Cynicism is the new reality in America today. This post from a reader called Fifty First State, over at Marketwatch. How appropriate?

Hmmm, I hope I don’t sound to cynical about the Lehman situation but I suspect the plan by “Da Boyz” and their “mole” in the Bush administration, Henry Paulson, was to skim off all the profitable parts of Lehman, divide the spoils, and leave the c*** for the government (we the taxpayer) to pay off. Something like $85 billion of junk paper I understand. Still, what’s another $100 billion debt?

Then of course, Phase 2 of “Da Boyz” plan would kick in. That other “mole”, Bernanke, could crank up the printing press, throw more money out of his helicopter (he needs a new engine by now considering the time that helicopter has spent in the air) get the government to buy all that junk paper and thus flood the world with more US confetti pesos which would bring our once mighty dollar closer to the status of junk money.

This is one of the saddest periods in America’s history. We owe so much money (around 10 to 12 trillion $$$ I think is the current number) our children, grandchildren and probably our great grandchildren, will be paying for the mistakes that incredible clown in the White House has made, for decades to come.

We have to beg the Chinese and Japanese not to cash in our IOU’s. We print more and more confetti US pesos. Only the crappy little countries worry about our military might and now, from Pakistan’s latest threat to kill any US troops on Pakistan’s land, even THEY are not impressed while Russia and China shake their heads and hide their laughter.

Now, some of the most most respected financial firms (respected once but not now) are going down the tubes one by one and we are hated in most of the world. A friend in the UK told me recently, “Listen, if you decide to visit europe, tell anyone who ask you are Canadian.”

It’s very, very sad but we deserve it. While we watched football and shopped for that 50″ flat screen tv, “Da Boyz” were busy shoveling money into their off-shore accounts and thinking up new schemes to skim as much off the 401k’s as they could or begin a Ponzi Scheme (like the mortgage mess).

Most people are the architects of their own financial misery. Tell them that and they will not be publicly accepting of this realization. Ask them to change their circumstances by trying out something they are uncomfortable with or with an idea never attempted before - they will balk.

One thing is for sure. Their problems and their complaints will remain the best of friends. The victim mentality for the most part triumphs. The idea that life can change in a profound manner, not just for themselves but for their family by taking some huge but well calculated risks is never an option. They do not want to come in between the friendship they have cultivated for their pals - Problems and Complaints.

I normally do not shell out $16.99 to read advise from some author to get life changing messages. My idea of wisdom is this. If a sentence cannot get the message across to you, then a book won’t. Nothing will.

Words are profound. They have deep rooted meaning. Most of them bypass the first sentence to the next without properly absorbing its message. To absorb the message is to put it to use. Else you are always in the mental state as in - I already know this.

Sure! You know many a things. But you only know what you have experienced. If you have read but not experienced, then trust me, you don’t know. Not just yet.

Read what Christina has to say about - The financial roadblock. If it does not affect you in some way to take action, then I know one thing - You must be filthy rich!

On The Net : The Financial Roadblock

AOL’s founder Steve Case, came up with a PayPal competitor last year when he announced RME. Revolution Money Exchange is a payment transfer agent just like PayPal with some degree of alternate features. There are no fees currently to send and receive money.

You will even earn $25 just to create a new account and get paid $10 per referral you make until the 15th of May, 2008. There is a limit of $500 earnings cap per individual. So hurry and get your account and earn your free bucks now. Yes, it is real cash!

Something remarkable happened on April 18, 2008. The battered shares of Google : Nasdaq : (GOOG) rose $89.87 in just 1 trading day. I will leave the analysis of this meteoritic jump in Google share price to the experts. My summation of this event is simply - How could a brazen output of data released by Com Score, smother a high rise stock like Google’s to the pits? And Google proved it otherwise.

I am not a financial expert. but I have a good sense of future trends. I was never bullish on Google’s PPC revenue model, if this was the (be it all) that Google sustained on as a company. But at the same time, the Internet is growing by leaps and bounds. Although the economy as it seems is going to the drain, the Internet still holds a lot of appeal for businesses and individuals to try their hand on entrepreneurship and newer business models not influenced by general economic woes.

When it comes to search, Google is still king. Google still holds a lot of sway when it comes to small businesses taking their company to the next level. Well, if only you had 1000 shares of Google on April 18, 2008 - You’d be $89,000 plus richer in a single day.

Those pay per click ads are not going away any time soon.