 'Black Friday.'

Consumerism! This is the holiday solely geared towards getting many retailers into the black before January 1st. Advertisements have become elaborately whorish in the displays of projected wares to be sold.

Thanksgiving has triangulated with Christmas and the illusionary finances used for buying. However, January will reconnect the dots, as the refinancing paranoia will be in demand but unavailable for many sobering consumers.

Another more rooted and penetrating reality focuses on the largest organ of our bodies. It's an amazingly resilient member that has an abrasive historical past. Because of its massive coverage, rules, even laws, past and current, have quietly and furiously articulated attitudes and judging patterns forcing legal and non-legal entities to expose antiquated stereotypes which continue to contaminate the masses, striking a chord with various supporters, even if a burgeoning interest.

A more muted performance has increased on a municipal scale. Racial profiling has become a bit more prolific through tactics used that disproportionately fine, condemn and imprison persons of color at a higher rate for the same offenses wronged by whites.

Stereotyping and acceptance of these attitudes accelerates a more aggressive action. Fundamentally, the impacts for these injustices are fines. Pay up in order to continue to receive the benefit or loose the privilege. These callous acts define anyone with a hew of melanin egregiously. Without the finances to withstand the tremendous paperwork and know how in dealing with the chicanery involved, a first time offender would do almost anything to keep their threatened independence. Most, if not all, succumb to sanctions. In doing so, a non-verbal guilty plea is entered. How's that for a write down for freedom?

Profit has unfortunately found its way into the medical arena too. Sure, everyone needs financial gain but as whose risk? There are a few approaches that could be taken. This is the one, which maims or even kills.

Potential patients want a specific treatment (cosmetic and non health/life threatening surgeries). They fail to learn all that needs to be known about all potential health risks involved. The focus for both doctor and patient is that as long as there is no cap to the financial abilities, the needless surgeries may be performed and even repeated. This is true to plastic surgery junkies. Patient cannot stop requesting surgery for this tuck and that implant. The doctor looses complete sense of the Hippocratic oath taken and becomes saturated in greed.

Just when you thought all the bases were covered, our state government now has the ability to abuse its power by infringing on the dream that many Americans hope to experience. Eminent Domain, a legal principal used to take property from a landowner in order to use the land for a public use, is becoming a more familiar term in our daily vernacular. The owner is offered a 'so called fair price' and the new owner replaces the old property with a highway, municipal or school building however, eminent domain is being denoted for the benefit of developers and commercial interests and profiting at 10 times the cost. Sadly, rapacity has taken over a great many things. It does not seem to be a wanton action but in quite a few cases, a stealthy economic one.