And yet no replies to this? Interesting. Like you said, this is but a drop in the bucket of coincidences that point to something bigger. Yet people
don't want to think that they have been duped. They like to believe that they are in control of their lives and that they actually do live in a
'free' society.
When the veil lifts the 'many' that make up the middle and lower classes (typical of us as a society to label groups of people instead of thinking
of all as they were meant to be. Equal and part of the whole) there is going to be some serious retribution to be paid. I don't really like what I
see on the horizon. When the money pools in the hands of the few and then people start to lose their homes, belongings, loved ones, etc. they will
look to those that took all of that away. If (or more likely, when) this economy comes crashing down around everyone's ears, there will be mass
hunger in the streets and mass homelessness while the bankers sit comfortably in their homes. That won't sit well with the majority.
It's already starting with the number of foreclosures spreading like wildfire across this country. It's a house of cards and it's ready to
crumble.
Nice post.
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Email Newsletter Special Feature
April 30, 2007
By ATS Member "polanksi"
"The American lifestyle is non-negotiable" Pres. Bush I & II
Are the power elite 'conspiring' to promote their good fortune at the expense of the working class? At first glimpse that statement appears fraught with 'wild eyed conspiracy theory'. There would be many who would say that it would involve too many people and thus highly unlikely. But how many people would have to know? What if those in power benefited from the policies and laws made to favor them, but were not aware that there was a very specific conspiracy to achieve total economic pre-eminence of the governing elite. It would be difficult to prove the existence of such a cabal, they would cover their tracks. They would practice to deceive, prevaricate, bully, lie and use the 'system' to protect and preserve their 'rights.' They would hope to co-opt the middle class by trying to convince them it is in their best interest as well. The evidence would be 'erased', made to disappear and it would indeed be difficult to find any hard proof. But there is a legal precedence in such cases when hard evidence is lacking and that is a preponderance of evidence. When one sees example after example of how the game has been rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many one must wonder. This edifice that provides and protects the elite certainly did not arise overnight. It has incrementally been built up over the years. Like the formation of a pearl it has slowly been added to and like that pearl it is now ripe to be harvested and worn proudly and legitimately by the best and the brightest.
One layer of this anti-working class edifice is what is called universal default. It allows credit card companies to raise your interest rate if you pay some other loan late. Of course you should be punished if you are late with a payment, but what does being late with a car payment have to do with your credit card? Without ever missing a payment or going over your limit on your credit card your interest rate can be increased to the limit. Clearly you have proved to be a greater risk that expected. You are a scofflaw and should be penalized or so someone thinks. It's not really logic. Logic would dictate that you may have mistakenly missed a payment deadline or perhaps you did not have enough money to pay all your bills that were due. You did, however, pay your credit card bill and yet your rate is going up. This policy targets the blue collar workers and benefits the financial institutions. It defies logic but perhaps there is an underlying coherence. It redistributes money up from those who can least afford it to those who least need it.
Next we have the newly renovated bankruptcy laws. They have been revised to make sure that those with rather serious money problems are not let off the hook. The new bankruptcy laws have been designed to make it more difficult for the consumer to get a so called 'fresh' start. In short filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows many people to pay off a portion of their debt and cancel the rest. There are strict rules that apply regarding assets that qualify for liquidation, but the filer normally is not allowed to keep much beyond necessities. It has now been made much more difficult and expensive to declare bankruptcy. Lawyers are being held to a higher standard as well, thus there is less gray area involved in the proceedings. Bottom line is it is more difficult for the little guy to get out from under their debt. It is still relatively easy for Corporations to go bankrupt and eliminate their debt, however. Although there appears to be a pattern here it could still be just a coincidence.
Next let's look at tax cuts. As reported in the New York Times the wealthy benefited most from the Bush administration tax cuts. The average tax reduction for a mid range income, $56,200 was $1,180. This is nothing to scoff at but it is very misleading. Those families with incomes in the $1.25 million range received tax cuts of $58,000. In effect the tax cut was regressive those at the middle received a smaller percentage tax break. As stated in the article, "tax cuts reduced rates for people at every level; they offered the biggest benefits by far to people at the top." There seems to be mounting evidence that there is some collusion or conspiracy to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the struggling middle, but clearly more evidence would be needed to prove the case.
There has been much said about the widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and their poorer counterparts. Not too long ago the United States replaced France as the industrial country with the widest income gap and recently that gap has continued to grow. As Janine Jackson says in her article Good News! The Rich Get Richer "Wages and income for average workers, adjusted for inflation, are down in recent years, -- The Poverty rate is rising, as is the number of people in debt." That this is taking place at the same time that a seeming upsurge in the economy is, is rather vexing. Perhaps the 'trickle down' effect has just not had time to run its course.
A 2005 article by Abid Aslam gives information about the widening compensation gap between the highest paid CEO's and the average worker. It points out that not only do the best paid employees get paid significantly more but, the percent of their raises is higher as well, thus constantly increasing the pay differential. In fact, the rich do continue to get richer and the middle and poor keep falling farther behind.
"An analysis of securities filings showed that CEO salaries rose 12 percent in 2004 compared with average raises of 3.6 percent for rank-and-file workers, further widening the world's largest gaps between executive and labor pay."
Surely if this is not by design it would be rectified, but it has not been and the CEO's have circled the wagons to protect their right to exorbitant wages.
Another thread to this web of complicity is war, war in general and The War on Terror specifically. War calls on the middle and lower classes to make the biggest sacrifices. The corporate leaders and politicians plan and execute wars and benefit greatly from the sale of war goods and owning stock in those corporations, but the middle and lower classes are called on to make the supreme sacrifice in the name of patriotism. While paying lip service to the soldiers in the field and decorating the 'heroes' who protect the motherland with the other hand they are busy trying to reduce medical benefits, save money on armor plating and failing to maintain hospitals in good condition. The actions of our politicians speak volumes. Be good patriots and don't ask questions. Contracting for armor plating is a prime example. A pentagon report said that as much as 80% of the fatalities to our troops could have been avoided with adequate body armor. Are they thinning the herd? With the high birth rates of minorities and the poor it would indeed take a long war to effectively offset those statistics.
President Bush Owes Troops an Apology
Last summer the government allowed United Airlines to drop their pension plan. This is a benefit derived from collective bargaining and would certainly seem to have the force of law, but the US government allowed United to drop the pension plan. They were let of the hook, would the government be as understanding if it were you or I who had defaulted on a contractual agreement?
The pension was taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. There are some important considerations when the PBGC takes over a corporation's pension plan. They do not cover health benefits, lump-sum death benefits, or disability benefits claimed after the PBGC takeover. Those are some major concerns and would especially burden those who didn't have the savings or resources to pay for those necessities. It appears that those provisions would place an inordinate burden on the middle class or poorer workers. Is there a well established bias favoring the wealthier over the less well off?
This is by no means a comprehensive list of the numerous authorized slights to the middle/working class. Can this 'agenda' be passed off as a mere coincidence? If a class is systematically favored or legally diminished as the case with the middle and lower classes have been can it just be happenstance? How this has come to be accepted is quite a different topic and not the point of this discourse but it again brings up the systematic use of the legal system. One part of that edifice is deregulation of the media that has significantly narrowed the scope of opinions expressed in the mainstream media. Has the majority been lulled into a false sense of security? Have we gradually been desensitized to the removal of our former rights? Have we somehow accepted the fact that the wealthy should rule and that depending on their benevolence is the proper order? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury is this 'system' that has built up over the years just a random collection of laws, regulations, and customs that just happen to favor the wealthiest at the expense of the rest. Could it just have happened coincidentally over the years? I would submit not. There is a plan. There is a preponderance of evidence that supports the existence of such a plan. There is puppet master(s) and because the wealthy and powerful benefit they are willing to go along with the dismantling of our democratic system without a conscious understanding of who the 'wizard' behind the curtain is or of his (their) ultimate goal. It is not a coincidence!
[Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
Theory: Mankind is Growing Stupid
Can anyone tell me why this administration seems intent on the end of the world?
The Omega Agency: "Above The President"
Email Newsletter Special Feature
April 30, 2007
By ATS Member "polanksi"
"The American lifestyle is non-negotiable" Pres. Bush I & II
Are the power elite 'conspiring' to promote their good fortune at the expense of the working class? At first glimpse that statement appears fraught with 'wild eyed conspiracy theory'. There would be many who would say that it would involve too many people and thus highly unlikely. But how many people would have to know? What if those in power benefited from the policies and laws made to favor them, but were not aware that there was a very specific conspiracy to achieve total economic pre-eminence of the governing elite. It would be difficult to prove the existence of such a cabal, they would cover their tracks. They would practice to deceive, prevaricate, bully, lie and use the 'system' to protect and preserve their 'rights.' They would hope to co-opt the middle class by trying to convince them it is in their best interest as well. The evidence would be 'erased', made to disappear and it would indeed be difficult to find any hard proof. But there is a legal precedence in such cases when hard evidence is lacking and that is a preponderance of evidence. When one sees example after example of how the game has been rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many one must wonder. This edifice that provides and protects the elite certainly did not arise overnight. It has incrementally been built up over the years. Like the formation of a pearl it has slowly been added to and like that pearl it is now ripe to be harvested and worn proudly and legitimately by the best and the brightest.
One layer of this anti-working class edifice is what is called universal default. It allows credit card companies to raise your interest rate if you pay some other loan late. Of course you should be punished if you are late with a payment, but what does being late with a car payment have to do with your credit card? Without ever missing a payment or going over your limit on your credit card your interest rate can be increased to the limit. Clearly you have proved to be a greater risk that expected. You are a scofflaw and should be penalized or so someone thinks. It's not really logic. Logic would dictate that you may have mistakenly missed a payment deadline or perhaps you did not have enough money to pay all your bills that were due. You did, however, pay your credit card bill and yet your rate is going up. This policy targets the blue collar workers and benefits the financial institutions. It defies logic but perhaps there is an underlying coherence. It redistributes money up from those who can least afford it to those who least need it.
Next we have the newly renovated bankruptcy laws. They have been revised to make sure that those with rather serious money problems are not let off the hook. The new bankruptcy laws have been designed to make it more difficult for the consumer to get a so called 'fresh' start. In short filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows many people to pay off a portion of their debt and cancel the rest. There are strict rules that apply regarding assets that qualify for liquidation, but the filer normally is not allowed to keep much beyond necessities. It has now been made much more difficult and expensive to declare bankruptcy. Lawyers are being held to a higher standard as well, thus there is less gray area involved in the proceedings. Bottom line is it is more difficult for the little guy to get out from under their debt. It is still relatively easy for Corporations to go bankrupt and eliminate their debt, however. Although there appears to be a pattern here it could still be just a coincidence.
Next let's look at tax cuts. As reported in the New York Times the wealthy benefited most from the Bush administration tax cuts. The average tax reduction for a mid range income, $56,200 was $1,180. This is nothing to scoff at but it is very misleading. Those families with incomes in the $1.25 million range received tax cuts of $58,000. In effect the tax cut was regressive those at the middle received a smaller percentage tax break. As stated in the article, "tax cuts reduced rates for people at every level; they offered the biggest benefits by far to people at the top." There seems to be mounting evidence that there is some collusion or conspiracy to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the struggling middle, but clearly more evidence would be needed to prove the case.
There has been much said about the widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and their poorer counterparts. Not too long ago the United States replaced France as the industrial country with the widest income gap and recently that gap has continued to grow. As Janine Jackson says in her article Good News! The Rich Get Richer "Wages and income for average workers, adjusted for inflation, are down in recent years, -- The Poverty rate is rising, as is the number of people in debt." That this is taking place at the same time that a seeming upsurge in the economy is, is rather vexing. Perhaps the 'trickle down' effect has just not had time to run its course.
A 2005 article by Abid Aslam gives information about the widening compensation gap between the highest paid CEO's and the average worker. It points out that not only do the best paid employees get paid significantly more but, the percent of their raises is higher as well, thus constantly increasing the pay differential. In fact, the rich do continue to get richer and the middle and poor keep falling farther behind.
"An analysis of securities filings showed that CEO salaries rose 12 percent in 2004 compared with average raises of 3.6 percent for rank-and-file workers, further widening the world's largest gaps between executive and labor pay."
Surely if this is not by design it would be rectified, but it has not been and the CEO's have circled the wagons to protect their right to exorbitant wages.
Another thread to this web of complicity is war, war in general and The War on Terror specifically. War calls on the middle and lower classes to make the biggest sacrifices. The corporate leaders and politicians plan and execute wars and benefit greatly from the sale of war goods and owning stock in those corporations, but the middle and lower classes are called on to make the supreme sacrifice in the name of patriotism. While paying lip service to the soldiers in the field and decorating the 'heroes' who protect the motherland with the other hand they are busy trying to reduce medical benefits, save money on armor plating and failing to maintain hospitals in good condition. The actions of our politicians speak volumes. Be good patriots and don't ask questions. Contracting for armor plating is a prime example. A pentagon report said that as much as 80% of the fatalities to our troops could have been avoided with adequate body armor. Are they thinning the herd? With the high birth rates of minorities and the poor it would indeed take a long war to effectively offset those statistics.
President Bush Owes Troops an Apology
Last summer the government allowed United Airlines to drop their pension plan. This is a benefit derived from collective bargaining and would certainly seem to have the force of law, but the US government allowed United to drop the pension plan. They were let of the hook, would the government be as understanding if it were you or I who had defaulted on a contractual agreement?
The pension was taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. There are some important considerations when the PBGC takes over a corporation's pension plan. They do not cover health benefits, lump-sum death benefits, or disability benefits claimed after the PBGC takeover. Those are some major concerns and would especially burden those who didn't have the savings or resources to pay for those necessities. It appears that those provisions would place an inordinate burden on the middle class or poorer workers. Is there a well established bias favoring the wealthier over the less well off?
This is by no means a comprehensive list of the numerous authorized slights to the middle/working class. Can this 'agenda' be passed off as a mere coincidence? If a class is systematically favored or legally diminished as the case with the middle and lower classes have been can it just be happenstance? How this has come to be accepted is quite a different topic and not the point of this discourse but it again brings up the systematic use of the legal system. One part of that edifice is deregulation of the media that has significantly narrowed the scope of opinions expressed in the mainstream media. Has the majority been lulled into a false sense of security? Have we gradually been desensitized to the removal of our former rights? Have we somehow accepted the fact that the wealthy should rule and that depending on their benevolence is the proper order? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury is this 'system' that has built up over the years just a random collection of laws, regulations, and customs that just happen to favor the wealthiest at the expense of the rest. Could it just have happened coincidentally over the years? I would submit not. There is a plan. There is a preponderance of evidence that supports the existence of such a plan. There is puppet master(s) and because the wealthy and powerful benefit they are willing to go along with the dismantling of our democratic system without a conscious understanding of who the 'wizard' behind the curtain is or of his (their) ultimate goal. It is not a coincidence!
[Related AboveTopSecret.com Discussion Threads:
Theory: Mankind is Growing Stupid
Can anyone tell me why this administration seems intent on the end of the world?
The Omega Agency: "Above The President"
reply posted on 30-4-2007 @ 05:15 PM by Perfect Fifth
I've been watching this situation for over a decade. You did a nice summary of a few of the crisis-level problems that are being ignored. Great
job!
Our marvelous economy has been fueled by the most massive credit bubble in history. We've shipped all capability to make anything useful for ourselves overseas. The factories are all shut down. We've gone into so much debt as private citizens and as a government it's impossible to get out of it. I don't have a perfect crystal ball, but I know that there IS some point in the future when we can simply not borrow any more money. I will happen to us as a nation just like it happens to us as individuals. At some point, you just can't get another credit card. Something changes and the monthly payments become more than you can handle. Yeah, i've been there and done that. It won't happen to me again. What happens to the whole nation though? Our economy sort of sputters along. Sure, there are "indicators" that show the economy is strong, but that also has built into it the MASSIVE amount of borrow in order to fuel the consumption. What happens when the credit fountain stops pouring out free $$$$? Like the OP said, people are really not going to be happy with life -- No more toys to distract them. Upside down in their mortgages. Can't go bankrupt and get a clean start. etc. etc. It really makes me want to cry sometimes thinking about it :-(. It don't wish it on people, but people in general really don't want to pay any attention to it.
We have a huge "baby boom" population socking money into a stock market with NOBODY to purchase it back when they are ready to kick back and retire to the easy life. Who is going to buy it all from them at higher prices in the next 10-15 years when the following generations are being crushed with lower wages and unstable job markets? Yeah, you can't buy groceries or pay for golf club memberships with stock certificates. Have fun there boomers :-)
Doom and gloom and more doom. :-)
What am I doing about it?
1. I *WILL NOT* take on any more debt. PERIOD. If I can't pay for it with cash, we don't get it.
2. I will not invest in anything that does not have practical, intrinsic value. Stock certificates mights as well be toilet paper.
3. I had 6 children and raised them to be decent, productive people. They will feed me and let me live in a spare room or the garage. I am not picky :-) I've studied the social security administration actuary reports. There isn't going to be any social security for me in 30 years :-(. Do I sound crazy? That's why you see people in 3rd world countires with such large families. That's the way it's always been until the past 100-200 years or so. Children take care of their parents when the parents are too old and sick to work. I'll trust that my children will give me a little food when i'm an old man. Trust the government or some company pension plan? Uhhhh, they don't have a very good track record of paying out lately do they...
4. I keep extra food, water and emergency supplies around. When the poo hits the fan, you don't want to be hanging around the Homeland Security relief camps or whatever alphabet soup agency will be doling things out. I'm not some survival nut or nothing. It's just a sound, prudent idea to have a pantry system and a portable water filter on hand. Stuff happens. Depending on someone else sucks.
Here's a really great site that with a mountain of info on public and private debt. It's very informative. Warning: It's not for those who are feint when confronted with lots of numbers. lol. It's solid stuff though.
mwhodges.home.att.net...
Enjoy.
[edit on 30-4-2007 by Perfect Fifth]
[edit on 30-4-2007 by Perfect Fifth]
Our marvelous economy has been fueled by the most massive credit bubble in history. We've shipped all capability to make anything useful for ourselves overseas. The factories are all shut down. We've gone into so much debt as private citizens and as a government it's impossible to get out of it. I don't have a perfect crystal ball, but I know that there IS some point in the future when we can simply not borrow any more money. I will happen to us as a nation just like it happens to us as individuals. At some point, you just can't get another credit card. Something changes and the monthly payments become more than you can handle. Yeah, i've been there and done that. It won't happen to me again. What happens to the whole nation though? Our economy sort of sputters along. Sure, there are "indicators" that show the economy is strong, but that also has built into it the MASSIVE amount of borrow in order to fuel the consumption. What happens when the credit fountain stops pouring out free $$$$? Like the OP said, people are really not going to be happy with life -- No more toys to distract them. Upside down in their mortgages. Can't go bankrupt and get a clean start. etc. etc. It really makes me want to cry sometimes thinking about it :-(. It don't wish it on people, but people in general really don't want to pay any attention to it.
We have a huge "baby boom" population socking money into a stock market with NOBODY to purchase it back when they are ready to kick back and retire to the easy life. Who is going to buy it all from them at higher prices in the next 10-15 years when the following generations are being crushed with lower wages and unstable job markets? Yeah, you can't buy groceries or pay for golf club memberships with stock certificates. Have fun there boomers :-)
Doom and gloom and more doom. :-)
What am I doing about it?
1. I *WILL NOT* take on any more debt. PERIOD. If I can't pay for it with cash, we don't get it.
2. I will not invest in anything that does not have practical, intrinsic value. Stock certificates mights as well be toilet paper.
3. I had 6 children and raised them to be decent, productive people. They will feed me and let me live in a spare room or the garage. I am not picky :-) I've studied the social security administration actuary reports. There isn't going to be any social security for me in 30 years :-(. Do I sound crazy? That's why you see people in 3rd world countires with such large families. That's the way it's always been until the past 100-200 years or so. Children take care of their parents when the parents are too old and sick to work. I'll trust that my children will give me a little food when i'm an old man. Trust the government or some company pension plan? Uhhhh, they don't have a very good track record of paying out lately do they...
4. I keep extra food, water and emergency supplies around. When the poo hits the fan, you don't want to be hanging around the Homeland Security relief camps or whatever alphabet soup agency will be doling things out. I'm not some survival nut or nothing. It's just a sound, prudent idea to have a pantry system and a portable water filter on hand. Stuff happens. Depending on someone else sucks.
Here's a really great site that with a mountain of info on public and private debt. It's very informative. Warning: It's not for those who are feint when confronted with lots of numbers. lol. It's solid stuff though.
mwhodges.home.att.net...
Enjoy.
[edit on 30-4-2007 by Perfect Fifth]
[edit on 30-4-2007 by Perfect Fifth]
reply posted on 30-4-2007 @ 06:22 PM by clearwater
Polanski said -
Not only did the army not provide enough body armor, the army made it illegal for the soldiers to buy their own. (Probably prison-labor, most government manufacturing contracts are prison labor), - One imagines the manufacturer with the government contract to supply body armor - demanded protectionist measures on a contract and government complied with lives.
'Freedom' - not permitted to buy their own, with their own wages, poor wages at that. The mercenaries, who comprise a bulk of Bush's army, earn three times as much as an enlisted soldier. Mercenaries aren't restrained by army restrictions and they can buy all the body armor they like; not subject to court martial.
Thinning the herd, or simply the upper hand. Wages and living conditions didn't improve for 100's of peasant uprisings until the Black Death. Suddenly workers were scarce and one had to pay money - raise them up. No conspiracy needed for the logic of perpetuating an advantage. Exploiting the principle of relative gain that insures value with the scarcity of money - the rich would prefer to see a drop in their yearly standard, than a sizable rise in everyone else's living conditions. Whether it's a conspiracy, or something we'd all do is, debatable.
The pall on the topic of economics suggests expert media manipulation. Commie is an effective American tar brush, 'Puritans' have found some new 'Witches'. Nothings ever perfect, so with an eye towards checks and measures to insure against tyranny, a constitution was made. It has always been that way - one group or another gets into a position of advantage. That's why they revolted. Rome has always struggled with empires and round table accord.
If only George Orwell could elucidate today on what Howard Unger found had been deftly concealed -
Orwell displayed a fine prescience for mangled semantics, in his essay "Politics and the English Language." Orwell might begin with the Patriot Act - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. United by a divisive presidency, not inclined to appeal or entice - more entrench and terrorize. Maybe Orwell would look at the IMF International Monetary Fund conditions:
Ten Conditions Countries Must Meet to Obtain an IMF Loan:
1.) Eliminate and reduce government controls over imports. Justification: transfer decisions on the use of foreign exchange to the free market. Result: Market is flooded with imports, same phenomena that led to the Boston Tea Party.
2.) Devalue the currency. Justification: Devaluation brings down the price of exports and this allegedly increases exports allowing the debtor to earn the money to pay the debt. Result: Population can't afford imports and everything made in country is exported.
3.) Restrict availability of credit and raise interest rates. Justification: Control inflation. Result: Causes inflation.
4.) Limit or reduce government spending and deficits. (social spending) Justification: Tight money policy. Result: Leads to reduction in services, health care, etc.
5.) Raise Taxes. Justification: Curb purchasing power to fight inflation. Result: Less money circulating within market.
6.) Increase prices of public services. Justification: Increase revenue and reduce public spending. Result: Demoralize the people.
7.) Abolish government subsidies for food and transportation. Justification: Limit government spending. Result: Outlaws trade unions creates starvation.
8.) Control wages. Justification: Control inflation. Result: Suppresses purchasing power.
9.) Eliminate price controls. Justification: Free market policy. Result: Leads to price gouging.
10.) Open country to foreign investment. Justification: Free market economy. Result: Economy is controlled by outside investor's. Loss of National identity and government has no access to own resources.
Orwell might find a misnomer, in agreement with half of the fund's participants, and name it the - International Misery Fund. Argentina's social genocide, Marcos, Pinochet. The School of the America's, Immanuel Noriega, yet another mole in CIA history, and the razed slums in Panama's flexed muscle. Orwell might examine the ruminations in a "Foreign Affairs" journal by the council on foreign relations in response to Clinton's JFKish inauguration speech.
"The task is much more complicated and difficult than Clinton makes it out. First the president has not prepared the nation for the sacrifices that lie ahead if America's trajectory is to turn upward.
Second, he has yet to explain the complex obstacles to restarting the American economy when there is a recession in Japan and Europe.
Third, he has yet to confront the delicate problem of pleasing powerful financial markets which are all too ready to unleash their fury at the administration's first fiscal misstep.
Now that the election is over the new president will have to move quickly to deliver the tough message and make agonizing decisions. In the CNN age, when indelible impressions are instantaneously formed around the world and when wall street and it's foreign counterparts can bring policy makers to their knees overnight Clinton's first hundred days are not just an opportunity to unfold a new agenda, rather they just as equally present a mine field that could blow up and damage his administration for the next four years.
Clinton's immediate priorities should be both offensive and defensive and defined in terms that are crystal clear and that reduce the cancerous budget deficit."
In the CNN age, when indelible impressions are instantaneously formed around the world and when wall street and it's foreign counterparts can bring policy makers to their knees overnight..,
Orwell, might come to the conclusion 400 million dollars hadn't been spent on sexual indelicacy and the redefinition of fellatio as having nothing to do with sexual relations. After reading David Corn's bestseller, "The Lies of George Bush - Mastering the Politics of DECEPTION" Orwell might conclude that some Pigs are more Human than others.
[edit on 30-4-2007 by clearwater]
"A pentagon report said that as much as 80% of the fatalities to our troops could have been avoided with adequate body armor. Are they thinning the herd? With the high birth rates of minorities and the poor it would indeed take a long war to effectively offset those statistics."
Not only did the army not provide enough body armor, the army made it illegal for the soldiers to buy their own. (Probably prison-labor, most government manufacturing contracts are prison labor), - One imagines the manufacturer with the government contract to supply body armor - demanded protectionist measures on a contract and government complied with lives.
'Freedom' - not permitted to buy their own, with their own wages, poor wages at that. The mercenaries, who comprise a bulk of Bush's army, earn three times as much as an enlisted soldier. Mercenaries aren't restrained by army restrictions and they can buy all the body armor they like; not subject to court martial.
Thinning the herd, or simply the upper hand. Wages and living conditions didn't improve for 100's of peasant uprisings until the Black Death. Suddenly workers were scarce and one had to pay money - raise them up. No conspiracy needed for the logic of perpetuating an advantage. Exploiting the principle of relative gain that insures value with the scarcity of money - the rich would prefer to see a drop in their yearly standard, than a sizable rise in everyone else's living conditions. Whether it's a conspiracy, or something we'd all do is, debatable.
The pall on the topic of economics suggests expert media manipulation. Commie is an effective American tar brush, 'Puritans' have found some new 'Witches'. Nothings ever perfect, so with an eye towards checks and measures to insure against tyranny, a constitution was made. It has always been that way - one group or another gets into a position of advantage. That's why they revolted. Rome has always struggled with empires and round table accord.
If only George Orwell could elucidate today on what Howard Unger found had been deftly concealed -
³Every line I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism," quotes George Orwell in the preface to the 1956 Signet Classic edition of Animal Farm. The edition, which sold several millions copies, however, omitted the rest of the sentence: "and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.²
Orwell displayed a fine prescience for mangled semantics, in his essay "Politics and the English Language." Orwell might begin with the Patriot Act - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. United by a divisive presidency, not inclined to appeal or entice - more entrench and terrorize. Maybe Orwell would look at the IMF International Monetary Fund conditions:
Ten Conditions Countries Must Meet to Obtain an IMF Loan:
1.) Eliminate and reduce government controls over imports. Justification: transfer decisions on the use of foreign exchange to the free market. Result: Market is flooded with imports, same phenomena that led to the Boston Tea Party.
2.) Devalue the currency. Justification: Devaluation brings down the price of exports and this allegedly increases exports allowing the debtor to earn the money to pay the debt. Result: Population can't afford imports and everything made in country is exported.
3.) Restrict availability of credit and raise interest rates. Justification: Control inflation. Result: Causes inflation.
4.) Limit or reduce government spending and deficits. (social spending) Justification: Tight money policy. Result: Leads to reduction in services, health care, etc.
5.) Raise Taxes. Justification: Curb purchasing power to fight inflation. Result: Less money circulating within market.
6.) Increase prices of public services. Justification: Increase revenue and reduce public spending. Result: Demoralize the people.
7.) Abolish government subsidies for food and transportation. Justification: Limit government spending. Result: Outlaws trade unions creates starvation.
8.) Control wages. Justification: Control inflation. Result: Suppresses purchasing power.
9.) Eliminate price controls. Justification: Free market policy. Result: Leads to price gouging.
10.) Open country to foreign investment. Justification: Free market economy. Result: Economy is controlled by outside investor's. Loss of National identity and government has no access to own resources.
Orwell might find a misnomer, in agreement with half of the fund's participants, and name it the - International Misery Fund. Argentina's social genocide, Marcos, Pinochet. The School of the America's, Immanuel Noriega, yet another mole in CIA history, and the razed slums in Panama's flexed muscle. Orwell might examine the ruminations in a "Foreign Affairs" journal by the council on foreign relations in response to Clinton's JFKish inauguration speech.
"The task is much more complicated and difficult than Clinton makes it out. First the president has not prepared the nation for the sacrifices that lie ahead if America's trajectory is to turn upward.
Second, he has yet to explain the complex obstacles to restarting the American economy when there is a recession in Japan and Europe.
Third, he has yet to confront the delicate problem of pleasing powerful financial markets which are all too ready to unleash their fury at the administration's first fiscal misstep.
Now that the election is over the new president will have to move quickly to deliver the tough message and make agonizing decisions. In the CNN age, when indelible impressions are instantaneously formed around the world and when wall street and it's foreign counterparts can bring policy makers to their knees overnight Clinton's first hundred days are not just an opportunity to unfold a new agenda, rather they just as equally present a mine field that could blow up and damage his administration for the next four years.
Clinton's immediate priorities should be both offensive and defensive and defined in terms that are crystal clear and that reduce the cancerous budget deficit."
In the CNN age, when indelible impressions are instantaneously formed around the world and when wall street and it's foreign counterparts can bring policy makers to their knees overnight..,
Orwell, might come to the conclusion 400 million dollars hadn't been spent on sexual indelicacy and the redefinition of fellatio as having nothing to do with sexual relations. After reading David Corn's bestseller, "The Lies of George Bush - Mastering the Politics of DECEPTION" Orwell might conclude that some Pigs are more Human than others.
[edit on 30-4-2007 by clearwater]
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