[CitizensTruth] Who Needs A Bailout? Reviving National Service in a Big Way

[Geri Perry]

If only 15% were the end of it. Taxes and fees at every level of 
government are little more than a shell game to hide the real, and very 
ugly truth from us. I suggest everyone study the CAFR's I mention in 
Part I of my book.

As to "national service" here is a quote and comment from my book, page 73:

<SNIP>
In his book titled Give Me Liberty, eccentric and well known defense 
attorney Gerry Spence describes our current system this way: "If we are 
the new American slaves, then who is our master? The New Master, like 
some monster escaped from the laboratories of a noble experiment called 
the American dream, is the sum total of an amoral coupling between 
government and business. It looms as a monolith hybrid that is neither 
government nor business and is composed of individual strands of power 
that include the president, Congress, the courts—a multitude of 
governing bureaus and agencies, and an immense cluster of multinational 
corporations, some as wealthy as great nations."

How might we describe this economic system? Is it capitalism, fascism, 
communism. . . or does it even matter all that much in the end? A scam 
by any name is - after all - still a scam.
<END SNIP>

gerip

Mike Kirk wrote:

> We already have a form of national service - 15% + of our wages are 

> taxed away - so we effectively are 'national servants'.

>

> -Mike

>

> --- On *Wed, 9/24/08, Geri Perry /<geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com>/* wrote:

>

>     From: Geri Perry <geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com>

>     Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Who Needs A Bailout? Reviving

>     National Service in a Big Way

>     To: "Daniel Stafford" <aqmstaffo at mailbag.com>

>     Cc: "IL Progressive Dems" <PDI at illinoisprogressives.org>,

>     "Citizen's Truth" <CitizensTruth at six.pairlist.net>

>     Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 12:10 PM

>

>     The article makes some good points, including the fact that Americans do 

>     want to work and provide for themselves and their families . . .

>

>      .

>      .but the article goes WAY off track in suggesting national service as 

>     a solution. Keep in mind that  FDR's programs did NOT get us out of the 

>     depression. We got out of the depression when we entered WWII, and asked 

>     the Fed to "loan" us money it did NOT have but was allowed to create 

>     "out of nothing"!!

>

>     FDR's initiatives actually resulted in a top-down managed economy, and a 

>     bunch of alphabet soup agencies funded by deficit spending (making them 

>     ripe for corruptive influences), which are allowed - unconstitutionally 

>     and along with the President - to create laws and regulations through 

>     the Federal Register.

>

>     About this, PLEASE read this short page: 

>     http://www.thetwofacesofmoney.com/index.php/Site/AWordAboutCorporations  

>     and read Part I of my book, carefully.

>

>     If we agree that we are dealing with an unresponsive government, 

>     hellbent are ignoring the Constitution and Bill of Rights - or at the

>      

>     very least a government and a Court willing to bend its original meaning 

>     and purpose in order to serve a corporate agenda - or a chosen group of 

>     people no matter who they be - then WHY would we want yet another 

>     national program which is certain to be maneuvered to serve interests 

>     other than We the People in the broadest and best sense?

>

>     We cannot have out cake a and eat it too. The Constitution and Bill of 

>     Rights was written so as to LIMIT the powers of the federal government, 

>     and this was a good thing because it made the citizen "sovereign" - 

>     endowed with unalienable rights. Unfortunately we allowed ourselves to 

>     be led by Alexander Hamilton - and his international banking friends - 

>     who wanted a strong central government and large public debt to "cement 

>     it all together." 

>

>     Degree by degree, that's exactly what we got, and we are now facing a 

>     real armageddon unless we get our facts and our goals

>      straight.

>

>     McFadden had it right when he said:

>

>     Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these

>     United States did not perceive that a world system was being set

>     up here which would make the savings of the American school

>     teacher available to a narcotic-drug vendor in Acapulco. They did

>     not perceive that these United States was to be lowered to the

>     position of a coolie country which has nothing but raw material

>     and heart, that Russia was destined to supply the man power and

>     that this country was to supply the financial power to an

>     "international superstate". A superstate controlled by

>     international bankers, and international industrialists acting

>     together to enslave the world for their own pleasure?

>

>     gerip

>

>     Daniel Stafford wrote:

>     > William J. Astore | Reviving National Service in a Big Way

>     > http://www.truthout.org/092408N

>     > William J. Astore, TomDispatch.com: "...

>      Amazingly enough, ordinary 

>     > Americans generally don't want bail-outs, nor do they want handouts. 

>     > What they normally want is honorable work, decent wages, and a 

>     > government willing to wake up and help them contribute to a national 

>     > restoration."

>     >

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