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High officials of European governments describe U.S. influence as squandered and swiftly eroding (one minister went down a list of Bush administration officials, rating them according to their stupidity), the country's moral authority nil, lethal power vacuums emerging from Lebanon to Pakistan, and Europeans incapable on their own of quelling the fires that burn far closer to them than to the U.S. through their growing Muslim populations and proximity to the Middle East. They have no illusions that they will be treated seriously as real allies or that there will be a sudden about-face by the Bush administration. Their faint hope -- and it is only a hope -- is that they have already seen the worst and that it is not yet to come. Even worse than Bush, from their perspective, would be another Republican president who continued Bush policies and also appointed neoconservatives. That would toll, if not the end of days, then the decline and fall of the Western alliance except in name only, and an even more rapid acceleration of chaos in the world order.
How far along in the race to the bottom have we come?
How about a contrast?
http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-parable-of-perfect-economy.html
A short while before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin was sent to England to demand the monarchy relax taxes. The colonists had become prominent traders, skillful ship builders, and equally skillful evaders of the many excessive duties levied upon their shipping trade. In the spirit which inspired representative government, they rose to demand justice from the king.
Franklin was a renown author, publisher, amateur scientist, philosopher and statesman, and there was tremendous anticipation of his arrival. In England, the little news returned from the colonies was conveyed largely by disreputable sailors in equally disreputable places. Little was believed of these tales. Despite Franklin's reputation, it was broadly assumed he would prove a crude, uncultured woodsmen, hardly fit to represent his peers against the established power of the English monarchy. History however would prove his peers light years ahead of their time, and even the many generations who followed them.
Upon his arrival he was whisked to a prominent engagement, where, before the ruling class of England, Franklin, the guest of honor and object of great skepticism, was soon compelled to make a speech. Amid considerable ado, Franklin walked to the podium. He turned to survey his audience, and after adjusting the spectacles he had invented, he asks them, "What's your pleasure?" They beseeched he tell about the colonies.
Franklin was a student of the state of English affairs, and thinking how much despair the English "economy" suffered under the Bank of England, he composed his answer. He knew that even prominent lawyers spent a good part of the year behind on their rent. They often went hungry. Few non-aristocrats owned land. Many suffered from poor diet. Common citizens spent their lives hoping to pay imposing debt — ever hopeful of meaningful employment, and in constant, dire need.
Thinking to comfort them with the hope of the colonies, finally Franklin replied slowly and deliberately, that they might digest each phrase: "Well. You can leave your ship with just your baggage, walk beyond the furthest homestead, and become an immediate landowner."
Franklin was immediately interrupted by an outcry of disbelief. Once it began, practically the entire audience shouted the improbability of such a thing.
Knowing he spoke the perfect truth, Franklin calmly waited to resume his answer: "The forests are vast. You can cut down all the trees you can imagine, and build whatever kind of home you please. The soil is rich and fertile. You can clear all the land you want. You can plant practically any crop you desire, and it will grow with great vitality. There are unspoiled streams everywhere. The water is pure and good, and may be diverted to irrigate your fields. The wilderness is full of game, and there is no possible shortage of meat. The people are happy and busy, and prosperous."
End of speech.
Outright disclaim erupted. Angrily, a man shouted, "How can you possibly account for prosperity in the colonies?" A whole audience of doubters loudly saluted the question.
When they finally quieted, Franklin again answered steadily, "It's quite simple. We have created our own currency."
It's the currency - stupid.
Bush knows this; that is why he must destroy Iran's control of oil. Oil is currently backing the dollar. The domino theory is working here. If Iran sells oil ‘off the dollar’, then, the dollar value will fall. If Hugo Chavez sells oil ‘off the dollar’, then, the dollar value falls. Iraq was invaded for the control of its oil.
The saddest part about these sadists (Neo-Confidence schemers and Neo-convicts) is the level of sheer destruction they have wrought IN YOUR NAME.
Not mine. Those legal thieves do not have anything of mine that has not been stolen from me.
Like a light switch this country can turn from the direction of despotism, destruction, war, misery, torture, desolation, immorality, debauchery, and all that is evil toward prosperity, liberty, and posterity. All that is needed is a more accurate currency.
Imagine waking up right now knowing this to be true. Now imagine two people realizing this fact. Now consider the power involved when 300 million American’s have an accurate currency with which to make the American Dream a continuously improving reality.
Why listen to me, or anyone, why not simply know the truth yourself?
Answer: Falsehood.
To find it you must first look in the mirror.