Economic Takeover
Alot of people are highly concerned about this administration's fiscal irresponsibility, including a number of Republicans.
Just wanted to share my thoughts on why Bush and Co. are spending us into such a deep hole. I think it's for the same reason they're so overwhelmingly pro-free trade. That is: to purposely bankrupt our government and Americans except, of course, those in the top 1% income bracket.
Taking over our country through military action isn't an option; however, regarding economic (not to mention moral) bankruptcy:
(1) What better way to enslave the population (so we must work for pennies instead of dollars) and force us into feudal servitude to the big corporations?
(2) What better way to get rid of government interference in Big Business?
No money means no education, no social programs, no environmental regulation, no labor oversight, no ability to regulate monopolies. Duh! They're not trying to improve our government, small business or standard of living. They're trying to do the opposite, to further their own radical corporate agenda: an economic instead of military takeover.
The Iraq war was genius! Spend billions and billions of tax dollars (bankrupt government). Not to mention those little side benefits which include, but aren't limited to:
Taking over rich oil reserves ($9 billion in Iraqi oil revenue already "missing", 40% of the total);
Giving huge, wasteful, no-bid contracts to Halliburton (profiteering);
Striking fear into Americans (so we give up our rights and blindly follow our "leaders") AND
Striking fear into the middle east (to advance apocalyptic pro-Israeli agenda);
Distracting us from what's really going on...Genius I say!
The tax cuts too! Like the $300 or so dollars everyone got was actually going to make any difference in our lives. But add it up, multiply it by millions of Americans, and it sure did help to increase the deficit AND buy votes in the process. Genius! And doesn't giving amnesty to illegal aliens also make sense from this perspective? Makes it easier for them to compete with American workers, drive down wages and working conditions and gets the Hispanic vote. Going to Mars? Another way to spend millions of dollars real fast, with no discernable benefit here on earth, all the while pumping up Bush's cowboy image. I could go on and on, obviously. But it all makes perfect sense to me.
posted by Raggatt at 10:25 PM
4 Comments:
You have grazed superficially on the talking points of the Left. The LEeft is rereft of ideas. They regurgitate the tired historically repudiated platitudes from 30s socialism. Look to political and economic freedom as the fix to problems in the world. Free yourself from the need to control everyone's behavior. Encourage personal responisbility. Expect everyone to act as responisibly as you do.
Rank the nations in the world in their standard of living. Then rank them in politcal and economic freedom. Notice the correlations. Ask how can we get there. The journey is long and hard. It asks you to be more honest than your fellow travellers will ask you to be. Open your mind and free your heart.
doug
3:24 PM
If the argument is that the Iraq War is aimed at installing a pro-American regime more inclined to grant oil contracts to American and British rather than French and Russian oil firms, then it invites a similar charge that France and Russia are against war primarily to protect their once-cozy economic relationships with the Iraqi regime. Regardless, only one or two American or British firms in this scenario would "win" economically while the rest would lose because increased production would lower global oil prices and thus profits. Because no one knows who would win the post-war contract "lottery," it makes little sense for the oil industry (or the politicians who supposedly cater to them) to support war. The argument that the war with Iraq is fundamentally about oil, just doesn't add up.
1:22 AM
Saw a John Stossel(?) report about Greed, awhile back. One research study had 4 people seated around a table. On the table was a basket full of dollars. When the clock started, they could grab as much as they wanted. If there was money left in the basked after 30 seconds, it would be doubled.
They did it over and over. No one would leave any, even after the rules were explained again -- if they would just cooperate and leave a little, share the wealth, they could keep the cash flowing. But it was MINE, MINE, MINE! NOW!
Sound familiar? I don't see a vast conspiracy by Big Business, just profit & politics more cozy together than ever in our history.
4:07 PM
Hey, thanks for reading my post and commenting on it! You may be right, but I really don't believe all this talk about rising employment, etc. I believe that 99% of mainstream news is pure propaganda and see no evidence of this economic upturn in my middle class neck of the midwest. I see this crazy fiscal irresponsibility by the conservative(!) party and am trying to find an explaination for it. I certainly don't see a HUGE but "less than projected" (again, if you believe it) deficit as compelling evidence to the contrary, and I don't think it's "spineless" of congress to prevent Bush from cutting AMTRAK & PBS! And how can anyone claim to "know" how public policy making "really" works unless they've worked for awhile deep inside the highest levels of the decision-making machine? Finally, I don't necessarily think the Iraq war is fundamentally about oil. Oil's just one of a number of reasons for the war, or maybe even just a side benefit.
2:52 AM
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