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U.S.A. Inc. uses taxpayer's money fund crony political campaigns

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The information from these sources involved statements and balance sheets showing the existence of billions of dollars of hidden investments by the Federal government and it's agencies like HUD, The Resolution Trust Fund, various boards, like the boards of water, schools, highways roads and bridges, and governments such as States, Counties, Cities, School Boards, Municipalities, incorporated agencies, government employees retirement funds and so on.
 
These investments are reported annually in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports "CAFRs" for each "Corporation". Moreover, as the reports call them by names like "discretely reported component units" or the use of "Idle dollar investments", there is the implication that there was an attempt to create what might be termed "a secret second set of books".
 
Since they have been out in the Public Domain they have been discreetly reported in whispers, while the disastrous state of America's "other economy" has been obfuscated by the "Mainstream Media" and when it can no longer be hidden, it's been blamed on the people with threats of yet higher taxes and austerity measures.  However the truth is the American people have been stolen from and manipulated by the spenders of these assets while being stampeded down the road to fiscal and financial ruin.

What is truly ironic is that every one of the so called "media watch dogs" of American democracy is sent a copy of each of these reports every year. The information that the government has more money than expected should have been big news in an honest Democratic Republic with a free and independent press. However, every year those statistics are suppressed like everything else that would be considered crucial to the maintenance of America's liberty and the "well being" of its citizens.

 "The Mainstream Media" or more accurately the "Mainstream Presstitutes" consistently suppress information about the most important news of our time, while they disenfranchise the citizens with their corrupted spin on history.  In point of fact John Swinton, former chief-of-staff for the New York Times in an address to fellow journalists of the Free Press Club said it even better in a paragraph from the following speech.

"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it. So what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. They pull the strings, "and we dance"!

C.A.F.R.s.

There are over 5,400 Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports that are on the Public Record and can be found online or at the local library. An annual report is now required to be filed for the public record, on parity, with all publicly held corporations under the Security and Exchange Commission regulations and corporate regulatory reform which was part of the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act.
 
The act requires each investment entity of the Governments listed within the territorial boundaries and protectorates of the U.S. to file an annual report using what is called "generally accepted accounting principals". There are statistics in many of these records that show a summary of each record going back twenty years to 1998.
The information in the documents shows a trend over a 10  year period of stable and steady growth that seems to be relatively unaffected by any of the ups and downs of the "Debt Bubble Economy" felt by the majority of Americans.

The growth of these investment funds over the last 20 years has given the Government  the ability to become the majority stock holder in almost every major U.S. Corporation. These stocks represent the securities of virtually all "publicly held" U.S. corporations, and possibly half of the foreign corporations worldwide. It also includes stock in corporations that have been involved in infamous behavior as well.

Knowing how heavily invested government is in these companies clears up the mystery as to why there is never any justice for the victims of their toxic and dangerous products or their fraudulent, monopolistic financial practices and theft of resources that belong to the people of America and the rest of the world.

This kind of stock ownership is a clearly defined conflict of interest which has undermined the ability to prosecute these companies for bad, if not criminal, behavior. They are already difficult to punish given the lack of either body to incarcerate or conscience to castigate. Furthermore that conflict of interest becomes profound when the very controllers of a company's assets are using them to get themselves or their cronies reelected, or laws passed that enrich the few and damage the rest of the world..

This has been illustrated by the difference between the treatments of Bernie Madoff vs. Monsanto, which is clearly worse in terms of its threat to humanity and to life on earth as we know it.  Furthermore Clarence Thomas was a Monsanto executive before he was tapped for The Supreme Court by Bush Senior.

Ironically, until recently, "Die bold Voting Machine Co." The company that has been the subject of so much election fraud was also part of the portfolio of many of these government corporations.

Therefore American citizens in looking at this Supreme Court decision, have to ask themselves who benefits and why? What is even a more chilling question is; if foreign corporations can invest in America's electoral process then is this ruling a giant step toward the one world government planned by the global elite? 

At the very least it will be a government run by corporations controlled by incumbents, fat with the diverted so called "surpluses of the citizen's tax dollars" with which they will be utilizing this new first amendment right to stay the incumbent indefinitely!

After all, many of these incumbents are saying that taxes need to be raised because the system is broke. However the real reason Americans pay taxes is because of America's debt based monetary system. Yet right in the public libraries that are still open there are the Comprehensive Financial Reports that tell the truth about the financial health of the government and its funding by the American taxpayer"!

If there are surpluses to invest but not enough to fund State and County budgets which is the reason taxpayers have been willing then the American public has been defrauded by a big lie!

Furthermore, if the American taxpayer has been paying for the "vibrant financial health", of a government, from which; they derive nominal benefits and even less of a stake in controlling then they have ultimately ended up funding the protected speech of these government owned corporations.

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