The Empire Eats Its Own | Philip A. Farruggio

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Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

Oct. 4, 2015

Terrorism: The Political use of terror and intimidation.

So goes the definition of something that can consist of much more than just the use of violence to control others.

In Marc Levin's 2012 documentary Hard Times: Lost on Long Island we see a close-up of assorted victims of economic terrorism perpetrated by this Military Industrial Empire. Levin interviews and follows a group of mostly 40- and 50-somethings (and one 60-something ) who lost their white collar jobs in the aftermath of the 2008 Wall Street financial debacle.

With the exception of a chiropractor and his school teacher wife, the rest of those in the film had worked around the financial industries based in Manhattan. To watch them subsist on extended unemployment benefits while living in homes that were all underwater in mortgage is like viewing slow death.

The people Levin focused on all searched for employment... to no avail for two to three years... as they juggled their food bills and utility payments. Their only income was from what the government doled out to them each week, obviously never enough to satisfy their debts and obligations.

Sad to watch those who once apparently (to them) "found the American dream" with a $400,000 home in the suburbs, good schools for their kids, nice upscale SUVs etc... now awaiting final eviction by a Sheriff's department that many times got bonuses by the banks!

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1. Excellent article.

The only protests some of them attended were those demanding jobs when the 99 weeks of unemployment were over. No one focused on the fact that because more than 50 percent of all federal taxes are going down the toilet for military spending, and both Congress, Bush Jr. and Obama continued to bail out the corrupt Wall Street banksters, working stiffs are getting just that: Stiffed!

Imagine if these nice folks, and millions of others who support the Two Party "One Party" con job, would demand drastic cuts in the War economy and bank bailouts being returned to states and cities to help working stiffs.

Bernie was asked the other night about socialism & I wish he'd have said, "When we bailed out the banks, that was socialism. When we bailed out the car companies, that was socialism. When are we going to bail out the American people?"