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Punishing Victims
By
Robert Gover, USA.
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[Kudos to Saptarishis astrological magazine.
Kindly refer Vol.4th, pages 28-36 wherein
Mr. Robert Grover has clearly predicted
about economic recession in USA in between
2010-2015 and especially in between 2012-2015.
This article is worth recording by the
economic astrologers for guidance
Congratulations to Mr. Robert Grover and
the SA magazine team.
Sincerely,
Mr. Chiranjilal Purohit.
Bikaner, Rajasthan, India]
obert Gover (born November 2, 1929)
grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard
College in Philadelphia), attended the
University of Pittsburgh on athletic
scholarship (swimming the butterfly),
received a degree in economics, worked as
a journalist, became a bestselling novelist
by age 30, lived most of his life in
California where he began his study of
astrology, and now resides in Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware. His latest novel is Two
Brothers. He describes it as an “economic
novel.”
One brother becomes a
millionaire, the other a skid row bum. A
third character was an economics professor
till he studied astrology—he was
subsequently confined in an insane
asylum.
Robert’s first novel, One
Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, is a
satire on racism and remains a cult classic.
He has published 10 novels and 2 works of
nonfiction, including Time and Money:
the Economy and the Planets. He can be
reached at [email protected].
T
he great victory of the Tea Party
Republicans in arm-twisting
Congress to pass, and President
Obama to sign, the raising of the socalled debt ceiling is a hoax. It arose out
of a political dilemma created by
previous laws and it violated the
Constitution. New Yorker Magazine
(Aug. 8, 2011) called what the Tea Party
Republicans did “ideological fanaticism,
political ruthlessness, and economic
heedlessness…reckless and irresponsible
beyond imagining.”
Fittingly, when this bill was signed into
law, (See Chart 1) Neptune was conjunct
Chiron in Pisces with both opposite
Mercury and the Moon in Virgo, with all
four forming a T square with the USA’s
Uranus in Gemini. The Uranus-Pluto
square hitting the USA’s natal money
planets Venus and Jupiter didn’t help
ease the travail, especially given the
position of Mars opposite Pluto, with
both widely square Saturn conjunct the USA’s Saturn, square the USA’s Sun.
Chart 1
The fact is that the government is obligated by the Constitution to pay debts incurred
including pensions. This obligation was set forth in the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution, passed at the end of the Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment states
that debts already incurred shall not be questioned, “Including debts incurred for payment of
pensions.” That includes Social Security, which is an “entitlement” in the true sense of the
word: Retired Americans are entitled to it because they have already paid for it.
Congress passed the law imposing a debt ceiling on the federal budget in 1917. But
because Congress is obligated by the Constitution to pay debts incurred, that law is really
unconstitutional. Like other questionably Constitutional laws, it has not been questioned
or overturned. During the USA’s comparatively brief history, the Congress has been
caught up in various temporary fanaticisms, passing laws that contradicted the
Constitution or previous laws.
Republican advocates of the new bill passed August 2, 2011 were either misinformed or
working for the big banks, which have $1.6 trillion on hand, being used to back futures
and derivatives trades, making more money on money without producing anything of
tangible value. In other words, the Tea Partiers and other Republicans in Congress were
further punishing the victims of the 2008 bubble crash in order to further enrich
perpetrators of the crash, who ante up the most generous campaign contributions.
American democracy has morphed into “bribe-ocracy.”
P
resident Obama might have stood his ground and done what President Lincoln
did: Issue government dollars rather than borrowing dollars from what amounts to
a secret society, the member banks of the Federal Reserve. Government issued
dollars would be “demand” balanced against “supply.” That is, it would buy what is
needed, thus it would not add to inflation. In effect, the Obama Administration could
have stopped borrowing from private banks and created its own dollars to solve the debt
crisis.
But Obama has enabled the fanatical Republicans by asking little and getting less in his
negotiations with them. Instead of forthrightly insisting on addressing the nation’s
massive unemployment, he has allowed himself to focus on his political enemies’
irrational demands to reduce government spending—at a time when government funding
of projects to put people back to work are sorely needed. There’s plenty of work needed to
be done to restore the nation’s infrastructure, and an abundance of workers needing jobs.
Private companies cannot address these needs, as they do not return an immediate profit.
Only government can organize the work that is needed and fund it.
The debt ceiling is also misunderstood by many as meaning the federal government must
live within its means, spending no more than it raises in taxes and other revenues. This
is comparable to saying that people should not go into debt to buy cars needed to
commute to their jobs, or borrow from banks to buy homes.
Obama tried to correct another false impression of the federal debt when he said:
“Raising the debt ceiling simply gives our country the ability to pay the bills that Congress has
already racked up. I want to emphasize that. The debt ceiling does not determine how much more
money we can spend, it simply authorizes us to pay the bills we already have racked up. It gives the
United States of America the ability to keep its word.”
Since the creation of the Federal Reserve, the USA’s privately owned central bank in
December 1913, the dollar has inflated about 100%. In some cases—notably real estate—
the inflation rate has been much higher. That is, until the real estate bubble bursting of
2008, which drastically reduced the price of real estate. US Government spending on
wars and subsidies for big corporations has further depleted money for the vast majority
of American taxpayers, who are suffering today for lack of money. The following tale
illustrates the plight of Main Street America:
“It is a slow day in the small North Dakota town of Pumphandle and streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist
visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk
saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night. As soon as he
walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the
butcher. The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig
farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Coop. The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute,
who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit. The
hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner. The motel
proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect
anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are
not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves. No one produced anything. No one
earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the
future with a lot more optimism.”
Since the US Constitution demands the government pay its debts, imposing a debt
ceiling is ridiculous, and then creating a ruckus to raise it is fantastically ridiculous.
Nevertheless, this politically manufactured crisis dominated the nation and world, as
Republican members of Congress held the world hostage by creating a deadline to both
pass their austerity legislation and raise an artificial debt ceiling, or crash the world
economy.
The politics behind this arm-twisting is indicative. Republicans seek to defeat Obama in
2012, and a wrecked economy helps their cause. Democrats apparently see an opportunity
to allow Republicans to hang themselves as the public gradually catches on to this debt
ceiling fantasy—if in fact they do catch on in the present national atmosphere of
disinformation (Neptune conjunct Chiron opposite Mercury).
One phrase used to describe the conjunction of Neptune and Chiron in Pisces on the
Solar Fire program is, “You often resort to tears when your world of illusion is broken
into.” The massive illusion holding sway during this siege was that the government runs
its finances the same way families do “around the kitchen table.” This is like saying the
profit made by an individual farmer is the same as that made by a big agribusiness
corporation, forgetting that the farmer must live on his profit while the executives of the
big corporation deduct all salaries before calculating their corporate profit.
There were certainly other ways to solve the debt problem. Senator Ron Paul,
(Republican of Texas) advocated one. Ron Paul is often described as a maverick and/or a
Libertarian. Stephen Gandel explains Senator Paul’s solution in Time Magazine:
“In the last year or two the Fed has been buying up US Treasury bonds in an effort to lower
interest rates and boost the economy. The most recent round of that buying has been dubbed QE2,
and has come under a good deal of criticism, though most economists agree that it was a generally
helpful policy. The result is that the Fed now holds nearly $1.7 trillion in US debt. But that is
really phony debt. The Treasury pays the interest on the debt on behalf of the US government to
the Fed, which in turn returns 90 percent of the payments it gets back to the Treasury.
Nonetheless, that $1.7 trillion in US bonds that the Fed owns, despite the shell game of payments, is
still counted in the debt ceiling number, which caps that amount of total federal debt at $14.3
trillion…Paul's plan: Get the Fed and the Treasury to rip up that debt. It's fake debt anyway. And
the Fed is legally allowed to return the debt to the Treasury to be destroyed. A trillion and a half
dollars is currently about what spending is expected to exceed tax revenue in 2011.”
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t was ignorance of how government finances actually work that created this
ridiculous brouhaha over an artificial debt ceiling, and/or enabled the perpetrators of
it to hold the nation hostage till Congress and Obama caved in to their demands and
further punished the victims of the banking collapse of 2008. Going forward, Republicans
will chastise Obama for “running up the national debt,” when in fact Obama inherited a
huge debt incurred by the previous administration, plus a wrecked economy following
the bursting of the real estate bubble in 2007-2008.
By mid-2012, the Neptune-Chiron conjunction will be separating and, perhaps, the public will
emerge from this painful delusion and understand what really happened on August 2,
2011. Perhaps, but don’t count on it, because the American news media is owned and
controlled by right-wing conservatives who will benefit from the bill passed August 2,
2011.
Since about 70% of the economy is driven by consumer spending, this hoax will have the
worst possible effect going forward, expanding unemployment and poverty. What’s
needed is money in the hands of people who will spend it for necessities, not blow it
away to Wall Street casino bankers. What the debt ceiling bill does, instead, is threaten
to cut entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—and curtail
money for education and infrastructure repairs.
Conservative Republicans have been against programs that benefit the poor and middle
class—about 95 percent of the American population—since the 1930s when such
legislation was first enacted. Conservatives have persistently chipped away at such
programs over the past six decades, based on the belief that transferring money to the
wealthy will boost economic growth because the wealthy will invest in industrial
enterprises.
What has happened in recent decades, however, is that the wealthy have invested in
outsourcing American industries to cheap labor countries, and investing in futures and
derivatives. Also chipping away at the American economy has been a dramatic increase
in computer-driven automation, replacing workers with machines.
This virtually guarantees that the USA will be suffering another great depression by 2015, and
with a government that has gotten out of touch with the needs of its people, a second
American revolution becomes more likely.
Chart 1
In the above chart, the USA’s horoscope (with Gemini Rising) is on the inner wheel
while the planets for the August 2, 2011 passage of the debt ceiling bill are on the outer
wheel.
Notice, first, how the Neptune-Chiron conjunction in Pisces opposes Mercury and the Moon in
Virgo, forming a T square to the USA’s Ascendant and Uranus in Gemini.
Then notice how the grand cross formed by transiting Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Uranus
afflict the USA’s natal Venus, Jupiter and Sun in Cancer.
It is the slower moving, outermost planets that forecast future economic conditions, so it’s hard to
interpret this pattern as anything but negative for the future of the American economy.
And, since the long-lingering Uranus-Pluto square has a history of coinciding with revolutions,
the possibility of a tremendous social upheaval in the USA during the coming decade looms.
Indeed, the debt ceiling bill will have dire consequences for most Americans and much of
the world.
Chart 2
By the spring of 2015, the USA and world will be experiencing the consequence of the August 2,
2011 legislation. In the above chart for the March 5, 2015, notice that the New Moon falls
conjunct and opposite the USA’s natal Neptune, square natal Mars in Gemini. T Chiron
is conjunct the Sun in Pisces, adding to the angst. Historically, it has been when this MarsNeptune square has been afflicted by transiting planets that stock markets have crashed.
Even if stock markets do not crash around this date, the overall economy will be in
deeper trouble than it now is: Every time the USA’s Sun-Saturn square has been hit by
oppositions or squares from the outermost four planets, the US economy has suffered through a
great depression. At the depths of the great depression of the 1930s, Saturn in Capricorn
opposed the US Sun and squared the US Saturn, while Uranus was again in Aries,
opposite the US Saturn. Pluto at that time was in Cancer hovering over the four US
planets in that Sign.
In 2015, T Saturn will oppose the US Uranus in Gemini and T Jupiter will oppose the US Moon in
Aquarius. The Moon’s Nodes will hit the US Saturn, accompanied by Uranus, Mars and Venus
in Aries.
It will then become evident that the debt ceiling flap perpetrated by Republicans in 2011,
although it appeared as a partisan victory at the time, was about the worst thing that
could be done to the US economy.