Final Warning

IF YOU WERE PRESIDENT OF THE united states, and could give one speech before leaving office, what would you say? In my case, I'd probably do something like president eisenhower did; I'd tell the truth. And, like eisenhower, the truth would sound like a dire warning, because it would be.

eisenhower, as you may recall, warned the american people about the domination of the nation's political and economic life by the "military-industrial complex", as he called it. Then he retired.

I hope I would tell the truth throughout my  time as president, every time I spoke; (I probably wouldn't, though) but in the last speech of all, yes, I would REALLY TELL THE TRUTH, as I saw it.

...my fellow americans: the nation is bankrupt, even though it, (we), refuses to admit it. There need be no national declaration of bankruptcy, for the time being, but, eventually, inevitably, there will be, there will have to be.

The american currency system, the almighty dollar, has, has been abused, by us all, really, for so long that the accumulated damage has caused it to break down and collapse, like any machine suffering from long misuse. 

we see this collapse in the steady decline in teh per capita standard of living, the staggering personal debt as well as public debt, the bankruptcy of towns, cities, and states all over the country, and even with the staggering amount of maetrial wealth in this country; the millions of cars, cell phones, flat screen televisions, computers, and so on, we have become poor, much poorer than before.

this is because we have been unable to resist the tampation to print an enormous quantity of circulating money, without producing the material wealth to back it up, and we have  distributed much of that money into the hands of a very few people, and very little money into the hands of a vast majority of the people, and insufficient money into public treasuries, insufficient to pay for all the many public services the public tends to want and demand.

Then too, about half of the sixteen trillion dollar cumulative national debt comes from military spending since world war two, and military procurement creates very little that actually enriches us; very little food, clothing, shelter, and luxuries. It only creates that which we deem is needed to protect all our OTHER material wealth, which is less than it could be, far less, because of the time and human labor invested in military manufacturing, weapons manufactiring.

Weapons tend to just sit there, frightening us and making us feel secure; but they do not pay the bills or enhance our living standard.

the economic collapse is probably inevitable and beyond immediate prepair, and widespread suffering is inevitable. OUR only hope is to jump headlong into the painful taks of reconstructing our economic system, from the ground up, because its already too late.

(applause, fade to black)