RECESSION OR NOT--HERE WE COME!
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistWe all know it’s coming.
A dreaded recession.
Oil is up.
Gas is up.
The dollar is weak.
Gold prices are past $800 an ounce.
Inflation is climbing.
I’m paying $4.19 a loaf for the good stuff. Not to mention $10 for baby loaves of cheese (a piece), along with pricy eggs, butter, and milk.
Heating our homes is going to be costly this winter.
And the cost of living is out of control.
Bottom line: Our nation simply cannot continue on the same path that it has been–spending itself into debt so recklessly.
But despite the warning signs, people like Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke still
believe that everything will be peachy and we all just gotta keep believing in the mythical Tooth Fairy.
“Low interest rates are going to keep our economy going!”“The dollar is weak!” they tell us,
“but it will rebound! You just gotta have faith
!”
Faith?
Faith isn’t watching our government train wreck our economy by spending out of control to the tune of $9.3T dollars. Faith isn’t watching the Fed play Russian roulette with interest rates–dropping them during this housing and credit crunch; instead of tightening and raising rates to keep oil prices from spiraling upwards and keeping a strong check on the
falling dollar.
Faith is asking the US consumer to open their collective eyes and see how much
damage that our government’s reckless economic policies are doing to us–
the American citizen.
That’s the open reality here. Not these fantasy comments on how the economy is going to continue to weather this and that–when the reality on the ground says much differently.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.comLabels: debt, economy, fantasy, gold, interest rates, oil, reality
FANTASY BECOMES A NIGHTMARISH REALITY
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistForget Iran.
Let’s worry about a nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Yes.A nuclear-
armed Pakistan.
This isn’t just some fantasy spiel concocted by the Bush administration over the case of phantom weapons of mass destruction with Iraq–or the possibility that Iran
might be developing nuclear weapons.
No.
This is reality.
The US’s worse nightmare imaginable.
For years now, we’ve heard the Bush and neocon cabal tell us that their worse Cold War fears is that terrorists somehow get a hold of some nukes and detonate them abroad or on US soil.
The perfect harbinger to and end to our democracy.
They’ve been telling us that we should be vigilant and fear everyone around us whom is not an American citizen. (a.k.a:
Muslims)
They’ve told us that if we didn’t rat out those whom we saw as a threat–we would only play into the terrorists’ hands.
Oddly enough, Pervez Musharraf’s recent actions in Pakistan seems to have born out some of those fears.
But let’s not get a hold of ourselves here and start preaching doom and gloom just yet.
After all, we supported this latest military strongman (for democracy’s sake–
naturally), and we’ll go on supporting him until it’s convenient for us to either cut ties with that country and our former ally–or
invade.
We did it with Iraq. So why not Pakistan?
Of course, with Musharaff cracking down on dissenters, the media, and the opposition–he’s making the terrorists’ job of obtaining nuclear matériel that much easier.
And given the fact that we practically
gave Pakistan the weapons technology and material to make
nukes–that Cold War fantasy of terrorists getting their hands on them…
Makes it all the more real.
And to think…we have
Bush to thank for that?
Who would’ve thought: A US President supposedly upholding freedom and democracy–by giving the terrorists just what they could’ve wanted and more...?
Only because our esteemed President (George W. Bush) thought it would be swell!–to park some nuclear weapons in the middle of a predominantly Muslim
country?I guess it is really true what they say about people and their ambitions these days:
You really don’t need a brain to become President of the United States of America!Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.comLabels: Al-Qaeda, fantasy, Iran, Iraq, Musharaff, Muslims, nightmare, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, President Bush, terrorists, US
WHICH SIDE ARE WE ON THESE DAYS? FANTASY OR REALITY?
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistIt doesn’t cease to amaze me. You would think that this endless war without a plan or exit strategy would curtail the government and military’s
rosy and
optimistic views on how this conflict is going–but it
hasn’t.
Curiously, it seems to have
magnified the symptoms drastically: Though we have daily bombings in Baghdad, with civilians and US soldiers dying pretty much every day, both the military and the government running this dog and pony show still
believes that they are making “progress”!
So I guess in this instance, we are in
fantasy mode–not reality.
Despite all the carnage going on, both apparatuses are operating under a
make-believe mentality that things are progressing regardless of the enormous loss of life done to both occupier and its
liberated populace.
Which of course, is making the mission in Iraq less definable and more complex. If the recent surge of troops (scheduled to be increased to 28,000) was supposed to have worked by now, it has
failed.
If the recent surge of troops was supposed to have stemmed the bombings and contain the violence, it has
failed.
That is reality. But to Bush and the military, that’s “progress.”
To my mind, this is the
worst application of military and federal intelligence in any war brought forth by the US since its inception over 200 years ago.
It is no wonder the chaos still goes on unimpeded! We are simply allowing this to happen because we got a bunch of amateurs in both sects of command operating under the mentality of a
retard!
This goes beyond anything which the civilized world would be able to understand. And quite frankly, this conflict is creating more instability by the day, than it could possibly do in the exact opposite.
And despite Bush’s claims to progress with Malaki’s government, there hasn’t been at all. Some half-hearted gestures from his side, but in reality, he’s allowed this to go on for far too long.
The Iraqi people are clamoring and
demanding that he does something, but he
can’t.
However, Bush will still call it “progress” no matter what. The Iraqi security forces are unable to halt the violence. Stop the insurgency, stop the Shiite militias.
And neither can ours.
So in effect, what we are dealing with here is something we all call
reality.
But to the Bush administration and the US military, it’s called
fantasy
“progress”.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.comLabels: Bush, chaos, fantasy, Iraq, Malaki, reality, troop surge
