By Jim
Kirwan
October 16, 2008
Last night’s debate ended another long and irrelevant
campaign. ‘The Children of the Empty Promise’ was
created in 1966, in response to Lyndon Baines Johnson who gave
us The Great Society and left these children that are now in
their mid-forties. That world changed, but not for the better!
The relevance of this comparison is that what we do now about
everything that has gone wrong for decades, will determine
not just what happens to our children; but everything that
will potentially come crashing down upon us all.
Every four years all the words and phrases are exactly the
same: ‘We’re going to change the world, save the
middle class and restore “American Values, along with
that special favorite “The American Dream.”’ “Funding,
tax-breaks, earmarks: Yet, during all of Cheney-Bush the only
things we’ve ever spent real money on were bombs and
bullets and secret no-bid contracts to enforce failed polices
that are illegal, amoral and criminal.
Control over taxes must be returned to the people directly – maybe
we could hold national elections for that one, since our representatives
refuse to do it! Congress was supposed to do this, but their
responsibilities went right out the window, along with ‘our’ severely
damaged constitution and all the laws that they just could
not wait to trash under their new Dictator – some very
disturbing facts that both these contenders for top-criminal
have already signed off on! Neither contender mentioned our
tremendously successful new jobs program – that’s
the option of last resort – which is to join the military
and kill people for multi-national corporations! ‘You
too could volunteer’! Another tremendous career opportunity
for our men and women, given the fact that there are no real
jobs and the real direction that this country is already apparently
committed to!
By the way, we should not be in the business of protecting
those corporations and the bankers from the public, nor has
it been proven that giving tax breaks to these people does
anything but encourage more theft, fraud and criminal activity.
The elites already have more money from illicit profits than
any business conglomerate in the world could ever dream of – so
why not cap executive salaries, and spread the pain around
a little? We need to re-enact Glass-Stiegel and put real fire-walls
between all the various kinds of financial games and outright
criminality!
Government spending on the Bush Doctrine of 2002 is what is “Out-of-Control!” We
do not have a mandate to bankrupt or to murder the rest of
the planet, any more than we have to outspend the world fifteen
times over on a military that is overused, worn out, and stretched
too far to ever complete any of their ever-changing missions.
Cut the purse strings and bring the National Guard units home
immediately. We need them all here to defend the citizens,
during this pending imposition of Martial Law!
If we were really serious about cutting-costs then we ought
to break all those secret-contracts with the mercenaries, this
would end our wars for profit in the Middle-East and elsewhere
in a flash! But that’s never going to happen!
And since we’re now way beyond insolvency we need to
dump the Zionists that have taken over Israel. We’ve
been subsidizing that unfinished state for over fifty years
so let’s let the Zionists fight their own fights for
a change! We have real needs here that must take precedence
over the failures of that spoiled, dependent and parasitic-state.
But don’t look for any help with this from either of
these two amateurs – both have sworn undying allegiance
to Israel over the real interests of the United States, which
technically makes both Obama and McCain – Traitors. But
what then does this make us; for tolerating “leaders” that
publicly swear allegiance to foreign nations, with tremendous
pride, over the nation that pays them, and is the one and only
nation that these traitors are supposed to represent!
Tonight made something else official, neither candidate has
even mentioned that Mammoth in the living room that no one
plans to deal with; which are the real costs of those Derivatives
that are out there in the dark just waiting for us like a
trillion vultures – and neither candidate has put forward
any plan to deal seriously with any of this reality!
“The entire crisis is not a crisis of subprime mortgages,
it is a crisis of the derivatives bubble which was launched
by Wendy Gramm of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission
and Greenspan of the Fed with the connivance of Robert Rubin
of Goldman Sachs and Citibank, and others in the Clinton administration,
some 15 years ago. These derivatives now amount to a total
worldwide notional value that can be estimated between 1 quadrillion
and two quadrillion US dollars. This sum is so large that it
dwarfs the total value of the entire planet earth and all those
who live here. Compared to the cancerous, bloated, and fictitious
mass of derivatives which is at the root of this crisis, the
$700 billion demanded by politicians, large as this may seem,
is nothing but a drop in the bucket. And a drop in the bailout
bucket is what it will be. The mass of world derivatives between
$1 and $2 quadrillion represents an insatiable black hole which
is capable of putting an end, not just to civilization, but
to human life itself.” (1)
“The total potential cost of the financial bailout
to the U.S. taxpayer is already rapidly approaching $5 trillion,
over seven times as much as the meaningless $700 billion bailout
bill figure.
Analysts have previously marked out the $5 trillion figure
as the actual cost, now those predictions are becoming demonstratively
accurate.
Meanwhile, Hank Paulson has defended government intervention,
stating "There's no doubt that the way to get the maximum
bang for the taxpayers here was to invest in banks." (2)
The US keeps three sets of books. The first is what we let
the politicians talk about; the second is the “serious
truth” which we give to insider’s for the talk-shows
to threaten the little people with, whenever ‘we’ begin
to get too testy. Then there are the real figures: The actuality
we face is 56 Trillion in off the books debt that we have no
plans at all to even remotely deal with! (3)
Where does all this leave us? Well if the past is prologue,
then here’s another gift from 1966 – this one from
LBJ’s War on Poverty – it’s called:
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