**We need another National Holiday

I feel like writing an Andy Rooney style type commentary today. I propose a new national holiday that I will call “NGCCD” (National Government Come Clean Day). Now the NGCCD holiday will be far more important and useful than say Presidents, Labor, Memorial, Christmas, Easter, and New Years. I believe that Veterans Day is the only holiday that comes close to NGCCD in promoting major positive improvements to our society, because people actually have risked their lives, lost life, sanity, and limb in the fantasy that they were sacrificing for “Liberation and Freedom”. If we can somehow have more respect and support for the unfortunate men and women who made great sacrifices, maybe that thought could get us closer to achieving peace. I am not saying that the other holidays I mentioned have no significance, to the contrary, they increase our GDP, give use an excuse to take off work, get drunk, over eat, and celebrate with family and friends. In the following monologue I will delve into how our government and others as well, try to, “Pull the wool over eyes”.
Now for one of the biggest lie first, yes you got it, military or national security spending. The basic Pentagon budget is $577 billion. Now adding in $128 billion for Iraq/Afghanistan wars, DoE $17 billion for nuclear weapons, Veterans benefits $94 billion, interest on the National Debt for past military costs $200 billion, NASA military $9 billion, Homeland Security $35 billion, other military and state department $11 billion, other billions buried in the Departments of Transportation, Commerce, Justice(FBI). In addition, clandestine revenues that the CIA derives from drug running to finance covert military operations brings the total to approximately 54% of our total Federal budget, or between $1.2 to $1.4 trillion dollars.
On September 11, 2001 we were told that Muslim terrorists caused the collapse of the WTC Towers and an attack on the Pentagon. The reality is that the WTC Towers(WTC1,2 and 7) collapsed as a result of a Controlled Demolition where Thermite explosives were used to sever the steel columns and totally disintegrate all the concrete floor slabs. If the government was up front about the real cause of the destruction, the Bush administration would have not resisted a complete thorough investigation, which was delayed for 411 days, hampered by an inadequate budget, and adequate access to important essential information that would have uncovered the truth. For further evidence of the WTC collapses go to: AE911Truth.org or 911Truth.org.
Our government reports the GDP(Gross Domestic Product), but does not include many revenues from illegal drug running, gambling, bartering, cash service businesses, small restaurants, home repair contractors, and other revenue sources both legitimate and illegal. Some economists estimate that the underground economy in the United States alone accounts for up to 1 trillion US Dollars (USD) per year in unreported cash holdings. It has also been estimated that up to 80% of all US one hundred dollar bills printed every year end up overseas within weeks of their circulation. The underground economy supports any number of overseas operations, including covert wars, raw drug production and human slavery rings. All of these illegal activities require an abundant amount of untraceable cash, preferably from a strong government with a stable legitimate economy.
Unemployment statistics are unrealistically low as they only include people actively looking for work. The government statistics do not include the under employed, those who have given up looking for employment, or those who have had to accept reduced working hours. These unrealistically low unemployment statistics seem to work well for the benefit of the ruling party in power.
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund was set up in 1944 for the primary purpose of providing financial support for third world developing nations and to uplift their populations from poverty. In reality these organizations have helped to sink developing nations into more poverty and have enriched their modern nation supporter such as the US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, etc. The way the system works is that an independent economic consulting firm such as Main and Co. will perform a pro-forma economic report for the sole purpose of supporting a loan, too large for the country to pay back, and for improvements to infrastructure that do not directly benefit the population. The caveat is that U.S. and European contractors must be the sole vendors to supply and perform any work in the country. Due the fact that the debt service becomes so high on these loans, a greater share of the poor countries revenue must now be taken away from minimal schools and medical care to support the loan. So now the “Jackals” (lenders) come in and say I see you cannot afford to make the loan payments, so now we will take a much greater share of your natural resource royalties, that were unfairly low in the first instance, and used in consideration for modifying the loan. Countries in South America, the East and West Indies are prime examples of how developed countries such as the U.S. can spread their imperialistic tentacles without having to fire a shot. For further information on the above please read, “The Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, chronicled by a former high level economist and loan consultant.
Our government in some situations actively encourages lying. “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is a flagrant example of our government telling our military leaders and personnel please do not tell the truth. The military’s cover up of war atrocities to the news media is another example of lying by omission. Our military never says it killed or murdered innocent civilians, it says, “Collateral Damage”. How can we expect integrity in government when we encourage outright lying?
All of us have lied in our lifetimes at least once, but I can honestly say that none of my lies ever resulted in the death, physical injury to anyone, or the theft of billions of dollars. Unfortunately I cannot say that for governments. Our government has a well oiled PR and spin machine that repackages information so that it is in a form that it is favorable, not to the people, but to our leaders.
So please, send a letter to your representatives asking for the incorporation of NGCCD into our laws, so that once a year government must go to the National Confessional, come entirely clean, say “Three Hail Mary’s”, and all the politicians must write checks back to the U.S. Treasury for all the bribes they took from lobbyists and special interest groups.
Harvey is a Benicia businessman. You may visit Harvey’s Blog and leave comments at: http://harveysrantsraves.blogspot.com/