by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
The visual
above is the short story. Barack Obama smooching Charles Koch, who
with his brother, David, very much wants American taxpayers to pay
for the XL Keystone pipeline, which will save them money and the
trouble of redesigning their present refineries, deep in the heart of
Texas. The Koch refinery is configured to take heavy crude,
available only from Venezuela and Canada.
And along
with the distasteful issue of going hat in hand to Hugo Chavez, and
paying $100 (£64) a barrel, the oil the Kochs need is available far
more thriftily from Canada, selling at around $67 (£42) a barrel.
Even billionaires take thrift into consideration. Getting Americans,
now struggling to feed their families, to pay doubtless stuck them as
a much better idea.
You can't
say the Brothers Koch are not consistent. I coined the name,
'Greedville,' to ID them and their many co-conspirators. Together,
they have been bilking America for years and have now formed a
coalition with President Obama to Rebilk America using ideas which
first say light of day in the unlikely environs of Libertarianism,
for which I must apologize. I tried to stop them, but what do you do
with a bunch of wild-eyed Randroids, including the ever avaricious Ed
Crane?
Crane, and
Cato Institute, eventually saw the full potential of privatization,
borrowed from Reason Foundation.
Privatization,
the lodestone of the Obama message, should strike horror into the
hearts of an American. Privatization has grown our prisons into
factories intended only to produce money through incarceration, many
of these for crimes which are, arguably, not crimes at all, harming
no one. The same “public – private” cooperation, also known as
fascism, is steadily encroaching on every part of our lives and,
sadly, can be credited directly to a Libertarian.
Dr. Robert
Poole, who originated the idea of privatization in his 1975 book,
“Cutting Back City Hall,” laid the tracks for the railroading
Obama is 'fast-tracking' for the Kochs, who are large donors to
Reason Foundation and actually founded Cato Institute. These
supposedly Libertarian think-tanks have long since become the means
of quieting objections from the 'Right' intelligent enough to
understand what was actually going down.
Using the
fiction of 'privatization,' actually corporatization, corporations
intend to own America's entire infrastructure, mining it, and us with
the cost-plus contracts for 'rebilking' which helped make the Kochs
billionaires in the first place. I'm sure Bob Poole did well on the
deal.
Bob retired
to Florida where he spends his time playing with, would you believe,
his model trains.
Obama's
pitch for corporate welfare can usefully be considered as two parts.
The cake, which are the direct largess to be handed out to the
Kochtapus and friends, and the frosting of promises, including
“quality day-care,” which was to sugar-coat the impending flow of
funds to Greedville with promises for programs which, if precedent is
to be believed, are in reality intended to put ordinary Americans
under tighter control and provide earlier access to children for
purposes of ensuring they emerge from 'schooling' properly
propagandized.
What any
reasonable person would have asked is, “why not policies which
return prosperity to Americans so mothers and fathers can raise their
own children, instilling their own values?
Since such
'policy reforms,' as changes in student loans actually should address
the fraudulent nature of the loans in the first place, why is an
investigation into this by the DOJ not included? Answer: These
loans resulted in enormous corporate profits.
Every proposal has the same unchanging outcome, increasing corporate
profits while making it look like they are doing ordinary Americans a
favor.
The gloss
of frosting also included the continued demand for gun control,
intended to leave Americans unable to defend themselves against this
assault of fascism.
In fact,
along with Obama's use of 'not for profits,' and a steady roll of
propaganda, there was not a leaf left out of the book also used by
Karl Rove. Perhaps Karl loaned it to him.
When Obama
uses the phrase 'rebuilding America, he actually means rebilking
America. The only solution is taking the power back, directly to
the people. Get the real thing. Rebuild America, starting in your
own local community by returning to our founding principles.
Instead of
more bilking start rebuilding America for real.
The Declaration of
Independence affirms the rights of all people to life, liberty, and
happiness.
The
Preamble
to the Constitution says,
“We the
People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America.”
One of the first steps to
securing the blessings of liberty and ensuring justice hinges on an
electoral system which we can trust, the very thing Karl Rove has
worked so hard to extinguish, with the help of the people named
above, and many, many more like him.
Over
the last decade a general agreement on several points has coalesced
in the Election
Integrity Movement.
First, we need to dump the
voting machines.
Second, we need to return
control of balloting to the most local level, voting on paper
ballots, tallying transparently and openly at the precinct and then
publishing the results.
To return power to the
people we need to move the nexus of control closer to home.
We
can also ensure states can bypass Congress by proposing
Constitutional Amendments and ratifying among themselves, thus
returning power to the states, closer to the people who are the
government. The
Madison Amendment.
We
need to return representation of the people to the levels mandated by
the Constitution, this being no more than 30,000 for a member of the
House of Representatives and no more than 1,000 locally. Our
present system violates the Constitution.
This must be corrected. Doing so must take place through local
organizing, original shoe-leather activism, which brings us together
past the divisions politics has imposed.
Local organizing will also
allow us to pass ordinances banning the use of drones, along with
other essential measures for returning control to the people. Strong
communities, concern for those around us, and individual initiative,
made America a shining light on the horizon for people around the
world once. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
The choice is each of ours make.
At
Rebuild
America,
we supply information, tools, and a meeting point for sharing what
works so local action can flower as the people do it themselves.
See you there, and then in
your home town.
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