Revolution

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…
US Declaration of Independence

 
 
Bob Dole was the Republican nominee for President 20 years ago. He was called the tax collector for the welfare state. I want to begin this essay by explaining why Bernie Sanders is the tax collector for both Wall Street and the Warfare state.

Hillary: I address you as equals because you are all billionaires like me, either now or after 8 year of me as Madam President. I have been handsomely rewarded because I am doing God’s work just like your CEO Lloyd Blankfein. I followed the advice of Goldman Sachs in structuring the Clinton Foundation to avoid those pesky American bribery and money laundering laws. I will continue to accept the advice of the men in this room when I am proclaimed President of the United States.

As the viciousness of capitalism engulfs ever more of us, our yearnings for change are approaching desperation. The system’s current leader, Barack Obama, has shown us that the only change we can believe in is what we ourselves create.

A month ago two billionaires began a public dialogue that can enlighten us all about the Dark Corners of the American government. It began earlier this month when Hugo Salinas Price noticed that the reserves of Central Banks around the world had declined by a trillion dollars. Central Banks had dumped a trillion dollars in US government bonds in the 17 months ending January 8, 2016. Normally that kind of fire sale of assets would have taken down the US and global economies.

Read Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

We are headed to the worst Financial Crisis in 500 years because we have more Unpayable Debts to cancel than anytime in 5 centuries… You can predict the severity of a coming Depression by estimating the amount of Unpayable Debt.
Dr Steve Keen
Cucumbers are $3. Cauliflower $8. Bananas $3.14 a pound. Cheddar Cheese $19.69 for 8 1/2 ounces. $4.40 for a pound of apples.
Canadian shoppers expressing their shock at the devaluation of their currency.

Yes. I think that what is more important in Mexico is education. It’s for the children to be able to go to school. Of course, hunger is also a very big problem. But the one that really, really, really for me is very painful is education. And there’s very little money spent on education, on good teachers, on schools, on even rooms where children can go and work. And I think this is the worst problem in Mexico that has to be taken care of. And it has not been taken care of. I remember when I came to Mexico as a little girl, I loved my teacher, La Seño Velázquez.

A room that isn’t any larger than 10 feet square. Two metal folding chairs face one another. Acoustical tile ceiling. Windowless. One door. Might have been a storage closet in some previous incarnation but found its true vocation being what it is now: a minor interrogation room for those whose assumed intelligence remains of dubious import.