[CitizensTruth] Economist Michel Chossudovsky on America's fiscal collapse
Kris Knight
welaware at merr.com
Sun Mar 15 18:25:59 EDT 2009
Any reports yet from areas where the economic hits have been hardest?
What is actually happening on the ground at this point?
On Mar 15, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Geri Perry wrote:
> Interview by Bonnie Faulkner on Guns and Butter, one hour: http://kpfa.org/archive/id/49073
>
> Some notes:
>
> The numbers are astounding, and horrifying. . . .We 're in a very
> serious situation - the most serious crisis in modern history.
> Defense spending and the bank bailouts are eating up the totality of
> Fed revenues, and exacerbate the crisis because the real truth is
> that stimulus money is NOT going to the real economy. We're really
> looking at a fiscal collapse, not a fiscal crisis, because virtually
> every category of public expenditure is threatened.
>
> Worse, low interest rates (which notably do not apply to consumer
> credit) means few will be purchasing U.S. debt in the form of
> Treasury Bills and Bonds while at the same time low interest rates
> encourage another speculative onslaught by the financial economy.
> Treasury thus lacks the ability to finance its operations.
>
> Worse yet, the banks are not only the recipients of public money but
> a big portion of the US debt is held by the banks, allowing the
> banks to dictate policy - and basically control EVERYTHING. The
> public money going to the banks is being used by the banks to buy up
> public assets (and speculate with derivatives).
>
> This means State and local taxes will skyrocket. Meanwhile the
> upward transfer of wealth to the financial economy will further gut
> the real economy due to speculative activity. The FEMA camps being
> built around the country specifically ties in to anticipated unrest.
>
> The people who control the government and the people who support the
> government know very well what they have to do to control dissent.
> One is to control the media, including the alternative media, so
> that the public is completely unaware of the pending impoverishment
> of the entire nation. (and since we have a global economy this
> impoverishment extends to nations around the world, China's economy
> is collapsing now. 3rd world countries already impoverished by IMF
> structural adjustment loans will suffer most, and the collapse of
> their economies will literally drive even greater numbers into death
> by starvation)
> <END OF NOTES>
>
> In short, the system is rigged. Read about the first global crash of
> 1345 to find out what may be in store: http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/954_Gallagher_Venice_rig.html
>
> Also WATCH FOR another email titled The World According to
> Derivatives which is about my 7 part series on derivatives which
> explains the whole picture.
>
> THE SOLUTION? Demand Congress get behind Kucinich to create
> Constitutional money and regulate the value thereof.
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Kris Knight of WellAware Life Enhancement Center
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