Dissent on I.O.U.S.A.
Posted by Lew Rockwell at August 16, 2008 02:46 PM
Writes Charles Burris: "On August 21 there will be a national premier of the film, I.O.U.S.A., in 400 theaters across the nation. The film purports to be an entertaining analysis of the serious financial situation facing America regarding its National Debt and fiscal irresponsibility.
"From its trailer and description it sounds suspiciously like a hokey concoction (ala Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth) put together by Louis XVI's financial ministers on the eve of the storming of the Bastille, blaming all our troubles on sunspots or the humble snail darter. However in today's context, it will be angry American peasants from the heartland besieging the Fed in our imperial capitol once they learn who is responsible for their national bankruptcy and grave misfortune to their families.
"The film is being sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Peterson, like his predecessor David Rockefeller, is a billionaire banker and former chairman of the elite Council on Foreign Relations. The film features former Fed chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan (both of the CFR), and former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker (now CEO of the Peterson Foundation). There is even the requisite soundbite of Ron Paul, whose 2008 presidential campaign awakened the slumbering public to the monetary catastrophe that is awaiting them due the the deliberate and calculated actions of the elites featured in this film.
This duplicitous film is the elite's response to Paul's resounding truth-telling - "Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
"The premier will also feature a live panel discussion after the film of distinguished 'experts' filling in to the suckers who viewed this fiasco what they just saw. They include Peterson, Walker, billionaire investor Warren Buffet, and Cato Institute chairman William 'me too' Niskanen.
"Here's what we won't be hearing from these esteemed gentlemen:
Peterson: "Poor David Rockefeller. His grandfather, Senator Nelson Aldrich, created this monstrosity, the Federal Reserve, that's responsible for all that we saw in the film. And now the ignorant masses will be coming after him in a blind fit of revenge. They'll be coming after all of us like they did the aristocrats in France. We're closing down the Harold Pratt House in New York and moving the CFR headquarters to a secure bunker in Virginia."
Buffet: "You know, I should have earned less and listened more to my dad (the heroic "isolationist" Old Right congressman Howard Buffet) and his good friend, economist Murray Rothbard, when they were talking about the utter folly of the American Empire and the costs it would engender. Didn't Rothbard write a book about the Great Depression?"
Niskanen: "Rothbard? Rothbard? Oh yeah, Rothbard. He was the founder of the Cato Institute, gave it its name. We got rid of him. Always talking about the welfare-warfare state, the American Empire, and abolishing the Fed. No, our problem lies with sunspots and that darned snail darter, as the film pointed out."
Especially RP in the blimp! 
