"This book truly
is a must read."
-- Congressman Ron Paul
YOUR NEW LANDLORD: U.S. GOV!
Not since the ’30s has the United States seen such sweeping reorganization of its economic institutions. Not since Roosevelt...and the New Deal.
But wait, the United States was supposed to be a leader in freedom. We were so adamant about it we practically forced it upon the poor Arabs and Afghanis... But now that people are losing their houses and Wall Street bonuses are in jeopardy...freedom is the last thing we need. Ban short selling! Nationalize the mortgage lenders! Nationalize the insurers! Take on the bad debts and bail out the bad investments of the whole financial industry! Spend a billion. Fifty billion. A thousand billion!
"How fabulous," writes Brian Reade in the British tabloid The Mirror. "Thanks to the way it props up the USA’s two biggest mortgage firms, more than half of American homes are now effectively owned by the state...
Who’d have imagined that when the most right-wing of neo-cons leaves office 50% of the Land of the Free will effectively be [public housing]"?
