THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
-- the end of a livable country as we might have known it.
By Jim Miller

“It is coming to theaters near you” announces the latest blockbuster thriller movie trailer. The sordid story of Wall Street, a compliant Congress and the assured self-destruction of the “American way of life” -- what ever that meant to you – is at hand. Make no bones about it, this movie had script writers, producers, directors, financiers, actors, props, distribution agents and viewing venues. It even has movie review critics like Naomi Klein and George Monboit (me too).


The movie was scripted by the acolytes of Milton Friedman, the champion of the “free market”. Translated into common language, that motto means -- “enrich the top-down capital owners at the expense of the other 95% of the population”. Also, financially rape the U.S. Treasury.

Friedman was the leader of the “Chicago Boys”, a band of students in Friedman's Department of Economics, University of Chicago, now all growed-up, who have seized the reins of corporate and Federal power and are making the privatization of America happen. We feel we are on the movie set, observing a pirate movie being shot. If they can “successfully” take over the oil fields in Iraq at the expense of American taxpayers and American lives, why not take over the productive private and public assets of America? It's “pedal to the metal” time.

The clear and present danger is signaled by Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine.

“Now is the Time to Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine

By Naomi Klein - September 22nd, 2008

I wrote The Shock Doctrine in the hopes that it would make us all better prepared for the next big shock. Well, that shock has certainly arrived, along with gloves-off attempts to use it to push through radical pro-corporate policies (which of course will further enrich the very players who created the market crisis in the first place...)” MORE .... [ http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/09/now-time-resist-wall-streets-shock-doctrine ]

During the 1970's and 1980's the Chicago Boys, with the help of the CIA, State Department, DOD, USAID, Ford Foundation, Rockefellers, GM, GE, investment bankers, engineered the take over of many Latin American countries. These take-overs are well document by reputable scholars in many books and articles. The method of privatization and the after math is chronicled in Sin Patron published by lavaca.org.

These take-overs were led locally by juntas, picked by the bankers and raiders. The illegal actions of these juntas were tolerated by the Chicago Boys, including murder, genocide, riots, sale of state industries and utilities at nearly “gift' prices and roll-back of social enterprises and government health and welfare care of the poor populations. The same is happening in America today. The members of Congress who voted for the bail-out, did so because of a real crisis engineered by the Chicago Boys and financed by the members of the Travistock elite. Congress fell into the trap carefully set by the mega-rich movers and shakers.

These take-overs are right out of the play book of the Travistrock Institute, [http://masallp.wetpaint.com/page/TRAVISTOCK+INSTITUTE?t=anon] a body of the extremely rich families, tribes, companies, bankers and institutions of the world. There is more to come as they unroll their plans and institute them.

Naomi Klein weighs in on the “free market” fraud:

“Free Market Ideology is Far from Finished

By Naomi Klein - September 19th, 2008

Whatever the events of this week mean, nobody should believe the overblown claims that the market crisis signals the death of "free market" ideology. Free market ideology has always been a servant to the interests of capital, and its presence ebbs and flows depending on its usefulness to those interests.” MORE .... [http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/09/free-market-ideology-far-finished ]

George Monboit is a professional op-ed writer who has a respectable following in the Guardian. His take on the expanded privatization of America is:

“The Other Bail-Out

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/10/07/the-other-bail-out/
Posted October 7, 2008

Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.

By George Monboit. Published in the Guardian 7th October 2008.

While all eyes were fixed on the banking bail-out, a bucket load of public money was quietly sloshed into the pockets of another undeserving cause. Last week, George Bush agreed to lend $25bn to US car manufacturers. It’s a soft loan, which will cost the government $7.5bn(1). Few people noticed; fewer fought it. The House of Representatives approved the measure by 370 votes to 58. The great corporate bail-out is spreading like the plague.” http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/10/07/the-other-bail-out/ ]

I am greatly alarmed, as you might imagine, and very frustrated. I don't have millions to pour into the economy or into a fight against the Chicago Boys and the minions of the Traverstock Institute. I do have a good mind and access to the Internet. In order to “do something”.

I propose a new political party – a really different approach to participative democracy. Anyone can join, regardless of political affiliation and express any point of view. There are no dues and no requirement of face-to-face meetings. No stomping around the precincts. Just hacking away at your computer and posting your thoughts on the wikiwebsite for: Be nice or you lose creditability.



The LDR is not Jim Miller's party, but OUR party. You have a full opportunity to shape it, drill it, sand it and varnish it, using wikiweb tools. Let's have fun and, with some sense of purpose, dispel the hate and disdain of the Chicago Boys and the minions of the Travistock Institute for the rest of us good folks.


Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com
October 8, 2008