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It's all about the resources, Oh, that includes the opium production skyrocketing under American occupation;)
Ike Eisenhower was right... the military industrial complex is destroying our country.
This is the best reason to vote out EVERY republican and EVERY blue dog dem from the House of Reprehensibles.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/defense-budget-house-gop_n_1523877.html
House Endorses Continued War In Afghanistan Despite Calls To Withdraw Troops, End Conflict
By DONNA CASSATA
WASHINGTON -- The House endorsed the continued war in Afghanistan on Thursday despite acknowledgment from Republicans and Democrats that the American people are war-weary after more than a decade of conflict.
By a vote of 303-113, lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have swiftly ended combat operations in Afghanistan by limiting funds only to the "safe and orderly withdrawal of U.S. troops and military contractors from Afghanistan."
More than 10 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, American public support for the overseas conflict has deteriorated. An Associated Press-GfK poll released last week showed that backing for the war has hit a new low and is on par with support for the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. Only 27 percent of Americans say they support the war effort, and 66 percent oppose it, according to the survey.
"The American people are far ahead of Congress," said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., sponsor of the amendment, who called on Congress to stand squarely with the American people. "It's past time to end the war and bring the troops home."
Opponents of the amendment conceded that the public has grown tired of war, but they argued against a precipitous withdrawal.
"If we leave too early and the Taliban and al-Qaida return, more Americans will suffer," Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said.
The vote came as the House considered a $642 billion defense budget for next year, debating more than 140 amendments to the far-reaching legislation. Final passage of the measure was expected Friday.
Rather than a speedy withdrawal from Afghanistan, the spending blueprint calls for keeping a sizable number of U.S. combat troops in the country. The bill cites significant uncertainty in Afghanistan about U.S. military support and says that to reduce the uncertainty and promote stability the president should "maintain a force of at least 68,000 troops through Dec. 31, 2014, unless fewer forces can achieve United States objectives."
The United States currently has 88,000 troops there. President Barack Obama envisions a final withdrawal of U.S. combat troops in 2014. Earlier this month, he signed an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the role of America forces in counterterrorism and training of the Afghan military. The president insisted that the U.S. combat role was winding down.
In a series of votes late Thursday, the Republican-controlled House narrowly passed an amendment preventing federal agencies from requiring contractors to sign project labor agreements to secure federal contracts. The agreements require contractors to negotiate with union officials, recognize union wages and generally abide by collective-bargaining agreements. The vote was 211-209.
Clamoring for fiscal austerity, House Republicans backed deficit-cutting legislation last summer that calls for a $487 billion cut in projected defense spending over 10 years. They abandoned that plan in March, embracing a budget that adds billions of dollars for the military while slashing funds for some safety-net programs for the poor.
The $642 billion spending blueprint – $8 billion more than last year's agreement – provides funds for aircraft, ships, weapons, the war in Afghanistan and a 1.7 percent pay raise for military personnel. The House Armed Services Committee, in crafting its version of the budget, snubbed the Pentagon and military leaders on a range of issues, rejecting calls for another round of domestic base closings and increases in monthly health care premiums for working-age military retirees.
Health care costs have skyrocketed for the military, rising from around $19 billion in 2001 to more than $53 billion in recent years. The Pentagon has estimated that the premium hike – ranging from $35 to $140 per month – would save the military more than $12 billion over 10 years. But one of the most powerful constituencies, the network of veterans groups and retired generals, has lobbied lawmakers to prevent any increase.
The House's action on the budget has divided Republicans.
In a statement Thursday, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said that if the House is serious about cutting the deficit, it can show its commitment by not passing "a final highway bill, postal bill or any other bill that would violate the Budget Control Act" – last summer's deficit-cutting pact between Obama and Congress.
Republicans used the House bill to make an election-year argument that they're stronger on defense than the president.
They backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says is unnecessary, saved aircraft and ships slated for cost-saving retirement, and slowed planned reductions in the Army and Marine Corps. They added millions of dollars for nuclear weapons and restricted the president's ability to reduce the nuclear stockpile under a treaty with Russia that the Senate ratified in December 2010.
Still fighting Obama's long-settled decision to allow gays to serve openly in the military, the bill would bar same-sex marriages on military installations.
"Welcome to the world of manufactured crisis," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters in criticizing the provision as unnecessary.
The political challenges embodied in the bill are unlikely to survive. The White House has threatened to veto the legislation, citing a long list of objections. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has slammed the bill and lawmakers for protecting their pet projects. The Democratic-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to jettison many of the provisions in its version of the budget. The committee meets next week to write its bill.
The GOP effort to make Obama's national security record an issue in the campaign has gotten little traction. Opinion surveys show Americans give the president high marks on defense after the killing of Osama bin Laden, repeated drone attacks against suspected terrorists and a weakened al-Qaida, and an end to the Iraq war.
The House planned to debate the remaining amendments throughout the night Thursday, including one that would end the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects, even American citizens, captured on U.S. soil.
The issue has proved highly divisive for both parties.
"The president right now has the authority to go outside and lock somebody up indefinitely," said Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. "It's an extraordinary amount of power to give the executive branch."
Smith and several tea party Republicans back an amendment that would bar indefinite detention without charge or trial of suspected terrorists and roll back the military custody requirement. Last year, Congress passed and Obama reluctantly signed a defense bill that included the provision allowing indefinite detention.
Thornberry, the Texas Republican, argued that the amendment would give terror suspects full constitutional rights.
"As soon as a member of al-Qaida sets foot on U.S. soil, they hear you have the right to remain silent," he said during debate.
Smith pointed out that the Constitution grants all persons due process. "Your beef is with James Madison," Smith said.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in New York struck down as unconstitutional the portion of the defense law that gives the government broad powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
The fear seems related mostly to the condition of the spent fuel pool at reactor#4. If this were to collapse the spent fuel could ignite causing massive radiological fallout over the entire planet. It is said that there would be 85 times the amount of cesium released from Chernobyl, and the equivilant amount of radiation as from 800 Hiroshima style bombs. Clearly something must be done to shore up that pool and extract the spent fuel into dry casks. This is a ticking time bomb.
Oh come on now...Look at all the nukes we tested in the 50's not to mention those two over Japan. The world is still here.
Time to get real...
This IS going to affect your life span and well-being and that of of your family.
You best wake up to the reality.
Prepare? Prepare for what exactly?
How does one "prepare" for this?
Ain't me that's killing us. It's Fukushima. You can argue the details with the experts. They might be able to do something about it, but they aren't. On the West coast, radiation levels are at multiples of background. Some claim 20,000 deaths HERE are now attributable to Fukushima. Don't downplay what you aren't being told.
It all is meaningless, because the bankers CONTROL the globe now, and Oboy is merely a WILLING puppet to do their BIDDING.
In other words, we are F$@^%#!
Same tactics, different fears on the few left wing stations that are able to remain in biz. The big one they try to push is enviromental and how we need to ditch nukes and push green.
More...whoops
According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency.
Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.
Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Obama-pamphlet-in-use-2007
you are probably right, there are fear mongers all over the spectrum, but i was just pointing out (via the article) the false information that is disseminated on some right wing radio stations to appeal to the fears of people who listen to it, so as to peddle their iodide pills and bunker designs. There are indeed left wing fear people from the "environmental" community who are afraid of nearly everything that the "preppers" fear, but not many of them create false information to make a profit from it. That i have seen, anyway. I imagine you have examples of it?
Cimi...c'mon....you're killin' me!!!!!
sooooo, let me understand all this doom and gloom.....
I need help understanding how Plutonium....which is an by-product element from a uranium reaction and MUCH MUCH HEAVIER than air..... is vaporized and floats ON AIR thousands and thousands of miles across the ocean to the US.....
if that were true (that it came across the ocean with doomsday force), why wasn't everyone in California killed in 1945 when the 2 atomic bombs were dropped on Japan???
and, lastly....to make any particles of this heavy material airborne, wouldn't it have to be thrust way way up into the atmosphere with a tremendous amount of force.....kinda like from a huge bomb blast???
DD, it is just not the right, but far left that are trying to make Fukishima worse than it is. In this case, we have equal opportunity fear mongers.
Other than some Lizard living underneath the plant that is slowly turning into Godzilla, it really is not as bad as alarmists would like you to believe. Any radioactive material that spilled into the Pacific has been extemely diluted and disappated by the Quintillions of gallons of water in the Ocean.
The same types of flawed reactors are scattered across the world with many here in the US located in very precarious geographical and geologic areas. Already there has been a number of offline experiences that have come close to being a disaster. We are always just a whisker away from a power outage that could cause a meltdown.
it is bad at the site. but the fear mongering about 750 rads on our west coast is propagated by the same people selling survival supplies on the right wing media outlets that have carried it. It is a hoax, as 750 rads is immediately lethal to most people-- the level at the site isn't even that high, and after a few thousand miles of dispersal it would be a fraction of that amount even if it actually was that high at the site.
Fear is a wonderful thing to fear-mongers... i sort of understand their underpinnings, as when i was a youth, i bought some acreage and built a log home off the grid in northern idaho because i had to prove to myself that i could live off the land. I proved i could, but the economy improved and life went on, in spite of the constant drone of people that are afraid of things like plate tectonics and vaccinations.
this article explains much of it, one needs to go to the link to see the charts and graphs.
http://www.politisite.com/2011/03/17/nuclear-fallout-map-showing-750-rads-to-west-coast-united-states-is-a-fabrication/
Nuclear Fallout Map showing 750 Rads to West Coast United States is a Fabrication
First, There has been a run on Potassium Iodine tablets in the western United States. These sales of Potassium Iodine may be the result of some misinformation being disseminated on the Web and far right-wing radio programs that offer survival products and supplements as part of their revenue stream. The folks transmitting the graph have a basic misunderstanding on radiation levels and terms used to relate them. There are those too, who believe what they read on the web without looking for independent sources of information. Then there is that serial forwarder of Chain e-mails that eventually make it on the Web.
I know of one chain letter (now e-mail) still going around that Madalyn Murray O’Hair has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take religious music and programs off radio and television. Even though the Claim was false and O’Hare died in 1995, the FCC still gets signed petitions to stop the action. The bottom line is check out the information before you pass it on.
To wrap it all up nice and tight, some folks have uploaded videos after hearing about the Fall out alert.
Let me help you all out. Relax! Here is why:
The graph making the rounds that shows radioactive fall-out coming from Japan to the Western United States is shown below.
The graph misrepresents the current situation on the ground and appears to be transmitted for secondary gain other than informing the public of a potential danger. The Graph uses “Rad” measurements. The graph states that the West coast of America will receive 750 Rads 7-10 days after the accident that occurred in Japan
If you have listened to NHK (Japan Television and Radio) you have heard the measurements being expressed in Sieverts not Rads. So how do Sieverts and Rads compare. This is where I think the Graph is being used to intentionally confuse folks. In most text books you will not see a side by side Rad, Sievert comparison on a chart. One will find a comparison with another term the Rem. 100 Rem = 1 Sievert. So how can one convert Rads to Rem to get Sieverts? There is no easy mathematical formula to do that and that is why the continued use of the rad is “strongly discouraged” by the author style guide of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
So using the Rad in the chart when Sieverts are being used can only confuse the reader into a conclusion that advances the writers’ agenda. To find out the agenda, Like the all saw goes, especially in Politics, follow the money.
Just for argument in some cases a 1 Rem has been identified as 1 Rad when 1 Rem x 1(Q) = 1 Rad for X-rays
To make things easy A Micro Sievert (µSv) is 1 millionth of a Sievert. A milisevert (mSv) is 1/1000 of a Sievert. 1 mSv = 10 rem
Currently at the site the emission maximum is 400 uSV/H or 0.4 MSV/h or 0.0004 Sv. The reading can alse be expressed as 40 Millirem or in our 1 mathematical case 40 MilliRads. Nausea and vomiting generally occur within 24–48 hours after exposure to mild 1000000 uSv (1Sv) doses of radiation. The chart relates that 750 Rads will pass over the Western United States in 7 to 10 days. That means that there will be no less than 7.5 Sieverts in America. That can’t and won’t happen, the figure in America cannot be higher than the readings at the reactor site. The graph shows levels that would cause death to nearly everyone in the West Coast.
I think the best way to express exposure levels at the reactor site being 400 usv/h and what exposure levels would look like at certain distances could be compared to a radio station transmitter and a radio receiver. A local Radio station may put out 5000 watts of power but by the time it gets to your radio receiver it may be 1 micro-volt a (very tiny amount of power). That is why radios have amplifiers. They need to make that tiny signal loud enough to convert it to sound you can understand.
When I worked at a small radio station we had only 400 watts of power. We had to shield everything in the radio room in order to keep the radio frequency out so it would not cause feedback in our system. That strong signal would cause a mess to our equipment if we didn’t have the radio room shielded. Each day after work I would drive home, some twenty miles away, and listen to the station slowly fade away until it was gone. I couldn’t hear my own station when I was off work. I lived too far away that 400 watts could not make it to my home only 20 miles away.
Like the radio station, The 400 usv/h at the site will fade more and more as you drove away. The reading would diminish to nearly unreadable after a set distance from the Reactor.
I am sure that someone who has a science background will mention that my comparison with radio waves and radiation is incomplete as it deals only with Gamma and X-Ray radiation not particles. That is correct, as with all analogies, the comparison breaks down with very close comparison, but the basic idea is the same. Radiation levels diminish by many factors with distance.
So lets put a rumor to rest, Is radiation from Japan heading to the U.S.? Not a lethal dose like 750 Rads
The Australian Radiation Service has issued this Disclaimer as the Map uses their Logo
DISCLAIMER: Australian Radiation Services is aware of information about radioactive contamination being spread from the Japanese nuclear reactor incident released under the ARS logo and name. We wish to be clear that this information has not originated from ARS and as such distance ourselves from any such misinformation.
via Australian Radiation Services Pty. Ltd..
Someone had to up the Rads
The Graph we showed was a photo-shopped version of the the original fake that showed on 75 Rad exposure to the Western United States.
I guess 75 Rads didn’t sound deadly enough so they tacked on another zero. Even Snopes the all knowing rumor checker investigated an e-mail that was touting survival and Potassium Iodide tablets. They concluded the same – The Graphic is a Fake
Here is a few graphs that relate radiation dosage per incident
Fukishima is it really that bad? Seems there would be at least a little more attention paid to it if by none others than alternate media.
I always admired you for taking a stand, making a commitment and seeing it through, and had even hoped you were right that there was some chance for surviving what I had always believed we would most likely not. Seems like we are the chicken without the head running crazily in every direction not yet knowing we are already dead;)
I do agree, but more slowly. After watching the plumes fan out in the atmosphere and sea currents I think it's safe to say we as human beings finally boned ourselves.
Christ Almighty, mine may be the last, full term, life span generation.
That's fucked up beyond belief.
I'd like to shove a plutonium rod up every rectum of those who did this insanity to us.
It NEVER had to go this route. Greed drove certain circles of men to destroy us as a whole in their arrogance they would remain unaffected.
Fuck them all!
Like downtime says all that is left is decide whether to have dark rye or whole wheat.
Nothing we can do is meaningful at that level.
Not resigned. But things ain't lookin too good for the human race and the rest of life on the planet.
The southern hemisphere will be affected as well via the pacific ocean as that radioactive water spreads.
I believe North America is finished and so is the rest of the Northern hemisphere.
The consequences of Fukushima will be too great to overcome.
Authorities are not releasing the factual data, nor are they making any attempt to mitigate the harm being done. Fukushima currently stands at 84 times the damage done at Chernobyl. The genetic damage being done at Chernobyl has destroyed the Belarus people, made monstrosities of them, killed them.
Now the same fate is in store for the American people, and in time all of the Northern hemisphere.
Another earthquake, more structural damage it could be over for the entire planet. Best to face the real facts.
Sad days ahead.
I am no fan of Romney but I found this on another board and thought I would pass it along because the media certainly wont.
Whether you like Romney or not, this story is very revealing.
Sometimes, this facet of Romney's personality isn't so subtle.
In July, 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain
Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York
City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught
father had no idea where she was, and Romney took immediate action.
He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to
fly to New York to help find Gay's daughter. Romney set up a command
center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to
assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips,
coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex
and called everyone Bain did business with in New York, and asked them
to help find his friend's missing daughter.
Romney's accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on streetpoles,while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of everyshopper.
Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New
Yorkand talked with everyone they could... prostitutes, drug addicts, anyone.
That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of
the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boyphoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly.
The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they
found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal
symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl
might not have survived another day. Romney's former partner credits
Mitt Romney with saving his daughter's life, saying, "It was the most
amazing thing, and I'll never forget this to the day I die."
So, here's my epiphany: Mitt Romney simply can't help himself. He sees
a problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes
consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn't do it for
self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that's
just how he's wired.
Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his
old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to
rescue the firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at
Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar. When Romney went
to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted no salary
for three years, and wouldn't use an expense account. He also accepted
no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.
Character counts! The media and Obama re-election machine will focus
on Romney's wealth and the immorality of it, as they see it, but Romney isa man who uses his wealth to bless and to make this world a better place.
Let's get this message out because it is not likely that the media will do so!
The road ends this year.
Good times to be had by all.
We're out of "successors". Problem is, we're quick to expect the "other" guy/gal to bear the financial burden. We will all (collectively) bear the financial burden; either through incresed taxes, or reduced benefits.
Sad state of affairs.
That's cuz candidates have successfully kicked the can down the road so that its not their problem -- its one of their successors problems.
Chris
The 800 lb. gorilla in the room that neither candidate wants to address. Because 800 lb. gorilla's can tear their heads off.
http://www.businessinsider.com/that-which-is-unsustainable-will-go-away-pensions-2012-5
As his article points out; it's basic math, nothing really complicated.
I suppose you'd equally condemn Pres. Obama due to his acceptance of campaign money from Hedge Funds, Investment companies, and banks?
How did Solyndra work for Obama?
Certain kinds of war or one good pandemic could change everything within a very short amount of time. 6.8/2=3.4 More manageable.
He'll even throw in a free haircut;)
Romney wants to regulate your bedroom and personal habits while deregulating banks and financial institutions. I think he has his priorities skewed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/romney-same-sex-marriage-_b_1519480.html
SOROS.....if they have been trying for years and years to dominate the earth, they are obviously nothing to worry about....
(there's no link because I wrote the following)
The Folly of Maintaining the Bureaucracy
While our focus is upon the government of the United States, for the purpose of discussion, if we consider the entire world with its 6.8 billion inhabitants, the picture is more dramatic and therefore the lesson to be learned becomes much easier to grasp. In that overview, we easily can see the folly in trying to either oppress or conversely equitably manage the world’s population from a central power base. The problems are almost insurmountable because they are so varied and numerous; and, not all nations or states are on the same socio-economic evolutionary page. A population of 6.8 billion offers simply too much diversity and disparity in both societal and economic norms and expectations.
Our purpose here is not to indulge in a dissertation about the evolution of mankind or the needs of the world’s population; rather, it is to help appreciate the sheer size and scale of what it would take to operate a bureaucratic system from a central power base on a world wide scale. Without saying another word, almost everyone can see the extreme folly in the concept of ruling the world. Whether we opt to use the capitalistic free market laissez faire or a totalitarian communistic approach to distribution of goods and services or any socialistic methodology in between those extremes, the task is almost impossible. Can you image the scale of the bureaucracy it would take to govern the entire world? Can you imagine the exorbitant costs, waste, and corruption associated with that undertaking? The extreme cost in dollars and human resources at this point in societal evolution by far outweighs the possible benefit to the power elites, their servicing class of workers, or the general population. No one would benefit…not even the power seekers.
The problem(s) experienced on a global level would be much the same here, at home, in the United States. Politics is about power regardless of the governmental level. People within local government are much the same as at the federal level and accordingly much the same on a global level. The difference among them is the venue in which they “play” and the experience, talent, level of sophistication, and costs associated with that particular level of government.
Today, as we look at what is happening in our national political scene, we find the wealthy members of the private sector and the financial community are being vilified in the media. The attack constantly derides the wealth disparity between the rich and poor. It’s not a new tactic. That ploy has been used as long as there has been civilized society. This is not to suggest that the economic disparity is good or just or even equitable.
As example, we might look at the economic crisis which began in 2008. Reportedly, many of the wealthy within the financial community became even richer; and, many would speculate their increase in wealth may have been via ill gotten gains and with the help of political corruption and wrong-doing. This is completely unacceptable and must be considered and corrected.
However, capitalism is not always fair. Capitalism rewards those who succeed by hard work. And, we must remember that the success stories like race winners are the fewer rather than the many. So, we can see the opening for criticism by those who are less successful or have accomplished or don’t wish to accomplish anything in life.
Vilification of the rich is a very powerful political tool. It is historically effective and appeals to those who are poor and especially those who are uneducated. It’s used as a basis to disparage capitalism and garner popular support for social welfare and entitlement programs. Again, we must remember the entire effort is an exercise in establishing a political power base.
If the power seekers have any modicum of success in making the wealthy and capitalism appear to be the source of the nation’s ills, then, the government’s operating system will eventually be modified into some iteration of the socialist theme. But, the type of system is relatively unimportant to our discussion.
The point of importance is to notice what is happening to the size and complexity of the governmental system in this country. The power seekers are creating a huge centralized bureaucracy in order to overwhelm the nation. They want to overwhelm the capitalistic private sector and the middle class population. Their goal is to have the public sector become the dominant force in America. But, at what cost? The national debt is almost equivalent to GDP; there is massive unemployment, the nation’s credit rating has been downgraded, and since the inception of the Obama administration, there are more people dependent upon food stamps than ever before in history.
In the final analysis, it is easy to see that the power seekers are metaphorically shooting themselves in the foot. They have created or are in the process of creating an unwieldy and barely manageable system. They have not attained power through the barrel of a gun; rather, they have been ushered into power through a series of bribes, corruption and collusion among themselves and with members of private sector industry. Their road to the attainment of power has been accentuated by a bumbling, sprawling, corrupt, incompetent hodgepodge of government programs and special interests. As mentioned earlier in the quote from Ramsey Clark, today’s governmental power is invested in the formation of a plutocracy…another massive, unwieldy system.
The obvious question is why do we allow this to happen? But, more poignantly why would the power seekers allow this to happen? By forming massive, barely manageable systems, the power seekers have created discontent at all levels…even among themselves. But, worse, by instigating discontent and not possessing the ability to dominate with absolute authority, the power seekers have compromised themselves. They have rendered themselves ineffectual and made themselves appear inept. All they have done is create a legacy exemplified by a burgeoning governmental system with outrageous costs.
Is this the price the nation must suffer for the whims of wannabe tyrants? And, why would these wannabes obligate themselves and their Party to being the benefactors and maintaining structure of such an overwhelming amount of entitlements? Why would they want to strap themselves with such unmanageable and overwhelming costs? It makes absolutely no logical sense! Or, we could suggest it makes perfect sense if the goal of the power seekers is simply personal enrichment at any cost and complete disregard any other consideration…including the best interests of the nation.
Logically, in order to maximize their own personal enrichment, the power seekers should be the first to advocate the concept of minimalism. It would make their quest for power and enrichment so much easier. But, amazingly they have not done so. Instead, they emulate the epitome of failure, European socialism.
Look at Europe. Those failed socialist states are in a constant state of civil turmoil marked by periodic protests and rioting. Why would anyone emulate that model which ensures civil discord, chronic disunity, and a limited time in power before being displaced?
It would seem that regardless of our political affiliation, the benefits of minimalism in government operations are clear. Whether we are the power seekers who desire to simply enrich ourselves, those who view the rich with contempt or, everyday Americans, it appears to be in no one’s best interest to saddle themselves with a large governmental bureaucracy. Minimalism is the key to efficient government and socio-economic success.
Should make everyone's skin crawl, but most will scoff, dismiss, or refuse to consider. Not saying he is the prophesied one, but that is exactly how it says the world will succumb.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas182.htm
Watch it all and look close and you will see 2012...
Anyone who tells me that corporations are people is my enemy. Romney happens to believe money is speech and corporations are people... of course not beholden to the same laws that ordinary citizens are. I'm sick and tired of corporations, usually multi-national corporations, making a killing in America, polluting the environment (like the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico as an example), then paying almost no taxes while they are free to spend any amount to influence our electioral process. Sorry, Romney isn't for me, and neither is that corporatist Obama. These people are TRAITORS to America.
No, I'm voting my conscience. Voting for either dem or repub candidate is voting for the destruction of America.
Could be true. He is certainly adept at deception. That's why I'm voting Green or Libertairan, haven't made up my mind yet.
Applied to a very shallow candidate.
you might want to research that statement and provide some substance to back it up......
Romney has an impressive record of turning around companies in distress (and other things like the Olympics)... sure there were some failures but like my Dad always said "if you don't fail now and then your not doing anything"... He was doing a lot of things with struggling companies. If you read about him and don't see that your either stupid or just plain don't want to see it...
I guess these are either dead bankrupt companies or they moved over sea's... Or maybe not... Just a small sampling of Bain Capital companies...
AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel.
and obama is from overseas with experience in decieving people
thats a shallow statement....
Romney is experienced at bankrupting companies and sending the jobs overseas. Big whoopee.
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