
Passing Through the Graveyard of Liberty
Jason Paz
The banks will not loan to consumers or to small businesses for perhaps ten years before they restore balances. They will hunker down with treasuries and prime corporate bonds until homes and factories become dirt cheap. Sooner or later Obama will resurrect FDR's Reconstruction Finance Agency to support consumer and business loans.
I agree the military has been a waste, but does anyone want 140,000 jobless veterans to arrive in the USA with weapons?
If Obama punished wire tappers, war criminals and torture mongers, the Senate and the House would convene in prison. How would that sit with the voters back home?
Desperately, we need the labor unions to restore lost wages and jobs for the consuming backbone of the country. We won't begin any recovery until the Employee Free Choice Act comes into law. Fat chance!
Americans have been duped to despise organized labor.
While the AMA and the doctors bribe the politicians, you can whistle for proper medical care.
US Medical Costs are a Scandal
The AMA manipulates the number of doctors, so the few who make it through can charge huge fees. For example, my cataract operation costs $5000 in the US, $100 in Israel and $10 in India.
US doctors have formed a medieval trade guild. Obama's stimulus should provide medical school tuition free to every qualified medical student.
Wire Tapping
The wire tapping approach has been compromised and useless from the start. For maintenance and repair the Israelis designed a back door entry to the system. A talented hacker can open American telecommunications for any purpose subversive or not.
If the client desires full information on FBI personnel, for example, the hacker can pluck it over the air so to speak. Concentrating the effort on suspect individuals, the hacker avoids the cost and inefficiencies of casting a huge net. In this regard, the system works better for our potential foes than it does with the US government.
Domestic spying can be useful against high public officials, corrupt bankers and CEO's who resist Obama's policies. I can't see any other benefit for the President.
Demagoguery Works
A month ago Obama was talking about the long hard road to recovery fraught with difficulties. Rush Limbaugh hopped all over him waving the flag and boasting about the curative powers of the good old Constitution. Rush will claim anything, the public laps it up and the President dropped in the public opinion polls.
The topper was the State of the Union Address. Let's be kind. We will say he put labor unions, torture, wire tapping and bank restructuring on the back burner. Administration insiders are being subverted by Geithner and Summers to name two of the traitors. Sarah Palin will be President before those two figure a way out of the bank collapse.
With too many Americans, demagoguery works fine. The Obama legion does a collective knee jerk each time Rush lambastes Socialists, big spenders and [gasp] labor unions. Our media friends feature debunked economists and pundits long thought dead. They think Bobby Jindal is the bee's knees.
Who is left on the Progressive side in America? The Real News Network is promoting FDR's pioneering work. May I mention the name Charles Krauthammer? He lauds Obama as a "doer." When was the last time you heard a former National Review hand rave about a Democrat?
Abusing the Criminals and Not One Another
I can understand the frustrations that lead to violence. What I can't fathom is why they take it out on repo men, Police, their own families and even themselves. They are not responsible for economic woes.
Is it a matter of having a convenient target? Are we so lazy we take a potshot at the first authority figure that passes by? How does a father help his family by committing suicide?
Misdirected violence only gives the oppressors justification to attack innocent members of the community.
The first step is to clean up law enforcement and to allow them to investigate who the real criminals are behind the economic meltdown.
Author's Website: www.israel_and_beyond.blogspot.com
Author's Bio: Born a month before Pearl Harbor, I attended world events from an early age. My first words included Mussolini, Patton, Sahara and Patton. At age three I was a regular listener to Lowell Thomas. My mom was an industrial nurse a member of the AFL/CIO. My dad was a painting contractor. We shopped at the Working Man's Store. Dad's reading matter was the Old Mole the house organ of the Socialist Workers Party. I played the saxophone and became a young fan of Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Duke Ellington. Naturally, I gravitated to the Civil Rights movement. After college to avoid the draft, I joined the US Army Reserve. Alas, this came to crowd control, which was a euphemism for busting radical potheads. When I ducked out of this duty, my commander bundled me off to a unit doomed to go to Vietnam. Ironically, my old unit went to Vietnam and the new one stayed home. I studied economics in graduate school where I watched America go mad with war. Afterwards, I joined the rat race for a decade. When Ronnie Reagan became President, I took up residence in Israel. The 11 books listed below describe my adventures in Israel. The articles reflect additional thoughts that expand on the author's ten volumes Genesis Begins the Millennia. The work begins in 1995 with a fictional account of ordinary Israelis absorbed with everyday events. There are extraordinary happenings the characters gradually recognize as portents of the Messianic Age. Volumes four and five show why the Messiah decided to delay His arrival. Volumes six through ten [Tradebombers] begin six weeks before the 9/11 World Trade Center tragedy. Again, the characters portray ordinary citizen reaction to extraordinary events.
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