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taniwha
I think the it will be far more likely to FEED "this war".
Reinstating the draft is one way the US government has of dealing with the outcome of the financial crises. It soaks up the large pool of young unemployed. It focuses the population on the growing foreign nemesis the country is supposedly at war with, and away from the reality of what is happening internally.
Obama's comments recently are a clear indication his intention is to see the military draft reinstated while in his first term in office. Obama is quite simply a handpuppet for a faction of the ruling elite, the 'Liberals'. McCain on the other hand represents the extreme right who now form the core of the Republicans, and he most certainly will have to reinstate the draft to fight this call to war ringing through his speeches.
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taniwha
Its a very good question. Who is on that list?
The might adopt a role as president of a company, these are people whose wealth and power doesn't end with the corporation. The super rich in the are likely to be members of families of industrialists and bankers.
Wall Street CEOs are generous with their wealth where their own welfare is concerned. They compensate themselves with tens of millions, even billions of dollars. There isn’t much rationality involved outside of their own desire for wealth, squandering social resources for the benefit of private greed.
The Lehman board awarded CEO Richard S. Fuld a compensation package worth more than $40 million at the end of 2007.
Moderator: Back on topic please.
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taniwha
Like who is the "we" you speak of? Who is "Saul"? Are you wanting to flash your Biblical or your literary knowledge here?
Okay then. So many names. Not as many as stars in the sky. But anyway, I'm talking specifically of the country's financial elite. These are the individuals and families that can be best represented by what they own. They own Wall Street literally and figuratively. They also own the government, because while 'you' may have a democracy in name, you have a plutocracy in reality.
These are people who have reaped millions while in their corporate roles as Directors/Presidents/and CEOs. They are the industrialists who are protected by the tax breaks Obama has stated he would continue, and who in return fund campaigns of the Obamas, and the McCains. You want names? Go pick up a copy of the Journal.
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taniwha
McCain or Obama. Hmm.
Nice to have a real choice between two such totally different perspectives on what the future is for the US and the world, isn't it?
Obama = confrontation with Russia, China, and Iran, and the return of the military draft in the term of office. But hey, fewer troops in Iraq, at least until civil war erupts once more and threatens the security of US assets (i.e. fore-mostly oil). Protection of the financial elite. Increased pressure on the working people (bulk of the US population) to pay themselves for the collapsing economy. No economic policy that can fix the financial meltdown. The Democratic Party represent a faction of the ruling elite who wish for a more moderate approach to that taken by those now in control in the Republican Party, but who have proven themselves time and time again over the past two decades to be utterly spineless.
McCain = More troops in Iraq as well as the above fundamental policy direction taken by Obama. Charisma and charm aside the difference between Obama and McCain is in the posturing, not in the fundamentals of policy.
McCain has a running mate who it is most apparent manifests those extreme right-wing and fascistic elements, making up the base of the Republican Party, including the most reactionary tendencies within Christian fundamentalism. A would be Vice President (to a seventy year old president) who considers a war with Russia an option, which today would mean thermo-nuclear.
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taniwha
Anyone who believes the Obama and McCain campaigns can deliver peace and prosperity back to the American people, and as a result a good part of the world are living an illusion. Both candidates represent a plutocracy. The US is being run by the financial elite for their own ends. If that is too much to swallow, reflect then on what little substantial difference there is in the content of what both men have been saying in their speeches and in their interviews with the media. The difference is slight.
Obama apparently stands for "change", but fundamentally that change does include away from military muscle back to diplomacy as a tool of foreign policy. Quite the opposite. Obama has implied very clearly that he intends to bring back the military draft. Obama has put forward no economic policies that could possibly solve the financial crises.
McCain has promised more troops in Iraq and in all of America's on going wars. He has offered nothing that possibly shift the present course of America's financial meltdown. And his running mate in a most recent interview has suggested the possibility of a thermonuclear war with Russia is an option.
Posted in: Bush scraps comments on financial crisis
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taniwha
Alinsky, Hey, sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but Barack Obama is a stooge.
Do you actually pay attention to what that hand puppet is saying?
Posted in: Bush scraps comments on financial crisis
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taniwha
The origin of 'the problem' lies much further back than Clinton. You need to go back many decades, at least as far as the 'New Deal'. However, the solution does not lie in tweaking the Capitalist system which long ago had run its course, and is now a colossal and grindingly slow train wreck.
The ultimate peaceful solution lies in dismantling nation states and yes, in International Socialism.
The alternative is world war. That too followed the Great Depression. The cogs are already in motion, you only need to listen to the war mongering from the McCain and Obama campaigns to have an insight into what the Plutocracy ruling the USA have in mind as a solution to fall of US dominance. The same talk to various degrees can be heard from most of the other world powers at this point also.
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taniwha
Mad, Hey, thanks for the welcome. Although I am trying to keep in character here, things are serious but that doesn't translate to doom and gloom necessarily. It is going to be bloody on Wall Street though. For those who are not yet members of the financial elite, that's most of us, things are going to get quite nasty, no doubt about it.
Talking of Socialism, it is interesting don't you think that the outcome of decades of 'free market' ideology dominance has culminated with what we now witness happening in the apex of word Capitalism, the USA. In the past few weeks we have witnessed the socialization of corporate debt, no less.
Yes, everyone is now paying for the losses made by private enterprise, through their taxes. The government nationalizes Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac, and now AIG has been bailed out. That is the failure of the 'free market'. And it has been totally predictable all along.
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taniwha
That's right. It's 'bye bye world economy' as we have known it.
China has been the other engine for a very short while, and the hope is that it will keep the aircraft in the air until some financial wiz from either McCain or Obama's team crawls out on to the wing and fixes the US engine.
However because its a tail spin there is going to be the inevitable crash. The US can't go down on its own. We are all in this together. Call it the death of Capitalism if you like. This is going to be one long and painful crash. The good news is that it is possible to learn from our mistakes. The tricky part is surviving them first.
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taniwha
No single president will be able to pull out of this financial crises. The US economy is in a tail spin. The global economy is also unable to pull out of this one. The economic fundamentals underlying this mess are the almost the same as those that created the Great Depression. The only real difference is that now the amount of debt owed by the public is far far greater than it was back then.
Posted in: Bush scraps comments on financial crisis
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taniwha
The impending fall of the US from its comfy spot at the apex of world capitalism, and with its fall an accompanying world recession, the end of cheap oil, Obama or McCain for president which is really just a choice of two puppets of the same ol’ plutocracy.
Its been a tough year. What a series of surprises. Like I don’t think any of us ever saw this coming.
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