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April 15, 2008 at 11:03:08

Headlined on 4/15/08:
Why I AM a bitter man

by Stephen Pizzo     Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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I am bitter that this administration gutted the nation's regulatory apparatus for the sole purpose of boosting industry profit margins, resulting first in the mortgage meltdown and more recently safety maintenance chaos in the airline industry.

I am bitter that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's unnecessary and illegal war in Iraq has gotten 4000 other people's children killed while their daughters have been allowed uninterrupted lives of privilege and safety.



I am bitter that this administration has treated the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as though they were suggestions rather than the sacred law of the land.

I am bitter that this administration placed one of the nation's most powerful agencies of government, the Department of Justice, in the hands of a man. Alberto Gonzales, who's only claim to fame is that he was unqualified, unprincipled and underhanded.

I am bitter that congress has shown neither the patriotism or guts to step up to their constitutional duty to impeach members of this administration for breaking existing laws, violating our civil rights and showing utter contempt for the separations of powers mandated in the US Constitution.

But most of all I am bitter that it appears almost certain that the criminal acts committed by members of this administration will go unpunished. That they will indeed get away with it all. And that that will set a precedent for the next George W. Bush-type who finagles his/her way into the Oval Office.

Those are the reasons I'm bitter. And it you're one of those folks Hillary and McCain keep assuring me are "not bitter," I have only one question for you:

What the hell's wrong with you?

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Stephen Pizzo has been published everywhere from The New York Times to Mother Jones magazine. His book, Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, was nominated for a Pulitzer.

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hlgviet era vet
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bitter, cling for GUNs

so bitter , no cling for GUN's ?

Obama talked you into beeing so bitter , he also meant to talk you

to get your GUNs ready ,and await further instructions either by him

respectively the Reverends (revolutionaries) in certain chains of churches

or else by your kids from the I-pod/cellphone/FMradio wrapmusic texting.

And those instructions obviously come from sombody higher up than

Osama resp. higher up than Obama

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well , he cannot talk me into no hoax /vote. I want to survive this next

few month , when the course of action is playing out. We are looking

at about 6 Days of Hell. 

 

PS: Global warming is a religion

Most ,if not ALL,Religions are a DUMMING

PS: 4041 dead you said unnecess.

i and GEN Haig would say 4041 preventable , by a

better course of action

yes , but use of Force was and is justifyable and considered the smartest course of action

 

by hlg (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 79 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 4:54:07 PM
 


Stephen Pizzo has been published everywhere from The New York Times to Mother Jones magazine. His book, Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, was nominated for a Pulitzer.
Stephen PizzoStephen Pizzo has been published everywhere from The New York Times to Mother Jones magazine. His book, Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, was nominated for a Pulitzer.

Well,

What a valuable contribution to the conversation. I only hope for your sake this is some kind of joke post and not a true reflection of the author's grasp on either reality or the English language.

by Stephen Pizzo (85 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 26 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 4:58:57 PM
 


Stanimal is a concerned citizen of planet Earth, wanting to promote fairness and harmony with fellow inhabitants.
StanimalStanimal is a concerned citizen of planet Earth, wanting to promote fairness and harmony with fellow inhabitants.

regarding the hlg post, I must deal with both, in my job

as an esl teacher in China. It makes you wonder where-ever did some come up with such notions, and trying to make sense of what they want to convey can be extremely challenging.

Be bitter when the need arises, but don't let it harden your heart. Which is difficult to do with the choice of candidates we have to choose from.

That's why I'm voting for Mike, the congressman from Alaska, who is the only one promising to pull out of Iraq when elected.

by Stanimal (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 392 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 5:22:27 PM
 


Jim Freeman's op-ed pieces and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, International Herald-Tribune, CNN, The New York Review, The Jon Stewart Daily Show and a number of magazines.
Jim FreemanJim Freeman's op-ed pieces and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, International Herald-Tribune, CNN, The New York Review, The Jon Stewart Daily Show and a number of magazines.

Inside the Washington Beltway

bitterness is thought of as something abnormal in American society and, indeed, it once was when there were jobs to support a modest lifestyle on one wage.

But Washington has contrived to do away with the warmth and support of a middle-class life and they have been well paid to do it. Now they're angry and lash out at Obama as 'elitist' for noticing. He was on Chicago's south side while others were elsewhere. He is absolutely correct on the issue of bitterness. 

by Jim Freeman (108 articles, 40 quicklinks, 180 diaries, 350 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 6:24:13 PM
 


Christopher is a retired Mayflower family, Navy Vet, flower child, Mensan and a long-time rural Alaskan with a lifetime or two in Social Sciences and cross-cultural endeavors. He has a terminal graduate degree and is heading into his terminal years with full speed ahead.

His idols are those wonderful people who can take a complex subject and make it meaningful and understandable to those not specifically trained in that field but none the less affected by it.

He writes...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Christopher WrightChristopher is a retired Mayflower family, Navy Vet, flower child, Mensan and a long-time rural Alaskan with a lifetime or two in Social Sciences and cross-cultural endeavors. He has a terminal graduate degree and is heading into his terminal years with full speed ahead.

His idols are those wonderful people who can take a complex subject and make it meaningful and understandable to those not specifically trained in that field but none the less affected by it.

He writes...

to see more of bio, click on member name

A few more

Yep, bitter am I also, and, truth be told, so are most of the folks I know.

Bitter that I was too poor last year to qualify for the rebate for the 'poorest of the poor'.

Bitter that Social Security effectively goes down each year due to manipulating the inflation figures, upping the medicare charges and needing a supplemental policy just to hope to cover things.

Bitter that there are only no physicians within 200 miles of where I live who will accept medicare

Bitter about cronyism over qualified leaders.

Bitter about drugs in the public water supplies and a degrading environment.

Bitter about shrinking food kitchens.

So? So, I'll remember.

by Christopher Wright (16 articles, 2 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 29 comments) on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 8:54:33 PM
 


Retired NASA systems engineer for Earth Science data systems. I consider myself a citizen of planet Earth and consider Nationalism and other such beliefs which separate ourselves from each other are outmoded and are detrimental to the well being of the earth and all of the creatures that inhabit it.
Philip PeaseRetired NASA systems engineer for Earth Science data systems. I consider myself a citizen of planet Earth and consider Nationalism and other such beliefs which separate ourselves from each other are outmoded and are detrimental to the well being of the earth and all of the creatures that inhabit it.

More reasons for being bitter

I'm bitter that the Republicans taught the American public that if the government creates laws and regulation to enable big corporations to make ever larger profits that these busisnesses will hire more Americans that will bring prosperity to everyone.

I'm bitter that this administration enabled the big corporations to take over the main stream media in order to control what information the public sees and hears. The media was used as the propaganda machine to sell the American people and the Congress on a war against terrorism; and then to use that "war against terrorism" as justification for all sorts of evil purposes.

I'm bitter that this administration has tried to censor scientific reports to deny that global warming is happening; putting the world in severe danger in order to keep big oil, big coal, big energy, and big automobile companies from being threatened.

I'm bitter that Congress has sold out to big coorporations so that they are no longer a Government of the people; instead a Government of the big corporations.

I'm bitter that big corporations care only about profits and are acting in ways that cause the American worker to loose their jobs, homes, health care, pensions, and even safe food and clean water.

I'm bitter that the President said he doesn't care what the American public thinks nor what the Congress thinks; that he is the decider and will do whatever he wants.

I'm bitter that we the people elected our representatives to Congress with a mandate to end the war in Iraq; and nothing happened. Our Congressional representatives are not listening to the American people.

Most of all I am bitter that the Bush administration has smeared the reputation of the United States of America. America is seen throughout the world as The Evil Empire trying to take over the entire world. Attempting to gain control over the oil resources of Iraq (and threatening to do the same in Iran) by military force. The Bush administration did not care that the UN inspectors found NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The bush administration does not care that intelligence has found NO evidence that Iran has a necular weapons program. That the Bush administration is the only country that refuses to sign the accords to limit greenhouse gas emissions. I used to be proud to be an American; but because of Bush my country's reputation has been ruined; and I am bitter about that.

by Philip Pease (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 110 comments) on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 9:15:51 AM
 


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pftAmerican Expat in Asia

Big Picture

It is not about this administration, it's every administration since the founding of the Trilateral Commission in 1973 that has led us down the globalized path of free trade, and sent American  jobs abroad.  They have turned a productive economy into a financial services economy, which creates GDP growth with a credit-market-debt bubble that is profitable to the CEO's on Wall Street but does not do much for the real economy and the working class who live in it..

Bush's mission, after the previous 30 years of dismantling constitutional government has been to ruin the image of America as a benign or even a good superpower, show the world why democracy can not be relied on the protect human rights (look what happened in America), and to ultimately bankrupt America and plunge the world into a global depression, if not another world war , and set the stage for one world totalitarian government by the same monsters who rule us today, pulling the strings of those provisional leaders while hiding behind the curtain.  His ability to do so was facilitated by his image as a man of god to dupe the Christian Right into support for policies that are more in line with Satan, much as the German policies his grandaddy helped finance 60 years earlier.

Obama, Hillary or McCain will just continue the destruction.  Backing Obama are TLC members Volcker and Brzezinski.  Backing McCain is Kissinger, Greenspan and Lieberman.  Backing Hillary is Albright, Richard Holbrooke and Robert Rubin.  There is no change here.  All of these people are responsible for the last 35 years of wars, crony capitalism, and the destruction of the American middle class, to be followed by Americas sovereignty.  Kissinger was said to have remarked in the 2007 Bilderberger meeting that in America they consider those against globalization to be the terrorists.  Thats because he knows that when people wake up and find out what that globalization is all about, we might have Homegrown Terrorism, because it is going to mean a drastic lowering in standard of living for Americans.  Thats why they have set up a global police state apparatus. They are not worrried about terrorism, they are the terrorists.  

They justify it publicly over the need to preserve resources and protect the planet.  Peak oil and man made global warming are both hoaxes, brought to you from the globalization movement,   which is directly responsible for the food crisis today.   Oil and Food prices are high because the Oil and agribusiness cartels, assisted with the financial speculators in our finance industry cartel and a government that looks the other way, because they want a global financial and food crisis to get people to accept Global Government and fulfill their neo-malthusian goal to depopulate the world.  Thirty years ago Kissinger predicted that "Americans will one day  welcome UN troops in LA" to provide security and stability.  As Bush might say, Mission almost Accomplished.

 

by pft (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 296 comments) on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 3:54:39 AM
 


Tom has been following 9/11 inconsistencies for the past 2 years since Professor Steven Jones published his first report on the suspicious collapses of the north and south WTC towers as well as WTC 7. He's 52, married, with 2 kids. He's of the firm opinion that there's more of what happened prior to, during and after 9/11 than we've been told.
truthsearcherTom has been following 9/11 inconsistencies for the past 2 years since Professor Steven Jones published his first report on the suspicious collapses of the north and south WTC towers as well as WTC 7. He's 52, married, with 2 kids. He's of the firm opinion that there's more of what happened prior to, during and after 9/11 than we've been told.

re: More reasons for being bitter

Hey Philip,

Your comment: 

"More reasons for being bitter...that the Bush administration has smeared the reputation of the United States of America. America is seen throughout the world as The Evil Empire trying to take over the entire world. Attempting to gain control over the oil resources of Iraq (and threatening to do the same in Iran) by military force..."

kind of reminds me of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) (http://www.newamericancentury.org).  I've never come across that term in the mainstream media - only on the web.  Note who the members were(are).  Makes you wonder...

 

by truthsearcher (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 3 comments) on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 7:38:15 AM
 


I am concerned about bring peace and prosperity to everyone in the world. I am concerned that people with too much power and wealth tend to be oppressive toward those who do not. I think the best policy is a balanced one. Balance comes when opportunity and motivation meet compassion.
im4unityI am concerned about bring peace and prosperity to everyone in the world. I am concerned that people with too much power and wealth tend to be oppressive toward those who do not. I think the best policy is a balanced one. Balance comes when opportunity and motivation meet compassion.

Even worse than bitter

I am so glad that Stephen wrote the piece, and others of you have supported his positioin with your own reasons for bitterness.

And, I want you to consider this: There are a lot of us out here, who are long ago retired, worried to death now about having enough to eat, trying to pay our taxes, keeping our homes warm and buy medicine, and we've moved beyond the bitterness, to an even worse position. We are now overwhelmed and heartsick, because we no longer have the physical stamina, and in many cases, the mental ability, to get out on the front lines and do battle with the selfish idiots who run our country through big money, big corporations, big religion and big government - now, unfortunately, the dominating crowd.

So, we suffer in silence. For all of us who fall into this never-talked-about group,(and you may be surprised to know how many of us there are) we only hope you will know that we are with you, as best we can be. And, in our golden years, we are sad - very sad - that what we worked so hard for, has now all gone to the rich and powerful elite.

 We long for an America again, where folks really care for each other.

by im4unity (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 44 comments) on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 1:36:27 PM
 

 

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