Yesterday I listened to the newly appointed member of the Obama team, Geithner, give his speech about what he plans on doing to get this country out of the economic ditch. As it turns out, it was actuality no plan at all. Or at least not one clearly defined, so the average listener could understand., there is a solid game plan off the drawing board to be implemented by the new regime.. I did hear in his speech, they will need more money. Always more and more money. All is not enough.
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Geithner, Plan for No Plan – Whitaker Chambers, Pumpkin Papers (Issue 164)
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It was not very long ago when the mainstream news media was so glaringly shouting out the “shock and awe” theme when the United States Government invaded Iraq.
At that time, Donald Rumsfeld was in charge, and praised for his genius relative to tactics and strategy. Later we hear this tactic of “shock and awe” was an idea hatched by noted economist, Milton Friedman, who said, “Only a crisis, ACTUAL or PERCEIVED, produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend upon the ideas lying around.”
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Doctrine of Shock & Awe: “Stimulous Package” – The Cry of Crisis (Issue 163)
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As things go from bad to worse in this country, every day we are layered with layers upon layers of more of the same layering. The 900 billion dollar so-called stimulus package, which just passed the congressional house, is the biggest and most insane layering it on to us tax-payers, than anything which has come down the pipe line before. Like onions we are burdened with layers of government gouging.
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Onion Politics – Stop Listening and Just Think (Issue 162)
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