Mike Gravel vs MSNBC on Ustream.tv

     Video excerpts of Mike Gravel in Philadelphia on October 30, 2007 are posted freely at http://majormediabypass.com.  I'm currently writing a book about how the media have been distorting our elections since 2000 and have accumulated no small amount of first hand audio/video evidence regarding same.  I drove from Southside, Virginia to attend the event in Philadelphia and it was well worth the time and effort.  I'll likely have a few more excerpts posted later in the week. 

     For a little background, I gave up my chiropractic profession in 2000 when I realized that there were far better candidates the people could choose if they organized enough to pass on some basic information to as many others as they could.  The media can be overcome.  It's not something that's impossible to do especially since we have the Internet at our disposal and can actually get our own audio/video documentation of many events the media for the most part otherwise censor from us.

     I'd like to ask Mike if he'd be willing to revert the tax structure to what it was like in the early 60's, before Kennedy gave the top income earners their first big break.  I understand that he has another plan entirely yet I can't help but think it would take some time to get congress to approve such a plan.  So, in the meantime if we reverted the taxes back to what they were, taxing the uppermost of income earners 90% on their uppermost superfluous income, same as they were taxed under Eisenhower, we'd have plenty of money to balance the budget anew.  I know 90% sounds like a lot yet please always bear in mind that the wealthy make their money via two avenues primarily, Earth's resources and human labor.  The only other way to make money is to rent oneself out in one way or another, and they don't have to do that. 

     Bush's tax cuts lowered the tax rate of the ultra-wealthy from 39.6% to 35% on their uppermost superfluous of income.  So, in four plus decades, a rate that had been 90% is now 35%, one result being that in spite of 4+ decades of technological advancement more Americans are struggling economically now than then while people like Bill Gates are multi-billionaires.  Did not taxpaying citizens finance computer research for decades bringing machines the size of warehouses to the size of PCs?  Didn't Bill Gates simply take the baton in the home stretch so to speak?  While Bill Gates gets tax breaks he doesn't need this country has some 12 million children who suffer from hunger on a daily basis.  Is that a reasonable society, the richest one ever that ranked 41st in life expectancy last year, and lost out to Cuba a couple of years back in infant mortality rates?  This is all basic information, yet it's not known by many here at the height of the Information Age. 

     If a handful or so of "elementary truths," as Noam Chomsky has called them, were passed onto others in a way they really understood, I don't think most Americans would continue to be content with voting for people who clearly don't stand for the average person and in fact in many areas support real human suffering and misery all tax paying citizens are directly financing.   More people need to get a view of reality before this election or we're quite likely going to see Hillary vs. Rudy as our next president, either beginning our third decade under a two family rule or having someone who's been described as "Bush on steroids," take the baton from Bush.

      We're all in this together.  I hope you check out what we have posted and "...bring it to others," as Noam Chomsky requested of us in person over 5 years back.  Only together will we ever get anywhere, and we're all in the same sinking ship. - Dr. Kenneth J. Hildebrandt - (Ken) - http://majormediabypass.com