What's Happening And Why......

[Johnny Harpo]

Many of you (along with my wife and myself) have watched financial devastation roll through large portions of our country these past few months and wondered how in the hell this could have happened.

Many of you (along with my wife and myself) I’m sure have wondered: Are those ‘Fat Cat’ ‘Movers and Shakers’, the upper 2% of the population who control 90% of the money so greedy that they would allow this to happen for the sake of a higher dividend and some more money added to the millions they already have?

The sad answer, I’m afraid, is YES they would and they will tell us all that they all sleep very well at night.

What is happening now in the United States, is the ultimate culmination of the economic theories developed by Milton Friedman while head of the Economics Department at the University of Chicago and in turn espoused to hundreds, if not thousands, of impressionable young minds who, for whatever reason, decided that Friedman made sense and became his ‘disciples’.

Details of Friedman’s gory approach to economics and capitalism can be found in ‘The Shock Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism’ by Naomi Klein. If you have not already read it, I encourage you to do so and soon. However, be warned, this is not a book to read just before you go to bed at night.

What is happening now in America was in fact tested out and refined in Latin America, South America and Europe. You will read of economic disasters and say to yourself, ‘My God! That is exactly what’s going on in our economy now’.

What is happening now in America is no accident, IT WAS PLANNED! The seeds were planted elsewhere. Once they matured they were transplanted here and the roots have run deep.

Right now I’m not sure if we can ever get rid of it, and I fear for my grown children’s future and for the future of my yet un-conceived grand-children.

And I fear for the future of our nation for there is indeed evil afoot in the land and far, far too many days until November. To paraphrase Gordon Lightfoot, ‘The gales of November come early’ and they are blowing now!

[mmonk]

1. Yes, Naomi laid it out well.

When I was in college, we were taught Friedman but we were also taught Keynes and Keynes was still the dominate economic thought along with standard micro and macro economics. I recently asked my son who is in college if they still taught Keynesian economics and he said no.

[gateley]

2. For a REALLY sleepless night,

add Naomi Wolf's "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot". Our republic's march to fascism was PLANNED, too.

And for more blood-chilling truth about how we've been manipulated lo these many years: "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve". Tells WHO created the Fed, and WHY. Same bottom line: to control the masses and control the money.

:grr: