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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
American Messiah: Fact or Fiction
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Greed is Good
However, a closer look revealed that 54% of the total net financial assets were held by only 1% of the families. 90% if its wealth remained in the hands of the top 10%.
Thirty five percent of the families in America controlled a mere 14% leaving 55% of the nation with an accumulated net worth 0%. Yet, statistics don’t begin to tell the story.
And, while the nation is trillions of dollars in debt, that debt rest on the backs of the nation’s poor and middle class (working poor). Wealth has become transnational, where the richest 1% owes nothing to its host nation. If nationalism isn’t dead, it’s certainly on life support.
Money is power. That being the case, these elite few hold the keys to the kingdom. They are able, without being elected or appointed, to print money through the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The FRB (Federal Reserve Board) prints U.S. currency without any cost to them and then loans the money to private citizens (via lending institutions). The sucker, I mean borrowers in turn pay interest to the private banks.
In essence, it’s outright theft, resulting in the fleecing the American people of their hard labor. Greed, the blind will to power, and the drive to enslave America is unholy mission of the 1%.
And, like helpless sheep, we turn to our shepherds (political representatives) to protect us from these wolves. But politicians can’t get elected on handshakes. It takes money and lots of it.
And, as long as politicians have their palms out, corporations and their PACs will be there to grease them. With congressional committee big wigs in their pocket, there is no need for them to break the law. It’s easier for them to change it to suit the needs.
The fact of the matter is millions of Americans are beginning to awaken to this frightening truth. Whether or not we agree on the primary causes or our declining standard of living, you must agree that our daily survival is being threatened. You must also agree that there is something is profoundly wrong.
I know that you see it. Millions have and continue to lose their jobs, their homes, and their life savings. The purchasing power of the almighty American dollar is evaporating like rain puddles in the August sun.
The American family is in crisis. And, nowhere is this crisis more evident than in our failing public school systems, soaring divorce rate, the growing rate of teenage suicide and drug use, and the escalating number of rapes and cases of sexual molestation. America has more citizens incarcerated per 100 than any nation on earth. We can’t build prisons fast enough.
And as Main Street slowly awakens, whispers of discontent are slowly spreading through the cities and heartland. As an undercurrent of panic is beginning to spread across American, as a splintered electorate begins to demand sweeping political changes. We are witnessing a slow disintegration of confidence in Washington capacity to rise above it partisan rhetoric and address the needs of those who elected them.
The growing rage and out cries of America's frustrated youth, evidenced in their fascination with the morbid and occult, should be enough to force our leaders to seriously consider a departure from the present course. You would think.
Not even the reverse-industrialization of America, the corporate plundering and takeovers, the declining purchasing power of the dollar or the multi-trillion dollar Federal budget deficit can awaken the silent majority from its comatose apathy. A coma perpetuated by Seinfeld re-runs, Monday Night Football, and the Home Shopper’s Network.
You see, to a growing number of her people, America has always represented the democratic ideal but never the reality. Americans have long felt that it government only serves the powerful and sacrifices the dreams and ambitions of its citizens to feed the lustful and shameful appetite of the 1% for control and domination.
The blood of our native sons has been spilled on the beaches, in the jungles and on the dessert sands throughout the world. All in the name of democracy: to bring to the world what the American government has failed to preserve at home.
Democracy requires an educated and informed electorate for one. The masses are never encouraged to think nor are they informed. Instead, they were fed a steady diet of misinformation and propaganda.
Politicians, economist and the press has regularly assured the pubic that things will work themselves out in the end. That America will once more rise to the challenge. But, what if they’re wrong? And, that the worse is not over, but crouching in wait in the tall grass of the not too distant future.
The capitalist system itself is being called into question. The most glaring criticisms are:
- Capitalism leads to underutilization of productive capacity.
- Permanent sectors of unemployment.
- Periodic crisis related to the market economy.
- Waste associated with advertising, legalized lies.
Monetary (Modern) Slavery
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The world is controlled by a consortium of institutions (political, social class, occupation specialties, religious, financial, and economic). But, the monetary institutions (system) are the most powerful. Those who make the gold, make the rules. Few people stop to consider, how money is created, the policies by which it is governed, or its effects on society.
The life blood of all institutions is money. Understanding money is critical to understanding why our lives are this way. The global monetary system is a socially paralyzing and repressive apparatus that’s exploitative in nature. How else can you explain the growing income disparity in the U.S.?
The top 1% owns about 40% of the wealth in the U.S. The top 20% of the population owns the vast majority of wealth while the middle class and the poor are left with nearly nothing.
Specifically, the upper echelon class is growing while the middle class is shrinking. And, the poor are receiving less aid in the daily struggle will hunger, poverty and illness. The income inequality in American has grown obscene and even criminal.
Still, most Americans cling to the notion that they are better off than those in “developing nations”. That life in the devil’s paradise is still paradise. They would argue that our wealth has afforded us a way of life parallel to none. And, on the surface, their view appears accurate.
However, “None are more hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely belief that they are free.” Keep this in mind as you continue reading. So, if money is freedom consider how it (money and thus freedom) is created.
Creation of Money
Less say that the government decides that it needs 10 billion dollars.
- The Department of the Treasury notifies the Federal Reserved that it needs 10 billion dollars, and they prints the equivalent amount in treasury bonds. The action on the part of the treasury prompts the Fed to prints 10 billion in Federal Reserve notes (cash). The truth is, money is created electronically, but for the sake of this simple model we’ll use cash. Only 3% of America’s wealth is in the form of currency. 97% of the wealth is in computers.
- This leaves 9 billion in excessive reserves. Thus, 9 billion is created out thin air, if there are demands for loans. And, here is thought that only God can create something of value out of nothing. This same process can be repeated 9 times, resulting in 90 billion created from the original 10 billion dollars. The process is known as fractional reserve banking.
So, this process of money creation assures perpetual debt for Americans.
For that reason, money is debt and debt is money. So, if the U.S. government paid off all of its debts, it would lose the power to create money out of thin air. And, while, the principle amount may be paid off in time, the interest accrued cannot be repaid unless more bonds are sold and more debt acquired.
Thus, debt is built into the system; resulting in the American working class getting the short end of the stick. Wealth is the transfer of debt on to the backs on those already overburdened with debt.
Those who cry foul and point out that the game is rigged are accused of failing to read the fine print. Those foreclosure victims who take legal action (contesting the legality of the contract agreement) quickly find themselves bogged down and mired in legation that may last for decades.
Most Americans are laborers and capital controls labor by controlling wages. This can be done by controlling money (supply). So, in reality, the present monetary system is a modern form of slavery. Because money can only be created by government liability and (low interest) commercial loans, the American working man/woman must remain on the hamster wheel of indebtedness to assure the survival of the system.
Take the average homeowner for instance. The bank made the loan with money that never existed in the first place. The homeowner then works for 20 or 30 years to pay the loan off. With no more that a wisp of numbers on an electronic ledger, the banker was able to milk a life time of toil and sweat from the so-called borrower. Who said that you can’t get something for nothing?
The money only came into existence the second the bank issued the loan and not a fraction of a second before. The banks mathematically predict- well in advance of the loans- that a certain percentage of the loans will fall into default, leading to bankrupt and foreclosure. Because of the way that the loans are structured to the free floating financial markets, continued defaults are a certainty.
The dysfunctional and fraudulent nature of the system becomes increasing clear as one reads the fine print. Like always, the devil is in the details. And, the devil is not without his charms (deception).
The American people have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, run amuck. We are tethered to a system that views us a mere chattel property to be used as they see fit. And, while, we are assured the system is fair and balanced by our leaders in Washington, the entire system edges closer and closer to the edge of the abyss.
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We're Not Broke
Pundits, politicians and economists insist that America is going broke. But, I beg to differ. Ours is a wealthy nation. There is money in America, if only we would look in the right places. National headlines tell of devastating layoffs and downsizing across the country. With states forced to reduce essential services, American is swiftly losing that’s which made the U.S. the envy of the world.
However, these harmful changes to our economic system and to our social landscape are entirely preventable. If only the multinational corporations would stop being deadbeats and tax cheats and burden their fair share of the load.
For example, General Electric paid zero taxes between the years 2005 and 2010, while amassing over 26 billion dollars in profits. Bank of America paid zero in taxes in 2009 (the year it received a 1 trillion dollar bailout) and earned 4.4 billion in profits. Exxon Mobil, in 2009, received a hefty bailout on the way to a 4 billion dollar profit year. Chevron during the same year posted a profit of 10 billion, yet paid zero taxes.
Since 1961, the total percentage of U. S. Federal income tax collected from corporations has been cut in half. It should be crystal clear that one sector of the economy is not paying its share. Over the last three decades, that burden has been shifted to the backs of the middle class and working poor.
Faced with the possibility of economic collapse, we will either continue down the road to default or the corporate section with have to step up to the plate. However, don’t hold your breath.
Multinationals have been getting away with paying less, while critical investments in our future (like healthcare, education, infrastructure, Research and Development, energy, and jobs) have gone ignored.
According to the present tax code, corporations should be taxed at approximately 35% on their U.S. earnings. And, to be fair, it is among the highest rates in the industrialized world. But, before you shed a tear on behave of American multinationals; their effective (actual) rate tells a different story.
For example, NIKE‘s effective rate in 2010 was 22.7%, J.C. Penny’s was 15.4%, Coca Cola paid 6.6%, Verizon manage to avoid paying taxes altogether with a -5.9%,Dupont -11.5%, and Yahoo’s effective rate was -9.6%.
All this is made possible because the tax code allows U.S. corporations to shift income out of the country to tax havens around the world. This game is played on a mega scale, denying the U.S. Treasury 170 billion a year in revenue. Small countries (i.e. Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands) lacking in natural resources, become business friendly environments, with laws hospitable to foreign capital.
Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not just the unsavory businessmen, drug traffickers, and the super rich who dispatch secret couriers to tax havens with suitcases filled with cash. Fact of the matter is, multinational like Apple, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Pfizer, Eli Lilly and company, and thousands of other tech companies and drug makers, do routine business in such havens.
Take the Cayman Islands for example. In one small bank building there are 18, 857 mailboxes, allowing a nebulous of corporations to claim offices (residences) there. Havens like the Cayman Islands act as way stations. Money passes through these way stations so it doesn’t’ get taxed in the places where it’s earned.
But, only in a political and digital sense is the money there. In reality, the money is safely tucked away in a bank vault (advance encrypted database) in the United States. It’s just that simple.
Using international tax rules to shift profits out of the U.S. (a high tax country), to countries like the Netherlands and Ireland (low tax countries) is called Transfer Pricing. None of this is illegal, regrettably.
Yes, Transfer Pricing is legal, but is it right? Slavery, apartheid, and denying women the right to vote were protected by a legal system, but were they right in doing so?
The multinationals, other than a mailbox or small office, have neither sales records nor employees in these havens. That’s because fortunes of the multinationals turn on American intellectual know-how, research, and productivity. Given these circumstances, shouldn’t the fruits of that labor remain in the U.S?
Consider this example. Forest Laboratories, a powerful pharmaceutical company, makes the antidepressant, Lexapro. 100% of its sales and work force is located in the good ol’ US of A. Yet, the lion share of its profits end up in Bermuda, which has a zero tax rate.
Gaming the System
Here’s how they game the system. The pharmacy fills your prescription for Lexapro. A chunk of the sale goes to the pharmacy and another to the drug distributor.
But, the bulk of the sale goes to Forest Laboratory’s subsidiary located in Ireland (another tax haven). Because of the tax rate, Forest found it more profitable to manufacture the drug in Ireland then ship it to its parent company in the U.S.
To further reduce the Irish tax rate, the subsidiary (Ireland) pays royalties to another company (a subsidiary of the subsidiary) located in Bermuda. Keep in mind, that this multi- billion dollar corporation has only a tiny law office on the beautiful island playground.
In 2009, Viagra played the same shell game with its parent company Pfizer. What it saved in taxes increased its net income by a cool billion. Shifting 100% of its profit off-shore helped them to wow Wall Street and secure a strong stock price.
In 2010, even as the economic recovery stalled and job dried up, corporate profits rose by 39%, reaching 1.68 trillion, an all time high. As Americans were losing their homes, their jobs, their health, and even their self respect; corporate America, on the other hand, was surging ahead with record profits. And, the wealth gap widens.
Financial globalization got underway in the 1960s. U.S. companies were just beginning to expand internationally. But, the Vietnam conflict was the real kick start. With some much cash going overseas, the U.S. found itself with a little balance of trade problem.
Enter LBJ, in 1968 the president (and formerly one of the most powerful democrat in the House) sought and got a law that essentially required companies to obtain a permit (passport for their money) before moving cash overseas.
Naturally, the young multinationals fought back in a congressional battle, managing to obtain a compromised agreement. In the bill’s final form, companies could keep their money off-shore and avoid paying taxes. But once that money returned to the U.S. it was fair game. In the aftermath of the new law, there was an explosive growth of off-shore banking.
Today, over 50 countries act as havens for profit obsessed multinationals. So, what we’ve got now are corporations -earning billions in profits, owning trillions in assets, and eligible for billions more in bailouts- paying zero in taxes.
Bring in the Hired Guns
Everything begins and ends with the U.S. tax code, seventy-two thousand pages of loopholes, vagueness and contradictory tax laws. Here, the multinationals turned to outsiders (hired guns): an army of accountants, lawyers, and lobbyist to navigate the voluminous text, using their arcane knowledge to reduce the effective tax rate of their clients.
But, the power of these lords of the tax codes reaches even further. They not only manipulate the codes, they contribute to it. Often these hired guns in Armani suits are asked to testify before congressional sub-committees of the House, Ways and Means committee, supplying drafted paragraphs which are incorporated directly into the code.
There are even more questionable (unethical) means by which multinationals game the system. The IRS, with its limited resources, is often set back on their heels in trying to make sense of corporate shell games (a multi-layered, multi-national series of transactions).
In a revolving door manner, today’s IRS officials later become the senior officials in the very firms hired to regulate, a lucrative reward for a job not done.
For example, from 2003 to 2007 Mark Everson, IRS commissioner, dedicated his life to plugging loopholes and demolishing shelters. Two year later he joined the Alliant Group, a consulting corporation, where he took his fight back to the Hill, this time urging congress to minimize tax bills. Talk about a turn around.
Corporations are People Too
When Clinton left office, America had a 200 billion dollar surplus. By the time Obama took office, America had a 1 year deficit of 1 trillion dollars with a projected 12 year deficit of 8 trillion more.
The global war on terrorism proved to be quite costly, and not only in U.S. casualties. The Afghan War cost 443. 5 billion dollars and the Iraq War cost 805.5 billion dollars. Soon after taking office, Obama was under tremendous pressure to sign 800 billion dollars worth of corporate bailouts. Thus, the president’s policies, like all the others, are forged by corporations. But, the most devastating lost has been the 2. 4 trillion lost since the Bush tax cuts commenced in 2001.
Now as our nation tries to have a serious discussion about the mounting deficit, the multinational are busy reshaping that discussion. One point consistently championed by the Republican Party is that there will be no tax increases. The party of Lincoln has been hard at work perpetuating the myth that Americans are over-taxed. While the truth is European nations, in the aggregate, are taxed at a much higher percentage rate.
Certainly, no one can deny that on our present course, we are headed for a catastrophic default, one capable of bringing the world to the brink of the apocalypse.
Therefore, budget cuts in the trillions are inescapable. Or at least that what conservatives are yelling from the mountaintop. We must all tighten our belts, they say. Obviously, that doesn’t pertain to the multinationals.
In 2011, congress cut the national budget by 38 billion dollars, the largest cut in American history. Furthermore, they’re looking to streamline (gut) Social Security and Medicaid, and reduce the nation’s investment infrastructure and human capital.
They argue that they are preserving the America way of life for future generations. Yet, what will our children’s future look like if we fail to invest in alternative energy sources, more efficient transport systems, and more reliable dams and levees, restoring our bridges and tunnels, reduce the cost of education, rebuilding roads and highways, R&D (technology banks in support of our industrial base), universal health care and 21st century jobs.
As the multinationals re-imagine America, U.S. cities and counties are facing a budgetary gap that threatens the very fabric of our society. State and locate authorities are forced to layoff essential service worker like teachers, firemen, and law enforcement.
As a result of our lawmaker’s irresponsibility, fewer and fewer young (middle class) Americans can afford a college education, crimes (like rape, murder and robbery) are on the rise, and firehouses are being shutdown resulting in needless fatalities.
But, other areas are being slashed to the bone as well. Libraries are closing their doors for good, affordable daycare is becoming a thing of the past, and mental health facilities are forced to turn away those badly in need of treatment. Without these critical investments, the wealthiest nation on earth will soon start to resemble a third world country.
Yet, how is this possible when the 1990s was the most financially profitable decade in American history? For a plausible explanation, perhaps we need to consult the golden rule: ‘he who has the gold makes the rules’.
In 2010, General Electric spent a whooping 39 million on lobbyist, another American record at the time. Spending on lobbyist skyrocketed from 1.4 billion in 1998 to 3.5 billion in 2010. It’s no coincidence that we began to witness the systematic decimation of America’s middle class roughly during this period.
Ronald Reagan called corporate tax a punitive burden. His ‘Morning in America’ speech promised Americans that they could have their cake and eat it too. He went on to say that ‘federal government was not the solution, but the problem.’
As the former B-list actor advanced in age, the monumental achievements of the U.S may have slipped from his aging mind. These achievements include: the building of Hoover Dam, creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, connecting the nation through a vast and ubiquitous interstate highway system, rescuing the nation from the grips of Great Depression, construction of the Panama Canal, the defeat of Fascism, etc.
In 1981, tax revenue was 19.6 % of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). By 2010, it had dropped to 14. 9. These statistics alone point to the gradual underfunding of the federal government.
Part of the problem stems from the, highly-cultivated misconception that we can thrive as a people without paying more taxes. There no way in hell that this is possible, unless you subscript to the free lunch school of thought.
The Japanese and Chinese moneylenders have kept their interest rates conveniently low over the past few years to encourage our borrowing. But, have you ever stop to think of what will happen should they raise their rates to say, 10%? Can you say global disaster?
So, we have no option but to raise taxes. And, as the Republicans slash and burn their way through future federal budgets, so will the social rampage of austerity continue. Italy and Greece and Ireland have all traveled down that road. Ask the working class and poor of these nations how that plan is working out.
But, it would seem that the multinationals have become a victim of the own visa vis-a-vis Transfer Servicing. While U. S. corporations can borrow from the fed when their U.S. earnings are not enough, they would like to be able to bring home their estimated 1.4 trillion trapped abroad.
As a result, they have been working on a tax free return, a repatriation of their overseas profits.
Politician, bought and paid for by corporations, argue that these repatriated funds where create jobs here in the U.S. In 2004, Bush gave the idea a trial run with the Job Creations Act. The new law amounted to a 1 year amnesty on foreign U.S. corporate profits, the rate reduced from 35% to 5%.
During this time, Pfizer’s books reflected a profit of an additional 11 billion over the previous year. But, no additional jobs were created by Pfizer. In fact, they downsized dozens of laboratories and closed several plants. But, it did drive Pfizer’s stock up through the roof, earning executives hundreds of millions in stock options.
And, Pfizer wasn’t the exception. Citigroup, Ford, Apple, among others, followed the same disturbing pattern. Even in the light of this, congress is seriously contemplating a bill that would render all U.S. corporate earnings (present and future) aboard permanently exempt from taxation.
They argued that it necessary if the U.S. is to compete with the world. However, the UK adopted the same policy (100% tax exemption on repatriated profits) in 2010. Yet, the money and jobs continued their exit the country, leading to riots in London and other cities.
Permitting the multinationals to shelter their profits has/is having a devastating effect on small business in America. It’s nearly impossible for small businesses to compete with these hidden profits and other corporate advantages.
Thus, what we see is a ‘Walmarting’ of America, with mom and pop enterprises becoming a thing of the past. And, just as disconcerting is the idea that such events are leaving little room for Americans to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Ironically, the very same politicians rail about protecting the small businesses and entrepreneurial spirit while supporting tax exemptions for the multinationals.
Multinationals own congress by way of purchase. Their influence on Capitol Hill has never been more on display. Thanks to the Supreme Court (Citizens United), there’s literally no limited to their contributions, throwing open the floodgates of political corruption and fraud.
And, the Democratic are no different than their Republican rivals when it coming to raising money. In 2008, President Obama raised 746 million from PAC’s affiliated with corporations. However, with the cost of presidential campaigns reaching the billion dollar mark, 1500 dollar donations wouldn’t deliver the Oval Office. Some say that Obama’s choice was unavoidable, doing a little bad to do a lot of good. Some people buy it.
IBM’s campaign contributions, during the 2008 campaign year, amounted to 532 million dollars, Google 85 million, Motorola 69 million, and Xerox 32 million. Why would these multinationals tender such largess if they didn’t expect a return on their investment?
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that legislation that would raises taxes on the 1% are met with stiff opposition in the form of filibusters, pigeonholing, and other obstacles. Politicians that try and advance the cause of equity in taxation, pay the price on Election Day. Suddenly, the candidate that’s challenging the foolish incumbent is suddenly flushed with campaign contributions.
Their trucks use our highways, our military protects their overseas investments (acquisition of third world resources), and avalanches of corporate litigations overburdens our court systems and they still refuse pay their fare share. Action must be taken to bring the unethical behavior and corruption to an end! But, remember, power concedes nothing. Thus, if change is to come about, people can't just demand it. They must be willing to fight for it.
“We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both”
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Money and Power: Thoughts and Notes by J.A. Hall
All conspiracy theory isn’t just theory. Americans are beginning to awaken to that frightening truth as millions lose the jobs, homes and saving. There is a dark force at work behind our present reality making monetary slaves of men and nation alike. MONEY and POWER unveils the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the corporate elite and their nefarious plan for a one world government. It, further, chronicles the government facilitated rise of gang activity, prisons, and drug wars and documents the decline of education in urban America.- We can either have a democracy, or a nation where wealth in concentrated in the hands of a few. BUT WE CAN'T HAVE BOTH- - See more at: http://northstarpub3.com/book_store/#sthash.ATGMlYRp.dpuf
Between Shadow and Smoke (new Release)
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