The views from Monticello are spectacular.  Thomas Jefferson called one panoramic vista his “sea view.” I suppose if Jefferson were alive today he would view the ongoing banking scandal with extreme disgust bordering on an outright declaration of war.  Seems Thomas Jefferson himself suffered similar swindles first hand. 

 

I visited Monticello while in Virginia recently. I toured the house and grounds, (pictured in T-shirt in TJ’s back gardens). I inspected the hilltop plantation during the ongoing Grand Theft of the Grand Old Republic . During the tour I wondered what Mr. Jefferson might have said to the two pretenders posing as presidential candidates, about the cash & carry giveaway to the Wall Street magicians. Somehow the scathing words of Jefferson seemed particularly apropos now.

 

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

 

Deprive the people? Wake up homeless? Surely here was a man who had first hand dealings with fractional bankers and their bagmen.

 

Instead of bailing the bankers out, US lawmen should be jailing them in some maximum security prison as a harsh lesson to others.  Congress, and the missing-in-action mainstream media, should call a swindle a swindle and a fraud a fraud.  The Judicial branch of the government should hand out indictments like breath mints.  Instead, the monetary magicians were rewarded with nearly a trillion dollars of your children’s money, by McCain, Biden and Obama and more than 70 of their fellow Senators and some 260 Congressmen. 

 

Jefferson predicted just such a sellout.  “The system of banking, a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction... I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity... is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

 

More dangerous than standing armies?  Check. Swindling futurity on a large scale? Check and checkmate.

 

Senator Feinstein of California stated why she ignored her California constituents to vote for her truest constituents over at Wall Street:  “My office has received over 91,000 calls and emails with over 86,000 opposed.  If we do nothing, more institutions will fail. (Which many deserved to fail and their CEOs jailed)…Now, you may say: what does this mean to me? I work hard, I pay my bills, I pay cash…Again, there is no question this is a tough vote. But there's no question that this is a (Yes) vote that I believe has to be made.”

 

Jefferson replied to Feinstein: “A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.”

 

Instead the Banker Bailout Bill sent a crystal clear message to ALL Americans: Fuck You.  Voting is for the hopelessly deluded and clueless.  Elected representatives and public servants neither represent, nor do they serve the public in America .  Nor do your emails or phone messages matter. Fuck off.

 

BOTH presidential candidates, self-styled mavericks claiming to protect the middle class, broadcast their sincere desire to continue the policies of their predecessor, George Weimar Bush, by voting for the gift to Wall Street.  Apparently, the only real change that will remain is the hopeless feeling of loose change in our purse or pocket.

 

Jefferson again: “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” 

 

Neither McCain nor Obama seemed to notice that war and debt were related. During the so-called debates, both men named various countries they intended to attack if given the opportunity--- Pakistan , Iran , Russia --while passing on the debt to succeeding generations of Americans.  Both men embraced the Bush Doctrine, with minor differences.  Of course, both men voted