Do not be put off by the messenger; listen to the message:
The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called “economic royalists,” who choose our elected officials — indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.
This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout, whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they that, without a moment’s hesitation, they took our money — yours and mine — to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame. They don’t care what you and I think about them. Henry Kissinger refers to us as “useless eaters.”
But, you say, we have elected a candidate of change. To which I respond: Do these words of President Obama sound like change?
“A culture of irresponsibility took root, from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.”
There it is. Right there. We are Main Street. We must, according to our president, share the blame. He went on to say: “And a regulatory regime basically crafted in the wake of a 20th-century economic crisis — the Great Depression — was overwhelmed by the speed, scope and sophistication of a 21st-century global economy.”This is nonsense.
The reason Wall Street was able to game the system the way it did — knowing that they would become rich at the expense of the American people (oh, yes, they most certainly knew that) — was because the financial elite had bribed our legislators to roll back the protections enacted after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Congress gutted the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial lending banks from investment banks, and passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which allowed for self-regulation with no oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission subsequently revised its rules to allow for even less oversight — and we’ve all seen how well that worked out. To date, no serious legislation has been offered by the Obama administration to correct these problems.
Instead, Obama wants to increase the oversight power of the Federal Reserve. Never mind that it already had significant oversight power before our most recent economic meltdown, yet failed to take action. Never mind that the Fed is not a government agency but a cartel of private bankers that cannot be held accountable by Washington. Whatever the Fed does with these supposed new oversight powers will be behind closed doors.
Obama’s failure to act sends one message loud and clear: He cannot stand up to the powerful Wall Street interests that supplied the bulk of his campaign money for the 2008 election. Nor, for that matter, can Congress, for much the same reason.
Consider what multibillionaire banker David Rockefeller wrote in his 2002 memoirs:
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”Read Rockefeller’s words again. He actually admits to working against the “best interests of the United States.”
Need more? Here’s what Rockefeller said in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.” They’re gaming us. Our country has been stolen from us.
I’m calling for a national strike, one designed to close the country down for a day. The intent? Real campaign-finance reform and strong restrictions on lobbying. Because nothing will change until we take corporate money out of politics. Nothing will improve until our politicians are once again answerable to their constituents, not the rich and powerful.
Let’s set a date. No one goes to work. No one buys anything. And if that isn’t effective — if the politicians ignore us — we do it again. And again. And again.
The real war is not between the left and the right. It is between the average American and the ruling class. If we come together on this single issue, everything else will resolve itself. It’s time we took back our government from those who would make us their slaves.
Diamond… not sure if you have seen this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnrdyY_nXY
I hate to say it, but unless this idiocy is turned around and quickly… I think he is right on the money.
Coups d’Etat make strange bedfellows.
Dug – yes, I have seen it and have added it to the vodpod on the right.
Some of the wisest words on this subject I have read. Never thought I would say that about Larry.
That’s why I wrote – don’t be put off by the messenger. Flynt cannot be as successful as he is at what he does if he wasn’t very smart. Smart people are entrepreneurs, stupid people become politicians.
Dug: Thanks for the link to the video. Celente makes lots of sense. No wonder so few listen to him.
I LOVE his Nehru shirt. Gives me flashbacks.
Dug…Obamagetton. I am a fan and follower of Celente. Celente is right, when people have nothing else to loose, they loose it. We are getting to that place very quickly, and I for one do not see an alternative on the horizon. As long as this evil government “by the corporation, of the corporation, and for the corporation” is allowed to continue and expand as it is, we are going to make Celente’s predictions come true. Flynt is right on and like DT said, he has proven he is smart by his success. We may not agree with his chosen profession, but his opinion we must agree with.
I am not sure who first said “politics make strange bedfellows” but they had not idea. One thing Obama has done has brought people together in a common struggle like no other in recent history. I guess for that we should be grateful.
Yikes! Here’s another one from the link that Dug gave us: Gerald Celente – 2009 Outlook – even more ominous! We’re in for one hell of a ride.