The U.S. government is bankrupt, and corporations are vacuum cleaners that suck up our hard-earned money to benefit the elite. That's the message keynote speaker Catherine Austin Fitts delivered at the fourth-annual Bioneers of Alaska Conference on the Alaska Pacific University campus Friday.
The real news here is that Catherine Austin Fitts is Wharton trained, a former Managing Director of Dillon Read, and served under the first President Bush as second in command at HUD, reporting to Jack Kemp. She stayed on at HUD under Bill Clinton. She is not a feckless granola eating hippie seeking Utopia. She is a hard-driving, Christian, libertarian, financial advisor seeking Solari. (Solaris are community based and market based alternative investments that will help us break our bondage to wealth centralized on Wall Street, or through government handoffs and handouts to Haliburton, Blackwater, et. al.) Fitts is not just talking a good game. She is pitching solutions, ones she feels will make investors good money. She deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Paul Bremer got one for destroying Iraq; Fitts could get one for preserving Alaska, if the world in DC worked that way. We have to take our country back, whether through philanthropy strategically deployed, through activist organizations like Bioneers, or through alternative investments like Solaris.
Ouch. I'll be out back with ThanksRalph.
(Tip: Spread a little Ameya Preserves on your granola eating hippie. Delish!)
Posted by: feckless granola eating hippie seeking Utopia | October 21, 2007 at 12:30 PM
I am flagellating my own back: "I too am a feckless granola eating ex-hippie with preppy tendencies." I would be a limousine liberal but I can't make the car payments. I voted for Senator Dick Minim for President. That is about the most radical thing I have done recently.
Posted by: Phil | October 21, 2007 at 12:56 PM