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The International Writers Magazine: Austerity is a dirty word

Unkiss The Austerity

• Jerry Cunningham

Wall Street and London have us rubbing

our national eyes over the new word that

the banksters have oozed out of insatiable,

intestinal worm machine: “austerity”.

Merriam-Websters has given it the 2010

Word of the Year Award—that online

dictionary saw “austerity” searched a

quarter of a million times in 2010—as the

people scratched and sniffed for its

meaning.

“Austerity” is more than a mean word; it’s a code word for more global pain; it’s a

pox upon your houses; it’s an act of violence coming to a theatre near you.

And the boys got MBAs and swore to ‘retire by 30.’ Then, on to the humorless

glass edifices of finance. Those edifices house humming, after-glowing networks

of caffeine, dudes and computer screens that shine and act in unison like families

of gut bacteria. And the MBA is now a ticket to ride the wilding waves of . . .

Wall Street . . . software. The people, though, were sickened by bailing out the

banks and the people relapsed into wretching when the banksters exposed their

dominatrix skill in coming out on top.

That second wretching was the record profiteering for the banksters as the people

bought dinner at 7-Eleven and reeled from job and life loss, chapter elevens,

foreclosures, and shame, with nowhere to rest our collective head, much less to

land.

The banksters saw themselves as the victims of the great unwashed who simply do

not understand that, without the banksters, there will be no economy on Monday.

The people, by contrast, saw themselves as victims of a computer-driven, but

short-lived – we thought –

bailout of crooks and liars and their governmental codependents. The peoplethought that, after the bailout, and then, after the bonuses, the banksters would

fade away like the itch on a red, bumpy rash that no one but the doctor ever knew

about.

The people were wrong.

The banksters, unlike democracy, plan to be around regardless of the form of

government; the banksters, unlike the people, will lose not a penny if the people

lose in a minute the value of the work of centuries. Citigroup’s buildings, in the

view of the crooks and liars inhabiting them, have more permanence than a sappy

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Lincoln memorial. Certainly, from the architectural looks of bank headquarters

worldwide, the banksters have concluded that Fortress Finance will outlast, and

probably own, both The Green Zone and the greenback.

As 2011 lets its guard down, the people of the United States are about to get a

surprise punch to the face.

Round 1: Bailout.

Round 2: Wild Bankster Profits During Planetary Disaster Caused By The

Banksters.Round 3: “The Austerity.”

You have to give the banksters credit; they are shaking down a nation by having

young males hit ENTER. The big fat shudders in 2011 and beyond in the U.S.

shall come from the bankster plan for your austerity.

You might have thunk that “Hey, we’ve already had a lot of pain, we’ve sacrificed

plenty in the past 30 years, and we took it on the chin for the past 3 years—the

worst is behind us.”

And you would have thunk wrong. For the banksters are not done with you -- in

herpes-like fashion, there is much more to come.

Here is how Round 3 came about. In Round 1, the banksters convinced their

codependents in government that only a massive bailout of the banks could save

this universe and all those parallel to it. In Round 2, the banksters got paid while

the people got tased.

Throughout prior centuries, we, the people, planned for future troubles and built

our house of laws. The quiet times of the dead Americans left us with ways out of

troubles -- should those troubles come. We look at those deals, those ways, those

means, those nails hand-hammered by silent carpenters, as if painted in

permanence like the three-point line in basketball. But what is more permanent,

the U.S. or Goldman Sachs?

It is way too male to call them ‘nails in the frame of a house’ no matter who or

when those framers. Let us be agreeable, then, and call those nails, deals,

arrangements, understandings, and ways and means by the more American word,

our laws.

American laws are often richly soaken by the endless, toothless, hairy termites

known as the merciless greedy. Every generation tries to keep those termites in

check and keep our good wood and burn the rest. The most recent loveless,

generational mockery of decency resulted in bailouts and bonuses. We, the

people, were left with a less perfect union, but our house of law still stands. Will

colonies of virulent MBAs turn their tiny termite teeth again on the people and

hum away at the foundational laws of the U.S.?

Can we protect the good body of law planted on our smiling national lips by

slobbering, loving relatives from our American past? The fixed kiss of ages: we

wrote these laws down like epistles so as to always be in remembrance that the

kisses were planted for permanence. Our laws were meant to be unlike the

butterfly whisper and more like bony ebony

Yet, our generation’s banksters now – in 2011 and beyond -- bring a one-word


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seduction to our wives and daughters. The one-word seduction of the banksters

(FYI, they’re after little boys, too) is: “austerity.”

When a stranger’s cold, powdered, deadly hand reaches for the warmth of your

kid’s privates you should flee with your child. We must flee from austerity

programs that hurt a nation for the sake of bonus cash.

Austerity has word-babies: words and phrases like, “scaring the bond markets,”

“cutting fat,” “the new normal”, “reassuring markets”, “unsustainable debt” (as if our country were a barbershop that may go out of business except for the tough

love of the banksters), “trimming fat”, “loss of market confidence,” and “sovereign

risk.” Other word-babies seeded by the banksters, without a sniff of sexual irony,

are: “layoffs,” “debt loads,” “shrinkage,” “haircuts” and “fiscal pain.”

Rather than be arrested for disturbing the peace, the banksters want immunity:

immunity from bankster austerity; immunity from our laws; immunity from loss of

unearned, flat-screened bankster cash.

The director of photography for the austerity plans has story-boarded these

images:

private ‘rating agencies’ threaten to downgrade the credit rating of the U.S.;1.

banksters want higher interest rates paid to them by the U.S.;2.

the banksters threaten to dry up the ability of the U.S. to borrow in their

“markets”;

3.

the Pentagon is forced to hold bake sales;4.

the people are forced to work harder and longer, while paying higher taxes

for lessened public services;

5.

the bankster PR machine and related noise-makers divide and conquer the

people by encouraging fights

6.

between young indebted students and elderly social security recipients1.

between private sector workers and ‘spoiled’ government employees,and

2.

over the standard colors (black v. white v. brown).3.

We have no immunity from the financial, political and PR STDS jointly known as

a national austerity program. Indeed, with a U.S. economy on its knees we look up

with meth eyes from our knee-pads. Will we succumb again? Must all good bitch

slaps to the face of the nation come in threes? We, the people, are porn to the

banksters, and austerity is their money shot.

© Jerry Cunningham FEB 2011.

Jerry is a retired California lawyer and currently teaches law in Oregon. His email

is: [email protected]

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