Ron Paul, Will Rogers and the Tea Party: Great Depression Thinking For Our Times by Gary Anderson Smashwords Edition Published By: Gary Anderson on Smashwords Copyright © 2011 by Gary Anderson Smashwords Edition License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re- sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work. * * * * * Ron Paul, Will Rogers and the Tea Party: Great Depression Thinking For Our Times Introduction The Great Depression was a time that saw the emergence of a great figure, Will Rogers. His thought was forceful and single minded about what needed to be done to fix the nation in the aftermath of predatory behavior by international financiers. An analysis of the Tea Party and Ron Paul is made based upon this tradition of Great Depression thinking. Similarities and differences abound and make for an important historical analysis. This ebook reveals the real desires of the TBTF banks and the IMF and the US central bank, the Federal Reserve. Citizens must inform themselves as to these motives and desires, which lead to ruin and which were not destroyed by the housing crash of 2007. Certainly, the history of the modern central banking system, including our Federal Reserve Bank is the blueprint for understanding the financial world order. Lowering and raising interest rates is not all that the central banks do. Exposing the other nefarious activities of the private central banks and discussing how to survive both as individuals and as a nation becomes an important discussion to have. While history shows that the sovereignty of nations comes with danger, the abdication of sovereignty brings us into uncharted waters where there is no accountability from world leaders. The analysis of the financial system that follows exposes the financial order and it's impact on sovereign nations then and now; in the Great Depression, in the Great Recession of the 21st century, as well as moving forward. No one has a crystal ball, but more and more, the bankers want to be respected and be your friends. While the big bankers are not worthy of respect, nor are they your friends, this motive drives them to strive for more transparency. But be assured, the interest of the Fed is to protect the big banks, and main street is not the constituency. This ebook discusses issues regarding Ron Paul, the Tea Party, the TBTF banks and how Will Rogers would have approached these issues in our time and going forward. * * * * * We Already Have One World Government On 4/2/2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown proclaimed a "New World Order". Let us consider the consequences of this new world order. Clearly, the international bankers created this credit crisis, with their Basel 2 off balance sheet banking. Now the same international bankers are "solving" the crisis with more extension of credit in their power, bolstered by the IMF, with more efforts to manipulate the stock markets, to proclaim a comeback from the economic abyss, which they created. The problem with this is that they are still raiding the treasuries of America and Europe to fill their pockets, when they scammed the middle classes and small investors throughout the world with liar loans, easy money, and toxic investments. They made money on the scam and now they are making money through stealing from the taxpayers! While it is not a tidy one world political government, we have, or are very near having, a one world economic system. International bankers control the world. This control will increase as other middle classes become more dependent on credit. If a person from a third world country thinks that credit cards are a good thing or long for the credit freedom that exists in the United States, don't go down that path. Don't become dependent on credit cards. Fight the international bankers, the World Trade Organization and stay solvent as a household. Certainly do not bid on housing, do not bid on any commodity. If the price is too high go without. Rent the commodity, or use a different commodity. The pushing up of prices ultimately hurt the consumer who sees his wages stagnate. The goal of the international bankers (through the Council on Foreign Relations in the USA) is the debt control both of individuals and of governments. This is a New World Order spoken of by both David Rockefeller and George Bush I. Don't you think it odd that Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton are both members of the same organization (CFR) that wants to undermine the sovereignty of the United States by consolidating banking power through international banks too big to fail? Certainly, the point man in this war against the consumer by the banker class is Goldman Sachs but there are many other investment banks trading and churning contracts. How did this one world government come to pass? Leading wealthy families have wanted to stabilize a dangerous world. While in and of itself, that seems like a noble endeavor, the result has also included a powerhouse of economic power that has leverage over governments the world over. This leverage normally was exerted by a financing of government debt. This gave international bankers great influence over governments. In addition, governments benefited from the free trade, although there are arguments abounding that the United States did not benefit. Some have said that our invasion of Iraq for oil was an invasion born out of economic weakness. But bottom line is this world government, which many put their hope in to establish world peace, behaved badly toward US consumers and offered toxic loans that were just plain wrong. I am sure George Soros wants peace, and wants a government that usurps the sovereignty from individual nations that have the power to make war. However, Mr. Soros must also be aware that this one world government is quite capable of stealing from the people and has not proven that it is for "good" in the world. So far, this NWO has manifested very bad behavior towards the people of the United States and Europe. * * * * * So Much for the Sovereignty of Our Nation I listened to a senator recently on CNBC speak about the Fed and the need to regulate, audit, etc. While I cannot really oppose transparency at the Fed, the real issue is transparency toward the American people. The senator went on to say the problem with the economic meltdown and bailout had roots in government and that it was not the fault of the free enterprise system. However, that is not how I see it. Either the government of the United States, when push came to shove, lacked the power or the will to take down the TBTF banks, in what I would say is a remarkable lack of sovereign power. All you Austrians and free marketers, who rail at the government, lost your hard-earned dollars in the stock market because the government was not powerful enough to stop the Federal Reserve. No president could or would stop the Fed in its allowance of shoddy underwriting that led to the crisis, or stop the Fed from bailing out AIG and the crony European banks. I went to the CNBC website and did a search for "fed private bank". I do not believe I found one instance in page after page of searching of any reference to the Federal Reserve being a private bank. I cannot guarantee that CNBC has never reported the Fed as a private bank but I seriously doubt it. I went to the MSNBC website where there were no references to the Fed being a private bank, unless you scrolled down to web results where a court case proves that the Fed is a private bank. CNBC is where it really counts. CNBC is clearly programmed to never say that the Fed is a private bank. How can there be transparency when CNBC, the network's congressional guests, and network's financial gurus can never say that the Fed is a private bank? This becomes a huge game against the average American from the very start. And for the Republican senator to imply that the Fed was a part of government versus the free market system is just not right. The Fed is the free enterprise system, as we know it. The Fed creates the bubbles and takes down the markets when necessary. The New York Fed is leveraged at the rate of $104 in toxic and non toxic assets to $1 dollar of cash? Will taxpayers one day have to bail out our central bank? This is really a simple case. The American people en masse, need to know that a private bank (the Fed) took their taxpayer money and gave it not only to Goldman Sachs, but also to foreign banks by the billions, including Societe Generale of France, Duetsche Bank of Germany, Barclays of Great Britain and UBS of Switzerland. Sorry, but Joe Taxpayer is not responsible for the inability of AIG to write insurance that it could not cover losses on. Fact is the United States of America had no one in power to stop the Fed. The Fed did what it wanted to do. No one was a there to protect the taxpayer. America abdicated sovereignty. The country was actually too weak to fight the banks. When are people going to realize this? This argument has been diverted by well connected types into the US being too socialistic and too big government. However, when it came to actual political power our government was not too big, and was not powerful enough to stop the Fed from bailing out the cronies. Along the same lines, I notice CNBC and especially Larry Kudlow bringing up the issue of class warfare. Any attack on the banking community according to Larry is class warfare. Well, what kind of warfare gave ponzi loans that the banks knew could not be repaid to the unsuspecting middle classes? What kind of warfare was it that allowed taxpayer money to be stolen to bail out the very banks that wrote loans destined to fail? Don't anyone be fooled! Class warfare came from the top down. Warfare made money off the average Joe and hurt him financially. That is why it could almost amuse me, though it is sickening, when people argue that any bank tax is unfair. I hear that over and over on CNBC. Of course what these shills for big banking don't tell you is that these banks threw all shareholders, including their own, under the bus. They owe trillions for pumping up a market with phony paper, only to see it fall and destroy long time savers and elderly middle class folks and the like. These banks cannot come close to ever even thinking about repayment for what they really owe. * * * * * CNBC, Metaprogramming and the Rising Stock Market I do not claim to be an expert on Tony Robbins and his version of NLP. However, I think I am an expert about CNBC as much as I watch that network. I wonder if Erin Burnett and her buddies were ordered to use a metaprogram of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) or if she just thought it was cute. Come on Erin. You are using NLP on your victims. Should I say your viewers? That is not nice. Yet, you look so pure and nice. Oh well. Lets face it, the fact that Erin Burnett is practicing NLP on investors is in itself very disturbing. Not only are the markets manipulated, but also the psychology that CNBC uses is a manipulation based in pseudo science. The psychology is important in that it proves that stock market results cannot stand on their own. Stock market results need the assistance of a phony psychology in order to establish the desired ends of the manipulators. While NLP is phony psychology, it is successful as a form of brainwashing or even self-brainwashing. In other words, NLP could reflect reality, or it may not. If it does not and you lose your shirt in the stock market, at least you were warned here that methods are being used on you every day to buy stocks. Obviously, the powers that be don't have confidence that you will buy as many stocks as you will by the influence of metaprogramming. I wonder how many other metaprogramming phrases have been used to get you to part with your money. How about "green shoots." How about "poised for recovery." Or how about dredging up the old power of positive thinking? This is just the repackaged version, imposed on high by none other than Ben Bernanke. It is difficult for me to see Ben Bernanke as a snake oil salesman, but come to think of it, he just may be. Look how the stock market keeps going up because he said there were green shoots! These are a few things that we could take from this lesson in NLP: 1. Green Shoots may not turn into green plants. 2. The power of excess consumption rested with the US consumer. That consumer is wounded and we do not yet have anyone to take his place anywhere else in the world. 3. Just because we are "poised for recovery" we cannot conclude that we are recovering. An alcoholic who says he is poised for recovery does not have my confidence, nor should he have yours. The bottom line, then, is that some of you are being metaprogrammed. You are having metaprogramming jammed down your throats, daily. But clearly, you don't think that the insiders believe that hogwash do you? If God fearing Goldman (GS) wants to take chips off the table and leave you with major losses it is only money right? It is no sin that they are smarter than you, just because you believed in NLP. But think about it. What greater crock of NLP exists in the world than having anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is doing God's work? If you believe it you are indeed smitten with NLP up to your eyeballs. Please, get therapy immediately. * * * * * Phil Gramm's Legacy: McCain's Evil Twin Phil Gramm Took up Where McCain Left off in Banking Criminality While it is unlikely that Phil Gramm will ever face the music for the alleged crimes he has committed against mainstreet, that does not mean that we should view this man as good for America. In fact, Republican Phil Gramm, along with Democrats, took to a whole new level the raping of America through the manipulation of banking regulation. It would be amusing, if not such a dismal result to rank and file Americans, that Gramm seemed to take lessons from his buddy, Presidential candidate John McCain, in his interactions with the banking system in the Keating Five Scandal. There probably was no single greater influence on banking, leading to the ponzi housing scam than manifested in Gramm both by his actions and through the actions of his wife. Phil Gramm led the repeal of Glass Steagall, and his wife worked to get derivatives disconnected with gambling legal issues and the mandate that they be traded on regulated exchanges. Therefore, Gramm essentially broke down the barriers of banking, insurance, and mortgages, while through his wife derivatives were to be used like a casino hedge, permitting the banks to bet massively on bad mortgages. These mortgages were then securitized and sold as if they were sound AAA bonds when they weren't. His wife Wendy used the CFTC to exempt OTC derivatives from regulation. When Brooksley Born attempted to overturn the exemption of derivatives, three other partners in Gramm's criminality voted to stop her. They were Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Arthur Levitt. Had she succeeded there would have been no massive securitization of mortgages by the investment banks. Once swaps were viewed as being insurance of a sort that could be written away from a regulated exchange, the opening was created for Gramm to fuse insurance, commercial banking and the securitization of mortgages through investment banking. All these were separated in the Great Depression to protect the banking system from abuse. Gramm rolled away those protections and we got abuse, and a giant and hurtful ponzi housing bubble. Wendy Gramm may have been rewarded for her role in allowing swaps to run wild by being named to the Enron board of directors. Phil Gramm Exposed Here for Lies on Bloomberg Debates Phil Gramm was featured on a Bloomberg Think Twice Intelligence Squared debate, fooling the supposedly intelligent audience with his loud-mouthed swagger and arrogance. He was coupled with Art (trickle down) Laffer versus Nouriel Roubini and Laura Tyson. It turns out that through pure BS, Gramm/Laffer were able to sway the audience. But it was really the failure of Roubini and Tyson to counter one of Gramm's lies that led to their defeat. In the debate, Phil Gramm said that the subprime loan debacle was the fault of the CRA and that it was a government caused bubble. What Roubini and Tyson should have countered was that the CRA and resulting subprime abuse was a small portion (20%) of the total subprime and no portion of the Alt-A prime mortgage meltdown. However, they remained silent. Indeed, I have argued that point showing that the shadow banks and the BIS, with the help of Gramm and Clinton, were more responsible for the ponzi housing bubble than the CRA. Bear in mind that Phil Gramm left politics to get a sweet job with UBS, a major investment bank that profited from both ponzi housing and bailouts. He also would have been McCain's treasury secretary but became unpopular for calling the American people a nation of whiners. He tried to change the story to refer to American leaders, but that isn't what he said. Besides, the crash came just months after the statements! Phil Gramm is a borderline patriot, barely a patriot. He caused this bubble and crash and calls mainstreet a bunch of whiners! Moreover, Fox News among other media blames poor people for the housing meltdown instead of the scheming, scamming big banks. A Look at Gramm's Crony Deceiver John McCain John McCain as a member of the Keating Five intervened and attempted to interfere with regulators in an unseemly way. This certainly gave McCain a bad taste regarding regulators. I am sure that was motive for Gramm, his buddy, to circumvent regulators, making massive profits for politicians. Three years after the approval of deregulation of the Savings and Loans, the regulator, the Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, wanted the reckless loans limited. A familiar name, Alan Greenspan, was against this careful approach. In addition, Greenspan was not the only one. Charles Keating, of Lincoln Savings and Loan in California, ignored the new regulations. McCain's meetings, along with other senators, the Keating Five, kept Lincoln alive for two more years. When the bank failed, mostly seniors lost their life savings. I guess for Keating it paid off to have McCain as a close friend, vacationing with him. This lure of money corrupted McCain and was to corrupt McCain's friend, Gramm. The credit crisis of 2007 was a repeat pattern of fraud and deceit seen in the S & L crisis. We must understand, in looking at McCain, that he was not convicted of anything. Neither has Phil Gramm been convicted to date. However, McCain clearly abused his power in a moral sense and exacted pain upon mainstreet. The same thinking permeated Phil Gramm's thought. McCain was on board to deregulate the Savings and Loans, and the easy mortgages that resulted destroyed the industry. That did not stop these two evil twins from supporting the repeal of Glass-Steagall, causing even more ponzi loans and an even greater crash. These two mischief creators, McCain and Gramm, are simply predators upon the nation. When will we learn to hold these agents of international allegiances culpable? * * * * Ted Nugent versus Roseanne Barr on the Economy And the Winner Is: Roseanne Barr! Before you get your panties in a wad for my declaration of Roseanne Barr over Ted Nugent, hear me out. This battle on CNN on Anderson Cooper's show gets to the root problem of understanding the financial issue. Until we understand this, we cannot focus on how to fix it. If we do not fix it, we will have bubbles and bust, and people greedily chasing after wealth in dangerous ways that could adversely affect their futures. Therefore, the issue has to do with assigning blame for the ponzi housing crisis and bailouts and the like. [...]... to the Tulip mania read http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samecris/eccrisis/eccris01.htm ***** Will Rogers Was a Great Man: Ron Paul Is Not Yet Will Rogers Will Rogers warned of speculation and banking crashes coming in the roaring 20's like Ron Paul did in 2002 Will Rogers believed that the people were vulnerable to the bankers and so he supported Roosevelt and a strong effort to put money in the hands... frugal and still lose your house And does Ron Paul want another housing bubble now that he regrets his vote against the repeal of Glass-Steagall? If Ron Paul is serious about being the solution to banker abuse, he needs to act like he is for the people If you are just for the Tea Party, you look like you are for the banks! Many Tea Party guys like bankers and think they were abused by the borrowers They... action or the subsequent action to repeal Glass-Steagall seriously Maybe it is above their level of reasoning, or more likely it is above what Faux News wants to tell them The repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed the bad loans to be sent from commercial banks to Lehman, and Goldman and Bear Stearns, and then apparently the banks traded the contracts back and forth and made bets on them in the form of derivative... they make and do not like the welfare state Barr says that the Tea Party is controlled by the Koch Brothers and is for the rich and she supports a safety net for the unemployed and less fortunate Issue 2: The second issue is regarding who is at fault for the economic meltdown and bailouts Nugent says that the government is responsible Moreover, Barr says that the wealthy bankers and financial people are... speaking now of the rank and file At the very top of the movement, there are other powers Indeed, the Koch Brothers are involved, and they are elite businesspersons who are for fewer taxes on the rich because they have an abnormal fear of communism In addition, Glenn Beck speaks the John Birch Society line with Tea Party people, because the father of the Koch Brothers was a cofounder of the John Birch... have explored these issues before but need to do so in the context of these celebrities and how they view the world based upon the sources that they use And this is the crucial thing, not all sources are telling the complete truth Some are telling a part of the truth and are adding some lies if it gets their sponsors an advantage in the political arena We cannot just look at mainstream media and expect... in the colonies, where the forefathers showed independence, there was help for the poor Palin wanted unemployment stopped She does not want to help the poor The states helped the poor in the colonies And in the colonies, there was incredible opportunity for each family to have a farm The state of Massachusetts gave these families farms But as more people were born it was more difficult to have the. .. trust Ron Paul Something doesn't add up Of course, had Ron Paul been empowered with the mainstream press as Will Rogers had been, Paul would have had his 2002 message of the bubble bursting on the nightly news That would have been the equivalent to Rogers in the NY Times railing on the bankers in the roaring 20's He had the mainstream press Ron Paul could have saved some from the housing bubble if our. .. speculators on the borrowing side of the real estate bubble, but the banks set up the speculation The banks set up the red hot easy money that drove the prices up With oil and other commodities, the investment banks speculate and drive speculation They drove speculation in easy money lending as well The blame rests with the banks themselves Without them there would have been no bubble! The CRA would... lending These banks were traditional savings and thrift banks They were federally insured In addition, the one big bank that worked with them was Citicorp However, the shadow banks that made the bulk of the loans, transferred these loans, in originate to distribute model, due to the repeal of Glass Steagall These were not federally insured and the Fed and others didn't regulate them Indeed, these banks . * * * * Ron Paul, Will Rogers and the Tea Party: Great Depression Thinking For Our Times Introduction The Great Depression was a time that saw the emergence of a great figure, Will Rogers. His. Ron Paul, Will Rogers and the Tea Party: Great Depression Thinking For Our Times by Gary Anderson Smashwords Edition Published By: Gary Anderson on Smashwords Copyright © 2011 by Gary Anderson Smashwords. what they make and do not like the welfare state. Barr says that the Tea Party is controlled by the Koch Brothers and is for the rich and she supports a safety net for the unemployed and less fortunate. Issue