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Clyde Middleton, the Philadelphia Conservative Examiner and I agreed on different days that members of our current Congress were profiles in cowardice. Both he and Al Ritter the Baltimore Conservative Examiner have been writing about how Cap and Trade will raise the cost of energy for all of us. Once again I wholeheartedly agree, I expect BG&E and Allegheny Power and all the coal, oil and natural gas companies will be helping themselves to a healthy slice of what is left of our earnings after the last time they ripped us off.
Where we all differ is that I have a far more cynical view of how our government works than either one of them. I no longer think it matters which party is in control. I think that the privatized system of how we finance our political campaigns, by what I see as little more than legalized bribery, has so corrupted the political system that we are in grave danger of losing Democracy.
When it comes to the environmental legislation that just passed the House, that contains the cap and trade provisions that my Conservative colleagues have been identifying as odious, I don't think cap and trade is in there for any reason except Goldman Sachs and others see that as the next speculative bubble. This speculative bubble will be the repository for much of that bank bailout money we gave Wall Street with no strings attached. This phony speculative carbon emissions trading bubble will be the pretense of economic recovery that some in the administration are touting will begin in the last half of 2009.
Just like the Dot.coms, Housing, lending and all the previous destructive cons foisted on us under the rubric of the Free Markets, this bubble will burst and guess who will be holding the bag once again. In the meantime this fraud of an environmental bill gives the energy companies the cover to jack up our rates while pretending they didn't want to do it, which is also why they supported Democrats for putting Cap and Trade in or believe me it wouldn't be in, and it allows the Democrats to falsely claim to one of their constituencies ( environmentalists ) that they have done something for the environment.
This is the cruel hoax of our present system of government. We pass legislation that is as fraudulent as a Citibank or AIG loan, pretending that we have given America change it can believe in, while essentially for all the verbiage in the reform legislation it does essentially nothing except allow Wall Street to loot us. They pretend to represent us while the laws they pass slowly destroy the Middle Class.
Wall Street doesn't care about our nation they care about profits. They have no loyalty to America only to their boards of directors and stockholders. Wall Street is treating America as they would a corporation in bankruptcy. They aren't interested in restructuring. They are interested in selling the parts to others at a profit because selling America in pieces to other nations and Corporations is far more profitable to them than America is as a nation. Remember Dubai Ports World?
They have no problem taking good paying American jobs overseas and endangering our national security by letting China finance more and more of our national debt because well, its profitable. They have no problem selling our nation to others piece by piece because its profitable. And its time to stop being the victim's of their blackmail when they claim give back your pensions, give back your health benefits and work for less and less because we aren't competitive in the global market. Until we all work for thirty five cents an hour we won't be competitive in the global market.
Corporate America's answer for every corrupt, stupid, selfish, greedy act they have committed, has been to cut wages, benefits and health care. In the phony Free Markets, we will be a Third World Country and we will all be working in the worlds latest sweatshop, in our homes producing words glued to our laptop computers 16 hours a day for fifty cents a 500 word document if Wall Street has its way.
Think about this one for a few seconds. Elementary school children know full well you can't play a game at recess without rules for the game. Yet we adults have been gullible and stupid enough to buy Corporate America's lying crap about how the Free Markets can only function if there are no rules, regulations, laws or consequences. All right you fooled me once but I am not buying this boat load of you know what again.
We will not have real reform, and being a Progressive, Liberal, Middle of the Roader, or Conservative won't matter any more than being a Democrat or a Republican will matter unless we get all of the money out of politics. On my side of the equation we won't get real health care reform, we won't get real reform of business and Wall Street, we won't be able to create a real economy that creates real wealth in place of this phony con job junk created on Wall Street until we get the money out.
You want a real revolution, you don't need a gun you just need to vote out every incumbent running and demand that the money goes with it after the new Congressmen and Senators are sworn in. When money is free speech the rest of us are rendered speechless and we are under the dictatorship of the almighty dollar. I just don't accept that all we can aspire to be is the greatest Democracy money can buy.
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