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John Kerry: "The US Is Beginning To Act Like A Poor Nation"
The following remarks by John Kerry, borne out of his humiliation over the complete fiasco that was the US intervention in Syria last year and the even greater fiasco that was this year's attempt to get all feuding parties on the table in Geneva, only to see that outcome obliterated as well, appear to be borne out of his disgust at the defunding of the US defense budget, which for Kerry, more than his gross incompetence, is the reason why the US now finds itself in a "new isolationism" leading him to conclude that the US is "beginning to act like a poor nation." One wonders what tipped him off: the fact that the US debt just hit a record high $17,419,220,117,766.69 or that the biggest monetizers of US deficit spending are the Fed, China and just as insolvent Japan?
From Reuters:
Speaking to reporters, Kerry inveighed against what he sees as a tendency within the United States to retreat from the world even as he defended the Obama administration's diplomatic efforts from Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In comments tied to the budget that U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to present on Tuesday, Kerry suggested that tighter spending, in part at the behest of congressional Republicans, may limit U.S. clout around the world.
"There's a new isolationism," Kerry said during a nearly one-hour discussion with a small group of reporters.
"We are beginning to behave like a poor nation," he added, saying some Americans do not perceive the connection between U.S. engagement abroad and the U.S. economy, their own jobs and wider U.S. interests.
Perhaps some other Americans are tired of America acting as Globocop, and as the world's hypocritical superpower dispensing "justice" when it fits its national interests, and ignoring all other conflicts, specifically when Mid-East oil, or the growing Russian sphere of influence is not concerned?
Kerry made the case as Obama prepares to release a budget that will adhere to spending levels agreed to in a two-year bipartisan budget deal struck late last year, entailing some spending cuts the administration would have preferred to avoid.
The U.S. State Department budget will decline slightly in the president's budget submission, Kerry said, saying this was a direct result of the bipartisan budget deal that cut funding further than Obama wanted.
"This is not a budget we want. It's not a budget that does what we need," he said, saying the budget deal entailed cuts demanded by the Republican-led House of Representatives. "It was the best the president could get. It's not what he wanted."
But hold on: wasn't it Kerry's own party that has been urging the defunding of the US defense budget at the expense of overfunding welfare and benefits? The people are confused.
Next, Kerry deflects his own personal failings as SecState, having had to be pulled from his yacht last summer, just as the Syrian conflict was reaching its climax:
In speaking of what he called the "new isolationism," Kerry cited the limited support in the U.S. Congress to back Obama's plan to launch an air strike against Syria last year because of its suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Obama, in a decision criticized by some U.S. allies in the Gulf and elsewhere, asked Congress to vote on a strike. With limited congressional backing, he ultimately abandoned a strike and pursued a deal to get Syria to give up its chemical weapons.
"Look at our budget. Look at our efforts to get the president's military force decision on Syria backed up on (Capitol Hill). Look at the House of Representatives with respect to the military and the budget," Kerry said.
"All of those things diminish our ability to do things," he added.
Those... and the people who are in charge. Hence: defensive mode - activate:
Kerry took particular aim at critics of his efforts to get the Syrian government and the opposition that has sought to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for nearly a year to reach a peace agreement that would entail Assad's departure.
A second round of peace talks in Geneva broke up on Saturday, with chief mediator Lakhdar Brahimi lamenting a failure to achieve much beyond agreement on an agenda for a third round.
"These people who say that it's failed or that it's a waste of time ... Where is their sense of history?" Kerry said.
"How many years did the Vietnam talks take? How many years did Dayton take in Bosnia-Herzegovina?" he added. "These things don't happen in one month. I mean it's just asinine, frankly, to be making an argument that after three weeks it's failed."
What is most ironic about all of the above, is that hypocrisy aside, Kerry is absolutely correct: the US is starting to act like a poor nation... because it is, and Americans indeed "do not perceive the connection between U.S. engagement abroad and the U.S. economy, their own jobs and wider U.S. interests" because all US foreign policy reflects is the interest of a select group of uber-wealthy oligrachs whose sole interests the US congress represents... and nobody else's. As for everything else, we can't wait to see how Kerry handles the current Ukrainian crisis. The popcorn is prepared.
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No. We are just Nigga Rich ....
ROFL!
You know you're there when the local Mall only has cell phone cover and 14k gold chain kiosks open. Van Mauer and Bergeners done shuttered and left town.
Tyler, your blatant anti-Americanism gets boring sometimes. It like Mish talking about unions.
Opposing neocons and authoritarian statists is not anti Americanism.
It is about as patriotic and as close to the original idea of america as one can get.
Awesome response.
Opposing neocons and authoritarian statists is not anti Americanism.
It is about as patriotic and as close to the original idea of america as one can get.
So frogster, should tyler try to put a positive spin on this prick Kerry who spends his days traveling around the globe trying to find countries for America to bomb, regimes to overthrow and civilians to murder? Hon John Kerry is the anti-American in this article.
LOL
You are through the looking glass on Zero Hedge m8!
Wake the fuck up!
After Mish went after guns like an idiot I would not be caught dead at that site..
We need to remind Kerry that he is NOT the Secy of Philanthropy and Bribery
This
Speaking of poor, those name signs on the desk in that pic look like they were printed up at Kinkos on recycled cardboard.
How long did it take in Poland?
Without the bowtie and pony tail could not tell Johnny is Got a pooowdered wig he is sitting on! However I get to spend 8 hrs to spend with the "actors". They are down there swiftty
Isolationism?
He ought to be brought up on charges for raping the English language. But of course, we can't even get the Fox news/neocon/neoliberal crowd to distinguish between non-interventionism and isolationism, mostly because to hyperinterventionists, anything short of invading the world is "isolationist."
Kohn is an absolutely shameless shill for the Global Banking Empire, and for Israel. The US government sent Zionist Jews to represent it at the peace talks. The idea is to impose an absolutely unfair deal on the Palestinian people while the attention of the world, including the Arab world, is elsewhere [and while Syria and Iran are tied up and sanctioned]. They want a Palestinian rump state that can not ever grow or thrive.
And most of all, he wants a war with Iran. For the Global Banking Empire and for Eretz Yisrael.
The welfare/warfare state is unsustainable, and he knows it. It has robbed the wealth of the American worker to transfer it to people to didn't earn it, and to a military machine that has killed hundreds of thousands for the benefit of private central banking, and large corportations.
He is a cunt. He's always been a cunt, and the only thing that's gonna change is he's gonna become an even bigger cunt.
That piece of shit.
It is red team and blue team policy over the last few decades that have made us poor, your precious MIC included.
Actin poor? Sweet! does this mean that the next campaign speech we'll hear "A V-8 engine, swinging from a tree on a chain in every front yard"?
And you thought there were a lot of those payday loan and discount tobacco stores now. Shit, they'll come up like toadstools after a May shower now.
Go long on fleece pajama pants and crocs manufacturer stocks boys, TO THE MOON!
Captain Obvious
I liked and appreciated this article. Thanks and well done. More and longer please
Might want to save this one for posterity. We're are so "Fucked"! "Up" that is!!!
John Kerry to JCS members September 2013
Translation: I asked the heads of the JCS if they would go to war with Syria last September...
They told me "affirmative" but that it was contingent on the junior officers and enlisted personnel and they didn't like the fact that the people who were "killing them" were the same ones that are now and have been over the last decade fighting "alongside them". So they took a vote and said to let you know that you need to have the boyz and girlz in Langley fight it instead.
John Kerry to JCS members February 2014
Translation: I asked the heads of the JCS if they would go to war with Russia....
They just laughed at me and gave me a "middle finger"!
"There's a new isolationism," Kerry said during a nearly one-hour discussion with a small group of reporters
"We are beginning to behave like a poor nation," he added, saying some Americans do not perceive the connection between U.S. engagement abroad and the U.S. economy, their own jobs and wider U.S. interests."...
Gee John.
Why don't you just make it crystal clear in this discussion by saying Americans need to understand that this Nation's economy depends on "war" for it's survival! And even though it's not the place for the Secretary of State to be saying this I'm doing it anyway!!!!
Fixed it!
Havent we been poor since the market crash of 2008? We can't afford to continue Police the world at a cost of 1.5 Trillion dollars a year. Their plan is to bankrupt this country and crash the dollar.
Lurch, guess that face-lift didn't help you too much.
Yes, we are a banana republic.
it's becauase of douche bags like John Kerry and many others over many decades that the country is in such bad shape. He's a douche bag, plain and simple.
Hey John, have you paid those super high state taxes yet for your big fucking yacht that you tried to secrectly hide out of your state in order to avoid the exorbitant state taxes that YOU were instumental in implementing in the state you represent?
Ya see how that works?
I guess those taxes only apply to OTHER people, right fuck face?
FUCK YOU, JOHN KERRY! You're just as much a low life scum sucking bottom feeding criminal as obama and all the others are.
Or as I like to call your type: filthy fucking MUTANTS
M.arxist
U.topian
T.reasonous
A.uthoritarian
N.efarious
T.yrannical
S.ociopaths
I keep waiting...and waiting...for a mob of people to storm into one of these gatherings, run up behind each one of these cunts and slash their throats from ear to ear. I want to see the horror in their eyes when the realization hits that they've just been given a mortal wound and then watch the life fade from their smug faces.
I don't think that's too much to ask.
uh, hey dumbass Kerry - I got news for you - we have become a poor nation because we have been acting like this for decades
The US has been poor since 1971, but the difference now is the country is increasingly run by fucking lunatics
LOL, he wants to be President, and he is a globalist. So he says things that he can print in an ad in the future.
I want us out of the cop business and let our competitors duke it out and weaken themselves.
In contrast to his statement, I think most Americans do indeed understand the relationship between international engagement and the economy and their jobs, and correctly understand that as long as we are enabling the flow of capital out of our economy into others, their own economy and jobs are going to flow away with that capital.
Kudos to the American people for their correct understanding.
I have to wonder: is all the stupidity and ineptness displayed by our leadership just an act for a wider, far reaching goal? Because if it's for real....actually I am not sure in which case we would be more fucked!!!
Lol. Never assume conspiracy when simple incompetency will suffice
The level of incompetency, both real and scripted, is strong evidence of a conspiracy. Why else would such a gang of clowns be appointed by TPTB?
well it is like living in an alternate universe, you think your sane but slowly they just drive you mad. every day I get up and work my ass off. whats the point if you see .Gov just making new laws that drain your labour of its worth and bill you for the effort. It .. . Gov has become so large you cant move to improve your life. Permit, permission, miles of red tape, fees and charges that drain the very capital you have saved. By the time you have the ticket the shows over and your broke and living with an overdraft thst sucks every red cent. You become despondent and they kick the shit out of you if you deviate on inch from what you paid.
Fuck me Obama wants to repave roads? And what will that create not indeed a new road. We need Water security now. How long since the Hoover Dam. we have tunnel boring machines and solar power to pump in the deserts and make them bloom.
Where the Hell is a short, medium and long term plan for the USA? Put us to work Mister President and pack you golf shit away until you have. Or are you just a lazy fucking idiot that still has not gotten the slave mentality out of you chocolate brown ass.
Ask.. wheres the Fucking domestic Plan to put calouses on our hands and real hope in our hearts. fuck im done
the unhappier that fascist maggot is the happier i become
Acting poor lol.
That is what happens after acting rich
and riding a credit expansion for all it's worth.
In other words, Kerry's philanthropic outreach LOAN program for nations in need must have taken another hit last night.
Everything is staged in politics. The Democrats and Republicans want to kill the USD$. They want a North American Union, and a new currency to begin a new ponzi scheme. This is the Crisis stage, and Kerry is playing his role well. The next and final stage is Normalization. The "new normal" may not have a US Constitution or a USD$. It may be a watered-down NAU Constitution, no Bill of Rights, and a new currency called the Amero.
No its not because of the simple fact the future is so impossible to predict even 6 months out due to the sheer random chance especially events driven by nature. Plus there are always a bunch of vested interests within any society hierarchy that are always at odds with one another.
Sorry to disagree with you, but it has already happened. It just hasn't been announced yet by the classes to the masses.
You're a fucking idiot, Kerry.
His concern for America almost looked geuine. And the Oscar goes to ....
He's breaking it to the people gently
When government gets to large, it always become dysfunctional. Just like the grass on your lawn, government needs to be trimmed. We trim our hair and our nails, but not out government? How ridiculous.
Have you observed how ugly and dysfunctional over grown hedges and untrimmed landscaping becomes? Why then, are we so stupid as to think the government does not need to be downsized?
Shrinking government is so 1990's
Let me summarize the Daily Kos argument.
Well.....well....because..if you don't like big government then..Somalia!
Koch brothers!
That sums up why they think government never needs a good trim.
Kerry is a punk.
the only way the american people can grow their economy is by borrowing money from china in order to facilitate spending trillions on needless wars that have killed over a million people all while making gasoline and oil far more expensive than they were before the wars. If we stop going more into debt, our economy can not grow. Less debt means a worse economy and fewer invasions and lower gas and oil.
We need to go into debt and kill brown people for the childrens.
And for Israel, whom we all stand with, as they help us grow our debt, and kill brown childrens, who may grow up to want to use some of our gas or oil.
Now then, Mr. Kohn will be happy to take any questions. However, please note that he will only be available to answer the public's questions when he is not in his office. If he is in his office when you arrive, kindly wait until he is no longer there, which is when you will be able to enter his office to ask any questions.
War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength. Heinz is Ketchup.
"Heinz is ketchup"
LOL!
That was good
I don't think Kerry could disguise himself no matter how hard he tried because by his very nature he is a "perfect asshole"!
Love the "Catch 22" clip. One of my favorite movies.
Thx
Might the shipping of our manufacturing jobs overseas by the corrupt corporations with the Gov's blessing partially responsible for us being "poor" now? Kerry and his gay friend barry are both tumors on this country's ass. those Botox treatments were just another major fail.....
hey kerry, can't we outsource droning too? that should save a buck.
He's gloating
Really John? It began when the Federal Reserve and the IRS were created.
Kedry's picture belongs in the dictionary next to the word: Buffoon
If ya' owe the bank $5k you have a problem .... if you owe the tax-payers $50T they have a problem!
Only act like?
Kerry is inept and over his head as Secretary of State but you can gone down the line and look at the 2nd-term cabinet members of the Obama administration vs 1st. Downgrades across the board except maybe Arne Duncan as the Sec of Education who generally has been effective and has ability to actually get some productive things done.
Productive things like.. like establishing the Department of Education swat team?
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-does-the-dept-of-education-have-a-sw...
He shot his wad by using the flat earth line too early.
"The data is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand," Kerry said. "We don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society"
only slighty edited :)
applies equally here too, yes bitches?
Lurch - why the long face?
Tyler you know how to get your base riled up lol.
I am so mad now I can't work.
You need to give us Tylerbots a mission, like burn down D.C. or something.
Will someone please show some mercy and stop hitting that boy with the stupid stick
Stupid stick, pah. Fell out of the stupid tree hit every branch on the way down, its the only explanation.
Yeah, who knows .... we might end up like other countries which don't send their troops around the world to mind other people's business. We could eventually end up as poor as Switzerland.
Oh, wait ...
He can finance the next attack with his ketchup cash if he feels so strongly about this. The .01% might have to come off the profit from all that slave labor they banked if they want to roar around being the boss. They have the fun, let them foot the bill.
"We are beginning to behave like a poor nation," he added, saying some Americans do not perceive the connection between U.S. engagement abroad and the U.S. economy, their own jobs and wider U.S. interests.
Yeah, we do understand, we've been sold to the highest bidder.
Yes, I am poor.
Then it's only fitting a poor country should have such a poor Secty of State.
Put Kerry on a swiftboat and send his ass into the Crimean with guns blazing. It's a win-win for all. Kerry gets his engagement abroad and we never have to see that piece of shit ever again.
Intrepid Swift boat captain........God I hate that man.
You can't say that, after all he is a war hero! sarc/off
Truly America has become poor........in spirit.
And why? Because no other country has ever spent so much money making enemies rather than making friends.
Nobody wants to deal with the United States since it has been taken over. Each time they do try they get a salesperson speaking Totus instead of the banksters that have taken over the United States of America. The US was a better country when elected officials ran it.
And maybe we're acting like a poor nation because we ARE a poor nation.
60% of the population earns less than $40k per year.
Kerry is good for setting a beer down on his flat head.
Not much else.
Deformed hack.
Do they learn that at Sculls & Bones?
STFU Kerry. We should hang you for treason you scumbag. Get brain cancer you friggin mummy
We're poor Kerry, NOT stupid. Fall in front of a speeding train Kerry. You suck dead goat balls.
This reminds me of the EU fucks.
Yeah, America is "poor", this from one of its' more wealthy son of a bitch's.
Now go stay in a 5 star hotel and eat in a 5 star restaurant and discuss "austerity" for everyone else.
What a cocksucker.
The political elite won’t just stop bailing out the military complex, war is more or less the same as QE isn’t it…
And like the “printer” and it’s stooges said, again, and again, one needs 2 keep expanding the pile of * (monopoly money) or the game(scam) is over..FIN. The End.
Expect more WAR.. Krugman will always get his way…
John you and the bisexualcommiemulatto empty suit command all the respect you deserve... you horsefacedfuck
N O N E
the smartest man (lol) in the room is opompous when kerry and biden are present
What does it say about a nation when the politicians have better balance sheets than the country they claim to represent? Rich rulers of a bankfrupt nation that prints money to engage in foreign wars. Hmmm Kerry seems to be the one ignorant of history. Has that combination ever ended well for either the ruler or the people?
Don't worry, the poor are still pretending to be rich.
He shold tell his boss who pised away everything America had.
What a fucking asshole he is.
Given history, war is inevitable at this point...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
Hey Kerry, can I borrow your yacht so that I can project the illusion that I'm some rich fuck when I'm really just some young asshole who scrapes by with the sword of Damocles dangling above me?
While were at it, can I print my own money? Krugman says we don't have enough inflation, and I would like to do my part in alleviating that little issue.
But seriously Kerry, go fuck yourself and the syphilis-ridden sheep you rode in on.
Yes, John. It's a pity that the rest of the populace doesn't have a wealthy wife's money to flaunt like you.
Hay thar, sofisticated fellers in warshington:
The fish Rots from the Head Down.
So, if anything is poor, besides We The People who you are stealing wealth from, it is YOUR dicktaster leadership that's POOR.
Put that in your Swift Boat.
The U.S. is beginning to act like a totalitarian-suppressed nation!
The Fifth Amendment Lies in Crumbles http://whatreallyhappened.com/category/dictatorship
The Nation isn't poor, the Government is poor. I think this is a good thing.
I don't know about you, but I still have several pots for pissing in, I'm Rich Bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDX0j80h2rk
Don't remind them that the vast majority of them inherited their fortune.
Whahahahahaha ... what's new.
Nobody ... really nobody outside the US takes the US serieus ... believe me.
ROFLOL
I just so despise nearly anything related to the US Gov't or its people for that matter anymore. Coming from a career fed, I gotta admit it's a bitter fuking pill.