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For two weeks now Barack Obama has been the President-Elect of the United States, but it is already clear that his definition of the one-word that he ran on does not mean what those who voted for him thought it did.
The United States is in the worst condition it has ever been in, since the Great Depression. This did not just happen it was caused and under president Obama, it seems clear that all of these conditions shall only deepen.
People were told that we have the best systems, the best government, and the finest nation in the world today: but none of that has been true for a very long time now. When candidates run for high political office in this country, the campaign season is supposed to provide a time for a re-examination of where we have been, what we have done, and what the people of this nation want to see in their next leader. The longest formal political-campaign in American history has just ended and the ‘candidates managed to get all the way to election-day without discussing any of the things that have criminally afflicted this nation for almost all of the last eight years.
Today it has been reported by CNBC that the total amount of money spent on the RESCUE of the creators of the collapse of the financial system, of Wall Street and in the Federal Reserve comes to over $4 Trillion dollars—which when adjusted for inflation is more than was spent on the whole of WWII.
“The collapse of so many major financial institutions in the past year, and over the past few days especially, is hard to fathom in its enormity. Sometimes you need a good visual to put things in perspective. The New York Times has an
interactive graphic up on its site that pretty much says it all. It shows that $4 trillion has been wiped off the total market capitalization of the U.S. stock market since last October. Of that, nearly $1 trillion is from the decline in the financial sector alone.” (1)
And just yesterday CITIGROUP announced the elimination of 50,000 more jobs. “NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- In the most dramatic round of layoffs seen to date in the battered U.S. financial sector, Citigroup Inc. said Monday that it plans to cut about 50,000 additional jobs as part of an effort to help stem huge losses sparked by bad investments and lending decisions.
The job cuts amount to the second-largest layoff announcement, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas, since the tracking firm began keeping score in 1993. Only a 60,000 job-cut announcement from International Business Machines Corp. in 1993 was bigger than Citi's disclosure on Monday.”(2)
One might think that these two events would be a subject of intense debate and careful questioning—but that’s not happening. What is happening is the continued euphoria over the selection of African-American male to be the president of the country. Yet few people are paying any attention to what Obama is planning or not planning to do, once he is sworn in. “Details” such as these two items are apparently boring to this public that has supposedly been suffering throughout the last eight years of Cheney-Bush.
But then this public was not curious about those two clowns either; before Cheney-Bush began their blood-drenched reign of pre-emptive strikes, illegal occupations, and cover-ups by the hundreds of virtually everything they did and have done, in our names.
From the choices that Obama has made for his Cabinet level advisors it is quite clear that Barack Obama did not come to Washington to “change” anything, but to continue our national-nightmare with a vengeance. Apparently the breaking of Campaign promises has now become an acceptable tradition, especially when it is obvious that real and fundamental changes must be made—if we are to survive as a people. When compared with the self-congratulation of the public over the selection of an African-American for president, it seems, that the public prefers not to know much beyond a name, when it comes to those that will be responsible for fixing what went wrong as well as finding ‘new directions’ for America on the global stage. It’s too bad, because that is the same mistake this country has been making now for several decades—and the results of our casual unconcern—has only made all our problems worse with every passing decade.
The kind of choices that Barack is making will insure that there shall be no prosecutions for the crimes committed by those thugs that ran the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, the Department of Offense, the Leadership of the Congress, or any of those very special members of the US Supreme Court that enabled it all in the first place. In fact Bush is planning pre-emptive-pardons for everyone involved: while at the same time launching a frontal assault upon all the things that he was unable to force upon the public before this final hour.
If Obama stood for change then those he picked to serve him should have been those that opposed the actions of the previous two administrations: instead of those that he has chosen, who helped to fashion that obscenity that Powell gave at the UN and that opened the Gates of Hell and gave the world the US version, of that Shock & Awe from which we are all still reeling.
If Obama stood for change then he would be cleaning house at Justice, and simply closing Guantanamo instead of rearranging the confinements and creating a new legalism to continue to hold people without charges in pre-emptive strikes upon designated persons, that he as president, shall deem as possibly dangerous (without evidence) and therefore must not be allowed to go free.
If Obama stood for change then he would revise the insanity of the global wet-dream that was created by Cheney-Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld that was driven by their need to plunder so much of Middle-East in the sanctified name of “the National Security Interests of the USA.” If he were honest he would tell the nation and the world the simple truth:
‘The path we chose in 2001, immediately after 911 was the wrong path. We did not investigate 911 for the massive crime that it was, and our leadership used that fact to launch pre-emptive strikes upon others that have yet to yield any real results. If America had been serious, then Bin Laden would be on the FBI’s most wanted list today – yet he is not. So let me say that as president I plan to seek a new paradigm and to open America to the wider world rather than to continue these failures, this bunker-mentality that feeds the fear that promotes national paranoia and prevents energy being spent upon creating new opportunities in the world, for greater prosperity and mutual benefit.’
But of course neither Obama nor any other American-presidential-elect could ever make such statements, because they were appointed to keep this nightmare going until there is nothing left to talk about.
Americans believe that they did indeed speak long and forcefully for “CHANGE,” which is what so many still believe will happen. But as with so much of life today; the devil is in the details—and Americans really won’t take more of their own precious time, to do this unpleasant task that would only anger and frustrate them, even more. Until people face what they have done and demand that their choices be respected, on every level: then nothing will ever change in this hell-hole that is actually fading fast into the dust-of-history; where we shall be lost forever because we would not stand against the crimes, or dare to call the leaders what they’ve spent so much money to become—TRAITORS one and all!
Jim Kirwan
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