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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Wayne,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This is an EXCELLENT article you posted !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>BTW. I found your posting sometime back about the Chinese
Cab Drivers being quite the political pundits very interesting.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Maybe you could report on this periodicly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David J.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ewj@pigs.ag href="mailto:ewj@pigs.ag">E. Wayne Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=peace-discuss@anti-war.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 01, 2010 9:43
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Peace-discuss] no body doesnt
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<P class=style27>(from counterpunch.com)<BR></P>
<H1 class=style27><FONT color=#990000 size=+2>Let Them Eat Cake </FONT></H1>
<P class=style27><FONT size=+1>By PAUL CRAIG
ROBERTS<BR></FONT></P><SMALL><FONT size=+1><SMALL>(PC Roberts frequently
appears in Max Keiser's videos, and is a former assistant Sec'y of the
Treasury)</SMALL></FONT></SMALL><BR>
<P class=style2><SPAN class=style34>I</SPAN>t is not unusual for members of
the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20,000 or $30,000 on a big
wedding. But for celebrities this large sum wouldn’t cover the wedding dress
or the flowers. </P>
<P class=style2>When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole
Kidman in 2006, their wedding cost $250,000. This large sum hardly counts as a
celebrity wedding. When mega-millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump
married model Melania Knauss, the wedding bill was $1,000,000.</P>
<P class=style2>The marriages of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie, Tiger
Woods and Elin Nordegren, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones pushed
up the cost of celebrity marriages to $1.5 million.</P>
<P class=style2>Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes upped the ante to $2,000,000.</P>
<P class=style2>Now comes the politicians’s daughter as celebrity. According
to news reports, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky
on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3,000,000. According to the London Daily
Mail, the total price tag will be about $5,000,000. The additional $2,000,000
apparently is being laid off on US Taxpayers as Secret Service costs for
protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads of state, such as the
presidents of France and Italy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
who are among the 500 invited guests along with Barbara Streisand, Steven
Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Clinton friend and donor Denise
Rich, wife of the Clinton-pardoned felon.</P>
<P class=style2>Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an
extravagant affair during times of economic distress, let us wonder aloud
where a poor boy who became governor of Arkansas and president of the United
States got such a fortune that he can blow $3,000,000 on a wedding.</P>
<P class=style2>The American people did not take up a collection to reward him
for his service to them.<BR>Where did the money come from? Who was he really
serving during his eight years in office?</P>
<P class=style2>How did Tony Blair and his wife, Cherrie, end up with an
annual income of ten million pounds (approximately $15 million dollars) as
soon as he left office? Who was Blair really serving?</P>
<P class=style2>These are not polite questions, and they are infrequently
asked.</P>
<P class=style2>While Chelsea’s wedding guests eat a $11,000 wedding cake and
admire $250,000 floral displays, Lisa Roberts in Ohio is struggling to raise
contributions for her food pantry in order to feed 3,000 local people, whose
financial independence was destroyed by investment bankers, job offshoring,
and unaffordable wars. The Americans dependent on Lisa Roberts’ food pantry
are living out of vans and cars. Those with a house roof still over their
heads are packed in as many as 14 per household according to the Chillicothe
Gazette in Ohio.</P>
<P class=style2>The Chilicothe Gazette reports that Lisa Roberts’ food pantry
has “had to cut back to half rations per person in order to have something for
everyone who needed it.” </P>
<P class=style2>Theresa DePugh stepped up to the challenge and had the
starving Ohioans write messages on their food pantry paper plates to President
Obama, who has just obtained another $33 billion to squander on a pointless
war in Afghanistan that serves no purpose whatsoever except the enrichment of
the military/security complex and its shareholders.</P>
<P class=style2>The Guardian (UK) reports that according to US government
reports, one million American children go to bed hungry, while the Obama
regime squanders hundreds of billions of dollars killing women and children in
Afghanistan and elsewhere.</P>
<P class=style2>The Guardian’s reporting relies on a US government report from
the US Department of Agriculture, which concludes that 50 million people in
the US--one in six of the population--were unable to afford to buy sufficient
food to stay healthy in 2008.</P>
<P class=style2>US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that
he expected the number of hungry Americans to worsen when the survey for 2010
is released.</P>
<P class=style2>Today in the American Superpower, one of every six Americans
is living on food stamps.<BR>The Great American Superpower, which is wasting
trillions of dollars in pursuit of world hegemony, has 22% of its population
unemployed and almost 17% of its population dependent on welfare in order to
stay alive.</P>
<P class=style2>The world has not witnessed such total failure of government
since the final days of the Roman Empire. A handful of American oligarchs are
becoming mega-billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the
drain.</P>
<P class=style2>And the American sheeple remain acquiescent. </P>
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