AMERICA IN CRISIS (funeral tune playing in the background)

For the past week or two, the word (from the Bush regime and everyone who makes a living parroting 'the authorities', including 'the media') is that we are all going to die, unless the congress agrees to give a couple of people working for Bush the ability to spend $700 billion, more or less as they see fit.

Why should anyone assume or agree that all these wiseguys who had not a clue and no idea that this was coming, now know exactly what it takes to fix everything and have the ability to predict what would happen if everyone was not following their wise advice?


how do you know that "our economy will implode unless..."?

These are, more or less, the same people who did NOT see this coming until after it happened who now claim that they know exactly what is going to happen if 'we' do A (salvation) or B (possible salvation) or if we do nothing (catastrophe).

Let me suggest some other possible outcomes:

- catastrophe no matter what - such things tend to happen when you owe tens of trillions, keep printing money and consume more than you make for 30 years in a row.
- recovery without state intervention - maybe the crisis is not as big as the scaremongers claim it is (how big a lie would 'you' be willing to tell if the prize was your controlling close to a trillion dollars?)
- recovery and more prosperity through wars - see the great depression/WW2 situation

It's early in the morning so I can't claim that this enumeration is exhaustive. I am only suggesting that the 'you must do what I tell you by tomorrow or you will die/starve/be totally ruined" thing could come out of misunderstanding or some ulterior motives.

I heard this yesterday from a congressman, and there may be some truth in it: "Paulson is not a banker or an economist, he is basically a day trader". Now, how scary is THAT? Would you agree to give $700 billion to a day trader so that he can play with it and maybe make you some money if the deadline to make the decision was 'by tomorrow'?