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In a message dated 7/20/2001 11:38:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Those who have made it to Genoa will find a city that
resembles a fortress.
From a Charlie Reese article....
The day when people were willing to politely and silently starve to death
while their "betters" gorged themselves inside fortified compounds is gone.
Unless we address this imbalance, we're likely to find ourselves in the
middle of something that will make the French Revolution look like a
pacifists convention.
A Poor Understanding Of
Where The World Is Heading
By Charley Reese
© 2001 Orlando Sentinel
http://orlandosentinel.com
7-19-1
The president says that a key part of his foreign policy will be to
alleviate
poverty in foreign countries. Horse apples. Number one, foreign countries
are not his responsibility. Number two, he doesn't have the ability to
alleviate poverty even in his own country, much less somebody else's.
Number
three, the very globalist free-trade policies he advocates are causing some
of the poverty in foreign countries as well as our own. Number four, U.S.
meddling in the internal affairs of foreign countries has greatly
contributed
to bad government and poverty. Does he think we are helping to alleviate
poverty in Iraq with bombings and sanctions? Does he think we bear no
responsibility for the poverty in Yugoslavia caused by our sanctions and
our
bombing? Does he think supporting all the African dictators we supported
so
they would sell out their country's interests to U.S. multinational
corporations was alleviating poverty? Does he think encouraging American
manufacturers to move their jobs overseas is helping to alleviate poverty
either in the United States or in the foreign country where workers have to
live on sweat-shop wages? Does he think we made any advances toward
alleviating poverty in Panama when his Daddy killed 3,000 Panamanians in
order to arrest one little guy who had been on our payroll for years?
Does
he think he's helping to deal with poverty in Africa by giving Israel
(which
has a higher per-capita income than Spain) $3 billion a year? That happens
to
be more than all the aid the U.S. gives to sub-Sahara African countries
combined. Does he think he's going to alleviate poverty by spending $8
billion on an anti-missile system that's going to force a new nuclear-arms
race? Does he think we're fighting poverty by being the world's number
one
arms peddler? Does he think we're fighting poverty when we browbeat Third
World countries, desperate for schools and clean water, to buy high-tech
American weapons? And if he thinks he has to visit Africa to find
poverty,
I would suggest he visit the Mississippi Delta area or any of the slums
that
blight most American cities. And most of all I wish he would read his
damned oath of office and tell us where it says he was elected president of
the world. And read the Constitution and tell us where it says politicians
can tax the labor and sweat of the American people and give the money away
to
foreign governments. By God, I'm sick of this pseudo-philanthropic,
pseudo-compassion-for-the-world bilge which spews forth from the mouths of
our politicians like the filth that comes out a broken sewer pipe. I
supported George Bush because I thought he was a decent man and his
opponent
was not. I'm sorry to say, however, that after six months in office, I have
to say that Vladimir Putin has been a better president for Russia than Bush
has been for America. Putin seems to know which country elected him, to
which
country he owes his loyalty and which people are his responsibilities.
Morally, Putin is right about the ballistic missiles, and right about the
sanctions against Iraq. I'm rather tired of presidents who seem to think
they are either deputy prime ministers of Israel or emperors of the world.
In the meantime, our economy grows less fast than either the Russian or the
Chinese economies. Our public schools deteriorate, our infrastructure grows
increasingly old and in need of replacement, and our borders are rendered
practically non-existent while our prisons are jammed to the gills. That
prison population, by the way, is 62 percent black and other minorities. I
would say that indicates a problem that both Bush and the NCAAP might
consider working on rather than knocking down old Confederate monuments.
Nobody in public office seems predisposed to acknowledge a basic truth. We
have two conflicting forces at work in the world. One is population growth
and the need for jobs paying a living wage. The other is corporate
consolidation and automation, which are eliminating jobs. Now you don't
have to be a graduate in higher mathematics to figure out that if viable
jobs
are shrinking and the population which needs them is growing, something
real
bad is going to happen in the political and social arena in the near
future.
The day when people were willing to politely and silently starve to death
while their "betters" gorged themselves inside fortified compounds is gone.
Unless we address this imbalance, we're likely to find ourselves in the
middle of something that will make the French Revolution look like a
pacifists convention. Copyright © 2001, Orlando Sentinel
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