Current Federal Reserve Chairman Robert Bernakae and incoming Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have decided that Wall Street just hasn’t taken enough money from tax payers so they decided to give Wall Street another $800 fucking billion dollars.
Seriously, are you really sure you want someone with the kind of New World Order corporate ties that Mr. Geithner has as our Chief Financial Officer?
Thank you. Thank you America for doing what I thought you were incapable of doing. I had believed for so long that no one cared. I thought that America’s intrinsic narcissistic quality would allow the abuse to continue.
I would often bitch and complain to whoever was around that this country was full of lazy idiots who didn’t care enough to do anything about the fascist regime that was forming before our eyes. “Where are the protest? Where are the demonstrations?”, I’d often ask.
I began to develop a hatred of the press and their compliance with the fascist propaganda machine. I developed an intense hatred of Bush. I devoured all the books I could get my hands on that talked about how bad Bush fucked up and how much this country had gone to shit.
My hatred blinded me to the fact that slowly but surely America was righting itself. The fact that Bush was in power to begin with was not the fault of Americans. Americans did their part…and the Republicans did their part to ensure Bush was awarded the presidency.
In 2004 America was determined to rid the country of a man who should never have been president in the first place. John Kerry’s insipid existence did not exactly make it easy for Americans to achieve this. And yet they nearly did. Some say they actually did. Again, the Republicans did their part to ensure Bush was given a second term.
In 2006 not even the mighty Republicans could keep Americans from explosively voicing their frustration and anger over having to endure six years of having a president that no one had actually elected. In 2008 Americans finished the clean up of a mess that began back in 2000.
I hope the actions of the American people in the 2006 congressional elections and the 2008 congressional/presidential elections prove to the world that the America of the last 8 years is in now way indicative of the American people. The country, perhaps even the world, has been held hostage over the last 8 years by a man and a party who achieved a level of power not seen since 1940’s Europe.
What happened last night was special. It proved that a democracy can work and that a democracy can overcome any obstacle. The framework that was laid over 230 year ago is still viable today. It was only 140 year ago that this nation fought a bloody civil war. Out of that war came a new nation. The United States of America.
You could feel a change last night. You could see it in the faces of people. You hear it in the wind as it carried voices far from their point of origin. You could just feel it.
I think this nation has become a nation of everyone. White, black, hispanic…doesn’t matter. Gay, straight…doesn’t matter. Baptist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, atheist…doesn’t matter. It’s a passing of the torch. The good ol’ boy network is slowly dying. On the way out are old, rich, white people who represent nothing. On the way in are Americans.
This Is NOT America.
THIS...is America.
* The Following Post Is From A Good Friend Of Mine And Guest Blogger *
Could it happen again?Picture this. You’re sitting in your bed, drinking your morning coffee, thumbing through a catalog. You pick up the phone bedside and call a number, ordering a new ornamental mantelpiece. You then call the bank to have the funds transferred for the purchase. You dress in your suit and tie, take the elevator down from your penthouse suite, and drive off to work in the taxi the doorman has hailed for you.
The date? Well we can definitely tell that it’s not today, no mention of the internet. Ten years ago? Twenty? No, try almost a century ago. The date is 1918, the place New York City. Not our Grandfathers, but our Great-Grandfathers lived in a time of a new international economic marketplace. Where one could, if they had the means, purchase anything from anywhere in the world. All it took was a phone call or two.
People could travel throughout the world with ease. The economists at the time, analyzing the interdependence of states upon each other, and the world market, stated that war was a thing of the past. They said that any aggressor would find himself ruined economically by a world market closed off to them.Then it happened. Revolutions, war, recession, depression, more war. Then the rise of Nationalism, and not just in this country. Of two superpowers influencing the globe through two thoughts of governing. The fall of one superpower, creating a vacuum for organized crime and narcotics, it allowed the drudges of society to pander their wares around the world. On the legal international stage it opened the door for what would develop into today’s world market.
We now have multiple countries sharing the same currency and some of the same laws. We have a waning singular world power (compare the US to late 19th early 20th century Great Britain). We are “completely interdependent” upon the rest of the world. “A world conflict would be infeasible.”So they said 100 years ago. So they say again today. Picture the price of your gas rising over $10 a gallon. No infrastructure for alternative fuels. A national deficit that other countries demand be paid up, yet ignoring past billions of dollars loaned to them by our country. Are they heartless? No they need that money right now, they are barely staying above water themselves. Imagine Russia laying claim to all the former Soviet Bloc countries. Iran creating a new Persian Empire. China Invading into India and northern Russia.
The United States locked behind closed borders, drilling our own oil, no longer the “world police” or the “beacon of democracy.” Screw the world, we’re barely hanging on right now.Am I standing on the corner with my placard screaming of Armageddon? Of course not. Do I still think that the Montana Militiamen are complete and total wacko’s. Yep…but the more I watch international events and our own foreign and domestic policies the more I wonder if they just might be on to something
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