“Eat your vegetables,” our mothers used to tell us when we were kids—but all we really wanted to eat was birthday cake! And mostly just the frosting. “That’s no way to be healthy,” said Mom.
Unfortunately, it seems like the handful of wealthy movers and shakers who run our world also think like these little kids as well. “All we want is something that will produce high interest rates,” they cry—and then bang their spoons on their high chairs, too.
But these wealthy .001% elite people have been clearly blindsided by greed. “Let them eat cake” is all they can think.
And to their narrow vision, the only things that produce high enough interest rates are only Wars and Walls. No one can live for long on that kind of a diet. Not the CitiBank-Chase-Wells Fargo types. Not the military-industrial complex. Not even Wall Street. And certainly not Marie Antoinette. Eat your veggies, guys!
You can still get good interest rates by investing in solar power, infrastructure, a Green New Deal—even in higher education and MediCare for All. It would be a win-win situation. “Where’s the fun in that?” Just ask Marie Antoinette.
PS: If interest rates based on Walls and Wars are as unhealthy as cake, then perhaps the wealthy .001% should pursue happiness instead—like the Declaration of Independence tells us. High interest rates will never make the elite happy—and never build strong muscles, teeth and bones either.
PPS: Have you guessed by now that the main purpose of Trump’s fake Wall isn’t to keep asylum seekers out? And that his cruel prison camps for babies aren’t to keep America safe either? The .001% elite could care less about any of that. The main purpose of the Wall and the concentration camps are to make money—but not money for people like us.
PPPS: To quote RuPaul, “Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” No conscience, no humanity, no soul. Even young Honduran mothers trapped in cages at our southern border have more abundance than the elite .001%.
And here’s what journalist Steve Fournier has to say about the recent NRA-sanctioned murders in Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso: “‘It’s not what we’re about,’ said the mayor of El Paso, Texas, after a young white guy shot down a crowd of dark-skinned shoppers with a military-style rifle. Actually, this is what we’re about.
“Shooting, bombing, and otherwise terrorizing dark-skinned people is our stock in trade. We kill them in Iraq. We kill them in Libya. We kill them in Yemen. We’re OK with that. Ask any newsman. Ask your candidates for office. Anybody out there want to end the killing? One presidential candidate had the gall to suggest that the USA might be blameworthy in some way for the wars it wages—this was before the latest shootings—and the newsmen came down on her like a ton of shit.
“You can comb published reports of the latest massacres, and you’ll find no mention of the wars we’ve been waging without pause for the last 20 years. The latest two mass murderers never knew a time when their nation was not dropping bombs on people in faraway lands. Does the question not occur to the media: if it’s OK that we, as a nation, employ soldiers to kill black and brown people as a matter of policy in distant countries, isn’t it also OK for individuals to take up arms, on our behalf, and do the same here?
“‘Gun control’ won’t help us with this problem, and neither will improved mental hygiene. You want to prevent mass murder, quit killing people.”
Jane Stillwater is a freelance writer who hates injustice and corruption in any form but especially injustice and corruption paid for by American taxpayers. Her latest book is “Road Trip to Damascus.”
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Wars & walls & interest rates: How the global elite have been blindsided
Posted on August 13, 2019 by Jane Stillwater
“Eat your vegetables,” our mothers used to tell us when we were kids—but all we really wanted to eat was birthday cake! And mostly just the frosting. “That’s no way to be healthy,” said Mom.
Unfortunately, it seems like the handful of wealthy movers and shakers who run our world also think like these little kids as well. “All we want is something that will produce high interest rates,” they cry—and then bang their spoons on their high chairs, too.
But these wealthy .001% elite people have been clearly blindsided by greed. “Let them eat cake” is all they can think.
And to their narrow vision, the only things that produce high enough interest rates are only Wars and Walls. No one can live for long on that kind of a diet. Not the CitiBank-Chase-Wells Fargo types. Not the military-industrial complex. Not even Wall Street. And certainly not Marie Antoinette. Eat your veggies, guys!
You can still get good interest rates by investing in solar power, infrastructure, a Green New Deal—even in higher education and MediCare for All. It would be a win-win situation. “Where’s the fun in that?” Just ask Marie Antoinette.
PS: If interest rates based on Walls and Wars are as unhealthy as cake, then perhaps the wealthy .001% should pursue happiness instead—like the Declaration of Independence tells us. High interest rates will never make the elite happy—and never build strong muscles, teeth and bones either.
PPS: Have you guessed by now that the main purpose of Trump’s fake Wall isn’t to keep asylum seekers out? And that his cruel prison camps for babies aren’t to keep America safe either? The .001% elite could care less about any of that. The main purpose of the Wall and the concentration camps are to make money—but not money for people like us.
PPPS: To quote RuPaul, “Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” No conscience, no humanity, no soul. Even young Honduran mothers trapped in cages at our southern border have more abundance than the elite .001%.
And here’s what journalist Steve Fournier has to say about the recent NRA-sanctioned murders in Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso: “‘It’s not what we’re about,’ said the mayor of El Paso, Texas, after a young white guy shot down a crowd of dark-skinned shoppers with a military-style rifle. Actually, this is what we’re about.
“Shooting, bombing, and otherwise terrorizing dark-skinned people is our stock in trade. We kill them in Iraq. We kill them in Libya. We kill them in Yemen. We’re OK with that. Ask any newsman. Ask your candidates for office. Anybody out there want to end the killing? One presidential candidate had the gall to suggest that the USA might be blameworthy in some way for the wars it wages—this was before the latest shootings—and the newsmen came down on her like a ton of shit.
“You can comb published reports of the latest massacres, and you’ll find no mention of the wars we’ve been waging without pause for the last 20 years. The latest two mass murderers never knew a time when their nation was not dropping bombs on people in faraway lands. Does the question not occur to the media: if it’s OK that we, as a nation, employ soldiers to kill black and brown people as a matter of policy in distant countries, isn’t it also OK for individuals to take up arms, on our behalf, and do the same here?
“‘Gun control’ won’t help us with this problem, and neither will improved mental hygiene. You want to prevent mass murder, quit killing people.”
Jane Stillwater is a freelance writer who hates injustice and corruption in any form but especially injustice and corruption paid for by American taxpayers. Her latest book is “Road Trip to Damascus.”