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Dear Abby, my economy's been cheating on me

Deepak Chopra - December 22, 2008

The shock is in the statistics. For the months of September and October, consumer confidence fell lower than at any time since it's been measured, going back forty years. The same for consumer expectations for the future. More than 70% of Americans say they are spending less than last year. A third of Americans are at risk for moving downward economically, another third know someone who is in that position.

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Posted by Deepak Chopra at December 22, 2008 12:56 PM

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Hi Deepak and Everyone,

Everything has happened too fast, it is not even close to be digested by the public.

Barak Obama will take over the reigns of a horse that has been beaten, run ragged, and denied nourishment. The horse is barely able to hold it's weight, it legs are too shaky. Barak Obama will have to make the call....to try and save it's life or put it down, either way, when he makes his choice the American public will feel the effect and it will be very sobering.

Well, there is one good thing in all this mess, I think, and, that, might be that after all the good time "charlies" have taken all their hoards of cash and sped off into the sunset of some "island paradise," maybe, we'll get some folks who actually care about the well being of this Nation, maybe.

Really, if ever a Nation needed some good ole fashion house cleaning, this one does, we have really let ourselves go.

An example, a friend needed a certain drug, not the generic brand, so, her doctor checked the little box saying to fill it with the non-generic brand. She takes it to be filled and they tell her that they cannot fill it because the insurance company has to "discuss" it with "their" doctors and okay it, it could take a couple of days.....really, this is the kind of sheet we have done to ourselves... we pay health insurance companies extravagant fees so they can torture us to death when we are sick.

Yes, now, seems like a real good time for Americans to "get their heads examined."

have a great evening, ruth

Dear Deepak,

It seems that those that have an investment in the current system of things find it hard to face the truth or speak of it. What I hear is a treatment for the disease not an elimination of the root cause. Although the current system sufficed to a degree in the past it will not suffice in the present.

Most of worlds management and even celebrity are invested in the current system framework, most all the wealthy are, as are those academics, CPA’s and Lawyers that are rewarded for maintaining the illusion based system that gives some a disproportionate advantage or allocation, well exceeding their contribution based on reality in an authentic economic system. One can be sure there are notable exceptions as well but the focus is not on the minority but the majority.

Most of the individuals that the common people might trust to serve or lead them honestly fail them because of their attachment to that which creates the imbalance. Those that some might claim as an adversary have actually locked them into the fiction based system, so that they would not be inclined to bring attention to the truth.

A severe imbalance already exists, and there is no simple correction for it with the current system design. Since those in the position to change it have a vested interest this change is left to someone like me and others. Since I have no large investment in the current system to which I have an attachment there is no ego incentive to preserve it.

Some would claim they create their abundance with their minds and deserve what they have, perhaps they fail to look deeper and understand but we can be sure that they also create the consequences to come in their minds as well.

It is unfortunate that those created wealth through the creation of genuine value have become mixed in with the majority that created a method of false. Then are those that thought they were creating value but in reality they were not; blinded by what they wanted to be true and see because they would profit.

There was another option but apparently the ego prevented those that could from engaging it, thus their path was chosen, the destination was not.

I gave up my six figure income to “save the world” or rather bring it to balance, it is unfortunate that wealthy of the world would not give up a share of similar proportion.
Not that I expect them to, and I am not saying they should, only that they could. I know my ego wouldn’t want to give it up either, but I would hope that the spirit would preside. The glitz can be seductive. Of course it is an illusion that the world needs to be saved, but it makes for a compelling drama at least in my own mind. I suspect that it is supposed to happen this way for some intricate evolutionary reason not easily understood. Robin Hood has always been a popular story line and what actor would not want a chance to play that role?

It is true that we create our wealth, our reality, and if we lose it we created that situation as well.

It doesn’t seem that one bothered to invest the time to understand the core issues with the economic system design and the remedy, which is okay, for although I may not understand it everything happens perfectly and I realize more and more that I should not necessarily seek the aid of those with power but should in fact transfer power to the many as one and seek aid directly from them, this way it helps to keep the ego at bay so the spirit can just do it’s thing without interference.

Time is not solution, change is, and of course time is change but only in nature. What must change is in the mind and here there is no time.

The citizens of the United States went into debt, gave it the banking industry to be loaned back to them. The Banking industry kept it for themselves. In doing so they have signed their industries own death warrant, fate has already decided the day of execution.

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