Sorry Dirty Al, Political Rant Ahead

Sorry, Dirty Al, more political rant.

My political view is a mixture of populism, anarchists, and libertarian. The populist side comes out when I see economic inequities. While in no way excusing Obama and his fellow travelers, George W. Bush’s watch saw a huge financial swindle of this countries population. Bankers, of all varieties, ran wild. I was saying this long before Obama’s election.

Interesting piece about the state of North Dakota in the leftist Common Dreams by an Ellen Brown.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/01

North Dakota has their own state bank that focuses on the needs of the state’s citizens. State tax revenues are deposited in that bank and don’t leave the state. The state has the lowest unemployment in the USA and the highest growth. The state has run a surplus for years and is lowering taxes.

As a child, I listened closely to my elders. I wanted to know what they had seen and experienced. They lived with the Irish discrimination. They lived the Great Depression, crooked bankers, corrupt sheriff’s, strikes and strikebreakers. These pictures are what is left of a Moffat County, CO homestead dugout where my father and four brothers slept.

What I believe, to my core, is the money people in this country, and the world, are perfectly happy with the idea of me, mine, and yours living this way. They are fine with reducing all of us to Adam Smith’s unit value of labor.

"The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What every thing is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people." (Wealth of Nations Book 1, chapter V)

Specifically, the minimum resources needed to keep one worker producing.

This always creates opposition. Molly Maguires in West Virginia. Black Panthers in Oakland. Think they are that far apart? That is why the Soros’s and Bloomberg’s want us disarmed. This why we need to keep our arms. And this is why we need to own and control our banks. At a personal level, I bank with a local co-op. Maybe it is just a gesture, even a futile gesture, but is what I can do here and now.

The politician who can tap into the seething resentment existing in this country will prevail. The Democrats are trying; tax breaks for the wealthy, big oil, corporate jets, beating the drums. They are themselves so damn phony the populous sees right through them.

What would happen if many states followed North Dakota’s lead? Maybe get the country going again?