The American Power Elite . . .

[redcliffsw]

A report on our Rulers . . . . . .

The old folklore that we have a government of, by, and for the people, and that the two parties offer a real competition, dies very hard. We should note that the ruling elite of our country today are interchangeable. They move from the corporate world to the international banks to the military to political office (usually appointive) and back again. Who has selected them to rule? What accomplishments can they exhibit other than a resume' and having been silently co-opted into the elite without ever being submitted to the people for vetting.? Why do they, as far as we can tell, all think alike, accept the current regime as the only possible one, and collude to prevent any real issues from debate?

Yet these are the people who exercise by their own will the greatest national power the world has ever seen.

Read on:
http://lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson39.1.html

[Ross]

They were on TV news shows doing their lying.

These people have no self respect and no respect for the American citizen, IMO.

I won't believe their lies about the American debt as reported on TV and the news media.

March 17, 2013 12:08 PM
Ryan: U.S. doesn't have a debt crisis yet
(CBS News) The United States does not have a debt crisis, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said today on "Face the Nation," corroborating what House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama have said as both chambers of Congress scramble to concoct a budget plan to shore up the federal deficit. But, Ryan added, a crisis is "irrefutably" on its way.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57574761/ryan-u.s-doesnt-have-a-debt-crisis-yet/

There's no immediate debt crisis, Boehner says, agreeing with Obama
By Christi Parsons
March 17, 2013, 10:46 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- The country isn't facing an immediate debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday, but he argued that Congress and the president must reform entitlements to avert one that lies dead ahead.
"We all know that we have one looming," Boehner said on ABC's "This Week". "And we have one looming because we have entitlement programs that are not sustainable in their current form. They're going to go bankrupt."
Boehner expressed agreement with Obama's statement in an ABC interview the other day that the debt doesn't present "an immediate crisis."
But Boehner took issue with Obama's assertion that it doesn't make sense to "chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance."
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-no-immediate-debt-crisis-boehner-obama-20130317,0,2515439.story

[Ross]

We need the luck of the Irish, don't we.?