On Oct 11, 1:35 pm, mimus  wrote:
> Latin American countries forced by Washington to swallow painful austerity
> measures in the 1980s and 1990s are aghast at the U.S. failure to police
> its own markets.
>
> "We did our homework-- and they didn't, they who've been telling us for
> three decades what to do," the man who presides over Latin America's
> largest economy, President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva of Brazil, complained
> bitterly.
>
> Latin America's more than 550 million people now "have every reason to
> view the U.S. as a banana republic," says analyst Michael Shifter of the
> Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington.  "U.S. lectures to Latin
> Americans about excess greed and lack of accountability have long rung
> hollow, but today they sound even more ridiculous."
>
> http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-lt-losing-l...
>
> It's all just the well-tested American plutocratic deregulate- loot-
> re-regulate- and bail-out scam.
>
> Regardless of what that does to America and the world.
>
> And indeed, considering the effects on the United States of the American
> plutocracy's other major economic policies, "out-sourcing" and the
> importation of illegal-immigrant labor, the injury done to America by such
> scams seems likely to be considered a bonus by the plutocrats involved.
>
> Although of course deplored by their flacks, including their politicians.
>
> Which latter of course are not affected by any of it enough to actually do
> anything about it.
>
> Like holding those responsible for it legally liable for it.
>
> --
>
> When was the last time you heard an American politician
> use the word "plutocracy"?
>
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878
>
> http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2006/PSI.gasandoilspec.06...

Utter, total and absolute hypocrisy are amongst the most treasured of
American virtues.  They are closely associated with the American
conception of "Christian Faith":  "We know we're always right.   We
have Faith.  Jesus loves us."