As long as the American public still wants the services the government provides to them, any spending cuts are not going to be taken well. People want lower taxes and more services, so they don't vote in the people that would fix the problem.
It is a stupid, ruinous fiscal policy, but the fault for that lies squarely at the feet of the U.S. electorate.
I think there's more going on than just people wanting more than what can be paid for, and a lot of it has to do with how the corporate media frames the debate for any given issue. People aren't being informed of the reality of our fiscal situation, just like they aren't informed about the Federal Reserve and how the U.S. monetary system relies on the expansion of debt to fuel the expansion of the economy (how backward is that?).
Okay, I've watched the first two videos. The primary impression I got: lots of nice big words, but very, very little proof.
All proof of this conspiracy, if it is as Vrabel and Quigley say it is, would be circumstantial. Kind of like pieces of a puzzle that haven't been arranged into a full picture yet. If you look at one piece of evidence, like, for instance, our usury-based monetary system, the entire picture won't come into view. But if you look at dozens of the pieces, you can start to make out a bigger, more clear picture.
So what are those pieces of the puzzle? They are all around us (exploding debts, government insolvency at the federal and state level, more government programs that can't possibly be paid for, expanding military empire, a biased media that doesn't inform the public of the real issues, an education system that is deliberately dumbing the populace down, bailouts for banks that have been run like casinos, Obama carrying out the same policies of Bush immediately after he promised not to, etc...) and buried in the pages of history (Philip Dru: Administrator, The Naked Capitalist, None Dare Call it Conspiracy, Rule by Secrecy, etc...). It's obviously not enough for me to tell you they are there, you have to take it upon yourself to explore on your own.
He indulges in quite a bit of begging the question, particularly with regards to the control exerted by the banks. There's no evidence of how that is done without anybody noticing that it's really bankers giving the orders for our day-to-day governance.
People do notice that it's the banks and multinational corporations controlling things. Nobody does anything about it, though. Nobody can. It's so ingrained into the system that the people and government officials who do care are up against a brick wall.
The banks have all the money and the government has all the guns.
... First off, I'm going to assume you mean no major differences regarding economic policy. Second off, I don't think your argument is true even if you just consider economic policy. I seem to recall rather large controversies over the stimulus package and the tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration.
I have on answer for you:
Hegelian dialectic. Research it. Understand what it means. This is the method by which the ruling class steers the people in a direction they don't want to move in. They artificially create wedge issues (tax cuts, immigration, ground zero mosque, gay marriage, stimulus, etc...), have all the people take one side of the debate against the other, and then use the media to carefully frame the debate so that the compromise always moves the country in a favored direction or distracts the public from more important issues.
Once you understand this mechanism, you'll know why these unimportant controversies dominate the news.
And yet in many ways the country is better off than it used to be. Standard of living is higher, we're closer to racial and gender equality, and technology has absolutely taken off. Are there negative changes? Probably, but in general things have improved, hence the lack of resistance.
Yes, the best slaves are the ones who don't know they are slaves. If you make a slave comfortable and incrementally improve his life over time, he'll be content - if not happy - with his condition.
The real truth is that our standard of living and our society could be so much better, so much freer, so much more creative, less stressful, and less violent. The productive efforts of the citizens of this country are being surreptitiously siphoned away through the monetary system for the purpose of creating a new society in the vision of people working behind the scenes.
