There are over 31,000,000 folk who want your attention on the internet when “Lazy Money” is searched. None of the hits are serious information. Most are get rich schemes intended to bilk the desperate among us. As a country, it is time to take lazy money seriously. Why? The truth is that lazy money controls our politics, our economy, our banks, our trade relations, our politicians and most of all our national moral center. The “our” reference is we the people. Those of us who work hard to support our families and pay the taxes to support those who are supposed to represent us. Instead, lazy money is the grease that is destroying our democracy.
A definition of lazy money is now due. Lazy money is the stock market of Wall Street. Labor has been redefined as a spectator sport rooting for the upward tick of our investments or retirement funds. When the few create a disaster, we taxpayers pay the bill. Why aren’t the Wall Street thieves in jail? The rational for bailouts and stimulus actions is to protect the economy. Some would say that the actual motive is to protect Wall Street and the lazy money in the stock market.
One hundred and fifty years ago President Abraham Lincoln spoke just a few words to honor the fallen Americans at the Civil War battleground of Gettysburg. That critical hour was much like this critical hour. In that hour the greed of the few was fracturing the American governmental experiment. President Lincoln took a stand to preserve the union regardless of cost. In this hour the greed of the Wall Street few is fracturing our American governmental experiment. The people have no voice in their own destiny. There is no ethic, no right or wrong except as it might influence the stock market.
The people are merely a commodity to be used or abused as the market forces so dictate. You have the right to disagree with this assessment but some of us believe it to be our place in history. And we don’t like it. Are we the people powerless victims? No, at this moment in time we must stand up as Americans in like manner to the national resolve in the days of President Lincoln. Some things are worth dying for.
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last measure of devotion-- that this nation , under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
President Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863.
