The Chicken or the Nest Egg?
What is the best way to control people? ….thinking….thinking…still thinking. Time’s up!!
Control their finances, you silly goose! Isn’t it lack of money that keeps most people slaving all their lives? At least for their families, if not for themselves? If you’ve got children, you gotta keep going for their sake.
People who jumped out of the windows during the Great Depression were probably the childless ones. Prior to the great depression, suicide in the US was 14 per 100,000 but rose to 17 per 100,000 in 1932, shortly before FDR was elected.
Oh, Ok, some of you die hard anti-establishment types will try to say that money isn’t the most important thing in your life—that you’ve risen above the almighty dollar. You probably try to say that you’re health is really where it’s at.
My daddy used to tell me that all the time: “If you don’t have your health, Laura, you don’t have anything.” I believe you, daddy, I would nod my head in agreement and I grew up to own a health food store. Lately, though,I’ve been rethinking my daddy’s wisdom.
IN 2008, “Good Morning America” did a segment titled “Recession Depression”. Reporter Chris Cuomo explained personal finances have people so stressed out that they are developing health problems.
“A rising tide of distress is going to be manifest in mental health problems, suicide rates, heart disease,” said Dr. Redford Williams—the expert, Cuomo interviewed.
In truth, we have a real chicken and egg dilemma here, folks. What comes—the collapse of your health or the collapse of your finances? They are pretty much intertwined in this country.
Even if you do have private health insurance, the percentage you have to pay out of pocket for a so-called serious condition can kill you. If your health collapses, generally speaking, your finances aren’t far behind. And conversely, if your finances collapse, your health generally follows suite.
So back to the original question. What’s the best way to control people? Governments control people by taxing them almost to the point of no return–it keeps their minds off the issues. Religions scarf up as much of the money as they possibly can, too, even begging from the poverty stricken masses, then abandoning them.
Take the Catholic Church, for example, closing down its neighborhood churches and schools under the pretense of poverty, even saying those puny law suits against their pedophile priests broke the bank.
The Catholic Church has the right to close down any of its franchises when they under perform. Doesn’t it?
At least, that’s how they look at it. Being in the soul saving business, though, you’d think they’d take some responsibility for the poor folks they’ve hooked to their pap. Closing churches, on one hand, and telling people they’ll go to hell for not attending on the other is pretty unconscionable.
And now it’s time for a quote from the Church’s representative.
‘The Catholic church,’ one nationally syndicated priest said, ‘must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.’
What a cruel joke on the poor people they beg from! The Catholic Church has more money than any other country, bank or organization in the world. Vatican City is a recognized international territory under international law. The Pope rules over the body, the mind and the spirit combined, and his influence goes far beyond the small borders. 
The Catholic Church in its glory days used to controlled a great deal of the world out right and call the shots, like the crusades, for instance—those were some shots. The central headquarters of the Catholic Church has never been invaded, seized or pillaged—meaning, all that money has been accumulating in banks for years—just amassing and accruing interest on the interest for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Not to mention, the values of their antiques, buildings and properties just climb and climb. Five hundred years ago people bought their way to heaven. The Catholic Church would sell them lots in a gated paradise for a hefty price, only affordable to the wealthiest noblemen, of course. A rich bad guy used to be able to buy himself a nice spot behind the pearly gates with a view next to God.
My cousin bought her way out of a Catholic marriage once, so she could marry someone new and stay in good standing with the Church. All she had to do was pay a thousand bucks to get a piece of paper in the mail saying she was never married in the Catholic Church. The Church probably turned a handsome profit on that 1000, too. They got some savvy investors working for them.
“The Vatican’s treasure of solid gold has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. A large bulk of this is stored in gold ingots with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, while banks in England and Switzerland hold the rest. But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country. When to that is added all the real estate, property, stocks and shares abroad, then the staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.
Rational assesment….hmmm, there’s a thought. Could we have a round of rational assessment, please? My treat.
Tags: Catholic Church, Catholic Church real estate, Great Depression, Vatican City wealth, World Corportations