"2570-23" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jerome Bigge - Warlady 8 - The Queen Of Time)THE QUEEN OF TIME 2570 A.D.! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE By Jerome B. Bigge Chapter Twenty Three "Just `how' did you manage to get `elected'?" I asked, wish- ing to change the subject to anything else than DOOMSDAY in 2648. "I'm `responsible'..." Janet suddenly spoke, standing there, starting to weep! "I, I caused.... the bankruptcy!" she sobbed!! "It was `people' like Hillary Clinton!" I protested, taking her into my arms, holding her, stroking her thick coal black hair as she sobbed softly, weeping out the horrid secret she had held! Janet Rogers first held elective public office as a state representative in the year 2000, rose to being a "representative" of the State of California in 2004, and was elected President of the United States in 2008 as is taught in all the history books. It appears that in 2006 she authorized a "study" made of the "na- tional debt", which at that time was somewhere over ten trillion dollars, or a debt of just about say ninety thousand dollars for every person working at that time. Such a "debt" of course can- not ever be "paid off", the very "interest" on the debt itself then taking up the major part of the federal tax revenues. Under such conditions a country is left with two choices: The first is to declare "bankruptcy", and the second is to inflate the curren- cy to such a point that the same condition as the first occurs... Both are of course a terrible economic disaster for the country!* * The present "national debt" is 4.4 trillion dollars, with an additional 1.6 trillion dollars in "unfunded obligations", making the total "debt" now SIX trillion dollars. Current "interest" on the national debt is perhaps about thirty percent of federal revenues or a bit less. There are also "unfunded" state "obliga- tions" which may increase the seriousness of this problem. At a "budget surplus" of ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars a year it would take us forty four years to pay off the "principle", while the "interest" on the debt itself greatly burdens our ability to deal with any of the problems now facing this country. Recent events lead me to believe that no President or Congress will ever SOLVE this problem, which means that NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY will occur at some time in the future, probably resulting in a political revo- lution of some sort (We'd be LUCKY to get "Janet Rogers"!), and the likely END of all "entitlements" as we now know them here... While a good portion of the "national debt" of that time was owed to "foreigners" of one sort or another, the major portion of the "debt" was actually money "owed" to American citizens, most of whom had over past years invested in government "bonds" and so forth, along with corporations who had put their pension funds in similar "securities". The federal government having also "bor- rowed" from the Social Security Trust Fund, issuing "I.O.U's" in return, which meant that the Social Security System was now actu- ally itself depending upon taking in enough money from payroll taxes to "back" the checks that it issued to the senior citizens. The entire banking system was involved, along with a good part of the national economy, which meant that the system was much like a HOUSE OF CARDS made by children! Waiting to "fall" at any moment should there be the least "hint" that perhaps the United States government might not be able to continue to meet its obligations! It was early in 2007 that Janet Rogers' "study" was "leaked" to the "media". The conclusions Janet having made being that in a few years the United States would no longer be "able" to meet its interest payments on the national debt, now near seventy per- cent of all federal revenues in a steadily "declining" economy. This "decline" itself having been caused both by the increasing "overhead costs" of government itself and by attempts to "con- trol" the increasing levels of environmental pollution by passing new laws. More and more "civil rights laws" that increased the "overhead costs" of society while doing little to ease the racial tensions. Laws that in turn increased the "cost of production" to the point that American made good were no longer "competitive" on the world market, causing in turn increasing trade deficits and more and more unemployment. Causing increasing "demand" for more and more "welfare", for taking more and more money from the "taxpayers", who were in turn now growing fewer and fewer here as more and more people found that "welfare" actually "paid" better than "working". The rate of "illegitimate births" now reaching a figure of over fifty percent of all births in the United States!! At first nothing much happened but "talk" when the "media" released the report to the world, although it gave Janet herself the chance to explain her own ideas of "neo-libertarianism". Ja- net Rogers maintaining here that the policies of "social welfare" as advocated by the now quite famous Hillary Rodham Clinton had "led" to this state of affairs, and that the only thing that could be done now would be for the United States of America to do as any private business might do, and that was to declare itself in a "state of bankruptcy"! Janet pointed out that the country still had considerable "assets" that could be used to "ease" the blow that would be struck, especially against the elderly who had much of the governments bonds and such that would become next to "worthless" under such circumstances. Naturally Janet was de- nounced for this in no uncertain terms by Hillary Rodham Clinton! Hillary saying that Janet sought to ruin the entire country here! That she wished to wipe out all welfare, social security, and all "entitlements", put "millions of beggars" on the streets, cause a world wide depression "greater" than that of the 1930's. Hillary then announcing that she herself would run for President in 2008! "See that justice was provided to all Americans!" she proclaimed! "Must have been quite a `campaign'," I said to Janet, my arm around her as we sat together. Hillary Clinton was the "head" of the Democratic Party, the famous advocate of "liberalism", of "social welfare", of the "Left" in all its glory! Janet Rogers on the other hand then was someone entirely "new" on the politi- cal scene. A woman who spoke for the "taxpayers", not for those who lived off the taxpayers, who believed that the "country" owed them a living. That the government existed for their "benefit"!! "It just got `going' when the Europeans got `scared'," Janet said, her dark eyes meeting mine as I nodded. It had been the European investors who had attempted to get their "money" out of the United States. Who had decided it was time to "get out" now! "What was it like?" I asked her, knowing only what I'd read. "A `panic' like none you've ever seen before," Janet spoke. "Then banks started closing, businesses laying people off by the millions, the `lines' at the unemployment offices blocks long..." "Could it have been `stopped'?" I asked, seeing her eyes met mine as she nodded in the negative. Janet then explaining to me that while the "blow" could have been "eased" by selling off all the "assets" owned by the federal government, Hillary's own po- litical party had prevented that from being done. Hillary Rodham Clinton having been perhaps the "Princess Tara" of her own era... "They held the `elections' early, didn't they?" I said then. "I beat both Hillary and that `Limbaugh' fella," Janet said. "Hillary actually got the `least' votes of the three of us," she smiled, the American people having finally had enough of Hillary! Not that Mrs. Clinton had thought so, but she'd had little polit- ical effect upon matters after Janet had been elected President. "When you did `perfect' electronic hypnosis?" I asked Janet. It had been the "use" of this that had allowed Janet to take over the world in such a "brief" period of time that no one has ever been able to determine just "how" Janet Rogers actually did it... "Had the first `operational' machine in 2009, started using them in 2010, had `control' of things by 2011," she smiled back. Janet going on to explain that the "technology" had been far more "difficult" than what I'd believed it would be back in 1988, that it had actually taken the resources of "Uncle Sam" to build them! "Founded the Priestesses of Lys at the same time once I realized just `what' I had," Janet added, giving me a big smile just then! Janet being wise enough here to that infinite power is dangerous! "Was something `odd' about the entire affair though," she mused!! "What was `that'?" I asked, thinking just then of Tais! Was it possible that she'd gone back in time, back to 2009, and used her knowledge of electronic hypnosis to help design the first of these amazing devices. I knew of how the Women had gotten their first "Gateway" machine, a device actually found in my own time!! Could the same thing be possible here? Was Tais responsible too! "We found electronic drawings left out on a table in a room locked and guarded by armed men," Janet spoke. "And no one could have gotten into that room," she breathed, looking up at me then. "But for First Priestess Tais herself," I smiled back here. "We followed the drawings, and the thing worked," she said. "Naturally Tais had to `see' that history was as it was," I smiled, Janet Rogers nodding, her dark eyes glowing up into mine. No doubt Tais felt a degree of "responsibility" about such stuff. "Someone claimed to have `seen' an `angel', but we'd always figured they were drunk or on drugs," Janet grinned, aware now I think of just "who" that "angel" might have been here... Tais!! "Beautiful blonde in a long white gown...," I smiled back. "That can `disappear' right in front of you," Janet smiled. "Or `reappear'!" Janet "breathed", Tais suddenly now here! "I believe you were talking about me," the Priestess said. "Must be a hard job, keeping history going `right'," I said. "These `eyes' of mine have seen `much'," Tais laughed softly in reply, standing there, reminding me muchly of SHE Herself too! "Perhaps in some respects `too much'," she added, the tone of her voice suddenly changing. "The knowledge of what is to be is not always the `blessing' that you may believe it to be," she added. And with THIS Tais suddenly shimmered out of existence as swiftly as she'd appeared, leaving Janet Rogers and I both sitting there. "That neutron star..." Janet breathed, seeing me nod back. "Tais probably had to go `see' for herself," I answered. "The greatest `disaster' there could be," Janet mused. THE QUEEN OF TIME 2570 A.D.! A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE By Jerome B. Bigge Chapter Twenty Three "Just `how' did you manage to get `elected'?" I asked, wish- ing to change the subject to anything else than DOOMSDAY in 2648. "I'm `responsible'..." Janet suddenly spoke, standing there, starting to weep! "I, I caused.... the bankruptcy!" she sobbed!! "It was `people' like Hillary Clinton!" I protested, taking her into my arms, holding her, stroking her thick coal black hair as she sobbed softly, weeping out the horrid secret she had held! Janet Rogers first held elective public office as a state representative in the year 2000, rose to being a "representative" of the State of California in 2004, and was elected President of the United States in 2008 as is taught in all the history books. It appears that in 2006 she authorized a "study" made of the "na- tional debt", which at that time was somewhere over ten trillion dollars, or a debt of just about say ninety thousand dollars for every person working at that time. Such a "debt" of course can- not ever be "paid off", the very "interest" on the debt itself then taking up the major part of the federal tax revenues. Under such conditions a country is left with two choices: The first is to declare "bankruptcy", and the second is to inflate the curren- cy to such a point that the same condition as the first occurs... Both are of course a terrible economic disaster for the country!* * The present "national debt" is 4.4 trillion dollars, with an additional 1.6 trillion dollars in "unfunded obligations", making the total "debt" now SIX trillion dollars. Current "interest" on the national debt is perhaps about thirty percent of federal revenues or a bit less. There are also "unfunded" state "obliga- tions" which may increase the seriousness of this problem. At a "budget surplus" of ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars a year it would take us forty four years to pay off the "principle", while the "interest" on the debt itself greatly burdens our ability to deal with any of the problems now facing this country. Recent events lead me to believe that no President or Congress will ever SOLVE this problem, which means that NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY will occur at some time in the future, probably resulting in a political revo- lution of some sort (We'd be LUCKY to get "Janet Rogers"!), and the likely END of all "entitlements" as we now know them here... While a good portion of the "national debt" of that time was owed to "foreigners" of one sort or another, the major portion of the "debt" was actually money "owed" to American citizens, most of whom had over past years invested in government "bonds" and so forth, along with corporations who had put their pension funds in similar "securities". The federal government having also "bor- rowed" from the Social Security Trust Fund, issuing "I.O.U's" in return, which meant that the Social Security System was now actu- ally itself depending upon taking in enough money from payroll taxes to "back" the checks that it issued to the senior citizens. The entire banking system was involved, along with a good part of the national economy, which meant that the system was much like a HOUSE OF CARDS made by children! Waiting to "fall" at any moment should there be the least "hint" that perhaps the United States government might not be able to continue to meet its obligations! It was early in 2007 that Janet Rogers' "study" was "leaked" to the "media". The conclusions Janet having made being that in a few years the United States would no longer be "able" to meet its interest payments on the national debt, now near seventy per- cent of all federal revenues in a steadily "declining" economy. This "decline" itself having been caused both by the increasing "overhead costs" of government itself and by attempts to "con- trol" the increasing levels of environmental pollution by passing new laws. More and more "civil rights laws" that increased the "overhead costs" of society while doing little to ease the racial tensions. Laws that in turn increased the "cost of production" to the point that American made good were no longer "competitive" on the world market, causing in turn increasing trade deficits and more and more unemployment. Causing increasing "demand" for more and more "welfare", for taking more and more money from the "taxpayers", who were in turn now growing fewer and fewer here as more and more people found that "welfare" actually "paid" better than "working". The rate of "illegitimate births" now reaching a figure of over fifty percent of all births in the United States!! At first nothing much happened but "talk" when the "media" released the report to the world, although it gave Janet herself the chance to explain her own ideas of "neo-libertarianism". Ja- net Rogers maintaining here that the policies of "social welfare" as advocated by the now quite famous Hillary Rodham Clinton had "led" to this state of affairs, and that the only thing that could be done now would be for the United States of America to do as any private business might do, and that was to declare itself in a "state of bankruptcy"! Janet pointed out that the country still had considerable "assets" that could be used to "ease" the blow that would be struck, especially against the elderly who had much of the governments bonds and such that would become next to "worthless" under such circumstances. Naturally Janet was de- nounced for this in no uncertain terms by Hillary Rodham Clinton! Hillary saying that Janet sought to ruin the entire country here! That she wished to wipe out all welfare, social security, and all "entitlements", put "millions of beggars" on the streets, cause a world wide depression "greater" than that of the 1930's. Hillary then announcing that she herself would run for President in 2008! "See that justice was provided to all Americans!" she proclaimed! "Must have been quite a `campaign'," I said to Janet, my arm around her as we sat together. Hillary Clinton was the "head" of the Democratic Party, the famous advocate of "liberalism", of "social welfare", of the "Left" in all its glory! Janet Rogers on the other hand then was someone entirely "new" on the politi- cal scene. A woman who spoke for the "taxpayers", not for those who lived off the taxpayers, who believed that the "country" owed them a living. That the government existed for their "benefit"!! "It just got `going' when the Europeans got `scared'," Janet said, her dark eyes meeting mine as I nodded. It had been the European investors who had attempted to get their "money" out of the United States. Who had decided it was time to "get out" now! "What was it like?" I asked her, knowing only what I'd read. "A `panic' like none you've ever seen before," Janet spoke. "Then banks started closing, businesses laying people off by the millions, the `lines' at the unemployment offices blocks long..." "Could it have been `stopped'?" I asked, seeing her eyes met mine as she nodded in the negative. Janet then explaining to me that while the "blow" could have been "eased" by selling off all the "assets" owned by the federal government, Hillary's own po- litical party had prevented that from being done. Hillary Rodham Clinton having been perhaps the "Princess Tara" of her own era... "They held the `elections' early, didn't they?" I said then. "I beat both Hillary and that `Limbaugh' fella," Janet said. "Hillary actually got the `least' votes of the three of us," she smiled, the American people having finally had enough of Hillary! Not that Mrs. Clinton had thought so, but she'd had little polit- ical effect upon matters after Janet had been elected President. "When you did `perfect' electronic hypnosis?" I asked Janet. It had been the "use" of this that had allowed Janet to take over the world in such a "brief" period of time that no one has ever been able to determine just "how" Janet Rogers actually did it... "Had the first `operational' machine in 2009, started using them in 2010, had `control' of things by 2011," she smiled back. Janet going on to explain that the "technology" had been far more "difficult" than what I'd believed it would be back in 1988, that it had actually taken the resources of "Uncle Sam" to build them! "Founded the Priestesses of Lys at the same time once I realized just `what' I had," Janet added, giving me a big smile just then! Janet being wise enough here to that infinite power is dangerous! "Was something `odd' about the entire affair though," she mused!! "What was `that'?" I asked, thinking just then of Tais! Was it possible that she'd gone back in time, back to 2009, and used her knowledge of electronic hypnosis to help design the first of these amazing devices. I knew of how the Women had gotten their first "Gateway" machine, a device actually found in my own time!! Could the same thing be possible here? Was Tais responsible too! "We found electronic drawings left out on a table in a room locked and guarded by armed men," Janet spoke. "And no one could have gotten into that room," she breathed, looking up at me then. "But for First Priestess Tais herself," I smiled back here. "We followed the drawings, and the thing worked," she said. "Naturally Tais had to `see' that history was as it was," I smiled, Janet Rogers nodding, her dark eyes glowing up into mine. No doubt Tais felt a degree of "responsibility" about such stuff. "Someone claimed to have `seen' an `angel', but we'd always figured they were drunk or on drugs," Janet grinned, aware now I think of just "who" that "angel" might have been here... Tais!! "Beautiful blonde in a long white gown...," I smiled back. "That can `disappear' right in front of you," Janet smiled. "Or `reappear'!" Janet "breathed", Tais suddenly now here! "I believe you were talking about me," the Priestess said. "Must be a hard job, keeping history going `right'," I said. "These `eyes' of mine have seen `much'," Tais laughed softly in reply, standing there, reminding me muchly of SHE Herself too! "Perhaps in some respects `too much'," she added, the tone of her voice suddenly changing. "The knowledge of what is to be is not always the `blessing' that you may believe it to be," she added. And with THIS Tais suddenly shimmered out of existence as swiftly as she'd appeared, leaving Janet Rogers and I both sitting there. "That neutron star..." Janet breathed, seeing me nod back. "Tais probably had to go `see' for herself," I answered. "The greatest `disaster' there could be," Janet mused. |
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