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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:06 AM
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For the Millionth Time. These deficits are NOT accidental.
Edited on Fri Jan-23-04 01:08 AM by KissMyAsscroft

Bush WANTS these defecits so he can cut all social programs. It's not like he woke up one day and realized that the tax cuts were going to create huge defecits, this was always the plan.

There are people on this board who need to wake up to this fact.

You don't think the White House thought this through? You think this was an accident? A goof up?

I've read so many posts on this board that have me shaking my head in disbelief.




*edit for spelling..
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aeon flux Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:10 AM
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1. BsuhCo running up large deficits well before 9/11

doesn't stop them from using it as a convenient excuse.
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UnAmericanJoe Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:11 AM
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2. Thank you
For saying that.
This has long been the goal of Neo-Conservatives. To roll back the social programs implemented by progressives throughout the years.

They've finally figured out that the programs are too popular to outright get rid of, so they are now trying to starve them to death.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:36 AM
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7. Starve the Beast
Edited on Fri Jan-23-04 01:38 AM by krkaufman
It's officially called "starve the beast." The right-wing cannot openly campaign against Social Security, Medicare, etc, so they're starving the federal government of the funds it needs to support these social programs. With the fringe benefit that the rich are the ones getting the largest tax cuts.

Of course, they'll keep the money flowing into the military/industrial complex, since they own stock in that little upward wealth redistribution scheme.

p.s. I was pleased to hear Wesley Clark actually use the term "starve the beast" during a town hall meeting over the weekend, broadcast on CSPAN. It's time *somebody* started leveling with the American people.
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gold_bug Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:54 AM
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28. I used to think it was somewhat conspiratorial
but I don't anymore.

I also noticed when Clark said "starve the beast". I was glad he said that. And last night Kucinich implied the same thing when he said "I dare say..." blah blah blah I can't remember exactly what he said but he implied the possibility that Bush's deficit is part of their radical/rightwing design.
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:43 AM
Response to Reply #7
34. I heard that too
He's the only candidate who has refered to it. He knows what they're doing.
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SemperEadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:30 PM
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47. it's the fastest way to cull the population
remove programs intended to add to quality of life.

how come is it that the conservatives cloak themselves in the "right to life" concept, except when it comes to their political agendas, policies and interests, they put business and corporate interests before the lives of those for whom they claim they're standing (aka pimping John Q. for his vote and leaving him in the dust after the inauguration using the reasoning: "I got mine")?

Why is there even a discussion about access to affordable health care in this country when the conservatives, who are in control, are the "right to life"-ers? This is a non-issue if this is main tenet of your beliefs---what, only unborn babies in utero have this right, but once you're out of the womb, screw you--shouldn't have been born? Where are they when Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare force grandma who's on fixed income to choose whether she will have to eat cat food or buy medicine that month? What about her right to life? What about all seniors' right to life? How are they less worthy of life and who decides the worth? Why are they (and ultimately WE) being herded into HMO's, where they will be denied that which aids in their right to life?

Because those corporate interests want to cull the population and the best way to do it, outside of war, is the way they're going about doing it right now. Cloak it in a noble cause to hoodwink the easily hoodwinked.
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ariellyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:11 AM
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3. Not only are the deficits there to cut programs...they're designed to make
the next-term president a failure. He's leaving the office in a shambles. And he will leave. He will put up a good fight, or at least appear to. But I really don't think he wants to win. When we rejoice in November, it will be short lived because the reality of the problem he left behind will quickly set in. They have masterminded a coup before it begins. By '08, people will be screaming for a new president because of the financial hell we will have all endured. Bush is very much like the guy who starts a bar room brawl and then leaves everybody in the fray while he walks away unscathed.
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:17 AM
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4. It also...
makes labor cheaper, and army enlistment higher.

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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:23 AM
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5. that is, IF we get to vote
don't underestimate this junta's desire to maintain POWER. they are ruthless. i question everything they say.
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countmyvote4real Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:43 AM
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10. That's a good point for those of us that DO vote.
Why can't we get our side to come out and vote? I know they're/we're working (IF we're working these days), have to juggle kids and then squeeze in time to wait in line to cast a vote that might not even make a difference if it's counted at all.

Okay, it was a rhetorical question. Still, I don't understand why so many Americans don't paricipate in a process that has a direct effect on their future.

(rant over and done)
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:34 AM
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6. Anyone remember Gray Davis???
Do you think Gray Davis was solely responsible for the disastrous California deficits?

No question, whoever wins this election is going to have one hell of a job on their hands. It will be extremely difficult to turn it around -- especially w/ a ROG Congress & Supreme Court -- and a Democratic President will be skewered when this fiscal mess hits the fan.

It's quite possible that the Repugnants *don't* want to win this Fall. Not only have they put us in a dire financial situation, they've done very little to actually secure the country and take down Al Qaeda.
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UnAmericanJoe Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:38 AM
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8. Well then
We'll just have to win back the House and Seante while we're at it.
Unlikely? Yeah. But don't underestimate just how pissed off people are at the way the country is being run.
The Dems could have a big night in Congressional races as well.
Keep your fingers crossed.

Joe

(I'm drunk and waaaaay more optimistic than usual)
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i_am_not_john_galt Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 02:52 AM
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15. No, Grey Davis had the help of the overwhelmingly dem Cal legislature
I think deficits, and specifically unrestrained growth in spending, are reflective of a weak leader who can't say no.
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General Discontent Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 03:56 AM
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20. Ummm, sort of.
He mostly had the help of Enron defrauding the state of >20 Billion $. Do YOU remember the rolling blackouts? His choices were: A) Pay exhorbitant energy contracts mortally wounding the state's fiscal heatlth, or B) let hospitals and schools all over the state suddenly go dark. He chose B. I probably would have done the same thing. If you recall, when he complained the the FERC, they laughed at him and the state. After all, Kenny Who and The Invisible Dick and friends didn't want to interrupt their duck hunt, or circle jerk, or whatever. I'm still too pissed off to type the rest, but there is much more.

DWolfman :grr:
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i_am_not_john_galt Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:09 PM
Response to Reply #20
40. You are wrong
The Enron debacle is not reflected in the budget deficit. This is elementary California budget knowledge. The energy mess is ON TOP of the unbelievable budget deficit.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:44 PM
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43. Bullshit...
Edited on Fri Jan-23-04 12:45 PM by Hell Hath No Fury
As a Californian I can say without a doubt that Davis got the Enron shaft and it had EVERYTHING to do with our current deficit.

Don't even try to bullshit ME...
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:46 AM
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12. Not only that,
by his pillaging of Iraq,he's virtually guaranteed that there will be more terrorist acts on our shores.
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RapidCreek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:49 AM
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36. Exactly Ariellyn
and Democrats had better start realizing it....and pointing it out at every turn. The current crop of Neo-Cons are a vareity of Anarchist. They are disloyal to America and Americans.

RC
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loftycity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:10 PM
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41. Oh, you are so right! That is the Strategy
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:44 PM
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44. Nihilist Anarchists?
Remember how we used to hear about all the underground groups of the '60s blowing shit up?

This isn't much different.
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ariellyn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 06:15 PM
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45. kick
:kick:
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:38 AM
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9. It's the exact truth....
Bankrupt the government, keep the corporations alive and well. Fascism, in a word.
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UnAmericanJoe Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:45 AM
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11. It's interesting that you mention
corporations and facism.

A friend and I have a little two person book club and the book we are about to start reading is about just that.

It's called "Fascism and Big Business" by Daniel Guerin.
It was written in the 1930's in Italy (I think.)

I just ordered it today and can't wait to dig into it.
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 01:46 AM
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13. Wow...
From people who lived under the father of Fascism, ostensibly. Must be interesting, gotta look it up!
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:39 AM
Response to Reply #11
26. That's why fascism was also called corporatism
In the Italian version, the state owned the corporations. In the modern US version, the corporations own the state.

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i_am_not_john_galt Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 02:50 AM
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14. I'm with you half way
Reagan said that he liked tax cuts because the implicitly limited the power of government. But I don't get how adding discretionary spending (which is a big reason why the deficit is balooning) would help in this goal. It seems to me the probable result of the deficit continuing would be that busch & co. get voted out now or in 4 years and the programs they added get taken back. I mean a rain forest in Iowa and shooting someone to Mars (hell, just send 'em to Barstow and don't tell 'em) would get whacked before people would give up getting free money in the mail.
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 02:58 AM
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16. When did people ever get free money in the mail?
Now I'm not disagreeing that people might THINK they're getting free money in the mail, but it's never happened as far as I know.
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i_am_not_john_galt Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 03:21 AM
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17. That's my point - they THINK it's free
so why should that be the thing that's cut.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury."
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 03:43 AM
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18. Actually, I believe it's the Republicans who have discovered that.
Happily, I will never have to listen to anyone ever telling me that Republicans are fiscal conservators of our money again. It appears that only Democrats are capable of balancing budgets.
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i_am_not_john_galt Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 04:16 AM
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22. Absolutely. Bush makes FDR seem frugal!
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tkmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:28 AM
Response to Reply #17
25. Ahh. A Heinlein Libertarian
Kind of a strange place to find one.
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i_am_not_john_galt Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:13 PM
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42. Unfortunately a better fit here
than in the modern republican party. The Wikipedia has a pretty good article on classic liberalism, which is why I feel I have at least some reason to be here: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 03:52 AM
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19. Sometimes I think Daddy Bush blew 92 on purpose.
I remember hearing some repub punk on one of the talk shows mention
what he called "The Big Picture". He went on to mention Clinton could
get enough Democratic Congressmen to go along with "our agenda" on certain issues, where Bush would have met a stone wall. I'm thinking NAFTA, GATT, and a whole bunch of other crap when I hear this. Sure enough, Clinton did it.

When Clinton's usefullness was over, boom, all hell breaks loose. Time to put the old Reagan-Bush crowd back in power to finish off the deal.
Am I crazy? Maybe so, but money talks, and political BS walks. I wouldn't put anything past the money crowd that now controls Washington.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 03:57 AM
Response to Reply #19
21. Damn
I type something that looks nice and neat in the message
window, yet it comes out looking like crap when I post it.

Harvey, do something about this :-)
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:12 AM
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32. "Boom"?
When Clinton's usefullness was over, boom, all hell breaks loose.

The "boom" started long before the election, with Bush's oppo-research people dredging up old dirt on Clinton (that is, when they weren't just inventing it outright), so I don't think that particular interpretation is the case.

It's just that Clinton was never as "liberal" as he was usually portrayed.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:48 AM
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35. True
If this was 40 years ago, Clinton would have been a Dixiecrat type of conservative Democrat or even a moderate to liberal Republican along the lines of some the northeast used to have back then...
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 11:37 AM
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38. He's have been a Rockefeller Republican...
...after all, it's the remnants of the "40 years ago Dixiecrats" who've been his mortal enemies since he entered politics.
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althecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 04:53 AM
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23. Well said KMA... there is indeed method to this madness... tried and true
There is a tendency to think sometimes that this administration is cowboyish, clumsy or irresponsible. Alternatively you may consider them ideologically driven and shortsighted as to the consequences...

I certainly held a permutation on this view for a while. But now I am firmly in agreement with KissMyAsscroft on the central point here.

If you look at the history of the movers and shakers behind the Bush Dynasty and its predecessors you will find an oft repeated pattern.

Fiscal mismanagement ---> inflation ----> bubble economics ---> high interest rates / money supply contraction (which is happening now) ----> recesssion ----> war...

There are evil people in this world and they have done this several times before. This is a pump and dump operation on the macro economic scale.

This time they are even quite honest about it. PNAC preaches total war... and that is what the War on Terror has become... from here on in there will be escalation.

And as KMA points out if Bush loses it will not make a huge difference.... the blackbag operations will still be BFEE run and the US economy is now in such a mess that it would take a visionary of enormous capacity to resolve it.

As it is if Kerry gets to run and bush loses all that will happen is we will get a softer spoken more urbane Skull and Bonesman in the oval office.

And even if Dean wins he will quickly find himself in an impossible situation with soaring deficits at home and a security situation offshore a heartbeat away from cardial infarction.

It is certainly a depressing line of thought.... but as KMA says one that the reality junkies on these boards should bear in mind.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:20 AM
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24. Tax the shit
out of the rich! They deserve it when this is over. They can resuscitate SS and Medicare. I'd like to "trickle down" Cheneys face.
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:41 AM
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33. Oh I agree with you Al, but it goes a little further than that
http://www.4rie.com/

Message to Mods: This is not copywrited and permission given to reprint and distribute

THis is a little long, but it will clue you in to what is going on....and everyone is in on it.

Globalization
The conspiracy facts are that Elite inner circle members of the Bilderbergs (BB), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Trilateral Commission (TC) are conspiring to politically and economically dominate the entire world under their New World Order, more recently called Globalization, or Global Union, Global Economy, Global Order, Global Environment, and like terms. When President G.H.W. Bush used the term New World Order in several of his speeches, it aroused suspicion and concern among the public. So, the Elite selected a generic term "Globalization" to use, and now Americans are no longer alarmed, because the business world uses this term daily, so it must not be so frightening. But, you cannot change a tiger's stripes. We're still talking about the New World Order. If you don't know about the BB, CFR, and TC, or who are the members of these secret organizations, then you must have a copy of Who's Who of the Elite.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. - Franklin Delanor Roosevelt


African Union

The African Union was completed and signed into effect on July 11, 2000, by the 53 nations of Africa. This Union, like the European Union, has only one Peacekeeping force, one Central Bank, one Court of Justice, one currency, and so on. A carbon copy of the European Union.


American Union

The Elite plan to create the American Union by 2005. This will include all of the nations of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands, and will function just like the present European Union, which was completed in the year 2000. There will be only one monetary system, one central bank, one (unelected) governing body, one military force, one judicial system, no borders, and no Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Elite have invented a new term for expanded NAFTA, which they now call the FTAA, or Free Trade Area of the Americas. The Council of the Americas, at the Quebec City conference in March, 2001, stated very clearly that they plan to complete the FTAA by the year 2005.

Vice President Dick Cheney was thanked for his remarks at the Council of the Americas conference on May 6, 2002, by founder and Honorary Chairman, David Rockefeller. Cheney said that the FTAA would be completed by January, 2005.

(Reference paragraph 18 of Cheney's speech at http://207.21.242.176/coa/events/2002-CheneySpeech.html and

Paragraph 12 of Otto Reich's speech at http://207.21.242.176/coa/events/2002-ReichSpeech.html)

Two years ago at the Quebec Summit of the Americas, our presidents and prime ministers committed themselves to creating, by January 2005, a free trade area that would create greater prosperity for nearly 800 million people in 34 countries of our hemisphere. (Colin L. Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, Council of the Americas Conference, April 28, 2003)

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/20021.htm

It is obvious that they are really talking about the American Union which they plan to complete by January, 2005. That's less than two years away, my friends. Just when are you planning to get concerned?

The American Union follows the second step, the African Union, in the Elite's plan to control the entire world. Next will be the Asian Union, and the Soviet Union, all to be completed between the years 2010 and 2015. This is not my speculation, it's their stated plans, as detailed in a UN document titled "Our Global Neighborhood" (available in any bookstore, on special order). All nations of the world will be included in the Global Union, except those nations dominated by Islam. Perhaps that is why the Elite are planning wars against the Islamic nations.

We have just released an 86 minute VHS video providing the "smoking gun" proving absolutely that the Elite are creating the Global Union and the American Union. Select the "Orders" button on the left to find out how to order this video.


Chile

Chile will be the next nation absorbed by the (soon-to-be) American Union. It has long had a roundtable in operation, which is known as the Chilean Council of Foreign Relations. U.S. and Chilean representatives signed a Free Trade agreement June 6, 2003, with this treaty to be ratified on an up-or-down vote by the U.S. Senate some time this year.


Central America

The nations of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) are now negotiating with the U.S. for a Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which is likely to be completed within the year 2003.


Venezuela

Since President Hugo Chavez took office on February 2, 1999, the common people of Venezuela have backed him and his reforms. Chavez insists on keeping more of the oil export profits in Venezuela, so that his nation can recover from its chronic financial problems. His strong will may just be a stumbling block to the completion of the American Union. The CIA has backed coup attempts to oust this "radical" leader, and the public has turned out by the thousands to protest these attempts. The petroleum industry strikes are not strikes at all. They are lock-outs by the oil industry managers, in order to try to embarrass President Chavez, and to turn the public against him.

(http://www.narconews.com/)

Brazil

On December 13, 2002, Brazilian President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva appointed international financier Hernando Meirelles as head of the Central Bank of Brazil. Meirelles was the former president of FleetBoston Financial Corp., and served as a director of David Rockefeller’s Council of the Americas.


Argentina

On December 26, 2002, Argentina's Senate approved the appointment of Alfonso Prat-Gay as president of the Argentina's Central Bank. Prat-Gay was formerly the head of emerging market research for J. P. Morgan Chase bank. David Rockefeller is Chairman of the bank’s International Advisory Committee.


Middle East Union

On May 9, 2003, President Bush outlined a plan to create a Free Trade Area between the U.S. and the countries of the Middle East. He said: "So I propose the establishment of a U.S.-Middle East free trade area, to bring the Middle East into an expanding circle of opportunities, to provide hope for the people who live in that region."


Jobs

When the President, or anyone else within the administration, says that they will create jobs as they implemented NAFTA, and will create CAFTA, the American Union, The Middle East Union, and so on, no member of the news media dare ask him where the jobs will be created. Obviously they will NOT be created within the borders of the United States. The objective of the Elite is to send all manufacturing jobs from the U.S. to the nations around the world with the lowest labor rate, least environmental restrictions, and the least fringe benefits to the workers, even to prison laborers in China, who work for free. The U.S. Union officials allow this to happen, because they have been made members of the secret Elite organization, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and they do what they are told by the Elite.


Fast Track Legislation

On August 6, 2002, President Bush signed into law the Trade Act of 2002 (or fast track legislation). This is also referred to as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). This means that he can complete the American Union on schedule, because Congress will now only be allowed an up or down vote on treaties that he presents. The Elite will publicly shame and humiliate anyone in Congress who votes against their treaties. They have reduced their opposition greatly by making sure that Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and Congressmen Earl Hilliard, and Bob Barr were defeated in recent primaries. They had already ousted Jim Trafficant earlier. Congressman Ron Paul is next on their list.


Senate Majority Leader

Now we really know why Senator Trent Lott was replaced. Not because he made an improper statement (and it was improper), but because he was NOT a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Elite need to do many things within the next two years in order to complete the American Union, so they MUST have one of their own heading the U.S. Senate. The perfect replacement is Senator William (Bill) H. Frist, who was made a member of the CFR just this year. Did they make him a member because they knew that he would be the likely replacement for Trent Lott? Very likely.


Success out of Fear

"Today Americans would be outraged if U. N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger, in an address to the Bilderberg meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcribed using a concealed tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. Henry Kissinger is an inner-circle member of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission, and a long-time right-hand-man of David Rockefeller, who aspires to be the Czar of the Global Union. Only Rockefeller has attended more Bilderberg meetings than Kissinger.

A friend of mine, who is a member of the European Parliament, was searching the records on the history of the formation of the EU, and found the following statement in one of these documents:

It will be difficult to achieve a political union without there being a perception of an external political threat. A "terrorist outrage" would contribute to the perception of an external political threat.


Terrorism

Is the current fear of terrorist what Kissinger was talking about? All of the evidence is not in yet linking the Elite to the Trade Center and Pentagon tragedies, but you can rest assured that they are using these crashes and terrorist threats to tighten up, and eliminate many of our rights that are guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The next step is to destroy the Second Amendment to our Constitution - our right to private ownership of firearms.

Bush had appointed Kissinger to head up the commission to investigate the 9-11 terrorism tragedy. However, he withdrew from this position when the law required that he reveal his customer list at Kissinger & Associates. Kissinger is under indictment from several nations for his past crimes, including Italy, Chile, Spain, France and possibly others. He cannot travel to these nations without being arrested and brought to trial.

We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. - David Rockefeller

Gun Regulation

Amendment II to the U.S. Constitution

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

A major obstacle to the completion of the American Union is the fact that we have the right to private ownership of firearms. No dictator has ever taken control of his country without first confiscating the citizens guns. The Elite know this, so they have created the organization called "The Department of Homeland Security", which was formed with the expressed purpose of defending this nation against terrorist attacks from the outside. In reality, this is the beginning of a "police state", which will be used to "handle" the militias that will protest the confiscation of firearms owned by Americans. Every time that a firearm is used in an incident, the mainstream news media, and several members of Congress, such as Senator Dianne Feinstein (BB & TC), demand that we have much more restrictive control of weapons.

Will we find out twenty years from now that the "DC-Area Sniper" was actually a member of one of the CIA's black-operations organizations, or was under CIA mind control as he shot his victims? There is no doubt that Timothy McVeigh was under CIA mind control when he bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building 1995, in Oklahoma City (if he was actually the guilty person). We now know that Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating's brother, Martin Keating, wrote the manuscript of a novel in 1991 titled The Final Jihad, in which the terrorist who blew up a Federal building in OKC, was named "Tom McVey". Was this the script for the actual bombing that took place in 1995?

Australia was once a penal colony for the British Empire, so many of the citizens of this nation are descendents of convicted criminals. Most U.S. citizens are not aware of the fact that Australia immediately outlawed private ownership of firearms after Martin Bryant, a so-called "mad murderer", killed 35 and wounded another eighteen people on the public streets of Port Author, Tasmania, in April 28, 1996, using an AR-15, .223 cal. assault rifle. Within twelve months after the outlawing of guns were passed by the Australian government, 640,381 guns were bought off the streets at the cost of over $500 million, Australian. Twelve months later, a study was made of the effects of such radical gun control, with the following results:

Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%.
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%.
Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44%.
In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%!
The steady decrease in homicides-with-firearms that occurred during the previous 25 years became an increase in the last 12 months.
The steady decrease in armed-robbery-with-firearms that occurred during the previous 25 years became an increase in the last 12 months.
There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of-the-elderly.
At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said "self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm".
From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia have averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe society by any standard.
The ban has destroyed Australia's standings in some international sport shooting competitions.
The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has increased by 200% in response to the ban and in an attempt to organize
against further controls, which are expected.
Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain why no improvement in "safety" has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns". Their response has been to "wait longer".

During the years 2001 and 2002, armed robberies, Australia wide, increased 34.1% over the period just before the elimination of private ownership of firearms.


Concentration Camps

The Elite have already established "concentration camps" on military bases in the U.S. to house the militia members and other protesting citizens once they have outlawed private ownership of weapons.

Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, 14 August, 2002

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.


Martial Law

The Elite cannot accomplish their American Union (New World Order) without declaring Martial Law. In order to justify such a drastic measure, there must be a major crisis, such as a violent and widespread internal dissent or national opposition against a U.S. military invasion abroad, resistance to the outlawing of ownership of guns by U.S. citizens, or a major financial crisis. We are now on the verge of all of the above, with the impending invasion of Iraq, constant demands for tighter gun control to stop terrorist acts, and the Wall Street melt down. Opponents of this action would without doubt file civil action to stop Martial Law from being enacted, which means that it would doubtlessly end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. You might surmise then that this court would rule in our favor, until you learn that three sitting judges on this court are members of the CFR; Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor. This is not a majority of the nine justices, so within the next three to twelve months at least two sitting justices will retire, giving President Bush the chance to nominate replacements from the CFR. You might say that the chances of this happening are slim, until you learn that during the last change in this court, on the short-list of five candidates, "only" CFR members were considered for the vacated position.


Spying on U.S. Citizens

There is now a proposal to open all snail-mail sent to Congress, digitize it, and make it available to the recipient by E-mail. The stated purpose of doing this is to protect members of Congress from anthrax, and to save their staff time in opening the mail. The REAL reason is to snoop the correspondence to see what is inside. All electronic means of correspondence are now being monitored by NSA's operation ECHELON. Once they have digitized the snail-mail, there will be no secrets between members of Congress and their constituents. They now snoop every electronic transmission (fax, E-mail, telephone, Telex, radio, etc.) by the N.S.A.'s Operation ECHELON. For details check out the following web sites: (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ECHELON/echelon.html) and (http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html)

Now they are considering establishing a spy agency to monitor all U.S. citizens, just like the MI-5 spy agency does in Great Britain. This group of spooks will probably be positioned within the new Homeland Security Agency.

The Pentagon now has an operation called Total Information Awareness (TIA), which is made up of a bank of very powerful computers containing unbelievable amounts of information on US citizens. These computers track each persons credit card, airline ticket, and rental car transactions, passports, drivers licenses, and on and on.

Members of the outside Advisory Board of the TIA are: Newton Minow, Chairman (CFR), Floyd Abrams, Zoe Baird (CFR), Griffin Bell, Gerhard Casper (CFR), William T. Coleman (CFR), and Lloyd Cutler (CFR).

The National Security Act of 1947 established the CIA, and prohibited it's operations within the United States. However, the CIA was granted legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens by Executive Order 12333, dated Dec. 4, 1981, signed by Ronald Reagan. This E.O. reads: Article 1.8 (c) Conduct counterintelligence activities outside the United States and, without assuming or performing any internal security functions, conduct counterintelligence activities within the United States in coordination with the FBI as required by procedures agreed upon by the Director of Central Intelligence and the Attorney General; Article (i) Conduct such administrative and technical support activities within and outside the United States as are necessary to perform the functions described in sections (a) through (h) above, including procurement and essential cover and proprietary arrangements. (http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/eo12333.html)


Protect Our Borders

According to 2001 DOD Manpower Statistics, the following countries have over 500 US troops stationed within their borders: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia (including Kosovo), Spain, Turkey, U.K., Japan, South Korea, Bahrain, Diego Garcia, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Since 2001, we have sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. The International Bankers use these troops to further their own interest.

In 1935, America's most decorated military person was Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, who said in his book, War is a Racket, that I say, "To Hell With War!" He further proposed (page 60, War is a Racket) an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

1. The removal of members of the land forces from the continental limits of the United States... for any cause whatsoever is prohibited.

2. The vessels of the United States Navy, or of the other branches of the armed service, are hereby prohibited from steaming, for any reason whatsoever except on an errand of mercy, more than five hundred miles from our coast.

3. Aircraft of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps is hereby prohibited from flying, for any reason whatsoever, more than seven hundred and fifty miles beyond the coast of the United States.

Such an amendment would be absolute guarantee to the women of America that their loved ones never would be sent overseas to be needlessly shot down in European or Asiatic or African wars that are no concern of our people.

I absolutely support his proposal, but would add:

1st - Before U.S. Military forces are allowed to go beyond the above limits from Continental US shores they must have the specific approval of 75% vote of every member (not just present at the vote) of both houses of Congress, and the forces must be sent for a defensive reason only. They should not be off our shores more than three months without another vote of 80% of every member (not just present at the vote) of both houses of Congress.

2nd - Before the vote to send our military beyond these limits, each member of both houses of Congress must visit a Veterans Hospital within their district, or one nearest to their district, and spend at least five minutes interviewing at least the 50 of the worst cases of physical or mental injury in the hospital.

The only exception to these rules would be the military personnel required to protect U.S. Embassies and Consulates around the world.

Then all US military forces must be returned to US shores within six months of the passage of this amendment. Also, to keep these military forces busy, they must be stationed all along our borders with Mexico and Canada, for the purpose of keeping out illegal drugs and illegal aliens.


Nanobots

Now, you are going to say that I've really gone crazy! But, what if the Elite invented a very small robot, or nanobot, and injected it into your bloodstream when you get your next injection, and when the time is right, they send a signal to your body activating these little devils to do their programmed duty? This duty could be either beneficial or detrimental - who knows? There are frequent scares about anthrax and other biological agents threatening our lives. Could this be an opportunity to inject these nanobots into your bloodstream? Now if you don't believe me, do a web search on Nanobots, or check out one of these sites: (http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/crh275.htm) or (http://www.spacedaily.com/news/nanotech-02a.html) or (http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=2275)


Biological Threats

The U.S. president and his cronies keep talking about Iraq's threats of weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons. Possibly the greatest threat to human life is the coming use of top-secret gene-specific viruses being developed by the United States, Israel and several other nations. The intent is to select certain ethnic groups and eliminate them by using these soon-to-be developed viruses. The entire black population in Africa might be eliminated so that the Elite could gain control of the vast mineral deposits within this continent. The non-Jewish people in and around Israel could be annihilated in one fell swoop by such viruses. If Adolph Hitler were alive today, he would certainly want to use this technology to eliminate the non-Arien populations of the world. On page 60 of "The Project for a New Century report, Rebuilding America's Defenses", the author writes:

"dvanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."

For more, check out:
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/



Bohemian Club

Many of the Elite leaders are members of the Bohemian Club, who meet annually at the Bohemian Grove in Northern California, where they worship their Moloch, in the form of a giant concrete owl, as they march around the sacrificial table in their medieval robes, uttering their pagan chants. Alex Jones secretly took a video camera into one of the Bohemian Grove meetings, and recorded a very disturbing ritual. Check it out at: http://www.infowars.com


International Bankers as the Ruling Class

There are several terms used to describe those in the inner circle who direct the Elite, such as central bankers, international banking families, world banking cabal, and the like, but the two families who really are in charge are the Rockefellers, headed by David Rockefeller, and the Western European and United Kingdom's House of Rothschild. In 1998 the Rockefeller family was worth $11.48 trillion, and the Rothschild family was worth over $100 trillion. When they need money, they just print it. They create their money out of thin air, and it is backed by nothing. You cannot trade it in for gold or silver. These International bankers own the Central Banks in every nation in the world, except the so-called seven rogue nations. The U.S. State Dept. defines "rogue nations" as any nation that harbors of supports terrorists. The present nations that meet this definition are/were: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan. There is no evidence that Cuba or North Korea harbor or support terrorist, so the only common thread between these countries is that none of them allow the International bankers to control their central banks.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacturing are afraid of somebody, afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocking, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. - Woodrow Wilson, in his book, The New Freedom


A Jew as Our Next President?

John F. Kennedy was our first Catholic President. Is it now inevitable that our next President will be a Jew? Is it coincidental that the majority of the Democratic candidates for President are Jews, or married to a Jew? The evidence is very clear:

Hillary Rodham Clinton's parents original name was not Rodham, but was Rosenberg (Jewish). Quoting Forward:
WASHINGTON -- As she embarks on her campaign to represent New York in the Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton will be able to tap a little-known aspect of her family background -- her maternal grandmother was married to a Russian-born Jew named Max Rosenberg, and Mrs. Clinton's half-aunt, Adeline Friedman, was a Jew who was interred at a Jewish mortuary.

While Mrs. Clinton has been the subject of at least three book-length biographies and numerous newspaper and magazine profiles, the colorful story of the first lady's grandmother, a feisty woman who carried the name Della Rosenberg, has until now been unknown even to many of Mrs. Clinton's closest friends. After the Forward asked about the matter this week, Mrs. Clinton said through a spokesman that she had "very fond memories" of Max Rosenberg. Two members of the Rosenberg family told the Forward this week that Mrs. Clinton remained in contact with her half-aunt Adeline until Adeline's death last year. http://www.forward.com/issues/1999/99.08.06/news.html

Hillary Clinton keeps saying that she is NOT running for President in 2004, but why was she on all three "talking heads" interview shows the first Sunday of January? I believe that around mid-year (possibly sooner), that Wesley Clark will see that he cannot defeat Dean, so he will say that he will be glad to take the position of Vice President, if Hillary Clinton will be his running mate as Presidential candidate. Hillary will give her donkey-eating-cactus smile and say "Oh well, if I have no choice, I guess I will have to run, if you insist". ("Don't throw me into the briar patch Brer Rabbit.")

Wesley Clark's family last name was Nemerovsky , later changed to Kanne. His father and grandfather were Russian Jews (and very likely Khazarien Jews). His father died when he as 4-5 years old, and his mother married a man named Clark.
Gen. Wesley Kanne Clark was raised as a Protestant in Little Rock, Ark., where he was brought up by his mother and stepfather, Victor Clark. He was ignorant of his ancestry, which disappeared from his life with the death of his father, Benjamin Jacob Kanne when Wesley was 5 years old. He learned of his ethnic background when he was in his 20's and embraced the discovery, according to several family members.
In the late 1890's, Jacob Nemerovsky, the general's grandfather, fled Russia in fear for his life during one of the episodic pogroms against Jews. According to the family, Nemerovsky found safety in Switzerland where he obtained a false passport under the family name of Kanne, which he used to immigrate to the United States.
http://sdlusa.com/sdl/clarkjew.htm

Howard Dean's wife's maiden name is Dr. Judith Steinberg (obviously Jewish), and he is raising his children in the Jewish religion.

John Kerry's is a practicing Catholic but his Grandfather lived in the Czech Republic and his name was Fritz Kohn, a Jew, who changed his name to Kerry in 1902. Kerry’s wife's name is Teresa Heinz (sometimes a Jewish name). Teresa Heinz is the widow of Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, who died in a plane crash. She inherited his family fortune (Heinz 57 catsup) and has lived in Pittsburgh for 27 years.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has been named Carlow College’s National Woman of Spirit. Her human rights work as an original member and later co-chair of the Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry drew more than a dozen awards from the Jewish community including the Israel Service Award and the Community Service Human Rights Award from the American Jewish Committee. http://www.johnkerry.com/about/teresa.html

Joseph Leiberman openly admits to being Jewish.

Are we now about to have a first-time Jewish President, as JFK was the first Catholic President. Just asking!!!!!!!!

Don't forget that Madeleine Albright DISCOVERED that she was Jewish after she became Secretary of State.



Afghanistan

The Afghan war was for three reasons - banking, illegal drugs, and oil. The international bankers wanted to set up their own central bank in this nation, the CIA wanted control of the opium coming from this region, and the oil companies wanted to run pipelines from the Caspian Sea oil fields to China and to the South to salt water ports. The Taliban would not allow any of this, so they had to go.


Iraq

I once lived about 300 miles South East of Bagdad for two years, so have some feel for the region, their mental attitudes, and the politics or the region. Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator, who was guilty of many atrocities against his own people and his neighbors. However, it was up to the Iraqui people to either put up with him, or replace him. It was extremely difficult to replace him, because anyone who dared to resist him was not only tortured and murdered, but his entire family more than likely would see the same treatment. Former President G.H.W. Bush was once partners with Saddam in the oil business. Apparently Saddam snookered Bush in some oil deal, so Bush sent Ambassador April Glaspie in to tell Saddam that if he wanted to take a part, or all of Kuwait, that the U.S. would turn its head to the matter. He did just that, so Bush sent the troops in to destroy his military equipment and soldiers.

Now W. Bush is following in the tracks of his father along the same lines. This time to gain control of the Iraqui oil, to establish a central bank in the nation, to protect Israel, and to get the US citizen's minds off the terrible economy and the creation of the American Union. Let's not forget that every missile, bomb, bullet, and piece of military equipment expended in this battle must be replaced by the Elite-owned military/industrial complex. All this is cloaked under the disguise of looking for weapons of mass destruction, but most of the world sees through this plot. So, your sons and daughters have been placed in harms way just to satisfy the international bankers. The Elite's children will never go to war and be in harms way, because about 25-30 years ago the Elite had Congress to create an all-volunteer military. So, they have no qualms sending out troops all over the world to fight for the interests of the international bankers and oil Barons.

The U.S. force's casualties continue to grow, but the loss of life, or the injury of just one person is too much to pay for the families of these brave warriors. We must all pray for the safe return of all of these courageous combatants.

The Elite will have our troops stationed in Iraq from now on, just as the situations in Korea, Haiti, Kosevo, and on and on.

Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. - Herman Goering (one of Hitler's top men), during the Nuremberg Trials.


Syria

Now the war hawks in Washington are turning to Syria and Iran as perhaps their next targets of Imperialism.

Lawrence Eagleburger, who was US Secretary of State under George Bush Sr., told the BBC: "If George Bush decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after Iraq, that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy."


Wars

In 1953 Dwight Eisenhower, warned of failing to address the pressing social needs of the nation in deference to an uncontrolled arms build up. He said:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger, and are not fed, those who are cold, and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."


Oil & Gas

The world's total oil reserves are around 928 billion barrels (Gb), with about 63% resting within the Middle Eastern nations. Saudi Arabia has about 280 Gb (about 25-30%) of this oil in its reserves, with about 8.3 million barrels a day (mbd) of production, while Iraq has about 102 Gb in reserve (or about 11% of the worlds total supply) and produces about 2 million barrels a day. The typical cost to lift a barrel of oil to the surface in the Middle East is about $3.00 per barrel, while the cost to lift a barrel in Iraq is about $1.00 per barrel. According to Mike Ruppert, of "From The Wilderness" newsletter, the total world "conventional" production of oil peaked around the year 2000. As new wells are completed, many others are abandoned for lack of economic production. The world's consumption rate, in 2001, was 22 Gb/year, and the current discovery rate is about 6 Gb/year. There is no significant substitute for oil on the horizon. This means that whoever controls oil, controls the rest of the world. As the available supply diminishes, the price will climb (a simple supply/demand reality).

Global demand for oil is increasing by between 1.5 and 2 mbd each year, and could grow from the current 77 mbd to 120 mbd within the next 20 years. OPEC production is expected to grow from 28 mbd (in 1998), to 60 mbd by 2020. Saudi Arabia supplies around 1.7 mbd of the roughly 10 mbd imported into the U. S. at present, and sells its oil for about $1.00 per barrel less to the U.S. than it charges other nations of the world.

Russia is gaining on Saudi Arabia as the world's greatest producer. In 1996 the Soviets production amounted to about 7 mbd, but just before the Soviet collapse, they produced around 12.5 mbd. The estimated Caspian Sea reserves have been disappointing after recent studies. There were a number of pipelines planned in order to deliver this oil to the consumers.

At the 2003 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland (held during January of each year for the past 33 years) the major oil company executives attending held private meetings to divide up Iraq's oil after the invasion.

Bosnia

The war in Bosnia was simply to gain a possible route for an oil and/or gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea oil fields to the West to a salt water port.

Afghanistan

The war in Afghanistan was simply to establish a route for oil and/or gas from the Caspian Sea oil fields through Pakistan to a salt water port to the South, and oil and/or gas pipelines from these same fields to China.

(http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipelines.htm)

Iraq

Iraq was invaded by U.S. forces on March 20, 2003, simply to gain control of its massive oil reserves and Iraq's Central Bank. When Saddam Hussein says this, the Elite's puppet news media scoff at him, and keep on demanding that the reason is to destroy his weapons of mass destruction.

Is it a coincidence that President Bush I and II, and Vice President Cheney are from the oil industry? In fact, G.H.W. Bush was partners with Saddam Hussein in the oil business before the Gulf War.

Skull & Bones Society

One stepping stone into these secret societies is the Skull & Bones Society at Yale University, as well depicted in the movie "The Skulls". Who's Who of the Elite names all of the members of this shadow government, and reveals where they work, the secret societies that they belong to, and their job titles, so that you can see the stranglehold that they have on our federal government, the mainstream news media, industry, labor unions, universities, foundations, the Supreme Court, and all facets of the financial world. Senator Prescot Bush, President G.H.W. Bush and President G.W. Bush were all members of the Skull & Bones Society, a stepping stone into the main secret societies.

Freedom of the Press

BILL of Rights - 1st Amendment
Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


So, Congress cannot destroy freedom of the press, but the Elite can, and have done so since the beginning of the twentieth century. If they are to be successful in establishing their New World Order, or Global Union, in enhancing their wealth and securing this wealth, they must maintain absolute secrecy concerning their organizations and activities. Therefore they must control the newspapers, news magazines and the television networks. Then, they must swear all their members to absolute secrecy. They can easily enforce this secrecy by threatening, or implying threats of, financial ruin to, and character destruction of, anyone who divulges the contents of any of their meetings, or discussing their activities.


Article II of the by-laws of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) states: “It is an express condition of membership in the Council, to which condition every member accedes by virtue of his or her membership, that members will observe such rules, and regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Board of Directors concerning the conduct of Council meetings or the attribution of statements made therein, and that any disclosure, public, or other action by a member in contravention thereof may be regarded by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion as grounds for termination or suspension of membership pursuant to Article I of the by-laws.”

Is it not surprising then that the anchors of all of the major television networks remember this by-law very vividly as they report the daily "news". Members of the secret societies who bring us this "news" are: Peter Jennings (BB), Dianne Sawyer (Director of CFR '98-99), Garrick Utley (Dir. of CFR '93-), Barbara Walters (CFR), George Will (TC), Lesley Stahl (CFR), Ed Bradley (CFR), Marvin Kalb (CFR), Dan Rather (CFR), Jesse Jackson (CFR), Bernard Kalb (CFR), Frank Sesno (CFR), Tom Brokaw (CFR), John Chancellor (CFR), Elizabeth Drew (CFR), Bill Moyers (BB), George Stephanopolos (BB, CFR), Michael Beschloss (CFR), and inducted in 2001-2002 - Paula Zahn (CFR). Other prominent Elite in TV who are/were: Roone Arledge (CFR), Laurence Tisch (CFR), Thomas Wyman (CFR), Thomas Murphy (CFR), David Brinkley (CFR), Carl Zelnick (CFR), Barbara Cochran (CFR), Roland Evans (CFR), Joan Richman (CFR), Joan Cooney (CFR), Wyatt Johnson (CFR, TC), Carl T. Rowan (TC), Jane Pfeiffer (CFR), Herbert Schlosser (CFR), Robert Frederick (CFR), Sharon Rockefeller (CFR), and Michael Eisner (CFR). You can find out who else in the mainstream news media belong to the secret groups, BB, CFR and TC, in our first book, "Who's Who of the Elite".

Neither Sam Donaldson, nor Cokie Roberts (ABC's This Week, Sundays) were members of the Elite, so to make sure that they had control, they replaced them with George Stephanopolos (BB, CFR). Now we see more members of the Elite on this show, such as Fareed Zakaria (CFR), Robin Wright (CFR), Paul Gigot (BB, CFR), and George Will (TC).

An example of how the Elite deny us the facts was during the 32nd Washington Conference of the Council of the Americas, held May 5 - 7, 2002. I was watching CNN at the beginning of the hour when they show brief 1-2 second snippits of what will be covered in the following hour. On this occasion they showed David Rockefeller shaking Secretary of State Colin Powell's hand after introducing him as the next speaker. I watched CNN for the next 3-4 hours without seeing this event being covered. Some CNN executive saw this on his TV monitor, and probably ran to the control room and told them NOT to show this event. All mainstream news media have been carefully instructed to NEVER cover any event that David Rockefeller, or the Rothschild family are involved in. Now, I ask - why is this?

You can read Colin Powell's speech at: http://207.21.242.176/coa/events/2002-PowellSpeech.html


No Freedom of the Press



THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD OF FEBRUARY 9, 1917 recorded these remarks by Congressman Oscar Callaway: "In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in their newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States. These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers, and then began, by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of the 25 greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers…This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests served."



Media Giants

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has the task of protecting the public from monopolistic control of the mainstream news sources. Their rules, adopted between 1941 and 1975, were created to promote diversity of opinion in the media, encourage competition and prevent a few big companies from controlling what people see, hear and read. They have done just the opposite. The Republican-controlled FCC relaxed those rules on June 2 with a 3-2 party-line vote by passing regulations encouraging dominance by just a few giants of the industry. At 5:14 PM, June 19, 2003, the Senate Committee voted to overrule new FCC Media Ownership Rules by the FCC. The proposal faces an uncertain fate in the full Senate, and stiff opposition in The House.


Examples of present domination by just a few are:

Walt Disney Company (Michael Eisner, CEO - CFR) - ABC, ESPN networks, 10 TV stations, 26 radio stations, Disney and Touchstone Studios.


Newscorp (Rupert Murdoch, CEO - CFR) - Fox TV network, Fox Cable News, FX cable channel, 36 TV stations, New York Post newspaper, Weekly Standard news magazine, and 20th Century Fox Studios.

Viacom (Sumner Redstone - CEO) - CBS and UPN TV networks, MTV and Nickolodeon cable channels, 39 TV and 180 Radio stations, and Paramount studios.

General Electric Company (Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO) - NBC TV network, MSNBC, CNBC, & Bravo cable channels, and 14 TV stations.

AOL Time Warner (Richard D. Parsons, CEO - CFR) - WB TV network, Turner Broadcasting cable channel, and Warner Brothers and Newsline studios.

Gannett Company (Douglas H. McCorkindale, CEO) - 22 TV stations, and USA Today and 99 daily newspapers.

Media General (J. Stewart Bryan III, CEO) - 26 TV stations and 26 daily newspapers.

COX Enterprises (James C. Kennedy, CEO) - 15 TV stations, 79 radio stations, the Atlantic Journal Constitution and 16 other daily newspapers.

Tribune Company (Dennis J. FitzSimons, CEO) - WGN cable, 26 TV stations, the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and 16 other daily newspapers.

New York Times Company (Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., CEO) - Discovery Times cable, 8 TV stations, 2 radio stations, New York Times, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune and 16 other newspapers.


Washington Post Company (Donald E. Graham, CEO) - 6 TV stations, the Washington Post newspaper, Washington Post News Service, BrassRing, and Newsweek magazine.


Voting Scams

Our current voting procedures are a sham. In an effort to speed up the vote counting process (or so "they" would like you to believe), they have, in most instances, gone to computer assisted voting. Once the votes have been digitized, they are easily manipulated, and in most cases a recount is impossible. Is this how the Elite have swung the 2002 Federal elections to favor the Republicans? Now they control the White House, The Senate and the House of Representatives. Is this by accident, or was this accomplished by rigging the voting process?

(http://truthout.com/docs_02/09.21G.landes.crooks.htm)


Senator Paul Wellstone's Death

Was Senator Paul Wellstone's death an accident? Many, including some members of Congress, are concerned. If you have not learned it by now, there are many in our elected offices who will do ANYTHING to reach their goals, or to protect their interests.

(http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0012/0044.html), (http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2000/12/irp-001201-col.htm), (http://www.counterpunch.org/pipermail/counterpunch-list/2000-December/004162), (http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20001210_herbicide_douses_u_s_senator.asp)

Legislative Oversight



Many of our nation’s problems are caused by the lack of adequate Legislative oversight. This failing has gotten worse since around 1980, and regardless of which party is in control. Below are my suggestions of what they should be investigating:

1. Great Depression of 1929 - The Federal Reserve System deliberately caused the ’29 depression by manipulating the U.S. money supply. From 1915 to early 1929, the money supply was very loose. You could get a loan to do almost anything. The Standard & Poor’s Index followed the same pattern during this same period. Both went into free-fall from ’29 to ’33. The Fed drastically tightened the money supply, and loans were almost unavailable, resulting in a panic. Unable to pay their massive debts, many committed suicide. Those who try to cover for the Fed say that the depression was caused by the Glass-Spiegal Act, which is far from the truth.

2. The Attack on Pearl Harbor - President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the Japanese Navy was heading for Hawaii twelve days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he failed to warn the military stationed on this island. His purpose was to create an excuse to declare war against Japan during WW-II.
Expert witness – Gregory Douglas, author of "Gestapo Chief".

3. The Vietnam War – The U.S. State Dept. said that at 3:40 a.m. EDT (3:40 p.m. Saigon time), August 2, 1964, the destroyer Maddox, on patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin, reported that it was "being approached by high speed craft with apparent intention of torpedo attack. Intend open fire in necessary self defense." (Message 020740Z to Commander Seventh Fleet; Department of State, Vietnam Working Group Files: Lot 72 D 219, DeSoto Patrols, August) Twenty-seven minutes later, the Maddox reported that it was being attacked by three North Vietnamese patrol craft and had opened fire. (Message 020807Z to Commander Seventh Fleet; ibid.) In the ensuing engagement, the Maddox and aircraft from the U.S.S. Ticonderoga damaged two of the patrol craft, which retreated to the North, and left one dead in the water. Reports on the incident reached Washington shortly after 4 a.m. U. S. military escalation was justified on the basis of the Gulf of Tonkin attack against U. S. ships. We know today that this incident was fabricated purely to deceive the American people in order to win their support for additional military action. Expert witnesses – 1970–1971 Emmy Award winning, CBS’s "60 Minutes" anchor, Morley Safer and his producer, Joe Wershba, blew the whistle on the phony Gulf of Tonkin attack tale, the start of the domino effect in Vietnam.

4. Operation Northwoods – March 13, 1962, L. L. Limnitzer, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposed that a bevy of lies be spread upon the U.S. public to justify the invasion of Cuba. Typical lies that were to be spread:
“….We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.
…We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in Cuba waters
….We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. …We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated). ….Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement…
…Use of MIG type aircraft by US pilots could provide additional provocation. Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping and destruction of US military drone aircraft by MIG type planes would be useful as complimentary actions. An F-86 properly painted would convince air passengers that they saw a Cuban MIG, especially if the pilot of the transport were to announce such fact.
… Hijacking attempts against civil air and surface craft could appear to continue as harassing measures condoned by the government of Cuba.
… It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil aircraft…”
Luckily, this plan was shot down by President Kennedy before it could take place, but this was a clear example of the top military commander at the time, Limnitzer, losing control of his senses and risking war with the Russians. Expert witness – James Bamford, author of "Body of Secrets".

5. Assassination of President John F. Kennedy – This tragic murder directly involved Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, and many other prominent men of the time. The Warren Commission was used to keep Congress from doing it’s own investigation.
Expert witness – Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., author of "The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK".


6. Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy – Those involved in the JFK killing were also involved in this murder. Lyndon Johnson made sure that Congress looked the other way on this one as well.
Expert witness – Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., author of "The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK".

7. The assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. – The same people who planned the killings of the Kennedy brothers were also directly involved in the murder of King. J. Edgar Hoover’s efforts were exposed by the Senator Frank Church Select Committee to Study Government Operations in 1976, which laid out Hoover’s and the FBI’s efforts to discredit MLK. Expert witness – Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., author of "The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK & MLK".

8. The Gulf War – Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam Hussein - “But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.” This was President George Herbert Walker Bush’s direct invitation for Iraq to invade Kuwait, so that he could become a hero by saving Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from the invading Iraq army.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL" SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1990, quoted from the transcripts of the meeting between Hussein and Glaspie.

9. War with Yugoslavia – The Elite needed to change the government of Yugoslavia so that they could run pipelines from the Caspian Sea oil fields to the West to a salt water port.
Expert witnesses - William F. Hagel, author of "The Hidden History of the War Against Yugoslavia".

10. War in Afghanistan – The Elite needed to change the government of Afghanistan so that they could run pipelines from the Caspian Sea oil fields to China, and South to a salt water port, without going through Iran. The wars in both Yugoslavia and Afghanistan were necessary to protect the interests of big oil, big banking, money laundering, and illegal drug trafficking.
Expert witness – Michael C. Ruppert, Publisher, "From The Wilderness" newsletter.

11. The 9-11 attacks on America - There is no evidence (yet) that the Elite were directly involved in the 9-11 attacks, but they certainly have used this event to destroy our Bill of Rights and Constitution. Expert witness – Michael C. Ruppert, Publisher, "From The Wilderness newsletter".

12. Executive Orders – The powers of the Presidency have been greatly enhanced through the use of Executive Orders, to the great loss of control by Congress. Laws must originate in Congress, not the White House.

13. The Secret Elite have taken over the U.S. – Members of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission have quietly taken over almost all key positions within our government, the news media, the Labor Unions, academia, banking, foundations, and industry. Their goal is to subvert the Bill of Rights and Constitution, to destroy the sovereignty of this nation, and to bring it under the control of the Global Union. Those who participate in this conspiracy are committing Treason. Expert witness – Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., author of "Who’s Who of the Elite".

"Today Americans would be outraged if U. N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg Conference at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. Henry Kissinger has attended most of the Bilderberg Conferences, and is a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission.

It is absolutely necessary that both houses of Congress hold extensive hearings on the above, as soon as possible, and before the United States becomes the second phase of Globalization - the American Union.



Treason

The definition of Treason is: The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power.

Before the federal elected officials take office, they must first swear the following oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.


Therefore, anyone who is a federally elected official, and who violates this oath is very simply committing absolute TREASON. Then, if all of the above is true (and I absolutely believe it is true) , then we have hundreds within our federal government who are very clearly committing treason. Why is nobody charging them with treason? Why don't you ask your elected officials this question.


The Truth

We have been lied to constantly by our government officials and the Elite owned news media, so we do not know what, or who, to believe any more. There are untold instances of this deceit, but an excellent example is the fact that we did not really send our astronauts to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. It was simply a massive hoax to deceive the entire world, perhaps to show that we had beat the Russians in the outer-space-game. There are a number of VHS video tapes on the market that prove this hoax, beyond a shadow of a doubt. One very interesting site is:

http://www.moonmovie.com/15things.html


Quotes That You Should Remember





"So do not be afraid of them.
There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed,
or hidden that will not be made known.

What I tell you in the dark,
speak in the daylight;
what is whispered in your ear,
proclaim from the roofs."
St. Matthew, 10-26 & 27
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth." - Morpheus
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."- Martin Luther King Jr.
"The budget should be balanced. The Treasury should be refilled. The Public Debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officials should be tempered and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest we become bankrupt. The people should be forced to work and not depend on the Government for subsistence."
Cicero. Rome A.D. 78


The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushes its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks. . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. . . the issuing power should be taken from the banks, and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson

History records that the money-changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent plans possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money, and its issuance. - James Madison

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed. The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency, and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government, and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principals, the taxpayers will be saving immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master, and become the servant of humanity. - Abraham Lincoln

If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations. - Andrew Jackson

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astonishing piece of slight of hand ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity, and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from them, and all great fortunes like mine will disappear. And, they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be the slaves of the bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money, and control credit. - Sir John Stamp (former governor of the Bank of England)

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. . . . These United States of America can never be destroyed from forces outside its borders. If America falls, it will fall from within. Brought down by apathy. When good people do nothing, Anarchy reigns.
- Abraham Lincoln in a 1854 letter to Congress

We the people are the rightful masters of Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states, and all national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them. The merging of states is inevitable.
- Lenin in his Imperialism and the Right to Self-determination


On December 3, 1963 Mario Savo, while speaking at the Free Speech Movement Sit-In here at UC Berkeley, said:

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"


For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. – Ephesians (6: 12)

Expose the works of darkness. - Ephesians (5:11)


Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works works of iniquity, and the act of violence in their hands. Isaiah 59:6

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction in their paths. Isaiah 59:7

The way of peace they know not; and no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Isaiah 59:8



With this knowledge, you will be better prepared to interpret the news media's reporting, and the governments actions as time moves on toward the completion of the American Union.


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areschild Donating Member (952 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:43 AM
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27. My sentiments exactly.
In fact, BushCo wants any and all currency out of the hands of Americans, then everyone will wind up working for the State. I said, at least a year ago, that this misadministration will turn the USA into a Third World Country, and it looks to me that is the direction we are heading.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:55 AM
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29. Who on DU thinks they're accidental?
Actually, I think they may have an even more sinister long-term purpose.

Think about it: once the government is so banrupt that the legislative branch has nothing to apportion, combining that by noting the recent trend towards ruling by rubber stamp and Imperial Fiat, on those rare few occasions it is still necessary, and the legilsative branhc of the Old Republic becomes the Imperial Senate.

Viola!

Eventually, it is possible that, like a crayfish bursting out of it's old skin, the current Imperial Shadow Government (ostenisbly put together because of the terrorist threat to the Imperial Congress) through the Citien Corps Councils appearing around the nation.

These councils, rapidly spreading to localities around the nation, contain all the personnel to effectilvey run that community. Police Chiefs, Fire Chiefs, Water Chiefs, prominent business men et al.

Everything an Emperor needs to issue orders and funds directly to the localities without interference from a moribund and weak Imperial Senate.

Don't believe me?

http://www.citizencorps.gov/citizenCorps/councilmap.do

Once the Senate withers further due to it's utter lack of funds, Imperial Messengers
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JiveTalker Donating Member (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:05 AM
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30. Inner city education will be the first to go.
No child left behind. Yeah, right. No white child. Keep cutting education dollars to the cities and keep us down. What an ass wipe.
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prolesunited Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 08:12 AM
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31. And Norquist is the primary architect of this plan
Here's an excellent article in The Nation that profiles him and outlines his philosophy

To Norquist, who loves being called a revolutionary, hardly an agency of government is not worth abolishing, from the Internal Revenue Service and the Food and Drug Administration to the Education Department and the National Endowment for the Arts. "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
<snip>

Norquist predicts that in the end Bush will win a tax cut that comes pretty close to his original plan of at least $1.6 trillion. If support wavers, he says, a compromise of sorts might be struck, in which the most controversial part of the package--the rate reduction from 39.6 percent to 33 percent for the highest earners--would be scaled back or eliminated, to be replaced by a cut in the capital gains tax. (Repeal of the estate tax is almost certain not to pass this year.) Then, he says, next year Bush will come back for more. Many of the tax breaks for special interests, including the timber industry, the liquor interests and software companies like Microsoft, he suggests, could be assembled together in a package labeled "international competitiveness." Says Norquist matter-of-factly, "We'll take that pig and put lipstick on it.
<snip>

Asked to name one that might emerge as his next battleground, he pauses. Well, he says, there's the matter of all those state and local pension plans. State by state, he's planning to launch a campaign to dismantle and privatize state pension plans and their trillions of dollars of public funds held as investments for retirees. "Just 115 people control $1 trillion in these funds," he says. "We want to take that power and destroy it."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20010514&s=dreyfuss


And I wholeheartedly agree with your premise. These people are NOT that stupid. We have the economy and job market that they want. If you look at holiday shopping, the only sector that did well were upscale stores like Nordstrom's. That just shows you who is doing well right now.

Also, corporations benefit from a tighter labor market. Do you recall at the height of the boom stories about companies offering signing bonuses and many perks to attract the best employees. It was an employee market in which the star performers could name their own price.

Now, people have taken pay cuts just to stay employed and if you make too much noise, employers simply say you're lucky to have a job.
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 09:53 AM
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37. kicking because this is so important
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 12:02 PM
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39. Not only that
but deficits deflate the economy, causing unemployment, which gets that great non-boogeyman inflation down, which helps out the rich. It also keeps wages down. It's a win-win scenario for the wealthy!
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:00 PM
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46. big, Gigantic, HUMONGUS WEEKEND KICK
:kick:
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