Here is the list of Fuzzwords with used with THIS financial specter:
FATAL STAGNATION
FEAR YEARS OF NO EXPANSION
CATASTROPHE DOUBT
PROSPECT LOSS
LACK RECOVERY.
Ok. Now burn those and I’ll tell you about the latest specter being Fuzzworded.
It is called Deflation, which means, stuff getting cheaper.
In order to understand DE-flation, you first have to understand IN-flation.
Now you know IN-flation has happened, because you need more bucks to buy a given bang, as in bang for the buck. When inflation has been done to you, you get less bang per buck. So 1 dollar which used to buy a loaf of bread, now only buys 90% of the loaf of bread, and a dollar which used to buy a can of beer, only buys half a can of beer these days. Got it? The basic story, as I will explain, is your friendly Politico nicked the rest of of your dollar, which was mean of him and his legalized sticky fingers.
So inflation is just bucks with less bang.
Much as Politico would like Fuzzword you BELIEVEing that INflation is due to magic, an act of God, or interest rates which are too low, it isn’t. He dunnit. But he tries to make you believe THEY dunnit. Or that anyone else Dunnit but him. Because if you really understood he dunnit, you might get pissed. Unfortunately there are only about three political writers on earth who ever studied Agatha Christie so everybody else believes the Fuzzwording Politco.
So how COULD DEflation happen – things getting cheaper?
Well there are two finds of Deflation. First let’s talk about the kind the Politico does not like.
Nobody wants to buy anything because they are in panic mode and want to hoard everything and possibly because they are afraid of being out of job or they just got fired and so the price of everything drops to try and punt the stuff to the buyers at any price. And since they got fired and maybe can’t eat, everybody wants to work at ANYTHING to get ANY money, so the price of work drops and prices go into a tailspin.
THAT is (politically bad) deflation because it effectively gives the Defishit steroids to drink so it gets lots of muscles and proceeds to throw pops round the financial ring.
But there is another kind of deflation.
If you think of it, a country or an industry or a family SHOULD be getting more efficient as time goes by, and SHOULD be producing more per unit of work and prices SHOULD therefore always be going down.
For example, if Sonny was cutting the lawn for 10 bucks, using a pair of scissors and taking a day, and then he bought a lawn mower and did it now in 10 minutes, he might say “since Billy Joe has a mower too and that fella’s a cheapskate as well, I will now charge you ONLY! 7.50 to mow your lawn and go an mow ten other lawns for 7.50 and then I will be Bill Mower Gates and go and buy up Billy Joe”. If he does NOT do that Billy Joe is likely to make a behind the scenes deal with pops and mow the lawn for 5 bucks.
The price of lawn mowing just Deflated but more lawns are mown faster and the whole joint looks like less of a dump.
It used to cost $10,000 to make a mobile phone profitably. Do you think there would be almost as many mobile phones as there is population in Western countries today if the price of phones had NOT deflated down to $15 for a throw-away? And was that BAD?
Let’s try it out. We will use Fuzzwords on some deflation topics to see how well it works and see if this “deflation is bad” specter stacks up:
“Dell announced today that it had been able to deflate the average price of a laptop over the last 3 years from nearly 2,000 down to 650.00. Financial commentators discussed the FATAL STAGNATION which had occurred over the last 3 years due to the deflationary effects on the laptop market and decried with FEAR the YEARS OF NO EXPANSION that had occurred in the computer industry since the prices fell. The CATASTROPHIC drop in laptop prices raised DOUBTs that the FEARS of PROSPECT of LOSS were justified and that the LACK of RECOVERY in laptop sales that has gone on for several years will continue for many years to come”. The hitch is, Laptop sales actually multiplied considerably over the period of the price drop……
“Cellphone makers today announced that the LACK of RECOVERY or improvement of sales of cellphones from one cellphone a month when they were introduced 20 years ago is due to the FATAL price deflation from 10,000 dollars to fifteen resulting in market STAGNATION and lack of sales. The industry FEARs that these YEARS OF NO EXPANSION will continue as the deflationary CATASTROPHE continues to sow DOUBT that the PROSPECTs of continuing LOSSes will improve” The hitch is, they sell tens of millions a month
So perhaps Deflation is actually a good beast.
Now you can see how Fuzzwords work, because if I printed the above Fuzzwords in lower case, you would believe every word of it, short the cellphone manufacturers and expect to make 20% per annum based on the fact that their cellphone sales remained at 1 a year.
So now you understand why deflation is BAD because a Politico does not like it and wants you to think it is BAD BAD BAD (for HIS health) and so that you do not wake up to the fact that INflation is NOT normal, because that would blow his personal account fattening act.
So you see from this that the normal state of affairs OUGHT to be deflation and if it is not, you know without looking that a Politico Pickpocket Twistmouth Stealypus Fuzzwordus has had his sticky remote money printing handle winding hand in your wallet in your back pocket and remotely fiddled what is in there, so that now 100 of your wallet’s contents only buy 6.6 mown lawns instead of 10 and he is now off somewhere in a fancy charter jet ride with the other 3.3 mown lawns he has Slitherly Twistymouthed out of your wallet while you were anaesthetized with Fuzzwords. Which, of course, is in addition to bribing you to stick it to your grandkids, so he can go to the chartered beach twice that year.
So you see, dear sucker, it didn’t hurt at all, did it?
So don’t waste my time, vote for the politico offering you the biggest bribes.
If I sneer, it is because really, you are just as bad as he is, in fact worse, because you are lazier, and someone who would stick it to their kids to feather their own nest, well, I need to find some juicier, more evocative, more spitty synonyms for “despise.”
So next time it is time to vote,
Read all the Fuzzganda – the technical name for political propaganda, such as a “political agenda” which has enough Fuzzwords to short out a power station.
Carve three Bs in the palm of your hand with a brainscrew (Politicos don’t mind if there is a bit of blood on the ballot). BACK THE BIGGEST BRIBER – 3 Bs, got it?
Or, go sell your grandkids to China as slaves right now without waiting and give the Politico the sale money. Comes to the same thing anyway, in the long run.
Me?
What am I doing about it?
Why, trying to wake YOU up of course?
Do you think I LIKE spending my weekend writing this, setting myself up as a target for your knee-jerk spitfest with which you will respond?
Accompanied by your aria in very flat minor, “I am not responsible for ANYthing E-v-v-v-ver”?
Do you think I like making myself a target for your “what a dis-gust-ing little man he has to be-ah, my deah!”
So me, I am trying poke pins in your Fuzzword soaked brain to see if I can, by some lucky trick, blow up the short circuit between your idle accounts center and your overboosted greed center.
I am listening hopefully for the flash bang and burst of blue light coming out of your ears as those crazy circuits get fried and blow up.
Still listening.
Still listening.
Maybe there were no brain cells there in the first place.
Do you think I enjoy telling people I like very much that they are in cahoots with a whole class of Politico/Mafia rip off artists, with whom they conspire to rip off their own offspring for their own personal benefit, and with whom they then divide up the stolen goodies, using the Politico as a fence to get rid of the said stolen goodies?
Is that what you call fu
n?
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