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It is too late

by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
(leonjfisher@webtv.net)      Sept. 26, 2007

In regards to the economy (or should I say what's left of it) some people view the beginning of the falling economic dominoes as some kind of a government conspiracy for an excuse in which to declare martial law.

Although martial law might be a consequence of economic collapse, I do not believe that it is the goal of the fascists in Washington, and certainly not that of the Wall Street capitalists.

The sad truth is that the politicians in Washington have been squandering astronomical amounts of the taxpayers' money on unnecessary wars and wasteful programs and projects for the
 
last forty years. Every year the spending would increase, as well as the taxes. There was never any serious attempt to balance the budget, only the usual lip service at election time.

To add to this huge and rapidly growing government debt, legislation imposed the economic fraud Wall Street parroted as "free trade" upon the American people. It's good for business, they said, good for
workers -- the usual lies and propaganda used to justify the theft of the hard work and honest sweat of the working man.

The rich are getting richer and the workers are getting poorer, and still it continues despite its glaring failure.

No, this plunge into economic ruin is not to impose martial law. It's the fallout from forty years of theft and mismanagement which cannot be reversed. It is too late.

You see the rot setting in everywhere -- rising prices, the housing bust, a wildly fluctuating stock market, foreign governments getting rid of dollars for other more stable
 
You see the rot setting in everywhere -- rising prices, the housing bust, a wildly fluctuating stock market, foreign governments getting rid of dollars for other more stable currencies such as the Euro, stagnant wages, no health benefits, increasing numbers of homeless, America's cities and states dangerously close to bankruptcy ...
currencies such as the Euro, stagnant wages, no health benefits, increasing numbers of homeless, America's cities and states dangerously close to bankruptcy ...

No, this has nothing to do with the imposition of martial law, and it's too late for damage control such as the latest "free trade" scheme, the North American Union or whatever they're hoping might breath new life into our crippled economy, hoping to falstall the inevitable.

None of these attempts will succeed. The chance to repair the damage is long passed.

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