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PHONY 
POLITICS
Who is populating our country and voting?
The
other day, in a fast food restaurant I ordered a "Ceaser Salad" and stood
there dumbfounded when the order taker asked me ... "what kind of salad dressing
did I want. Ceaser I replied in amazement. Is there another dressing I don't
know about that goes on a Ceaser Salad? The blank expression on her face said it
all. This is indicative of the level of intelligence gripping America.
The Fading American Economy
According to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the US economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March,
half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are
employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.
Government employs 22,387,000 Americans, 8,744,000 more than
manufacturing. Even the category leisure and hospitality employs
13,682,000 Americans, slightly more than manufacturing. There are as
many waitresses and bartenders as production workers.
Wholesale and retail trade employ 21,467,000 Americans. Professional
and business services employ 18,036,000 Americans of which 8,368,000
are in administrative and waste services. Education and health
services employ 18,699,000 Americans.
Financial activities employ 8,228,000 Americans. The information
sector employs 3,010,000. Transportation and warehousing employ
4,532,000. Construction employs 7,338,000, and natural resources,
mining and logging employ 751,000. Other services such as repair,
laundry, and membership associations employ 5,516,000 Americans.
This is the portrait of the US economy according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. It is an economy in which government is the largest
employer. Manufacturing employment comprises just under 10% of total
employment and about 12% of private sector employment. Everything else
is services, and not particularly high level services.
Is this a portrait of a super economy?
To help answer the question, consider that US imports in 2007 were 17%
of US GDP, according to the National Income and Product Account tables
provided by the Bureau of Economic Affairs. In contrast, the BEA
industry tables show that in 2006 (2007 data not yet available) US
manufacturing comprised only 11.7% of US GDP.
If US imports actually exceed total US manufacturing output by 5% of
GDP, it does not seem possible that the US can close its massive trade
deficit. Even if every item manufactured in the US was exported, the
US would still have a large trade deficit.
The NIPA and industry tables from which the percentages come are not
calculated identically, and I do not know to what extent differences
might exaggerate the differences between the percentages. However, it
seems unlikely that mere calculation differences would account for US
imports exceeding US manufacturing output.
If the US cannot close its trade deficit, it is unlikely that the US
dollar can remain the world reserve currency. If the dollar were to
lose the reserve currency role, the US government would not be able to
finance its annual red ink budget by borrowing from foreigners, as the
US saving rate is about zero, and the US would not be able to pay its
import bill in its own currency. The rest of the world continues to
hold depreciating US currency, because the dollar is the world reserve
currency. The dollar is certainly not a good investment having
declined dramatically against other traded currencies.
From March 2007 to March 2008 the US economy created 1.5 million new
jobs (in services). Legal and illegal immigration and work visas for
foreigners exceed US job creation.
During the current school year, 3.3 million high school students are
expected to graduate. If we assume that half will go on to college,
that leaves 1.6 million entering the work force. College enrollment in
2007 totaled 18 million. If we assume 20% graduate, that makes another
3.6 million job seekers for a total of 5.2 million. Clearly,
immigration, work visas, and high school and college graduates exceed
the 1.5 million jobs created by the economy. Unless retirements opened
up enough jobs for graduates, the unemployment rate has to rise.
The US unemployment rate is creeping up, and according to John
Williams, the official unemployment rate greatly understates the real
rate of unemployment. Williams has followed the changes that
government has made to the official indices over the years in order to
spin a more politically palatable picture. Williams uses the original
methodology prior to the decades of spin. The original way of
measuring unemployment indicates the current rate of unemployment in
the US to be 13%, much higher than the 5.1% official number.
Williams also calculates the CPI according to the same way it was
officially calculated prior to the recent decades of spin. Williams
estimates the current CPI at 12%, three times higher than the official
4% figure.
Williams reports that upward growth biases built into GDP modeling
since the early 1980s "have rendered this important series nearly
worthless as an indicator of economic activity." Williams estimates
that US GDP growth has been in negative territory during almost all of
the 21st century. The notion that the US is just now entering a
recession is nonsense if we have in fact been in recession for most of
the 21st century.
America's post-World War II economic dominance was based on the
destruction of other economies by war and socialism. It is a different
world now, and Americans have given little thought to the economic
challenges of the 21st century.
A Politically "reborn" Obama
After twenty years of unvarying
saturation, by sitting in the pews of Rev. Wright's maniacal preaching, it
is impossible to assume Obama has not been tainted by it. This history of
associating with an undeniable bigot does not bode well and certainly should
absolutely exclude Obama from getting the office of the most powerful man on
earth. How can any rational person want him as president of the United States Of
America?
Cool It Wright
At Least For Now
While the frenzy of the
primaries mounts and collusion in government runs rampant ...
"We The People" are left twisting in
the wind. Jobs continue to sail away, rising energy costs are
disabling us, food is becoming a world wide crises, the cost of health
care knows no bounds, our unsecured boarders are purposely meant to be
that way, taxes are eating us alive, out society is being altered
intentionally, and the beat goes on.
How is it possible, the candidates
running for president, the ones forced down our throats, will be a way
of recapturing our America? The simple answer is ... it isn't.
Unless we act and act "now" to put a
security fence around the beltway and prosecute the degenerates that
are within, we are letting them get away with murder.
Concedes: biofuels may spur food price rises
Setting aside farmland to produce biofuels like ethanol may be partly to blame for driving up
world food prices, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
"There has been apparently some effect,
unintended consequence from the alternative fuels effort," Rice told a
meeting in Washington when asked for the US government's view on
skyrocketing food prices.
America's Middle Class
Has Become
Globalization's Loser
At the beginning
of the 21st century, the United States is still a superpower. But it's
a superpower facing competition from beyond its borders as well as
internal difficulties. Its lower and middle classes are turning out to
be the losers of globalization.
Are
the "Biofuel Morons" now happy that they have put our food supply in their
gas tanks and damaged our food supply so that now food availability and price is
going up faster than gas price?
50 percent of LA
workforce are immigrants
Los Angeles is at the leading edge of a
U.S. demographic trend, with half of its workforce immigrants, many of
them unskilled and speaking little English.
As baby boomers retire, the same pattern will emerge across the
country, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Demographers estimate
that by 2025 most of the growth in the workforce will be from
immigrants.
Ernesto Cortes Jr., Southwest regional director of the Industrial
Areas Foundation, said Los Angeles is at a crossroads.
"The question is: Are we going to be a 21st century city with shared
prosperity, or a Third World city with an elite group on top and the
majority at poverty or near poverty wages?" he asked. "Right now we're
headed toward becoming a Third World city. But we can change that."
JOBS AND THE WORK PLACE
The sweat shop, with its dangerous
work conditions, minimum wage not yet legislated, children exploited without compunction,
is not a picture of the dark ages ... "it was only yesterday."
Those conditions were representative
of city life in the early 1900’s. It was the normal environment where a predominance
of new immigrants clustered. This was where they would gather their wits and aim for a
better life. They quickly understood what was required and amidst a maelstrom of
indoctrination hurdles, they forged ahead and their efforts paid off.
Back then, reward for effort might
have appeared to be happening at a snails pace. In retrospect, as my thoughts wander back
to then, I can only regard the advances made at that time to be amazingly rapid. Did this
create a problem? Was this "new" strongly developing class of achievers rising
too fast, getting uncomfortably close to penetrating "Power’s Towers"?
Unionism was surging ahead -- minimum
wage was established -- child labor laws were enacted. Everyone, even those with minimal
education, were climbing the ladder to success. "Achievement," possible for all,
permeated the social climate.
America was surging ahead as never
before. A courageous entrepreneurial climate was largely responsible for ongoing success.
Destructive corporate practices, advanced by socially sanitized MBA’s ... was yet to
come.
For the moment, corporate careers
promised a good living and most important "stability." Newly developing
technologies began to set agendas for the educational system. Students were pleased to
graduate, armed with specialties tuned to industries’ needs. We were still a
manufacturing based society. Employment opportunities were broad ranging. Our industrial
base was expanding ... "not eroding."
Welfare, social security, income tax,
were newly emerging concepts. Prosperity for the increasing middle class was just as new.
They were the avant-guard for America’s surging success. It led to undaunted
progression. Everyone was focused on bettering themselves ... and they could. The notion
of creating government monitored safety nets wasn’t needed. The traditional family
was not threatened. Educational tools were rewardingly accurate. The community was
involved and socially entwined. Concern for others was still alive and functioning.
This "praised, energetic
society" forged ahead. It advanced from crowded city cliff dwellers to suburbanite
home owners. They departed from train, trolley, bus rider, to proud owners of shiny new
automobiles. The sought after forty hour work week became reality. Leisure time,
disposable income, continuing trust that the bubble would only expand, kept it growing
bigger.
Honest effort and pride in
accomplishment was a winning formula. That factor made all else possible, or so it would
seem. In short order, the guidelines became insignificant. A new breed of corporate
masterminds, consumed with greed and rewarded for it ... implanted their socially destructive objectives.
Product, product quality, worker consideration, fell prey to daily stock market
performance requirements. Paraphrasing a board room remark, "GM doesn’t sell
cars; it sells stock." What was the end result of this arrogance? Japan, Germany,
England, eagerly moved into the U.S. auto market. They remain embedded and prosperous
until today. We are asked to accept a transformed picture of our economy ... the
"nonsense" of an unrestrained global market place.
Our socially responsible formula in
tatters, resentment and mistrust pervades the mass of hurting, disillusioned, workers ...
destroying their social fabric. Workers that made America great, vested their future in
believing, are now suffering the teachery of trashed promises. Again, I must repeat ...
"It’s not the buggy-whip syndrome; it’s the greed syndrome."
Our economy has had its ups and downs
before. Unemployment reached much higher levels than today’s publicized numbers.
Temporary disruption of the work force is not a new phenomenon. Abrupt and extreme
dislocation of the work force "is a new and frightening happening." This shift
in job opportunity was formulated behind our backs. If this planned switch to a service
society was forecast, approached honestly, open for national discussion, there might have
been a chance it could have been designed to be successful for all. Would that have been a
bad way to go?
Before society was beset with
today’s chaotic, hateful downsizing and restructuring, people willingly listened to
explanations. When intelligently presented with facts, accepting a glitch appeared to be
reasonable. Faith and the willingness to believe in a return to normalcy was still
possible.
Recessions of varying degrees came
one after another, but as disruptive as they were they seemed manageable. Never did the
"glitch" elevate anxieties to the point where we reached a level of combative
disintegration. During all previous up and down cycles faith in the system prevailed.
There was always a rosier future on the horizon ... a believable rosier future.
Life did get better. A thirty five
hour work week was in the wind. Some corporations had already instituted a forty hour four
day week, affording families more leisure time.
Everyone! banks, corporations,
workers, appeared to be on the same wave length, convinced the future would continue to
promote mutually beneficial advantages for all.
Banks, in particular, were at the
forefront of displaying confidence. Credit was freely dispersed. Weren’t the banks
determined to shower us with credit ... confirming the recipient’s ability to handle
it? If one had any doubts about the future and the ability to repay debt, banks were
instrumental in dispelling such anxieties. We were on our way to owing our lives to the
company store. An accident?
Corporate promised ... workers
believed. We were glad to have them. They were glad to have us. Who did more for whom?
It was a time when I witnessed
computer repairmen advance to marketing executives ... trained within the
company. I witnessed office personnel
at Aramco being sent to the Middle East for high level training ... within the company. I
witnessed many success stories, where people with intelligence, not necessarily with
degrees, made it to the top ... trained within the company.
Small, entrepreneurial family
businesses were sprouting up wherever you looked. Under the elevated trains in Brooklyn, a
cluttered drab store, selling mops, pots, and assorted housewares eventually became a
splendid store on Manhattan’s 5th. Avenue. A hard working electrician, carrying his
load of tools on bus and train, converting gas to electric light, eventually had crews
working throughout the city. A baker from Europe, starting with a small facility, the
bakery and a four table restaurant, eventually grew to develop an extensive bread delivery
business. Another newcomer to America began by nailing shingles on the roofs of Levittown
homes. He grew to the extent where his real estate holdings became legendary and was
written about in the Readers Digest.
While this freedom to progress
appeared to be America’s solid doctrine, all too soon corporations showed signs of
how they could exercise muscle. Merger mania grew, in spite of laws that were supposed to
prevent the inevitable ... "too much corporate power." Mergers with suspicious
motives, hostile take-overs, junk bond deception, were visible gathering storm clouds. It
was obvious, "Power" -- not improvement ... was on a rampage. It wasn’t
long before workers’ notions of opportunity and security, began to melt away. Every
merger or takeover produced sell-offs and lay-offs. As power got fatter, we got leaner.
Many of us went broke.
Middle management, a substantial
segment of the middle class, had the rug pulled from under them. No longer could the
emissaries of power, "our silver-tongued renegades in government" preach the
glory of tomorrow. The words of Barnum, "a sucker is born every minute" had
reached a climax. The sucker was waking up. The "Chip" not yet fully utilized,
was beginning to emerge as the ultimate tool of power. Fighting back still appeared to be
possible. Now! waiting much longer ... may insure impossibility.
The middle class society that brought
America to her greatness was unconscionably altered and dismantled. The dedicated workers
who created the bubble of growth -- who cooperated in every way to ensure its future ...
were unceremoniously dumped. "Power" affirmed its capabilities of ultimate
control. Normally expected job longevity, ensuring a worker’s future well being, was
being eradicated. As a result, the "Family" was relegated to continue its slide
to oblivion.
Debt, so readily showered on us,
became a noose around our necks. As our death rattles grew in intensity, consumerism, the
"wheels of power’s limousines" ... was going flat. That didn’t seem to
matter so much. It’s easier to repair a tire than restore a life. "Power"
knew that and proved that.
Today, turmoil reigns as never
before. Corporations’ profits, greater than ever, stock values flying high, have been
created by inexcusable downsizing ... a practice that will come back to haunt them. Those
who have gotten the ax are being bombarded by government to embrace retraining. Our
government, though they secretly sponsored corporate advantage, now tries to sweet-talk us
into submission. If they succeed we will all wind up "Pushing Hamburger." Will
the Pacific Rim economic expansion be receiving economic refugees from the USA?
As if there is not enough greed
created chaos, more is being cooked up. Welfare reform, an attempt at improvement, is
being engineered by sadistic minds. It is being designed to force welfare recipients into
an already shrinking job base, which has displayed an inability to "keep the American
family together." Crazy? Clever?
General Motors closes a plant in the
U.S.. Needed downsizing and reorganization are some of the publicized explanations. Jobs
gone, a community dedicated to the corporation is put in jeopardy as a new General Motors
plant appears in Mexico. Is this chicanery or stratagem? Does our government intercede on
our behalf? No way! Government steadfastly argues in favor of its appropriateness. They
did sponsor NAFTA ... you know. Tons of our tax money went to Mexico as an outcome of the
deal. Think again ... chicanery, stratagem, or both?
Even if we wanted to be patriotic and
buy American goods to regrow our industrial base how can we, if most aren’t made here
any more. Try a simple experiment. From the time you wake up in the morning and brush your
teeth, till you’re ready to retire, write down where everything you touch or go near
is made. The countries of origin will speak volumes. We, the consumers didn’t want
everything to be made over there. It was our submissive government, bending to corporate
will, that created corporate welfare (tax advantages) and looked the other way, dismissing
our abhorrence to exploited labor competing with us.
There seems to be no end to
suspicious, perplexing inconsistencies. Why, when America attained phenomenal meteoric
growth and dominance in the production of goods for the world market, are we now imitating
the job market of third world economies? There are those who will have lots, as the rest
are relegated to limiting toil. Why, after becoming the world’s leading industrial
power, are we importing so many of our daily necessities and have become the world’s
biggest debtor? Why, when we proclaim to be a utopia, do we lag far behind in education,
health care, crime prevention etc. ... of those we bombed into oblivion? Have the
custodians we entrusted to adhere to "our rational," including the President,
become one with a conspiracy? Are we entering a new age ... "domestication of the
work force"?
Too cynical a thought? Think! Look
back! Only a generation past -- rewarding beliefs, rewarding application of rewarding
employment, usually resulted in rewarding achievement ... and a promising future. Where
have those attributes gone? What kind of future are we being led to?
Simply put, we have come to
disbelief, disillusionment, disconnected depression. This characterization is not
portraying isolated pockets in our society, nor is it the result of isolated intentions of
those in power. It couldn’t be. it’s too pervasive and therefore must be assumed
to have been orchestrated through coalition, and with hidden intent.
Our President has no compunctions of
appearing on television and announcing in emphatic terms, "our country has become a
service society, get used to it." It didn’t just come to his attention, he must
have been in collusion with "power’s agenda" for a long time.
The louder we cry out for our
government to intervene -- to put the brakes on what is happening -- to curtail corporate
abuse of power ... the more defensive and ridiculous become their antidotes.
A persistent ominous thought keeps
surfacing. This recently acknowledged, guardedly admitted to, "New World Order"
-- is it a prelude to strategies of "multi-national organizations" ...
specifically designed to divide a world they will eventually own?
The more I contemplate the
connections in today’s world, the more I have to believe that corporate is bent on
dominating it in their own way. The more I contemplate the outcome, the more I believe an
"Orwellian" era is closing in on us.
Will machine supplant the mind of the
masses? Is man destined to become an organic appendage to the "Chip"?
When 350 of the world’s richest
people have more wealth than 3,000,000,000 of the world’s population, anything is
possible and many things are becoming probable. When 350 are equal to 3,000,000,000, could
there be temptation? You bet!
How might ownership of the entire world be controlled
and administered? Not to worry, it’s already under way. The tool is the chip.
"Chip." A godsend for some ... a curse for most.
A Medaling
Idiotic Fool
What do you
expect from an Obama supporter?
When will our demonic government admit
we are in reseddion?
Three 'in the beltway' con artists.
The cause of our
problems, proclaim to be the ones to fix them.
The price of goods that are made overseas
is going up because our dollar is worth less. This might never have
happened if our trade policies were not conducive for corporate to remove
all essential family supporting jobs to overseas locations.
The cost to fill up your gas tank to travel
to your now diminished earning jobs is further eroding your spendable
income.
Food costs are going up because the
political justification of a stupid biofuel backing has disrupted the
normal grain market and is causing a world crises. The corn farmers are
making a fortune and the rest of our food supply is jeopardized and cost
skyrocketing
That we can supply more than enough oil
from our own resources is bein color="000000"g blocked by politics and fanatical
environmentalists.
The refusal to close our boarders is the
most destructive reason for our situation. The influx of low wage labor
suits corporate just fine. Under these conditions why should there ever be
any pressure to alter and improve the depleted living wage manufacturing
base.
Make no mistake this all points to the
demise of a society that built America and made it the most powerful and
socially rewarding country on earth.
We no longer are sure of what the future
has in store for our children. We are struggling to barley keep up with
the rapid alteration of our dreams, aspirations and plans for the future.
To believe that any of the three blowhards
have a plan to rectify their atrocities is not only wishful thinking, its
dangerous.
This is not the time to once again
put a miscreant in office. It is the time for a revolution that will
return our country to what our founding fathers hoped it would be.
Both the Declaration Of Independence and
our Constitution have been shredded. Instead of voting for more of the
same we should be clamoring for them to be put on trial for treason.
Stop being trapped in party politics and
come to your senses. Join together in the party of "We the people" use
your common sense and not submit the rhetoric of the "DEVIL."
Once
There Was A Middle Class
"It Has Been Destroyed"
The 1960s were the decade in which
my parents grew up. Their parents were the so-called Greatest
Generation and I, for one, actually think that moniker is appropriate,
considering that their childhood was the Great Depression and their
early adulthood was fighting World War II, a set of experiences almost
beyond my grasp. My parents (and with some good probability, yours)
grew up in the era of the rise of the military-industrial complex, in
which people could reasonably expect to get a solid paying job and
stay there throughout their lives.
This meant several things:
One, American education was the envy of the world. You simply couldn’t
get a better education than the one provided by an American
institution. Colleges were yet to be overcrowded as even then only a
small minority went to college, so if you were to get post-secondary
education in the United States, you were set.
Two, real worker compensation was never higher. In terms of the actual
value of a dollar at the time, the average American worker had it made
in the 1960s and 1970s. No matter what you did in life, you could fall
back on a factory job that would pay you a strong enough wage that you
could make it, no matter what.
Three, although the Soviet menace was real, it was distant. Although
the Cold War was terrifying in its own way, it never ascended into a
fighting war and there was never any sort of direct attack on American
soil. The Vietnam War was ongoing, but it was literally on the other
side of the globe, abstracting in a way the bitter horrors of war and
death.
Four, the art of marketing and consumerism was in a nascent stage.
Look at the sophistication of advertising in the 1960s and compare it
to now. There were some baby steps, clearly, but the psychological
edge of today’s marketing utterly blows away what you would find in
those days.
Five, the price of homes in real dollars was extremely low compared to
today. The price of a home since 1960 has gone up at a rate much
faster than inflation, a bull run that is perhaps finally being slowed
or reversed after many years of incredible growth. Thus, someone who
bought a home in 1960 stumbled into a killer investment.
Six, employers took long-term care of their employees. If a person
worked in a factory for thirty years, the company would guarantee them
a pension that would safely enable them to live out the end of their
days in a comfortable fashion. If you took care of the company, it
took care of you.
Under these assumptions, my parents could buy a home (rather cheap)
when they were younger than I am right now merely on the wages earned
with just one of them working a seasonal factory job (which paid quite
well). Because of this factory job, they now receive a very nice
pension after having never put anything into their own retirement
plan.
Does this sound like your economic reality? It certainly sounds
nothing like mine. My reality is more like this:
It involves employment that treats me more as an independent
contractor instead of a real team member, which means I have to save
for my own retirement rather than plan on a pension.
It involves homes that are amazingly expensive, even in the relatively
cheap area where I live.
It involves no “fall back” plan in the form of abundant factory work
that anyone can do. The fall-back jobs that I know of make minimum
wage, which is far less than a true living wage in the United States.
My parents regularly offer “advice” on how I should manage my finances
based on these assumptions that their childhoods and early adult lives
showed them, pointers such as you should buy a house as soon as you’re
married and you’re young - you should be buying fun stuff - go ahead
and get that monster plasma television. Their hearts are undoubtedly
in the right place, and they are speaking things they believe to be
true, but they aren’t true for me - if I took their advice, I would be
in the poor house.
So what’s my solution? If you are given advice by your parents - or by
anyone at all (including me) - consider the assumptions they’re coming
from. Are they valid for you? Even if they are, ask yourself does this
advice really make sense for me? Don’t just blindly follow any advice.
Those we have put into positions
of running our government are eventually or immediately ensnared by
indoctrinated maniacs that are doing everything within their power to destroy
America and our lives.
We are being lied
to ... None Stop
Exporting America:
Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs
Overseas
by Lou Dobbs
WHAT'S GOOD FOR BIG BUSINESS REALLY GOOD FOR AMERICA?
Tens of thousands of high-tech jobs exported
Auto industry down by 200,000 jobs, while imports of Chinese auto
parts double
Over 750,000 jobs lost due to NAFTA
40 state governments outsourcing jobs and contracts overseas
HMOs, insurance companies, banks, and credit card companies processing
American medical and financial data in
foreign countries.
By 2015, $151.2 billion in wages will have been shifted from the
United States to lower-wage countries. Now CNN anchor Lou Dobbs tells
the full story, naming names, providing shocking statistics, and
exploding economic myths. He reveals how corporate America and
Washington are working together, trading our nation's livelihood for
profits while undermining our very way of life. Most important, he
tells us how to save not only our jobs and our economy-but the
American Dream itself.
The
Speech: A Brilliant Fraud
by Charles Krauthammer
The beauty of a speech is that you don't just give the answers, you provide
your own questions. "Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered
controversial while I sat in church? Yes." So said Barack Obama, in his
Philadelphia speech about his pastor, friend, mentor and spiritual adviser of
20 years, Jeremiah Wright.
An interesting, if belated, admission. But the more important question is:
which "controversial" remarks?
Wright's assertion from the pulpit that the U.S. government invented HIV "as a
means of genocide against people of color"? Wright's claim that America was
morally responsible for Sept. 11 -- "chickens coming home to roost" -- because
of, among other crimes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? (Obama says he missed church
that day. Had he never heard about it?) What about the charge that the U.S.
government (of Franklin Roosevelt, mind you) knew about Pearl Harbor, but lied
about it? Or that the government gives drugs to black people, presumably to
enslave and imprison them?
Obama condemns such statements as wrong and divisive, then frames the next
question: "There will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation
are not enough. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place,
they may ask? Why not join another church?"
But that is not the question. The question is why didn't he leave that church?
Why didn't he leave -- why doesn't he leave even today -- a pastor who
thundered not once but three times from the pulpit (on a DVD the church
proudly sells) "God damn America"? Obama's 5,000-word speech, fawned over as a
great meditation on race, is little more than an elegantly crafted,
brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.
His defense rests on two central propositions: (a) moral equivalence and (b)
white guilt.
(a) Moral equivalence. Sure, says Obama, there's Wright, but at the other "end
of the spectrum" there's Geraldine Ferraro, opponents of affirmative action
and his own white grandmother, "who once confessed her fear of black men who
passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered
racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." But did she shout them in a
crowded theater to incite, enrage and poison others?
"I can no more disown [Wright] than I can my white grandmother." What exactly
was Grandma's offense? Jesse Jackson himself once admitted to the fear he
feels from the footsteps of black men on the street. And Harry Truman was
known to use epithets for blacks and Jews in private, yet is revered for
desegregating the armed forces and recognizing the first Jewish state since
Jesus's time. He never spread racial hatred. Nor did Grandma.
Yet Obama compares her to Wright. Does he not see the moral difference between
the occasional private expression of the prejudices of one's time and the use
of a public stage to spread racial lies and race hatred?
(b) White guilt. Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in
context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history
of white racism. Obama says, "We do not need to recite here the history of
racial injustice in this country," and then he proceeds to do precisely that.
What lies at the end of his recital of the long train of white racial assaults
from slavery to employment discrimination? Jeremiah Wright, of course.
This contextual analysis of Wright's venom, this extenuation of black hate
speech as a product of white racism, is not new. It's the Jesse Jackson
politics of racial grievance, expressed in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law
nuance. That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It
bathed them in racial guilt while flattering their intellectual pretensions.
An unbeatable combination.
But Obama was supposed to be new. He flatters himself as a man of the future
transcending the anger of the past as represented by his beloved pastor. Obama
then waxes rhapsodic about the hope brought by the new consciousness of the
young people in his campaign. Then answer this, Senator: If Wright is a man of
the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness?
This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the
deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought
at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and
roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well. Why did you
give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who
infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus
you say you have come unto us to transcend?
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Ranting for change may be an effective way to
tap into an upset population that is desperate to stop the tragedies that are
tearing their lives to shreds. Little do they understand that they have been
been put into their present circumstances by the constant detrimental change
that has been programmed and implemented for decades.
The most dramatic change has been in our
education system more concerned with sex and condoms than with the three r's.
The next devastating program of change was the elimination of good paying family
supporting jobs. They were shipped out of the country. To complete the program
and get rid of a middle class that were growing to pwerfull the boarders
were open to a flood oof illegal aliens that are destined to become the
predominant sector of future society.
Step by step, government and corporate have
colluded to advance to a NWO "GLOBALIZATION." Though not totally there,
the program has moved ahead almost to the point of being unstoppable.
We have had enough change to almost kill us.
Empty rhetoric promising more change is something we must avoid.
What must be done is to eradicate all the
change that has diminished our lives, our freedoms, our future.
We must find a way to go back to the future,
the golden age, and once again reach for a future that will generate a promise
of fulfilling our hard work to pass on the same opportunities to our children
and grandchildren.
The presidential candidates that are presently
seeking to run our lives don't even come close to helping us to go back to the
future. they are just more of the same shills. Snake oil salesmen that know no
other way to do business.
The
Destruction of America's Founding Ideals
0f the elite of the NWO have
accomplished what they have been working on for decades ...
destruction of a middle class. It is estimated that by the year 2050 the white population of
the USA will become a minority ... ranging below 50% and that will mark the
end of a social group that built the country and worked so hard pursuing
the American Dream. Now! before it's too late, there may be enough of us left
to understand the severity of what is going on and muster an effort to destroy
the enemy that has created this scenario. To put it bluntly it requires
an all out revolution that will eliminate the traitors that had a hand it
fostering, knowingly becoming stooges for the controlling elite. Our country
was founded by the daring of a group of men when they effectively told
the king of an empire ... "Go To Hell." That time has
come again. We must wake Up!!! Time is of the essence. The younger
bamboozled need to be educated.
The
Destruction of America's Founding Ideals
0f the elite of the NWO have
accomplished what they have been working on for decades ...
destruction of a middle class. It is estimated that by the year 2050 the white population of
the USA will become a minority ... ranging below 50% and that will mark the
end of a social group that built the country and worked so hard pursuing
the American Dream. Now! before it's too late, there may be enough of us left
to understand the severity of what is going on and muster an effort to destroy
the enemy that has created this scenario. To put it bluntly it requires
an all out revolution that will eliminate the traitors that had a hand it
fostering, knowingly becoming stooges for the controlling elite. Our country
was founded by the daring of a group of men when they effectively told
the king of an empire ... "Go To Hell." That time has
come again. We must wake Up!!! Time is of the essence. The younger
bamboozled need to be educated.
We have been
raped
and pillaged
THIS IS WHAT THE NEXT GENERATION FACES
They are not
acknowledging the negative impact illegal aliens have on the economy.
They are not truthful
about the devastation occurring to the middle class.
They are porously
creating a two tier environment, the haves and have not.
The boarders are wide
open and will remain that way, it suits their purpose.
Wake Up! politics like
never before has become the ultimate art of practiced lying.
i HAVE YET TO SEE A SINGLE,
HONEST CANDIDATE ACKNOWLEDGE THE CHAOS AND SUBMIT A PLAN TO GO BACK TO THE FUTURE
.
THE ENDANGERED
MIDDLE
CLASS
HADE BETTER WAKE UP BEFORE THEY ARE "EXTINCT"
HERE COMES THE KING
The planned
destruction of our Republic, our Sovereignty, is well underway and it seems we
can't penetrate its sanctuary and reverse the process. Corporate supremacy now
rules America. Let me introduce your new ruler, "corporate kingdom" the ultimate
uncontested winner overall.
A greater than ever Infestation
The hordes of deadly "brainless blobs," they have
implanted into our government, ensuring control by corporate, is replacing
the voice of "we the people" and are silently,
stealthily , proliferating within the environs of
every government institution from the white-house down. The far reaching
tentacles of these lethal, poisonous carnivores are
slinking penetrating every nook and cranny of our lives. Its deadly venom is
destroying all we believed America stood for. Left to multiply unchecked, all
that was dear to us will become history. If you think this is an exaggeration
then you are so dumbed-down (conquered) you have become a detriment to any
solution to retaking our country.
What is shamelessly included in the Consumer
Price Index (market basket) that determines COLA for most of seniors pitiful source of
income?
The market
basket was contrived to reduce government cost and has nothing to do with the
inflationary costs seniors are experiencing. And that's a fact!!!
The
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is
limited to the spending patterns of younger working consumers and represents
less than one-third of the total U.S population. Although used to
determine Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs), it specifically EXCLUDES the
spending experience of anyone whose primary source of income is from retirement
pensions. Currently the CPI-W market basket contains such things as rent, some
medical costs, food, gas and oil among other items. It also includes high tech
consumer items such as computers, big screen televisions, cell phones, DVD
players that tend to rapidly decrease in price as the technology improves.
Seniors however, do not purchase high tech items as often as younger working
consumers. Instead, older Americans spend a greater share of their incomes on
items that are more rapidly increasing in price-like prescription drugs and
health care. Thus senior advocates say the CPI-W tends to understate senior
costs resulting in COLAs that are not keeping pace with senior costs.
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The "Fed." using your money is bailing out the greedy "Money Moguls" that
created the illusionary housing bubble in the first place. Yet while this
atrocity is taking place your government is still declaring the economy is
terrific. They have no sense of what is happening to the working mans world and
apparently don't give a damn. So! "What Else Is New."
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Caught in the maelstrom
of government gone wild? Don't know how to stop the mayhem. You're not alone.
The only answer is
revolution. What tactics to employ then becomes the question. Certainly it must
be non violent. It appears, given the extent of the raging corruption, we must
invade them with the same tools they have been using to invade and monitor us.
You are using that tool right now to review this site.
As Lincoln said in his First Inaugural Address
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to
the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to
dismember or overthrow it ;"
We must stop the "NAFTA Highway
TO HELL."
It's happening and it's the beginning of the end.
It's only a matter of time. The clock
is ticking.
It's all coming together before you
very eyes.
If you doubt it, your politically blind.
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Save it from an insane government that is destroying it.
The fence will never be built. Politicians and our corporate
rulers
"don't want it." Get that through your head.
Documents disclose 'shadow government
Indicate
U.S. far advanced in constructing bureaucracy united with Mexico, and Canada
Government documents released by a Freedom of
Information Act request reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow
government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range
of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south, asserts WND
columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi.
The documents, a total of about 1,000 pages, are among the first to be released
to Corsi through his FOIA request to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of
North America, or SPP, which describes itself as an initiative "to increase
security and to enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater
cooperation."
"The documents clearly reveal that SPP, working within the U.S. Department of
Commerce, is far advanced in putting together a new regional infrastructure,
creating a 'shadow' trilateral bureaucracy with Mexico and Canada that is
aggressively rewriting a wide range of U.S. administrative law, all without
congressional oversight or public disclosure," Corsi said.
Among the initial discoveries, said Corsi, is the existence of an internal
Intranet website that never has been revealed to Congress or the public.
"This private internal website," he claims, "undoubtedly contains a wealth of
documentation that the FOIA request has so far intentionally excluded."
Corsi told WND the documents reveal hundreds of internal meetings, memoranda of
understanding and other referenced agreements that have not been disclosed.
"We have here the beginnings of a whitewash," he said, "in which SPP evidently
thinks the public will be hoodwinked by a 'Myths vs. Facts' document posted for
public relations purposes on their public website."
Among the documents is an organizational chart accompanied by a listing of
trilateral Mexican, Canadian and U.S. administrative officers who report on
multiple cabinet level "working groups."
The government watchdog Judicial Watch announced today it has received some of
the same documents, including the organizational chart, which can be seen in
this pdf file, on page seven.
"There is no specific authorization for this massive administrative-branch
integration with Mexico and Canada other than what amounts to a press conference
jointly issued by President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's
then-Prime Minister Paul Martin on March 23, 2005, at the end of their summit in
Waco, Texas," Corsi said.
Corsi added that even the "Myth vs. Facts" blurb on the SPP.gov website admits
the SPP is neither a treaty nor a law.
"The Bush administration is trying to create the infrastructure of a new
regional North American government in stealth fashion, under the radar and out
of public view," Corsi claims. "Where is Congress, asleep at the wheel?"
The SPP organizational chart Corsi obtained shows 13 working groups covering a
wide range of public policy issues, including Manufactured Goods; Energy, Food &
Agriculture; Rules of Origin' Health; E-Commerce; Transportation; Environment;
Financial Services; Business Facilitation; External Threats to North America;
Streamlined & Secured Shared Borders; and Prevention/Response within North
America.
U.S. administrative-branch officers participating in these working groups are
drawn from the U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury,
Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office
of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The released documents affirm that counterparts from official governmental
agencies in Mexico and Canada are combined with the U.S. administrative branch
to form new trilateral "working groups" that actively rewrite U.S.
administrative law to "harmonize" or "integrate" with administrative law in
Mexico and Canada.
"What we have here amounts to an administrative coup d'etat," Corsi told WND.
"Where does the Bush administration get the congressional authorization to
invite two foreign nations to the table to rewrite U.S. law?"
The value of your dollars are at an
all time low and no matter what the sleazy economists say, "You Know It."
Stop
the bull about today's dollars. In the 60's the cost of a
home mortgage averaged 15% of middle class income, today your lucky if it's only 50%.
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My wife and I are both working
yet we can barley
keep our heads above water. What is our lying government expecting of us? Are the
renegades we foolishly voted into office determined to destroy what remains of
the middle class? Will the illegal population they are determined to import
eventually change the complexion of our society? Will America become another
third world debacle?
The war Is
Not Over - Continue To flood our out of control tyrannical despots with demands that they
tackle and fix their other atrocities. Keep it rolling!
There was a time our constitution (created to eliminate
the domination of a a monarchy) was working fairly well. That didn't last too long
as the power of money didn't like its restrictions and eventually succeeded in
having government create conditions for wealth to again be in control by
corporations achieving and exceeding the rights of a living human being. Now
they could interfere with the citizenry and interfere with what they want. Once
again we have become subservient to the power of money. All this happened
legally with the help of a corrupt government and judiciary. The words of our
constitution remain intact, its intent has been destroyed.
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As Lincoln said
in his First Inaugural Address,
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to
the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or
overthrow it.
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"I see in the near future a crisis
approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country...
Corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated in a few
hands
and the Republic is destroyed."
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