A post of mine before and shortly after the Great Recession of 2008

Embracing the One Vehicle of the Lotus Sutra, I was able to predict

the present crisis, if not the exact date. I wrote the following short

essay on August 18th and 10 days ago I wrote to Larry Kudlow that his

shameless shilling of republican party economic programs and values

and his support of the greedy Wallstreet shorting and derivative

practices (coupled with his irrational exuberance regarding the state

of the United States economy without any regard for the middle class),

would be a cause for his falling into hell.

Here was my original post:

Hello my dear readers. A little light analysis after posting the Shoju

Initiative. The United States economic status is diminishing.

$700,000,000,000.00 a year goes to buying oil and another

$600,000,000,000.00 or so goes to fighting wars. The health care

system is in absolute financial shambles costing taxpayers more than

$500,000,000,000.00 a year and we don't even have universal health

care.

That is almost $2,000,000,000,000.00 A YEAR of which

$1,300,000,000,000,00 we might as well be flushing down the toilet

excepting that the war in Afghanistan is a just war. Our economy is

now predominantly service based rather than manufacturing and the

biggest component of our manufacturing base is defense related.

How do the powers that be in the United States, especially Bush,

Cheney, and their cronies, plan to hold onto our wealth, let alone

grow it?

Through military power, projecting our force and taking what is not

rightfully ours. There really is no peaceful way in their minds

because they are not men of vision. They obviously knew about

Sakashvilli's intentions in Georgia. It wouldn't surprise me that they

egged him on. It is in their inrerest to destabilize the world so we

can sell more weapons and project more power. That is easy with stupid

ignorant puppets like Sakashvilli.

Russia at least is energy independent and more money is coming in than

going out. This is a good thing because people in Rapture are far less

likely than people in Hunger to make rash decisions that could destroy

their good fortunes. However, they still have an angry crew over there

in the Kremlin and just today they threatened to nuke Poland.

Things are not good, my dear readers and even those few who are now

laughing will soon be crying. This is an inevitability because the

lotus flower only grows in the muddy water. I am dispassionate about

my, my country's, and the worlds sufferings because I know it will

later turn to delight. We as disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha and

Nichiren Daishonin have nothing to fear. However, we must redouble our

efforts to create the Land of Eternal Quiescent Light, the Pure Land

here on earth. If we do not do our best we will have nothing but

regrets.

I would be remiss were I to fail to mention the predictions of my good friend in faith Stephen Shonin Paine for the United States and the world. I suggest you look him up on facebook.