Bill just doesn’t get it. No one in the Clinton camp seems to understand why so many young people are flocking to Bernie Sanders or how to connect with them in a way that would unify the party in November should Hillary win the nomination. Most of their explanations so far have pegged these supporters as hopelessly naive, unrealistic and idealistic.
At the recently concluded Centesimus annus conference at the Vatican, leaders from countries around the world were invited to discuss the morality, or lack thereof, in the global economy, which Pope Francis has rightfully labelled as "the globalization of indifference".
Invitations to this conference were selective, made by the Pope himself. Having been schooled on the writings of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, I found resonance with Francis's address before the conference.
You have been told that America lost its jobs because of Unions, and Regulation made it too expensive to manufacture in America. Well, this is not actually why or how it went down. You see there are many pieces to this puzzle, and I will try to show them to you and help you connect the dots.
When I heard President Obama's recent statement that "America is pretty darn great right now," I'm sure I wasn't alone in asking, "What the Hell is he talking about?"
It just changed into something even worse.
Home prices have returned to bubble-level prices, but millions of former homeowners remain permanently damaged from the bust.
Oil prices have made a small bounce from sub-$30 to $40, despite a record glut of inventory. Good news for producers? Nope.
The term wealth redistribution, often used by the mainstream media and critics of Democratic Socialism is an obvious mis-characterization. It implies wealth distribution in the first place. We 99 percenters know, wealth is pooled up at the top with the serious people that run things.
It felt like a veil had been lifted from my eyes and I had a totally new understanding of people and events pushing the levers of government when I first listened to Catherine Austin Fitts explain how trillions of dollars were sucked out of the US economy by an organized crime syndicate consisting of government and big banks.
The next step must be to root out all of the greed and lawlessness, right?
A couple of days ago, I came across Catherine Austin Fitts for the first time. Fitts, a Wall Street investor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing, uncovered the methods for sucking trillions of dollars out of the US. She explains that it is a coordinated effort between the government and the big banks -- organized crime, she calls it.
She's an excellent speaker and explains it all really well so I recommend that you listen to her rather than have me write out the juicy bits.
