A SIMPLE REQUEST: Google Federal Reserve, U.S Treasury, GDP, Budget Deficit, National Debt

by: John West

Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 10:39:35 AM EST

My friend and fellow troublemaker, Michele Thomas, and I have never been able to figure out how 2008 happened.  Why?  What could explain the systematic collusion that was evident from the big money, big media, the DNC leadership, and foreign money to make sure a relatively unknown, unqualified, and Chicago style Hyde Park lefty became the 44th President?  

It wasn't until Paulson and Bernanke allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, which prompted a "shock" to the world economy that jumpstarted Obama's polling and subsequent win on Nov. 4th  as well as the push from a very motivated Democratic party leadership to support any and all bailouts by authorizing over 700 billion dollars (we are already 10 trillion dollars in debt not including the value of derivatives that U.S banks and lenders have backed). This bailout was to be used so that the largest and therefore most financially bankrupt of our banks, like Citigroup, could use the funds to acquire smaller, less bankrupt companies like Wachovia, instead of using the "bailout" to help provide relief to homeowners and small businesses who have been cut off from credit or loans needed to get started, or survive.

Basically, our government and our elected officials, are using money from the Federal Reserve ( a quasi-public, private system of banks) to give money to the very banks that worked and lobbied hard for years to get the very deregulated situation that allowed for this complete meltdown and economic crisis.  Not to help Main Street, but to further accelerate the concentration of wealth and therefore power while creating a crisis of global proportions that leaves everyday people like you and me fighting one another for the basics: food, water, job, and shelter. We are in deep trouble if we don't all wake up to what really is happening here!  Gaza, Obama, Georgia, Palestine and India are all distractions, so that in full daylight, our dollar becomes worthless, unemployment skyrockets, martial law becomes an inevitability, and our banks are quickly acquired one by one until we have one huge giant bank, run by a group of people who are not democratically appointed. Meanwhile, a very human face and eloquent reader of the teleprompter, gives people hope they can believe in, perhaps some change...in their pockets, and breadlines thousands of people long that are "protected" for their own safety by a new civilian police, one of the few government agencies still active, funded and hiring.  

Perhaps, all along, we the people who were fighting our own Democratic party, were missing the bigger picture, the bigger villain (or group thereof). The small share of wealth that decades of hardworking Americans (mostly immigrants with no money) managed to make, save and invest, or spend in pursuit of the American dream, has been pillaged. Their struggles and contributions (because of increased economic security and standing) are for naught, because starting in 1980, an entire country of people, its institutions, and businesses became completely dependent on credit to live/operate and having debt many times their annual income was not only the norm, but encouraged.

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What backs our dollar?  Not gold, yet indirectly it seems oil is since it is traded using the U.S dollar, just as most exchanges are. Funny that it was only when Saddam started to sell his country's oil in euros, that Iraq was invaded to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam's regime and deliver Democracy to the Iraqi people in the form of a government that completely accepts the U.S standard of trading their resources.  

The Cold War, it seems, really was more an invention that promoted an escalation of nuclear weapons in production, so as to create an atmosphere of fear among less armed nations of the world to adopt a U.S standard of exchange/trade for our protection from the alternative...Russia. Most chose the lesser of two evils.

I ask that everyone just spend a few hours, and read up on our Federal Reserve and Treasury.  Who runs it?  How are the chosen and by who?  When was it created, by who?  Look at their recorded statements and see how current members are tied to the those who put it in place. See if there is a link to their activity in the past and what world events that affected U.S and world economies around the same time, and how that affected their actions after. We know MSM will not help us figure this all out or even make news event out of it, except to feed us information that does little to alert us of this corruption. Please, consider and do some reading on this.  

If healthcare and health insurance is your primary concern, then ask how we can fight for something for which there will be no money to fund it?  

If women's rights and issues are your primary concern, then ask whether women and children are treated well in countries with a worthless currency, and depressed economy, high unemployment, homelessness, and food shortages? From what I understand, when a country descend into such conditions, whatever rights and protections and opportunities women had prior, has dissolved in every instance.

If making sure our democracy is upheld and preserved, and voters rights and protections are protected and honored are your primary concern, as it is/was mine, then ask yourself if an economic collapse and out of control unemployment provide ideal conditions for your cause.  From what I know, a government becomes more fascist in nature as the people they govern become very unhappy, and the government sees the people as a threat and enemy to be dealt with harshly.

We the people are a people who have been dissected and segregated into all sorts of "special interest" groups and opposing lifestyles, religious beliefs, affiliations, race and ethnicities, gangs and school, gender, and sexual orientations. Yet it is our strong economy and democracy which allow us to be whatever we each want to be or become. The promise, the dream, the true gift that countless millions of people have died fighting for, who have died to preserve it and evolve it to include all men and women of this great land since 1776, and the millions of people who died because they weren't so lucky as you or I to be born in a country that values the life of each citizen....are becoming nothing more than curious anomalies in the annals of history.

If we don't come together, as we the people of this great Republic of 50 sovereign states and put a stop to the Paulsons and Bernankes and their cadre of politicians who serve only money, then there will be no Democrat, Republican, independent, green party, civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, healthcare, education, peace and prosperity, or even religious tolerance for that matter.

There have been a lot of people warning of this for years, and most have been called crazy, nut cases, conspiracy theorists, and anarchists. Whatever was necessary to keep as many people as possible from hearing was employed, at whatever cost.

Do some reading. Research this not-public but rather very private and non-transparent, secretive and extremely powerful institution and ask yourself honestly if there isn't something deeply flawed about its existence and undue influence over our government and our lives.