Kurt Vonnegut, recently speaking to a Canadian audience, declared that the
dreaded 51st State, generally accepted here to be Canada, is actually The US
State of Denial. He feels that there should be a war on oil, not on drugs, and
added that he's vastly disappointed that cigarettes failed on their promise to
kill him, so he's considering a law suit. The Dresden Vet said of Earth's
citizens that they are in revolt against life itself--that they know
exactly what they are doing to it. Of this last, would you not agree?
There
is something strange going on:
"Freud identifies two drives that
both coincide and conflict within the individual and among individuals. Eros is
the drive of life, love, creativity, and sexuality, self-satisfaction, and
species preservation. Thanatos, from the Greek word for "death" is the drive of
aggression, sadism, destruction, violence, and death. ...
"www.geneseo.edu/~easton/humanities/Freud.htm
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Natalia
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] Bush out of
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Hi Lawry,
I'm a bit confused by the second line of your response to Karen's post,
that "the real culprit lies beyond the reach of the Bush administration: poor
education for too many kids, obsolete labor/corporate structures and relations
(past CEO's irresponsibly burdened future ones with unrealistic pension and
other worker obligations) and off-shoring..."
Though I agree with the need for a realistic national industrial
policy, I disagree that it has been past economists and politicians who are
responsible for the mess, given the wasted previous six years of avoiding
enactment of sound economic guidelines of balance and consequences. Sure,
Greenspan, who Senator McCain would apparently gladly bring back from the dead
to prop up like the corpse in Weekend At
Bernie's, abused easy credit for decades. But it is the
current administration that has managed to throw away so much of the
nation's hard earned money--which should have been earmarked for social
programs, infrastructure, healthcare and environment--to funnel it into
national security/war efforts, and on top of that--borrowed more
than all past presidencies combined--to a tune of 8 trillion
dollars. This debt is totally owned by foreign interests, mostly China, Japan,
India and S. Korea. Not that it's in their interests to cash in, but gold is
becoming popular again, to India for starters, because trust in America's word
as the strength of its currency is losing credibility. Though I can
see that some of this would have carried over from Clinton and before, this is
mostly a Bush II team debt. If the borrowed money had gone back into the
country instead of being wasted on war/security/tax cuts for the rich, etc.,
then it would eventually be recovered in terms of a healthier country: better
educated kids, sound infrastructure, social programs, jobs and so on. But it
was squandered on the rich. And again, I must remark that most of
that spending was inspired by Bush team's personal portfolios
of war related industries, real estate holdings, and so on.
Empire of Debt co-author Addison Wiggins was featured on
CBC radio this morning to relate some of the above mentioned information. Not
news to most on Futurework, just something to finally make it to mainstream
publishing.Wiggins adds to the astronomical figure of national debt
the record average family debt of $90,000 (for mortgages) and
$10,000 per person in credit cards alone.--a 266% increase for personal debt.
13 trillion GP, debt at 60% translates to 6 of every ten dollars to pay off
the nation's debt. Long term: $26,000 per US citizen. Which pattern of
spending reflects which?
Not long ago someone had posted the embarrassing sums of
money stolen by US military/administrators in Iraq, particularly with
respect to the reconstruction fund, which was basically Iraqi oil
money being allocated to US officials to rebuild what the US had
destroyed. Paul Bremmer was the fellow in charge of it all, and though his
name was not mentioned in a report I heard two days ago, four officials,
including comptroller, have finally been arrested. The report focused mainly
on the Al Hilla region--described as a town of bad actors. I mention
this not just as another sad example of Bush administration waste,
but notoriously poor judgment of executive appointees. One of these guys had
been previously convicted for fraud. Philip Bloom of Global Business Group was
among them. As to political accountability, the WH declared that this was
entirely deemed to be the result of individual temptation. Not
broached by Ginger Cruz, Deputy General Special Inspector, or some such
title, were Bremmer's acquisition/confiscation laws regarding Iraqi
agricultural cultivation (esp. thousands-year-old seeds now patented)
for Monsanto, I believe it was. I doubt they will be
reversed by US government. Imagine these poor farmers having to pay for the
right to plant their own heritage seeds to feed their families! Not at all
Christian, these appointees!
My main point: it was this miscreant infected administration that
has wasted existing and borrowed funds to the degree of irreversible harm,
thereby wasting their time in power which could have been used to heal both
internal and international wounds. Though few expected the Bush team to
do much but war, the egregious waste on the president's part
alone has been impeachable, and I cannot fathom the nation's Stockholm
syndrome.
Kurt Vonnegut, recently speaking to a Canadian audience, declared that
the dreaded 51st State, generally accepted here to be Canada, is actually The
US State of Denial. He feels that there should be a war on oil, not on drugs,
and added that he's vastly disappointed that cigarettes failed on their
promise to kill him, so he's considering a law suit. The Dresden Vet said of
Earth's citizens that they are in revolt against life itself--that they
know exactly what they are doing to it. Of this last, would you not
agree?
Natalia
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