Four Horsemen Page #6
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are led as if by an invisible hand
to the general well being of society...
To make it clear,
Adam Smith didn't really say that
Adam Smith was very much aware of that
businesses when they got together,
conspired against the public interrest,
raised prices,
he was aware of monopoly
he was aware of the importance of education
that the private sector couldn't provide.
So he him self was aware of all the limitations.
But his latter day descendants
have forgotten all those caveats.
Adam Smith was the godfather of classical economics,
but since it's publication,
his work has been used as a political football
financiers twisting his words to suit them
Lord Griffith advocates
ruthless individualism to push this idea that
if bankers get rich,
then we get rich too through a process
known as trickle down economics.
If you feed the horse enough oats
Some will pass through to the
road for the sparrows
the idea is that extreme wealth
concentrated on a small minority
would eventually trickle down to everyone else
but it doesn't work
because by the time the money
reaches the people at
the bottom of our money pyramid,
it's lost it's purchasing power
But the public are now confused as to
why our politicial leaders
have allowed this to happen,
and quite naturally now ask why?
Because our political processes
are badly flawed
Because they are depending on
lobbyism and campaign contributions
That's why a lot of people view
we have to restructure our political processes
to give more voice to the ordinary citizen
and less to the interrest groups, moneygroups
Those who have taken such a
large role in shaping our tax code,
our regulatory regulations and so forth
I stood on the front step of Collin Powells house
And I looked at him and said:
-"Whats next boss?"
He said:
-"What do you mean?"
-"Whats next,
after you're going to write a book?"
-"I know you're going to write your book,
but you're not going to do that for
the rest of your life"
-"What are you going to do next?"
He said:
-"Maybe a cabinet position, but first money"
I said:
"Money?"He said:
"Yeah, millions"-"That's the only way you can be a
cabinet officer in the american government"
The democrats and the republicans
are beholdant to corporate interrests
and until they become unbeholdant
we will never have a well governed republic.
The inherent inequity in our system of
money, banking and politics
has not just had consequences domestically
but also on a massive scale globally.
Western leaders have presented
their military campaign in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan as a moral obligation
but are there other reasons for it?
The first financial beneficiary of
Americas foreign policy is the military
in particular those who supply it
with arms and equipment
The military has won wars.
But how successful has it been
in it's aim to erradicate terrorism?
The drone attacks not only failed,
but they've created extra extremism
they've helped in radicalisation of
youth in the north west frontier
and also in certain parts of
Punjab and Pakistan.
there's a feeling that
America is doing it deliberately
to destabilise Pakistan.
I'm not so sure about that,
but I certainly feel that those people who
actually support this policy
every time you kill 10 so called terrorists,
you create 500 more
because they see the drone attacks as
an attack on the sovereign state of Pakistan
If they really wanted to flush them out,
there was no need for a huge military operation
in Swah, causing an entire district to
become internally displaced persons.
The population of Swah is 1,8 million
there are 2.3 mln refugees in the country
The whole district has been emptied
This wouln't be necessary had they
carried out a surgical commando operation
To get the militant leaders.
But they allowed them to escape, all of them.
After the military, the next financial beneficiary
are those who win the contracts to
conduct the rebuilding process.
In the west people might even feel optimistic
when they hear that
the us is pumping in tens of billions
develeping nations to build infrastructure.
But often this too doesn't seem to
achieve publicised goals.
Is there another reason we give
these countries aid?
The Economic hitmen have created
the worlds first truly global empire,
and we've done it primarily without the military.
We work in many different ways
but perhaps the most common is
that we'll take a third world country
that has resources our
corporations want like oil,
and they arrange for huge loans to
that country from the world bank
or one of it's sister organisations.
However that money never goes to the country.
Instead it goes to our own corporations
to build infrastructure projects like
powerplants, highways, industrial parks,
things that benefit a few wealthy
families in that country as
well as our corporations.
But it doesn't help the majority of people at all.
They are too poor to buy elecricity,
or drive cars on the highway.
They don't have the skills to get jobs
in industrial parks
but they are left holding a huge debt.
Infrastructure which has used heavy loans
from the world bank and the IMF
and made from grounds from western countries,
they've all gone into benefit the elite
and the feudal classes.
They have not benefitted the people.
A lot of money goes to these consultants
and companies from the west who
charge huge amounts of money and
actually the real money on projects and
on ordinary people is very limited
The masses have very little already so
those landlords who have the infrastructure
and are going to make money because of
the infrastructure that is built through the
roads they will prosper,
but the ones who don't have any resources
that do not have jobs, there isn't any
economic activity for them in terms
of manufacturing goods so they can sell
and they could also prosper.
When you don't have that what do they do?
They resort in joining the taliban
because they see the enemy coming in
and taking away what little bit they have.
President Obama i understand wants to
Pakistani infrastructure
to elevate poverty and to take away all the
divisions and all the
anti-American sentiment away over here.
Whatever his reasons are,
we can do without it.
In fact it's the worst possible thing he can do.
This kind of help is actually a hindrance
it's just going to make matters worse.
It will bring this contrived war on terror
into the guerilla areas.
is genuinly altruistic?
And how much is it influenced by
the banks and corporations that
profit so tremendously from it?
Americas evangelism of democracy
is riddled with contradictions not least
this idea of promoting democracy
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