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Re: Drowning Americans in Slavery

Artie — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:43:22 -0500

DottiAnn wrote:

Who ever gave our "representative service" the permission to create an "all-time high of $725.8 billion in 2005" in U.S. trade deficits?

DottiAnn,

Let me return once again to my old refrain: the majority of that mammoth, record-setting trade deficit was due to IMPORTED OIL. Oil that fuels our "non-negotiable" happy motoring way of all-American life. And substantial protions of the trade deficit were for non-essential consumer gadgets from China and Japan.

Is was not our "representative service" that created that trade deficit - it was the average American driving cars and buying food and unnecessary merchandise that was shipped in from hundreds, even thousands of miles away.

We can all do something to reduce these horrible trade deficits - park your car, walk, ride your bike to the store. Use mass transit. Buy locally grown food whenever possible. Resist the temptation to buy that latest imported toy.

You are absolutely right that we are leaving an almost inconceivable debt to future generations. One thing we can do right now is to stop wasting precious, non-renewable natural resources and start figuring out our own individual ways to live sustainably.

Artie

The Greatest Ruse

Susan Livingston — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:24:24 -0500

Right on! And neither were women, or the poor. We hide behind our constitution when it's convenient, but if you read the document, I think you will agree that we need a new charter. "But the Founding Fathers built in a system for amending it!" And look at the results! It takes a graduate degree and years of practice to understand it. That's why specialists in constitutional law are highly-paid attorneys - not necessarily humanitarians who put the needs of their clients first. I want a charter that a junior high school student can understand.

Editor, propeace.net

Congressional Paycheck

Susan Livingston — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:18:14 -0500

Unfortunately, our so-called representatives have the constitutional right to set their own pay. What sense does that make? I'm sure I don't know! If I remember correctly, just last year they voted for a $30K increase in their salaries. A $30K increase! A lot of people make less money total than the amount of their raise.

Yes, debt is the harshest slave master of all because of its insidious nature. We don't even know who to revolt against because there is no one person holding the key to our prison cell. Unfortunately, our constitution gives our so-called representatives the right to contract debt in the name of the nation. "But I didn't vote for those guys!" Welcome to rule of the majority. "But the elections are rigged." Now there's the rub!

There is good work being done at the state level to clean up the electoral process in time for the '06 election, but at the same time, ironically, there is a so-called progressive movement to boycott the elections. Boycott the elections! Let's just shoot ourselves in both feet. Not only do we need to get out the vote, but we need to be as active in the electoral process as possible. Starting now. Has your state instituted paper ballots or tested its voting machines for accountability and resistance to hacking? Find out! Does your county commission need poll supervisors or technicians? Volunteer! The '06 election MUST be a fair one if we are going to salvage our leaky ship of state.

Editor, propeace.net

American*Ruse

Rainbow Brain — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:38:08 -0500

Mama*Says, Master is as Master does.

The American slave labor force, has never truly been included in the "We" - of "We the People", which must be the all time greatest ruse and propaganda achievement of human history.

BL*M

Drowning Americans in Slavery

DottiAnn — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:45:28 -0500

I would critize George Bush for selling us short and selling us out to other nations except that I am fully aware that Bill Clinton did just that with the Nafta treaty and left George with the quiremire that will forever be both of their legacies....... That someone in my "representative service" would think that a $ 83 billion dollar loan from China is an OKAY good-enough deal for me and my fellow Americans is a STRESS POINT that disallows any Peace or thought of Peace for years to come, including those I will pass on to my children and grandchildren.