Hmmm.... A bit more thinking about this "crisis" leads me to conclude the debt ceiling will be raised because otherwise the Corporadoes and Banksters won't see any increase in the amount of Welfare they milk from the government, which comprises a substantial amount of their revenues. And if revenues and profits don't increase, management will get smaller bonuses. I wonder how much intel Obama gets from the NSA's eavesdropping on GOP meetings? He ought to know every move they plan in advance given the NSA's reach.

Kucinich is being too mild about the CRIMES of the Federal Reserve private banking consortium.

The Fed recently stated in defense of NOT providing Bloomberg with info on financial transactions through a Freedom of Information Act request that the Fed is NOT a federal agency of the US government and therefore not bound by FOIA law. WTF?

So the Fed CAN lend 16 trillion dollars at ZERO percent interest to their friends in this country and other countries as well and that's A-OKAY. Yeah, inflating the currency massively to help banksters pay derivative gambling plays gone bad is just tough luck for the rest of the people in the USA that see their dollars lose value while the CPI calculations ignore this grand larceny/embezzlement fox in the henhouse clusterfuck that continues to this day.

And we the people are supposed to PAY for the interest on the T-bonds that these assholes all over the world were given FREE money (ZERO % loans) to buy from the US treasury complements of the fed?

Fed in secret $16 trillion bailout of US and European banks, By Andre C James, digital journal

Results of the first ever Government Accountability Office audit of the Federal Reserve in its 100 year history indicate that the bank dished out $16 trillion to most major banks, corporations and governments in what the Fed calls all-inclusive loans.

From the period between December 2007 and June 2010, the Fed issued $16 trillion in loans at zero percent interest. To date, these loans have never been paid back.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends stricter controls and greater defined policies aimed at reigning in the Fed Reserve which to date has acted independently, simply printing money and handing out loans to foreign banks whilst the American economy faces its most trying period since 1939.

Hell, the GAO should be urging the DOJ to put the bastards in jail!

How about some perspective here? The bloated pentagon budget (including the wars and black budgets) is about 1.5 trillion a year. EVERY other budget item in the US annual budget is much smaller. When you divide the 16 trillion (and that's just stuff we are learning about now - the open market operations jacking up the stock market are not included and are easily over a trillion dollars since March of 2009) by 4 years, you still have almost 4 times as much money spent as on war EACH YEAR FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS!

So the fed has all the power of the US government when it wants to print money and lend it to elite bankers all over the world but when a FOIA request comes in, they can deny they are a fedaral government agency. Talk about having it both ways.

JAIL BERNANKE FOR GRAND LARCENY, EMBEZZLEMENT AND COUNTERFEITING. .

Dennis Kuchinich is a giant among those bought by their benefactors.

The US has been crapping on the rest of the world for a long time, but we been doing it up hill. Now, it's all flowing down on us. We are not the greatest nation on earth-if we ever were. Sorry, but we are the greatest debtor nation on earth, that's for sure. Kucinich, though, is right on! We need to end all imperial war activities now. And the top 1/2 of 1 %, or whatever the percentage that's been getting a free ride need to pay up now. I'm hoping someone punches John Boehner right in the mouth. And the rest of 'em, too...

Why listen to Dennis about anything ? He's too short, definitely not handsome, makes perfect sense and speaks the truth. The only reason the average American might listen to him that I can think of is that his wife is attractive.

It doesn't get anymore reasonable and logical than what Dennis Kucinich suggests here. Yes! It's the wars, stupid. It's tax cuts for the $uper rich, stupid. It's welfare for banksters, stupid. It is a foreign policy that is delusional, violent and criminally insane. Unfortunately... there are too many Tea KKKlaner peasants in faster poo-food Amerika... and so Rome burns into a third world plutocratic $tate ruled by a criminal $yndicate in Tel Aviv.

Can I please get clarification with this: "We Are the United States of America, the Greatest Country on Earth". In which context? The greatest debt? Check. The greatest amount of weaponry? Check. The greatest number of imprisoned citizens? Check. The greatest number of foreclosures? Check. The greatest number of citizens without health insurance? Check. The greatest number of citizens on food stamps? Check. Correct me when I am wrong or add your own pet peeve.

Kucinich and Sanders speak the truth. Flood the Senate and Congress with snail mail, e-mails, and phone calls!

Wall Street bankers love to play high stakes poker with the American public. And they always win. Remember this one? "Give us what we want or it's Great Depression II." Does anyone really believe that Wall Street is going to let the US default?

great Dennis. we have been watching the congress act like the hundred stooges, unable to govern hopelessly incapable of legislating for the past month. doofusses all. But how hard can it be to talk sense? so refreshing to hear Dennis lay iike all out like that

"We are the United States of America, the greatest country on earth." The constant repitition of this arrogance just drives me nuts.

Mr Kucinich should be seeking higher office...perhaps he and Bernie Sanders could challenge Obama/Biden in 2012...

"We're the greatest country in the world". Please, let's put that sad line to bed.

Amazing how screwed everything is when this needs to be told TO THE PEOPLE.

Dennis, this would be a great way to organize our NEXT government.... Perhaps we need to start acting AS IF we had such a government.

In frustration with the Republicans phony debt “crisis” I made a YouTube video. It’s a song parody of the old Jefferson Airplane tune “White Rabbit”. My version is titled “White Deficit”. Please consider watching it, sharing it and calling your members of congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCpu8QhWS0w

The greatest country on the earth would already be acting the way Dennis suggests. It would not need the exhortations of Kuccinich to do those things. In the greatest country on earth Dennis would not have to make such a speech because it would be accepted wisdom. There are many other nations which have come further toward achieving such goals with far fewer resources. In fact most democracies in this world are far less imperial and much more peace loving than we are. We are a country of hapless, easily manipulted and ill informed citizens that elect the Tea Party, worship celebrity and wealth, enjoy inflicting our power over others and have as much blood on our hands as any other empire in recent history. Dennis, do you really think that this is the greatest country on the earth or is this just another familiar empty rhetorical device, so typical of the utterances of exceptionalism that gush out of this nation's capital. You are speaking to the walls Dennis. You sre crying out to a dying and soon to be convulsing empire. It has no effect.

Right-wing religious ideologies throughout the world are cancers upon humanity. These cancerous agents see the world only in their black and white, rigid and intolerant world views. From American Fundamentalist Christians to Islamic Purists seeking an Islamic Caliphate to others of similar mindsets, these are the twisted and deranged descendants of Hitler's perverted nightmare of a Third Reich. The world must seek a new level of consciousness that can rid humanity of this defect in the human soul. Only education and ultimately an ending of our war-like urges can begin to exorcise the demons, the demagoguery, the sheer insanity that threatens our futures, our children. Homo Sapiens has taken humanity to this point. We need a new type of human. We need an awakened humanity. We need a world where compassion and love is more powerful than greed and war. We need to transform each and every human being, as all the light beings and wisdom teachers have instructed for the past few thousand years. The time has come at last in a world of 7 billion humans, with innumerable cataclysmic problems, to embark in a totally new direction. We must evolve from Homo Sapiens to Homo Luminous, light beings of pure love. Our three pound brain within our heads has made us molecular giants, no longer cosmic dwarfs. In order to voyage forth and create a new world with this magnificent human brain, we must throw greed and war overboard. Only light and love can transform greed and war. Greed and war are the petri dishes of hate, fear, intolerance, ignorance, the breeding grounds of religious and corporate fanaticism. An awakened, an enlightened, Homo Luminous humanity can bring Heaven to Earth. In the 1500's humanity left the Dark Ages with the leap of the Age of Enlightenment, stirring gigantic advances in science, politics and the arts. Thus a new form of humanity was born. In the 21st century the worlds future depends once again on another quantum leap of consciousness, in this the age of quantum physics, our times demand the revolutionary transformation to become Homo Luminous. The 21st century is our chance to create a new world, a new kind of humanity. We are seeing that Capitalism, the #1 economic model, is dying, a Homo Sapiens creation. Capitalism has one "fatal flaw" - greed. Greed and War must die, so that Homo Luminous may flourish upon the Earth, in order to herald a new Age of Enlightenment for all mankind.

.....I'm voting for Rep. Dennis Kucinich for our next President of the United States. We need an honest Progressive President Kucinich give the American people a "NEW DEAL",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Vote Kucinich //

Dennis Kucinich should quit his job & join the Wall Street Occupation on Sept 17. We need a freakin' revolution!