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What we have here, way before Obama, is fascism according to its father:
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini
The US has become the leading Corporatocracy in the world, its politicians bought and paid for, its media under tight corporate control, and even its Supreme Court agreeing that corporations have the right to behave as people in buying influence over our "elections".
GM, you are correct. I am 100% out of fiat currency. That's why I'm here on this site, no?
As to Ron Paul, he is more knowledgable about foreign policy than all the other game show hosts put together. Ron Paul is a realist, not a flag wrapped hypocrite. What he said about Iran is completely correct, that the US has learned to co-exist with nations who had massive stockpiles of nukes, and that it is not within our power to stop countries like India, Pakistan, South Africa, North Korea, etc. from acquiring nukes. Nor should they be viewed as a threat to us, unless they are willing to suffer total and complete destruction.
The Russians knew this, and we lived without war between us despite their 30,000 nukes.
What Paul fears, as I do, is that some Cheney-Rumsfeld type will manufacture all the lies they need to incite a needless war with Iran in order to pump up the corporate fat cats and banksters with a little more federal largesse.
As to Bachman learning as she goes, I think you said it best: "She didn't have a clue (sic) about TARP or the Patriot Act". Maybe she can come back when she gets a clue.
We had panics before the Fed, you are correct. Most were the result of manipulations in the market by robber-barons like Morgan, Vanderbilt, et al. The Fed was founded in order to "control" these panics, but in fact it was founded in order to control the markets, and to make sure there was a systematic way of looting the US, so that all the banksters could share in the spoils. The panic of 1907 was cited as the raison d'etre for the Fed, when in fact it was just a facilitator.
As to Vietnam, very briefly, we promised Ho that Vietnam would become independent in return for helping us against the Japanese, which he did. Unlike Britain, which fulfilled the same promise to its colonies, the French refused to give up their "empire". We were so desperate to get the French into NATO, that we pissed on the Vietnamese & kissed the French ass. It was only then that Ho turned to others for support. He is the Washington of his people, and just one of dozens of leaders we double crossed & stabbed in the back. The US has done, and is still doing, that which you accuse Russia & China of doing in that paragraph.
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