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For months, I have been reading ill-considered diatribes from U.S. and U.K. media outlets (i.e. the propaganda machine) condemning German economic policy because it isn't reckless enough.

Naturally, the propagandists don't use those words. Instead, they criticize Angela Merkel and the German government for being too timid, and not a “team player”. But the reality is evident the moment they get into specifics with their criticisms.

They want lower taxes, more spending, and more “quantitative easing” - a term which is nothing but a euphemism for expanding the money-supply at an insane rate. To those who live in the real world, it is precisely those problems which caused the current economic crisis – along with the insatiable greed of bankers and non-existent oversight and regulation of the U.S. financial crime syndicate.

To all these “back-seat drivers” of German economic policy, I have one question: name one problem (of any kind) where the solution is to increase the activities which caused the problem in the first place?

If such a world existed, the obese could become thin by gorging themselves on cheesecake, thieves could rehabilitate themselves by doing more stealing, and compulsive liars could “repent” by telling even more fibs. In the case of the last two examples, engaging in more lying and stealing is exactly what U.K. And U.S. propagandists are “prescribing”to survive this crisis.

The “stealing” is accomplished through reckless spending initiatives, where 90% of the money somehow always ends up being funneled into the vaults of the banksters, while the massive deficits which fund this plundering of wealth can ultimately only be paid for by increasing tax revenues (i.e. stealing from taxpayers).

The “lying” refers to the lies of omission of the propagandists in mentioning what caused these problems in the first place, combined with the lies of commission in misleading the people about the consequences of such utterly irresponsible and intellectually bankrupt “solutions”- from the very offenders who created this crisis.

Perhaps the worst example of such trash is found in a piece of nonsense published by The Telegraph yesterday (“Europe in deepest recession since War, as Germany suffers”), which in unintended irony, described German economic policy as “bankrupt”. Indeed, it is the desire of the German government to avoid bankruptcy (or other, equally terrible outcomes) which compels the German government to reject the reckless (and temporary) band-aids advocated by the economic charlatans in the U.S. and U.K.

The magnitude of this Anglo-American sham becomes even more obvious when we consider the explicit goals of the economic policies of the U.S. and U.K. governments. They are seeking to preserve the wealth and power-base of the greedy, evil bankers whose reckless greed made them utterly oblivious to the level of their own folly. In addition, they wish to re-inflate the asset “bubbles” which the banskters used to carry out their reckless gambling in financial markets. What exactly is being fixed?

To simplify this complete dichotomy between rhetoric and rationality still further, lets consider the massive, debt problems which brought us to this precipice as being the problems of individuals, rather than governments.

If a group of individuals suddenly discover they have been engaging in reckless spending and excessive borrowing, their solution is obvious: they “tighten their belts”. They dramatically reduce their spending in order to reduce (or preferably eliminate) their borrowing. The only individuals who would consider increased borrowing and spending as a “solution” are those individuals who are so close to bankruptcy that they must continually, infinitely increase their borrowing – because they can no longer even service their debts, otherwise.

This is exactly what is currently taking place with governments. It is those governments who are closest to bankruptcy who are the most adamant about increasing spending/borrowing.

Germany's government is refusing to follow the “solution” advocated by the banking oligarchs of the U.S. and the U.K. (through the government stooges who serve them) because it can afford to “tighten its belt” - without suffering the debt-implosion which terrifies the Anglo-American banking oligarchy.

Furthermore, unlike the mindless talking-heads in the U.S. and U.K., Germany understands all too well what completely abandoning fiscal and monetary sanity results in: the Weimar Republic.

If it were not for the fact that the Anglo-American banker-servants are funneling all this “stimulus”into the vaults of the banking oligarchy, we might consider their actions to be simply a mixture of gross incompetence and appalling ignorance. However, in allowing the banksters to misappropriate all this “stimulus” for themselves, the U.S. and the U.K. are not even “stimulating” their economies – merely attempting to save the wealth and power of the banksters.

This makes both their own policies and their self-serving criticisms of Germany nothing more than malicious lies, designed to hide their own culpability as much as pressuring the German government to abandon its policy of responsible government.

Sadly, our own American lap-dog, Stephen Harper, is much more concerned with pleasing his masters to the south than in providing sound government to Canada. Thus, Canada has willingly followed along with the insane policies of the U.S. government – which has been made much easier through the appointment of a Goldman Sachs Stooge to (mis)manage the Bank of Canada, and Canadian monetay policy.

A decade of superb, economic stewardship of Canada is being rapidly undone, by an inept and reckless self-described “economist” who was the last leader of any major economy to recognize the severity of the current crisis.

Rather than continuing to kiss the butt-cheeks of whoever has been installed in the White House by the U.S. banking oligarchs, it is time the clueless Harper looked to the example of a government who is making responsible decisions: Germany. Unfortunately, this is nothing more than a false hope, given the dominant equation of Canadian politics: Conservative Prime Minister = American lap-dog.

Since this equation has been unaltered for over 50 years, the “solution” for Canadians is to throw this traitor to the Canadian people out of office – and elect a government who works for the Canadian people rather than the U.S. oligarchs.

Meanwhile, we can only hope that Angela Merkel continues to resist the pressure and propaganda of the financial “Axis of Evil” (the U.S., the U.K., and the banker-oligarchs). Clearly, there are many government “leaders” badly in need of a positive “role model”.

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