Mushroom Clouds Over Wall Street : "This is our country, not Goldman Sach's"

[Better Believe It]

September 22, 2008
Fallout Over Mainstream
Mushroom Clouds Over Wall Street
By MIKE WHITNEY

Congress is getting steamrolled and the American people are getting snookered. Consumer confidence--already at historic lows--is headed for the wood-chipper feet-first. Something has got to give.

One minute everything is hunky-dory; the subprime meltdown is "contained" and "the fundamentals of our economy are strong".(Paulson) And, less than a week later, congress is forced to surrender their constitutionally-mandated right to oversee spending in order to forestall economic Armageddon. Which is it? Or is the real objective just to keep the country on an emotional teeter-totter long enough for all state-power to be subsumed by the Wall Street Politburo?

No one knows what will happen next. We are in uncharted waters. And no one knows what the political landscape will look like after the dust settles from this outrageous power grab. According to Paulson, things are so dire, the entire nation will be reduced to smoldering rubble and twisted iron. But can we trust him this time after his long litany of lies?

Isn't it about time to send the cockroaches scuttling back to their hideouts and bring in the cleaning crew to hose the whole place down?

Don't let the prospect of a national crisis trick you into giving up your liberty, America. The people behind this scam are the same landsharks and flim-flam men who polluted the global marketplace with their snake oil and toxic sludge. These are the fraudsters who manufactured the crisis to begin with. Be resolute. Don't budge. Our economic foundations may be crumbling, but or determination is not. This is our country, not Goldman Sach's. The people who destroyed America must be held to account. Their time is coming. Justice first.

Please read the entire article at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney09222008.html

[PDJane]

1. I would like "Shock Doctrine"

to be required reading in high school, along with "The End of America."

I think the Wrecking Crew might be a good supplementary book.

I have always wondered why anyone would vote people who think that government is anathema into office in the government. Something is seriously screwed up here, people.

[Lint Head]

3. Yes! I read the End of America and I'm about half way through the

Shock Doctrine. It is surreal. It's like reading about events as they happen. It's prophetic. If it was wrapped in a religious concept or book cover it would be touted by true evangelicals as a modern religious prophecy. :dem:

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. K&R!

[Lugnut]

4. K&R n/t