LanceFreeman
Mayor
A Commentary by LanceFreeman:
The insidious influence of corporations, working in tandem with other special interest groups, like the ‘Jews for Israel’ Lobby, have made criminals of our national leadership. The evidence for such criminality among our leaders can be found in our government’s insane policy of utilizing the public purse to bail out Wall Street institutions and companies considered ‘too big to fail’. In doing so, the government chose to punish the prudent (i.e. savers) in favor of rescuing the irresponsible. History has proven, time and again, that such policies generate grievous economic, social, and human costs. The vast amount of taxpayer money that was used to bail out the irresponsible banks and insurance companies is being replaced with ‘funny money’ created by printing press. This funny money, which goes by the name of ‘Quantitative Easing’, is nearly worthless in real terms, and is causing the price of food, and other essentials, to skyrocket. [Have you noticed how much more you are paying for groceries these days? And how much smaller the packages you buy are, compared to what they used to be?].
Our money is losing value even as it sits in the bank, because it is now buying less and less. To keep our economy from collapsing post-2008, our government had to take loans from the Rothschild Federal Reserve, at interest, to replace the tax-generated money that was given to Wall Street institutions, and their European affiliates, through TARP, and in secret, back-door payments by the Federal Reserve. Estimates of this legalized robbery, funneled to Wall Street via the FED, range from 2 trillion to 5 trillion dollars; a mind-boggling sum. [Isn’t it interesting that Ben Bernanke can award money to whomever he pleases, at will, without congressional approval, and charge it to the American people? Who granted him such power? And why was there not a squeak from either Congress, or the President, regarding this blatant plunder of our treasury by this Rothschild flunkie? What makes Ben Bernanke, a servant of the international bankers, so protected, and so untouchable?]
This is a crime against the people that only governments, and their central banks, can get away with. Our government now stands on par with the corrupt governments of Asia and Africa; we can no longer look down our noses at those backward countries and consider our system superior. Unfortunately, Americans are too dumb to understand what the corporate elites, and their henchmen in Washington, are doing to them. Just think: a ‘fat cat’ company, like Goldman-Sachs, was one of the first on Wall Street to receive billions of dollars of TARP money, even though it was raking in big profits, and was in no danger of going out of business. This is outright theft, but neither the Savior-President, who arrived at the White House with such fanfare and promise, nor his Attorney General, have raised a finger to retrieve this stolen loot, nor have any of the scammers on Wall Street been brought to justice for scamming investors of trillions of dollars given to them in trust. The whole world stands in awe of what the Wall Street scammers have gotten away with—and with the complicity of the American government. They shake their heads at the stupidity of the American people, who are too busy worshipping at the Temple of Celebrity to notice this massive plunder of their national wealth.
On the contrary; Barack Obama, complicit as he is in this Grand Theft, is held in high regard as a populist hero by the majority of our citizens, and would have no problem winning a third-term at the White House, if he so desires. I have no doubt that, should he desire a third term, he has the political clout to get Congress to go along. No president has had that kind of power since FDR. But people have short memories. Few of our citizens remember that, at the height of his campaign for the presidency in 2008, while George W. Bush was still at the White House, and while the TARP bill was still being debated in Congress, Barack Obama spent a couple of days on the telephone, calling and talking to key representatives, urging them to vote ‘yes’ on the TARP bill. That notorious bill, sponsored by the half-wit, George W. Bush, and his Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, would probably not have passed congressional scrutiny were it not for the pressure Obama put on key senators during the final days of the debate. Why would a Democratic candidate, supposedly opposed to a Republican administration, and constantly criticizing it in his speeches, want to support a questionable Republican initiative that was clearly flawed from the outset?
There can be no doubt that, despite his flowery rhetoric and deceptive looks, Obama is a Wall Street man, and was up to his ears in the planning of this Grand Theft by Wall Street schemers, who contributed mightily to his presidential campaign. Their front-man, Hank Paulson, was well-placed to master-mind the heist from his perch at Treasury, with the help of a corporate puppet like George W. Bush standing behind him, and fronting for him on camera. [Who can forget that ‘deer-in-the-headlights’ look GWB displays when he is busy lying to the American people on camera? It is a dead give-away]. Of course, it also helps that the American people seldom question what dubious explanations their government heaps on them to justify any criminal act it may wish to perpetrate. Wall Street manipulators have discovered, to their delight, that stealing from the American people can be as easy as taking candy from a baby.
Throughout history, it is the people who save money, and invest for the future, who build a robust economy and stable society, not the profligate and irresponsible. We know, for example, what happened to the Germans, in the 1920’s, when they wiped out their savings class through runaway inflation. Back then, the Germans had a printing press economy, like we do today, and it took a wheelbarrow full of German Marks to buy a loaf of bread. But the lessons of history are always lost on the arrogant, the over-confident, and over-indulgent. And so the German experience will repeat itself in America, because Americans have become lazy, self-destructive, and overly dependent on government for their survival. The Americans of today are a far cry from the rugged individuals of yesteryear, who, with the sweat of their brow, carved out a nation from the wilderness of the new world. Heaven help them when their government runs out of money and can no longer afford to subsidize food stamps, welfare checks, and other give-away programs. What will the people do then? One thing for sure: the rest of the world will be in no position to bailout a bankrupt America, like it did with a bankrupt Greece. But perhaps Goldman-Sachs will come to our rescue.
The insidious influence of corporations, working in tandem with other special interest groups, like the ‘Jews for Israel’ Lobby, have made criminals of our national leadership. The evidence for such criminality among our leaders can be found in our government’s insane policy of utilizing the public purse to bail out Wall Street institutions and companies considered ‘too big to fail’. In doing so, the government chose to punish the prudent (i.e. savers) in favor of rescuing the irresponsible. History has proven, time and again, that such policies generate grievous economic, social, and human costs. The vast amount of taxpayer money that was used to bail out the irresponsible banks and insurance companies is being replaced with ‘funny money’ created by printing press. This funny money, which goes by the name of ‘Quantitative Easing’, is nearly worthless in real terms, and is causing the price of food, and other essentials, to skyrocket. [Have you noticed how much more you are paying for groceries these days? And how much smaller the packages you buy are, compared to what they used to be?].
Our money is losing value even as it sits in the bank, because it is now buying less and less. To keep our economy from collapsing post-2008, our government had to take loans from the Rothschild Federal Reserve, at interest, to replace the tax-generated money that was given to Wall Street institutions, and their European affiliates, through TARP, and in secret, back-door payments by the Federal Reserve. Estimates of this legalized robbery, funneled to Wall Street via the FED, range from 2 trillion to 5 trillion dollars; a mind-boggling sum. [Isn’t it interesting that Ben Bernanke can award money to whomever he pleases, at will, without congressional approval, and charge it to the American people? Who granted him such power? And why was there not a squeak from either Congress, or the President, regarding this blatant plunder of our treasury by this Rothschild flunkie? What makes Ben Bernanke, a servant of the international bankers, so protected, and so untouchable?]
This is a crime against the people that only governments, and their central banks, can get away with. Our government now stands on par with the corrupt governments of Asia and Africa; we can no longer look down our noses at those backward countries and consider our system superior. Unfortunately, Americans are too dumb to understand what the corporate elites, and their henchmen in Washington, are doing to them. Just think: a ‘fat cat’ company, like Goldman-Sachs, was one of the first on Wall Street to receive billions of dollars of TARP money, even though it was raking in big profits, and was in no danger of going out of business. This is outright theft, but neither the Savior-President, who arrived at the White House with such fanfare and promise, nor his Attorney General, have raised a finger to retrieve this stolen loot, nor have any of the scammers on Wall Street been brought to justice for scamming investors of trillions of dollars given to them in trust. The whole world stands in awe of what the Wall Street scammers have gotten away with—and with the complicity of the American government. They shake their heads at the stupidity of the American people, who are too busy worshipping at the Temple of Celebrity to notice this massive plunder of their national wealth.
On the contrary; Barack Obama, complicit as he is in this Grand Theft, is held in high regard as a populist hero by the majority of our citizens, and would have no problem winning a third-term at the White House, if he so desires. I have no doubt that, should he desire a third term, he has the political clout to get Congress to go along. No president has had that kind of power since FDR. But people have short memories. Few of our citizens remember that, at the height of his campaign for the presidency in 2008, while George W. Bush was still at the White House, and while the TARP bill was still being debated in Congress, Barack Obama spent a couple of days on the telephone, calling and talking to key representatives, urging them to vote ‘yes’ on the TARP bill. That notorious bill, sponsored by the half-wit, George W. Bush, and his Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, would probably not have passed congressional scrutiny were it not for the pressure Obama put on key senators during the final days of the debate. Why would a Democratic candidate, supposedly opposed to a Republican administration, and constantly criticizing it in his speeches, want to support a questionable Republican initiative that was clearly flawed from the outset?
There can be no doubt that, despite his flowery rhetoric and deceptive looks, Obama is a Wall Street man, and was up to his ears in the planning of this Grand Theft by Wall Street schemers, who contributed mightily to his presidential campaign. Their front-man, Hank Paulson, was well-placed to master-mind the heist from his perch at Treasury, with the help of a corporate puppet like George W. Bush standing behind him, and fronting for him on camera. [Who can forget that ‘deer-in-the-headlights’ look GWB displays when he is busy lying to the American people on camera? It is a dead give-away]. Of course, it also helps that the American people seldom question what dubious explanations their government heaps on them to justify any criminal act it may wish to perpetrate. Wall Street manipulators have discovered, to their delight, that stealing from the American people can be as easy as taking candy from a baby.
Throughout history, it is the people who save money, and invest for the future, who build a robust economy and stable society, not the profligate and irresponsible. We know, for example, what happened to the Germans, in the 1920’s, when they wiped out their savings class through runaway inflation. Back then, the Germans had a printing press economy, like we do today, and it took a wheelbarrow full of German Marks to buy a loaf of bread. But the lessons of history are always lost on the arrogant, the over-confident, and over-indulgent. And so the German experience will repeat itself in America, because Americans have become lazy, self-destructive, and overly dependent on government for their survival. The Americans of today are a far cry from the rugged individuals of yesteryear, who, with the sweat of their brow, carved out a nation from the wilderness of the new world. Heaven help them when their government runs out of money and can no longer afford to subsidize food stamps, welfare checks, and other give-away programs. What will the people do then? One thing for sure: the rest of the world will be in no position to bailout a bankrupt America, like it did with a bankrupt Greece. But perhaps Goldman-Sachs will come to our rescue.
