I'd like to suggest that we begin to carefully divorce ourselves from money. While Teabag Jesus certainly wouldn't have gone around cavorting with a tax collector, for Christ's sake, and would be rather more likely to vend in the temple market -- something crafty, no doubt -- than to borrow a whip to mark the actual disgrace.
What could provoke such a violent reaction, an assault by any measure, perhaps the act of a terrorist -- from the Prince of Peace? One has to wonder, if not at the answer, then at least on the disconnect between Jesus and his hangers-on. Few of these can meet the stringent requirement for discipleship: Sell your possessions and give to the poor. The rich dude goes away sad. Poor sad rich dude.
But anyway religion is beside the point entirely. I wondered for a long time when I would see the q-word in reference to some global economic catastrophe. Quadrillion. Cue "The Jerk": "One hundred dollars!"
Well it happened.
Funny story about that. The authors cannot bring themselves to introduce such a profanity as "$1 quadrillion" in respect to gambling debts:
A trillion? It used to be that a trillion was a lot of money, but my eyes opened when I saw the Opednews.com article by Sharon Kayser, titled, "Hey Buddy, Can You Spare $1,000 Trillion?"
Instantly, I knew that someone had erred! A thousand trillions? Hahaha! What a preposterous number! The Shock of a Thousand Trillions
Just to be clear, this is what we are multiplying by 1,000 to get to a quadrillion:
Just How Much Money is $1.25 Trillion?
In today's financial headlines - the word Trillion is often casually thrown around. So much so, that it's easy to lose perspective on how much money this really represents. Picture a stack of $100 bills. It might surprise you to know that it only takes a stack four inches high to be worth $100,000. So $1,000,000 would be a stack of $100 bills 40 inches tall. How about a Billion? Well, you would have to stack $100 bills up to the top of the Empire State Building...twice...in order to reach a Billion. So to picture $1.25 Trillion represented by a stack of $100 bills - that stack would be 850 miles high. If you could turn that stack on its side and were able to drive alongside it, it would take you longer than 14 hours to reach the end. If you laid those $100 bills down side by side, they would travel around the world 50 times. We're talking about a lot of money here.
Where Are Rates Headed And Why? by Barry Habib
The bottom line is, folks, we're now talking about the amount of money that currently exists as identifiable debt going around the world in Benjamins 50,000 times. Fifty. Thousand. times.
Money is no longer coupled to reality, only to greed, which is by definition insatiable. This means that there is not enough wealth in the world for all the debts to be satisfied. The system of money is broken, as broken as the market for your underwater house.
I'm suggesting not only walking away from the house and accepting the inevitable paper losses, which some economists suggest is warranted by the circumstances. I'm saying we should extricate ourselves as soon as possible from the maws of national currencies issued by private banksters at our literal expense; but with a mind to not disturbing the gorged beast of corporatism lest it sniff in our direction. No sudden movements, please. Just stop thinking in terms of money, and think about how it would feel to live every day as gift of yourself to those you love.
Or just get a job. Oh, sorry. Never mind.