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Satire on U.S. Political Scene
Email received on US hypocrisy
11/8/8:
Email received on US hypocrisy
11/8/8:
1. Jesus loves you and shares your hatred of homosexuals and liberals. Greed, avarice, usury, and killing in a preemptive war are no longer sins, and the poor will always be
with us.
2. The poor and the infirmed are no longer
blessed, but are shiftless, under achievers for whom social assistance ought to be curtailed.
We are compassionate conservatives.
3. Saddam
was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with
him, and a bad guy when Bush had to reinforce U.S.
and British hegemony over the oil rich Middle East.
4. Trade with Cuba is wrong because that country is ran by a Communist dictator who provides
housing and medical care for all the Cubans and is loved by the masses, but trade with Pakistan, Nigeria, Uzbekistan
run by dictators with horrible human rights record and are hated by the masses, this is in our national interest.
5.
The United States should get out of the United
Nations, that way we won’t have to repeated use our security counsel veto—which we have done more times than all
the other countries combined.
6. Better to have half our people go without
medical coverage than adopt a socialist plan, such as in Canada,
which supplies superior health care at half the cost and covers everyone. The
British NICE system sucks because it only approves treatments
that are shown to work best. The rest of the developed world must be nuts to
have socialized medicine.
7. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches,
while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay. If they don’t like it,
when their stint is over, they can become a mercenary for Blackwater and receive 10 times the pay.
8. If sex education is kept out of
kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex. Premarital sex is a sin. Just tell them don’t...
9. A good way to fight terrorism is to conquer
an Arab country with lots of oil that didn’t support terrorists, and also for us to side with Israel.
The Moslem zealots will understand.
10. How to blow a regime change: build permanent U.S. bases throughout their country, deny their newly elected government
real power, disband their military but allow them to keep their arms and explosives, take their oil revenues and park them
in the U.S., permit our contractors to import cheap labor from Pakistan and elsewhere, leave their utilities and hospitals
in shambles, and institute neoliberal (IMF) policies which have ruined their banking and manufacturing base, and caused a
sharp drop in pay.
11. Global warming and the evolution of species are junk science, but the book of Genesis’s
explanation of creation ought to be taught in science classes; besides we grow more if winters came later, and would save
on heating if they were warmer.
12. A President’s deceptive statements about a one-time foundling of his penis
by a female aid is an impeachable offense, but a President’s repeated lying to the public, Congress, and the world about
weapons of mass destruction for to justify the take over of second riches oil country, that is okay for the 'Decider'.
13.
The Supreme Court justices believe that it does not violate the Bill of Rights for police to search without a warranty vehicles,
homes, bank records, emails, and phone conversations; for to hold people without bail even when they are not a flight risk;
for to permit U.S. attorneys to deceive grand juries by ending judicial review of the proceedings; for to permit a person
to be tried twice for the same crime if the charges are different; for military prison guards to torture our citizens, immigrants,
and visitors if they are housed in our prison in Cuba; and for employers to sample our bodily fluids for drug usage.
14. The public has a right to know about Bill’s sex life, but Dick Chaney’s
energy planning meetings with Enron and others execs none of our or Congress’ business.
15. The airwaves are
no longer a public trust, because now the right of ownership comes first, so decided the Supreme Court during Reagan’s
administration when it overturned the fair-and-balanced content requirement passed by Congress in the forties. Now 5 global
corporations own the air waves. They have an ownership right to slant the content
and deliberately lie.
16. Corporate interests come before the publics’. Thus the Decider by 'Executive Privilege' and crony appointments has undermined environmental, food safety,
product safety, and labor laws, and he has appointed industry advocates to head the departments that were set up to promote
the public’s interests.
17. The liberal-biased corporate press (so we are told repeatedly) had unendingly
criticized Bill & Hillary Clinton in the 90s, but realizes that Bush can do no major wrongs.
18. It is alright for politicians to receive
funds from the very interests whom their legislation will affect. It is also
alright for Congressmen to trade on insider information.
19. The free market system is the best of all possible,
when all the restrictions are removed. We don’t need pension plans or medical insurance that are paid for by employers,
nor should are government provide these programs. The free market thrives on
personal responsibility. Employees will work harder when they are competing with
workers in China, Mexico,
and India, therefore tariffs and unions are unnecessary. Banks and financial institutions know best how to make a profit, therefore regulations
are unnecessary. Drug companies only need to show that their medication is slightly
better than a placebo for to get FDA approval. Then they can spend billions marketing
the drug as they see fit and pass the costs on to the ill. And the current depression
is a result of government meddling with the market place. We need to have the
republican runs things again. The3 Democrats with their programs will turn the
recession into a depression.
20. Our citizens are the best in informed in the world, because they
watch Fox, MSN, and CNN news and listen to Rush Limbo. It was the liberal bias press that caused the defeat of McCain and the Republican Party.
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#211 Section on stolen elections
Dishonorable
Mention
Chester Trent Lott
Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is a United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party. He served as Senate Majority Leader from 1996 to June 6, 2001, interrupted only by a brief period in January 2001, during which he held
the position of Senate Minority Leader. After Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent in June 2001, giving
the Democrats control of the Senate, Lott served as Minority Leader until his resignation from that position in December 2002 due to controversial
remarks. The remark in praise of Senator Strom Thurmond, an open racist, highlighted Lott’s own racist voting record. From 1981 to 1989 he was also a House Minority Whip. As Majority Leader
he played a prominate role in the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton.
David Bruce Vitter
(born May 3, 1961) is an American Republican politician, currently serving as the junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana. He is known for his opposition
to same-sex marriage and his support of abstenance sex education. . Vitter won a special election to Louisiana's 1st Congressional District in 1999, succeeding Republican
Congressman Bob Livingston, who resigned after an adultery scandal. Vitter in July of 2007 was
identified as a client of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service in Washington, D.C. Vitter appeared
with his wife on television following this revelation. She stated that she forgave him.
New inductees into the Ethics Hall
of Shame:
Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa
Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W-Va)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Ca)
Updated June of 08
http://www.cleanupwashington.org/hos/ is a site dedicated
to the corruption and malfeasance of our congressional leaders.
Listed there with details
are Tom DeLay, Randal Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Richard Pombo, Conrad Burns, William Jefferson, and Jack Abramoff.
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/religion/spurious.htm, about various bible sources, their lack of agreement
http://nofreelunch.org/reqreading.htm about drug companies influencing medical decisions.
Senator Ted Stevens (born November 18, 1923) who has served since 1968 was convicted on 7 counts
contected to handling of public funds.
From wikipedia.org:
On July 29, 2008 Stevens was indicted
by a federal grand jury on seven counts of failing to properly report gifts and found guilty at trial three months later (October
27, 2008). The charges relate to renovations to his home and alleged gifts from
VECO Corporation, claimed to be worth more than $250,000. The indictment followed a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption into Alaskan politicians and was based on his relationship
with Bill Allen. Allen, then an oil service company executive, had earlier pled guilty, with sentencing suspended pending
his cooperation in gathering evidence and giving testimony in other trials, to bribing several Alaskan state legislators,
including a disputed claim about Stevens' son, former State Senator Ben Stevens. Stevens declared, "I'm innocent," and pled
not guilty to the charges in a federal district court on July 31, 2008. Stevens asserted his right to a speedy trial so that
he could have the opportunity to promptly clear his name and requested that the trial be held before the 2008 election.
Home Remodeling and VECO
May 29, 2007, the Anchorage
Daily News reported that the FBI and a federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling project at Stevens'
home in Girdwood. Stevens' Alaska home was raided by the FBI and IRS on July 30, 2007.
The remodeling work doubled the size of the modest home. Public records show that the house was 2,471 square feet
(230 m2) after the remodeling and that the property was valued at $271,300 in 2003, including a $5,000 increase
in land value. The remodel in 2000 was organized by Bill Allen, a founder of
the VECO Corporation, an oil-field service company and has been estimated to have cost VECO and the various contractors $250,000 or more. However, the residential contractor who finished the renovation for VECO, Augie Paone,
"believes the [Stevens'] remodeling could have cost ― if all the work was done efficiently ― around $130,000 to
$150,000, close to the figure Stevens cited last year.” In June, the Anchorage
Daily News reported that a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence in May about the expansion of Stevens'
Girdwood home and other matters connecting Stevens to VECO. In mid-June, FBI agents questioned several
aides who work for Stevens as part of the investigation.[64] In July, Washingtonian magazine reported that Stevens had hired "Washington’s most powerful and expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr., in
response to the investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversations with
Bill Allen, Stevens expressed worries over potential misunderstandings and legal complications arising from the sweeping federal
investigations into Alaskan politics. On the witness stand, "Allen testified
that VECO staff who had worked on his own house had charged 'way too much,' leaving him uncertain how much to invoice Stevens for
when he had his staff work on the senator's house ... that he would be embarrassed to bill Stevens for overpriced labor on
the house, and said he concealed some of the expense."
Bob Penney
In September, The Hill reported that Stevens had "steered millions of
federal dollars to a sportfishing industry group founded by Bob Penney, a longtime friend". In 1998, Stevens invested 15,000
in a Utah land deal managed by Penney; in 2004, Stevens sold his share of the property for $150,000.
Guilty verdict
On October 27, 2008, Stevens was
found guilty of all seven charges against him. He is the fifth sitting senator ever to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history,
and the first since Senator Harrison A William. (D-NJ) in 1981. His sentingcing
hearing is scheduled for Feb. 25. However, FBI Agent Chad in February 2009 filed a whistleblower
affidavit concerning gross government misconduct (FBI sending back to Alaska a witness who would have undercut their
case and other exculpatory materials were withheld), This was addressed in a hearing on Feb. 13. At
the hearing the Judge Sullivan held the prosecutors in contempt for failing to deliver documents to Steven's legal counsel.
If there lips are moving they are lying (said of politician)
To understand developments in our political system
(both parties) one must understand the role of neoliberalism. Any analysis which
misses this connection is grossly inadequate. (Neocons follow neoliberalism economic
policies).
We have an evil, evil system. Words such as imperialism, greed, corporate greed, neoliberalism, neoconservate, globalism, bought politicians,
control of media are descriptive. There are reasons why the labor movement
has collapsed. It is the politics of neoliberalism, an out growth of corporate
greed. Given how it opposes the public weal, we have devoted a section to expose
just what neoliberalism is—a thing that the five corporations which own broadcasting will not do.
THE BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
Things have gotten worse, the hole the neocons has dug
is much deeper. The economic stats are worse than bad: the trend is toward greater disparity of wealth and on top of that the U.S. is loaded with debt and imbalance of trade. The debt can through fiscal austerity can be paid off (as some of it was under Clinton), but the
trade imbalance will only grow due to the dismantling of are industrial base and the setting up of free trade agreements such
as NAFTA. The current foreign debt
is equaled to over 70% of GDP, a ratio unmatched by far among industrialized nations.
To find out what economics is called the dismal science and the role of neoliberalism.
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