Divide and conquer is an age old military strategy for defeating your enemies. I believe that Sun Tsu, who wrote the Art of War gets credit for describing it in writing.
The following is from the New York Times, Sunday edition.
"Are Republicans in Congress really willing to let these cuts fall on our kids' schools and mental health care just to protect tax loopholes for corporate jet owners? Are they really willing to slash military health care and the Border Patrol just because they refuse to eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies?"
For Republicans, who oppose any tax increases, Mr. Hoeven countered: "He blames Congress for the sequester, but Bob Woodward, in his book 'The Price of Politics' sets the record straight. Woodward says it was President Obama who proposed - and promoted - the sequester."
What makes this debate over blame so odd is that both sides' fingerprints - and votes -are all over the sequestration concept. The point of sequestration, in fact, was to define cuts that were so arbitrary and widespread that they would be unpalatable to both sides and force a deal.
That won Republicans' support for increasing the government's debt limit in 2011, and averted the nation's first default. The Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate each passed the accord overwhelmingly, and Mr. Obama gladly signed it.
It appears the US national government is finally out of money, out of credit, and out of time. The can kicking is over. Apparently we should all care because our hard earned tax dollars have been used up paying the interest on the loans our government pays to fund its activities. That money goes from your pocket to that of the Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel, and its charter members, foreign and domestic.
With the passage of the Federal Reserve Act December 24, 1913, with 3 congressmen voting, and President Woodrow's final signature, our own government privatized the exclusive right to coin money, explicitly defying the US constitution.
100 years later we are facing bankruptcy for at least the third time, not the first as the New York Times suggests.
The first was in 1933-1934 when then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took us off the full gold standard after the our economy was in shambles. If you recall it was loose monetary policy characterized by excessive money printing, excessive lending, and excessive speculation, across the board. When the insiders popped the stock market bubble and took their profits, the market tumbled, and the rest is history.
The second time America went bankrupt was in August 1971 when the Saudi Arabian oil company, ARAMCO, a US joint venture demanded gold in exchange for the dollars they held. Nixon declared a suspension of redemption of gold for US dollars. The Vietnam War and the ever expanding military industrial congressional complex had bankrupted the government.
Now, the US government is once again facing bankruptcy after all of us have fallen for the same con.
It's the charter memebers of the Federal Reserve that have manipulated, bribed, coerced, cajoled, and blackmailed us into this mess.
They are the ones we should be furious with, not our fellow citizens or congress. A reasonable man could not possibly be aware of this conspiracy without exceptional study as the junk food for the brain that Hollywood and corporate mass media spew out is deceptive.
The article goes on to say
"The idea for sequestration did come from the White House, as news accounts made clear at the time. Jacob J. Lew, then Mr. Obama's budget director and now his nominee for Treasury secretary, was the main proponent."
So maybe we should also blame Lee and Obama for at least committing treason by conspiring to bankrupt the country and / or provoke a civil war and impose a heightened police state.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy. A thorough investigation, albeit well after the trail has run cool, would reveal that the very same money powers behind the Federal Reserve and behind his death.
The question is, what are you going to do about it?
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