ECONOMIC POLITICS 101

Governments seem to serve someone. But this is the biggest hoax in the world. WHILE sometimes it is you, schools, roads, police, the government serves the wealthy property owners, mostly. It isn't always you, the governed. You can see that GOVERNMENTS to a large extent take from you. Licenses, Taxes, fees, penalties, inheritances.

They give you very little you couldn't give yourself. Free schooling for kids? You could buy private schools if they left you alone on inheritance taxes, fees, penalties, licenses.

They give you a Social Security pension? If you were left untaxed, you could buy homes to rent by the dozen. My landlord was a taxi driver, then a real estate agent. Today he owns 22 houses that he's leaving to his son in a trust so that it's not taxed, so that the son can live off rents for his lifetime.

The Fed Gov give you roads, Streets?  HAH! Your city builds them with bond issues. Fed give you Policemen? Civilian vigilantes have watched enough cop shows to be better cops than the real cops. Work at half the salary, too. Try NONE! Besides, anyone who's been burgled knows that no fingerprints are taken.

No, The Government and its agencies serve themselves, the politicians of city, state and nation and the needs of the rich property owners who elected them. These smiling, hand waving men and women make lucrative careers and gain huge pensions, serving not you ---- but make no mistake, serving the oligarchs, the super rich industrialists. That is their real boss. Anything a government does, ever, was ordered by some lobby or some mandate that came straight from someone really really rich.

While this process goes on, a group of patriotic newsmen come out of your television and cheer this miserable, corrupt process on. The journalists of the right wing, incite to riot and war. They wave flags. They keep you angry. These men, let's not call them gentlemen ---these greedy ruthless men, will --- left to their own devices --- get us, the citizens into repeated wars. They will bomb, exploit and misuse foreign lands and workers. They will be careless and pollute like Bhopal and steal the resources of these nations. They will wreak financial havoc and cause us to be regarded as villains in the furthest corner of the world.

The wars they wage (when they can't accomplish their evil will abroad, when some nationalist ruler stands in their way,)  are strictly to correct that lack of control so that they can again enrich themselves. The CEOs who order wars make  money so many ways. First is reaching into foreign lands and getting what they want, resources, laws, workers. And secondly with the huge government war contracts they will get from their pals in Washington. The military aids and abets and rarely complains as they get medals and advancement, prestige. If blood is how you make your living, blood's fine.

So it all boils down to this. Politicians sell favors like hookers at Shriners conventions. They make fortunes. Revolving doors insure that later, once out of office, they will work for the huge corporations, have hot and cold running virgin girls and never travel on a public jet again.

SO this huge group of loathesome critters, needs but one thing. YOUR PERMISSION to make wars.  They got it Fall of 2002 when Congress ratified war on Iraq.  They got permission from YOU  for waging a war on Afghanistan when 911 happened. They alleged Osama (maybe guilty) was living in Afghani mountains. (unproveable.) FDR got it when Pearl Harbor happened. Now it turns out he let Pearl Harbor happen so he could enter that war.

To get such moral permissions from you voters or polled citizens, YOU must first be fanned into a patriotic frenzy, so that you hang flags on yourself and say with bugging eyes 'kill those bastards abroad.' The politicos use the news men to do this to you. To wreak that change from shocked to MURDEROUS. The newsmen that get ahead are the ones that do it best.  Journalists who aren't pro the government line of war take their lives into their hands but not their eternal souls.

Now, your shrieking 'get the sonsofbitches even once' attracts you the moral karma that the Nazis got. Your sons will be used and killed as soldiers. Worse, abroad, generations of terrorists will be born on blood soaked dirt, hating you, and they will grow up to make their ways to our shores to bomb, set fire, sniper us and pull down our buildings --- maybe with your family in them. So in one lifetime or another, you will be punished for your patriotism with a fiery death. Just like the one you wished on whomever the newsmen were touting this week.  The villain de jour.

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"To be governed - is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed,
law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at,
controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by
creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do
so.

To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted,
registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed,
licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed,
corrected, punished."

~Pierre Proudhon~

P.S. Pierre didn't mention "LIED to" because 200 years ago, he couldn't imagine
what talking heads could manage to do SPINWISE, to your brain from a box
flickering in your living room.