A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs

[kpete]

A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs

By Paul Craig Roberts

..............

Hapless Americans, unrepresented and betrayed, are in store for a greater crisis to come. President Bush's war deficits were financed by America's trade deficit. China, Japan, and OPEC, with whom the U.S. runs trade deficits, used their trade surpluses to purchase U.S. Treasury debt, thus financing the U.S. government budget deficit.

The problem now is that the U.S. budget deficits have suddenly grown immensely from wars, bankster bailouts, jobs stimulus programs, and lower tax revenues as a result of the serious recession. Budget deficits are now three times the size of the trade deficit. Thus, the surpluses of China, Japan, and OPEC are insufficient to take the newly issued U.S. government debt off the market.

If the Treasury's bonds can't be sold to investors, pension funds, banks, and foreign governments, the Federal Reserve will have to purchase them by creating new money. When the rest of the world realizes the inflationary implications, the US dollar will lose its reserve currency role. When that happens, Americans will experience a large economic shock as their living standards take another big hit.

America is on its way to becoming a country of serfs ruled by oligarchs.

more:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Country-of-Serfs-Ruled-B-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-100216-723.html

[lonestarnot]

1. On its way?

[MisterP]

2. 19th-century serfdom, no less!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_serfdom

[omega minimo]

3. So what's yer point?

:hi: