Stop Me Before I Vote Again

Geez, I thought the GAO was one of our secret weapons. I dont know why or when they investigate something, but they usually seem to come up with something embarassing to the object of it.

Anyway, who else could perform such an audit? Congress? The House Banking Committee? What would Ralph say if he had written the article?

I suspect the GAO can always find something embarrassing because there's so much that's embarrassing to be found. To put it another way, even Elmer Fudd could shoot a wabbit if he found himself in an Easter basket.

we don't need an audit function

not windows into the temple
but a temple blown flat

so to start
we need a pujo committee
aimed not at the pri sec banksters
but at the fed itself
use its revelations
as rallying point
for
a congressional take over of the fed's functions

recall the fed era 34-50 was different from all eras since
read up on it and the interest rate ceiling

the house just like it originates tax rates oughta
originate interest rates too
maybe not the volume of credit
ie the ration sizes etc
that's a matter for constant adjustment

the control the interest rate mechanism...
and over the entire time range
of rates and risks
this all needs
as close to direct popular scrutiny and regulation
as our system at least formally permits

now
that would be our house of reps right ??

u really mean that owen ??
hand it over
to that corporate dominated
hen coop
are u nutz owen ??

yup
better that way then the now way

some star chamber
filled with prez appointed "experts"
drawn from wall street's "little list"
turkey roping economy wide effective demand
ultimately
to control wage trends

I thought Baker deserved some credit for this article (which you gave him), and he or you might have gone further to point out the fundamental systemic error of allowing a consortium of private banks (i.e. the Fed) to run the nation's economy. I dont recall if you've ever remarked on Web of Debt, by Ellen Brown, the most recent exponent of this idea.

Not necessarily disagreeing with your larger point, hce, but it wasn't the Fed that launched this massive supply-side giveaway. That was the public's supposed representatives, the election winners.

The problem with so much anti-Fed lit is that attention to the Fed quickly crowds out any attention to capitalism.

I'd be willing to at least experiment with letting the Fed live, if it were forced to do so amid far less corrupted majority rule and far more aggressive public enterprise aimed at out-competing the private kind.

The GAO? Bah, how many lobbyists they got?

"far more aggressive public enterprise aimed at out-competing the private kind."

indeed the commanding heights ARE the fed

we could benignly neglect
the entire pri sec banking system
so long as we "publicated" it's depository
sub-system

"The problem with so much anti-Fed lit is that attention to the Fed quickly crowds out any attention to capitalism"
not sure we need to even consider that
leave the hi fi pri sec banks
by the side of the road
corporate critique gets misleading if we just intend to sublate em
and petty capitalism is playful children stuff

the fear and loathing of neps and nepmen
since the turn to market forms in
20's soviet russia
has remained a silly bugbear
of the hot pink left

There is nothing but lies, pure lies, that will spill forth after the words, "In a democracy..."
In a democracy," we'd all be eating marshmallow hash and floating down nude water tubes to our consorts' waiting arms. Memo to pwogs: this is not a democracy. Never was, never will be, never should be. And Dean Baker wants his puppy back -please.
We had the biggest heist of all time, right under under our noses, but we want the names of whole stole the loot.
Why? so we can get it back. Yeah, sure.
So we can stop the the next time? Yeah, right. So we can ask them to please let us have some gruel with the leftovers?

Nihilism tonight, folks - we're eating nihilism tonight.

Congress will get right on it I'm sure, yesterday I listened to R Neal and S Lynch(MA Dems) talk at a conference for skilled trades training and the success veterans have been as apprentices. Most of their attention was directed to blowing themselves, then the carpenters union's office secretary. I was impressed................ the carpenters have good taste.

"the carpenters union's office secretary"

a play by moliere ???

Yeah a lesser known work, I didn't know how to translate it to French but the story line skirts an officer and a gentleman except instead of pilots everyone is training to be carpenters...like Jesus. Mary is the secretaries name and they meet at an organized dog fight.

Michael: here's a possible answer to your comment that the Fed has not played the major role in the current financial crisis, from Henry Liu at Asia Times:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KE27Dj07.html