> Nothing gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling more than having your > Treasury Secretary be a tax dodger. > > I was hounded to the ends of the earth for money I didn't owe, and this > guy gets off scott free.
Before our very eyes we are witnessing the most audacious theft of the taxpayer of any country ever in recorded history. It's been happening in slow motion for over forty years, while the elements of the heist have been slowly put in place to make it possible, but now apparently it's time for the crooks to take the money and run. On Sept 18, 2008, in a span of a couple hours, a series of computerized trades drained more than half a trillion dollars from money markets in US banks, triggering this "crisis". http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/09/rep-kanjorski-550-bi.html How convenient, just before an election. Nobody has asked the question: "Who drained the accounts? Why?" It's been accepted as a fact without inquiry. Tarp was $750 billion, and went to who-knows-whom. The auto bailout was I forget how much. I think that was actually a distraction, to cloud the financial scandal being perpetrated. But it was related insofar as trade policy contributed to that problem. The "stimulus" bill---which is nothing of the sort but rather a series of massive government seizures of our property and our liberty (the "health IT" provisions in the bill alone should terrify anyone who thought FISA, which Obama apparently now supports wholeheartedly, was bad)---is over $1.2 trillion when you add in servicing the debt it creates. Geithner is proposing an additional $2 trillion bail out of banks, separate from all of that. (He was trying to avoid pinning a number on it, but that's about it.) WTF? How does any of this make any sense? These numbers, accrued in just a few months, DWARF military spending on Iraq and Afghanistan over all 5 years by a staggering amount. How can you blame that now? Tax cuts are to blame? Please. Then why is Obama promoting tax cuts in the "stimulus"? The same Geithner who for four years couldn't figure out how to operate Turbo Tax, but somehow managed to get a handsome $435K severance package from the Fed. Reserve where he's worked since 2003 to take his cushy new job, is telling us basically they haven't worked out all the details yet ("won't release specifics till we get it right"), and have no idea what they're really going to do with that money ("we'll have to try some things that haven't been tried before"... like what?). All that adds up is this: We are so screwed, we don't even know what a world of KY-jelly we're swimming in. Borrowed KY-Jelly. KY jelly that doesn't actually exist, because it's our great-great grand kids' KY jelly. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
