Allen L Roland

America's top down approach of power, control and manipulation is failing miserably in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Honduras and at home. It's just a matter of time before the people take to the streets and dismantle this International financial Behemoth ~ the largest and most dangerous political plutocracy known to man:

A Behemoth is the largest and most powerful animal ever to exist. Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity ~ and what better name to describe the largest and most powerful plutocracy ever found which is now existing under the name of the United States.

Guided by an out of control Military/Industrial complex and driven by corporate greed it was held somewhat in check until 1990. But the Cheney/Bush administration quickly removed its leash and this voracious predator has destroyed everything in its path for the past ten years ~ and always under the guise of Democracy and the War on Terror.

It's fuel has been unconscionable greed which has permeated our government from the Oval office and Congress to the chummy confines of Wall Street and Corporate America.

It's Rivero's rule in action ~ all organizations and even countries will eventually reflect the moral values and integrity of its leaders.

Many Americans seriously believe what George W Bush exclaimed ~ that himself and the US were preordained by God to expand and exercise hegemony over all that it surveys ~ from the Oil fields of Iraq to the Poppy fields of Afghanistan in order to maintain " our way of life ".

What a crock ! This Behemoth of greed is now out of control and Obama, and his bevy of Goldman Sach advisors, cannot avoid its top down headlong dash towards financial Armageddon ~ for the credit bubble that just burst cannot be reinflated by increasingly debt ridden, angry and destitute consumers.

As Chris Hedges writes in Truthout ~ " The pernicious idea that democracy lies in the choice between competing brands and the freedom to accumulate vast sums of personal wealth at the expense of others has collapsed. The conflation of freedom with the free market has been exposed as a sham. The travails of the poor are rapidly becoming the travails of the middle class, especially as unemployment insurance runs out and people get a taste of Bill Clinton's draconian welfare reform. And class warfare, once buried under the happy illusion that we were all going to enter an age of prosperity with unfettered capitalism, is returning with a vengeance." http://www.truthout.org/070109M?n

The day of reckoning is already happening in California ~ California's 26 Billion dollar deficit is growing by millions every day and is rooted in an unprecedented economic depression with 11.5 percent unemployment and the greatest concentration of mortgage delinquencies in the nation ~ which is not going away anytime soon. And no one is talking about the over $28 billion in bonds coming due between now and October.

This Behemoth will destroy itself when it no longer has money and greed to feed on and the public take to the streets and demand true change in the form of Transparency, starting with the highly secretive Federal Reserve, Regulation restored to Wall Street and the election of true change agents to political office.

We may very well need a third party to bring about this change in 2012 ~ for the Democrats are equally as guilty as the Republicans in betraying the people's trust.

A bottom up approach will work if the people unite and exercise their power and it's already happening through out the world. Don't support our illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, Don't pay taxes, Don't use credit cards and Don't buy anything nonessential and watch what happens ! No taxation without true representation ~ which was the rallying cry of our original revolution 233 years ago !

Remember, 60% of America's GNP is based on consumer spending and when that dries up ~ Congress and Wall Street will get the message.

Don't wait for the leaders ~ be the leaders. We are the one's we have been waiting for !

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/07/06.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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