"The Old Bait and Switch"
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It is not as if Congress or the President asks our opinions on the massive government bailout of private industry. They did however, scare us to death; how many remember all the "everything is going to fall apart if we don't do something today" and "the world economy is going to collapse over night, we have to do something now". We didn't have time to stop and think or talk about other options. Well guess what, it didn't work and it's not going to work. Emperor Polson now says he is going to try something else and he doesn't have to ask anybody their opinion or advice. Nobody can stop him, except maybe President elect Obama. After he takes office he will most likely appoint some other crook to do and be, whatever it is the Polson does. All that means really is that Emperor Polson is going to give away just over a trillion dollars in just over a month. Does anybody really think he is going to leave any money for the next Emperor; heck no, so President Obama, Mother Pelosi, and Crazy Reid will just give whoever ,another trillion dollars of our money to do with as they please...after all the Republicans can't have all the fun. We all know that is exactly what is going to happen and there is nothing we can do about it. The elected leadership of this country has betrayed all of us. It doesn't matter if you consider yourself right, left, or in between you have been betrayed for power and wealth...listen to me now...not money but wealth. In the end there is going to be only one way for the people of this country (all the people, black, white, Asian, Hispanic, oriental, all people) to take back our God granted and constitutionally garneted rights and power of decision...Revolution. Please don't misunderstand, I am not advocating violence but remember, the prophetic words of Thomas Jefferson.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
It has been much more than twenty years and the national "lethargy" boarders on insanity. We have been lied to, tricked and misinformed for generations. The time is coming my friends...if not now in our lifetimes...then with the blood and the hearts of our children; tyranny cannot stand forever and freedom has been and will always be worth the destruction.
As a side note and following in the general theme of "the old bait and switch" let us briefly talk about President Elect Obama and his administration of change. Now I have sworn to not ever denounce or take to task a sitting President, out of respect for the office and the will of the majority of American voters. So this discussion is really not criticism, it's more like observation; and President Elect Obama is not President...yet...not really. Barack sold millions of Americans on change; change in Washington, both how it works and who plays. Well...thirty one of the forty members of Barack's transition team and eventual staff in the West Wing worked and governed during the Clinton administration. Now I'm just a little confused and I'm sure President Elect Obama knows exactly what he is doing, but isn't the very definition of insanity doing the same thing with the same people and expecting different results. I swear I remember Mr. Obama accusing John McCain of being and doing this very thing in regards to George Bush. Don't get me wrong, it seems that Barack is going to follow the centrist leadership model of Slick Willie, which if true will be safer and more productive for the people of America. Love him or hate him Bill Clinton did some good things none more important or as impressive as a balanced budget and a economic surplus at the end of his term. I mention this only to point out...talk about the best salesman ever. Willy Loman has nothing on President Elect Obama; The greatest "bait and switch ever".
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Hey Brother,
As you know from my other post, my heritage is Cherokee. I was raised mostly by my Grandmother who was full blooded and worshiped the Earth and all the spirits that make up life on her. I’ve been married to my wonderful wife now for over twenty years and her mother is a witch. I’m not being mean, she is a practicing witch. I have, over the years become very familiar with Paganism; I’m comfortable in agreeing at least on the very basic idea that mother earth can and will take care of herself. I am really starting to believe peace and words can’t save us from those determined to oppress the world. I’m afraid it will take blood and death and destruction on a massive scale.
Thanks for reading my post Brother.
By the way RP, I used one quote and now I seem to have some kind of penalty from Hubpages would you happen to know anything about what's going on with that?
Obama promised change FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and in certain respects return to the policies of the Clinton administration--e.g., balancing the budget, staying out of needless, reckless, costly wars, protecting the environment, protecting the Constitutional rights of Americans to be free of illegal surveillance, etc. This will represent a big change from the unfortunate events of the past eight years.
Well blangrehr, once again we find common ground. It's not really that hard is it? So what's up with all the violence, oppression and killing? You don't suppose that it's on somebodys' agenda do you?
As to your issue with admin, I can't imagine why a single quote would get noticed, unless its a r e a l l y long one. I got repremanded when I posted something a friend had sent me because it was also somewhere else on the net. I guess there are HubSpiders checking to make sure we're not just doing copy and paste for complete Hubs.
Mr. Deeds, the really sad part is that you will tell any lie and push any agenda to promote President Obama. He doesn’t need that anymore; he is the President…I know you are still hoping and praying (to whatever Deity secularist use) that George Bush is going to declare martial law and stay in the Whitehouse. Sorry brother, not going to happen and President Obama certainly didn’t promise a return to the Clinton policies during the primary. That wouldn’t have been very smart and he is above all things smart. He continuously railed against doing the same things we’ve been doing with the same people. I’ve been saying all along, when talking about President Obama, he is no different than George Bush, John McCain or Ted Stevens for that matter…he has been and will continue to do as he is told. Your blind fawning and undying support will not assist President Obama in delivering on his two biggest campaign promises…a united America and a stronger better middle class. Look, I’m in favor and support all the decisions he has made so far; he is surrounding himself with experienced effective Washington insiders. It’s not me and other political centrist you need to worry about, it’s the very far radical left that he is going to piss off…sorry for my language…you know people like you. Revolution is coming Mr. Deeds, maybe if President Obama had been what he promised…an agent of change…instead of just the same old same; Revolution could have been avoided. Not just in America; tyranny rules and freedoms are being smothered worldwide.
Just for Mr Deeds:
Jake Tapper: ABC senior Whitehouse correspondent: came up with a small list of President Obama promises. Many of them very different from Clinton policies but then Mr. Deeds is much smarter than I am so he’s probably right.
"give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week"; "eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000"; "give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks"; not increase taxes on anyone if they "make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax"; "end those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas"; "give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States"; "eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country"; "create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools -- by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country"; "invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade"; "reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines"; build "a new electricity grid"; "build the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow"; "eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years"; "lower premiums" for those who already have health insurance; "if you don't have health insurance, you'll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves"; "end discrimination by insurance companies to the sick and those who need care the most"; "invest in early childhood education"; "recruit an army of new teachers"; "pay our teachers higher salaries, give them more support. But ... also demand higher standards and more accountability"; "make a deal with every young person who's here and every young person in America: If you are willing to commit yourself to national service, whether it's serving in our military or in the Peace Corps, working in a veterans home or a homeless shelter, then we will guarantee that you can afford to go to college no ifs ands or buts"; "stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq whole the Iraqis have a huge surplus"; "end this war in Iraq"; "finish the fight and snuff out al Qaeda and bin Laden"; "increase our ground troops and our investments in the finest fighting force in the world"; "invest in 21st century technologies so that our men and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat and the care and benefits they have earned when they come home"; "No more homeless veterans"; and "no more fighting for disability payments." He does call for some sacrifices, though nothing that would equal the cost of these measures. "Washington is going to have to tighten its belt. It's going to have to put off spending on things we don't need. As president, I'm gonna go through the federal budget, line-by-line, and we're going to end programs that we don't need. We're gonna have to make the ones we do need work better and cost less." Of course, he'll soon be "asking folks who are making more than a quarter million dollars a year to go back to the tax rate they were paying in the 1990s before the Bush tax cuts." And in a way of attempting to head off at the pass any criticisms that there's no way the U.S. can afford all this, he says supporters should tell skeptics that ending the war will save the U.S. $10 billion a month.The AP's Calvin Woodward took a look at Obama's assertion that he's "offered spending cuts above and beyond" what he's pledging to spend, and he concluded that's "accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by 'eliminating programs that don't work' masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are -- beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq." Even accepting the savings Obama pledges to bring, the bi-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says Obama will add a net $428 billion to the deficit over the course of his term.
We'll see. That's a tall list. Many of the items pre-date the economic disaster visited on up by the inept, corrupt and reckless Bush administration. I am expecting improvement from Obama, not miracles. We are in a very deep hole thanks to Bush, and it will take a long time and many sacrifices before we get out.
We will see, as you say. Big list but as the old saying goes: when you are at bottom you can only go up. I guess the question is; are we as a country at the bottom? I don't think so...and I think President Obama, is finding out just how bad it really is; and he is wishing he hadn't made all those promises. I hope for improvemnet as well...but he won because he promised millions of Americans miracles.
I think you have Mr. Deeds confuse with me blangrehr. I don't think there are many people in our little circle here who could be considered more to the left than I. I am the big, bad socialist and if I were Obama I would nationalize just about everything. Private ownership of the means of production fosters and rewards rampant greed and oppression.
In the final analysis I don't think there's really any way this country will be restored to its former status and I don't think the politicians and the corporate fascists give a rat's ass. They're getting richer every day and that's the only thing they care about.
No RP, I think I finally understand you and the reasons you believe what you do. There can be good people with different ideas and beliefs. I don’t agree with most of what you do…right now, but I have opened my eyes and mind. Mr. Deeds supports Barack Obama because he is Barack Obama, my point is that he is just another controlled politician. He will not help anybody but himself and those pulling his strings. I am starting to believe that only through bloodshed and violence will anything really change.
Well, the main reason I support Barack Obama is because he was the candidate nominated by the Democratic Party whose candidates I've supported for many years with few exceptions. Aside from his party, I was very happy to support Obama because I think he was by far the best candidate for president. CWB is correct he is the Socialist, not me. I'm more middle-of-the road. Supporting Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Compensation, the FDA, FDIC, SEC, Federal Reserve, etc, does not qualify me as a Socialist.
Ralph & blangrehr I think you're both correct. Obama is probably corporate owned but so is the rest of the government. He may make things a little easier for the working class for a while, or not, depending on what the corporatocracy wants. Frankly I think we may see a temporary improvement. Ultimately, what you say about revolution is probably true blangrehr. It seems to be an endless human cycle.
There is a different variable this time. What we have done to our life support system could put an end to us humans all together.
CWB, Obama is less "corporate owned" than Bush. Unfortunately, the regulatory agencies to an unfortunate extent have been co-opted by the industries they are supposed to be regulating. This rose to an unbelievably high level in the Bush administration with unfortunate effects on the environment and now on the worldwide recession, depression??. we are in. Please don't take me for an "Alfred P. Neuman" wrt the influence of industry and other special interest groups in Washington. One thing that might help would be passing a law to provide for government financing of all elections--federal, state and local. I guess there are First Amendment problems with this. But there must be a way to tighten up on big money influence in politics.
I'm pretty sure Obama can be a far better president that GWB, not least because he has been extended a great deal of international goodwill, the very thing that GWB had (immediately post 9/11) and blew away by invading Iraq. Clinton also commanded considerable foreign goodwill and took care to nurture it. Having said that, the recession is only just beginning and has considerable inertia. Obama can't stop it from bottoming out in its own time. Nor does he, nor anyone else, know what might happen if a huge number of un- or under-employed neo-poor become politicised and take matters into their own hands. We don't want to predict, but let's not be taken by surprise either. Volatile times.
I wrote this article not as criticism of the impending Obama administration but just to point out that the American people have once again lost. The bailout was unconstitutional and sold to us as the only possible way to save the world. It didn’t work; it’s not going to work. Barack Obama got elected by promising miracles; I refer to the list in the previous response; the question is not if he can be a better President or even, in this discussion, if he is a socialist, he and his campaign sold America on fixing everything; he can’t and won’t and would not if he could. He is controlled by money and power, it doesn’t matter if he is right or left; Soros is no different than the rest.
The people of the world have lost. Things have gone too far. This is rapidly becoming something akin to a natural disaster, like Earth being struck by an asteroid, that will simply have to take its course. We have waited too long to change our ways and the consequences will be beyond our control. All we can do is care for each other and try to ride it out. If we can rise above our indoctrinated differences, perhaps we will become something better.
RP, I find nothing to disagree with in your last response. I also hope humanity will survive. Back to the basics, back to a time before we became an obese over endulged society. It is the only hope.
Peace, safety and security to you and yours.
Just an afterthought. Paulson threatened congress in order to push his agenda past normal procedures. He stated that so much "unrest" would ensue that martial law would be declared is his wishes were not granted.
ColdWarBaby says:
13 months ago
Not too far off. Tyranny can't stand forever, that's true. I think this time however, it will be Gaia who brings it to an end. The tyranny of homo sapiens has run it's course. Either we learn to live with our Mother of she will be rid of us.