Posted on 09/25/2008 9:45:36 PM PDT by joanie-f
Edited on 09/30/2008 5:17:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I urge every reader here to take ten minutes out of your day sometime soon and watch this video. Then, if you believe as I do, that it is the most powerful, most truthful exposé available as to the criminal government/Wall Street elements that are behind our current economic meltdown, please send it to as many people as you can.
I know many of you have volunteered, or will be volunteering, to work for the election of McCain-Palin. I will be doing the same. But there is no amount of envelope licking, phone calling, or wearing out of shoe leather that will be able to match the distributing via e-mail of this ten-minute video that fingers the culprits that the media are attempting to keep under wraps. Those culprits are directly involved in this election and the desire to attain the White House and retain control of Congress.
We cannot allow that to happen, and I believe the compilation of facts that this video represents, if placed in the hands of all thinking Americans, will see to it that it doesn't.
In his attempt to explain the causes of this crisis, the President insinuated in his speech of last night that it all started because America’s economy was considered so brilliant that it attracted investors from all over the world. As a result, banks and financial institutions were awash in money, and that state of affairs planted the seed for this debacle. (*choke*)
That is the greatest whitewash of the reasons for this catastrophe imaginable. Either President Bush is completely ill-informed and he believes that tripe, or he is the most blatant liar since Gepetto’s son walked off the woodcarver’s bench.
After the President’s speech, and after I stopped spitting nails, my husband and I watched Brit Hume and his panel on FoxNews offer up a brief analysis.
Charles Krauthammer, who is among my favorite political pundits, opined that the speech was quite good, and that he was surprised that the President spent virtually one-fifth of it attempting to explain the causes of the current crisis – since, in Krauthammer’s opinion, doing so amounts to simply an ‘academic exercise’.
An ‘academic exercise’? To discern what caused this major economic meltdown? Shall we just accept the notion that ‘too much foreign money’ floating around in American banks was the catalyst?
If we don't uncover the reason for this crisis, and determine who was responsible for it, will there be any reform? Or, post-bailout, will the perpetrators eventually continue with business-as-usual? Anyone who has an even rudimentary knowledge of government at any level has the answer to that question at his fingertips.
We are being fed whitewashed reports about the cause of this economic meltdown. If the true perpetrators of this massive criminal undertaking that promises to have devastating effects on the American people for decades to come are not uncovered, removed from power, and punished, there is no hope of realizing the kind of all-encompassing economic and political reform that will be necessary to not only stabilize our economy, but to ensure our very survival as a free republic.
~ joanie
‘Branch’ offices all over... (8^D)
Some on the thread have been complaining that the research sources go by too quickly, but I believe the authors wanted to limit the total time of the video (remembering that the attention span of the average American runs in nanoseconds). I made great use of the 'pause' button to be able to read some of what went by too quickly.
We need to fix this issue now, but not in the way Dodd, Frank, Schumer and Obama want us to fix it. We do it their way, and there are going to be more of these types of things in our immediate future.
This, to me, is the most crucial part of the problem. Many of the major players in this debacle are in the halls of congress, and unless they are unseated (and prosecuted, in some cases), bailout or no bailout, we are simply sentencing ourselves to more of the same.
Nor do I necessarily think that a government solution is the answer at all.
Thanks for the excellent insights.
~ joanie
See my post #82 for the reason I believe the authors set it up that way.
The first link was no good.
All of the links work for me. I'm puzzled. (???)
~ joanie
~ joanie
It may yet come to that. But what may be able to defer the use of force will be the average American awakening from his apathetic stupor, voting the criminals out, and demanding broad reform.
With that said, I have little confidence of it happening, so force may be the only option left for those who 'get it'.
~ joanie
The link was fine, what I meant was that link the video said no longer available, but when I clicked the title it took me to the other youtube page with a working video.
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
Joanie, please consider for "Allegiance and Duty Betrayed".
I'm actually starting to think that the people's voice doesn't matter at all anymore. The perpetrators of this travesty, and their cohorts, have too much at stake here. I suspect that our voices are falling of deaf ears, and, no matter what kind of bailout they pass, they will justifying it as 'necessary to save all Americans from a tragedy they can't even comprehend' -- when really it is their own backsides that they're covering, and their own nests they're feathering.
I hope I'm wrong, but don't count on it.
The question is, will we allow them to get away with this (final?) affront, as we have so many times before, during crises that did not portend such far-reaching, devastating repercussions?
~ joanie
I have your links all saved to look at this evening, and will be using them constantly!
Much appreciated!
~ joanie
Thanks, and thanks also for spreading the word.
~ joanie
Those links are the source material I found in the video in the order they were presented (except for a few charts). You can just click along while watching the video.
I'll certainly pass it along!
I fully agree
To me the importance of a video like this, is to disseminate information so that people understand more clearly what got us to this point.
There’s too much talk about greed, and not enough talk about what individuals did to cause this problem.
I believe this video has the information. The problem is, nobody is going to lean anything from it, because the facts pass by so quickly, you can’t focus on them, comprehend the actions, make assessments, and come away with a new level of understanding.
Basically you simply have to take the word of the bullets, because the information that buttresses those bullets is not comprehensible at these speeds.
I agree with you. As for content, excellent. As for the ability to convey information to people who need to see that information and retain it, D-.
I agree with you that this crisis was manufactured. It is the result of special interests (especially those socialists whose phony ‘altruism’ toward low-income and minority segments of our society leads them to assure members of the low income/minority community a continued dependence on government) pressuring their friends in congress to pressure the banking/mortgage industry to relax their underwriting standards. That relaxation of standards was accomplished through extortion of many wicked kinds.
I also believe that most of those who were involved in creating this debacle knew full well that many who received mortgages under the newly relaxed standards would never be able to keep up their end of the financial contract … and many of the schemers actually may have counted on that fact. With the end result being that the American citizen would agree to the nationalization of many formerly private businesses/industries, because his own long-term financial well-being would then supposedly depend on it.
Your distinction between ‘houses’ and ‘homes’ is well-taken. I intend to follow suit.
I have written two recent essays on my weblog on two of the very points you made later in your post.
‘Rushing blindly into this bailout’ is indeed suicidal, and I am not even convinced that a bailout is a good idea at all. If you have the time and inclination, I provide my reasoning here: Personal Responsibility: The Cornerstone of Liberty.
As you point out so articulately, any bailout would amount to using taxpayer funds to nationalize large portions of the free market. Talk about socialists having their cake and eating it, too!
Which is exactly why this election will prove to be an historically unprecedented watershed event. Not only are the presidency and vice presidency at stake, but the makeup of the new congress will effectively dictate whether any investigations into the seeds of this crisis will be held. And, if none are, once the dust from this economic calamity settles (at least temporarily – the calamity itself may last for decades, if it has an endpoint at all), congress will revert to business-as-usual, with no more than a small sliver of the entrenched corruption excised.
As for President Bush’s address to the nation on Wednesday night, I vented my anger and frustration about that particular travesty here: President Bush’s 9/24/08 Address to the Nation. I am ashamed that I voted for the man twice, because he lacks the courage to finger those who put us where we are now.
Thank you so much for the insightful, eloquent comments, and best to you and yours in these troubling times …
~ joanie
Thanks for the ping. I made a comment just above this, that you might want to take a gander at.
I did not realize that!
Thank you so much for taking the time to catalog it all!
~ joanie
Thanks, betty. And thanks for passing it along to others.
~ joanie
It was my pleasure, joanie!!
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