Comments on: Obama: Right Of Nixon.

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:14:13 +0000

All fired up! Ready to roar! Let the simple minds run for cover!
… This going to hurt.
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By: Paul Handover

Paul Handover — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:56:23 +0000

Thanks Patrice, so much for me to learn! I look forward to your forthcoming essay/rant!

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:28:35 +0000

Dear Paul: well, a few of my thoughts about the “democratic” circus in Charlotte are coming in a 3,000 + words essay. Some will call it a rant. Indeed my contempt for those burying civilization shines through. All Obama is worried about is whether the plutocrats have not decided upon a better horse, one of their own, long established that way. Obama has accomplished his role, that of a vaccine against change. Plutocracy can change medicine now. Something stronger.

Between us, it’s not clear who will be less friendly to plutocracy, between Romney and Obama. Obama claims it’s a choice between two very different paths, but he could not even prosecute one bankster, whereas Reagan and Bush Sr prosecuted more than 10,000 in an enormous fraud one hundred times smaller than the one Obama was supposed to fix.

Obama does not worry about the climate. Or, at least, did not worry about the climate, until Romney revealed some of his true colors, and said that the climate change was a serious problem that scientists should seriously study until they can come up with clear solutions, as they do not so far. (Indeed pseudo solutions, such as ethanol from corn, have made the situation worse: agricultural prices are exploding up, and corn is emminently catastrophic for the ecology.)

Well I could say more. Having seen things from inside, I know the hypocrisy is colossal.
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By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:02:08 +0000

Dear OGP: As I said many times before, but it’s never repeated enough, president Ike, Eisenhower, brought the upper margin tax bracket, which was already above 90%, higher, because he said the national debt had to be reimbursed.
What is going on is not really a debt problem, but a determined plutocratization of society by the oligarchies on top.
It’s clearer in Europe, where the plutocratic French law of 1973 passed by Rothschild banker in chief Pompidou (then president), was integrated in the making of the Euro by French socialists, with the result that Europe has relinquished money creation fully to plutocrats.
Draghi is trying to revert that. (Off mandate, naturlich!)
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By: Paul Handover

Paul Handover — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:14:24 +0000

President Obama Says The “C” Word

From the Blog 350 or bust, see http://350orbust.com/2012/09/07/president-obama-says-the-c-word/

“Every climate activist I know is disappointed in Barrack Obama’s lack of action on climate change during his nearly 4 years in office, but – after being mocked by Mitt Romney for his big promises to act on this issue – President Obama did finally mention climate change on national television yesterday during his address to the Democratic National Convention. Let’s hope this signals an end to his allergy to both the term “climate change”, as well as the urgent need to act on it.”

Thoughts?

By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:16:41 +0000

There is nothing wrong with rich people. There is nothing wrong with being rich, getting rich, buying expensive BMWs, etc.

The MOST CERTAINLY IS something wrong with Romney having a lower tax rate on money made by financial shenanigans that some worker on the Ford line.

That is the legacy of Ray-Gun.

That is what needs fixing.

If we restored the tax structure of the 1960s, the rest would take care of itself.

By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:28:55 +0000

OGP: I agree completely with your point 2). I even pretend that this is happening because the upper left types are actually double agents from birth (Pelosi, and other pluto-philanthropists) or then are characters selected for their greediness and egocentrism helped by a generous layer of naivety and comedy (that would be my description of Clinton, although I confess I did not listen to his speech yesterday; fact is, last I look he had understood nothing to the financial sector, beyond the fact that it makes the Clintons rich and influencial).

As far as 1), BMW are supposed to be rich people’s cars. So as I bellow against the rich…But, actually BMW has been propping up its sale numbers, and one can pay a BMW cheaper than a Ford, everything else being equivalent, with a bit of care and luck… And, fact is too, those who think belong to the .1% in a most exacting way. If Montaigne had not had the means for his “Ivory Tower”, his “letters” a kind of web site of the times, would have never happened. To think thinkers need to have time, and time is… This being said, there is a leisure class at both extremities of the social spectrum…

Apparently Andrej assimilates driving BMWs to unreconstructed Nazism, and I must admit that I was myself mightily irritated by what I heard in Germany up to a few weeks ago. (Now it’s abating as merkel is manning up…) Bottom line, Germany allowed Greece to convert Drachma at twice its value. And it was deliberate, so the Greek upper classes could all buy Porsches, and BMWs, and Daimler… So Greek Euro crisis was made in Germany in that sense. The Bundesbank could, and ought, to have vetoed that.

Now the Bundesbank chief is still raising (unclear) objections, last one on the ECB board to do so.
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By: Patrice Ayme

Patrice Ayme — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:46:41 +0000

Paul: Remember: “interesting times!” Chris’ rage is justified, but he does not even know how extensively corrupt the system is. He just talks about what he knows. And that’s not that much, hahaha… Corruption is about billions, just for one, not simple six figures stuff…
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By: Old Geezer

Old Geezer — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:42:55 +0000

1. Why is it better to drive a Ford than a BMW?

2. Yes, the USA has moved to the right in the past 40 years.

WHY is that? Because the Right are better propagandists. They work hard at it. They have since Barry Goldwater took a beating in 1964.

By: Paul Handover

Paul Handover — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:39:05 +0000

Just spent the last twenty minutes catching up on the above – left me with the feeling of wanting to slit my wrists!