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check out George Soros on Bill Moyers' journal, if you didn't see it on TV : http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10102008/watc...
The lesson for Americans suffused with anxiety and dread over the crackup of the financial markets is that the way you vote matters, that there are real-world consequences when you go into a voting booth and cast that ballot.
Voters in the George W. Bush era gave the Republican Party nearly complete control of the federal government. Now the financial markets are in turmoil, top government and corporate leaders are on the verge of panic and scholars are dusting off treatises that analyzed the causes of the Great Depression.
It’s not just the economy. While the United States has been fighting a useless and irresponsible war in Iraq, Afghanistan — the home base of the terrorists who struck us on 9/11 — has been allowed to fall into a state of chaos. Osama bin Laden is still at large. New Orleans is still on its knees. And so on.
Voting has consequences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/opinion/11her...
Reagan was like selling the nation Coca-Cola. And he was the first of the puppets who were manipulated by the greed squad. Reagan was not all that bright, either, but his accent made him sound smarter than Dubbya.
This has NEVER been about the middle class. This has always been about the rich getting richer. The props they used, like gay rights, gun control, bigotry, were all there merely to generate white trash numbers on election days. The incredibly hilarious aspect of this is that the very Bubbas who love these guys are probably going to be screwed the worst. And so they deserve it. If you really wanna vote based on who you wanna have a beer with, then you can have that beer. But it will be a can of piss.
Sarah Palin was the price for delivering their votes to a 72 year old, cancer prone John McCain. When he kicked the bucket, they were finally going to have the power to throw out the Constitution and replace it with the Bible.
Probably would have worked if the economy hadn't blown up. It may still, but it's a longer shot than it was a month ago.
above 10 voting this year.
He trashed an oil company.
He trashed a baseball team.
He trashed a nation.
kSDK TV, a St. Louis station, had a poll about Bush reassuring the nation. There were three options, one being "I do not listen to what he says" Of 1782 votes 1043 chose this option, mind you this is Missouri.
Bush has never been a leader. No one brings up anymore, but he hid out for days when 911 happened. He made some banal statement first, but what this country needed was our president front and center telling what happened, what is being done, what was needed, showing strength...he hid out as did Cheney.
He's never done anything else.
Voting for someone, like George W. Bush, certainly has consequences. I hope some of the fools who voted for his sorry ass, remember this in three weeks. Unfortunately, I don't think those people who elected Bush have learned a damned thing. They are mostly incapable of learning, and do the same shit over and over again and expect different results.
I'm counting on new voter registrations, and young people to put us Democrats over the top so we can start DIGGING OUT of another Republican mess.
Another thing, 60 minutes, seeing Paulson being asked "you said two years ago that this sub-prime was not too serious" and that moron explained "hindsight is 20-20" (I'm paraphrasing here).....FUCK...I am a financial mental midget and I heard about the 2-year sub-prime window coming back in 2006...and when I heard how it worked, saw immidiately that it was a house of cards built by greedheads with no morals OR judgement. The whole scheme was like a 5th grader that didn't do his homework hoping that he'll get a snow day when it is due.
THIS is the guy that is going to lead us out?
And more and more they try again to revise what caused this when it is incredibly simple. Anyone tells you "yeah...lots of folks TOOK loans that shouldn't have, they were greedy" ought to respond that the banks or in this case savings and loans have ALWAYS been the "gatekeepers", it's up to THEM to qualify loan applicants sufficiently, and SCREEN them. Goddamn I get pissed off when I hear the bullshit being slung. Tell anyone that says that or hints at it "well...if your "free market" system is THAT vulnerable to people out to make a buck, or loan over their heads, then it can't defend itself and is not a viable system, knowing mankinds greed...
The rich stay rich with their Cayman Islands registered yachts and their off-shore bank accounts while average Americans see their retirement funds, 401K accounts, college savings accounts and other assets sink like a lead balloon.