Post of the Day:read Greg Palasts "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." He lays out the plan in detail

[bananas]

Great post by nichomachus: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=800215&mesg_id=800257

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The longstanding goal of the corporatists has been to destroy the middle class. In order to do this, they have to destroy the economy. If you haven't read it already, read Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." He lays out the plan in detail.

1. Put the country into debt
2. Impose "austerity measures"
3. Depress wages
4. Privatize the infrastructure
5. Destroy unions
6. Eliminate social programs in the name of austerity
7. Eliminate taxes on corporations and the wealthy

He wrote this something like 8 or 9 years ago, before any of us even dreamed of this economic "crisis." None of this is an accident.

Oh, and the last chapter in their playbook: "How to deal with the civil unrest that will follow." And we're now seeing that play out all over the country.

[joeybee12]

1. KNR...very nice.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. That's it in a nutshell. I read that book when it first came out. nt

[Critters2]

3. Thanks for this. I haven't read his book, but I will now. nt

[Autumn]

4. That book is my bible

K/R It's all going as planned.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Have the book but not have not read it yet.

Guess I should dust it off, even tho so many others have already described the same scheme.

[jtrockville]

6. Seems he forgot to add: "accumulate all the real property" (nt)

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. We really are doomed!

x(

[L0oniX]

8. K & R

[ohheckyeah]

9. Most Americans have no idea

that the economic disaster in this country was orchestrated to destroy the middle class. I don't know how you get the message out and get people to understand that and believe that.

I remember reading an article in 2003 about Bush wanting to bankrupt America. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3977.htm

I don't know who Sam Hamod (the author of the article) is but he was pretty much spot on.