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10 Comments
- almom11542, on 10/14/2008, -0/+13I can dig it.
- VBVBeach, on 10/14/2008, -0/+11this is truth. grab a tissue. then get off your butt and DO something about this!!!
- boulder555, on 10/15/2008, -0/+9Don't vote Republicrat.
Vote the bums out! - FreedomMaverick, on 10/15/2008, -0/+8Wow! Luv it!
- xrahull, on 10/14/2008, -0/+7Awesome song
- IraMad, on 10/15/2008, -0/+5Spectacular production! Truth that hurts.
- voicce, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4Come on Americans, don't let the Republican/Democrats do this. Vote out all the scoundrels who supported the bailout and all of the government debt schemes.
- jodimcmullen, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2This is not a phantom economic issue. Some terrible decisions are going to have to be made over the next few years in the U.S. Voters need to think about who they want making those decisions. It will be down to the old Econ 101 Guns or Butter debate.
- inactive, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1You don't understand what I'm saying, I don't think... This is not an issue in the 'real world.' No real world problems have caused this crisis. This is about bankers behaving badly. Its about huge corporations screwing the pooch to get rich quick. In that sense the problem is not 'real'... it is occurring in the bizarre domain of the value banks assign to each other in 'virtual' numbers, the transfer of 'virtual' amounts of money which are backed by neither gold nor dollar bills. In other words, there is absolutely no assurance that this scenario was not created deliberately in order to crash and reboot the financial system so that a relative few can benefit extensively from putting the taxpayer in massive debt for the forseeable future. This is not an organic, nor an inevitable problem. This is a corporate disaster from beginning to end. It has the hallmarks of deliberacy and manipulation all over it, and it is conveniently being used to panic American (and global) citizens into voting for things that in their right minds, without the panic, they would not reasonably vote for.
A number of well known politicians have attested to the fact that in politics and high level finance nothing happens by coincidence... the outcome is far too important to fall down on a few 'boo boos' and 'circumstances.' Its all about the trail of money and the power that goes with it.
The 'global financial system' is a very fragile transient system anyway which kind of depends on itself for survival. It is not organic, it is dependent on being forced upon us in various ways by those who benefit massively from it. It is used to control us, to influence us, and to enslave us in debt and dependence. Everything we've seen happening in the last few weeks are relatively untested territory. The banking system runs artificially on self-fulfilling prophecy, so we can never know what is organic and natural from what is forced and manufacutured. The bankers CAN crash the banks easily. They can do so on little more than a rumour.There is no guarantee that the banks will 'fail.' Indeed, there is no guarantee that disaster needs to ensue. We've thrown vast quantities of money at the banks, when very well qualified and reasonable economists have said 'do nothing - it will all stabilise and the system will find organic balance.' In this regard, the hysteria is entirely about a 'phantom' menace - the threat of an unknown, untested, unverified, unpredictable nightmarish outcome, being used to force us into making irrational decisions based on half truth, bad information and guesswork. - inactive, on 10/15/2008, -2/+1Oh yeah, that's the answer... let them panic you into voting on phantom economic issues so that you can vote in the most liberal, vile, deceitful senator America has ever had, so that you can have some more infanticide, and just see whether anything financial changes in America, or if it just gets worse. Oh yes... Obama, the man who's advisors' put America IN the financial crisis that Americans are now being asked to 'vote' themselves out of.
Ironic isn't it... Gordon Brown has done the same - having run the economy into the ground, he gets to reinvent himself as its saviour.
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