I have a question. Are Americans complete idiots? Or are they just totally exhausted from trying to make ends meet? We could conduct a poll.
We elect our government to represent our interests. Instead, they join forces with Corporate America in order to grab power and line their pockets. We place our trust in our elected officials. Rather than just tell us the truth, they respond with a combination of spin and outright lies. The war in Iraq is going well, inflation is under control, deficits don't matter, Social Security and Medicare are on solid ground etc.
For the sake of accuracy, let's take everything they throw at us and jerk it around 180 degrees. The war is a hopeless quagmire steeped in America's blood and treasure. Inflation is raging for everything you need in this world, be it food for your body, heat for your home, gasoline for your car, education for your children, or health care for all. We are hopelessly indebted to foreigners who have become our bankers. It is the creditors who make the rules, after all, not the debtors.
The debt is not the $8 trillion that the government funnels through its public relations firm, the press. It is closer to $78 trillion. Those are the funds obligated to pay social security and medicare to the 77 million retiring baby boomers. Our representatives like to call these debts "unfunded liabilities" which they hide "off budget." They make what Enron did look like a walk in the park.
How do you think the government is going to pay these obligations? Increased taxes? They'd have to tax 500 percent of your income to even come close. No, they'll print the money on pieces of paper called U.S. dollars. The more currency they print, the less it will be worth. What you thought would be enough for a luxurious retirement won't even provide you with the neccessities of life. It's called inflation, and it's the most insidious tax of all. We're all living through it right now, but you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Just wait until Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin S. Bernanke starts dropping $100 bills from his flying machine. Our government can't pay the bill, and the dollar is dropping like a stone. It's obvious that the government plans to inflate away its debts on the backs of the middle class.
So I go back to my original question. Are we all idiots? Or are we in a protracted coma? Why aren't millions of Americans incensed? Why aren't we swarming around the White House and the Capitol Building? Why aren't millions and millions of us streaming into Washington with signs that read: "Peaceful Coup d'Etat?" Can you imagine the power of millions of citizens, all carrying that same stunning message, descending on Washington, D.C.
11/23/2007
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