And the ALL TIME LOSER, UNDERNEATH.......
Masquerading behind a democratic facade, an economic elite comprising less than 1% of the population is quietly and cunningly syphoning the blood out of America. Their immense wealth and power enable them to exercise hands-on-control over the governmental process and the politicians who they bought and paid for.
These capitalists effectively operate the country as a billionaire Feudal lord employing a very few 5$ an hour serfs who swarm like ants doing his bidding. 99% of us do not gain from that Feudal Lord. There is no trickle down. That's what his think tanks tell you there will be. But how many of us work for a Harriman or Rock?
Government employees, elected officials including the president, do get a little trickle down. That's why they volunter to serve as tools to this bogus aristocracy. They manage to shroud their services in the ordinary paperwork of government. But in reality, they have handed over national and international resources to privateers. They also create laws and tax changes which favor the Lords, leaving the nation with a Feudal wealth distribution system.
The covert methods used by the elite to manipulate, control and exploit those with less money or power is evident in the Enron Scandal where Enron funded Bush pere et fils for thirty years while they rigged a stock holder chimera that attracted investment from middle class investors. When the corporation, almost entirely bogus, got shaky, all the juice loose, 774 million dollars, was given away by the defunct corporation in its last days, as GIFTS to its own top executives, allegedly to keep them from leaving the bankrupt company. The meat and gristle of a dying body was given pre-death to the foxes to stack in their freezers? The coup de grace to a corpse! One accountancy firm saw this, shredded documents and they are taking the hit. The Bush pals are not though a few lower down execs are now being indicted.
Thank God, the People are becoming aware that
government appears to cater to corporations and influential lobby groups.
The average taxpayer may not know the extent to which the wealthiest 1%
directly and purposely control and manipulate the lives and destinies of
everyone else on the planet but if you'd start reading up and sorting out
the facts you would! You would find out who this brute is and then you
could stop him!
WHO
AM I? YOU WILL NEVER KNOW
BUT
I RUN YOUR PRESIDENT, the
CONGRESS
and your LEGISLATURE.
For those who have been brought up on a steady diet of the American Dream found in all the top publications, notice that today's reality and the American Dream seem to be growing further and further apart. Remember that old metaphor: if a lobster is placed in a pan full of cold water, and the heat is turned up gradually enough, the lobster will fail to sense the danger, and instead of climbing out of the pot, it could quite unknowingly allow itself to be cooked.
In a similar fashion, the media continues to be used to desensitize and/or misinform the general public into repeatedly accepting domestic and foreign policies that are very often diametrically opposed to the best interest of the majority. The carrying gasoline and fire to the Middle East to light a scorcher of a resoure war in an already racially angry place, with reckless and suicidal have-nots on every street is daring the fates. People who have nothing to live for find revolutions to die for.
The average American has "a vague idea" that corporations (as well as the economic elite) use plenty of techniques for avoiding taxation; how many know that the proportion of Federal Income tax derived from Corporate income tax declined steadily from 32% in 1952; to 23% in 1960; to 17% in 1970; to a low of 9% in 1985? Without vital knowledge such as this, the public will remain in the dark as to what is really causing the decline in most Americans' standard of living. It used to be that what a man earned in a year was the cost of a home. Now what he earns in 8 years is what the average home costs. WHAT HAPPENED?
Although the growing deficit and the near trillion dollar banking industry losses will inevitably lead to continuing cuts in the standard of living for present and future generations, most Americans feel powerless to alter their deteriorating economic conditions, and simply take consolation in the belief that everyone else is also feeling the pinch.
Nothing could be further from the truth ! Statistics taken from Forbes magazine's annual July survey of America's billionaires expose the true reality. In 1982 there were 13 billionaires, in 1983...15; in 1984...12; in 1985...13; in 1986...26; in 1987...49 billionaires. And today, one thousand, and most have 40 to 60 billion each.
For years, the number of American billionaires had for many years hovered around 13, then the Reagan administration drastically altered the wealth distribution patterns by introducing tax changes favoring the super rich. In 1986 the number of billionaires DOUBLED, and by 1987 the number of billionaires had QUADRUPLED!! By 1988 there were 68 individuals or families that each had net wealth in excess of $1,000,000,000. By 1989, the number had risen precipitously to 82. And by 1990, the Forbes survey reported the staggering total of 99!! Now that has doubled.
This explosion of wealth taking place at the top has occurred and will continue to occur while waves of beggars flood onto the streets, and thousands of farmers lose their farms. It is neither fate nor coincidence that these events are occurring simultaneously. Tremendous profits continue to flow into the bank accounts of the super rich even during supposedly poor economic periods.
Unless facts such as these become "common knowledge", economic homelessness, joblessness, starvation, plague will be status quo.
Why isn't the general public aware of these facts? Simply because the richest 1% own virtually all of the media, and have little difficulty controlling the content and coloration of television and newspaper information reaching the public. The superficial and often distorted picture of reality offered by newspapers and television's 30 second sound bites has traditionally contributed little to the exposure of America's hidden reality. In no less a fashion, the major publishing houses have, like a circle of protective elephants, provided a wall of defense around the existing status quo and the elite who profit from it. In short, Americans are being deceived and seduced into clinging to unrealistic concepts served up through the mass media by the very people who are exploiting the nation.
Facts that would have exposed the true nature of present day America rarely get presented through newspapers or television. Instead, they surface in magazines such as the Economist, Forbes, Fortune, Insight, and The Wall Street Journal which are read almost exclusively by the economic elite and their sympathizers. Moreover, the specialized economic jargon and ever changing "buzzwords" used throughout these publications poses yet another barrier preventing the published facts from becoming widely appreciated.
Consequently, readers must search deeper for a radical perspective of America's hidden reality, in internet websites, list follows, and magazines like the NATION. And not reading facts extracted from conservative, pro-establishment publications.
Democracy and Equality do not exist in Western Society; the rumor they do is a hoax. The world's economic elite have taken control not only in America, but in virtually all the capitalist democracies, England, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, West Germany, Israel, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc., as well as all the other countries ruled by economically elite minorities.
America chooses to be the flagship for democratic capitalism, so she automatically deserves to be the focus of criticism as well. Moreover, it has been the American elite who have pioneered many of the social and constitutional controls that the economic elite of other countries have imitated.
The rabbit out of the hat tricks these oligarchs use to stay in power (Enron is a great example,) will no longer work, when the rank and file become familiar with the methods which the elite purposely use to manipulate society in order to maintain their wealth and power.
If and when Western citizens come to know even
some of the facts, the outcry could be deafening. The shift of power from
the wealthy elite to the majority could come just as surprisingly and as
quickly as the shift of power away from the Communist elite occurred in
Russia.
The demand for true democracy, and a more equitable distribution of wealth could dramatically alter humanity's destiny. A "New World Order" could really take place.
As Victor Hugo once put it, "No army can withstand
the strength of an idea whose time has come", and the time for a legal
reshuffle has come. FOR THE IDENTITY OF
THE STRANGLERS OF EARTH,
read
THIS URL.
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