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Thursday, March 3, 2005 |
"In an Ownership Society, the employer owns the workers, and the bank owns the house and the car. If you have a credit card, not only do you work for the bank, but you can't quit work! If you don't like the system, your job will either be shipped overseas, or an illegal immigrant will grab it. The irony of all this, of course, is that our government still allows illegal immigrants - who are willing to risk their lives for a chance to be a Debt Slave in America - to flood our borders and become 'workers' in America. Meanwhile, large corporations, our legal system, and government are working hard to make George Orwell's 'Big Brother' a reality.
Americans are headed into Debt Slavery, one credit card and one house at a time. To make sure they get there, Congress is rushing though a major reform of the Federal Bankruptcy Law. Since banks have been posting record profits, one must wonder why there is such a rush to prevent the little guy from getting a 'clean slate' in Chapter 7. Indeed, when sophisticated lenders, with millions of clients and infinite amounts of cash, continue to offer credit cards and increased credit lines, why is it that they are shocked when someone can't afford to pay the interest or late charges on their credit card bill due to illness or loss of a job. Even with bankruptcy filings - over 1.5 million a year - the banks claim to be totally caught off-guard. The banks claim they need protection from sophisticated deadbeats and can afford to pay for protection by contributing to Political Action Committees. Moreover, even though the banks know how to price risk, and charge double-digit interest rates, they're livid when people who fall on hard times can get away with not paying them back with interest.
Surprisingly, these new bankruptcy laws will still allow corporations to stiff [exclude from pay-off] their creditors."
Right-wing institutions, of course, do not have to pay taxes. Many corporations don't pay taxes at all or received huge tax relief. It is the American citizen who is bearing the brunt of the burden.
11:53:39 AM 
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ICH: "Two human rights groups filed a lawsuit today against Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on behalf of eight men allegedly tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Watch this ACLU video: Keep America Safe and Free.
There is one problem, though. Attorney General Gonzales is one of the principal architects of the present US torture policy.
"Gonzales wrote a memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, who said it helped lead to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal."
You see, that is why the Bush cabal needs to take over all American institutions, to prevent them from being arrested and accused of war crimes.
11:20:41 AM
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