In case you didn't notice;
there have already been what are essentially five
too-big-to-fail bank bailouts in the United States – and now
there's another one planned into the U.S. budget. The big banksters
have now moved beyond stealing from the poor, the middle class, the
upper middle class, the young and the unborn. They're now after money
from the sick, the elderly, and even other members of the oligarchy.
The big banksters are now
after a bigger piece of the Federal budget. With the recent
sequester, the banking industry is poised to take taxpayer money from
the military/industrial complex and the health “care” industry.
This could get bloody. Maybe it already has.
...Oh, nobody told you
that we're working on our sixth bank bailout?
Well, the term “bailout”
is just so incendiary. So, they simply called the bank bailouts
something else.
Of course, B.S. by any
other name is still a smelly pile of bovine excrement.
Why would those in power
want to lie to us?
Because they want to hide
an injustice – being done to us.
Lies from our “leaders”
are not to be taken lightly.
Thirty years of the LIE
of “free market” capitalism has led to oligarchy control of
America – and they are taking advantage of us in every way they
can.
For more than three
decades we have carelessly watched as our Nation's companies morphed
into monopolies. There's been a constant stream of news reports about
mergers, buyouts, takeovers, hostile takeovers, multi-billion dollar
(bankrupting) lawsuits, over-regulation for the little guy, and even
what is effectively “corporate anarchy” for the big guys.
Apparently, the way to win
in our form of capitalism is to monopolize an industry,
sell practically instant garbage (that has to be replaced often), and
charge whatever the market will bear for it. Oh... And two more
things, if you're particularly sleazy; get the laws changed to favor
your business, and get as much taxpayer money as you can. And if your company screws up in spite of all those unfair advantages, be too-big-to-fail.
As you may have noticed;
four major (monopolistic) industries control most of what happens in
the United States. These industries are the too-big-to-fail banks,
the military/industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, and the
health “care” industry.
These four industries rely
heavily on taxpayer and ratepayer monies. We're talking billions and
billions of dollars – our dollars – for each of these industries
– every year!
The recent sequester has
cut into the profits of two of these industries; the
military/industrial complex and the health “care” industry. And
why? To pay down the National debt. But the mass media never seems to
mention who's actually going to get paid. The “debt” is owed to
the too-big-to-fail banks, of course.
Once you start to think
about it, this sequester starts to look like another bank bailout. In
fact, there are a number of what are effectively big bank bailouts
we've had to endure:
Bailout #1 – the
official bank bailout of 2008; TARP
Bailout #2 – the secret
FED bailout; the printing of $16 trillion dollars to be loaned to the banks (including foreign banks)
Bailout #3 – the
reduction of the prime lending rate to near zero to the big banks (so
that they could borrow money for next to nothing – and pay out next to nothing to savings accounts)
Bailout #4 – the $40 billion dollar a month FED buy out of bad mortgage-backed security debts
Bailout #5 – the
sequester
and now:
Bailout #6 – the
proposed reduction of Social Security benefits
Of course, with the
exception of TARP, the mass media won't call the big buck bank
payoffs bailouts. Apparently, they're hoping we won't notice the
money to pay down the National debt is money for big banks. Or at
least they're hoping we won't notice until it's too late.
Which brings me to the
latest distractions; the bombing of the Boston Marathon and the
poison letters sent to President Obama and Senator Roger Wicker
(R-Miss). Both of these stories are very newsworthy. However, we can
expect never ending coverage of these events. Which is a little
curious. Because there isn't much we, as citizens, can do
about them.
But on the other hand; we
could work to stop the Social Security cutbacks. We
were. Public resistance was building up against the austerity
measures aimed at Social Security. And now; losing our Social
Security is suddenly on the back burner in most people's minds. How
convenient...
I'm not saying the banks
are behind the terrorist attacks. However, the too-big-to-fail banks
do spend a lot of money on advertising in mass media news. What does
that buy them? Silence. The for-profit “news” corporations know
the score. They better change the subject about Social Security, or
they won't get paid.
But who else wants the
bombings on the front page? Homeland Security, of course. I'm sure
they weren't too thrilled about the sequester cuts. In fact, I'm sure
they're already working overtime trying to get that money back.
It's quite likely that the
rest of the military/industrial complex secretly cheered about the
terrorist attacks too. They knew the American people weren't falling
for the North Korea hype.
Let's face it; one
little-bitty country with a couple of nuclear bombs isn't really a
threat to us. Attacking America would just be “Assured
Self Destruction.” We all know that if the U.S. wanted to, we could
literally vaporize their whole little country. We all realize that
the only way Korea would ever launch nuclear weapons on the U.S. is
if they were desperately losing a war with us. In other words Korea's
only practical use of nuclear weapons is as a last ditch act of
defiance.
After the invasion of Iraq
and the accusation by then President George Bush Jr. that North Korea
was part of the “Axis of Evil,” you can't blame Kim Jong Un for
being a little paranoid. So, what does America do? We yank his
chain...
The U.S. conducted
military exercises recently right near North Korea. They knew the new
leader of North Korea would just have to say something
about it. And then U.S. mass media jumped on his statements as a
threat to attack us. And this all happens right about the same time
as the sequester... Things like this don't just happen.
This blatantly looks like a contrived threat to stop the Federal
cuts. I think most Americans would concur. We were never fully
convinced Korea was really a threat.
And then the Boston
Marathon gets bombed.
How convenient...
Homeland Security faces
funding cuts from the sequester – and suddenly there is this
slaughter of the innocents. This “terrorist attack” just doesn't
look that plausible.
Nonetheless at this point,
when it comes down to National politics; it doesn't really matter who
did it. Homeland Security will react to this just as if it were a
false-flag operation. That's right; expect just what you saw with
9/11 (unending terrorism hype). What really matters is; this act of terrorism can be used as an
excuse to get more taxpayer money. The Boston Marathon bombing will
be used over and over again as an excuse to refund Homeland Security
and the military/industrial complex. Never mind the fact that even
before the sequestration cuts, with billions of taxpayer dollars
funding anti-terrorist efforts; they failed to prevent
it...
Homeland Security failed
us. And they will be arguing that we reward them for that – with
more taxpayer dollars.
And the
military/industrial complex failed us in the Middle East. America now
spends more on “Defense” than the next 12 countries combined –
and we are less safe now than we were before we (for lack of a better
word) invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. etc. Of course; what the
military/industrial complex really wants is not more
war, but more taxpayer dollars. Nonetheless; if that takes another war....
This all reminds me of a George Carlin quote on a bumper sticker I recently saw; “Fighting for Peace is like Screwing for Virginity.”
This all reminds me of a George Carlin quote on a bumper sticker I recently saw; “Fighting for Peace is like Screwing for Virginity.”
(Guess
what: Only the American public is going to have to suffer the
austerity consequences of the greed of the Titanic Bloodsuckers. The
Obama budget request already includes returning 80% of the sequestered military/industrial funding – already!)
As I mentioned earlier;
there are four major monopolistic industries that run most of our
country. I haven't spent much time on the health “care” industry.
The recent austerity moves are most likely to hurt the profits of the
health “care” industry. I pity the sick. But I don't pity the
health “care” industry. We have the most expensive health care in
the world and America ranks as the 40th country in life expectancy. Our health “care” industry has failed us also.
I also haven't mentioned
the fossil fuel industry. But they are so big that even the banksters
can't take their tax monies. In fact, they are so big that they can
force America to run the Keystone XL pipeline across America to sell
oil to foreign countries, so that they can raise their prices on us! Moreover, the fact that they secretly hold back renewable energy development so that they can continue to poison our air, land, water, and destroy the balance of our atmosphere - makes the fossil fuel industry the biggest failure to humanity in history!
And the too-big-to-fail
banks? Everybody knows the banksters have failed us. The takeover of
America is just another hostile takeover for them. But they're not
the only ones. This is just what monopolies do.
In the short run (shorter
than our lifespans), the Titanic Bloodsuckers haven't failed
themselves. They want to take as much money as they can get from the
taxpayers and the ratepayers. In this, they've been very successful.
This isn't about
terrorism.
This isn't about National
Security.
This isn't about helping
the sick.
This isn't about energy
independence. (That would mean generating our own power.)
And this isn't about
saving our economy.
This is about taking your
money.
This is about taking you
savings.
This is about taking your
tax dollars.
This is about taking your
wages before you ever even see them.
Our taxation system has
become a racket – that just funnels our money to the biggest
monopolies – who don't give us anywhere near our money's
worth. But that wasn't good enough. Now they're cutting our government benefits, that we taxpayers pay for, to boost their
profits. They're manipulating our money, so that eventually it will
be virtually worthless. And they're driving down our pay, so that
they can keep the profits for themselves.
President Obama stated in
a recent speech:
“So to change
Washington, you, the American people, are going to have to sustain
some passion about this. And when necessary, you've got to send the
right people to Washington. And that requires strength, and it
requires persistence.”
After five years, it has
become obvious that even the most powerful man on the planet, the
President of the United States, can't get real change without the
American people forcing the system to fix things.
Though President Obama's
speech was about gun control (which I believe is mostly a
distraction), it applies also to the budget. Social Security is about
to be whittled away while the bloated and ineffective
military/industrial complex is about to get almost all of our hard
fought sequester cuts back – and the too-big-to-fail banks are
going to get another bailout.
The Republicans are the Party of austerity.
But the Demcrats have become only the Party of less austerity.
Only the people will have to suffer austerity.
The Titanic Bloodsuckers will take all of the tax money you pay, and then want more.
Please, don't be distracted.
But the Demcrats have become only the Party of less austerity.
Only the people will have to suffer austerity.
The Titanic Bloodsuckers will take all of the tax money you pay, and then want more.
Please, don't be distracted.
To do nothing is to
willingly become a slave to a dysfunctional system that will
ultimately crash in upon itself.
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