March 28, 2010 journal, the magnitude of Wall Street derivatives loss will bleed through the fabric and meltdown this country even the entire world to total chaos and confusion. Mr. O said he looked to see if the sky was falling before he signed the bill because some had predicted Armageddon. It is possible he does not know or understand Armageddon. If healthcare is deferred for 4 years then all these sick people will most likely die anyway long before they can be rescued by the marvelous new too expensive healthcare mandate. He's giving insurance companies a running start in raising their rates to ridiculous heights. A major billboard on I-70 in Missouri expresses the temperament of America today as saying Revolution. Revolution seems to be in the air and it appears to be a major ground-swell. The unsigned billboard says in huge letters "A Citizen's Guide to Revolution of a corrupt government. 1-Starve the Beast. Keep your money. 2-Vote Out Incumbents". Then large red letters across the bottom says "If 1 & 2 fail, Prepare For War. Live Free Or Die". This is certainly a bold and brave statement to make to the heart of the country. There is only one way to put it in perspective, that is to go back in history to get it right. American people must dig deeper to find the truth and trust no evil voice. The nearly 3000 pages healthcare bill just railroaded through Congress does not appear to have any limitations on corporate health insurance rates which the bill mandates and that is pure foolishness and recipe for paralyzing of this nation when people cannot pay for health coverage. The health insurance racketeers have their biggest rewards in this bill if it works. It seems to be designed as mind deterrent to the great tsunami of debt we're dealing with. America has a double barrel problem with the thousand trillion dollars in derivatives still lingering out there plus the mounting national debt and a third problem is Treasury Bills getting harder to sell to investors and lenders like China and even to Saudi Arabia as an indication that these major investors have lost confidence in the American dollar and in America's future ability to pay it back. Here we have a trinity of deplorable conditions right for total disaster of this empire. America is naive but grabbing at straws to survive. To add insult to injury they have appointed the I*R*S jackbooted Gestapo to enforce health insurance enlarging this worst of all agencies other than possibly the awful C*I*A. Once again Nancy had that demonic smile on her face passing the fix it bill for the tainted healthcare disaster bill they roller-coastered through Congress with greased green money. Gene Robinson of Washington Post said on MSNBC the president should Stop calling it an act against the greedy health insurance companies when it is not any such bill. He said the Democrats act as though they have really stuck it to the insurance companies when in fact, this bill gives everything to insurance companies even more than they ever dreamed. This disastrous bill actually puts the key in insurance companies hands, a death sentence. So let the president crow about it to Iowa and to the world until it is struck down by the Supreme Court a thousand times over then his political attitude will be forever changed. I actually had hopes that things would change from the destructive mentality. War for the minds continues as Netanyahu visits the Israeli occupied nation of America. I cannot understand why the blind misguided Church could ever advocate war on innocent people. The Democrats cannot seem to understand why their windows are all broken out. A group from Congress gathered in Washington to pray just before Sundays abomination. The Catholic Church continue to disintegrate including crimes on the deaf in MadisonWi. Gospel can still be preached if we are determined to follow through Christian obligation. Seek God for spiritual inspiration and never take the mark of their beast of this world. A message from Paul Craig Roberts- "There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded the truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest. Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for the truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded "anti-American," "anti-semite" or "conspiracy theorist." Truth is (always) an inconvenience for government and for the interest groups whose campaign contributions control government. Truth is an inconvenience for prosecutors who want convictions, not the discovery of innocence or guilt. Truth is inconvenient for ideologues. (God help US) Today many whose goal once was the discovery of truth are now paid handsomely to hide it. "Free market economists" are paid to sell off-shoring to the American people. High-productivity, high value-added American jobs are denigrated as dirty, old industrial jobs. Relicts from long ago, we are best shed of them. Their place has been taken by "the New Economy," a mythical economy that allegedly consists of high-tech white collar jobs in which Americans innovate and finance activities that occur offshore. All Americans need in order to participate in this "new economy" are finance degrees from Ivy League universities, and then they will work on Wall Street at million dollar jobs. Economists who were once respectable took money to contribute to this myth of "the New Economy." And not only economists sell their souls for filthy lucre. Recently we have had reports of medical doctors who, for money, have published in peer-reviewed journals concocted "studies" that hype this or that new medicine produced by pharmaceutical companies that paid for the "studies." The Council of Europe is investigating the drug companies' role in hyping a false swine flu pandemic in order to gain billions of dollars in sales of the vaccine. The media helped the US military hype its recent Marja offensive in Afghanistan, describing Marja as a city of 80,000 under Taliban control. It turns out that Marja is not urban but a collection of village farms. And there is the global warming scandal, in which NGOs. the UN, and the nuclear industry colluded in concocting a doomsday scenario in order to create profit in pollution. Wherever one looks, truth has fallen to money. Wherever money is insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda, and short memories finish the job. (There is no advocate of the truth on war or government) (We are not goyim (cattle) and we are not gentiles, we are from the 10 tribes of Israel). I remember when, following CIA director William Colby's testimony before the Church Committee in the mid-1970s, presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan issued executive orders preventing the CIA and U.S. black-op groups from assassinating foreign leaders. In 2010 the US Congress was told by Dennis Blair, head of national intelligence, that the US now assassinates its own citizens in addition to foreign leaders. (No one will yet believe it) When Blair told the House Intelligence Committee that US citizens no longer needed to be arrested, charged, tried and convicted of a capital crime, just murdered on suspicion alone of being a "threat," he wasn't impeached. No investigation pursued. Nothing happened. There was no Church Committee. In the mid-1970s the CIA got into trouble for plots to kill Castro. Today it is American citizens who are on the hit list. Whatever objections there might be don't carry any weight. No one in government is in any trouble (not yet) over the assassination of U.S. citizens by the U.S. government. As an economist, I am astonished that the American economics profession has no awareness whatsoever that the U.S.A.'s economy has been destroyed by the off-shoring of U.S. GDP to overseas countries. U.S. corporations, in pursuit of absolute advantage or lowest labor costs and maximum CEO "performance bonuses," have moved the production of goods and services marketed to Americans to China, India, and elsewhere abroad. When I read economists describe off-shoring as free trade based on comparative advantage, I realize that there is no intelligence or integrity in the American economics profession. Intelligence and integrity have been purchased by money. The transnational or global U.S. corporations pay multi-million dollar compensation packages to top managers, who achieve these "performance awards" by replacing U.S. labor with foreign labor. While Washington worries about "the Muslim threat," Wall Street, U.S. corporations and "free market" shills destroy the U.S. economy and the prospects of tens of millions of Americans. Americans, or most of them, have proved to be putty in the hands of the police state. Americans have bought into the government's claim that security requires the suspension of civil liberties and accountable government. Astonishingly, Americans, or most of them, believe that civil liberties, such as habeas corpus and due process, protect "terrorists," and not themselves. Many also believe that the Constitution is a tired old document that prevents government from exercising the kind of police state powers necessary to keep Americans safe and free. Most Americans are unlikely to hear from anyone who would tell them any different. I was associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal. I was Business Week's first outside columnist, a position I held for 15 years. I was columnist for a decade for Scripps Howard News Service, carried in 300 newspapers. I was a columnist for the Washington Times and for newspapers in France and Italy and for a magazine in Germany. I was a contributor to the New York Times and a regular feature in the Los Angeles Times. Today I cannot publish in, or appear on, the American "mainstream media." For the last six years I have been banned from the "mainstream media." My last column in the New York Times appeared in January, 2004, coauthored with Democratic U.S. Senator Charles Schumer representing New York. We addressed the off-shoring of U.S. jobs. Our op-ed article produced a conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and live coverage by C-Span. A debate was launched. No such thing could happen today. For years I was a mainstay at the Washington Times, producing credibility for the Moony newspaper as a Business Week columnist, former Wall Street Journal editor, and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. But when I began criticizing Bush's wars of aggression, the order came down to Mary Lou Forbes to cancel my column. The American corporate media does not serve the truth. It serves the government and the interest groups that empower the government. (American people must face the truth) (How long will we serve Mystery Babylon without questioning their intent & origin) America's fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought the government's 9/11 conspiracy theory. The government's account of 9/11 is contradicted by much evidence. Nevertheless, this defining event of our time, which has launched the US on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic police state, is a taboo topic for investigation in the media. It is pointless to complain of war and a police state when one accepts the premise upon which they are based. These trillion dollar wars have created financing problems for Washington's deficits and threaten the U.S. dollar's role as world reserve currency. The wars and the pressure that the budget deficits put on the dollar's value have put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Former Goldman Sachs chairman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is after these protections for the elderly. Fed chairman Bernanke is also after them. The Republicans are after them as well. These protections are called "entitlements" as if they are some sort of welfare that people have not paid for in payroll taxes all their working lives. With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980, with American jobs, GDP, and technology having been given to China and India, with war being Washington's greatest commitment, with the dollar over-burdened with debt, with civil liberty sacrificed to the "war on terror," the liberty and prosperity of the American people have been thrown into the trash bin of history. The militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street and corporate greed, will now run their course. As the pen is censored and its might extinguished, I am signing off." Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST , has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at:" PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com WORDS THAT STICK