- We are living in a state of selective amnesia or fearful
- denial? "The easy credit which created the subprime
- crisis in mortgage lending has now spread to the hedge
- fund industry. The troubles at Bear Stearns prove that
- Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson's assurance
- that the problem is 'contained' is pure baloney. The
- contagion is swiftly moving through the entire system
- taking down home owners, mortgage lenders, banks,
- rating agencies, and hedge funds. We are just at the
- beginning of a system-wide breakdown. "
-
- "To a large extent, the housing bubble has concealed
- the systematic destruction of America's industrial
- and manufacturing base. Low interest rates have
- lulled the public to sleep while The rise in housing
- prices has created the millions of high paying jobs
- have been outsourced. The rise in housing prices
- has created the illusion of prosperity but, in truth, we
- are only selling houses to each other and are not
- making anything that the rest of the world wants. The
- $11 trillion dollars that was pumped into the real
- estate market is probably the greatest waste of
- capital investment in the nations history. It hasn't
- produced a single asset that will add to our collective
- wealth or industrial competitiveness".
-
- " The Federal Reserve produces all the fact and
- figure related to the housing industry. They
- knew that trillions of dollars were being diverted
- into a speculative bubble, but they did NOTHING
- to stop it. Now the effects of their 'cheap money'
- policies have spread to the hedge fund industry
- where hundreds of billions of dollars in pensions
- and savings are in jeopardy."
-
- It is advised that citizens (those involved in
- loans - investments - etc, in local
- communities) , come into the 21st century
- and get a grasp of the serious
- implications : Another Great Depression
- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6807
-
- While we are kept dutifully distracted with the drunken
- antics of Hollywood airheads, breaking news of
- OJ, and his merry band of thieves, hours of TV
- media coverage of sexual predators, or Lockup
- shows of our 'prison industry' - millions across the
- nation are losing their jobs and their homes.
-
- In case some of the opinion that government will
- ride to the rescue and retrain former auto
- workers, textile employees, paper mill/ steel/
- manufacturing workers, etc, for those high end
- technological or positions in the health field - get a
- grip! Thousands upon thousands are graduating
- from college unable to find jobs! No 50-60 old
- worker who has worked for decades in a paper
- mill, or steel plant, is going to compete with those
- educated in the best of colleges in their early
- twenties! Let's get real.
The Governments Response To The Majority Of Americans Fed Up With Illegal Mexican Immigration !
- Besides, we now have hundreds of thousands
- of professional guest workers (Democrats
- and Republicans support), being
- imported to replace Americans, at a third
- of the salary, no benefits, no pensions, and
- no job security. Prison labor is being used by
- other corporate interests! Besides, President
- Bush, who never held a real job in his life (before
- the Presidency or government position), has cut
- funds for job retraining: The Bush Budget:
- http://www.aflcio.org/issues/bushwatch/2007budget.cfm
-
-
- President Bush, and career politicians, don't have
- to care or relate to their employers (US
- Taxpayer). They get lucrative salaries, yearly cost
- of living raises, and full health coverage (we pay
- 72% of their premiums). Their pensions also see
- yearly cost of living raises! No severance packages
- here, of a few weeks pay, no matter how miserable
- their job performance, or felony convictions.
-
- Note, when a politician comes down with some health
- issue, they receive immediate care at the best of
- hospitals. No drone in a far away cubicle informs
- their physician that such and such a procedure is
- not covered. They are not advised to become
- destitute, having no assets, before they can receive
- medical care! They don't die ignored, on the
- floor of an emergency room (Los Angeles),
- of a ruptured bowel, with medical staff
- fully aware!
-
- Coming home from war, they are not one of the
- 192,000 veterans left homeless, having to prove
- their disability. Note how convenient the troops are
- for photo ops ( in spiffy uniforms amidst flags) going
- off to war. You'll not see politicians posing with brain
- damaged/blind/faceless/ veterans, advising, "Be all
- you can be etc". You'll not see presidential candidates
- shaking hands; with those living under bridges, in
- abandoned cars, or crowded shelters ! You haven't
- seen politicians (whatever the party) addressing the
- bureaucratic nightmare of today's medical debacle;
- written, by the pharmaceuticals, insurance, and
- HMO interests. Both parties continue to vote
- malignant trade agreements, for the benefit
- of corporate hucksters, in their global plundering
- of our planet. Millions upon millions, left
- dispossessed in their own lands, (due to trade
- agreements), are exiting their countries
- seeking employment in the U.S.
- Corporate interests rally the naive, unskilled,
- and uneducated immigrants, in various protests,
- against the unemployed, and over burdened
- U.S. taxpayers being billed for these failed trade
- agreements! Victims against victims. Pretty clever
- manuvering. The top few % responsible for this global
- plunder are out of sight. This can't be identified for what
- it really is - class warfare. The few are benefiting
- obscenely at the expense of the multitudes. The
- media (corporate owned) blames this discontent
- on those not willing to do the work of immigrants
- or on unions. Hey, the bigger the lie, the more believable.
-
- Immigrants are not only (as the media presents) out in
- the field picking lettuce or beans. They are standing on
- street corners all over the nation; being hired on by
- unscrupulous contractors; for roofing, brick laying,
- concrete work, construction, etc. At the end of the
- day (week) many hired on in this manner, find
- themselves without pay, or working for slave
- wages. If they are injured on the job, that's their
- tough luck. Non-union jobs result in coal miners
- left underground (Utah), and are not about
- enviromental or safety issues. This is the face
- of your new global plantation. An indentured
- slave work force.
- The American Paramilitary: The Police !
- Once upon a time, in Old America, there was pride
- in the workmanship of American Made. Small
- town America flourished with manufacturing, tool
- and die shops, sheet metal, appliance companies,
- paper mills, steel mills, mining machinery plants
- etc. The police did not carry electrocution
- devices(tasers) nor did we have Ninja
- troops, breaking down doors, killing
- innocent citizens, in some ill founded drug
- bust. Meantime, our southern border, has tons
- of drugs entering in unhindered! The poppy
- fields of Afghanistan are booming. What drug war?
-
- Once upon a time in Old America the doctor would
- come to your house. The President didn't advise
- those in need of health care to sit in an emergency
- room for hours. A hospital bill didn't bankrupt a
- family. Medicines were affordable. Children didn't
- die of an abscessed tooth because a dentist
- demanded cash.
-
- Small town America had downtown streets bustling
- with home town businesses. Walmart with its
- poison junk from China was not the largest employer
- in the nation. The elderly didn't need to apply for
- jobs; bagging groceries or as Home Depot
- Associates to make ends meet. Schools were
- not centers of social engineering,
- teaching alternative life styles, or the
- intricacies of putting a condom on a
- banana! Children were permitted the
- joy of being a child and not arrested for
- zero tolerance schemes, thought up by
- some mindless educators in Washington. A
- compliant, obedient, passive workforce, needs
- early intervention and training in obedience. Group
- Think is in - individual genius, exuberance and
- creativity needs drugged. It takes a village to
- raise an mindless idiot .
-
- Once upon a time in Old America a man working in
- a mill, or auto plant etc, could see his son becoming
- an engineer, a doctor, or scientist. Today's child, has
- his/her career being mapped out in school by
- social engineers. College costs are out of sight, with
- various grants and loans being eliminated. Youngsters
- no longer works at paper routes, or at odd jobs. These
- are being done by unemployed parents or
- immigrants. Those being prepared for a world
- of Forever War - or placement in the local
- Wigget factory; don't need math skills, spelling,
- or reading abilities. Thus many graduating today,
- can't do simple math (watch what happens when
- the computers go down in a store), read a newspaper,
- or discuss a work of literature. Many have no idea
- of our history, and think the civil war was the
- Watts Riots. Try asking your fourth grader to l
- ook up a word in the dictionary or write a short story.
-
- The fault of this rests with parents/citizens - who
- have allowed this madness of indoctrinating
- their children into stupidity. Teachers (change
- agents) are only interested in a paycheck or
- retirement benefits. They are not about to rock
- the boat. Citizens on the other hand, without a
- murmur, have their children prescribed mind
- altering drugs, without the least bit of
- research! Because some bovine drone threatens
- them - they bleat and obey. Would that we had
- some 'zero tolerance' addressing the corruption
- in Foggy Bottom - or in the robbery of war, with
- billions gone missing. Meantime, the offspring
- of the moneyed/well connected, receive the
- best of private school educations - to prepare
- them for their secure positions of future
- hucksters - industry hacks etc.
-
- Once upon a time in Old America there was no
- danger stranger, Amber Alerts, or daily fear
- advertisements. True we had Duck and
- Cover, a silly ass routine of Bert the Turtle,
- advising us to duck under a desk, to avoid
- the aftermath of an Atomic Bomb. At age
- six, I had enough sense to see the lunacy
- in this, and received a monthly 'unsatisfactory'
- in deportment, because I wouldn't participate
- in acting the fool. Today I imagine I'd be arrested.
-
- Once upon a time in Old America the streets
- and parks were alive with the laughter of children
- at play. Small town America had its fireworks,
- parades, carnivals, swimming hole, family
- picnics, concerts in the park, fishing, building
- forts etc. Today the streets are silent and echoing
- on a summer's eve. Video games and mindless TV
- programming have created a generation of
- lumpkins. Except in a rare instance, I don't
- recall a classroom filled with doughy - dullard
- overweight children. But then we had no fast
- food restaurants, or additive saturated foods,
- when I was growing up. To this day, I have never
- eaten (WHY?) at a McSlop fast food joint.
- Citizens today have been propagandized and
- programed to enslaved consumerism. I can't
- imagine that my parents would have paid
- hundreds of dollars for sneakers, or designer
- clothing , so that I could fit in with the other
- kids at school. 'TV was my teacher far into the
- night - it taught me to buy everything within
- sight' - this is today's mantra. Imagine robbing
- your children, by sitting them down in front
- of something called Sponge Bob (or whatever)
- or violent video games?
-
- We are for the most part kept ill informed as to
- the true state of our nation. Millions are losing
- their jobs and homes. One state or region has
- no idea of what is occurring elsewhere. Detroit
- looks like Beirut - with its downtown echoing
- with abandoned hotels, train stations, and
- rusted auto plants. The steel mills and textile
- plants of middle America - the South (never
- modernized), were allowed to rust into
- oblivion - with few realizing the
- implications. In times of crisis we could
- never prepare for war.
- http://www.coalcampusa.com/rustbelt/oh/oh.htm
-
- Once upon a time in Old America there were real
- grandmas with aprons and flowered dresses. Women
- didn't feel the need to resort (TV conditioning)
- to liposuction, face lifts, breast implants etc.
- Our votes weren't hijacked by computers
- with no paper trail. True, there have always
- been the robber barons exploiting the workers,
- shooting down strikers (looking for a decent wage),
- and crooked politicians, only too willing to sell out
- their constituents. The difference today is that these
- robber barons and corporate hucksters; hold the
- most strategic positions in government (from the
- Defense Dept to the regulatory agencies). Lobbyists
- for industry now determine legislation. Government
- (politicians) for the most part, are nothing more
- than props. No matter the party in power, one
- can observe, that they are about feathering their
- own nests, serving their corporate owners, or
- holding tedious hearings, that result in nothing
- but filling time. Anything done for the citizen
- is by pure accident.
- And now in the New America we can see that our infrastructure,
- utilities, water, and vast holdings of real estate are being sold
- out to foreign interests. Rest assured, that all these supposed protected
- areas (parks - timber - minerals - grasslands - etc) are mere collateral for our
- massive debt. I suspect, that under the guise of paperless ID, we will next
- be ordered to be chipped (much like pets). In the days of slavery this was
- called branding - the chip is merely updated branding. One must keep
- track of one's human resources on a plantation.
-
- "Ship is sinking
- The ship is sinking
- The ship is sinking
-
- Digging up the dead, with a shovel and pick
- It's a job, it's a job
- Bloody moon rising with a plague and a flood
- Join the mob, join the mob
- It's all over, it's all over
-
- God's away, God's away
- God's away on business, business"
-
- God's Away On Business -Tom Waits
-
- By Judith Moriarty
-
- jdthmoriarty@yahoo.com
|