This email was penned by Oscar Stilley,
Attorney at Law, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
I asked him
what he thought of Sarah Palin.This
‘aught to sum it up.
Sarah is a
politician I want to love but can’t. She supports pre-emptive war, the
very ideology that has bankrupted us over the past several years and now leaves
us in jeopardy of a total collapse of the dollar. Yet she parrots the
same lines about how we mustn’t leave til we’ve won, which I take to mean we
mustn’t ever leave, since turmoil will take over when we do. We have our
hands on a tar baby.
Iraq is not
a home grown state. It is the product of artificial lines drawn by
Britain almost a century ago. There are three main groups, the Sunni,
Shiites, and Kurds. Left to their own devices they will for the most part
separate into three mostly homogeneous mini-states. They don’t very well
get along, although in some instances small minorities may get along rather
well.
We don’t
aim to tolerate that. We could have been out by now had we set up a weak
central government and three or more states divided according to
demographics. We intend to force multi-culturalism on a very tribal and
rather backward society. The square peg won’t fit the round hole so we
stay and keep working on the problem.
Fundamentally
our federal government has developed the power to tax so heavily that we cannot
maintain our current capital stock. This is where we are at today. We are
like a hive with a greedy beekeeper who takes so much honey that the bee
population cannot be maintained over winter. This necessarily leads to
destruction of our status as world economic leader. Palin has said
nothing to lead me to believe that she understands and would act decisively to
restore the ability of the people to begin to replenish our stock of capital.
We need a
trillion dollar budget cut (yes, $1,000,000,000,000) just as a starter to
get back on an even keel. There is no way to do that and maintain the
American empire. Conservatives like to rail against spending except for
military spending. The truth is that our borders could be defended for
the foreseeable future at $100 billion a year, and no one could touch us.
We already have the hardware, if we conserved our stock of high tech military
goods, no country would dare rattle a saber at us for at least 20 years.
If a threat developed we could respond then.
Our
greatest strength is a well armed populace, also called the militia.
Switzerland has maintained strict neutrality for nearly two centuries simply by
a citizen militia that maintains state of the art personal arms. Right
now that is select fire machine guns that shoot fully or semi-automatic.
Europe has been devastated by two world wars and other conflagrations, but the
mere private ownership of light arms has dissuaded tyrants, notably Hitler,
from invading.
So, I can’t
support Palin. Her job would basically be to check the president’s pulse
every morning. That is important but the top of the ticket is 95% sure to
be where the shots are called.
Not that
all this matters very much. Rasmussen Reports says that Obama leads by 6
points for the second straight day after having been even on September 23.
Voters aren’t going to give Bush and McCain a pass for at financial
debacle which will cost $700 billion to start, and in my opinion is likely to
cost far more and lead to a crash of the US dollar. Nobody is going to
loan us the $700B, so we’ll just have to print it. I think that will lead
to the fall of the domino that will cause the dollar to drop precipitously, try
20-50% within a day or two. Maybe I am wrong, I don’t claim
infallibility. I just see us on a path to a devastating correction of our
bullheaded insistence on living significantly beyond our means both personally
and as a nation.
