Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Chapter XI Politics
The stark reality is probably just as the author proposes. No time soon will an American political regime tackle the highly controversial issues within this book. The most activity this book is likely to stir in Washington D.C. is nothing but some well-choreographed Potomac Two-Step. I agree with the author that I certainly hope that his expectations are overly pessimistic, yet as likely as these events are to coming to partial fruition, there is no chance of proactive measures (too late) and little chance of reaction short of a major devaluation of the dollar, likely from the swift withdrawal of foreign capital investment. Oh Good Gosh, as much investment as China has in our federal Treasuries, we better get somebody that is as adept at Asian and Chinese diplomacy as they are keen about the depth of these possible repercussions.
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The author and I share a great deal of cynicism. He mentioned several times that he believed that though it was possible it would be unlikely that change would be affected until it was too late, so much so that he even remarked that nothing would happen, until it was too late to change the effects of the flight from the dollar and the massive degradation of the middle classes. He also remarked that we would do nothing because, in effect, foriegn countries control us because we are indebted to them.
As a reply to this I say just think about the word indebted... It means I owe you something, it means that I must be nice to you because of that debt. And because of that debt you can control me... Now if I still need your money for surival and you can give my debt to someone that offers a less acceptable relationship. Then you OWN me.. This is what is going on and why our politicians and the powers that be will do nothing until the screams of the common man get loud enough to drown out the words of the heads of state that control ours.
America is at the end of its repulbic just as the roman senate and consuls became incapablle of ruling thier widespread holdings and fighing off thier enemies, so has the American government and its consitution. Bureaucrats and courts make most of the decisions that are not made by the fiat of our president. Meanwhile the press decides which president will have enough public support to govern. All the while America has lost its engine and is coasting to a stop via interia alone.
You know it is scary, if we had a president that was very qualified and ran the country in a positive way. We would lick his hands like dogs if he only allowed us to keep the illusion that he respected congress. Hell even our current president does things via presidential edict and we don't even like him.
It is the end of the republic not the empire. I only hope that this wasn't planned WELL in advance like Ceaser Augustus's rise was.
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