Copyright 2008 Scott Stantis Unlike McCain and Obama during the first highly anticipated but truthfully lackluster
presidential debate (I did not learn anything new from either of them), these three actually hold solid opinions on the state of our collapsing economy, aren't afraid to tell the chaos and corporate socialism like it is, and voice passionate calls to action. Where's our plan b? Is there even a
plan b (not a
"tweaked" Paulson version )?
Senator Bernie Sanders spelled out the origins of our Wall Street meltdown early on, vehemently opposing the bailout and remarking, "any company that is too big to fail is too big to exist! " Congressman Ron Paul's words :“Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike. The events of the past week are no exception. The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress’ throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder.
The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. The Federal Reserve System is actually positioning itself as the savior, rather than the culprit, in this mess!
The issue boils down to this: do we care about freedom? Do we care about responsibility and accountability? Do we care that our government and media have been bought and paid for? Do we care that average Americans are about to be looted in order to subsidize the fattest of cats on Wall Street and in government? Do we care?
When the chips are down, will we stand up and fight, even if it means standing up against every stripe of fashionable opinion in politics and the media?
Times like these have a way of telling us what kind of a people we are, and what kind of country we shall be.”
Congressman Dennis Kucinich speaks out :“The $700 billion bailout for Wall Street, is driven by fear not fact. This is too much money in too a short a time going to too few people while too many questions remain unanswered. Why aren't we having hearings on the plan we have just received? Why aren't we questioning the underlying premise of the need for a bailout with taxpayers' money? Why have we not considered any alternatives other than to give $700 billion to Wall Street? Why aren't we asking Wall Street to clean up its own mess? Why aren't we passing new laws to stop the speculation, which triggered this? Why aren't we putting up new regulatory structures to protect investors? How do we even value the $700 billion in toxic assets?
Why aren't we helping homeowners directly with their debt burden? Why aren't we helping American families faced with bankruptcy? Why aren't we reducing debt for Main Street instead of Wall Street? Isn't it time for fundamental change in our debt based monetary system, so we can free ourselves from the manipulation of the Federal Reserve and the banks? Is this the United States Congress or the board of directors of Goldman Sachs? Wall Street is a place of bears and bulls. It is not smart to force taxpayers to dance with bears or to follow closely behind the bulls."
EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) today (introduced to me by Seth a few years ago!); disbanded visionary culture-jammers
from the 90s, that reminded us to always question authority (a favorite spoken word poet, Taylor Mali also implored us to speak with it too ) and see through the airwaves of bull in so many brilliant visual and auditory ways. Sadly, the multimedia performance group split sometime in 97-98. Seriously, just imagine what they would have be able to make with the shitshow and media engine we've created today! Let's end on an old schooling from EBN:
Copyright 2008 Scott Stantis
1 comment:
man, you put my blog to shame! :) but i love the multimedia attack! you're more than welcome to contribute to my other blog (seattlife) you can look over it and let me know if you'd like to be part of it!
props again!
abraços,
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