What do you think of this?

At the end of the Financial Crisis, America was burdened with her own debt of some 10 or 12 trillions of dollars. The product of America's work thus belonged not to the nation, but to her creditors, both foreign and domestic: 'it was carried endlessly in trains for territories beyond our frontiers.' Every worker had to support another worker, the product of whose labor was commandeered by the banker. 'The American people after twenty-five or thirty years, in consequence of the fact that it will never be able to pay all that is demanded of it, will have so gigantic a sum still owing that practically it will be forced to produce more than it does today.' What will the end be? and the answer to that question is 'Pledging of our land, enslavement of our labor-strength. Therefore, in the economic sphere, September 2008 was in truth no achievement, but it was the beginning of our collapse.' And in the political sphere we lost first our military prerogatives, and with that loss went the real sovereignty of our State, and then our financial independence, for there remained always the threat of creditors so that 'practically we have no longer a politically independent United States of America, we are already a colony of the outside world. We have contributed to this because so far as possible we humiliated ourselves morally, we positively destroyed our own honor and helped to befoul, to besmirch, and to deny everything which we previously held as sacred.' If it be objected that the Financial Crisis has won for us gains in social life: they must be extraordinarily secret, these social gains - so secret that one never sees them in practical life - they must just run like a fluid through our American atmosphere. Someone may say 'Well, there is a higher minimum wage!' And was a collapse necessary to gain that? And will the minimum wage be rendered any more secure through our becoming practically the bailiff and the drudge of the other peoples? One of these days China will say: You cannot meet your obligations, you must work more. So this achievement of the Financial Crisis is put in question first of all by the Financial Crisis . Then someone has said: 'Since the Financial Crisis the people has gained Rights. The people governs!' Strange! The people has now been ruling three centuries and no one has in practice once asked its opinion. Trade deals were signed which will hold us down for centuries: and who has signed the trade agreements? The people? No! Governments which one fine day presented themselves as Governments. And at their election the people had nothing to do save to consider the question: there they are already, whether I elect them or not. If we elect them, then they are there through our election. But since we are a self-governing people, we must elect the folk in order that they may be elected to govern us.

Then it was said, 'Freedom has come to us through the Financial Crisis.' Another of those things that one cannot see very easily! It is of course true that one can walk down the street, the individual can go into his workshop and he can go out again: here and there he can go to a meeting. In a word, the individual has liberties. But in general, if he is wise, he will keep his mouth shut. For if in former times extraordinary care was taken that no one should let slip anything which could be treated as lèse-majesté, now a man must take much greater care that he doesn't say anything which might represent an insult to the majesty of a member of Parliament.

And if we ask who was responsible for our misfortune, then we must inquire who profited by our collapse. And the answer to that question is that 'Banks and Stock Exchanges are more flourishing than ever before.' We were told that capitalism would be destroyed, and when we ventured to remind one or other of these famous statesmen and said 'Don't forget that the elite too have capital,' then the answer was: 'What are you worrying about? Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed, the whole people will now be free. We are not fighting national or Christian capitalism, we are fighting international capitalism: we are making the people completely free.'

What do you think of this?

At the end of the Financial Crisis, America was burdened with her own debt of some 10 or 12 trillions of dollars. The product of America's work thus belonged not to the nation, but to her creditors, both foreign and domestic: 'it was carried endlessly in trains for territories beyond our frontiers.' Every worker had to support another worker, the product of whose labor was commandeered by the banker. 'The American people after twenty-five or thirty years, in consequence of the fact that it will never be able to pay all that is demanded of it, will have so gigantic a sum still owing that practically it will be forced to produce more than it does today.' What will the end be? and the answer to that question is 'Pledging of our land, enslavement of our labor-strength. Therefore, in the economic sphere, September 2008 was in truth no achievement, but it was the beginning of our collapse.' And in the political sphere we lost first our military prerogatives, and with that loss went the real sovereignty of our State, and then our financial independence, for there remained always the threat of creditors so that 'practically we have no longer a politically independent United States of America, we are already a colony of the outside world. We have contributed to this because so far as possible we humiliated ourselves morally, we positively destroyed our own honor and helped to befoul, to besmirch, and to deny everything which we previously held as sacred.' If it be objected that the Financial Crisis has won for us gains in social life: they must be extraordinarily secret, these social gains - so secret that one never sees them in practical life - they must just run like a fluid through our American atmosphere. Someone may say 'Well, there is a higher minimum wage!' And was a collapse necessary to gain that? And will the minimum wage be rendered any more secure through our becoming practically the bailiff and the drudge of the other peoples? One of these days China will say: You cannot meet your obligations, you must work more. So this achievement of the Financial Crisis is put in question first of all by the Financial Crisis . Then someone has said: 'Since the Financial Crisis the people has gained Rights. The people governs!' Strange! The people has now been ruling three centuries and no one has in practice once asked its opinion. Trade deals were signed which will hold us down for centuries: and who has signed the trade agreements? The people? No! Governments which one fine day presented themselves as Governments. And at their election the people had nothing to do save to consider the question: there they are already, whether I elect them or not. If we elect them, then they are there through our election. But since we are a self-governing people, we must elect the folk in order that they may be elected to govern us.

Then it was said, 'Freedom has come to us through the Financial Crisis.' Another of those things that one cannot see very easily! It is of course true that one can walk down the street, the individual can go into his workshop and he can go out again: here and there he can go to a meeting. In a word, the individual has liberties. But in general, if he is wise, he will keep his mouth shut. For if in former times extraordinary care was taken that no one should let slip anything which could be treated as lèse-majesté, now a man must take much greater care that he doesn't say anything which might represent an insult to the majesty of a member of Parliament.

And if we ask who was responsible for our misfortune, then we must inquire who profited by our collapse. And the answer to that question is that 'Banks and Stock Exchanges are more flourishing than ever before.' We were told that capitalism would be destroyed, and when we ventured to remind one or other of these famous statesmen and said 'Don't forget hat the elite too have capital,' then the answer was: 'What are you worrying about? Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed, the whole people will now be free. We are not fighting national or Christian capitalism, we are fighting international capitalism: we are making the people completely free.'

What do you think of this?

At the end of the Financial Crisis, America was burdened with her own debt of some 10 or 12 trillions of dollars. The product of America's work thus belonged not to the nation, but to her creditors, both foreign and domestic: 'it was carried endlessly in trains for territories beyond our frontiers.' Every worker had to support another worker, the product of whose labor was commandeered by the banker. 'The American people after twenty-five or thirty years, in consequence of the fact that it will never be able to pay all that is demanded of it, will have so gigantic a sum still owing that practically it will be forced to produce more than it does today.' What will the end be? and the answer to that question is 'Pledging of our land, enslavement of our labor-strength. Therefore, in the economic sphere, September 2008 was in truth no achievement, but it was the beginning of our collapse.' And in the political sphere we lost first our military prerogatives, and with that loss went the real sovereignty of our State, and then our financial independence, for there remained always the threat of creditors so that 'practically we have no longer a politically independent United States of America, we are already a colony of the outside world. We have contributed to this because so far as possible we humiliated ourselves morally, we positively destroyed our own honor and helped to befoul, to besmirch, and to deny everything which we previously held as sacred.' If it be objected that the Financial Crisis has won for us gains in social life: they must be extraordinarily secret, these social gains - so secret that one never sees them in practical life - they must just run like a fluid through our American atmosphere. Someone may say 'Well, there is a higher minimum wage!' And was a collapse necessary to gain that? And will the minimum wage be rendered any more secure through our becoming practically the bailiff and the drudge of the other peoples? One of these days China will say: You cannot meet your obligations, you must work more. So this achievement of the Financial Crisis is put in question first of all by the Financial Crisis . Then someone has said: 'Since the Financial Crisis the people has gained Rights. The people governs!' Strange! The people has now been ruling three years and no one has in practice once asked its opinion. Trade deals were signed which will hold us down for centuries: and who has signed the trade agreements? The people? No! Governments which one fine day presented themselves as Governments. And at their election the people had nothing to do save to consider the question: there they are already, whether I elect them or not. If we elect them, then they are there through our election. But since we are a self-governing people, we must elect the folk in order that they may be elected to govern us.

Then it was said, 'Freedom has come to us through the Financial Crisis.' Another of those things that one cannot see very easily! It is of course true that one can walk down the street, the individual can go into his workshop and he can go out again: here and there he can go to a meeting. In a word, the individual has liberties. But in general, if he is wise, he will keep his mouth shut. For if in former times extraordinary care was taken that no one should let slip anything which could be treated as lèse-majesté, now a man must take much greater care that he doesn't say anything which might represent an insult to the majesty of a member of Parliament.

And if we ask who was responsible for our misfortune, then we must inquire who profited by our collapse. And the answer to that question is that 'Banks and Stock Exchanges are more flourishing than ever before.' We were told that capitalism would be destroyed, and when we ventured to remind one or other of these famous statesmen and said 'Don't forget hat the elite too have capital,' then the answer was: 'What are you worrying about? Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed, the whole people will now be free. We are not fighting national or Christian capitalism, we are fighting international capitalism: we are making the people completely free.'