Someone close to me recently wrote this email to her cousin, in response to her cousin's question about what she thought of Sarah Palin. I think it's very well-written, and full of some (controversial) nuggets of wisdom. My friend's given me permission to share it.
~N.
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Hi XXX,
I think that the Republicans did a smart thing by picking a woman for a running mate. Too bad it was her. She could set women's rights back a hundred years, but so many people would vote just on the fact that she is a woman without checking out the platform that she represents. I hope the Hillary crowd will vote for someone who will improve women's rights, Obama, vs. someone that is a woman but is a total Bush supporter and will take away more that contribute to women and the middle class.
I am the first to admit that I am not great with all of the details, but it does not take much to realize that the rights of the poor and middle class, women, gays, etc. are in great peril due to the Bush Administration. I would like to see more money spent in the US to improve schools, provide health care, and not cover for the wealthy by huge tax breaks. There is only so much money that people can spend, so why protect the rights of the rich to gain more wealth? The average family cannot even make ends meet, and providing education, health coverage etc. are not possible. What a terrible way to live a life knowing that you can never escape your situation, never take a vacation, never treat your family to a night out, never get a good night’s sleep knowing that your family may not be safe and provided for. People like to mention the amount of crime that is associated with the lower class, but all of that crime together does not come close to the crime of hiring Halliburton, paying mercenaries like Blackwater, and bailing out major corporations with ties to upper class politicians.
When I was in my teens my father told me about a book he read about the Trilateral Agreement where the very rich from around the world came up with a plan to control world wealth; they had already been doing these things for years and years. The plan is that you eliminate the middle class and always have wars; control the banking systems; and do not provide education for the poor. There must always be wars funded by the rich and fought by the poor and middle class. Fund wars, where all the companies that would receive war contracts would be arranged in advance, then the war would be drummed up on any false charges and the rich would reap vast wealth at the cost of the “disposable” poor and middle class. Never educate people so that they do not question what you are doing. Let’s face it, if you work hard all day, are you still going to have enough energy to defend yourself against all of this? No, it is hard enough just to get by day to day. The main goal of the Trilateral Agreement after WWII was that Japan and Germany would be funded, and progress of the middle class of Americans would be brought down financially so as to create only the classes of the rich and poor. Does any of this sound familiar to you? I think about what my dad said all the time, because it is all falling into place, just like he said it would. Tri meaning Asia, Europe and the United States. Just like Rothschild funded Germany in WWII even though they were Jews eliminating the Jews, the wealthy and the religious right now are in the position to control the US.
I feel that the banking crisis is another example of how the poor and middle class can be controlled. If there is a form of funding created that people can use to purchase their American Dream, all kinds of people are going to try to invest in homes and businesses. If you all of a sudden pull all the finances out from under people’s feet, think of all the great investments that will become available for people with money to snatch up for pennies on the dollar. All of the funding regulations were suddenly changed, millions of people are losing their homes and businesses, yet the banks are sticking to the new rules, holding back money from everyone except the ones who already have access to money. It is causing a depression in retail, all areas of the housing industry, auto sales, restaurant businesses, vacation industries, etc. So the rich buy and buy for pennies on the dollar, and the middle class becomes poorer, broadening the gap between the rich and poor.
Who will fund all of this poverty? The middle class, of course, which of course will force their standard of living even lower. I'll bet that after the economy bottoms out, all of a sudden the lending rules and regulations will be changed again so the middle class can be approved for funding once more, and they then can reinvest in the same kind of homes, etc. that they had before but at vastly inflated prices. Thank you, President Bush! We can buy back what was taken away from us and make the rich richer with our own money. So we are not only paying more in taxes to bail out the banking systems, but then we can purchase back our own stuff from the people who took it away in the first place. Of course I am more in tune to feeling this way because I just lost everything in a real estate venture, but time will tell if I am right, wrong, or just nutty. Aren't you sorry you asked my opinion? What do you think of it all?
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