Civil unrest resulting from from the financial meltdown is a distinct possibility, given the broad impacts of financial collapse on lifelong savings, pension funds and homeownership.
Oddly enough, The Army Times reported that beginning October 1,
"The 3rd Infantry's 1st Brigade Combat Team, following their return from Iraq would defend the Homeland, as an on-call federal response force for natural or man-made emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one."
With US forces overstretched in Iraq, why would the Pentagon decide to undertake this redeployment within the USA, just one month before the presidential elections?
Interesting.
If the US taxpayer is forced to pay a traders' bailout bill, with an economic "gun pointed at [all of] our [collective] heads," then aren't we already under a sort of dictatorial financial marshal law?
"To tax me without consent is little better, if at all, than downright robbing me."
Leading up to Monday's vote, the Columbus Dispatch printing company [CDPC] ran headlines like, "Bad-News Reports Fan Fears About Recession" which at least one reader described as, "[screaming] in 1 & 1/2 inch letters."
Another headline read, "OUR ECONOMY IS IN DANGER" and seemed uncharacteristically dramatic for the daily publication's well-known conservative printing style.
The only such dramatic headlines have been traditionally reserved for great victories of the local source of pride, the OHIO STATE BUCKEYES!
Following Tiberi's rejection of the bailout and his NO! vote, "Our Congressman" enjoyed a chorus of praise by local print, radio and television "journalists," but by Thursday the coverage took swerved back to the far-right and the CDPC quoted Tiberi as saying,
"This [bailout bill] is clearly headed in the right direction, and the concerns I had on Monday morning are being addressed, and I think we'll have something by the end of the week."
By the next morning, Columbus Dispatch printing company readers were surprised to read two letters to the editor which were uncharacteristically critical of Tiberi's NO! vote on Monday.
The printing company's apparent opposition to "Their Congressman's" position appeared on the very morning that Tiberi changed his vote to YES! on the "the largest fundamental change in our nation's financial system in its history" and following four financially, fear-filled days, the bill had fluffed from a fit 102 pages to a fattened 451, with a proportional amount of pork to fill the fascist-funded feeding frenzy.
The coverage of "Our Congressman" in the CDPC seemed to be carried by the proverbial, prevailing and parallel winds which propelled their perfected political propaganda past unphased faithful followers fortified by the parading partners promoting their co-ordinated corporatist dance. Upon approval for his past 'Pat'sy-play performance which preys on the People through papers of propaganda, if history is a judge, not only will this pair get off "scot free," their timely two-step will be "praised in the parishes and in the public places."
Was this coverage, which in hindsight has benefited Tiberi immensely, a matter of mere coincidence, or was it part of some political ploy planned in pretty [not-so] public-places?
Is it possible that the Columbus Dispatch printing company knew in advance of Tiberi's changing position and thus sought to justify "Their Congressman" by printing these two challenging letters on Friday--the very morning of Tiberi's switch to, 'YES!'?
According to CDPC reporter Jonathan Riskind's Friday, October 3, 3:08 p.m. post,
"Tiberi said this morning before the vote that the Senate bill was better than the first House measure because..." blah, blah, blah.
Of course the CDPC would never aid in the political strategy of "Their Congressman!"
Yet, how many times was "Their Congressman's" Democratic challenger David Robinson's position reported in regards to the largest bailout appropriations bill in United States history? It's one month before the elections on the largest piece of legislation passed in the history of the United States and challenger David Robinson hasn't been asked to respond to Tiberi's latest two-step?
How can that brand of "fair and balanced" be anything but a grave disservice to the constituents of the twelfth? Then again, if the printing company has endorsed "Their Congressman" how could the CDPC give Robinson any attention on this matter since Tiberi would appear to be just another bought and paid-for politician?
At the debate, David Robinson addressed his opponent and advised the voters,
"If you look at how he's voting and who he's serving, my friends, it is the special interests. Whether we're looking at health care policy, energy policy, or most recently, banking and financial policy, he is not representing the broad middle class--and YOU would be the ones I would be serving in Washington."
The CDPC further defended Tiberi's October 3 vote on their website posting,
"[Tiberi] said that while 'Joe Six Pack' might still be against a bailout that is perceived as coming to the rescue of Wall Street, 'Joe Six Pack's employer' was in danger of having to lay people off or not continue with planned expansions."
"Joe Six Pack" is the kind of guy who:
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