Raising America While Razing Amerika!
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So, in England, finding that, for large cash transfers, someone gets to put a few letters after their name (OBE) causes an uproar that could unseat and/or jail, the leader of their government.
Meanwhile, back in the former colony that fought a revolution with England over the partnership of England's government with a powerful corrupt corporation that was in bed with the rulers, large cash transfers lets corporations raid the treasury and steal billions from the taxpayers through fraud and corrupt contracting processes. AND NOBODY WORRIES ABOUT LOSING THEIR JOBS, LET ALONE EVER GOING TO JAIL!
Maybe it's time we started a system with "Honours", whereby instead of stealing the billions that will need to come from our kids, we hold auctions to let the heads of huge corporation's call themselves Marquis of Manhattan, Duke of Detroit, Baron of Boston, Lord of LA or some such?
In return, when caught stealing public funds through contract finagling/war profiteering, instead of allowing Repugnants to fire the person who finds the fraud, we send the white-collar theives to a CIA secret prison where they are subjected to the latest in the Bush administration's definition of (non-torture???) "aggressive interrogation, without access to family, lawyer or court . . . forever and a day!
When it is a defense contractor, and their finagling has led to the deaths of our troops from inferior products or shortages caused by the stealing of allocated funds, we offer them either the same deal as above, or a trial we guarantee to run as well/fairly as that of the dictator Hussein. (Their lawyers will be subjected to assassination, we'll change the judge any time we feel he isn't as biased as possible against the defendant and the prosecution chooses what evidence the defense can present.)
Or, we have a much easier method available to help throttle back the razing of America's future by our loss of moral authority, the theft of the treasury and the tax-breaks for the wealthy that is making certain the treasury remains insolvent for decades so things like universal health care and improvements in public education are just impossible dreams.
Kick the bums out!
VOTE!
If you've never voted, or have been a Republican who feels shame at what the Repugnants have done to your party/country, tomorrow is the day you can look for some absolution, while placing America back on life support. Despite some predictions, every vote does count and the outcome can come down to very few ballots (remember Florida!)
Vote for Democratic candidates as if the future of America depended upon it.
So, in England, finding that, for large cash transfers, someone gets to put a few letters after their name (OBE) causes an uproar that could unseat and/or jail, the leader of their government.
Meanwhile, back in the former colony that fought a revolution with England over the partnership of England's government with a powerful corrupt corporation that was in bed with the rulers, large cash transfers lets corporations raid the treasury and steal billions from the taxpayers through fraud and corrupt contracting processes. AND NOBODY WORRIES ABOUT LOSING THEIR JOBS, LET ALONE EVER GOING TO JAIL!
Maybe it's time we started a system with "Honours", whereby instead of stealing the billions that will need to come from our kids, we hold auctions to let the heads of huge corporation's call themselves Marquis of Manhattan, Duke of Detroit, Baron of Boston, Lord of LA or some such?
In return, when caught stealing public funds through contract finagling/war profiteering, instead of allowing Repugnants to fire the person who finds the fraud, we send the white-collar theives to a CIA secret prison where they are subjected to the latest in the Bush administration's definition of (non-torture???) "aggressive interrogation, without access to family, lawyer or court . . . forever and a day!
When it is a defense contractor, and their finagling has led to the deaths of our troops from inferior products or shortages caused by the stealing of allocated funds, we offer them either the same deal as above, or a trial we guarantee to run as well/fairly as that of the dictator Hussein. (Their lawyers will be subjected to assassination, we'll change the judge any time we feel he isn't as biased as possible against the defendant and the prosecution chooses what evidence the defense can present.)
Or, we have a much easier method available to help throttle back the razing of America's future by our loss of moral authority, the theft of the treasury and the tax-breaks for the wealthy that is making certain the treasury remains insolvent for decades so things like universal health care and improvements in public education are just impossible dreams.
Because it very well might!
Killer e-mail sends Blair into panic over cash for honours row | News | This is London Tony Blair is in a blind panic over the looming threat of being arrested in the police inquiry into the cash-for-peerages scandal, Cabinet sources have revealed. A senior Minister said a 'black cloud' had descended over Downing Street at the growing realisation that the Prime Minister and his closest allies face the risk of being prosecuted over the affair.More on this story, here.
