Sure It was Valentine's Day. People are going trough the motions' set out by the retailers who love V Day, but cannot get money flowing on any of the Monday Holidays, can't pay the rent, and will lose the house or job or both by tax day. So is there love in Washington for the President the nation has come together over? Hell No! Obama calls on us to "prove equal to this task", speaking of the hardships we must overcome due to the absolute failure of the Bush Hegemony. Despite all of the stimulus pandering, we need an injection of money, dispersed to as many right economic sectors as possible, and we need it now. The biggest complaints the Republicans are crying sour grapes over-other than Big daddy W's leaving office-is the digital-analog conversion money(650M), 190M for Phillipino War vets(who helped us in Asian Campaigns and are our trusted ally still today) , and the evil empire known as the National Endowment for the Arts(50M). What should have been the focus, tied directly to the stimulus and economic crisis, is that Richard Holbrooke(Pakistan and Afghanistan), George Mitchell(Israel and palestine), and Hillary Clinton(China, Korea, and India) are now meeting with heads of state in the places that we are at war,helping to fund war, and trying to prevent war, respectively. If any future America wants to keep its' money flowing and its' people safe, these three agendas-designed and assigned by President Obama-will be greater than the sum of all Domestic Efforts of Stimulus. But Republicans and their media slaves want to focus exclusively on nuances of stimulus, because its' easier to blame Obama if this does not work than to blame him for the multi national war Bush created for us.minimum expenditure thus far-ONE TRILLION DOLLARS(1T-yes trillion). Oh yea, lets not mention-shut the fuck up CNN don't say it- that "Asian central banks altogether own about a quarter of the Treasury market of over $5.5 trillion"(Reuters 11/09/09) So that means that simply between our direct war funding-not the subversive underpinnings of war economics, and Asia's free market-6.5 Trillion Dollars of our taxpayer money is being spent to "help" our foreign "allies". That does not include South America, where the Bush Regime has jacked up the price of "Help" in Colombia's' War on Drugs to 4 Billion Dollars, and according to Colombian Journal "The U.S. indictment provided no evidence to support its claim that FARC leaders have earned $25 billion from drug trafficking and are responsible for 60 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States.
Meanwhile, most Colombia experts agree that the country’s right-wing paramilitaries are far more deeply involved in drug trafficking than the rebels, a fact supported by the numerous drug busts in which the seized cocaine was traced back to paramilitary groups. In fact, former associates of Pablo Escobar, the notorious leader of the now-defunct Medellín cartel, established some of Colombia’s most prominent paramilitary groups.
At the same time that the Bush administration is making the FARC the focus of its drug war propaganda, it is becoming increasingly evident that the U.S.-backed paramilitary demobilization is nothing more than a charade. Last week, demobilized paramilitary leader Ivan Roberto Duque confirmed publicly on Caracol Radio what Amnesty International, the United Nations and many analysts had been alleging for more than a year: that demobilized paramilitaries are taking up arms again. According to Duque, ex-militia fighters are offering their services to drug traffickers or “private justice” groups, also known as paramilitaries. As a result, the number of killings by paramilitaries in 2005 more than doubled that of the previous year"
Meanwhile, Mexico, our bordering neighbor, is picking up whatever the Colombians don't control, and killing thousands along the way. Right next to Texas-the best nation on Gods' Green Earth!
We can no longer blame this travesty on Bush's poor decisions, bad management, or over-extended resources. This effort to undermine the Common Good for personal gain is overt, and Bush-Cheney, and everyone in media who supported the lie-should be prosecuted. These people committed treason with every breath. We fund other militaries' better than we fund our own. We need another tea party-of 2009 proportion .
As we get set to increase weaponized attacks into Pakistan, decide on a number to put hastily into Pakistan, while owing all the bad guys billions of dollars in the region, one can only HOPE that Obama really pushes the economic crises through the proper channels, because this cannot remain the priority after the states and private institutions begin to recieve billions in funds. I hope that their is oversight, Justice Department oversight, when the money starts to flow around, and popular oversight, because WE, THE PEOPLE, are more capable of getting us in and out of financial disasters than any Adminstration. When people think of money, they simplify is into a very, very small box, yet it is the pian in the ass key to the game of life. Most of us, at work, will never admit a dire money problem in our life, yet most of us that work have issues pertaining to cahs flow, saivings, etc. So we bottle it up and suffer the consequences of capitalism. Rather than bruise our pride at our "career"(in quotes because we may all chaneg careers more thna twice in our lifeltime), we hurt our spouse, our families, and our neighbors. For a "Cristian" nation, thats' whats' too hard to swallow. If you horde money it-or even if you horde information about how to get it, save or invest , money that can help someone else-you are a miser. People usually don't understand that hording money is a group thing. The One-percenters-those ferrari driving, red carpet walking people who flap about charities only to get drunk at a cocktail party and write meaningless checks, and the other 99% of us who worship them. Other than that you have the Wall Street crowd, who never knows which way is up and down, Doctors andLawyers who are communal by nature, andTrust fund babies, all grown up and ready to be President for 8 years and run teh Free World into the ground. I hate money, but I know I need to live well with it in order to breath fresh air, know who'd going to call me,know how I can see the world, expcet to grow,and above all, provided for my family. The system is not set up for such simplcity, but its' not the moneys' fault. I know enough of the history of it that its' not going away, and none of us can live without it. If America as a population rises up to meet the money with a whole hearted work effort, we can be turning the corner by 4th of July. If not, we may never see an American Indpendence Day again.
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