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Another GOP dart thrown at FDR is that WWII ended the depression . WARS NEVER END DEPRESSIONS . Wars do the same thing to the ecomomies of the MDC's (more developed countries) that free trade agreements do . WARS AND FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS BOTH FLUSH MONEY OUT OF DOMESTIC CIRCULATION AND CAUSE MDC's to become LDCs (lesser developed countries) . A good example is our present situation with the OCCUPATION of two other countries . If this GOP was an astute group they would spend more time explaining what they would do to help improve our domestic situation and not lie , lie , lie , and more lies mixed in lots of mud slinging . Only a fool would buy what they are selling .
We get so wound up in trying to "break the story" and throw in our own version that the real causes of the problems become vague or just disappear . When GHWB stepped in as VP things started to spiral out of control . Health care costs started to rise faster than inflation . Fuel costs went up . Food prices went up . He is also trying to get his hands on the water supplies around the world . Veterans benifits started to disappear . The whole country was made paranoid to divert attention away from the real cause of our pain . He got a reporter fired for attempting to ask him about his girl friend . (The one that rode with him to Japan where he fainted) . Which demonstrated his control of the media . So the shaft he is poking us with will not be reported on by the media . (He is on the board of one of the male enhancement advertisers) Those of us that can remember FDR remember he gave us PRICE CONTROL . If the new Admin puts more money in our house holds the controllers of our necessities of life are going to continue to raise the prices and we will never get out of this hole . The new Admin will never get support for PRICE CONTROL because the congress and GHWB are profiting from the status quo .
Our government has been in the control of the health care groups for years and they have been raising prices faster than inflation for each of those years . If more money is pumped in to our economy they will continue to raise prices and the problems will never go away . Look at what they have done to our industries while members of Congress complain about Social Security and Medicare as prices go up . FDR put PRICE CONTROLS in place . Why couldn't this congress ? It's the cheapest fix in the book . In fact it doesn't cost a thing .
Since the day a real reporter stood up to ask the then President about his female traveling companion and was fired , investigative reporting by the MSM ended . An example is as each Democrate takes over a leadership position the MSM begins the questions about "impeachment" . The MSM knew crimes were committed during the reign of terror under the GOP leadership but under reported it or didn't report it . But now as the DEM's take over the questions begin . The MSM knowing what , and when crimes were committed and by who should have been detailing the crimes to the public as is their job . Instead they want the DEM leadership to start the fight so they can stand on the side and watch the fight or accuse the DEMs of not fighting .
In these conflicts they never tell the truth about the casualties . Remember we dropped a 20K pound bomb on a house in the middle a city they thought Sadam was holding meeting in . Who knows how many were obliterated with that act and if Sadam had been there how would we know if was killed in such devastation ? The man we hired to manage our affairs used his position to get revenge , show up his father , and steal another country's OIL . How many of our's died to get one Sadam and steal the OIL ? In Afghanistan BIG PETRO wants an OIL pipe line , so many of our's have died there and many more will die if we stay there .
Joan did it again . Another home run . A great story .
The insurance and health care companies representatives were shown on Cspan cameras handing checks to members of congress on the floor of congress while congress was in session . Were these criminal offences ? If an organization or individual gives money to the library of the spouse of a member of congress and the member then enacts laws favoring the organization or individual , can this be called a crime ? When we describe a lobby as powerful are we saying that lobby puts lots of money in areas to enhance the position of some important members of congress ? Is this legal ? If all of the above are legal acts then isn't our total government a pay-to-play place of business ?
I saw a movie with three of my favorite actors . "The Pride And The Passion" is the movie . It is about a large cannon the people were dragging across Spain to breach the walls of a strong fort . In one scene after dragging the cannon through a pass where they suffered many casualties they looked back and saw bodies in the hundreds laying in the path behind them . When we look back from where we have traveled with the out going Admin we see a similar scene . 9/11 was a bad thing in the eyes of most of the world and we have been doing bad things to suspects because of it . In the eyes of the world we do go after criminals . In the eyes of the world and to most of us we have leaders that are criminals and the world knows we know it to be true . If the crimes our leaders commited are equal to the 9/11 crimes shouldn't our leaders get the same treatment ? If not , then crime does pay because our leaders enhanced their wealth immensely .