- Wouldn't you like to know where Dick
Cheney puts his money? Then you'd know whether his "deficits don't
matter" claim is just baloney or not.
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- Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine
ran an article based on Cheney's financial disclosure statement and, sure
enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people for the umpteenth
time. Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly.
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- The article is called "Cheney's
betting on bad news" and provides an account of where Cheney has socked
away more than $25 million. While the figures may be estimates, the investments
are not. According to Tom Blackburn of the Palm Beach Post, Cheney has
invested heavily in "a fund that specializes in short-term municipal
bonds, a tax-exempt money market fund and an inflation protected securities
fund. The first two hold up if interest rates rise with inflation. The
third is protected against inflation."
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- Cheney has dumped another (estimated)
$10 to $25 million in a European bond fund which tells us that he is counting
on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing
ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing
his wealth in "Old Europe". As Blackburn sagely notes, "Not
all bad news' is bad for everybody."
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- This should put to rest once and for
all the foolish notion that the "Bush Economic Plan" is anything
more than a scam aimed at looting the public till. The whole deal is intended
to shift the nation's wealth from one class to another. It's also clear
that Bush-Cheney couldn't have carried this off without the tacit approval
of the thieves at the Federal Reserve who engineered the low-interest rate
boondoggle to put the American people to sleep while they picked their
pockets.
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- Reasonable people can dispute that Bush
is "intentionally" skewering the dollar with his lavish tax cuts,
but how does that explain Cheney's portfolio?
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- It doesn't. And, one thing we can say
with metaphysical certainty is that the miserly Cheney would never plunk
his money into an investment that wasn't a sure thing. If Cheney is counting
on the dollar tanking and interest rates going up, then, by Gawd, that's
what'll happen.
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- The Bush-Cheney team has racked up another
$3 trillion in debt in just 6 years. The US national debt now stands at
$8.4 trillion dollars while the trade deficit has ballooned to $800 billion
nearly 7% of GDP.
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- This is lunacy. No country, however powerful,
can maintain these staggering numbers. The country is in hock up to its
neck and has to borrow $2.5 billion per day just to stay above water. Presently,
the Fed is expanding the money supply and buying back its own treasuries
to hide the hemorrhaging from the public. Its utter madness.
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- Last month the trade deficit climbed
to $70 billion. More importantly, foreign central banks only purchased
a meager $47 billion in treasuries to shore up our ravenous appetite for
cheap junk from China.
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- Do the math! They're not investing in
America anymore. They are decreasing their stockpiles of dollars. We're
sinking fast and Cheney and his pals are manning the lifeboats while the
public is diverted with gay marriage amendments and "American Celebrity".
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- The American manufacturing sector has
been hollowed out by cutthroat corporations who've abandoned their country
to make a fast-buck in China or Mexico. The $3 trillion housing (equity)
bubble is quickly loosing air while the anemic dollar continues to sag.
All the signs indicate that the economy is slowing at the same time that
energy prices continue to rise.
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- This is the onset of stagflation; the
dreaded combo of a slowing economy and inflation.
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- Did Americans really think they'd be
spared the same type of economic colonization that has been applied throughout
the developing world under the rubric of "neoliberalism"?
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- Well, think again. The American economy
is barrel-rolling towards earth and there are only enough parachutes for
Cheney and the gang.
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- The country has lost 3 million jobs from
outsourcing since Bush took office; more than 200,000 of those are the
high-paying, high-tech jobs that are the life's-blood of every economy.
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- Consider this from the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) June edition of Foreign Affairs, the Bible of globalists
and plutocrats:
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- "Between 2000 and 2003 alone, foreign
firms built 60,000manufacturing plants in China. European chemical companies,
Japanese carmakers, and US industrial conglomerates are all building factories
in China to supply export markets around the world. Similarly, banks, insurance
companies, professional-service firms, and IT companies are building R&D
and service centers in India to support employees, customers, and production
worldwide." ("The Globally integrated Enterprise" Samuel
Palmisano, Foreign Affairs page 130)
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- "60,000 manufacturing plants"
in 3 years?!?
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- "Banks, insurance companies, professional-service
firms, and IT companies"?
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- No job is safe. American elites and corporate
tycoons are loading the boats and heading for foreign shores. The only
thing they're leaving behind is the insurmountable debt that will be shackled
to our children into perpetuity and the carefully arranged levers of a
modern police-surveillance state.
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- Welcome to Bush's 21st Century gulag;
third world luxury in a Guantanamo-type setting.
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- Take another look at Cheney's investment
strategy; it tells the whole ugly story. Interest rates are going up, the
middle class is going down, and the poor dollar is headed for the dumpster.
The country is not simply teetering on the brink of financial collapse;
it is being thrust headfirst by the blackguards in office and their satrapies
at Federal Reserve.
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- fergiewhitney@msn.com
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