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- From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman)
- Subject: Bankruptcy 1995 (part 2)
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- Summary: The approaching fiscal Armageddon
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:08:21 GMT
- Keywords: treachery trickery deceit deception
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- Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America & How to Stop It.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- by Harry E. Figgie, Jr.
- with Gerald J. Swanson, Ph.D.
-
- About the authors:
- -- Harry E. Figgie, Jr. is the CEO of Figgie International Inc.,
- a diversified *Fortune 500* operating company. He was co-chairman
- of President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also
- known as the Grace Commission.
- -- Dr. Gerald J. Swanson is an Associate Professor of Economics
- at the University of Arizona.
-
- "Any profits from this book have long since been assigned to
- charity. We make no profit whatsoever from it." (p. 25).
-
- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- * *
- * The United States has a problem that is easy to understand, *
- * but whose effects are difficult to comprehend. Its solution *
- * is simple to prescribe, but hard to implement. This problem *
- * is more insidious than drug addiction, more pressing than *
- * recession; it is crueler than poverty and illness and more *
- * hazardous than a hole in the ozone. *
- * *
- * This problem, which is of our own making, will precipitate *
- * an economic nightmare that will dwarf the Great Depression *
- * and turn the history of America into one of history's *
- * closed chapters. This problem has a name. It is *government *
- * debt.* *
- * *
- $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
-
- --------------------------- part 2 ------------------------------
-
- Mr. Figgie begins by declaring that "In 1995, the United States
- of America, as we know it today, will cease to exist. That year,
- the country will have spent itself into a bankruptcy from which
- there will be no return."
-
- Figgie thinks that in the year 1995 the U.S. national debt will
- "...have grown beyond our ability to control it through taxation.
- In other words, even if the government that year dedicated every
- penny it collected in personal income taxes to paying just
- *interest* on the debt, it wouldn't be enough."
-
- We Americans all have a vague sense that something is very wrong.
- The general population "...senses and is worried about the
- disaster our politicians are about to drop us into." And,
- according to Figgie, a fiscal Armageddon *will* soon be upon us
- unless we act immediately to prevent it. "This is our last
- chance. We're out of time."
-
- -- How it Happened --
-
- They are killing our country, but who are "they?"
-
- According to the authors, there are "...536 of them, and they
- have hired about twenty thousand bright and energetic people to
- act as their accomplices and assistants... At the head of the
- list of the people who are killing our country is the president
- of the United States [Bush]." Who are "they?" They are the 435
- members of the House of Representatives, the 100 members of the
- Senate, and the president.
-
- Our so-called leaders in Washington have been bleeding this
- country to death. They "...are doing to us what George III,
- Adolph Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, and Nikita Krushchev tried to do
- but failed."
-
- And it is *our fault* because we have let it happen! "[We] let
- them, you and I. We've not only let them, we've encouraged them,
- because we wanted to keep hearing the lies they told us."
-
- And because in the final analysis it is *us* who have let the
- current fiscal crisis develop, it is up to *us* to try to keep it
- from going over the brink. And we "...don't have much time -- two
- to three years at the most -- to save ourselves. Save
- *ourselves*... not ask someone to save us. No one will. Certainly
- not the lobbyists for foreign governments and foreign
- corporations who range free in the power corridors of
- Washington."
-
- Even our leaders won't do it for us, unless we force them to. Mr.
- Figgie is convinced "...that our so-called leaders have in fact
- sold us out."
-
-
- ------------------------- end part 2 ----------------------------
-
- You can do a lot of good by taking this article and posting it to
- other areas besides "alt.activism." You can also post this or
- upload it as a file to a local BBS. This would help give the
- people of this nation an alternative to the "fluff" and
- propaganda posturing as hard news which they are currently
- getting from the major networks.
-
-
- Synopsis/Review by Brian Redman
- "Ah yes, Armageddon. I remember it well."
- End part 2
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