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Carla in Ca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 02:03 AM
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Bush Wants To Bankrupt America-There is Method To His Madness
This is an article written by Sam Hamod on July 1, 2003. Not only is it accurate, what has occurred in the two years since writing it is chilling, to say the least. The question is why? The answer that comes to my mind is, of course, the PNAC. Will the top 2% of the country have complete control of the country? Is this why he had to 'win' in 2000 and 2004, whatever the cost?
I have sent the author an email asking him for his opinion. I will post the reply if I get one.
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07/01/03: Some have wondered if GW Bush knows what he's doing with his tax cut that benefits the corporations and the very rich, and cuts away the remaining money of the poor and the middle class. I say yes, he does know what he'd up to, as do his corporate advisors and his neo-con economist friends and theorists, chief among them Grover Norquist. Norquist has been the chief architect behind the dismantling of the American federal financial structure in terms of benefits for the common citizen, but has helped to create the superstructure of tax breaks for the very rich and the corporatocracy that now has a choke-hold on America.

The plan is very simple, but not obvious on first blush. Make sure that all the money is gone from the U.S. treasury, make sure the deficits are so great that all social and educational programs are cut, increase the military and security budgets to "protect our nation" with all these monies going to corporations and security firms who are extra-national (not tied to any country, but actually more than multi-national in that they are outside the purview of any nation at any single moment) and stave in the social security fund by allowing it to go to private corporations for "investment"-and you have the perfect scenario for saying, "only the private sector can save us-we're broke and they have the money to run every program, fund every program, but of course, at huge costs and profits for the private corporations." Our only resource will be the corporate lenders, especially the large extra-national corporations who will have loyalty to no one except their corporate coffers and large share owners throughout the world.

This plan is so obvious at this point that it is hard to believe because it is happening so fast and the Democrats and even conservative non- neo-con Republicans don't realize what Bush and his neo-con buddies are up to.

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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 02:10 AM
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1. If you look at the people who surround Bush, it's clear he's no Yank
...not in the traditional sense. His lies about his frequent trips to Europe (remember when he said he'd never been there?) go along with all his other lies, but why that one particularly? The powerbrokers (mind you, I don't mean the sane ones, but the Bush counterparts in Europe) in the EU are oddly posed to trample over the US now that we're at our weakest.

I think the argument that this is a EU/US ruling class conscious destruction of our democracy is a valid one, yup.

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Carla in Ca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 02:17 AM
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2. Melody, help me out here
I have posted a question on many threads, but I've not gotten an answer. I'm concerned that some countries will begin using the Euro instead of the dollar. Is that what you think as well?
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melody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 02:37 AM
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3. Sure, I think that's the whole point, given the new strength of the EU
Edited on Sun Sep-18-05 02:38 AM by melody
I ask myself the old Latin jurist question...Cui Bono? Who benefits? Who benefits from our downfall? It's not going to be the Americans, that's for sure. And it won't benefit the general European public either. Just as there are snakes in our government, there are snakes in European government. They certainly seem to be in thick with ours. Not only do I marvel at how this fusion of interests benefits from our current troubles, but also how convenient Sept 11th was. I'm not donning any tin foil hats. I just find it troubling in its fortuitousness for multinational moneypeople.

I always wonder at how the issues of Northern Ireland are so pertinent to any President who comes in. I mean, why would Bush make a point of embracing some factions in the north over the Republic? I can see rational reasons, but this is no humanitarian. There has to be a tangible benefit.

And I'm also troubled by the weird almost WWII cinema verite we seem to have playing across our government.

And now Europe is urging films to open in Europe first...and they are creating a film institute. I just get the feeling we're having our whole culture appropriated by people from within. None of this, of course, to benefit the real European people. It only helps out the moneymen on their side, just as our funds go to enrich Bush.

Okay, end of droning for tonight. lol

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Carla in Ca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 02:50 AM
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4. Thank you so much
Yes, it is late but I appreciate your insight. I hope we can discuss this again. Thanks again.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 12:46 PM
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5. They are brilliant, totally insane, but brilliant
Able to destroy American in a few short years....
and the sheeple never even made a peep...........
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:57 PM
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6. Un questionably as brilliant as the Nazis, their spiritual antecedents
The Imperial Subjects of Amerika will say NOTHING. And what little is said will not be allowed to reach Corporate TV Pravda.

I used to wonder about the 1930s German, how they let it happen.

Now I know.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 04:11 PM
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7. and just as evil...
I keep thinking that this is a surreal re-enactment of Hitler's Germany. How could they let it happen? Yes, now we know. All opposition destroyed or bribed into silence. The rest of the people
not smart enough to see thru the smokescreen. Like Germany perhaps the American people will have their eyes opened? When junior gets down slashing the budget and killing a few more hundred thousand people.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 04:53 PM
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8. I don't think even then
As 2006 and 2008 will mostlikely show, changing the system usig the system is an impossibility now. The whole point of Poppy Augustus' and W Tiberius' reigns has been to disconnect & disable all aspect of the Constitution so that the Imperial Subjects of Amerika have no recourse.

The Imperial Family is to Old America is as AIDS is to the infected, it first destroys the immune system so the victim cannot resist.
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cassiepriam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 06:05 PM
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9. yes.
like the analogy of the lobster being placed in a cold pot with the burner turned on high. By the time the water is hot it is too late.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-19-05 08:46 AM
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10. W is succeeding beyond probably his wildest imagination as Congress
Edited on Mon Sep-19-05 08:48 AM by indepat
votes in virtual lockstep to implement the sheer madness of his schemes.
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