D'ya suppose * and the robber oil barons are trying to break this nation

[Skidmore]

through hitting transportation? It is the area that affects people's livelihoods and living standards most directly, and the one commodity people can replace easily. They haven't been successful at using terra and war. Why not just dessimate the people so they can't fight back.

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. They seem to be interesting in three things,......

MONEY, POWER AND STAYING OUT OF JAIL. Everything else, including our country and its welfare, is superfluous.

[rurallib]

3. 3 things: Stealing the treasury blind, busting unions, endless war

IMHO

[liberal N proud]

2. Doing a damn good job of it if they are trying

It would be the only thing bu$h would have succeeded at.

[KansDem]

4. I've thought the only thing that stands in the way of BushCo and world domination...

...is the U.S government. So either: (1) severely hamper it by bankrupting it, or (2) make it the scourge of all political persuasions.

By bankrupting it, CorpUSA can reign supreme. It can also take the place of the very institutions the US was once proud of, offering a alternative version "for a price."

And, dissuade liberals and progressives that government works for the betterment of the people. I've noticed an alarming increase in government criticism among acquaintances who I consider liberal or progressive; not necessarily the mob who presently controls the US government, but the very notion of government itself. I'm not saying criticism of government should be suppressed, but that the real malfeasance we are currently enduring is found in the government, not as a result of government.

But any previous attempts to take down the US government as been futile: Consider the Fifth Column attempt to overthrow FDR in the 1930s as revealed by Gen. Smedley Butler...
In 1934 Butler came forward and reported to the U.S. Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had been plotting to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a military coup. Even though the congressional investigating committee corroborated most of the specifics of his testimony, no further action was taken.
Wikipedia

...to the Iran-Contra scandal. The US appeared to be the ultimate foil for neo-con fascist aspirations.

However, the Bushistas have come much further to realizing a dream of world domination while enslaving the people of America and dismantling their champion.


I don't think FDR's "New Deal" had the Bushistas in mind when he envisioned it.

[screembloodymurder]

5. If they want to reduce the growth rate of oil consumption,

raising the price of gasoline works wonders. The increased demand from China, India and SE Asia combined with the peaking of oil production worldwide is raising prices. There's no incentive to keep prices low when you want to limit consumption, so why fight the market. Be prepared, the price of gas has no where to go but up.

[catmandu57]

6. I think they're running a scorched earth policy on us

really, I think they intend to fuck things up so bad that we'll never get back to where we were.

[rec_report]

7. Yes, exactly! n/t

[blues90]

8. It will certainly do the job if this is their intent

We are being hit on so many fronts that it is difficult to know which one will do you in the fastest . We do know most of all the problems involve oil and the power of corporations and the military industrial complex .

[Golden Raisin]

9. Every way they can.

The staggering and ever-growing national debt is killing this nation. It is as deliberate as "signing statements", the endless fear-mongering and the constant chipping away at checks and balances and our Constitution. None of this is happening by accident or in a vacuum.

[GreenTea]

10. Better plan; Keep them in fear - with bullshit and they'll do whatever you demand!

Your world is crumbling, the terrorist want you and the "homeland"...your picnic's aren't safe...as they continue to steal more & more!