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LaVena Johnson joined the Army to pay for a college education. The high school honor student served eight weeks in Iraq before she was killed. The Army called her a suicide, but her life testified the military was lying.
Ms Johnson and most of her fellow Americans abide in a dictatorship. The fiends that brutalized her knew they would never face justice. The US Army claims it defends democracy, but they don't practice it.
Bushco mouths liberty and justice at the same time searching for a John Yoo to crush our God-given rights such as human dignity. Nobody deserves to be beaten, raped and murdered.
The barbaric Bush enactments and directives remain in force. If the President Obama had an equally low character, all CEO's, stock brokers and corrupt politicians could be beaten, raped and murdered.
If the citizens in a Red State district mounted a protest, the US Army would crush them.
Ms Johnson was a human being. In her honor, we should take back our country.
http://lavenajohnson.com/about/
Nationalize the Federal Reserve System
It's the Fed Reserve that should be nationalized under the treasury. It has failed in bank regulation.
The banks should be re-structured the management fired.
The pieces of the banks should continue under new management or be sold as new profit centers.
Kucinich is closer to what should be done for the public than anyone else.
Being a privately owned entity, the Fed could create $2 trillions and then thumb its nose at Congressional watchdogs.
With interest rates set at zero, the Federal government has few monetary policy options for recovery.
The Current Depression Has Not Depressed Greed
Investors continue to look for the bottom of the stock market. Each bear market rally inspires glee in Wall Street denizens. The theory reads that after a fall the recovery can't be too far behind.
However, the latest economic contraction has been global gathering speed in a terrifying downward spiral.
We are in free fall in regards to residential investment, industrial production, income, consumption and employment. Potential consumers are stuffing their mattresses hoarding cash against the rainy day. The FDIC already has paid out half of its reserve to insure bank accounts turning the rain into a downpour.
The economists emit a collective shudder at the free fall of GDP, exports, imports and capital expenditures throughout the world.
For years the Asians have saved funds for investment. With the failure of exports, excess capacity has reared its ugly head. The capitalists are closing factories and laying off millions of workers. Such woes are structural and will require years to amend.
Throwing newly printed money at fiscal imbalances is like pushing on a string. It doesn't go anywhere. The export-led growth that enriched the Chinese coast had little effect on the peasants in the interior. Still poor, they make lousy consumers.
The answer is to increase consumption demand in the hinterlands to offset the lost demand for exports a monumental task.
Similarly, the US labor policies during the past 30 years have beggared the working class [consumers]. As organized labor [unions] went into decline, they lost the means to bargain collectively for wage and benefit increases.
US wages have remained flat for 30 years more family members had to take underpaid jobs and most borrowed on credit cards or home equity just to tread water. They sank deeper in debt after the housing bubble burst.
As a result, the American workers are underpaid by a factor of 30% to 50%. This is a major structural injustice not easily corrected even by vigorous fiscal policy. It will take years for the labor movement to regain its collective bargaining power. Will the Congress resolve to return the 50% losses to the work force [consumers]?
Justice for Ms Johnson is Vital to Justice for Us All
If we fail to promote justice for a PFC, how can we achieve liberty and justice for 300 millions of us citizens? Does anyone believe that PFC Johnson sprinkled lye on her genitals prior to her suicide?
