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In reply to the discussion: A tale of £13 trillion in hidden wealth [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. From the link:
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"The problem here is that the assets of these countries are held by a small number of wealthy individuals while the debts are shouldered by the ordinary people of these countries through their governments," the report says.Note, it was not the welfare queens, unions, poor, socialized medicine or social safety nets that did it. Instead it was the people who profited from their labor and the planet's resouces That is a proof of FDR's warning:
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group...
In order to work together peacefully in cooperation, we pay taxes through our government; but like a temporary gastric bypass gone wrong, the nutrients are not being returned to the body politic, so it has been reduced to the point of feebleness. Thus they are above our leaders who are bound by their position in this body. Some like Obama and Warren, tried to rein them in by calling to reduce the bypass by going after overseas tax havens, and are called by the ravenous rich 'socialists' and 'anti-business.'
One of Barack's very first actions was to go after tax havens overseas, which began a hailstorm of media criticism in his first months and they then instituted a very dangerous game, since their billions pay for many supporters willing to kill for them. They have not stopped railing against him in vicious terms and have now achieved their goal of convincing both the left and right parts of the population that government's mere existence is the problem and not them.
The belief of the people that government should stand between them and these groups has existed for hundreds of years, as an association that they could have some input. Clearly, the rich minority are secretive about where their money comes from, which is us, in order to not inflame the majority against them. Instead, they pay media to inflame us against each other. They created the Tea Party by media to continue the flow of wealth to them without stopping. The spirits of the people we fought in WW2 now keep Americans busy by media mass hypnosis about God, Guns, Gays and Gynecology, going after each other, to take their minds off of where the money went:
"The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence.
His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power...
They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.
Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
-- U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944
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I wish people knew MORE about that and LESS what media tells them. Thanks for your comment on it.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#13
The vast majority in this country are utterly clueless. And the plutocrat-controlled corporate media
scarletwoman
Jul 2012
#16
Excellent post. And it looks like they have accomplished the goal outlined in the last paragraph of
sabrina 1
Jul 2012
#33
You're welcome to make one of it. But as far as the Greeks, when I talked to Europeans, they said...
freshwest
Jul 2012
#34
Could be up to $31 trillion - the article says 13 to 20 trillion pounds
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jul 2012
#21
I saw that error right after posting. I was in a hurry and chose to leave it.
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2012
#28
They've already created jobs. They've reduced people to hiring on to kill other people.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#23
Your headline is innaccurate - it's 13 trillion in British POUNDS, 21 trillion in U.S. DOLLARS.
scarletwoman
Jul 2012
#11
No problem, part of why I posted the correction was for the other readers of the thread, so they'd
scarletwoman
Jul 2012
#29
The greatest enemies of civilization are no longer countries or nations
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jul 2012
#18
Do you mind telling me where? Big city, national or local franchise? How did they introuduce it?
freshwest
Jul 2012
#36
K&R for an important thread that actually matters to all our lives. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#35