George of Arabia: Better Kiss Your Abe ‘Goodbye’ by Greg Palast

George of Arabia:
Better Kiss Your Abe ‘Goodbye’
Greg Palast

Bend over, pull out your wallet and kiss your Abe ‘goodbye.’ The Lincolns have got to go - and so do the Hamiltons and Jacksons.

Those bills in your billfold aren’t yours anymore. The landlords of our currency - Citibank, the national treasury of China and the House of Saud - are foreclosing and evicting all Americans from the US economy.

It’s mornings like this, when I wake up hung-over to photos of the King of Saudi Arabia festooning our President with gold necklaces, that I reluctantly remember that I am an economist; and one with some responsibility to explain what the hell Bush is doing kissing Abdullah’s camel.

Let’s begin by stating why Bush is not in Saudi Arabia. Bush ain’t there to promote ‘Democracy’ nor peace in Palestine, nor even war in Iran. And, despite what some pinhead from CNN stated, he sure as hell didn’t go to Riyadh to tell the Saudis to cut the price of oil.

What’s really behind Bush’s hajj to Riyadh is that America is in hock up to our knickers. The sub-prime mortgage market implosion, hitting a dozen banks with over $100 billion in losses, is just the tip of the debt-berg.

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thanks for posting.

:grr: :mad: :banghead: :nuke: :argh: All you self-serving, self-righteous and greedy SOBs who voted for this lying thieving greedy murderous POS, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?

Thank you, Mr. Palast, for pointing out how totally corrupt Commander AWOL Bush and his cabal of republicon cronies are, and how totally the republicons are screwing America and Americans...

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a snippet from the article...

"Bush needs the Saudis to charge us big bucks for oil. The Saudis can’t lend the US Treasury and Citibank hundreds of billions of US dollars unless they first get these US dollars from the US. The high price of oil is, in effect, a tax levied by Bush but collected by the oil industry and the Gulf kingdoms to fund our multi-trillion dollar governmental and private debt-load...

Palast sure has a way. . . .

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His, "Space Invaders: 5 million aliens for Hillary," on the same page, is also a hoot. Palast's excitability is SO REFRESHING! Imagine caring so much about this battered, looted, disenfranchised republic. And his facts and insight, combined with that old-fashioned, muckraking enthusiasm, is rare...so rare. I pick up the paper these days and it feels dead in my hands. Nothing lively or even interesting is waiting for me in those pages. Dead, dead, dead - pablum fascism. Then I read Palast and I have hope again that we will traverse this dark era and get our country back, because there are people like Palast rooting for us, and gleefully throwing buckets of ice water on our heads to wake us up. Shockingly refreshing!

Makes the kerfluffle between Presidential candidates pale in comparison.

We're really screwed. Thanks, Bush. Enjoy your diamonds and gold.

The Bush regime has managed to find a way to screw the USA in perpetuity.:hi:

but Palast sure has a way about him , just fires me up.

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With the whores selling their wares right out there in public, complete with celebratory gold necklaces and full liplocking.

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too late to rec :pout: