Greider in The Nation points out that a coalition of progressive Dems (Sherod Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley) told Obama they would prevent Summers' nomination. Maybe the left-wing of the Democratic Party is tired of waiting for the DNC to get its act together? Would that Obama would start chasing the libs instead of the crazy-right!

I really don't think that they will take away from the most needy of us...it's just a wag-the-dog smoke-and-mirrors ploy to distract us and to make the Democrats look like they are Democrats. And why would they do that? Because the majority of people aren't buying their bull$h!t anymore and they are getting desperate. Congress, all of congress...including Democrats...are at an all time low in popularity. Any less popular and they would all be considered enemies of the people of the United States...right along with all those Republicans.

The ruling elite needs the people to stay within the confines of the two-party system and not riot in the streets so they play their little mind games with the people by scaring the people into voting for their fake Democrats who sell false hope...or the Republicans who sell divisive unimportant horse$h!t to their ignorant zombie voters who are all so dumb they vote against their financial well being every time.

When there is hope (even if has repeatedly shown to be futilely flawed) it keeps the people from taking to the streets and getting violent. That is the one thing the ruling elite are afraid of...that the people will wise up to their head games and that the people will start to come after them. And nothing will really change until this happens. A possible exception might be if the voters wise up and vote all these bums out and put in someone from outside the two party system. But, of course, even those outsiders can be bought or controlled. But it would send a very strong message that the people are not going to continue to be fooled anymore.

If the Republicans do manage to take away food stamps and make people starve...the people will be desperate enough, perhaps, to struggle to survive in any why they can. People cornered will either cower and die a pathetic failure or they will turn and fight. "I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees"...or die cowering in the corner.

Unfortunately it will result in a lot of increased crime against everyone. Hopefully, it will be directed toward the institutions of the ruling elite which is where it will do the most good. Attacking and robbing fellow downtrodden will not even make the ruling elite care a whit. But, it wouldn't be so bad, however, if the most ostentatiously well to do, that hope to venture forth from their bunkers, and driving their obviously very expensive cars, were adversely affected by the situation they helped to create. Things could get very violent for them! They are heartless ba$tards anyway.

The Twain Report

All The News That Mark Twain Says He Would Report If He Was Alive Today

9-19-2013

When President Obama reluctantly accepted Larry Summers' resignation, he said, "Much of the financial progress America has made, we owe to Mr. Summers' wise counsel."

He went on to say, "I am looking into finding someone who can give me advice of the same caliber. And before you go off on a tangent about me using the word caliber, I want to assure you that I am not talking about supporting more widespread gun ownership and a national stand your ground law."

Several republicans sank to the floor, sobbing uncontrollably.

Obama held up his hands in a conciliatory gesture, saying, "Now, ah, I know what the republicans are going to do. They are going to obstruct every effort I make to replace Larry."

John Boehner put down the morning's first box of merlot just long enough to say, "I object to President Obama characterizing the republican party as unable to present a candidate as evil as Larry Summers. Why, I could do the job myself."

When the hoots and catcalls died down, and Boehner sat back down to sulk and nurse his merlot, President Obama said, "Now, I have tried to work with you on this. I have made my standard conciliatory gesture of offering to move to a sharecroppers shack in texas and sell America down the drain in order to get this done, but the republicans have simply not been willing to work with me. Therefore, I have given an executive order to get the job done without the cooperation of the republicans."

Without revealing the exact nature of his executive order, President Obama quickly ended the press conference.

When the republicans found out what Obama had done, Erik Cantor held his own press conference and said, "As a republican, I will always be against stem cell research, but..."

Cantor seemed to be choking on something and unable to get his words out, but finally he continued, "... but I have to admit that the idea of using stem cell research to put the brain of a rabid monkey into the corpse of Idi Amin, and having that undead individual replace Larry Summers on Obama's staff, has a certain republicanesque charm to it. And I want to be the first republican to say that having a member of the rabid undead on Obama's staff would lead to just the kind of decision-making that has been the patriotic hallmark of the republican party ever since Reagan first drank the Ayn Rand draino."

I hope both parties collapse under their own weight. They are both part of the rigged game that is destroying America. Don't be fooled by the big con that Obama is being beaten up by the Republicans. He is part of the con game. Part of the false hope that he sells us is that he works for us and the mean old Republicans are what stops him is just part of the ruling elite plan to screw us. Wake up and look at all the things he has done that really do fall in line with what the ruling elite wants all along. Look at the Obama administration's attitude toward whistle blowers. Look at all those that he appointed to top positions that were the very cause of our economic problems to begin with. Look at the so-called Obama Care (the ACA) which was originally a Republican plan where the government is the chief enforcer for the healthScare insurance industry....forcing you to make payments to those profit driven death panels.

Have you ever gone into a store and seen signs that said "Sale: 40% off"? Some people realize that what the store actually did was raise their prices by 50% then put up signs saying 40% off. You wind up paying 10% more but you think you are getting a real bargain. For example, Safeway has peaches for $2.49/lb...if you always shop at Safeway you might think you are getting a bargain if one day you go there and see that those peaches are now reduced to $1.50/lb. But other shoppers who go into the other store, or flea market, or farmer's market, know that they can buy peaches for $.99/lb and often even at $.79/lb. I never buy my peaches at Safeway. I buy them up at $.79/lb and then dry them or can them.

Have you noticed how the healthScare insurance companies raised their prices as the Obama Care law approached the deadlines? And some people are trying to tell you that "see there, already the Obama Care has made insurance prices cheaper!" It's a scam with government leg and arm breakers to enforce extorting the money from us for the insurance companies!

You may swallow the idea that Obama is trying to be fair and just trying to get along and that he is being pushed around but I don't buy it. It's all a flim-flam ruse foisted upon those gullible enough to believe their trickery. If you want to change things then work to throw the bums out...all of them...all of the Republicans and those Democrats who don't act like Democrats. They may talk like Democrats but they don't act like them.

Yes, it appears to be true that the Republicans are very bigoted and hateful and they are in a battle with Democrats and they will do anything to beat each other. But the real drivers...the real masters behind it are the ruling elite...and they don't really care whether Democrats or Republicans are in charge...as long as they do the bidding of the ruling elite.

Republicans, of course, is plan A...the preferred method of screwing us. Democrats is plan B... used to make extremely ticked off citizens hopeful that things will change for the good. It helps to keep them from really blowing up and getting massively physical...like in Egypt, Greece, etc. But those who are really paying attention can see what is happening. The Democrats pander false hope in order to deflate the potential for massive rebellion... something the ruling elite doesn't want to see happen.

So, both the Republicans and the Democrats are part of the rigged game that will never keep the wolves, the ruling elite, from devouring us. The Republicans do it quickly..and the Democrats do it more slowly..but behind our backs. They talk Democrat but they act Republican. The Democrats are back stabbers.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/monetarypolicy/f/Who-Owns-US-National-Debt...

They, the Republican leadership, are filled with hatred toward our half-white President. He has tried to co-operate with them over the years and all that has been accomplished is they turn around and poke a stick in his eye at every chance. I feel that the Republican Party is going to collapse under its own weight. We'll miss them.

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RaleighMom posted, a few days ago, a link of a BookTV lecture by Ellen Schultz about how employee pension plans were looted by employers.

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Holy cow! Thanks for that link, RaleighMom! I suspected something like this was going on but never understood much of it. Ellen Schultz is really on top of it. Now, looking back I can see it all click into place. What an explosive revelation! And speaking of explosives... I wonder how any of this can help explain what happened on 9/11. I knew that there were massive corporate criminal investigations being undertaken in both the WTC towers and Building 7 and also on that side of the Pentagon that got hit. Some people may not see a connection but I sure do.

Ellen Schultz: (roughly): Since the 90s, billions of dollars were being converted into profit by converting employee's pension plans into increased compensation to the executives. They used deceitful accounting practices and did things like freeze pension accounts, sometimes for years. They also used a scam of various mergers and buyouts that every time that happened the employees pension plans got smaller...and the executives bank accounts got a lot bigger...and they used deferred accounts to avoid paying taxes.

She said that back in 1974 the law was structured to protect employees from their pension plans being used by the company. And by the early 80s, the pension plans were huge...everything very good for the employees. But then old Ronnie Reagan(666) changed everything. The laws changed and Pension Raiders took over companies and screwed people out of their pensions. Other schemes cooked up by the top execs were to tell employees that they were replacing their old pension plans with new and improved pension plans...yeah, right! After 9/11 many companies that were going downhill took out massive amounts from the pension plans as they headed for disaster. Watch that video...very scary!

http://www.booktv.org/Watch/12833/Retirement+Heist+How+Companies+Plunder...

No Because if anything would have changed it would've after Reagan was shot or after Gabrielle Giffords was shot and still no change. No matter how many of these mass shooting occurs as long as the NRA owns a majority of legislators and make the ones not owned fear being defeated nothing will ever change. If the NRA would go broke, democracy would rule!

"Imagine a democratic speaker said to a republican president I'm not gonna increase the debt ceiling unless you increase corporate taxes by 20% and if you don't do it we will default on the debt and cause a worldwide financial crisis."-Barack Obama

Quote 2950-10k:...most of our debt is the result of republican policy....as in massive tax cuts for the super rich while at the same time massively increasing military spending to fund global military adventures for profit. Not to mention Republican driven financial deregulation causing bubble crashes which in turn decreases tax revenue and increases safety net spending for all of the jobless.

Mike-C: It's just another bubble that's certainly going to pop again. And you certainly can't judge what is really going on by what is happening in Wall Street. Those are just manipulated scamster numbers to pry more money out of those that still have any left in savings and checking accounts. It's just gambling and the casinos always win...especially when the games are all rigged....as it is in Wall Street. And don't be fooled...we're not done killing civilians yet...there is always another war around the corner even though they don't like to call them wars. Where will the US send their troops to slaughter innocent civilians this time around...hmmmm, I wonder? And just go ahead and tell me that the Obama administration is so fair and balanced..never has there been so many whistle blowers prosecuted, or would be prosecuted if they could get their hands on them. Never has there been a more secretive regime and never has there been such mistreatment of the American people...the NDAA...NSA..spying on people! And while the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have wound down...it sure took Obama long enough to get those troops back home...except for the ones still over there. He still hasn't dismantled the Torture chambers in Gitmo.

I do agree that the Republicans would not have done any better. Mainly because Obama is doing just about everything the ruling elite want. He'll pretend one thing and then give in to the Republicans. Who will blink first? I think Obama will...he always has in the past and he'll continue to do so. Why? Because he is really a Republican wearing a Democrat moniker. But really, it has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat...they are both owned by the ruling elite. The Republican and Democrats are merely two sides of the same coin...Heads I win..Tails you lose. And the ruling elite is the tosser....the manipulator of the rigged game. So, go ahead believe in the system...believe that it is safe for you to put your life's savings down on black 13 once again and you'll lose it all like so many others have already done.