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What's The Issue?

What's The Issue?

Author: Tomas Yoko
Date: 2015-08-14
Women's day was celebrated with gusto and I'm sure we all appreciated the extra public holiday that we got thanks to the government ruling about public holidays falling on weekends. I'm not sure we all appreciate the massive cost it had to our failing economy but hey, let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. Wait that was not a gift, gifts are meant to be beneficial, at least in my estimation. Well we will just pay for it one way or another.

I love a holiday as much as the next guy, just wondering who is going to pay for it, I would like to know. Oh, it was you, thanks.

Speaking of paying, the Chinese economy just made a fantastic adjustment in the value their currency, the Yuan, in a massive downward direction, aimed at bolstering their exports business. So expect to see Made In China on a few more things in your supermarkets and commodity stores. This is the biggest downward adjustment China has made since 1994.

Talking currencies and one expert, or maybe more, intimate that Germany may have made a whopping great hundred billion Euro out of the Greek crisis. With investors rushing to the safe haven of Germany every time they heard bad news about Greece.

Making matters worse is the fact that half the worlds 10 worst performing currencies are from Africa. Here we go and all I can see is the slave trade, closing in on us as the big currencies and their affiliate organizations go about what they call business.

I think about the 1% and about how I wish I were one of them. I think about the most impoverished people, the ones who have come to rely on the system and are being let down horribly.

I marvel at the people who have managed to live off the land and keep their traditions alive, enabling their families to live off the land. I don't think I could do it, I think the people who do are amazing.

I will probably end up as one of the slaves to the system. Forever working harder for less. Earning more but being able to buy less. Voting for a thief who sells me out to the highest bidder. Maybe not even the hisghest, maybe just the first or the most convenient.

I see the currency world and I see conspiracy. I imagine the work going on furiously behind the scenes and the super currencies try ther best to thwart the efforts of the new bank formed by BRICS. Maybe I have been watching too many spy movies, but I sense with my eighth sense that something is not quite kosher.

Then there are those eTolls. The Western Cape is faced with some horrific eToll tariffs and once again I see our beautiful country as the vistim of a shoddy deal done without our consent, and being shoved down our throats. Sweet like chocolate, we just gotta love it.