Bilbo
02/11/2010
Bonjour,
le Big Business semble tout doucement prendre ses distances avec le système politique, Démocrates et Républicains étant renvoyés dos à dos.
Par exemple Bill Gross, l’un des plus influents gestionnaires de fonds américains (il a cofondé PIMCO qui gère plus de 1200 milliards de dollars) et donc l’un des plus intégrés au système, a lancé un appel singulier à l’approche des élections dans un article intitulé “Run Turkey, Run” :
“They say a country gets the politicians it deserves or perhaps it deserves the politicians it gets. Whatever the order, America is next in line, and as we go to the polls in a few short days its incumbent upon a sleepy and befuddled electorate to at least ask ourselves, Whats going on here? Democrat or Republican, Elephant or Donkey, nothing much ever seems to change. Each party has shown it can add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt with little to show for it or move our military from one country to the next chasing phantoms instead of focusing on more serious problems back home. This isnt a choice between chocolate and vanilla folks, its all rocky road: a few marshmallows to get you excited before the election, but with a lot of nuts to ruin the aftermath.
Each partys campaign tactics remind me of airport terminals pre-9/11 when solicitors only yards apart would compete for the attention and dollars of travelers. Save the Whales, one would demand, while the other would pose as its evil twin Eat Whale Blubber, the makeshift sign would read. It didnt matter which slogan grabbed you, the end of the days results always produced a pot of money for them and the whales were neither saved nor eaten. American politics resemble an airline terminal with a hucksters bowl waiting to be filled every two years.
And the paramount problem is not that we contribute so willingly or even so cluelessly, but that there are only two bowls to choose from. Thomas Friedman, the respected author of The World Is Flat, and a weekly New York Times Op-Ed author, recently suggested ripping open this two-party duopoly and having it challenged by a serious third party unencumbered by special interest megabucks. We basically have two bankrupt parties, bankrupting the country, was the explicit sentiment of his article, and I couldnt agree more whales or no whales. Was it relevant in 2004 that John Kerry was or was not an admirable swift boat commander? Will the absence of a mosque within several hundred yards of Ground Zero solve our deficit crisis? Is Christine ODonnell really a witch? Did Meg Whitman employ an illegal maid? Who cares! We are being conned, folks; Democrats and Republicans alike. What have you really heard from either party that addresses Americas future instead of its prurient overnight fascination with scandal? Shame on them and of course, shame on us. Were getting what we deserve. Vote NO in November no to both parties. Vote NO to a two-party system that trades promises for dollars and hope for power, and leaves the American people high and dry. “
Dans cet article, Bill Gross s’en prend également à la Fed qui, profitant du contexte pré/post-électoral, annoncera demain une nouvelle phase de création monétaire probablement pas piquée des vers.
L’article : http://www.pimco.com/Pages/RunTurkeyRun.aspx
Cordialement.
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