Leftist Economic shell games: A letter to the Editor

The Rant:

The following is from the Mesquite Local News in Nevada, in the letters to the editor page and written by one Richard N. Suter an 80 year old plus retired pilot.

It is well worth a read because it explains the blame for the current global financial mess so well and so fully.

Politicians mostly from the left in American caused this and Wall Street naturally climbed on board.

He rightly fears for his America in the hands of the insane socialists now in power and one wonders how we might expect things to get better because they are now doing what was done to get us in this mess in the first place but to the power of 10.

What is different to Bernie Madoff's shell game and Obamas?

Obama's is much bigger and the mess will be felt for generations.

The Letter:

Defending The Rich

(Letter to the Editor) 03-20-2009

I very much enjoy the Mesquite Local News.

But I have to question your tirade against the rich.

Sam Walton took an idea and built a phenomenal empire.

Bill Gates did the same.

Prior to my retirement in this lovely town, I worked as a corporate pilot for twenty five years.

I rubbed elbows with Warren Buffett in the hangar in Omaha as he deplaned, carried his own bags to a several year old Lincoln and drove to a fairly modest home.

I flew Tom Watson (IBM blue) to Eagle, Colorado.

These folks, and the multi-millionaire that employed me provided quite a few jobs, sir.

I also have carried Senator John McCain, Senator Chuck Hagle and others I can't remember as my personal responsibility.

As a retired USAF fighter pilot, I respect Senator McCain's service.

Several squadron mates and friends were privileged to serve with him in those "difficult times."

But in the course of this discussion, neither of them, nor many others in government have created a real job.

Sure, they have guaranteed pay raises, the very best health care, a short work week/month/year, and very seldom retire in poverty.

Now, if I were to pick on a gang to pillory, I would look to Foggy Bottom.

Let's start with Jimmy "Malaise" Carter, signatory to the CR(a)P, (may have mis-spelled that; could have been the CAP), lowering lending standards, coercing risky loans.

Who aided and abetted this foolishness?

Why, non other than B.J. Clinton.

Fast forward to Barney Frank, who assured us less knowledgeable that Fannie and Freddie were in great shape.

And then came the Mad Marxist with his litany of change.

And Biden.

And Pelosi.

This is the best we can do?

Well, change we got.

Hubris, banality, venality, mendacity and plain damn lies.

Almost daily I see the 21st century version of Joseph Goebbels stuttering, er, and, ah, but, stumbling his way through a "press conference."

Now I have my version of penalties for the gang.

You are far too cruel.

Bernie Madoff is going to reside in a 7.5x 8 foot Manhattan government subsidized condominium.

Please take my share of the "bailout" money, construct about 150 more of these, provide free orange jumpsuits for the criminal class in Congress, and I will die a happy old man, devoid of most of my investments, 30 or 40 percent of the value of the home I will pay for every month, and the extra money me and the missus have after groceries, gas, health care and gambling.

On second thought, let's get out the guillotine.

I am sick to death of these pissants.

My very best wishes that you may become wealthy in your endeavors.

I can only be glad, that now well into my 80th decade, I will not be around to see this great country fail.

-Richard N. Suter

Mesquite, Nevada

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New Zealand needs an open democracy

During my recent visit to Bangkok, I watched a whole lot more TV, for one reason or another this is a sad fact but I wont go into that here!

While watching various news product from around the world, most of it politics, I was struck by how open and free the United States primaries and the US electoral system were. Where else in the world would two sides of the same political party, the Democrats, would go hammer and tongs for 16 months against each other, throw every filthy piece of dirt, tens of millions of dollars and say the most outrageous things that would be the end of the most stable of friendships in the real world, in the hope that one or other individual would be able to challenge John McCain come November 2008 for the US presidency, in the most powerful open democracy in the world.

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McCain himself was left open to similar scrutiny, his private life stripped bare for all to see, the very marrow at the centre of his soul was open to question.

No matter the politics that one follows or ones own "world view" one cannot deny that politics in America is in a very healthy state, as defined by the process of selection of candidates,not necessarily the quality of the candidates-you only have to look at the poor political and personal records of Hillary and Barry Obama to see the genesis of truth there.

While watching the box I also saw reported other forms of democracy. The brutal, murderous and secretive dictatorship of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, where politics is decided at the point of a gun and more recently through threat of starvation, Thailand's "benevolent dictatorship" or democracy with a bomb strapped to it in the Hamas led Palestine.

Lying somewhere in between those extremes lies the New Zealand democratic system. Sick from the dog wagging the tail, extremist lunatics like the global warming fanatics in the Green Party, the racist propaganda from the Maori Party, the complete nonsense from Winston Peter's and his New Zealand First Party and the evil Socialist intent of the ruling Labour Party Junta.

We have individuals like Margaret Wilson, Winston Peters, Sue Kedgly and Jeanette Fitzsimmons who were not voted into power by New Zealanders, but by their own party members and they have made life and death decisions based on their own ill conceived form of personal agenda politics on behalf of all0p New Zealanders.

The epitome of how closed our political landscape was the imposition of the Electoral Finance Act by Labour government politicians last year. Unlike the openness and strident debate that has been seen in America for the last 16 months the EFA has led to a fearfulness of opposition to speak out against the incumbent Labour government, by New Zealanders, the media and opposition politicians alike. The threat to an open democracy where debate can be had without fear or favour just doesn't exist in this country anymore.

While Mugabe and Hamas use extreme forms of control to influence political and personal behavior to sniffle debate and the freedoms of their respective political systems and retain political control, the New Zealand Labour Party have used legislation to achieve similar results.

For the future of a good democracy in New Zealand we must reform our nations political structure in a way more closely aligned to America, where free and open debate reign supreme, if not our future lies closer to Mugabe's Zimbabwe rather than the open democracy that we once had.

Removal of the MMP voting system and repeal of the Electoral Finance Act will allow such a democracy to flourish once again and give the nation the hope that it deserves.

c Political Animal 2008