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Message to the World from the US: "Please help us!" by Herb Ruhs, MD Republicans to the rescue? What the hell? Time to contemplate the error of party and anti-party bias. The fact is that if it was left to the Democrats we would have had the Paulson coup pass Congress. It was the Republicans that showed some spine!
Not that I have any brief in favor of party politics, but it should be sobering to those who like to cast blame in partisan ways. The fact is that the chain on the economics potty has been pulled and we are all, Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Libertarians, idealist and scoundrels alike, embarked on a very wild economic ride. On the up side a depressed economy does produce fewer greenhouse gasses. As the whole world grinds to an economic halt we may yet decide that such a move, intended or not, was a wise one. Though I was momentarily buoyed by Monday's defeat of the humongously offensive Paulson proposal in Congress, I don't think that it represents anything near a final victory for the people. What it represents to me is a temporary setback for the criminal cabal that has taken over the country, brought on by a lack of confidence by legislators in the ability of crooked election processes to overcome the rage of voters at the uncharacteristically transparent nature of this latest mega-rip-off. I am confident that the same slimy monster will be brought back after a superficial cosmetic makeover, and be hammered through by back-room coercion. Of course, as usual, I am the person I would most like to be proven wrong, so I am keeping my fingers crossed. Witness the fact that there is no dearth of well thought out and practical proposals to deal with the fall-out of decades of accelerating fraud and outright theft that has characterized the criminally based US financial and corporate sector. As an example of such a proposal consider the analysis and proposals put forth in the article "Tragedy in the Making in Washington and on Wall Street: The Canadian Solution," by Rodrigue Tremblay. However, there is virtually no chance that such honest approaches to our problem, of the kind instituted in Canada, will ever see the light of day in the US. When Roosevelt attacked a very similar problem in his first term it was a very close thing for him. The criminal element in charge of the financial, insurance and real estate empires of that
"In 1934, Butler came forward and reported to the US Congress that a group of wealthy pro-Fascist industrialists had been plotting to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a military coup. Even though the House Un-American Activities Committee corroborated most of the specifics of his testimony, no further action was taken." WikipediaThe criminal cabal of today's USA is much, much stronger and better positioned than they were in the thirties. They may have to tolerate some transient populist outbursts on the part of elected representatives fearful of voter reaction in the voting booth, but they are not going to give up on the confidence game that has landed one fantastic score after another for them over the last few decades. Control is firmly in their hands, or so they think. Confidence criminals are a lot like impassioned fishermen. Once they have a fish on the hook nothing short of a cut line is going to stop them from trying to land their catch. Heaven help anyone who threatens to cut the line. Criminality is a form of obsessive compulsive symptomology. They can't stop themselves. No matter if the fish they hooked is so large that it will swamp their boat and drown them. And in this case the fish is us, the US public, and the loot is all our current and future wealth. When a confidence move looks like it's going sour, if for instance, in this case, Congress fails to take the bait and votes with their voting constituency, you can expect an extortion to replace the confidence game. If they don't get their way, we can expect that they will use their power to crash our markets and turn everyone's retirement accounts into dust and drive the economy into stone age delirium. Frankly, I would go with the extortion scam and call their bluff. Purging one's self of parasites may not be a pleasant experience, but it does heal. It is like the "Old Man and the Sea" the Hemmingway parable of what happens when someone tries to land a fish too big to get in the boat. The criminals will make it to port, sure, but they will have only the bones of their catch left moored to the gunwale. As wise person after wise person has taken pains to warn us about down through history, once you let power centers develop that are stronger than your government, the jig is up. In that situation, you just have to take your medicine and plan for the day when you can start to rebuild as a free society. Criminals are just the social analog of biological parasites. When the organism is weakened due to age, injury or disease, parasites move in. When the parasitic load becomes too great death ensues. It is nature's way. We squandered the promise of our nation in the pursuit of unearned riches, allowing criminal types to rob and pillage on our behalf, and now it is time to pay the piper. Rugged individualism and its delusion of American exceptionalism is dead. Deal with it. Herb Ruhs, MD PERMANENT LINK  | Latest entry | Recent entries | Older entries | |
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