[Posted September 21, 2008]

Eaten Alive

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Uncle Sam Wants You Your House, Savings, Blood

Huffington Post Sep 19, 2008 - SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS

Billions for Bailouts! Who Pays?

The middle class has really been under assault. Since President Bush has been in office, nearly 6 million Americans have slipped into poverty, median family income for working Americans has declined by more than $2,000, more than 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance, over 4 million have lost their pensions, foreclosures are at an all time high, total consumer debt has more than doubled, and we have a national debt of over $9.7 trillion dollars.

While the middle class collapses, the richest people in this country have made out like bandits and have not had it so good since the 1920s. The top 0.1 percent now earn more money than the bottom 50 percent of Americans, and the top 1 percent own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. The wealthiest 400 people in our country saw their wealth increase by $670 billion while Bush has been president. In the midst of all of this, Bush lowered taxes on the very rich so that they are paying lower income tax rates than teachers, police officers or nurses.

Now, having mismanaged the economy for eight years as well as having lied about our situation by continually insisting, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong," the Bush administration, six weeks before an election, wants the middle class of this country to spend many hundreds of billions on a bailout. go to story

Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle

The Nation Sep 19 They think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the crisis: dump it all on the taxpayers.

Bush team, Congress negotiate $700B bailout

AP Sep 20 The bailout will cost $700 Billion and raise the U.S. debt ceiling to $11.3 Trillion, which is $81,884 per U.S. taxpayer.

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Taxed on empty promises

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SITHU: But this is cheating, isn't it? I mean, people are putting their trust and money in the hands of government, and government is giving them to believe that it's for their own good, that government is looking after them.

HANSADUTTA: They all do. Roosevelt said, "A chicken in every pot." Everybody... the people in general are foolish. That's why they're the people in general. And then the foolish people are fooled again. They say, "Okay, you can have the right to vote, so you elect any leader that you like." The foolish people elect a foolish leader, and he cheats them. And then they think, "Oh, he cheated us. We have the right to throw him out, and we'll get another leader." But this process never stops. It's perpetual. more

Cannibal government

Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.14.16 (text & purport)

kvachit kala-visha-mita-raja-kula-rakshasapahrita-priyatama-dhanasuh pramritaka iva vigata-jiva-lakshana aste

Government men are always like carnivorous demons called Rakshasas [man-eaters]. Sometimes these government men turn against the conditioned soul and take away all his accumulated wealth. Being bereft of his life's reserved wealth, the conditioned soul loses all enthusiasm. Indeed, it is as though he loses his life.

PURPORT
The word raja-kula-rakshasa is very significant. Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled about five thousand years ago, yet government men are referred to as Rakshasas, or carnivorous demons. If government men are opposed to a person, that person will be bereft of all his riches, which he has accumulated with great care over a long period of time. Actually no one wants to pay income taxes—even government men themselves try to avoid these taxes—but at unfavorable times income taxes are exacted forcibly, and the taxpayers become very morose.

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