"Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it."
Will Rogers Diary of America
Successful Domestication of Man
http://www.articlesbase.com/culture-articles/the-successful-domestication-of-man-5820538.html
"The American people no longer believe the warm wet trickling sensation running down their backs is rain. We don’t like seeing stupid smiles on our political leaders’ faces, this becomes more irritating every day.
Certain political leaders seem to still think that words and well prepared speeches is enough to govern a nation. They need to stop passing the buck one to another and take full responsibility for their jobs!
The plan for the fiscal cliff was established to force congress to unite so as to fix our nation’s debt, in a nutshell. Instead they seem to keep on dancing around the thought that if they can’t unite and come up with a plan then we’ll just fall over that proverbial fiscal cliff. When this occurs it’s not going to matter which side they say is to blame."
~N. Moore~
“These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula — a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.”
Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi: American author and journalist reporting on politics, media, finance for Rolling Stone Magazine.
"Because I don't think Congress has ever been as bad as it is today.
Here is a time of very serious, painful economic hardship ... and a debt
that is threatening our future, national debt, and "WE REALLY HAVEN'T
DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT."
Sen. Joe Lieberman
See some recent updates on our growing debt problem below.
"They haven't done any of the tough stuff, any of the important stuff, they haven't reformed the tax code...they haven't done anything to slow the rate of health care to the rate of growth of the economy, they haven't made Social Security sustainably solvent. There's about $2.4 trillion more of hard work we've gotta do."Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles tells Politics Confidential.
“The deficit reduction mavericks are back. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles failed to get Washington to accept their original deficit reduction plan at the end of 2010; but this bipartisan duo is rolling out a revamped plan– and more tough talk aimed at both Congress and the President.”
To hear more about Simpson and Bowles new plan to deal with the country's fiscal problems, and to hear their thoughts about the impending sequestration on March 1, check out this week's Politics Confidential.
“Pentagon officials have said their furloughs would be structured so that nearly all 800,000 civilian workers lose one day of work per week for 22 weeks, probably starting in late April. That means they would lose 20 percent of their pay over that period.”
"The furloughs contemplated by this notice will do real harm to our national security," Panetta wrote in his congressional notification letter, adding that it would make troops less ready for combat and slow the acquisition of important weapons.
"Overall, sequestration will put us on a path toward a hollow force and inflict serious damage on our national security."
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
"...conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
David Rockefeller
“Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.”
Ron Paul 2004
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