Issue date: 3/31/08 Section: Editorial

    The post-Civil War United States had emerged as the greatest economic power in the world, and the American system of political economy, first codified by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, and further developed by the leading 19th-Century republican economist Henry C. Carey, his German collaborator and protege Frederich List, and others, had been adopted by leading circles in Russia, Japan, Germany, China, and France-thus posing an existential threat to the then-reigning British Empire.

    The great American Secretary of State and President John Quincy Adams had established an American foreign policy, based on the concept of a community of principle among perfectly sovereign nation states-directly challenging European colonialism and imperialism. However, the British are to this day, determined to induce us [people of the United States] to destroy ourselves. That's not every Brit, but the relevant circles, the financier circles. They intend to create a state of war with the United States on one side, and Russia, China, and India on the other; and also, at the same time, playing China, India, and Russia against each other.

    In this election year, most of our people, particularly the lower 80%, of American people out there don't understand what the issues are. People around you might ask: "What the hell are we going to do? Is there anything we can do about this? Is this just going to keep going, on and on, and on, when we'll never be able to do anything about it?"

    Besides all suffering families who can no longer support themselves when able bodies are fighting wars, think of all the other issues: the health-care issue, the pension issue; think about what happened to the state of Michigan, the state of Ohio, the state of Indiana, alone, as a result of the failure of the Congress to live up to the values that gave us the United States of America.

    Candidates go to the financial contributors, and ask them to provide money as donations for campaigns. The money then goes to professionals and into advertising agencies, which specialize in this, and they run the politics. They brainwash the candidates; tell them what to do.

    "Look at this constituent, look at this one-you gotta do this." Well, wait a minute, buddy! How about a new idea that is responsive to reality? Why do you want a slogan, instead of an idea? The campaigns are not addressing the issues of the people.

    None of the presidential campaigns have said anything important. That is, they have said things that touch upon issues, so-called, or perception issues. But, they don't say, how you're going to get it. For example, Hillary said, "Well, when I go into office in 2009, I'll deal with the war in Iraq! I'll pull our troops out."

    Is that dealing with the issue? How do you get them out now? How many dead do you want between now and then? Sometimes, somebody will turn around and say, "We have met the enemy, and he is ourselves." Clubhouse politics as we used to have it in the 1980s wasn't dependent on big advertising campaigns. Ordinary citizens of this or that talent or background, were participating in running, campaigning, and the policy work. They were relating themselves to the realities of life for people they were addressing. Out of clubhouse politics, we were getting more for less, per dollar, than we do in present campaigns.

    The biggest basis of support in politics right now should go for actions which will promote the return to sanity; that is, to pull the United States out of endless wars we have no business having; wars orchestrated from London with the intent to destroy the United States system of political economy, and uproot from this planet, anything that smells like Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln.

    What is globalization? What is liberalization? What do you understand about post-industrial society? Did you know that our industries are gone? We lost the automobile industry, which was the heart of our economy. We are losing our agriculture, to ethanol! The United States is an impoverished nation; all for the greater glory of Britain. We have passed the time, where warfare can be considered as a desirable instrument of policy, or for creating power over other nations or peoples.

    Whereas the British interest is in maintaining an empire, not a flag republic like the United States of America, but a financier empire, it would be wise for the American people to safeguard the American system of political economy and adhere to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's proposition that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors near and far.

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