Reply #4: The U.S.'s Hope of More Swag Drags as the Rich Flag

[Peace Patriot]

Source: New York Mimes

CARACAS — President Barack Obama's push to put a pretty smile on U.S.-based global corporate predator sway worldwide is waning amid the fallout from Bush Jr's Financial 9/11 and the death of the planet. In recent years, the U.S. has used its wealth and its power to torture and kill with impunity to drive its corporate rulers' ruthless, 'dog eat dog' agenda at home and bully other countries into its sphere of influence, helping to inflict massive poverty, starvation, agony and death in the interests of the rich and war profiteers.

But its billions and billions and billions of dollars in easy pickings from U.S. taxpayers larded on bloody-minded regimes, such as the fascist narco-thugs running Colombia, and domestic war and torture contractors, are starting to dry up, as the people of the U.S. lay gasping from the Bushwhack crime spree, and more and more countries and peoples around the world catch on to the empty promises, lies, and hypocrisy of the evil U.S. war machine and its jackal corporations--Raytheon, Blackwater, Halliburton, Dyncorp, Exxon Mobil, Monsanto, et al. The pretty smiles are falling on deaf ears.

Trillion dollar projects such as the slaughter of a hundred thousand innocent people to steal their oil are suffering, as the U.S. desperately seeks to milk the once golden, now leaden, "goose"--the U.S. middle class consumer--to protect its corporate predators' oil contracts in Iraq, build the pipeline in Afghanistan, fuck China and propagandize the world that democracy = predatory capitalism. USAID and CIA budgeteers are tearing their hair out. Nobody wants to hear their bullshit any more. U.S. Air Force drones prowl the edges of the Empire, killing at will. That is all anyone needs to know. 'If you do not obey the Empire, we will kill you,' smiles the President. 'End of story.' But this shit is not going down well, abroad. Cheney you could fear. But why fear the Smiler? Especially when he has empty pockets, picked by the Bushwhacks of every last goddamn dime up to the very last minute before they relinquished power? The U.S. is also cutting back sharply on many types of financial support for its bought and paid for allies, a cornerstone of its worldwide influence. One recent study by the Center of How to Fuck Over the Poor Some More, a financial consulting firm headquartered in Singapore, found that, dollar for dollar, the U.S. is wasting its money on propaganda; killing is better.

That includes proposed spending on everything from military purchases to prop up fascist regimes to phony aid packages that dump U.S. agricultural products on third world markets to destroy local farming, and points to a major weakening of U.S. war diplomacy. Why propagandize people when you can starve them or outright torture and kill them with impunity? Gone, for instance, will be multibillion-dollar outlays to nazify countries like Colombia, Mexico and Israel and buy "friends and allies" worldwide. Nobody wants our worthless money any more any way. The South Americans are going to start trading in "sucres." Fuck the U.S. dollar! China, flush with profits from selling cheap, shoddy shit to the vanishing U.S. consumer, and holding U.S. debt like a death grip around the throat of the Empire, is horning in on U.S. corporate predators in Latin America and Africa, with deals that actually benefit both parties. U.S. corporate predators cannot afford to do this and keep that extra corporate jet and party mansion. The Chinese financial barons don't need shit like that. They have a five thousand year history of out-inventing the West. And they are communists, at heart. It's unfair, but there it is. We who invented financial predation are persona non grats in most of the world. Only those we buy love us, and we are broke.

Some U.S. allies even appear to be warming to Exxon Mobil & brethren's archenemy, Venezuela. Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, for instance--whom Smiley called the "most popular leader in the hemisphere"--actually said, of Venezuela's president, "They can invent all kinds of things to criticize Chavez, but not on democracy!" Imagine that. The "dictator" of South America is a democrat with a small d--according to local leaders. We can't even buy demonization when we need it, for all the biolfuel deals in the world. But there's still hope: With President Rafael Correa of Ecuador sending his personal pilot to study at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala., can the victory of murder, mayhem and massive corporate theft be far away? And even Cuba wants in, no matter what they say. They want in, in, in to the booty and the nightclubs and the casinos and the corporate jets and the party mansions, and the torture, and the war, and the big cigars, yes, they do, cuz I said so, and I've got a Spanish-sounding name.

As for the planet, fuck that noise. We have Mars.