"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and most rascally individuals of mankind." – Thomas Paine, Founding Father"The causes of the malady are not entirely clear but its recurrence is one of the uniformities of history: power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations-to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image."
Former US Senator William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power ( 1966)“The real answer over the long term is to restore middle-class earnings so families don't have to go deep into debt to maintain what was a middle-class standard of living. And that requires, among other things, affordable health insurance, tax credits for college tuition, good schools, and an energy policy that's less dependent on oil, the price of which is going to continue to rise as demand soars in China, India, and elsewhere.
In other words, the way to make sure Americans don't live beyond their means is to give them back the means.” – Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEiLHnjAiw&NR=1http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5904195&page=1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations#Corporate_Membershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commissionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_attendees#Corporatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch#United_States_of_Americahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone#Holdingshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajm5JTf7jZs&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-9CV-qbMwhttp://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrinehttp://inspectorlohmann.blogspot.com/2008/02/government-as-criminal-conspiracy.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uXGCZenwY"... sure the other stuff is there, you're just gonna have to work to find it."
"The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic"The mainstream media... serve elite interests... in a way that can be described as carrying out a propaganda function."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKxOnrYce3s... describes the current terms of the debate rather succinctly as a "morass of nonsense".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVo1lQXzmus"Political campaigns are run by the PR industry."
http://www.whatliberalmedia.com/apndx_3.htmChart showing which corporations own what.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_media_bias#Claimed_effects_of_profit_motivehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_media_bias#Claims_of_a_conservative_biashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Liberal_Media%3Fhttp://www.whatliberalmedia.com/intro.pdfWilliam Kristol, without a doubt the most influential Republican/neoconservative
publicist in America, has come clean on this issue. “I admit it,” he told a reporter.
“The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
http://fora.tv/myfora/ericaltermanhttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49690-poor-little-rich-man-mccain-can-t-remember-how-many-mansions-he-hashttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49248-mccain-s-mansions-the-houses-that-greed-builthttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49839-fox-news-justifies-mccain-s-mansions-gaffehttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/58493-help-spread-the-truth-about-acornhttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/14482-ron-paul-stop-dreaminghttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/53583-cnn-fact-checks-mccain-verdict-he-s-not-telling-truthhttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/59865-obama-campaign-takes-the-fight-to-foxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y395Tftgz0E&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm224g-OtjIhttp://www.counterpunch.org/blum08122003.htmlhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Bush_deficit.jpghttp://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/29/couricandco/entry4486228.shtmlThe Bush Legacy: Another Day Older and Deeper in DebtThe National Debt in dollars is now three times the amount of all the fish left in the sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000000000000_(number)#1012Eleven million million of your American dollars.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2008/09/now_we_see_it_the_white_house.html#moreSubsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof $11,315,000,000,000.
http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/rules110/rule27.html'That subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof '$_________'.'', with the blank being filled with a dollar limitation equal to the appropriate level of the public debt set forth pursuant to section 301(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 in the relevant concurrent resolution described in clause 1.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/hd106-320/pdf/hrm89.pdfSEC. 301. (a) CONTENTOFCONCURRENTRESOLUTIONON
THE BUDGET.—On or before April 15 of each year, the
Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution
on the budget for the fiscal year beginning on October 1
of such year. The concurrent resolution shall set forth ap-
propriate levels for the fiscal year beginning on October 1
of such year and for at least each of the 4 ensuing fiscal
years for the following—
(5) the public debt;
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_conservatism#Psychological_ResearchPsychological research[24] increasingly suggests that ideologies reflect motivational processes, as opposed to the view that political convictions always reflect independent and unbiased thinking. Research in 2008[24] proposed that ideologies may function as prepackaged units of interpretation that spread because of basic human motives to understand the world, avoid existential threat, and maintain valued interpersonal relationships. The authors conclude that such motives may lead disproportionately to the adoption of system-justifying worldviews.
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Powa/your face: Please tell me again how empowering the uber-wealthy empowers the rest of America. Remember, under both plans, these are tax
cuts. Not just for the guy who owns the business, but for everybody. But wait, under the Bush plan, using Reaganomic principles, you are certainly far better off than you were before, no?
The way the elite gets to stay in power is to get the other guys to form into groups and squabble over meaningless "issues". Meanwhile, they will be busy finding new ways to screw you. Or haven't you ever heard of
exchange-traded funds (the golden parachute used by oi oligoi when placing double-or-nothing bets that oi polloi is well and truly fucked)?
