Bush’s recent economic bailout program has caused a populist movement to spring forth, and to sum it up, middle-America is angry and it’s growing by the day. The Corporatists, who are eying the situation are aware that middle-America is furious, and I’m hoping they come to a realization that they have stepped-over their boundaries and participated in the theft of American Taxpayer Dollars. Fortune Magazine stated:
Main Street turns against Wall Street“A potential calamity,” predicts Democratic pollster Doug Schoen. “If the reactions we’re seeing hold, we could have real spasmodic anger directed at businesses and corporations.” And the timing will have consequences, says financier and onetime GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney: “Unfortunately, politicians have seized on the politics of envy,” he told Fortune, “and they are stoking it this election year like I’ve never seen in my lifetime.”
Compared to this, Enron was a warm-up exercise. For all the public outrage over accounting scandals seven years ago, the result in Washington was limited to a financial reporting rule that most Americans have never heard of (though many in the business community still consider Sarbanes-Oxley a destructive overreaction).
By contrast, the implosion of Wall Street, followed by Paulson’s escalating series of multibillion-dollar rescues, has fired up populist sentiments that were already building in American politics, promising to reshape legislative battles over everything from tax and trade policies to federal regulation. Union leaders like the AFL-CIO’s John Sweeney suddenly sound as if they’re in the mainstream of public opinion with statements like this: “One thing is certain. No one - no politician, no investment banker, no television commentator, no economist - should be able to say again with a straight face that here in the United States we just let markets do whatever markets do and everything works out for the best.” MORE
We’re constantly seeing tax dollars being spent to rescue the rich, not to mention unconstitutional faith-based programs, and Americans are being assailed with several different instances of Taxation without Representation. We must remember that this issue was one of the primary reasons America declared its independence against England, and if it was good enough for our forefathers, who gave us this great nation, it should be good enough for us! I don’t have all of the answers. I’d like to see “the people” come together in solidarity and handle this matter through peaceful means, i.e., a general strike that wouldn’t end until Bush and Cheney resign from office, or another way to exercise our rights as citizens and demand the change that’s necessary to put this nation on the right track. In order to save this nation from insolvency and tyranny, we desperately need a change in leadership, and until Obama is elected, we would fare better if Bush and Cheney were in a position that would prohibit them from wrecking further disaster upon our nation.
Where is our Congress on this matter? It’s pure fallacy to keep repeating the same action and expect different results. Our Congress is stymied by refusals to comply with subpoenas, the White House’s misstated views on Executive privilege and their downright contempt for the constitution add-up to a rogue government that for all practical purposes, is a fledgling dictatorship that’s been operating under the radar until the final shoe drops. Recent events seem to indicate that the final shoe may drop at any time, and it’s hard to comprehend that thousands of innocent Americans will be gathered-up, in the early AM hours, and will be herded into internment camps or worse. The “Terrorism Watch List” for the United States is now estimated to contain over one million names, and the ACLU launched an online watch list complaint form in an effort to seek answers in regard this unconstitutional categorizing of American citizens.
With so many names, we have to believe that there are hundreds of thousands of terrorists that are awaiting their time to unleash horrendous attacks on the United States, or in the alternative, understand there may be a few the FBI is watching for real terrorist activities, however, getting placed on the “terrorist watch list” is as easy as making a nasty remark about the Bush administration or in any way disapproving of how our government is running; physically attending a non-violent peace rally or otherwise willing to show “you’ll hit the streets” is a guarantee of being placed on this list.
If you’re on the list, does it guarantee that you’ll fall into the net of “terrorism” suspects? None of us have answers to these questions, as many of Bush’s Executive Orders are so secret that even members of Congress are prohibited from viewing them. Is this the proper use of Congressional oversight, or our government operating with the full compliment of checks and balances that our constitution calls for, or are we bending to the will of an overbearing and oppressive administration? Most of us fear it’s the latter and are mystified why our Congress is not fulfilling their pledged duty. How have we as a nation found ourselves with so many rogue elements in Congress? I wish the Republicans were 100% to blame, but they are not, and Pelosi, Reid, and Hoyer have been Bush’s staunchest supporter on the issues that really count - especially as it concerns impeachment. Pelosi won’t be remembered as a “Lioness” as I recently read, but instead as the first female Speaker of The House that immediately sold-out our system of checks and balances when she “took impeachment off the table.” Pelosi, by her own admission, may be guilty of crimes against humanity” for staying quiet when she first learned that the United States was torturing its prisoners. For her, taking impeachment off the table was likely a move for self-preservation - and hopefully, it will fail as so many other Neo-con plans have failed.
If the government does plan on rounding-up dissidents, I assure you, they haven’t considered the backlash of their actions. Task forces operating in the early AM hours would strike in unison, taking out as many as possible in one swell swoop. For the most part, their initial actions will go fairly smooth, but then the backlash will begin. Politics are a deeply personal issue. Many family members don’t discuss politics among themselves because of the sensitivity of the issue(s). Wait until Sheriff Smith finds out that his brother was swept-up by another task force, and police officers and the military alike find that their own relatives are among those who have been incarcerated. They will know they are basically good people, but got caught in the trap of daring to voice their opinions where they could be heard. Like it or not, word will filter down to the people, and they will be furious. They know that locking all of them up is not feasible, and the demonstrations and unrest could be far more than this nation has ever experienced.
Remember, the bulk of the population is still fiercely patriotic, and when they figure-out that they’ve had the wool pulled over their eyes and the heel of oppression comes home to roost, look for some very angry Americans. I am deeply in favor of handling our differences through peaceful means, but I do understand that on this issue, I may be in the minority. Some people are even talking of revolution, whispered as if they were in the halls of a high school that didn’t allow speaking, and people all over America are furious and feel betrayed. I cannot predict the public mood, but from what I’ve read and heard on several videos, it’s black and angry. The general population know they are being robbed, and no amount of reassurances from this Congress is going to make it any better. It’s going to be politics as usual, help Wall Street and screw Main Street. My assessment may appear to be blunt, but how do you put it when the thievery is this blatant and against everything that our constitution embodies? How do we react when the thieves are rewarded for their behavior and the victims are made to pay?
The President’s handling of our economy and our energy resources demonstrates that this administration is incapable of handling this nations day to day business and obligations. The harsh reality of the situation is that America is broke, and Bush and Cheney, via their bailout plan, and transferring the last vestiges of America’s Middle-class wealth to the elitists that actually dictate Bush policy. Vladimir Putin stated that Bush was the “Kingmakers” mouthpiece, and I may be para-phrasing, and to that extent, I agree with President Putin. Americans have been tricked into giving-up that which made them Americans because of threats and the politics of fear the Bush administration is waging against an unsuspecting America, and finally, there is evidence the population might be waking up!
I know that I’m only one voice among thousands, however, I have presented the implications and the evidence that supports allegations that this is another segment of the Bush Family Plot to turn America into a fascist state one of the primary themes of this site. We hear the President speak of appeasement, and what a horrible thing it is, but what if his Grandfather Prescott Bush wasn’t “appeased? If the full power of our law was applied as it should have been, Prescott Bush, among a number of famous “household names” would have been executed for treason back in 1933. Please, follow the link on Prescott Bush and be introduced to three generations of treason which appears to be a Bush family tradition. We can all thank the MSM for not properly introducing us to a prospective President prior to the 2000 elections. - and utter complicity since then on so many different occasions it would take three books to document.
From what I’ve been watching and reading, “the people” want what’s left of their country back, and 80% do not favor the bailout plan. We can bet our Congress will acquiesce to the Bush administration, they always do, but remember the paragraph from Fortune Magazine from the last article that describes what the final version of this bill will look like:
Despite the changes made during an intense week of negotiations, the heart of the program remains President Bush’s original idea: spend billions of taxpayer dollars to buy mortgage-backed securities whose value has plummeted. LINK
It’s Sunday afternoon at 5:PM Eastern time and CNN is reporting:
