Nothing Was Sacred: The Theft of the American Dream

[girl gone mad]

A re-share from last year, fitting for today. Good luck to all.

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17 July 2010
Nothing Was Sacred: The Theft of the American Dream
By Jesse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=439">Jesse's Café Américain


America must decide what type of country it wishes to be, and then conform public and foreign policy to those ends, and not the other way around. Politicians have no right to subjugate the constitutional process of government to any foreign organization.

Secrecy, except in very select military matters, is repugnant to the health of a democratic government, and is almost always a means to conceal a fraud. Corporations are not people, and do not have the rights of individuals as such.

Banks are utilities for the rational allocation of capital created by savings, and as utilities deserve special protections. All else is speculation and gambling. In banking, simpler and more stable is better. Low cost rules, as excessive financialisation is a pernicious tax on the real economy.

Financial speculation, as opposed to entrepreneurial investment, creates little value, serving largely to transfer wealth from the many to the few, often by exploiting the weak, and corrupting the law. It does serve to identify and correct market inefficiencies, but this benefit is vastly overrated, because those are quickly eliminated. As such it should be allowed, but tightly regulated and highly taxed as a form of gambling.

When the oligarchy's enablers, hired help is the politer word, and assorted useful idiots ask, "But how then will we do this or that?" ask them back, "How did we do it twenty years ago?" Before the financial revolution and the descent into a bubble economy and a secretive and largely corrupted government with a GDP whose primary product is fraud.

Other nations, such as China, are surely acting for their own interests, and in many cases the interests of their people, much more diligently and effectively than the kleptocrats who are in power in Washington and New York these days. How then could we possibly subvert the Constitution and the welfare of the people to unelected foreign organizations? If this requires a greater reliance on self-sufficiency, then so be it. America is large enough to see to its own, as the others see to theirs.

Economics will not provide any answers in and of itself. Economics without an a priori policy and morality, without a guiding principle like the Constitution, is a heartless monster easily manipulated to say whatever one wishes it to say, if they are willing to pay enough economists to say it. Its reputation as a science is greatly exaggerated.

"Eliminating government" is a trap put forward by the plutocrats for those unable to reason except by prejudice, as they desire to exercise their power unimpeded by the rule of law. Once you knock down the protections and the safeguards in the name of reform, the wolves will turn on the public in an orgy of looting and exploitation. This is an old story, and sadly it often works.

Efficient markets hypothesis is almost as great a hoax as the benefits of globalization and 'free trade' have been to the American people as a whole. These things are promoted by the few, at the expense of the gullible many, for their own personal benefit.

Hatred, mean spiritedness, and resentment of the weak, the old, the different, is a trick played on the masses by oligarchs and would be dictators from time immemorial. They play to the darker side of the crowd. It is a trap, and the means to the demise of freedom. And these tricksters play it well, because deceit is their specialty, their stock in trade.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

So it will not be easy, and it is a mistake to think that it will be. But what greater task can we set ourselves to, other than justice and freedom for ourselves and children?

[kickysnana]

1. Right now the brainwashing of the poorly educated, & churched is frightening.

On Rachel Maddow I saw a scholar who wrote a book saying that our system is broken and cannot fix itself except to call Constitutional Conventions in the states and make what makes Congress run, unlimited, unregulated money.

However, not discussed was that once these are called they can add anything to the Constitution, 34 states agreeing could make us theocracy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia or having another Inquisition or possibly as was this mans vision saving democracy with freedom, real security and social justice.

With the organized corruption and lawlessness of the GOP and friends it could happen just that way so we have to be sure we have enough bodies and minds committed to fighting and education others. I see the education happening with the OWS folks.

We are on the brink and I hope we tip to the good not total tyranny.

[girl gone mad]

3. "We are on the brink and I hope we tip to the good not total tyranny."

That is also my hope, but I have more hope now that many Americans are joining in the global rebellion against neoliberalism.

[AzDar]

2. K & R

:kick:

[BOG PERSON]

4. "It's no crime to steal from a thief"

- asian proverb