Re: The "Hopey-Changey Stuff" versus Hosni Mubarak
- From: Rick <nomail@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:48:31 -0600
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:39:16 -0800, JPMcD wrote:
THE REAL REASON MUBARAK WON'T 'STEP DOWN' --
According to Bloomberg, "Mubarak's personal fortune is an estimated
$40-$70 billion." It's anybody's guess how much of that is tied up in
Egyptian real estate--who knows? What we can know is the nuts and bolts
of human nature when it comes to guarding the things we've managed to
hoard up to ourselves in this world.
We who are not multi-billionaires can perhaps attain a vague idea. Due
to being ticketed for a traffic violation, as of March 1st, I'm out
$158.00. This is money of mine that will go to absolutely NO benefit to
me. Cop said he had to put on his brakes when I made a left turn. In my
view there was plenty of room, no such necessity in sight. At times I
get so pissed over it, I think of going to court, pleading not
guilty--but that's only after about four or five beers. Otherwise I
don't dream of it. The anger I feel of a Friday Night with each
succeeding beer or shot of booze is incredible! If I had any close
neighbors, I'd be arrested for disturbing the peace with my howling over
that 158 bucks.
Mubarak feels the same over his $40-$70 billion. He is NOT GUILTY, in
his view. He IS the Court, and the Cop, he's in a unique position to
hold on to what he's got, come what may--or at least until he's had time
to unload those hard assets and get it salted away as cash or
securities. He will not, in his view, "be robbed"--and certainly not by
the naive demands of Barack Obama.
Obama has a poor understanding of human nature, if he does not realize
how his call for Mubarak to 'step down now' is going to sit with that
man, sitting on his $40-$70 billions, let alone his Egyptian national
pride which refuses, by every right, to be dictated to by a foreign
leader poking his nose into business that is NONE of his. How Mubarak
DOES hate that. Whoa, how he hates it, as we hear him bring it up in
every speech. He certainly has to have quite a laugh to contemplate the
arrogance of such a clownish demand from someone who can do NOTHING to
back it. How can he not be thinking, "Since when does one dictator
dictate to another?"
He might be a democratically elected dictator, President Obama, but sure
as the price of my cigarettes has more than doubled since he took power
to dictate his 'healthy' policies, I guess I know from the bottom of my
billfold when somebody has his nose in my business where it doesn't
belong: I can count the effect on my liberty in dollars and cents. I
know when somebody's dictating to me, and I hate it! I can see where
Mubarak is coming from when he says to Obama, "We are not hearing
anything you say." If only America could say the same, when it comes to
all this "hopey-changey stuff".
This "us against them" is exactly what the PTB's want to perpetuate.
--
Rick - Support real change- term limits!
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