People are pissed off about this financial crisis, and about this bailout, but they're not pissed off enough. The reality is that the worldwide economic meltdown and the bailout that followed were together a kind of revolution, a coup d'état. They cemented and formalized a political trend that has been snowballing for decades: the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders, who used money to control elections, buy influence and systematically weaken financial regulations.
The crisis was the coup de grâce: Given virtually free rein over the economy, these same insiders first wrecked the financial world, then cunningly granted themselves nearly unlimited emergency powers to clean up their own mess. And so the gambling-addict leaders of companies like AIG end up not penniless and in jail, but with an Alien-style death grip on the Treasury and the Federal Reserve — "our partners in the government," as Liddy put it with a shockingly casual matter-of-factness after the most recent bailout.
The mistake most people make in looking at the financial crisis is thinking of it in terms of money, a habit that might lead you to look at the unfolding mess as a huge bonus-killing downer for the Wall Street class. But if you look at it in purely Machiavellian terms, what you see is a colossal power grab that threatens to turn the federal government into a kind of giant Enron — a huge, impenetrable black box filled with self-dealing insiders whose scheme is the securing of individual profits at the expense of an ocean of unwitting involuntary shareholders, previously known as taxpayers.
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
--David Rockefeller
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson
"You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."
--Andrew Jackson
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Kapitalismus in des Wortes wahrer Bedeutung ist nicht, wie man Schwachköpfen einpaukt, die Ansammlung von Reichtum bei wenigen oder die Ausnutzung der Armen durch die Reichen oder die Trennung von Unternehmen und Arbeit. Das sind verwaschene Ideen, die aus dem Bauch kommen. Es gibt nur eine gültige Definition von Kapitalismus: Kapitalismus ist keine Wirtschafts- oder Gesellschaftsstruktur, Kapitalismus ist die Übernahme der Regierung durch die Hochfinanz. Er ist zugleich immer das Ende der reinen Politik."
--Joachim Fernau
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„Manchen Völkern genügt eine Katastrophe, sie zur Besinnung zu bringen. Deutschen, so scheint es, bedarf es des Untergangs.” --Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
„Wenn man so darüber nachdenkt ist es eigentlich erschreckend, wie wenig Politiker aufgeknüpft werden.” --G. K. Chesterton
„Manchmal frage ich mich, ob die Welt von klugen Menschen regiert wird, die uns zum Narren halten, oder von Schwachköpfen, die es ernst meinen.” --Mark Twain
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