- The Dow Went Up Five Thousand Points Today
- Showing a robust, rebounding economy, on the way
- the news voice said, was it talking to me
- or the ever flowing, sporadic, erratic, intelligent money
- I sat there shaking my head, the Dow
- has nothing to do with the Real Economy
- it’s just the bear, bull barometer of the market-place
- whose brokered broken thermometer is the pace
- buying, selling and trading is taking place
- has nothing to do with new factories being built
- or small business growth, or hirings, firings
- The Dow monitors how much paper returns, paper
- but somehow the voice on my TV
- wants me to believe it’s has something to do
- with the Economy, and that this news is good for me
- hmm, how can the Dow go up, and meet rising un-employment
- how can the Dow go up and foreclosures increase
- housing prices becoming a reverse ATM
- sucking all my investment value into the world’s-wind
- how can the Dow go up as decency declines
- when layoffs are occurring for the umpteeth time
- as the National debt, increases out of control
- babies birthed, fatherless, by thirteen year olds
- medical stocks jumped, why, because the average
- American is either medicated or drunk
- does making more money on Wall Street
- mirror living on main street, or are they even related
- oh there’s a relation, how investors react
- to the consumer’s re-re-action or
- re-inaction to the news I’m being told
- a guesstimation of how much I’ll consume
- of the products being ocean dumped or actually sold
- or maybe I’ll option out and not buy, so puts rise the stock sky high
- as the markets go down, due to declining revenue
- don’t worry, we’ll get the actual numbers,
- next month, when doing th the following Month’s review
- or if I buy, calls making the stock go up and up
- as if, as a consumer, I can’t get enough, enough
- so they don’t know what I’ll do and they really don’t care
- they make the news voice tell them what they want to hear
- and reality, is like catching vapor, or as real as their paper
- so how do you read, truth, bullet ridden with lies
- you go out and buy, then return to the store
- get your money back, so the sale was a sale
- isn’t a sale and confuse them some more
- either way, at first, they’ll be happy
- thinking they tricked you into spending
- more, of their borrowed money, they’ve been Lending…R.D.Revilo