While I hate to sink to politics, I couldn't resist this
BRILLIANT ANALYSIS
(NEWS BELOW ARTICLE)
The Message FromBoth Parties Is That Americans Are Disposable ~ Paul Craig Roberts
If political
conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican
Convention zero and the Democrats one.
How can the United
States be a superpower when both political parties are unaware of everything
that is happening at home and abroad?
The Republicans
are relying for victory on four years of anti-Obama propaganda and their
proprietary programed electronic voting machines. For nearly four years
Republican operatives have flooded the Internet with portraits of Obama as a
non-US citizen, as a Muslim (even while Obama was murdering Muslims in seven
countries), and as a Marxist (put in power by the Israel Lobby, Wall Street,
and the military/security complex).
Most Republican
voters will vote against Obama based on these charges despite the curious
fact that no committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives
held a hearing to determine if Obama is a citizen. If Obama were not a
citizen, why would the very aggressive House Republicans not capitalize on it. It would be easy for a Congressional
committee to determine if Obama were a citizen. Despite the propaganda, the
Republicans in office have shown no interest in the propaganda charges spread
by Republican operatives over the Internet.
Either Republicans
have no confidence in the charges and do not want to end up proving with
Congressional hearings that Obama is a citizen, or the Republicans, having
destroyed every other aspect of the US Constitution, reducing it to “a scrap of
paper,” feel that making an issue of the last remaining Constitutional
provision other than the Second Amendment would be the height of hypocrisy and
don’t want to risk opening the constitutional issues that Republicans have run
roughshod over.
If the Republicans
can destroy habeas corpus, due process, violate both US statutory and
international law, ignore the separation of powers, and create a Caesar, why
can’t the Democrats run a non-citizen?
Why didn’t the
Republican convention raise the issue about the Obama regime’s claim that the
executive branch has the power to assassinate US citizens without due process
of law? No such power exists in the US Constitution or in US statutory law.
This gestapo police state claim exists only as an assertion. Republicans
ignored this most important of all issues, because they support it.
Why didn’t the
Democrat convention raise the issue that the Republicans took us to wars based
on 9/11 assertions without ever conducting an investigation of 9/11? No
qualified high-rise architect, structural engineer, physicist, chemist, or
national security expert believes a word of the US government’s 9/11 story.
Neither do the first responders who were on the scene and witnessed and
experienced the event.
Many experts keep
their opinions to themselves, because otherwise the federal grants to their
universities are over and done with or their architectural and engineering
businesses are boycotted by patriotic former clients.
Regardless of
these risks, there are 1,700 architects and engineers who have sent a petition
to Congress that they do not believe one word of the official explanation and
who demand a real investigation.
Why did not either
party raise the question of how can the US economy recover when corporations
have offshored millions of US middle class jobs, both manufacturing jobs and
professional service jobs. For at least a decade, the US economy has been able
to create only lowly paid domestic non-tradable (not exportable) service jobs,
such as waitresses, bartenders, and hospital orderlies.
Both parties talk
total nonsense about jobs. The Republicans say they can create jobs by not
taxing the rich. The Democrats say they can create jobs by financing jobs
programs. The Republicans say that the Democrats’ jobs programs simply take
money from business investments and give it to those who patronize bars and the
drug trade. The Democrats say that the low taxes of the Republicans just
subsidize yachts, exotic cars, private aircraft, and $800,000 wrist watches for
the one percent, most of which is produced abroad.
Neither political
party will admit that when US corporations offshore their production for US
markets, Americans are removed from the incomes associated with the production
of the goods and services that they consume. Offshoring is defended by both
moronic political parties as “free trade.” In fact, offshoring is the gift of
what was US GDP to China, India, and the other countries to which US
corporations locate their production that they sell to Americans. US GDP goes
down, the GDP of the countries who make the American goods sold to Americans
goes up. The idiot free market economists call the de-industrializing of
America “free trade.”
As an intelligent
economist –an oxymoron– would know, destroying consumer incomes by moving their
jobs to other countries, leaves consumers without incomes to purchase the
imported offshored goods.
Neither American
political party recognizes this disconnect. Neither party can afford to
recognize it, as both parties are dependent on corporate campaign financing,
and offshoring boosts executive bonuses and share prices. A political party
that opposes offshoring of US jobs simply does not get financed.
So, the great
“superpower,” the “indispensable nation,” the world hegemon, is going into an
election, and no one knows what are the stakes.
Why did not either
political party ask: if Washington has demonized Iran, why did the 120
countries that comprise the non-aligned movement convene in Iran last week?
Is Washington’s
propaganda failing? Can Washington no longer convince the world that the
countries that Washington wants to destroy are evil and must be destroyed?
If Washington’s
propaganda is failing, the world rule of the hegemonic power will not succeed.
As world rule is Washington’s goal in keeping with the neoconservative
ideology, then Washington is failing and is not the superpower it pretends to
be.
Most credible
foreign policy experts, none of which either political party has, believe that
Washington has thrown away US “soft power” by its obvious lies and unjustified
military attacks on seven Muslim countries, its encirclement of Russia with
missile bases, and its encirclement of China with air, naval, and troop bases.
In other words,
Washington’s moral force no longer exists. All that exists is financial and
military force, and both will fail as they are insufficient.
Neither party
asked why the US is at wars with Muslims for Israel. Why should Americans be
losing lives and limbs for Israel while going broke and running up enormous war
debts for our children and grandchildren? The answer from both parties is to
blame the country’s bankruptcy on what Washington does for its own economically
disenfranchised citizens. America’s financial problems are all the fault of
Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, housing subsidies, Pell
grants–any and every thing that gives a leg up to the non-one percent.
In short, the
attitude of both parties is: if you are not the one percent, you are
disposable.
Both Obamacare and
the alternative Republican voucher program dispose of ill Americans who
confront potentially terminal diseases. The American people and the ill no
longer count; only the budget counts. Letting the elderly die sooner is
cheaper. We can therefore afford more wars for hegemony and more tax cuts for
the one percent.
Have any peoples
in human history ever been less represented by their government and political
parties than Americans?
The US government
represents Israel and the one to ten percent. Everyone else is disposable.
Regardless of the
political party whose lever is pulled in November, every American who votes
will be voting for Israel and for their own demise.
About Dr. Paul
Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps
Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.
___________________While there may be one or two thoughts I disagree with, it's worth it to be able to read in clear language that both parties are treasonable in their actions.
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