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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 01:44 PM
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A Real Scandal: The GOP's CIA Playbook: Destabilize Country to Sweep Back Into Power
The GOP's CIA Playbook: Destabilize Country to Sweep Back Into Power
Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make America as ungovernable as possible by using almost any means available.
June 9, 2011 |

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...... the right-wing media and much of the mainstream press will put the blame on Obama and the Democrats. They will be held accountable for failing to govern.

The Republican propaganda machine will tell the American people that they must throw Obama and the Democrats out of office for stability to return. There will be assurances about how the “magic of the market” will bring back the bright days of prosperity.

Of course, the reality of a new Republican administration, especially with a GOP Congress, would be the return of the old right-wing nostrums: more tax cuts for the rich, less regulation of corporations, more military spending, and more privatization of social programs.

Any budget balancing will come at the expense of labor rights for union employees and shifting the costs for health care onto the backs of the elderly. Yet, all this will be surrounded by intense propaganda explaining the public pain as a hangover from misguided government “social engineering.”

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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 01:53 PM
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1. This part reminds me of President Obama the last two years

U.S. intelligence agencies secretly sponsored Chilean news outlets, like the influential newspaper El Mercurio, and supported “populist” uprisings of truckers and housewives. On the economic front, the CIA coordinated efforts to starve the Chilean government of funds and to drive unemployment higher.

Worsening joblessness could then be spun by the CIA-financed news outlets as proof that Allende’s policies didn’t work and that the only choice for Chile was to scrap its social programs. When Allende compromised with the Right, that had the additional benefit of causing friction between him and some of his supporters who wanted even more radical change.


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cstanleytech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 02:06 PM
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2. Actually there wont be any budget balancing done
once they gain power, sure they will talk the talk to get elected and into office but once they are in they will start the pork barrel spinning and they will spend money like its water just like they did when they controlled the country during the Bush years and we all saw how bad that turned out.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 02:16 PM
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3. You nailed it. Republicons totally screwed America's budget for 8 years...
The Republicons totally trashed America's economy, too, with their Faux 'Conservative' borrow-and-spend profiligate efforts to make FatCats fatter, while anesthetizing & then squashing the citizens of the USA.
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Aerows Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 02:19 PM
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5. Exactly
They get into office and they don't balance the budget - they go straight back to social conservatism and regulating morality, while deregulating business.
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chowder66 Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-11 02:19 PM
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4. 100% agree!!!
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