23 sept 06

Greetings,

Here is a recent comment posted on alternet.org by an astute citizen regarding the Machiavellian Bush administration.

Peace.

"Eighty per cent of all stock market shares are owned by the richest ten per cent of Americans. Some people call those ten per cent the “elite,” but I call them plutocrats.

"Consider for a moment what that means in terms of their power to control and manipulate all aspects of government. They own at least eighty percent of the Military Industrial Complex, our largest industry, making them also our largest employer. Which in turn generates a powerful and loyal political base, because nobody votes themselves out of a well paid job.

"Plutocrats have concentrated their investments in specific industries like the Military Industrial Complex because they are guaranteed humongous profits. They have also invested heavily in media corporations, banks, insurance companies, medical, drug and health care industries, power companies, telephone companies, and of course gas and oil corporations.

"Our system of government is based on legalized bribery. Plutocrats have the gold and use it to bribe politicians to legislate in their favor exclusively. In a comically perverse way though, the bribes are really just loans, because politicians use those bribes/loans to buy media ads to get reelected so they can collect more bribes/loans. The money goes round and round, but always ends up in the plutocrats pockets."

The Disastrous Rule of the Mayberry Machiavelli