Flyby1206

Goldman Sachs + politicians = entire country being F-ed in so many ways

Government subsidized corruption. The rich and powerful manipulate it to their benefits, while we cant do a thing about it.

Here's another great article from Rolling Stone about Wall Street execs wives getting $220 million from bailout programs:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...ilout-20110411

tsquare

First, thanks for your service. When I was in I remember the exact same feelings. I spent 3 years in the Far East, and when I returned, I had missed Max Headroom, and the explosion of Domino's Pizza... (what??? They will bring it to my HOUSE??? In 30 minutes or it's FREE????) While not as dramatic as the electronic advancement, I can totally relate to what you said. The one thing that is common to both our experiences is that politicians.. American politicians, are still sleazy and corrupt, and nothing will ever change that.

satchip

It's uninformed/misinformed people like you that allow the government to foist this massive wealth theft from the producers to the ruling class to happen. There is zero serious science that points to carbon as a "mortal threat". From Micheal Chrichton:

HESTON: You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity! Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time.
It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in arctic ice. Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. Might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It's powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. You think this is the first time that's happened? Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine.

When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being a hundred years is a long time. Hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

The fact is that Anthropogenic Global Warming is a myth based on junk science. The emails from the University of East Anglia prove this. The mortal threat is governments insatiable thirst for more money to spend and spread around to their friends in the Ruling Class.

Bar is correct.

capncrunch

Satchip, you never cease to amaze me. I hope it's very blissfull in the world you've created for yourself.

scambo1

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the
Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as
a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up
until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits
from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will
finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed
by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:




From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:

Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St.
Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the
last Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2
McCain: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was
mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.

Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income
tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the
"complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy,
with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached
the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal
invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the
USA in fewer than five years.

This is truly scary! Of course we are not a democracy, we are a
Constitutional Republic . Someone should point this out to Obama. Of
course we know he and too many others pay little attention to The
Constitution or the War powers act.

Timbo

Anyone wonder why? We have a "Revolving Door" policy in DC. The huge corporations pay the Senators/Congressmen (through election campaign contributions) to "Vote" their way. Later in life, these same Politicians, after rewriting all the rules for their "Sponsors", leave office and take a job...with the same Clowns they were supposed to be "Regulating"! Remember NH Senator Judd Greg? Where is he now?

Former Senator Judd Gregg to Join Goldman Sachs - National - The Atlantic Wire

There are over 42,000 Registered Lobbiest in Washington DC, they -Pay- our 535 "Representatives" to write the rules (the RLA in our case) to their own benefit, and if they do a good job, guess what? They Hire them!

We have the Best Government Money Can (and does) Buy!

But here's the thing, when are We the People going to pick up the pitchforks and head to DC? We'll get the Government we deserve, if we are too weak to stop them, and so far, that's exactly what we have been, weak.

Carl Spackler

Great post Scambo.

Carl