"Ben S. Bernanke (Ph. D., MIT, 1979), is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Chairman of the Department of Economics. He is a macroeconomist with interests in monetary policy and macroeconomic history. He is the Director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economics Research and the Editor of the American Economic Review." - from his website at Princeton edu.

   No economist or banker, ceo etc. is anything but a high class con artist with an impressive vocabulary and a stupendous line of bullshit. When I see the deference congress people of both parties pay to Alan Greenspan’s "wisdom" and person and the same being presumed with board member and nominee for chairman Ben Bernanke, even as he sits for his confirmation, I know to expect little relief from the ravages of corporate fraud and economic terrorist tyranny of the multi-national pillagers of America and the world. They are onerous! We know they are fraudulent because they exist. Descartes knew of his existence because he thought. We know our leaders steal because we perceive them to be as they have been for thousands of years. They appear to be so because they are . . . selfish, self aggrandizing and with nothing but disdain for the consumer/taxpayers and workers of the communities that are the sources of their power, profits and wealth.

   Our leaders will not leave Iraq until they’ve grown as rich as possible by impoverishing the rest of America, to pay for the war. Iraq is a vehicle for the further enrichment of the Bush-Cheney peers, who are among the traditional beneficiaries of the looting of the American Treasury and Community. They can’t see real solutions because they’re unwilling to see that they are the problem.
   No God or Hero will save US! All our contemporary political/economic leaders are so inside the box. There is no hope that they’ll get US out of the mess they’ve created.

   Rep. Michael Castle R-Delaware [11/15/05 C-SPAN Washington Journal 9:15A Eastern Standard Time] recognizes need to balance budget but emphasizes relatively insignificant food stamp costs and much greater medicaid costs without noting that the looting of the Treasury by Halliburton and military contractors and others is the cause of the budget imbalance in the first place. While medicaid costs are significant, as health care costs in general are a great burden on our economy, the belief that the budget may be balanced by cutting the assistance to the needy ignores the real problem. The profits of insurance and pharmaceutical corporations and the medicare/medicaid frauds of corporate providers, including Frist’s HCA’s [Hospital Corporation of America] multi billion dollar bilking of the public, are the real cause of high medical costs and community outlays.

   In "Starman" the Earth is described as a hostile [social] environment, in the alien’s distress call that sets up the plot. Many of the situations encountered during the escape that follows, elaborate on that assessment.
   There was also wonder and puzzlement in the aliens appreciation that we are both intelligent and savage. The duality was not condemned by the "higher" being. He did say, with longing for its [supposed] sanity, that his home was a very nice and pleasant place.
   While both intelligence and savageness exist among humans, I think they don’t often coincide in the same individual and then not simultaneously. Intelligent fiends are at best serial [schizoid] personalities. Individuals who are predominantly intelligent know that the best way to achieve the survival of the species and self is to promote egalitarianism and sincere good will for all. Those who are more savage or cunning and less thoughtfully intelligent, wish to dominate others and exploit the community for their own well being. The latter are only interested in what’s good for themselves.
   The sincere good will of intelligent humans serves life in general and the human race in particular. Ill will towards others, disguised as avarice and greed and typical of the familiar cunning and savage kind of person, has its genesis in covetousness of the goods of others and the desire to privatize the community’s commons. In the end the scrubs systemize their looting of the profit of hard working community members and our common infrastructure in the virtual feudal structure and neo aristocratic economic facade of banking, investment, insurance, energy and communications. In short: capitalism.

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