The Final Chapter of Animal Farm has arrived

[Brian4Liberty]

The Final Chapter of Animal Farm has arrived

August 26, 2014
by Brian4Liberty

(RPF) - Many people have pondered what has happened in American politics in recent years. The establishment Progressives, Socialists and Marxists have come to resemble crony corporatists. The US Chamber of Commerce (http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/business-reform-employment-law/2014/01/21/id/548266/) and various big business interests work together with the left on Obamacare (http://benswann.com/breaking-south-carolina-chamber-of-commerce-fights-to-save-obamacare/) and on increasing immigration (http://www.christianpost.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-george-soros-rupert-murdoch-bankrolling-immigration-reform-107497/) during a time of high unemployment and recession. The neo-conservatives and progressive interventionists have seemingly merged on foreign policy, with little difference remaining between Hillary Clinton and John McCain. What is going on?

2961

It may seem as though some unique and striking changes have been occurring, but that is not the case. What has happened is that we have reached the final chapter of Animal Farm (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/animal-farm-at-a-glance) by George Orwell. This is more of a well-known progression rather than an unheard of development. A review of that final chapter paints a picture that could be a snapshot of America today. The last paragraph of the book sums it up well. The mundane animals of the farm are looking through a window at the private dining room of their leader, the pig Napoleon (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/character-analysis/napoleon):

- "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Today, we have President Obama, meeting in backrooms (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/18/Report-After-WH-Meets-with-Big-Biz-Obama-May-Use-Exec-Actions-to-Increase-Guest-Worker-Visas) with the US Chamber of Commerce and big corporate interests, planning which executive actions will be taken to increase the flow of cheap labor. It is almost surprising that Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are not in attendance. Is it possible to distinguish which is which?

Uniting under the pro-war banner

In the 2016 Presidential contest, Hillary Clinton is the leading pro-aggression war hawk running for President in either party. If she were to debate the inevitable neo-conservative backed candidates in the GOP, what could they disagree about? No doubt there would be some meaningless hair-splitting to exaggerate, but once again, would it be possible to tell them apart?

The striking similarities to Animal Farm do not stop there. Orwell was prescient in his vision of the future, and this quote encompasses more than one example:

- "Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer–except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm."

Destruction of the Middle Class

That brings to mind perhaps the most damaging development of the past decade or more, which has been the destruction of the middle-class. And those on both the left and right have noticed the glaring and growing gulch between "the haves and the have nots". But as Orwell observed, there is "endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm."

The leviathan of government continues to expand. Quite often, the only hope of a decent wage for an American is working for the government or for a government contractor. Even the Unions have conceded, and have taken a seat at Napoleon's table, focusing more on being the Human Resources department for government employees.

If one were to listen to the nightly news, you might hear a statistic on employment or economic growth that provides some hope. Once again, official statistics were also a standard fixture on the Animal Farm:

- "There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better."

Ferguson and Police militarization

In the realm of current events, another similarity can be found in the "supervision" and dogs aspect of Orwell's Farm. Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri have highlighted a certain unease in the air about the militarization of the Police in America. We now have domestic Police that resemble an invading army in terms of equipment and tactics. Is it easy to tell the difference between a middle of the night SWAT raid in America, and house searches by the military in Iraq or Afghanistan?

"We have rights in America!" is often heard in opposition to the growing police state in America. People tend to only think about rights when police take excessive action, when a person is subjected to TSA groping and naked scanning, or all of their personal information is captured by the NSA. For the most part, the resulting discussion is not about natural rights (http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-constitution/natural-rights/), or even the subset of rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights (http://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/). It's just a vague reference to some general "American" rights, rights that many have a hard time specifically recalling.

Once again, Orwell has one more prediction for those who want to reference their rights as defined by law. Forget about all of those archaic rights, or the more popular "human rights" that are in vogue today. The new Constitution has been written, and whether by actual amendment, or more likely via steady erosion of the current Bill of Rights, Orwell has predicted your new law:

- "There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS."

[Ronin Truth]

Best damned US government that the Rothschild's bazillions can buy for the NWO.

[AuH20]

Imagine what Pixar could do with subject material like Animal Farm? Though it's probably too gritty and hard-hitting for them.

[56ktarget]

Mccain and Clinton are not progressives. Next.

[Ronin Truth]

Mccain and Clinton are not progressives. Next.

You are right, he's a war mongering fascist and she's a one world government NWO socialist. They do appear to be happy with each other though. Go figure.

[JustinTime]

Mccain and Clinton are not progressives. Next.

Progressives, conservatives, tea partiers, libertarians even, they are normally Oligarchs posing under different labels.

[Deborah K]

Mccain and Clinton are not progressives. Next.

Clinton is a self-professed "progressive". McCain is a progressive as well. What is your definition of progressive?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vji48Hejgzg

Here's McCain's record proving he's a progressive: http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/senatorJohnMcCainAZ111.html

[donnay]

The Final Chapter of Animal Farm has arrived

August 26, 2014
by Brian4Liberty

(RPF) - Many people have pondered what has happened in American politics in recent years. The establishment Progressives, Socialists and Marxists have come to resemble crony corporatists. The US Chamber of Commerce (http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/business-reform-employment-law/2014/01/21/id/548266/) and various big business interests work together with the left on Obamacare (http://benswann.com/breaking-south-carolina-chamber-of-commerce-fights-to-save-obamacare/) and on increasing immigration (http://www.christianpost.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-george-soros-rupert-murdoch-bankrolling-immigration-reform-107497/) during a time of high unemployment and recession. The neo-conservatives and progressive interventionists have seemingly merged on foreign policy, with little difference remaining between Hillary Clinton and John McCain. What is going on?

2961

It may seem as though some unique and striking changes have been occurring, but that is not the case. What has happened is that we have reached the final chapter of Animal Farm (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/animal-farm-at-a-glance) by George Orwell. This is more of a well-known progression rather than an unheard of development. A review of that final chapter paints a picture that could be a snapshot of America today. The last paragraph of the book sums it up well. The mundane animals of the farm are looking through a window at the private dining room of their leader, the pig Napoleon (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/animal-farm/character-analysis/napoleon):

- "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Today, we have President Obama, meeting in backrooms (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/18/Report-After-WH-Meets-with-Big-Biz-Obama-May-Use-Exec-Actions-to-Increase-Guest-Worker-Visas) with the US Chamber of Commerce and big corporate interests, planning which executive actions will be taken to increase the flow of cheap labor. It is almost surprising that Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are not in attendance. Is it possible to distinguish which is which?

Uniting under the pro-war banner

In the 2016 Presidential contest, Hillary Clinton is the leading pro-aggression war hawk running for President in either party. If she were to debate the inevitable neo-conservative backed candidates in the GOP, what could they disagree about? No doubt there would be some meaningless hair-splitting to exaggerate, but once again, would it be possible to tell them apart?

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Excellent article!

[56ktarget]

Clinton is a self-professed "progressive". McCain is a progressive as well. What is your definition of progressive?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vji48Hejgzg

Here's McCain's record proving he's a progressive: http://thatsmycongress.com/senate/senatorJohnMcCainAZ111.html
She lied to appeal to the base, I'm sure in your world that never happens.

And LMAO AT THAT LINK!!!! It says mccain got a 14 out of 100 score for being a progressive, PROVING THAT HE IS NOT!!! LOL you can't make this comedy up!

[Deborah K]

She lied to appeal to the base, I'm sure in your world that never happens.

And LMAO AT THAT LINK!!!! It says mccain got a 14 out of 100 score for being a progressive, PROVING THAT HE IS NOT!!! LOL you can't make this comedy up!

You don't think someone's voting record kind of proves where their thinking lies???? Do you think Dr. Paul would have ever voted for that shit? He's given the progressives campaign finance reform and authored immigration reform. Do you even know what Clinton's voting record was when she was a senator??? Or do you need someone to pull that up for your lazy ass too?

[56ktarget]

Yes I'm sure in your fantasy world scoring 14 out of 100 on a progressive scorecard means that person is a progressive...

[Deborah K]

Yes I'm sure in your fantasy world scoring 14 out of 100 on a progressive scorecard means that person is a progressive...

Did you look at what he voted on?? That is what is important, not that he scored low on a progressive site. If a sandwich is 95% meat and 5% shit, it is still a shit sandwich.

[otherone]

Yes I'm sure in your fantasy world scoring 14 out of 100 on a progressive scorecard means that person is a progressive...


?????

[Deborah K]

56k, I'm curious as to your definition of progressivism. Care to define it?

[56ktarget]

Wow two out of the four "progressive" things he has done according to your link is cut wasteful defense spending.

LMAO isn't that what Ron Paul has advocated?

Please stop, this is just too embarrassing...


56k, I'm curious as to your definition of progressivism. Care to define it?
People like Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich are progressives. Clinton and Obama are not.

[56ktarget]

Double

[Deborah K]

People like Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich are progressives.

And you determine this how?

[Brian4Liberty]

People like Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich are progressives. Clinton and Obama are not.

That must be a popular opinion over at Democratic Underground.

[Deborah K]

Wow two out of the four "progressive" things he has done according to your link is cut wasteful defense spending.

LMAO isn't that what Ron Paul has advocated?

Please stop, this is just too embarrassing...

Okay, okay so you think the link I posted is laughable, I'll admit it was a hasty choice to make a point. His progressive stance on finance reform and immigration is enough. Cutting defense spending isn't a progressive act so I don't even know why that is listed as progressive. Shitty link, I'll give you that. Doesn't change my 'shit sandwich' analogy though.

(let's see how many times I can use the word "shit" in one thread) :rolleyes:

[DFF]

The top donors for both the Republicans and Democrats are Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs, and radical, leftist Jewish organizations, such as AIPAC.

This is why both parties seem so similar, and are now eye to eye on lot of issues, like giving the green light mass third-world immigration, gay marriage, and attacking every single nation in the Middle East surrounding Israel.

Washington has literally become one gigantic mouthpiece and enforcer for the radical left; thus why their policies seem alien to the majority.

The commie scum that Senator McCarthy warned about have taken over.

[DamianTV]

I think it is time for 56K to go away. It seems that most posts are inflammatory, undermining, and intended to cause conflict. Results that threads are derailed by arguing over subjective unrelated smaller specific points and detracts focus from the Big Picture, the danger of an unrestricted uncontrolled tyrannical government.

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The OP is outstanding. We are in the Last Chapter of American History, not just Animal Farm. This is how Freedom dies; with thunderous applause by those who profess to be our Elected Leaders. They hide behind our Security. They hide behind our Children. They hide behind the American Flag carrying a Bible. Thei hide their own immoral actions from their own consciences and justify all the tragic consequences. They really believe that they are "doing good" for not only the country, but the world as a whole. They really believe the world needs them to "change and fix things". There are probably a few members of The Powers That Be that are fully aware of the consequences and how destructive their decisions are, but the people whose strings they pull believe the Puppetmasters and buy into their propoganda. Propoganda doesnt just affect those at the bottom, but all the way up the power pyramid. Our elected officials wear Chains of Obedience that they preciously revere. The Chains of Obedience of the Elected are not physical, but Financial, Political, and Informational. They are fed a continuous diet of bad information that alters their perspective of their actions from once being deplorable to completely justified.

This Human Farm is on the edge of eating itself.

[francisco]

Imagine what Pixar could do with subject material like Animal Farm? Though it's probably too gritty and hard-hitting for them.

There's no need for Pixar to make an animated feature of Animal Farm, because back in 1954 an English company made an absolutely brilliant piece of classic hand-drawn animation of it. Very faithful to the story, and the artwork is beautiful.

The full movie is on YouTube!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YYEoWAAmDE

The final scene mentioned in the op starts at ~1:06:30


The Final Chapter of Animal Farm has arrived...

What has happened is that we have reached the final chapter of Animal Farm by George Orwell... The last paragraph of the book sums it up well. The mundane animals of the farm are looking through a window at the private dining room of their leader, the pig:

- "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

Today, we have President Obama, meeting in backrooms with the US Chamber of Commerce and big corporate interests, planning which executive actions will be taken to increase the flow of cheap labor. It is almost surprising that Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio are not in attendance. Is it possible to distinguish which is which?

But sometime, watch it from the beginning, as it's well worth it.

[ProIndividual]

...on increasing immigration during a time of high unemployment and recession.

This is where you lost me. We know for a fact immigration rates decrease or even go negative in recessions and high unemployment rate periods, and that immigration rates go up in booms and times of high employment rates. It never ceases to amaze me how people abandon free market principles when it comes to levels of immigration. The government can't run the post office, and yet you think they know what the immigration quotas should be? (The quotas shouldn't exist according to a free market principles.)

Immigration is not positively correlated to native unemployment rates. They are negatively correlated, in fact. And here comes the disproven (with data) myth that "you can't have open borders in a welfare state" (one of the few things Milton Friedman was wrong about). Whatever. Carry on...who cares if immigration is known to be conducive to economic growth and increases in native standards of living. Who cares if immigrants get on welfare at lower rates than natives and commit crimes at lower rates than natives. Who cares...oh, never mind. Evidence and logic doesn't matter on this topic, and I've already seen that time and again around here. Confirmation bias in 3,2,1...

[Brian4Liberty]

Imagine what Pixar could do with subject material like Animal Farm? Though it's probably too gritty and hard-hitting for them.

They would probably completely change the allegory. The new version would be about sexual orientation and gender identity. And all of the creatures in the big house would get a nice laugh out of it.

[Deborah K]

This is where you lost me. We know for a fact immigration rates decrease or even go negative in recessions and high unemployment rate periods, and that immigration rates go up in booms and times of high employment rates. It never ceases to amaze me how people abandon free market principles when it comes to levels of immigration. The government can't run the post office, and yet you think they know what the immigration quotas should be? (The quotas shouldn't exist according to a free market principles.)

Immigration is not positively correlated to native unemployment rates. They are negatively correlated, in fact. And here comes the disproven (with data) myth that "you can't have open borders in a welfare state" (one of the few things Milton Friedman was wrong about). Whatever. Carry on...who cares if immigration is known to be conducive to economic growth and increases in native standards of living. Who cares if immigrants get on welfare at lower rates than natives and commit crimes at lower rates than natives. Who cares...oh, never mind. Evidence and logic doesn't matter on this topic, and I've already seen that time and again around here. Confirmation bias in 3,2,1...

"Open borders" implies a free flow of traffic both ways. Any idea what Mexico's immigration policy is? Have you heard what has happened to one of our Marines (who had legal weapons in his car) for taking the wrong lane at the border and ending up in Mexico?

What we have for a border is a one-way flow with a check valve. It isn't working.

And deliberately increasing the flow of illegal immigration while offering welfare is a tactic to get support from the recipients. Both parties are guilty of authoring amnesty bills.

[Philhelm]

This is where you lost me. We know for a fact immigration rates decrease or even go negative in recessions and high unemployment rate periods, and that immigration rates go up in booms and times of high employment rates. It never ceases to amaze me how people abandon free market principles when it comes to levels of immigration. The government can't run the post office, and yet you think they know what the immigration quotas should be? (The quotas shouldn't exist according to a free market principles.)

Immigration is not positively correlated to native unemployment rates. They are negatively correlated, in fact. And here comes the disproven (with data) myth that "you can't have open borders in a welfare state" (one of the few things Milton Friedman was wrong about). Whatever. Carry on...who cares if immigration is known to be conducive to economic growth and increases in native standards of living. Who cares if immigrants get on welfare at lower rates than natives and commit crimes at lower rates than natives. Who cares...oh, never mind. Evidence and logic doesn't matter on this topic, and I've already seen that time and again around here. Confirmation bias in 3,2,1...

Fact: By percentage, more naturalized immigrants voted for Ron Paul during the primary than native born U.S. citizens.

[Deborah K]

Fact: By percentage, more naturalized immigrants voted for Ron Paul during the primary than native born U.S. citizens.

Key word here being "naturalized". Pro Indy likes to conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration.

[Brian4Liberty]

Immigration is just one aspect of the article, and it serves to illuminate the crony relationship between many of the parties involved, including Obama, the US Chamber of Commerce, Jeb Bush and many other politicians and special interests. None of these parties have limiting (or eliminating) government, or a border-less world as part of their agenda.

Let's save the immigration debate for a purely immigration thread.

[Brian4Liberty]

There's no need for Pixar to make an animated feature of Animal Farm, because back in 1954 an English company made an absolutely brilliant piece of classic hand-drawn animation of it. Very faithful to the story, and the artwork is beautiful.

But sometime, watch it from the beginning, as it's well worth it.

And here's a much shorter version, with added clips... ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Lncal_EbI

[Deborah K]

Immigration is just one aspect of the article, and it serves to illuminate the crony relationship between many of the parties involved, including Obama, the US Chamber of Commerce, Jeb Bush and many other politicians and special interests. None of these parties have limiting (or eliminating) government, or a border-less world as part of their agenda.

Let's save the immigration debate for a purely immigration thread.

A border-less world would serve a global government well. And, in my flea bitten opinion, that is the ultimate goal of these creeps - that is to say - they are incrementally working toward global governance.

[Deborah K]

And here's a much shorter version, with added clips... ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Lncal_EbI

Kudos to Libertypen.com ! Great analogy.

"Work harder. Eat less." :mad:

[Brian4Liberty]

FreedomWorks forum links for this story:

http://connect.freedomworks.org/
http://connect.freedomworks.org/news
http://connect.freedomworks.org/node/446242

[HOLLYWOOD]

Imagine what Pixar could do with subject material like Animal Farm? Though it's probably too gritty and hard-hitting for them.

Well now, my favorite
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
-- Animal Farm: Chapter X (http://george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/9.html)

[ProIndividual]

"Open borders" implies a free flow of traffic both ways. Any idea what Mexico's immigration policy is?

It absolutely does NOT mean "both ways". Next you'll try to say free trade means "both ways" (reciprocal/balanced trade - which is anti-free trade). Both open border policy and free trade are UNILATERAL decisions by a state to NOT aggress against the rights (to movement and property, respectively) of human beings they are in a position to aggress against. Natural rights, or individual autonomy if you prefer, have nothing to do with reciprocation or citizenship or location. Where you got this notion from is beyond me...because it isn't present in the writings of any libertarian philosopher or economist I've ever read. It's Lou Dobbsian.

I just wish you guys could face the fact you don't believe in libertarian principles or free markets on this issue. Stop trying to redefine the principles and free markets to fit your argument.

[ProIndividual]

Key word here being "naturalized". Pro Indy likes to conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration.

They'd be the same thing if you got rid of the restrictions, logically. Quotas are anti-free market and anti-natural rights.

[ProIndividual]

A border-less world would serve a global government well. And, in my flea bitten opinion, that is the ultimate goal of these creeps - that is to say - they are incrementally working toward global governance.

How does "open borders" logically imply no borders? Do you realize the word BORDERS in "open borders" implies there are borders? Of course you don't. And the tired old "global government" argument against immigration therefore falls completely apart. BTW, you can have no borders in two ways; one world govt, or a stateless world (neither of which can co-exist with open borders, as open borders still need borders to exist). The argument no borders leads to global government is a statist assumption. The argument that open borders leads to no borders is just illogical. This was a non-argument therefore. But thanks for the nonsense ad hominem/guilt by association.

I wonder, do you think the Founders and their follow-up acts were for global government when they didn't put in any immigration restrictions until the Page Act of 1875? Oops, there goes your little non-argument.

Chronological history of immigration laws in the United States:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_legislation

The Page Act of 1875:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Act_of_1875

And every restriction was based on some BS, usually racist or protectionist (and thereby collectivist and anti-free market), excuse. Have a good long read over the history.

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/paperlesswords/698746899/1/tumblr_l40yhc4hl91qc4sax

[EricBlair]

"Bought and Paid For" by Charles Gasparino covers the purchase of Obama by Goldman Sachs. Gasparino left CNBC for Fox Business shortly after publication.

[EricBlair]

I think the most important thing Orwell ever wrote was "the greatest lie is the lie of omission" along with his observation that "he who controls the past controls the future". The history departments are pretty much one big lie of omission; and you can just watch C-Span2 BookTV on a typical weekend to confirm this. So much great scholarship systematically ignored! Exhibit A has got to the the voluminous work since the late 90s on just how bad Soviet espionage truly was, yet this has yet to be reflected in the garbage that is slung at the students in the history texts. They have such an emotional investment in "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism" that they cannot let a word in edgewise; it's been this way for a long time (my 1960s 8th grade book illustrated McCarthy with a HerbBlock cartoon with a guy climbing the arm of the Statue of Liberty with a bucket of water yelling "fire!".

Disturbingly it appears that C-Span itself has been compromised, as the most stunning expose of recent years has yet to gain exposure there. I reference the book "America's Nazi Secret" by John Loftus. If you think you're informed because you know what Operation Paperclip was...well that was barely the tip of the iceberg. Loftus even explains where Lyme disease came from, it wasn't from nature. Oh well, at least they let Roger Stone present his case against LBJ.

Loftus presents the case that the upper crust, investment banker class was infested with war criminals who were not only happy to do business with the Nazis before the war, they protected some of the worst of the worst after the war (the Dullles brothers simply went behind Truman and Eisenhower whenever they felt like it). In combo with Antony Sutton's voluminous scholarship on how some of these same people helped build up Stalin and kept right on doing business with the Soviets after the war, you can see we've been on the last page of Animal Farm for some time!

[Brian4Liberty]

"Bought and Paid For" by Charles Gasparino covers the purchase of Obama by Goldman Sachs. Gasparino left CNBC for Fox Business shortly after publication.

Nice of you to mention that! Another great example of the Animal Farm dining table...

My blog review of the book:

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The Creature from Johnny's Half Shell
by Brian4Liberty, 05-11-2011

A review of a book by Charles Gasparino:
Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street
http://www.amazon.com/Bought-Paid-Unholy-Alliance-Between/dp/1595230718

The Creature from Johnny's Half Shell

Johnny's Half Shell is a popular gourmet restaurant located in Washington, DC. In June 2007, representatives of the Financial elite from New York were called to gather there for a secret meeting. It was a small affair, held in a private room over an expensive dinner, with an exclusive guest list. The purpose of the meeting: an employment interview. Present at the meeting were top executives Dick Fuld (Lehman Brothers), Greg Flemming (Merrill Lynch), Larry Fink (BlackRock), Paul Volcker (Former Fed Chair), Gary Cohn (Goldman Sachs), and Warren Spector (Bear Sterns). The subject of the introduction and interview, Barack Obama, was also present. The job he was seeking: President of the United States of America.

Some might ask why would the "Wall St" people back a Democrat? Isn't big business in bed with the Republicans, and don't the Democrats look out for the little guy? Well, that's just so much false left/right propaganda. Obama has been a much greater friend to Wall St. than the Republicans, and it doesn't hurt that these high-level CEOs and Executives are all hard-core limousine liberals; put simply, they are Democrats. And it's not a surprise that their "ideology" conveniently dove-tails right into their business profits. What these Wall St. Banksters and Obama know is this: big government means big debt. They are partners. Debt is the drug, the Banksters are the pushers, and politicians are the drug addicts. Obama wants to spend money, and he doesn't care how high the fees are or how much debt accumulates. The Banksters push the debt, underwrite the debt, resell the debt, package the debt, make markets out of debt, and advise on how to hide the debt with accounting tricks. Ask Orange County about it. Or Greece. Companies such as Goldman Sachs were at the center of those spectacular collapses, driven by debt and accounting fraud.

Obama gives speeches about the "Fat Cats" and Wall St. excesses. Simultaneously, he has a party and a good laugh with those same people. The jokes on you; the taxpayer, the saver, the producer, the consumer, and the future generations of Americans saddled with debt and a worthless currency.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/entry.php?329-The-Creature-from-Johnny-s-Half-Shell

Related thread:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?271280-The-Creature-from-Johnny-s-Half-Shell