All this panicky talk about the stupid economy is just more of the same shell-game that the thing is itself.  If “the economy” was a bus it’d be already through the guard-rail and falling over the cliff.

“Management” has long-since moved their portable assets off-shore.  Their asses won’t be far behind, and only a token few supervisor “goats,” who stayed aboard thinking to rob the fare-box at the last minute, will be sacrificed along with all the hapless “passengers.”

There’s a pretty constant hue-and-cry, among commentors here and elsewhere, for some “straight talk” from the media and those supposedly in “leadership positions” about the dire straits theamericanpeople are really in today.  You even get some of that from regular people here, maybe offering examples of what they mean.

It’s all an exercise-in-futility at this point.  What good-hearted people could better be engaged in now is getting together to help one another possibly survive the terminal plunge….and then out of the wreckage. 

There is no “saving” The Economy!

HokaHey!

Marie Coco aptly highlights the sine quo non of success in a universal health care system, i.e. a single payor. But while some wonks love to ponder the pros and cons and the policy details, many more American eyes can be expected to quickly glaze over.

Let those eyes look instead to Michael Moore, or rather to his movie, ´Sicko´. In his entertaining yet poignant presentation, every country he visited that provides good free health care to everyone, has adopted a single payor system.

From the moment Bush took office, the big neocon plan was always to spend all the money in the U.S. treasury and run up so much debt that it would not matter who ran the government in the future—because the country would be broke, and there would be no money available for any social programs.  Mission accomplished. 

Hillary Clinton is the worst possible choice for the Democrats because—she’s really a Republican and she agrees with almost everything Bush has done. 

The Republicans realize they may lose the white house in 2008, so are beginning the counter-attack of No New Taxes.  Bush’s speech yesterday to some middle-American group was all about No New Taxes.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign mantra has been:  pay down debt.  No funding for any social program until the debt is paid off.  Which is about the same as saying no funding for any social programs.

And of course as long as G.I.Hill supports these insane wars, that ties up most of our money in any event.  And, of course, Hillary also plans to attack Iran if Bush doesn’t do it, and she and Obama have both “pledged” to eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah even though the U.S. is not at war with them.  But they are both so generous in sending our young men and women to die, and in blowing our money providing protection for Israel.

If we end the wars and bring our troops home immediately, we might have a chance of pulling this out economically.  But possibly not.  Remember the neocons are applying the same tired old formula they have been using in Africa as colonialists then neo-colonialists, as follows:  1.  Install a puppet government (Bush); 2.  Bribe the government to do as you want; 3.  Get the government to borrow money, to spend money, and to pledge the assets of the country to the neocons; 4.  Government defaults, neocons step in to protect their “investment” and instruct the government to stop all social programs, end healthcare, education, sanitation, road construction, bridges and raise taxes on working people, then give all the taxes to the neocons to pay down the debt; 5.  Alter the economy as instructed by the neocons.  Most of these things are well underway. 

For #5, we are almost at the point of turning control of the entire government over to the multinational corporations.  For example, before he leaves office Bush will “interpret” the H-B1 visa laws to allow businesses complete discretion to decide how many workers to bring in from other countries, use at 1/3 what they would pay an American, fire them eventually, then bring in the next batch.

Edwards is the only candidate who is talking about the economic disaster facing Americans.  And I support him and anyone else who points out Hillary’s flaws.  She would not be a candidate if her husband had not been in bed with every multi-national corporation for years, hustling them for enormous amounts of money to enrich himself and to use so his wife can buy the white house.  Anyone but Hillary.

Its more than just the economy. Its also about our attempted robbery of Iraq’s oil. The country may well decide that $2T, and a few thousand soldiers lives was worth the oil -estimated at $30T. Thats a pretty good return on investment (if the crime can be completed as planned). Right now the violence is going down, thanks mainly to the near-completion of ethnic cleansing. The news cycle from Mess-o-potemia may well beak in the Republicans favor.

  As an additional benefit, the residents of that part of the world are sure to be pissed as hell at us. More jihadis fodder. The anti-terrorist, “we need Republicans to protect us” game, may have new life in it. Don’t take 2008 for granted. It can still be lost.

What a bunch of crap!!!!! We have been hearing this for the past 6 years!!!!! I am sick of it!!!!!

The reason the Democratic candidates have to go after Sen Clinton is because the news media has decided their days are boring and they need an old fashioned food fight, frivolous as it is, to spice things up.  To hell with what we, the American Voter wants to hear.  What really amuses me is the fact that the media seldom gets it right, yet we seem to let them continue to dictate their whims.  The economy has been a problem for most Americans for some time.  We’ve lost pensions, savings, health insurance, jobs and job security while most Corp executives continue to get fat. It’s clear our Reps take our money and don’t do their job.  That won’t change until we, the voter, exterminate these parasites.  They don’t represent us or our Constitution.  The criminal way the mortgage industry operates used to be illegal when these deals were done in back rooms, on red and white checked tablecloths.  Now they’re done behind large mahogany desks in big bank buildings and they call it capitalism!  It is the economy stupid, now get out and vote these morons out of office, demand the prosecution of these destroyers of our Constituion, and lets demand some commonsense and decency be restored.  Now we all know very well it is imperative that we get away from oil.  This should be the topic of discussion for all candidates, not the crap we’re getting now…...

Sorry, but Iraq IS the economy. It’s about oil, in case no one told you; either we steal it, or we go down in flames—-actually we go down anyway, the stealing of oil only puts off the denouement for a day when happily I will be dead and gone forever.

The big issue is that you and your fellow opiners won’t talk about the REAL economy, which is all about oil and nothing else right now, so you try to pretend that what is happening to the dollar isn’t tied to the Iraq adventure which is saving the dollar from even more tumbling.

So sad that you can’t play with a full deck; the game of bridge is hard enough to bid and play when you have all 52 cards in the deck, but what you are doing by omitting oil from your discussions is similar to playing bridge with 40 cards and not telling the players which cards are missing. Even a non bridge player can see that it would be nearly IMPOSSIBLE to play any but a vague game of bridge under such circumstances.

Actually, if you are not going to talk about oil, then you ought to just shut up.