Who asked Standard and Poor's to damage the USA ?

Who asked Standard and Poor's to rate a country that gave it a home ? It's doubtful this was Henry Poor's goal in 1860, when he published a History of Railroads and Canals in the United States.

That's hardly the same as interfering in government while participating in staged theater and a coup.

Who asked them to rate any country ?

Ratings are created for their profit and for the trusting insecure and intellectually lazy to be able to compare different entities in an era where we are told we are all equal and no one matters except the names that appear in government over and over at all three levels.

Standard and Poor's was created in 1860. How convenient. It's when the Civil War was set up that would be financed on both sides by the Rothschilds. This defeated the original form of government intended by the Founders and created unionized police to protect the interests of the same bankers.

Then there's their ownership by McGraw-Hill, a company so ingrained in the textbook world when I went to public school that I still remember the stench of new text books that told you that you were learning calculus to become a car mechanic in a sidebar.

Eh ?

Their books contained helpful career hints for what you were being programmed with; they were always pitifully lower than what you were doing. They were setting your future bar low.

Doesn't that "dumbing down" seem more odd on 6 August 2011 than 6 August 1989 ?

It's more companies creating reality, as I've said before. They also own a variety of ABC stations, thus creating present reality as well. They have their grip on J.D. Power and Aviation Week, blessing or destroying those fields at will.

Ignoring the rest of the report, statements like this from any company that creates reality and shovels it at students and then again as adults sitting in their living rooms or sitting in an office should disturb any one.

From page 2:

More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011.

It's political science. Why doesn't Standard and Poor's stick to their end and we'll stick to ours. In this paragraph they're clearly assailing not only the economy, but the very form of government. They are a corporatist / fascist /socialist outfit prevalent in many facets of life and are exactly what I've assailed, in general, for having a Medusa-like reach in earlier posts.

Similarly from page 3:

The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy. Despite this year's wide-ranging debate, in our view, the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge, and, as we see it, the resulting agreement fell well short of the comprehensive fiscal consolidation program that some proponents had envisaged until quite recently. Republicans and Democrats have only been able to agree to relatively modest savings on discretionary spending while delegating to the Select Committee decisions on more comprehensive measures. It appears that for now, new revenues have dropped down on the menu of policy options. In addition, the plan envisions only minor policy changes on Medicare and little change in other entitlements, the containment of which we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal sustainability.

We are going to allow a critique not of Congress' acts, but of the very institution to change interest rates, etc ? Why ? Is this a banana republic ?

This parasite ratings and brainwashing company (clearly everything they do is to make you think like them) is only in existence today because thousands of lives saved it from certain destruction had the United States of America and Confederate States of America gone their own ways.

Is this what you want to have control of your life and your children's ?

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