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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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It all makes sense
if you think like a sociopath
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
March 1, 2008
When I watch the various economic and political commentators who I
have reason to trust (like Joseph Stigletz on Democracy Now)
wring their hands and claim shrilly that government policy makes no
sense, I am reminded of the sociopathic character Gordon Gekko in the
movie Wall Street. It would all make perfect
sense to Gekko, because what we are witnessing is essentially a
hostile corporate takeover scam (with acknowledgment to David Sirota
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by almost that name) applied to the US government and
treasury.
Basically, if you can get control of a company with
significant assets you can borrow on those assets to the max, sell
off the valuable assets, move the cash offshore where it is safe,
drive the company into bankruptcy, and walk away with a bundle. This
is what I see happening to our country.
Since the amount
of debt that Republican administrations since 1980 (who were put in
control by soulless business interests) vastly exceeds the value of
all potential assets in the US and is so huge that there is no
reasonable way that we can ever repay this debt (reducing us to a
third world debt slave country) even if the currency is maximally
devalued (how about a bushel of dollars for that egg?), we are nearing
the stage where our corporate masters are set to just walk away with their winnings (converted to stable currencies and other valuable
assets) and leave us holding the bag.
I can't think of a appropriate
adjective or noun to describe the character of the people who are
doing this. All the good ones like traitor have been used up by the
propaganda machine and turned into mush by such offerings as a book
by that name by that scurrilous hack Ann Coulter. I guess demonic
will have to do.
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I can hardly wait for the dust to settle on this destructive process, since I hope to still be alive when the evildoers who control our country lose interest and leave for greener pastures or, hopefully, their just desserts.
Left to ourselves, I believe we can institute real democracy and popular control and make a decent, if poor, life from the wreckage the sociopathic gangsters leave behind.
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Perhaps it is just karmic justice. Much of America's wealth, probably most
of it, can be traced to evil deeds in our past -- the genocidal
dispossession of our native populations, a nearly continuous campaign
of imperialistic conquest and exploitation of weaker nations and
peoples around the world, a vicious, amoral and hypocritical form of
white supremacist ideology that has done its best to reduce non-white
cultures to smoldering ruins, slavery and oppression of non-white and
immigrant populations at home, inflicting a culture of mediocrity on
the minds of the world through our entertainment media, and a long
list of crimes that I can leave it to the reader to complete.
Actually, I can hardly wait for the dust to settle on this
destructive process, since I hope to still be alive when the evildoers who control our country lose interest and leave for greener
pastures or, hopefully, their just desserts. Left to ourselves, I
believe we can institute real democracy and popular control and make
a decent, if poor, life from the wreckage the sociopathic gangsters
leave behind. As long as there is something left to steal it is hard
to believe that the theft will not continue.
I have lived in a lot of places in the US during my life, and the
impression I am left with is that only those places where there is
little or nothing to steal, like Northern Maine for instance, retain
a degree of social justice and decent human feeling. So I am
inclined to say, bring it on.
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