The Fed, The Drugs, The Congress. A story of Addiction.

This is a story of two teenagers and their need of intervention.

There was a boy named Bob who had a brother named Dave. Now Bob was the elder and had the task of making sure his younger brother Dave was on the right track and always doing well. This was a large task for Bob and being under such constant pressure it was no great surprise that Bob began experimenting with drugs to help him deal with the pressure.

Soon Bob’s addiction became known to his brother Dave and Dave became addicted as well. It wasn’t far past that Dave established a long lasting relationship with his brother’s dealers.

Now, Bob and Dave have had many fathers who would typically enter and leave their lives every 4 to 8 years. Each father of course had his own concepts of how to deal with the casual drug usage of his boys. Many of them figured it didn’t matter that they used since they had never seen anything negative come of it. There were some however who were around to witness some particularly nasty binges.

There was one near overdose that caused a quite a stir. In response the dealers stepped in and convinced the current and following fathers (who did not know that the dealers were responsible for the trouble) that the real problem wasn’t the drugs, but rather the erratic supply of drugs coming from unreliable sources which allowed the boys to binge so heavily and put their lives at risk. The dealers petitioned the father for a new system in which they could provide an infinite supply of drugs to the boys which were to be doled out in a constant and structured way.

The father, not knowing a better way and fearing for their boys, agreed. The dealers made an agreement with the father. The agreement established an infinite supply of drugs to be given to the boys in a manner which they would establish as best through their representative, the chairman. The plan was to prevent any increase in usage of the drug to which the boys were addicted.

Though it was obvious to any outsider that the dealers had no interest in keeping to that plan and in fact had every motive to stray from it the father remained oblivious with hope. So was established the great drug dispensary, which from then on was regarded by almost everyone of importance as infallible and unarguably necessary.

It wasn’t long after their promise that the dealers, through their chairman, went back on their word and greatly increased the supply of drugs to pad their own pockets. When the boys inevitably ended up recovering from an overdose the chairman quickly laid blame at the feet of a misunderstanding in how to administer the drug. Naught was told of the great increase in dosage and any revelation of it was discredited as quackery with great haste by chairmen who followed.

So it was that the greatest demonstration of the deceit of these dealers and their great dispensary was revealed to the light of day and summarily ignored. At the time of their overdose the evidence showed that Bob and Dave were receiving 1.83 times the dose they took before the great dispensary was established.

Many years later Bob and Dave have begun to show signs of great illness once again. When examined it is revealed that the two are now receiving over 11 times the dose that last caused them to overdose. When the great dispensary learned that it was being found out it simply stopped publishing it’s dosing records.

Today we have a new group of men (and a woman) who would like to become the next father to Bob and Dave. While all will loudly proclaim they see the sickness of the boys it is all but one that fails to see the facts of their sickness.

One group insists that Bob is at fault. That Bob is constantly interfering in the life of Dave and must be making him sick. Bob must be stopped.

The other group suggests that Dave is sick because of his own greed and Bob needs to be more involved in his life to save him from himself.

There is one man who has seen the facts. This man maintains that Bob and Dave are sick because they are being poisoned. He claims that their own fathers have unwittingly caused this hardship. He states that only one thing can save these boys and that is destruction of the great dispensary and the dealers who petitioned for it. Can this man intervene before it is too late? That depends, is he the only one that sees the truth? Will you help him?

Tags: Addiction, Congress, Drugs, Fed, Federal Reserve, inflation, M3, money