Death by Fire or Death by Unemployment

America used to be a country where we had choices but thanks to the politics of the utopian anarchists for the past 30 years we now have an ‘either or society’, where we have no choices.

We’re in a war for a lie costing us trillions because the previous president and his neo con cronies told us if we didn’t attack Iraq we’d have a mushroom cloud over New York City. This fear tactic is not new. LBJ told the country if we didn’t attack the Communists in Vietnam then we’d be fighting them off the coast of California. Both situations were completely absurd but these falsehoods worked to get this country mired into unwinnable wars, based on the premise of either we attack “them” or “they’ll” attack us.

We were blackmailed into bailing out Wall Street with this either or scenario. We were told either we IMMEDIATELY bail out the greedy bankers on Wall Street with no questions asked, or our whole financial system would collapse. We bailed them out and has anything changed?

Some economists are continuing this either or scenario by saying if the government puts caps on the salaries of the companies we’ve bailed out then we won’t have the talent needed to run these large companies. Even with all this “high priced” talent, these same companies need trillions of tax payer money, so how talented are they? They’re talented in bilking us out of trillions with no strings attached!

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is getting in on this either or scenario. Just this week Secretary Gates said if President Obama institutes a ban on torture and institutes new rules in the Pentagon then it’ll be hard to get talented people to work in the Pentagon. Secretary Gates is just carrying on the former vice president’s out going threat when Cheney said “if President Obama stops torturing people then he’ll be putting our nation at risk of another terrorist attack.” The implication is that either we torture people or we’ll be attacked, we have no choice.

Chief Justice John Roberts has joined this either or scenario by saying we have to raise the salary of the justices or else we won’t be able to bring ‘talent’ to the bench. In every previous case, Justice Roberts always found in favor of government and corporations over the little guy, so how many ‘talents’, rupees, or ’pieces of silver’ does it take to vote in favor of the rich and powerful over the citizens?

President Obama and the Democrats are also telling us that either we let them spend trillions and put future generations in debt or the economy will get a lot worse.

President George Bush led us to a war against “weapons of mass destruction” now we have President Barack Obama who will lead us in the war of “weapons of mass deficit”.

What’s our choice, death by fire or death by unemployment?