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Holding officials to their duty is NOT "blaming" -- it is called accountability. Missing at Enron and amoung the 537.

So Enron put Race out of work?

No, I dont blame ENRON, but the telecom collapse was the end of two jobs

the fall of the Berlin Wall was the end of one job

having a sleep disorder and being unable to work 3rd shift was 2 jobs! (I am not totally innocent in this, I did make a couple mistakes!) Rush Limbaugh's jokes about restless leg syndrome are not funny! I had that and something similar to apnea, I could NOT functionon 3rd shift, but didnt know it, I just thought I was making mistakes!

Up until Mr. Bush the Younger DID something positive -- he being a positive man set to his duty -- public stock dividend yields were the lowest they have ever been. People bought stock for the booster's promise of "Capital gains". Paper gains during a fiat money period were *easy*. Especially so since "accounting" as an art, as a duty, as a dread responsibility became -- well -- a sideshow, a benie, a sales-giveaway. That is a company could get whatever numbers served up in pretty tables that it wanted. As long as it hired the Grand Poobah Silk Purse Accounting Firm or its Partners as "consultants" for big moxies. Mega retainers.

Well, dividends are hard money. You actually have to come up with them and pay them out every so often. Establish a track record in consistentcy of payment. So they were anti-thetical to paper money, papered-over faux "valuations" and dividends were pro-Truth. A solid inidcator -- not perfect, just reliable in most cases over time.

And dividends, and Truth became Very Low, Negligible, Ignored. Derided. Discounted. Mocked, they became. Trutrh and dividends, both. At the same time the Red Army learned from the Mob. Buy honest businesses for fronts. And the Red Army took it further. They came to see that they could hollow out the ol' Liberty Tree. They could remove industry and manufacture -- most of which are needed for defense in some way, directly or indirectly.

What they did not first anticipate was as to how sucessful they would be. At how ready US "biz" men and the 537 would be to throw *everything* at them for a quarter or twos boost in papered profits and damn the jobs and those peons who hold them.

Treason. The Chinese Army that overran and mercilessly ran down our troops in Korea had learned it could be far smarter. Maybe it was the Vietnamese that taught them -- when the Viets beat the Chinese twenty years ago or so. Can't rely on massive armies -- you need to be smart as a Mafia Don and his best advisors. Hello Triads.

Treason. The 537. The Beltway's rulers. They didn't give a damn -- as long as greaseballs like the Enron entrepreneurs working with the Big Eight could make the paper sing and produce full bank accounts out of nothing.

Yes, said the 537 -- "FREE TRADE"!

Let us give China everything! They pay well, damn it.

Treason.

We are left hollow. Can't make a horse's blanket for the horse that pulls the cassion at a Military funeral. Can't machine the parts that make the drive trains of vehicles, nor the plastic trays in the mess halls.

A nail and the shoe was lost. A shoe and the horse was lost. A horse and the King is lost. A King and the Kingdom is lost.

We can't make nails. The tears and laments of nail makers, trained for years and proud of their profession are scorned by you and the fools around you.

When the King falls for lack of that nail, will you still be so scorning your countrymen out of their jobs?

Treason.