On May 20, 2012, at 12:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > *THEY* also control who gets taxed and who doesn't.
*THEY* have no power of taxation. The G8 and the IMF are merely forums where nations get together and talk about monetary policy and try to determine a best course of action. Yesterday, at the G8 meeting at Camp David, that extremist from the radical right, Barack Obama, suggested that the western democracies and Russia should try to stimulate the economy and create jobs rather than focus on austerity. The other leaders where generally in agreement. The G8 was formed after the oil crisis of the 70s, and it has generally served to avoid disasters. The IMF was formed at the end of world war II when currencies were in disarray, and it has usually managed to straighten out international messes. All of the organizations are managed by your elected leaders. In response to Obama's request for job creation, the occupants marched on Rahm Emanuel's house, and some even threatened to burn it down. The G8 isn't scary. People building bombs in their basement are scary.. Paul > > From: "knarftheriault > >> I agree with your analysis of this, Christine. It's all about >> economics, wealth, money and who controls it. G8, G20, the World >> Bank, IMF, they control how public money (ie: tax dollars) are spent. >> >> >> These organizations are incredibly powerful yet (in the case of the >> World Bank and IMF) not elected or in any way democratic. They are >> not answerable to "the people". That's scary. >> >> They tell elected governments what to do. That, too, is scary. >> >> Since so much of the public purse is spent on the military, NATO is a >> big piece of the puzzle. >> >> I'm sure that it's fair to say that many if not most of the >> protesters at these conferences worldwide would prefer to see at >> least some public funds diverted from the military to social and >> other programmes. >> >> Of course another big reason for these protests is that the world is >> watching; they have a huge platform from which to publicize their >> causes and the media is only too happy to oblige. >> >> Cheers, frank > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
