WPCNR News Commentary. By John F. Bailey. September 23, 2008: Observation of the Bush Countdown Clock is like watching a clock on a bomb in a James Bond movie. As the worst, arguably most corrupt and Machiavellian presidency in the history of the country enters its final 120 days, the worst, most unintelligent congress in the country’s history, huffs, puffs, blusters and refuses to see what is happening to the country.
A carefully orchestrated sequence of perhaps not-unrelated-conspiratorial events from partisan interests and the “Bush” Administration is ticking off a "Bucket List" of objectives. These objectives will doom presidential administrations of the future, because the interests of the international industrial cartel will be perpetuated and given a stranglehold on the public for decades—enriching the pirates in Armani and rewarding them for their Grand Larceny.
Rushing the congress into approval of the “Paulson Ploy” -- $700 Billion bailout – a blank check with no strings to the thieves of Wall Street and Babbittville – paid for by you and me, our children and our children’s children. Is this the latest in a series of calculated steps that will leave any new president (and presidents to come) with an albatross of debt that turns America into a banana republic – the kind of country we used to bail out or forgive debts to?
Even President William Clinton and his alter-ego, Hillary Clinton do not recognize this is chilling. It is, and this is not quite a reach, reminiscent of the Nazi Party manipulation of the Reichstag in the early 30s. Perhaps the Nazi solution of creating a New “Mark” is in order. But the “Mark” today is you.
The contrived “financial crisis” has been aggravated and abetted by a congress, like a certain Common Council we know, who see no evil, smell no evil and hear no evil who govern like 500 members of The Nairobi Trio, whose some total of achievement is measured in press release count.
As I listen to the Senate Committee hearings this morning, I composed this Bush Bucket List which, may or not be “a working agenda.”
The Bush Bucket List Still To Do:
1. Ram through “Paulson’s Ploy” the Bailout in a week. (Why hasn’t Congress said no way, let’s wait and see what happens and let the new President deal with it. Do we really think the world economy is going to collapse? Come on.)
2. Bailout the automobile industry on the verge of collapse next.
3. Assure no money is available for developing electric, hydrogen or air cars to replace oil fueled vehicles.
4. Eliminate environmental restrictions on drilling, tapping for American resources.
5. Start a war with Iran.
6. Start a war with Pakistan over Taliban raids.
7. Assure U.S. Oil reserves are not tapped.
8. Put their buddies, the outlaw investment banks back in business by allowing them to act as banks (almost done).
9. Make any congressional restrictions on Wall Street cosmetic and “self-policing” by establishing a task force.
10. Solvensize banks’ balance sheets, but do not force them to lend their new found money.
11. Freeze current tax rates on the over $200,000 a year crowd.
12. Assure oil company windfall profits are not touched.
13. Reestablish the military draft (on a limited basis of course).
14. Push through a defense renewal plan to requip military for billions before January 20, 2009
15. Turn worthless assets now held by financial institutions, FANNIE and FREDDIE into fortunes by inflating the value of the assets. (About to happen)
16. Make Treasury Secretary a financial czar with iron-fisted control of economy, out of control of Congress. (A Cardinal Richelieu).
17. Assure American dependence on foreign oil for decades.
18. Issue Internet Website Licenses under control of FCC, effectively limiting free speech on the internet and tax Internet sales nationally.
19. Finance bailout by extending age Social Security is collected, and tapping current social security reserves.
20. Assure no universal health care is possible due to debt incurred.
21. Allow mergers of key firms, and extensive foreign ownership.
22. Make Cabinet members’ policy decisions not subject to congressional approval.
23. Pardon key figures and architects of the sub-prime and other scandals of the last eight years, should any, by some stretch of imagination be indicted (not likely) before January 20.
24. Assure no person of color, is ever nominated again for President by a major party for decades.
25. Achieve massive cuts in entitlement programs: arts, community development, HUD, minimum wage, you name it, they'll say we have to cut it.
If such a Bucket List is in play, 120 days could be just enough time to do it number one and Number 24 and lay the groundwork for achieving all 23 others with the next presidencies to come – with this congress -- who shall go down in infamy.
More to the point, if the congress approves the Paulson Ploy, and it does not work – if the mortgages do not begin to be offered, if the jobs don’t come back, if the consumers don’t start spending, if the consumers go to the banks and money market funds and still want their money back, where are we?
What will be the next fix?
As one observer said this morning, we simply wipe out every American’s debt – not just the robber barons’ debts. We create a new dollar. Everybody starts with debt wiped out.
Like a video game.
Somewhere there's a real Bucket List memo, there must be. Because it sure looks like it.
