Economic Deja-Vu

I've seen this before, it was the late 1980s-I guess the saying is true: what a person does in the past is an indicator of what they'll do in the future. I only vaguely remember talk of $500 hammers the Pentagon bought from their buddies with the tax-payers' money; same men got back into government & suddenly "greed is good" was broadly heard everywhere, like that character from the film "Wallstreet".

Deficits as far as the eye can see, huge ballooning costs blindly ok'd to 'defense', as if throwing money wildly & carelessly around makes you 'tough on terror'. That idiot * wars money-hole will never get beyond pipe-dream phase, Atari's Missile Command is as close as they'll ever come, it's real(video game), maybe Poland will fall for this swindle, who knows? It's just like the end of the 80s again, even with the crazy rumor-mongoring about the 'dangers' of a Democratic President. Horse apples!

"The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law..." "....because it
infringed on the president’s powers...." from the New York Times Oct 25th.

"A parallel new Bush doctrine is emerging...." "...this
one also casts international law aside by insisting that the United States
has an inherent right to cross international borders in "hot pursuit" of
anyone it doesn't like...." This sets a very dangerous precedent, I wonder what happens when China does what Bush does, when Russia does what Bush does. This is destroying respect for the rule of law entirely & its ultimate end-goal is the bully wins. This is how animals rule each other, by merely beating others into subjugation.http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/28

The response of the Bush Regime when Russia got into a skirmish with Georgia highlighted the catastrophic short-sightedness of Bush's circle; apparently his clique can do whatever they want but no one else can. They're the "in crowd"-untouchable, not answerable to anyone-certainly not to U.S. courts, thus they ignore subpoenas.

As if this were not bad enough we have this:
"The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of
all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S.
companies doing business in the United States paid no
federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998
and 2005."http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN1249465620080812
The above is a major reason why America is short of funds for infrastructure, schools, state budgets, etc. So when an American fails to pay their taxes they get their homes taken-like Willie Nelson, but when businesses fail to pay what they owe-nothing happens to them. Bridges fall down, meals on wheels gets shut down, home health care nurses get fired-states don't have the money. what are the businesses going to do if that old meanie Uncle Sam insists they pay what they owe, outsource even more jobs?

So it's 'staycations' & workers at vacation spots are let go, local restaraunts are closing, people aren't able to buy much when practically everything is Made in China. Automalls are ghost-parking lots now.

Yet Scrooge business owners claim Americans don't want to work at manufacturing plants, don't want to make tennis shoes, or computers, or clothes, or bleeding-edge technology, that is where I believe most growth exists.

The Scrooge Media has reporters stand in front of empty houses & report on home foreclosures, but they don't talk with the people who were forced out of those homes, they don't want to show the human costs, they don't want viewers to identify with those people, they want viewers to see it from the Bankster's viewpoint.

I recommend buying from Thriftown in the Western States & similar shops elswhere. You may find safe vintage toys there that were Made in America. Scrape the seeds from bell peppers & tomatos & grow from those; freeze your harvests of corn, just like you buy at the supermarket it can be on-the-cob or just kernels, frozen peas, freeze chopped carrots. This mostly is supplemental for me, I'd have to grow a lot more next year to cut back on buying at the supermarket.

It is frustrating watching my nation being flushed down the toilet, there were backstops against this, I guess those in power just don't care.