- We are living in a state of selective amnesia or fearful
denial? "The easy credit which created the subprime crisis in mortgage
lending has now spread to the hedge fund industry. The troubles at Bear
Stearns prove that Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson's assurance
that the problem is 'contained' is pure baloney. The contagion is swiftly
moving through the entire system taking down home owners, mortgage lenders,
banks, rating agencies, and hedge funds. We are just at the beginning of
a system-wide breakdown. "
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- "To a large extent, the housing bubble has concealed
the systematic destruction of America's industrial and manufacturing base.
Low interest rates have lulled the public to sleep while The rise in housing
prices has created the millions of high paying jobs have been outsourced.
The rise in housing prices has created the illusion of prosperity but,
in truth, we are only selling houses to each other and are not making anything
that the rest of the world wants. The $11 trillion dollars that was pumped
into the real estate market is probably the greatest waste of capital investment
in the nations history. It hasn't produced a single asset that will add
to our collective wealth or industrial competitiveness".
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- " The Federal Reserve produces all the fact and
figure related to the housing industry. They knew that trillions of dollars
were being diverted into a speculative bubble, but they did NOTHING to
stop it. Now the effects of their 'cheap money' policies have spread to
the hedge fund industry where hundreds of billions of dollars in pensions
and savings are in jeopardy."
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- It is advised that citizens (those involved in loans
- investments - etc, in local communities) , come into the 21st century
and get a grasp of the serious implications : Another Great Depression
- http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6807
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- While we are kept dutifully distracted with the drunken
antics of Hollywood airheads, breaking news of OJ, and his merry band of
thieves, hours of TV media coverage of sexual predators, or Lockup shows
of our 'prison industry' - millions across the nation are losing their
jobs and their homes.
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- In case some of the opinion that government will ride
to the rescue and retrain former auto workers, textile employees, paper
mill/ steel/manufacturing workers, etc, for those high end technological
or positions in the health field - get a grip! Thousands upon thousands
are graduating from college unable to find jobs! No 50-60 old worker who
has worked for decades in a paper mill, or steel plant, is going to compete
with those educated in the best of colleges in their early twenties! Let's
get real. Besides, we now have hundreds of thousands of professional guest
workers (Democrats and Republicans support), being imported to replace
Americans, at a third of the salary, no benefits, no pensions, and no job
security. Prison labor is being used by other corporate interests! Besides,
President Bush, who never held a real job in his life (before the Presidency
or government position), has cut funds for job retraining: The Bush Budget:
- http://www.aflcio.org/issues/bushwatch/2007budget.cfm
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- President Bush, and career politicians, don't have to
care or relate to their employers (US Taxpayer). They get lucrative salaries,
yearly cost of living raises, and full health coverage (we pay 72% of their
premiums). Their pensions also see yearly cost of living raises! No severance
packages here, of a few weeks pay, no matter how miserable their job performance,
or felony convictions.
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- Note, when a politician comes down with some health issue,
they receive immediate care at the best of hospitals. No drone in a far
away cubicle informs their physician that such and such a procedure is
not covered. They are not advised to become destitute, having no assets,
before they can receive medical care! They don't die ignored, on the floor
of an emergency room (Los Angeles), of a ruptured bowel, with medical staff
fully aware!
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- Coming home from war, they are not one of the 192,000
veterans left homeless, having to prove their disability. Note how convenient
the troops are for photo ops ( in spiffy uniforms amidst flags) going off
to war. You'll not see politicians posing with brain damaged/blind/faceless/
veterans, advising, "Be all you can be etc". You'll not see presidential
candidates shaking hands; with those living under bridges, in abandoned
cars, or crowded shelters ! You haven't seen politicians (whatever the
party) addressing the bureaucratic nightmare of today's medical debacle;
written, by the pharmaceuticals, insurance, and HMO interests. Both parties
continue to vote malignant trade agreements, for the benefit of corporate
hucksters, in their global plundering of our planet. Millions upon millions,
left dispossessed in their own lands, (due to trade agreements), are exiting
their countries seeking employment in the U.S.
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- Corporate interests rally the naive, unskilled, and uneducated
immigrants, in various protests, against the unemployed, and over burdened
U.S. taxpayers being billed for these failed trade agreements! Victims
against victims. Pretty clever manuvering. The top few % responsible for
this global plunder are out of sight. This can't be identified for what
it really is - class warfare. The few are benefiting obscenely at the expense
of the multitudes. The media (corporate owned) blames this discontent on
those not willing to do the work of immigrants or on unions. Hey, the bigger
the lie, the more believable.
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- Immigrants are not only (as the media presents) out in
the field picking lettuce or beans. They are standing on street corners
all over the nation; being hired on by unscrupulous contractors; for roofing,
brick laying, concrete work, construction, etc. At the end of the day (week)
many hired on in this manner, find themselves without pay, or working for
slave wages. If they are injured on the job, that's their tough luck. Non-union
jobs result in coal miners left underground (Utah), and are not about enviromental
or safety issues. This is the face of your new global plantation. An indentured
slave work force.
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- Once upon a time, in Old America, there was pride in
the workmanship of American Made. Small town America flourished with manufacturing,
tool and die shops, sheet metal, appliance companies, paper mills, steel
mills, mining machinery plants etc. The police did not carry electrocution
devices (tasers) nor did we have Ninja troops, breaking down doors, killing
innocent citizens, in some ill founded drug bust. Meantime, our southern
border, has tons of drugs entering in unhindered! The poppy fields of Afghanistan
are booming. What drug war?
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- Once upon a time in Old America the doctor would come
to your house. The President didn't advise those in need of health care
to sit in an emergency room for hours. A hospital bill didn't bankrupt
a family. Medicines were affordable. Children didn't die of an abscessed
tooth because a dentist demanded cash.
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- Small town America had downtown streets bustling with
home town businesses. Walmart with its poison junk from China was not the
largest employer in the nation. The elderly didn't need to apply for jobs;
bagging groceries or as Home Depot Associates to make ends meet. Schools
were not centers of social engineering, teaching alternative life styles,
or the intricacies of putting a condom on a banana! Children were permitted
the joy of being a child and not arrested for zero tolerance schemes, thought
up by some mindless educators in Washington. A compliant, obedient, passive
workforce, needs early intervention and training in obedience. Group Think
is in - individual genius, exuberance and creativity needs drugged. It
takes a village to raise an mindless idiot .
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- Once upon a time in Old America a man working in a mill,
or auto plant etc, could see his son becoming an engineer, a doctor, or
scientist. Today's child, has his/her career being mapped out in school
by social engineers. College costs are out of sight, with various grants
and loans being eliminated. Youngsters no longer works at paper routes,
or at odd jobs. These are being done by unemployed parents or immigrants.
Those being prepared for a world of Forever War - or placement in the local
Wigget factory; don't need math skills, spelling, or reading abilities.
Thus many graduating today, can't do simple math (watch what happens when
the computers go down in a store), read a newspaper, or discuss a work
of literature. Many have no idea of our history, and think the civil war
was the Watts Riots. Try asking your fourth grader to look up a word in
the dictionary or write a short story.
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- The fault of this rests with parents/citizens - who have
allowed this madness of indoctrinating their children into stupidity. Teachers
(change agents) are only interested in a paycheck or retirement benefits.
They are not about to rock the boat. Citizens on the other hand, without
a murmur, have their children prescribed mind altering drugs, without the
least bit of research! Because some bovine drone threatens them - they
bleat and obey. Would that we had some 'zero tolerance' addressing the
corruption in Foggy Bottom - or in the robbery of war, with billions gone
missing. Meantime, the offspring of the moneyed/well connected, receive
the best of private school educations - to prepare them for their secure
positions of future hucksters - industry hacks etc.
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- Once upon a time in Old America there was no danger stranger,
Amber Alerts, or daily fear advertisements. True we had Duck and Cover,
a silly ass routine of Bert the Turtle, advising us to duck under a desk,
to avoid the aftermath of an Atomic Bomb. At age six, I had enough sense
to see the lunacy in this, and received a monthly 'unsatisfactory' in deportment,
because I wouldn't participate in acting the fool. Today I imagine I'd
be arrested.
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- Once upon a time in Old America the streets and parks
were alive with the laughter of children at play. Small town America had
its fireworks, parades, carnivals, swimming hole, family picnics, concerts
in the park, fishing, building forts etc. Today the streets are silent
and echoing on a summer's eve. Video games and mindless TV programming
have created a generation of lumpkins. Except in a rare instance, I don't
recall a classroom filled with doughy - dullard overweight children. But
then we had no fast food restaurants, or additive saturated foods, when
I was growing up. To this day, I have never eaten (WHY?) at a McSlop fast
food joint.
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- Citizens today have been propagandized and programed
to enslaved consumerism. I can't imagine that my parents would have paid
hundreds of dollars for sneakers, or designer clothing , so that I could
fit in with the other kids at school. 'TV was my teacher far into the night
- it taught me to buy everything within sight' - this is today's mantra.
Imagine robbing your children, by sitting them down in front of something
called Sponge Bob (or whatever) or violent video games?
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- We are for the most part kept ill informed as to the
true state of our nation. Millions are losing their jobs and homes. One
state or region has no idea of what is occurring elsewhere. Detroit looks
like Beirut - with its downtown echoing with abandoned hotels, train stations,
and rusted auto plants. The steel mills and textile plants of middle America
- the South (never modernized), were allowed to rust into oblivion - with
few realizing the implications. In times of crisis we could never prepare
for war. <http://www.coalcampusa.com/rustbelt/oh/oh.htm>http://www.coalcampusa.com/rustbelt/oh/oh.htm
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- Once upon a time in Old America there were real grandmas
with aprons and flowered dresses. Women didn't feel the need to resort
(TV conditioning) to liposuction, face lifts, breast implants etc. Our
votes weren't hijacked by computers with no paper trail. True, there have
always been the robber barons exploiting the workers, shooting down strikers
(looking for a decent wage), and crooked politicians, only too willing
to sell out their constituents. The difference today is that these robber
barons and corporate hucksters; hold the most strategic positions in government
(from the Defense Dept to the regulatory agencies). Lobbyists for industry
now determine legislation. Government (politicians) for the most part,
are nothing more than props. No matter the party in power, one can observe,
that they are about feathering their own nests, serving their corporate
owners, or holding tedious hearings, that result in nothing but filling
time. Anything done for the citizen is by pure accident.
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- And now in the New America we can see that our infrastructure,
utilities, water, and vast holdings of real estate are being sold out to
foreign interests. Rest assured, that all these supposed protected areas
(parks - timber - minerals - grasslands - etc) are mere collateral for
our massive debt. I suspect, that under the guise of paperless ID, we will
next be ordered to be chipped (much like pets). In the days of slavery
this was called branding - the chip is merely updated branding. One must
keep track of one's human resources on a plantation.
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- "Ship is sinking
- The ship is sinking
- The ship is sinking
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- Digging up the dead, with a shovel and pick
- It's a job, it's a job
- Bloody moon rising with a plague and a flood
- Join the mob, join the mob
- It's all over, it's all over
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- God's away, God's away
- God's away on business, business"
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- God's Away On Business -Tom Waits
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- By Judith Moriarty
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- jdthmoriarty@yahoo.com
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