As one who is dismayed by the decline of sovereignty, liberty, and prosperity in my nation, I have been trying to assemble a coherent point of view from the political/economic/social facts and causes of the last few years. Sufficeth it to say that I have concluded that both Democrat and Republican parties equally share the blame -- the Democrats, largely for adhering to their political principles, the Republicans, largely for abandoning theirs -- for the impending economic collapse and likely resultant civil strife.
I hesitate to term such strife "civil war," because I hope the contending factions -- America's Black, White, and Hispanic cultures -- may yet come to their senses, and realize that blaming and fighting each other will only strengthen the hand of those whose long term moves have been to set them against each other for fun and profit, but strife there will be.
When large numbers of people, whose major economic choices have been predicated on a falsely portrayed stable and growing economy, begin to lose first their high-wage jobs, then their cars, finally their houses, there will be a reaction beyond mere despair and self-blame. The jobs of citizens have been "outsourced' to foreign lands, and the replacement lower-wage jobs to which they might have resorted, have been largely "insourced" to outlaw migrants.
These latter have been all but formally invited by traitorous federal, state, and local governments, which have compelled us citizens to cover through taxation, all of the other living costs that the employers of "those who only want to do the jobs that Americans won't do," can escape paying under such wink-and-nod law enforcement, and hence can add to their "bottom lines." Such invitees can hardly be expected to behave as unentitled to the modest incomes and social benefits they receive, having been taught since childhood that the poverty they must leave home to escape is, in some unexplained way, our fault.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the radical Democrats have used the resultant social destabilization and crime to accuse the average American of undeserved wealth, "laziness" and "racism", and to call for expanded social programs. The neocon Republicans have used it for expanding the presidentially-declared war and growing the profits of a few selected insider corporations. The "moderates" of both parties have "gone along for the ride," fearing criticism from presstitutes controlled by the two extremes.
Meanwhile, the nation has become well beyond broke. In addition to the acknowledged "national debt" of merely $9.4 Trillion (~ $30,000 per capita.) I don't know about you, but if pressed for "my share" (and that of my wife), to save our lives, I suppose we could scrape that much together, but it would leave us indefinitely continued in employment, just as we are trying to retire.
There are worse things, of course. Like figuring out how to help my kids and grandkids, who haven't had the time to accumulate "their shares" of the "national debt." And when one begins to add in at least a portion of "Social(ist In)Security," and of "Medi(s)care," plus other federal retirement schemes -- civil service, railroad, and CONgressional (estimated to total somewhere between $50 and $90 Trillion) there simply isn't enough total value in the nation's assets to "pay off" the $300K per capita. Re-fi anyone?
Of course "we" are putatively "the world's only superpower," and "we" could tell most of our creditors some version of what "we" in effect told most of the nations to whom "we" now owe it, "Use our dollar to conduct business or we will come to your country, rape your daughters, and kill you." Most of them might be intimidated enough to merely gripe and take whatever payments "we" send -- most, but not all. Such an offer might not fly at all in a large, recently industrialized nation that has a 25% surplus of young, horny dudes over daughters.
Of course, "our" government can probably once more arrange to get China (or whoever else refuses to just shut up and go away) to fire the first shot, placing the blame on "the enemy," whereupon WDII will have successfully given birth to WWIII, but it's not likely to do us, and our kids (or them and their kids, for that matter) any lasting good.
Meantime, "success" in these pre-choreographed World Wars (whatever that may mean in a thermonuclear context) usually goes to those who can manufacture their way to victory -- which usually means those who can afford to manufacture their way to victory, which usually means whoever can borrow enough to afford to manufacture, ... etc.
But since wars are usually arranged to enable the creditors of excessive national debt to collect on their foreclosures, I'd be willing to bet that sufficient offers of further credit might be rather few and pricey for "us." At last count, America's manufactures were about a 20% shadow of their former selves, with some essential industries now moved entirely abroad, and the remaining few trained employees scattered and otherwise employed.
A local proud neocon (and social Darwinist) radio talkstitute was loudly opining this evening, that anyone who ever gets sweet-talked or tricked into a sucker deal bears the full responsibility of covering his end of the deal, up to and including submitting to full-on chattel slavery, if that is what it takes to "pay off" -- the perpetrator of the con who, as "smart businessman," is incapable of blame.
According to his doctrine, it is inevitably your fault alone, if you believed the lies you were told from the cradle up, even if those who inculcated them in you were as ignorant of the facts as you, and if, on the basis of an intergenerational con game, you were suckered into decades-long deals (e.g., buying an overpriced house, working a suddenly "outsourced" trade, accepting a "retirement package") you eventually could no longer sustain, once those who had conned you, had (ever so smartly) pulled the economic rug out from under you.
Naturally, he is more than proud of a country in which such rules (ones he advocates -- currently in the ascendancy) allow smart businessmen -- like, presumably, himself -- to pick the bones of their "inferiors." Where else could he do so well?
Since the guidance of the nation has long been in the hands of power-trippers left and right, we have lost virtually all of our rights, and exercise such freedom of action as we do, more by virtue of governmental slack -- the calm before the oncoming storm -- than by explicit and scrupulous governmental recognition of the Rights of Man.
Spokesmouths of the neocons (e.g., General Tommy Franks) have been at pains in past years, to explain that the next "terrorist attack" on American soil will spell the formal end of our remaining "constitutional" liberties, under the currently unenforced provisions of the Military Commissions Act, the PATRIOT Act II, and the yet unused capabilities of FEMA. I took him as "not kidding." There is also little likelihood, if (by the Grace of Diebold) the incipient dictatorship is yielded to the radical left, that such plans will be more than slightly re-tailored.
I invite you to read a few of the linked articles, or to proceed from what you already understand, and tell me how you approach the likely outcomes of current trends.
The Grim Reality of Economic Truths
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8261
FUNDING FOREIGN MILITARY WHILE DUMPING ON AMERICAN VETERANS http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd349.htm
Mankind at the Turning Point: Interdependence is Totalitarian http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8245
Republicans and “Free Market” Zealots Bring Death To America http://vdare.com/roberts/080312_republicans.htm
In Los Angeles, Hispanic Gangs Ethnically Cleansing Black Neighborhoods http://vdare.com/walker/080310_gangs.htm
Martial Law, Inc.
KBR: A Halliburton Subsidiary http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8258
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