Truth 
in politics. 
What a concept!

Rebuild Our Economy! 

By Kevin Barrett 

When Bush took office back in 2001, the satirical newspaper The Onion published an article headlined Bush: “Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over". 

They got that right. 

For more than seven years, the Bush Administration and its Democratic and Republican stooges in Congress have been waging war on our economy. Their pals at Enron, Haliburton, and other criminal enterprises have been looting the taxpayer, the rate-payer, and everybody else in sight. Much of the five trillion dollars flushed down the Iraq war toilet-bowl has gone to line the pockets of these liars and thieves.  

To hide the truth during those seven years of looting, the Federal Reserve just kept printing more and more funny money. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. The dollar is tanking—at this rate it will soon be used for lining birdcages. Gas prices are through the roof, because gas is still valuable, but the dollar is not. As I write, food is starting to be rationed in some areas. 

What to do?  

First, jail the criminals and recover the loot. Then get to work on a plan for national economic renewal.  

We need to begin a massive transfer of our resources from unproductive enterprises to productive ones. Most of this can be accomplished by the free market if we allow it to work. 

Right now our economy is a not a free market. It is dominated by the Federal Reserve money cartel and its military-industrial complex. To become a free market economy, we need to abolish the Federal Reserve and the military-industrial complex. 

I support Dr. Ron Paul’s plan to abolish the Federal Reserve. We need to take back control of our own currency. The way it works now, the government borrows trillions of dollars from the banking cartel at interest to pay for its activities. Then it taxes us to pay the banksters back—at interest. Why should we have to pay interest on our own currency? Why shouldn’t our government just print its own currency, interest free? And why shouldn’t that currency be sound, instead of funny-money?

I also support Dr. Paul’s plan to shrink the military-industrial complex. We should stop trying to conquer the world, quit destroying the Middle East on behalf of Israel, close down every foreign military base, bring ALL our troops home, and just defend the borders. We could easily cut military spending more than 90%, probably more than 99%, and still be far more secure than we are now. The bottom line is, military spending kills economies. We doubled our military spending after 9/11, and now our economy is shot full of holes. (Read Chalmers Johnson's article   "The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the US Has Gone Broke.") 

If we nationalize the Federal Reserve and return to a defend-the-borders posture, we will suddenly have far more money than we know what to do with. Our economy will flourish as never before, especially if we bust up the big, inefficient monopolies that dominate most sectors today, and give small and medium-sized enterprises a chance to compete. We can eliminate the income tax for ordinary Americans—only the wealthy should have to pay income tax, as the creators of the tax intended.  

A return to sound currency, lower government spending, and re-focusing that spending on rebuilding our infrastructure at home, instead of destroying things in Iraq, will more than repair the damage done during the past seven years.