The Rigged Game by John Hively

I wrote this book to show how the rich folks of the United States have set up a nasty game to enable them to pick the pockets of middle class citizens clean. That's how they accumulate more wealth and how we lose it. They control the politics and financial markets of this country. These are the conduits through which this game takes place. Neither liberals nor conservatives want citizens to see this book. For example, the folks at Air America refuse to even give it a plug, but Thom Hartmann is happy to plug books by conservatives that he disagrees with.

This book is selling all over the world, but not so much in the United States because of a complete blackout of publicity.

A year before they ignited, I predicted the recession that likely hit in November, the drop in interest rates, the housing bubble implosion, the rise in energy costs, and a lot more.

Now I will tell you what will occur in the next twelve months.

1. The economy will flirt with deflation and possibly go into it.
2. The federal reserve will drop interest rates.
3. The unemployment rate will surge to somewhere between 7 and 12 percent.
4. Wages and salaries of middle class workers will drop on average.
5. The rich will get richer at the expense of the poor and middle classes, feeding the recession.

When Does Obama's Attack Begin?

Barack Obama has spent millions of dollars on advertising his presidential campaign, but he has yet to attack the weakest link of his opponent. That weakness is John McCain himself. Outside of George W. Bush, McCain is perhaps the most ignorant, most vulnerable Republican presidential candidate in history. But then again, Karl Rove made the people running John Kerry's campaign look positively stupid. Two of Rove's underlings are now in charge of the McCain campaign and they are making Obama's advisors look like dunderheads.

So far the Obama campaign is not attacking McCain vigorously, but rather it is fending off the attacks of his foe, and mostly unsuccessfully. The Obama camp has not focused on creating an image of McCain that is accurate as well as negative. The result is that McCain has closed or narrowed or overcome Obama's lead in several polls. Just like the Bush campaign focused on painting Kerry as a "flip-flopper," as well as turning the war hero into a traitor in the eyes of many voters, the Neocons running McCain's campaign are successfully creating an image of Obama as an inexperienced elitist out of touch with reality.

But it is McCain who is the elitist out of touch with reality, a man who can't be trusted.

Several months ago, during a news conference, on camera, Independent Senator Joe Lieberman had to tell McCain the difference between the Shiites and Sunnis of Iraq. Can you trust McCain to handle the situation in Iraq with that kind of ignorance?

A few months ago, John McCain professed to know little of economics. Yes it's on camera. Go to You tube. McCain doesn't know that under the Bush tax cuts, in eight years, less than 4.2 million private sector jobs have been created. This is the weakness job growth in the United States since statistics have been accumulated. In the thirty-five months beginning in January 1939, with an economy and population less than one-third of what it is today and with a tax rate of 91 percent on upper income earners, the New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt created 7.5 million private sector jobs. That's almost twice as many jobs created under Bush in less than half the time. But McCain wants to continue Bush's failed economic policies. Can you trust John McCain with that kind of ignorance?

Elitist McCain doesn't know how many houses he and his wife own. The guy doesn't have a clue as to his own finances. Can you trust him with the business of running this country?

Randy Scheuneman is McCain's foreign policy advisor, a noted war monger, a guy who pushed for war with Iraq, and a man that until recently worked for a public relations firm that numbered among its clients the nation of Georgia. On behalf of that nation, Scheuneman has pushed for its admission into NATO. Had he been successful, the USA most likely would be bogged down in a new war, this time against Russia. Should McCain win, Scheuneman might be our next Secretary of State. Can you trust McCain not to get us into a war with Russia over Georgia?

And we can't forget McCain reciting those imbecilic words, "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran." Can we trust McCain to keep the USA, a nation perhaps nearing bankruptcy, with a military already overextended, out of a war it can't afford, against a country that is not, nor has ever been, a threat to us?

McCain cheated on his wife, left her and married his rich mistress. Is that the kind of morals you can trust to manage the affairs of the United States of America?

You can go on and on. McCain is extremely vulnerable because of his ignorance and lack of judgment, but so far the Obama campaign has hardly thrown a punch at him. You can paint McCain as being untrustworthy to be president and or tie him to George Bush. If the Democrats don't begin to punch back at this extremely vulnerable opponent, count on Obama to be the first African-American to almost be president.