yes the founders of the US Constitution blatantly stated that the "opulent minority" needed to rule over the poor masses. This is why after Bacon's REbellion in 1676 the Virginia CORPORATION made it illegal to "whip a WHITE" bond-servant in 1703. By the 1720s then FREE NEGROES were no longer allowed to vote nor own a weapon for self defense. These divide and conquer British tactics made sure the elite could keep extracting wealth - with of course FREE land for the corporate elite by providing food and housing for their bond-servants. (Land is a monopoly enabling Rent UnEarned Income Profit Parasite Extraction)
This is why the South had such opulent mansions and amassed so much wealth. Today's global elite are no different. The progressive tax rate was 90% after World War II - because the elite used to support a strong military since as Smedley Butler, the most decorated US Soldier, documented in his "War is a Racket" book, that the elite directly profit from military spending.
So if your TAXES are going to fund the military (which is over 50% of the US budget based on DEBT spending and health care costs) - then yes it is for Raping and Pillaging the Planet like a troop of male Chimpanzees based on ejaculation addiction. There's nothing honorable about "civilization" is there? The US military is the biggest Socialist organization on the planet and also the largest environmental emitter of pollution and toxic waste, global warming emissions, etc.
There is no reason to live in Fear because time is accelerating. Mother Nature is taking revenge against the rapist chimpanzee war mongering ejaculation addiction culture that currently dominates her. It was just announced that Human Mass Waste Structures now are more than all other life on Earth in mass weight.
But not for long. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com the East Siberian Arctic Shelf Methane Bomb has been triggered and will keep accelerating to soon double global warming - making it too hot to grow food at scale. You can't eat money.
"country"? The US is an EMPIRE with over 800 military bases in OTHER countries! That's how brainwashed everyone is - to think we live in a "country." This is called IMPERIAL IMPLOSION. Due to NAFTA and GATT and WTO wages keep going down next to inflation. You know that 70% of US chocolate is from CHILD SLAVES in West AFrica - over 1 million about 1.6 million children do dangerous work so children in the heart of the Empire get cheap chocolate. You want clothes? Why not pay prison labor or young women in Burma or Bangladesh getting paid 10 cents an hour. Better yet - why pay people at all? You're lucky to cover the costs of housing and food from 40% of US jobs now that are less than $15 an hour. That's slave labor.
yes the military is a proven inefficient creator of high paying jobs. As Noam Chomsky points out the high tech sector is actually funded by socialist military tax dollars to do the basic research at say MIT (where Chomsky was a career professor). So after the public funding then it is doled out to the private sector via the military contracts.
And politically each congressional district relies on military spending - this is done deliberately to make sure the defense contractor lobbyists control D.C. political spending as a "jobs" issue. And then the politicians are great as drumming up "the enemy" threat. Meanwhile the international commerce banks are "investing" in "both sides."
I'm currently reading "America's Nazi Secret" by John Loftus - he had the highest security clearances to research the acres of top secret documents in the underground vaults in Maryland. He details - his first book was censored by the CIA - and this new uncensored book is ignored by the media. So no book reviews means no libraries will buy the book either. That's how books are disappeared in the U.S. Anyway so I'll next read "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" by Professor Richard Spense - those two books together expose the fake "war spending" paradigms that our political machines rely on.
Then of course all the ecological damage - biological annihilation from the post-war pesticides and depleted uranium and basic behemoth "development" projects that our military bases "protect" - this is more elite profits. http://arctic-news.blogspot.com documents how now Mother Nature is taking revenge through unstoppable positive feedback cycles.
For example the Aerosol Masking Effect means that if we reduce sulfur pollution by 80% then global warming increases by 1 degree Celsius. Also the East Siberian Arctic Shelf Methane bomb has been officially triggered and will accelerate soon to double global warming by another 1 degree celsius. Soon - in five years or so - it will be too hot to grow food at scale. We are currently facing a global food crisis already and we have used up fresh water as well.
Western civilization has been very clever at creating high tech miracles by relying on oil energy in the past - but humans have been around for 100,000 years living in a sustainable way based on the cycles of ecology. Our original human culture, the San Bushmen, still survives and traditionally they had no war and no ray-pe. (gotta fool the youtube censor algorithms).
Government handouts=Trillions on FREE WALL STREET WELFARE. You can't suck blood from rocks. Giving Trillions to the 1% doesn't create jobs. It creates the worst inequality of wealth in world history.
When slaves escaped it was due to the slaves having a mental disease. What was it called?
Drapetomania was a conjectural mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing ...
GOOD THING YOU DON'T HAVE THAT DISEASE.
the FED creates trillions in FREE WELFARE for Wall Street elite in the past six months. Yet the brainwashed masses are trained to be brown-no$ers about it. The elite do not "create" jobs but rather it's middle class demand that creates jobs. Bring back the 1950s when the top marginal tax rate was 90%.
A good book on this is, "Year 501: The Conquest Continues" by Professor Noam Chomsky. Sure the book is from 1995 but it provides a good structural analysis. For example both India and Egypt had thriving textile industries. But how is England gonna industrialize for profit in the "free market"? Well first use the genocidal military to destroy the other markets - of course! Or consider the Spanish. Nothing worse than Mayans living in self-reliant villages - how you gonna make a profit to export commodities? First thing to do - use a genocidal military campaign to kick the Mayans OFF their land.
To this day the rich in Latin America hold vast tracts of UNUSED land. That's why Land is a monopoly and rent is UNearned passive income. Your myth of "working hard and saving money" doesn't work if the COST of rent keeps going up while wages keep going down next to inflation. Real wage income has not increased in 40 plus years.
Have you heard of the term "structural unemployment"? Why do you think unions were so racist? because technical jobs are few and far in between. Automation is the NUMBER ONE cause of job loss - even in China! The US debt keeps skyrocketing and you erroneously claim the rich are "SAVING" their money? hilarious. No - the rich borrow from the future.
It's technically called DISCOUNTING THE FUTURE for that precise reason. Science tells us that within five years then Earth will be very likely too hot to grow food at scale. You can not EAT money. Hoarding food goes only so far. For example Plato got rich as an Oil Merchant - based on regional price differences of course. Cargill is the world's largest private corporation but gets millions ever year in Welfare. Why? Because the US Empire uses food as an imperial weapon - distribution controls who starves and what farmers survive.
———————————————————————————————————————— Cargill: Our taxes, global destruction
Minnetonka-based Cargill is often noted as the world’s largest private corporation, with reported annual sales of over $50 billion and operations at any given time in an average of 70 countries. The “Lake Office” of Cargill is a 63-room replica of a French chateau; the chairman’s office is part of what was once the chateau’s master-bedroom suite.
A family empire, the Cargills and the MacMillans control about 85 percent of the stock. Not only the largest grain trader in the world, with over 20 percent of the market, Cargill dominates another 12 sectors, including destructive speculative finance, according to “Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies,” by Brewster Kneen.
Taking advantage of the capitalist speculative collapse of 1873, Cargill quickly bought up grain elevators. After vast cooperation with the state-sponsored railroad robber barons, central grain terminals averaged extremely high annual returns on investments of 30 to 40 percent between 1883 and 1889. Cargill hired a Chase Bank vice president to secretly help the corporation through the Depression, writes Dan Morgan in “Merchants of Grain.”
“There are only a few processing firms,” and “these firms receive a disproportionate share of the economic benefits from the food system,” states William D. Heffernan, professor of rural sociology at the University of Missouri. Details of Cargill’s price manipulations at the expense of farmers worldwide was documented in the classic study, “Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity” by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. They report that Cargill has had a history of receiving elite government price information that should be told to U.S. farmers.
That secrecy, along with tax-subsidized market control, enables Cargill to buy from U.S. farmers at extremely low prices and then sell abroad to nations pressured under the same destructive elite corporate control. See the Institute for Food and Development Policy’s Web Site at www.foodfirst.org....
Between 1985 and 1992, the legal entity called Cargill received $800.4 million in tax subsidies via the Export Enhancement Program, a continuation of the infamous “Food for Peace” policy, writes Kneen. Promoted by Hubert H. Humphrey and instituted as PL 480, food became a Cold War tool, i.e. “for Peace.” If we can induce people to “become dependent on us for food,” then “what is a more powerful weapon than food and fiber?” Humphrey declared, according to “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies” by Noam Chomsky.
Actually, most of the nation recipients of tax-subsidized Cargill food dumping were, and are, net exporters of food already — policies imposed by colonial trading patterns. The food (for Peace) has been bought cheaply by neocolonial regimes, and then sold at a huge discount on the local market — in Somalia, for example, at one-sixth of the local prices. Many examples of these misguided policies can be found in “Betraying the National Interest: How US Foreign AID Threatens Global Security by Undermining the Political and Economic Stability of the Third World,” by Frances Moore Lappe, et al.
Cargill’s undercutting wipes out the local farmers’ self-reliance, while the revenues (going to the elite) are tied to required purchases of U.S. weapons, writes Chomsky, citing “The Soft War” by Tom Barry, 1988. But the main beneficiary of “Food for Peace” has been Cargill. Keen writes, “From 1954 to 1963, just for storing and transporting P.L. 480 commodities, the heavily subsidized giant Cargill made $1 billion.”
Indian lawyer N.J. Nanjundaswamy reports that a Cargill motto is, “One who controls the seed, controls the farmer, and one who controls the food trade, controls the nation.” Yudof’s recently stated support of federal foreign policy Title XII is another public promotion of the University of Minnesota-Cargill partnership’s raiding of sustainable agricultural cultures.
Cargill is such a damaging threat that in Dec. 1992, 500,000 peasants marched against corporate-controlled trade, and the irate farmers ransacked Cargill’s operations. Fifty people were arrested at the partially completed — and subsequently destroyed — seed-processing plant in Bellary, India. In 1996, 1,000 Indian farmers gathered at Cargill’s office and destroyed Cargill’s records. For more, see www.endgame.org...
Cargill has been doing bio-piracy, stealing traditional products. For instance, it used Basmati, a rice from India, as its trade name, and the company continues to be one of the main promoters of corporate-driven intellectual property rights. The U.S. Trade Act, Special 301 Clause, allows the United States to take unilateral action against any country that does not open its market to U.S. corporations.
The United States, for example, has threatened to use trade sanctions against Thailand for its attempt to protect biodiversity. A bill that has been before parliament in India and promoted by Cargill, “takes away all the farmers’ rights, which they have enjoyed for generations — they will no longer be able to produce new varieties of seed or trade seed amongst themselves,” writes Nanjundaswamy.
The research center, Rural Advancement Foundation International, found that “fifteen African states, among them some of the poorest countries in the world, are under pressure to sign away the right of more than 20 million small-holder farmers to save and exchange crop seed. The decision to abandon Africa’s 12,000-year tradition of seed-saving will be finalized at a meeting in the Central African Republic. The 15 governments have been told to adopt draconian intellectual property legislation for plant varieties in order to conform to a provision in the World Trade Organization.”
Cargill, with extensive funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, is also destroying the world’s largest wetland — the Pantanal, in South America — in order to dredge a channel that’s designed for convoys of up to 16 soybean- and soymeal-carrying barges, according to the Institute on Food and Development Policy.
Cargill has been on the Council of Economic Priorities’ list of worst environmental offenders. Mother Jones magazine and Earth Island Journal report that Cargill is responsible for 2,000 OSHA violations, a 40,000-gallon spill of phosphoric solution into Florida’s Alafia River, poor air pollution compliance and record-high releases of toxic waste.
With help from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, located at www.poclad.org..., states have recently begun to respond to citizen pressure and revoke corporate charters. The assets of Cargill should be revoked, allowing the citizens of the United States to give farmers the benefits of fair trade instead of Cargill’s secretive policy of tax-subsidized global destruction.
OK so a third of my college degree was in economics. The FED "loans" can't be paid back because they're too big. That's why the interest rate can't be increased on loans. It's called the Petro-Dollar because the value of the dollar is from the US Military enforcing the value. China was the first empire to create PAPER money and it's value (collected by taxes) was also enforced by the military. Nothing has changed. As for my "cut and paste" that was my OWN writing published in the University Minnesota Daily serviing 50,000 people. So just because I wrote in 2000 doesn't mean it's not still valid. Nice attempt to use "form" to dismiss the content - sorry it didn't work for you.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html
"From 1975 to 2018, the difference between the aggregate taxable income for those below the 90th percentile and the equitable growth counterfactual totals $47 trillion."
In normal speak:
"The wealthiest 1% has taken $50 trillion from working Americans and redistributed it, a new study finds."
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