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Who is the King of the U.S.A.?

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Who is the King of the U.S.A.?

Oh say can you see, --- that you are an oligarchy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14SllPPLxY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQYA9Qjsi0

I assume here that most Americans are bright enough to know that they live in an oligarchy and not a democracy.

Do you believe that redistribution of wealth from the top to the bottom of the U.S. socio economic demographic pyramid is a good idea or a bad idea?

Do you think the American oligarchy can be turned back into a real democracy where the poor are considered instead of ignored, if not abused?

Poverty is the worst form of Violence. Mahatma Gandhi

Do you think that we can persuade our owners to stop their violence against the poor?

Which of our oligarchs would you say is the King of the U.S.A.

Should the U.S. government find its balls and ask its King to stop abusing the poor?

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good question, who is running the show...

here's one take on it, no doubt there is much more to it..

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-four ... 2c1e2.html
In his book, The Price of Civilisation, he says the US economy is caught in a feedback loop. ''Corporate wealth translates into political power through campaign financing, corporate lobbying and the revolving door of jobs between government and industry; and political power translates into further wealth through tax cuts, deregulation and sweetheart contracts between government and industry. Wealth begets power, and power begets wealth,'' he says.
Sachs says four key sectors of US business exemplify this feedback loop and the takeover of political power in America by the ''corporatocracy''.

First is the well-known military-industrial complex. ''As [President] Eisenhower famously warned in his farewell address in January 1961, the linkage of the military and private industry created a political power so pervasive that America has been condemned to militarisation, useless wars and fiscal waste on a scale of many tens of trillions of dollars since then,'' he says.

Second is the Wall Street-Washington complex, which has steered the financial system towards control by a few politically powerful Wall Street firms, notably Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and a handful of other financial firms.

These days, almost every US Treasury secretary - Republican or Democrat - comes from Wall Street and goes back there when his term ends. The close ties between Wall Street and Washington ''paved the way for the 2008 financial crisis and the mega-bailouts that followed, through reckless deregulation followed by an almost complete lack of oversight by government''.

Third is the Big Oil-transport-military complex, which has put the US on the trajectory of heavy oil-imports dependence and a deepening military trap in the Middle East, he says.
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Thanks for this.

The intelligentsia know whet is going on.

The rank and file citizen is too dumbed down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgVH8hbVEs

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thinking about it, whoever is running the US seems to be running Australia as well, in that decisions keep being made that favour the 1% with all the money rather than the 99% with all the needs.

the way "reality" is percieved seems more like a giant control matrix than anything else. Most people can feel it but can't quite understand how it's done.

i think it scares most people half to death to even begin to take in the implications.
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hmmm Who is the King of the U.S.A.?

who owns the FED $
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”

– The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
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youkrst wrote:thinking about it, whoever is running the US seems to be running Australia as well, in that decisions keep being made that favour the 1% with all the money rather than the 99% with all the needs.

the way "reality" is percieved seems more like a giant control matrix than anything else. Most people can feel it but can't quite understand how it's done.

i think it scares most people half to death to even begin to take in the implications.
For sure. No one likes to know they have no power and are someone's slave.

Enlightenment does not always make us comfortable.

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GB wrote:
For sure. No one likes to know they have no power and are someone's slave.

Enlightenment does not always make us comfortable.


The intelligentsia know whet is going on.

The rank and file citizen is too dumbed down.

I personally think that those in the working classes are much savvier than what we maybe lead to believe. The concept of capital markets require that wealth begets wealth, that there is no upper limit on capitol accrual, equilibrium in the aggregate.
Centralization of economies has proved to be both successful and a failure, Corruption in the former USSR"s form of central economic control partly hastened their brand, that corruption was a fudging of the books of production, it was enabled by the collusion of middle management. The central authorities who were in themselves corrupt hadn't the means to monitor an entire production chain. The quota system only worked on paper, the reality was a different story. The motivation for fudging the books was the long cold Siberian winters.

Here in the west, we created the central bank, or the federal reserve system, this was in part due to the pinch put on 19th century farmers of the west and Midwest US, With unregulated banking, interest rates varied to widely, price inflation for seed stocks destroyed farmer profits and forced them to mortgage their lands at punishing interest rates from local lenders who varied rates regionally on the premise that they were the only game in town, These local banks could print their own money and determine values of security based on their own gold reserves, sometimes they printed excess notes, many banks collapsed. These farmers approached their elected reps with a plan for centralizing the US banking system but were blown off in DC, With the rise of Wall Street banking and unsecured speculation at the turn of the century came again the need for centralization, this time around there were bigger players in the game, the impacts of failure had a much greater impact on the national economy, the wealthy were feeding off their not so wealthy but still influential neighbors, conspicuous consumption and predatory practices were a rule of the day for the rich, isolationism narrowed the focus of greed, the idea of eating the little fish leaves the pond barren, centralizing money power expands the size of the pond. Creation of the Fed added a new dimension and enabled the U.S. expansion onto a global stage, this all prior to the crash of 1929, the system was not perfect and remains imperfect to this day, they were guessing then and they are guessing now.

I've mentioned Dave Ramsey on another thread, particularly his advice on living below your financial means, for him this advice was purely micro economic, designed for personal security, but in the grander scheme of things this idea of having personal savings has an unmentioned strength, when a society, that is, the labor group possesses that spare capitol it possesses that greatest of strengths, the ability to sustain a long term boycott or strike, debtors indeed become wage slaves, that when the individual gives up voluntarily his ability to effect the monetary system by affecting the profits of the oligarch's he has voluntarily acquiesced check mating powers, this happens to gov'ts as well, hence the need for constant expansion by gov't, growth is necessary to compete globally, Its the individual who failed to keep up with changing money power, debtor nations are destined to fail just as the individual debtor will at some point fail, these ideas are nothing new, but the importance of savings has been diminished in the individual over the period of the last thirty years, an example is the low interest paid on savings accounts, we are only offered the choice of what market fund or stock to invest in for any type of interest gain, a practice that is risky at best for the individual who would rather just save their money. A constant barrage of consumerism beginning some forty years ago has created the must have society we now experience, Charles A Reich wrote of the three consciousness's in his book "The Greening of America" I think he blew it, he completely missed the creepy potential of his venerated third consciousness, (the sixties generation) these people are the current top of the heap or pyramid, the educated guessers of our time, (they make me sick) The WW II generation put family before wealth, this is evident from the change in home ownership, what we saw then were modest house's with large families, today we see the opposite, modest size families with larger homes, newer cars, and more toys. All possessed through massive debt, multiple incomes and fewer children, (money and things before their own kind)
This idea I'm proposing is/was as subtle as continental drift, we didn't see it coming and we do not feel it happening below our feet, This economic shift that we know is real relies solely on the Federal Gov't seeding economic power to the Federal Banking System, which they did in 1913 and again seeding additional power to the world bank at Bretton Woods in 1944. Politics created what we now see as the conventional wisdom of our time, the diminution of responsibility by politician's for the nations economy to the bankers is and will be an ongoing act, Complication of the system is that subtle hammer to the head of the masses of people, There is an appearance of dumbing down regarding public response to changing economics, key here is the word down, the people at the top of the economic latter are no smarter than those at the bottom, their just more determined to have things their way, but self determination does not do it alone, there needs to be solidarity among the masses, In Poland we witnessed the strength of the Solidarity movement, trouble was, that movement was enabled by multiple Gov'ts, Its a catch 22, When Gov't knows what it takes to create solidarity among the masses it also knows how to destroy solidarity among the masses, Its the people who need to balance power, the rub being effective organization, the latest attempt being the occupy movement which gave an example of how lack of self contained funding is self defeating.
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i think it scares most people half to death to even begin to take in the implications.
I think you have it right, but only in so far as we consider "implications" meaning a need for total commitment to the cause by the very people who have the most to lose,(the masses) More appropriately the rules of the game need to be adhered to by all, understanding not only the strengths of those at the top tier but also their own position as well.
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this is a doco that explains the federal reserve system, it is neither federal or a reserve for a start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk
“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Gnostic,

I wholeheartedly empathize with you. I had the same emotional response when I saw Jeb running for office, his mother changing her mind about another Bush in office, and then the prospect of Hillary running.

Thanks for having a Democratic kick.

I'll kick with you. :)
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Taylor wrote:GB wrote:
For sure. No one likes to know they have no power and are someone's slave.

Enlightenment does not always make us comfortable.


The intelligentsia know whet is going on.

The rank and file citizen is too dumbed down.

I personally think that those in the working classes are much savvier than what we maybe lead to believe. .
If so, then shame on us even more as we tolerate what we know is evil.

If anything, your view condemns us even more than if we are just too stupid to see what is going on.

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