The Idea that it is a repub-dem battle is the smoke screen. a republican sweep in the next election will NOT keep everybody from being broke for a very long time (why it hasn't completely collapsed into a depression is to allow time to adjust) ...oh of course they would like you to think this...it gets them a $100,000+/year and lifetime healthcare.
And don't think it is not part of the plan to keep the people divided over red or blue "Conservative" or "Liberal"...nobody wants to pay taxes....most people care for their fellow humans...given that our own needs are met, we are generous and charitable, and feel good about it....but the system of scarcity and competition keeps us fighting to keep our heads above water and maybe send our kids to college (cuz somehow we have been led to believe that this is the answer)...so we look for somewhere to place blame, rather than uniting under a common belief in Life, Liberty, and Freedom.
I do not know if the president was born elsewhere. If he was it of course is his ticket out of the mess he volunteered for. I just have trouble swallowing that this is a REAL issue not something that is just made up. I believe that it has all been verified, and it just isn't something that is put up on the bulletin board for all to see...I also do not think that is a bad thing. But do I think that somehow a Nigerian citizen snuck into the presidency while nobody was looking, or just forgot to ask for ID, again cuz he looked and sounded American? Nope. But I can imagine right wing talk radio making this shit up.
I have seen the other side of 9/11. This and the fact that I love my country (I am a 13th generation American and a descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.) is why I have trouble believing the conspiracy theory. I am in no way convinced it was a scam, but the other 2/3 of the zeitgeist stuff is spot on....maybe it is there agenda to use 2/3rd truth to deceive...I don't know.
Regardless of whether you are fascist, conservative, liberal, socialist, pinko commie, or are too completely absorbed in your art to have an opinion on politics...and regardless of what side of the aisle your Senators or Representatives sit on, during the August recess, call/email them to support and co-sponsor Ron Paul's H.R. 1207 bill to audit the Fed. This is getting alot of support and could become a reality. This is a real chance to keep from being poor for a very long time. Put transparency in monetary policy. If it cannot stand up to transparency and future scrutiny, it is not sound and should not become policy...short term or long.
When asked on a PBS morning show why bailout money was given to companies that were "too big to fail" after their irresponsible financial practices, while small business' get no stimulus, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said, "I was not going to let another Great Depression take place while I was presiding over the Fed...I had to do it"....sounds pretty selfish to me. He just does not to be remembered historically as being a major factor in a global monetary crisis...he has studied global monetary history.
Again the Blue vs. Red is a smoke screen. It is deliberate. We are all Liberal about some things and conservative about others. We are not the same and it is OK. We do not have to take sides.
When it comes out that BHO is a Nigerian Mercenary sent in by the DNC to hand the US over to the Socialist overlords....we will be united against them for sure...then the Republicans will have control for years to come...taxes will stay the same, or go up (they always do) we wont have all the big government which is not a bad thing, and then we can all till be poor for a very long time, but instead of the only people with money being government employees it will be defense contractors and agra-biz.
These politicians in general like to spend money. Very few withinthe republican party are actual fiscal conservatives...they just spend $$ in different places. The conservatives rally round the flag and dump huge sums of money into "offensive " weapons systems disguised as "defense", while opposing the liberals spending a fraction on social programs, because to oppose defense spending is to accept early retirement.
Meanwhile the constituents are screaming about the problems in their communities and are asking their reps to help...so they try to add stuff to the defense bill and get accused of taxing and spending while trying to be "political" to the people they are sworn to serve....the conservatives just use fear of the godless baby killers to distract from the fact that things are not so rosy in the red neighborhoods...but at least the babies are safe until they are born.