Op/Ed

Published: July 14, 2008 

One of the most amazing facts, that speak its own truth, regarding our Political Crisis in America is the simple fact that the approval rating of Congress is at 9%.  This means there is a disapproval rate of 91%. It is interesting because the Wealth ratio is exactly the same.  9% of the People have 91% of the wealth and 91%of the people share 9% of the wealth. By replacing elected government with a monetary system that influences all decision making thru lobbyists, you cannot obtain any other result. It can only reflect the will of the elites. This is a great argument for the fact that lobbying, just by its own design, is unconstitutional. Strangely enough, the elites are truly the one minority that commits the most crimes and collects the most welfare. When you consider the dollar amount of white collar crime, with the corporate welfare give- a- ways, and then the tax exempt trust funds, it is probably equal to the nation’s debt. Another coincidence.  

         When you hear Senator McCain and other Republicans talk about cutting Pork, Earmarks, and Welfare, they are not talking about the Defense Budgets. All Defense Spending is Pork. It is their Pork. They bill the taxpayer for trillions and they Profit immensely. They get this money cutting all Workfare that benefits us/U.S., and sending the funds over to Warfare. Then by disguising themselves as foreign Companies, they pay no social security and Medicare taxes, and make huge profits which benefit only them. 

          When they speak of tax cuts you must realize that all tax cuts are a TRIPLE TAX INCREASE unless you have NO DEBT. If you have debt as we do, in the trillions, you are only refinancing your debt long term. It's the same as paying less on your Mortgage. 15 year to a 30 year. Yes, your payments go down but your cost goes up. Your equity goes down. It's a win for the banks. A loss for the holder/taxpayer. This expense of interest depletes the funding for everything else you could buy or invest in.

           What they have done is created welfare thru warfare. What is worse is the fact that all of this wealth and power comes thru loss of OUR revenues that used to provide, border security, hospitals, manufacturing, health care, lending institutions, infrastructure, education and the ability to fight White Collar Crime. Once they bankrupt our government revenues thru warfare, they can buy all our assets with the money they outsourced to themselves. This is Privatization. They will then turn this windfall of wealth into cheap low paying jobs in the U.S. that do not generate revenues and eventually they will privatize all assets of the U.S., and own them outright.

             Wouldn't the Middle East Countries love to own The Grand Canyon or Federal land in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona? They could then make damn sure the U.S. Taxpayer doesn't line these 3 states with Solar Panels. Or some of the other Federal land that is perfect for wind turbines. Or maybe own the Nafta Super Highway and put all the American owned Trucking Companies that use Teamsters out of Business because they have their own oil, giving them the advantage over the trucking industry. They have the same “OIL" advantage if they can take over our Airline industry as well. Or our Bridges where every tower could have some wind or solar on top to cut the costs.  Even our Ports have waterways for turbine energy.  They are getting rich by bankrupting us/U.S., and then they will buy America at the auction with the wealth they transferred from us/U.S. unto themselves.

       1.   Notice also that all the GOP pork does not replenish revenues to us/U.S. It is outsourced to the economic traders/traitors. Everything that provides jobs or services is cut and American business is undermined.

             2. Our tax cuts were also a tax cut for the oil industry because unless you got the amount of tax cut the wealthy got you lost it to gas prices.

        3.  As in the case with Iraq we have Socialism for the losses and Capitalism for the gains. With everything being deductible and taxpayer financed the risk is zero on their end. As soon as it comes time for a Profit we go to Capitalism or Privatization. Iraq wants us/U.S. out now because they are going to hack up the oil rights we paid for with a trillion dollars (financed long term), and lives lost. I say that since this business venture was based on fraud that they should have to pay the money back to the taxpayer first, before it becomes private.

                                 William J. Wahlsteen