Who Rules America?
Who Rules America?
What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups?
A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he assumes office, like Bill Clinton and Obama, it means a long life of luxurious leisure. Fighting the special interests doesn’t pay and doesn’t succeed.
On April 30 the primacy of special over public interests was demonstrated yet again. The Democrats’ bill to prevent 1.7 million mortgage foreclosures and, thus, preserve $300 billion in home equity by permitting homeowners to renegotiate their mortgages, was defeated in the Senate, despite the 60-vote majority of the Democrats. The bankst ers were able to defeat the bill 51 to 45.
These are the same financial gangsters whose unbridled greed and utter irresponsibility have wiped out half of Americans’ retirement savings, sent the economy into a deep hole, and threatened the US dollar’s reserve currency role. It is difficult to imagine an interest group with a more damaged reputation. Yet, a majority of “the people’s representatives” voted as the discredited banksters instructed.
(snip - read whole article here: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/090513_america.htm
What is this enormous waste of resources that America does not have accomplishing—besides enriching the American munitions industry?
China and to some extent India are the rising powers in the world. Russia, the largest country on earth, is armed with a nuclear arsenal as terrifying as the American one. The US dollar’s role as reserve currency, the most important source of American power, is undermined by the budget deficits that result from the munitions corporations’ wars and the bankster bailouts.
Why is the US making itself impotent fighting wars that have nothing whatsoever to do with is security, wars that are, in fact, threatening its security
Why is the US making itself impotent fighting wars that have nothing whatsoever to do with is security, wars that are, in fact, threatening its security
The answer is that the military/security lobby, the financial gangsters, and AIPAC rule. The American people be damned.
Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointment s, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side Revolution : An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct
Related:
The AIPAC Case Fallout
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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I was taken back several weeks ago, when I obviously walked into a very hateful person's world. I am breaking my silence now as I unsubscribe from this site, due to Linda the webmaster's unprofessionalism. How dare you childishly drag me and other innocent people into your soap opera of a life! MAYBE YOU DIDN'T DO THE CRIMINAL ACT BUT SOMEONE UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP OBVIOUSLY DID SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY! That's my assestment, and since YOU drug me into it I am giving my honest opinion. And then those of us unfortunate to not know what is going on are insulted adn belittled....you can kiss my hinney lady! Your legal problems are your worries, not mine! I saved all the harrassing emails, as well as saving my email cancelling from this site. We part our ways after this, but I will be danged if someone is going to be so rude and ugly to me, and I don't comment back! I hope you find peace in your heart, fair thee well!
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This is not Linda's site.
You have not posted here since 5/4/09. No one responded to that post.
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Contrary Mary
I assume that your comment "I was taken back several weeks ago, when I obviously walked into a very hateful person's world." is referring to the time when Lisa Ostella (who I assume is the owner and administrator of this blog) decided to open it up to all commentators instead of banning any commenter who even mildly disagreed with Orly. Well if you liked the way things were run before then Orly is carrying on the proud tradition of censorship at her new blog that I will not link.
I disagree with almost everything that I think Lisa Ostella stands for but I will give her credit for opening the blog to uncensored comments and state the following:
1. If you cannot tolerate reading opinions that differ from yours, Contrary Mary, you should disconnect from the Internet or only visit blogs that are rigidly moderated to exclude opinions that you consider contrary..
2. Lisa Ostella has chosen to use a fair portion of this blog to defend herself from some serious charges that Orly made on her own blog. I cannot fault the moderator for using a blog for which she is currently paying the bills for to defend herself.
3. As I said I couldn't disagree more politically with Lisa O. but I seriously doubt that she has done anything close to what Orly has accused her of doing. I have seen Orly do anything on her blog but babble incoherently and make all sorts of unsupported accusations of all sorts of people. Again if you want to go pst there and support a complete idiot (IMO) then you could certainly do that.
4. Lisa deserves credit for keeping this blog free and open since Orly left. Free form commenting isn't everyone's cup of tea but there are certainly have plenty of choices to read and post on the Internet be you and Obama supporter or hater.
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