This piece was written during Lent 2009, a season of religious observance for many, during which they spiritually look to their Half-Negroid Savvy Black-Reparations Bailout Savior in Washington to save them from massively-media-hyped financial ruin and devastation by printing and dispersing loan money to Wall Street lenders to be lent to banks which in turn is earmarked for pork-boondoggle borrowers.....while metro-area company parking lots are full of cars belonging to employees peacefully and orderly continue on with their everyday paycheck-to-paycheck employment.

The U.S. Government printing more difficult-to-counterfeit paper bills (and bills is an appropriate term to use instead of cash or money) reminds me of the game of Monopoly which I never was as much interested in compared to playing checkers. [Frankly, I always liked games which had a definite ending, in which the players were either black or white (red or black) and not shades of fuzzy-compromising nor situation-ethics gray].

To continue the Monopoly analogy, the game board and objects with processes and mechanisms thereon is of and directed by the Government of the United States, and the play money involved in the financial transfers is printed up by the Federal Reserve of the Treasury Department. When the participating players in the game (who themselves are the working assets making it all worth it to the Government) run out of play money, Sugar Daddy prints more of the fake but difficult-to-counterfeit stuff, and lends it to the players to enable them to keep on playing the game. Comical but absurd it is that Sugar Daddy in essence had to borrow money from himself to keep the whole thing going.

What clearly is worth real wealth is not any questionably-available actual gold and gold reserves, but the media-puffed publicized approval and re-direction of public opinion, jobs, actual construction materials, plus real buildings and real services the players engage in and interact with relating to each other and their Sugar-Daddy government. Such is evident by the fact that the metal gold is not the exchange medium we use when we get groceries, buy cars, houses, gasoline, insurance, pay utility bills, vacations, entertainment, etc. Instead, the counterfeit-proof Federal-Reserve-Note paper is the sacred commodity of exchange, and not the metal gold whatsoever. The metal gold is too heavy and bulky to carry around, anyway, and is too easily hoarded, lost, tarnished, and non-replaceable compared to reprintable paper. The idea of a worldwide standardized-currency "gold shekel of the sanctuary" is too repulsive for the subtly-or-overtly antisemitic within ours and other countries to even consider.

This webauthor is afraid that the basic loan-and-borrow lending-facilitation immentality that caused the loss of investment funds is still present, along with the eventual and disasterous ramification of a hugh national deficit and debt this time around for kickers later on. "If you don't the money to buy it, buy it anyway" lending and borrowing is yet the name of the game, from Barack and his administration on down, disregarding the Biblical observations:

Pr 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, "Restore!"
Isa 55:1 "Hey, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isa 55:2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in fatness.
Hag 1:6 You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.
Ro 13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

It is not how much consumers spend in irresponsible and pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by presumptive consumer spending which reflects the true state of the economy and which helps an ailing economy, but rather how much they save, have saved, and are NOT in debt that comprises the actual financial condition of the populace, plus increases their financial viability, stability, and survival.

Lent money for more joblessness-and-inflation-caused foreclosures supplemented by pay-it-back-with-interest foreclosure "prevention" and "alleviation" with pseudo-freebie "money" is still rife and reeking as across-the-board general public policy. The buck stops somewhere, and Sugar Daddy is stuck with the tab from the financially foolhardy and joblessly greedy.

Perhaps instead of the IRS income and corporate taxes, history will repeat itself pertaining to an eventual replacement with some internal 20% Fair Tax (a consumption tax), supplemented by for-the-good-of-Chief-Obama outright donations to supplement import tariff taxes, reminiscent of:

Gen 47:13 Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us food; why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone."
16 And Joseph answered, "Give your cattle, and I will give you food in exchange for your cattle, if your money is gone."
17 So they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the asses: and he supplied them with food in exchange for all their cattle that year.
18 And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.
19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate."
20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh's;
21 and as for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
22 Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.
23 Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
24 And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones."
25 And they said, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh."
26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh's.

Big Brother is not alone, and will be joined by the G-20, G-10, or G-7 alliances of internationalist bankers which includes the horn of the EU and eastern-block countries. George Bush and Saddam Hussein apparently made the destined repository of world wealth in an anciently-predicted location called Baghdad, presently located in Iraq. Tons of "money" have been allocated and transferred into that particular place. At this point, it is not certain whether the horn of the United Nations will relocate to Jerusalem or Baghdad, if they do relocate out of New York city:

Da 8:3 I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the river. It had two horns; and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.
Da 8:6 He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the river, and he ran at him in his mighty wrath.
Da 8:7 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns; and the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled upon him; and there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.
Da 8:20 As for the ram which you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.
Re 13:11 Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

The world centre of commerce is prophetically destined to become Baghdad, I guess, and both Bush along with the international coalition and Saddam with the Arabs prepared the way. It seems that the Sunnis and the Shiites will be divided, along with their supporters, as to being in the north:

Daniel 11:6 After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make peace; but she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his offspring shall not endure; but she shall be given up, and her attendants, her child, and he who got possession of her.
Dan 11:7 "In those times a branch from her roots shall rise in his place; he shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.
Da 11:8 He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their molten images and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.
Da 11:11 Then the king of the south, moved with anger, shall come out and fight with the king of the north; and he shall raise a great crowd, but it shall be given into his hand.
Da 11:13 For the king of the north shall again raise a horde, greater than the former; and after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.
Da 11:15 Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks, and take a well-fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his picked troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.
Da 11:40 "At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him; but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.

or the south:

Da 11:5 "Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and his dominion shall be a great dominion.
Da 11:6 After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make peace; but she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his offspring shall not endure; but she shall be given up, and her attendants, her child, and he who got possession of her.
Da 11:9 Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return into his own land.
Da 11:11 Then the king of the south, moved with anger, shall come out and fight with the king of the north; and he shall raise a great crowd, but it shall be given into his hand.
Da 11:14 "In those times many shall rise against the king of the south; and the men of violence among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfil the vision; but they shall fail.
Da 11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.
Da 11:40 "At the time of the end the king of the south shall attack him; but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.

of the river Euphrates in Iraq:

Re 16:12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

with Babylon Baghdad the world-center financial capital:

Re 14:8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of her impure passion."
Re 16:19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath.
Re 17:3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.
4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication;
5 and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations."
6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.
7 But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while.
11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to perdition.
12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.
13 These are of one mind and give over their power and authority to the beast;
14 they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
15 And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the harlot is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,
17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and giving over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman that you saw is the great city which has dominion over the kings of the earth." and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations."
Re 18:2 And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul and hateful bird;
Re 18:10 they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! alas! thou great city, thou mighty city, Babylon! In one hour has thy judgment come."
Re 18:16 "Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
Re 18:19 And they threw dust on their heads, as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! In one hour she has been laid waste.
Re 18:21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So shall Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and shall be found no more.....

Why the river Euphrates is to become dried up might be because it could become the only right-of-way-allowed route for the 666-tattooed and their dynamic-duo satanically-idolized beast leaders (mentioned in Revelation chapter 13 and thereafter within the New Testament of The HOLY BIBLE) to assemble themselves for battle against the Lord and those belonging to Him in the Valley of Megiddo sometimes referred to as Armageddon:

Rev 16:1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."
2 So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
8 The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch men with fire;
9 men were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.
12 The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
13 And I saw, issuing from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three foul spirits like frogs;
14 for they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
15 ("Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed!")
16 And they assembled them at the place which is called in Hebrew Armageddon.
17 The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"
18 And there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as had never been since men were on the earth, so great was that earthquake.
19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered great Babylon, to make her drain the cup of the fury of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found;
21 and great hailstones, heavy as a hundred-weight, dropped on men from heaven, till men cursed God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that plague.

Rev 19:19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against Him who sits upon the horse and against His army.
20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.
21 And the rest were slain by the sword of him who sits upon the horse, the sword that issues from his mouth; and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

The above-mentioned Scripture verses quite accurately portray our present sexually-corrupt-and-woefully-deficient "evil and adulterous generation" Christ alluded to in His time. The hard drive of our erotically-lurid-and-perverse society is in serious need of sexual defragmentation, in that there is far too much depraved and shameless public immodesty (particular during warm spring and summer days) of improper [mopheaded] hairstyles, absence of armwear and legwear, truncated legwear concerning shorts and shortened skirts, along with filthy and defiling sockslessness in sandals or flip-flops.....while there is not enough incentive and encouragement for heterosexual marriage and legitimate-plus-necessary Song-of-Solomon-concordant nude exhibitionism and consequential copulation within the privacy and confines of matrimony.