Frasi di John Perkins (economista)

“Infatti i poveri soffrono perché i prestiti devono essere ripagati e sono ingenti, quindi ripagarli significa che essi non ricevono istruzione, servizi sanitari o sociali, e il paese viene lasciato intenzionalmente alle prese con un grande debito.”

“Noi sicari dell'economia torniamo in questo paese e diciamo: "Guardate, ci dovete molti soldi, non potete ripagare i debiti, allora dateci le vostre risorse vitali". […] Appena uno di questi presidenti antiamericani viene eletto, uno di noi torna nel paese e dice: "Congratulazioni Presidente, ora che è stato eletto voglio informarla che io posso renderla molto ricco, insieme alla sua famiglia: ho diverse centinaia di milioni di dollari in questa tasca, se lei sta al nostro gioco; altrimenti in questa tasca ho una pistola e una pallottola con sopra il suo nome, nel caso in cui lei decida di mantenere le promesse elettorali e ci allontani. Vendete a bassissimo prezzo il vostro petrolio alle nostre compagnie petrolifere, votate con noi alle prossime elezioni dell'Onu, o inviate le vostre truppe a supporto delle nostre in luoghi come l'Iraq, ecc."”

“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”

“As soon as one of the anti-American presidents is elected, one of us goes in and says, “Hey, congratulations Mr. President. Now that you are president, I just want to tell you that I can make you very, very rich, you and your family. It’s several million dollars in this pocket, if you play the game our way. If you decide not to, over in this pocket, I’ve got a gun with a bullet with your name on it, in case you decide to keep your campaign promises and throw us out. Sell our oil companies your oil real cheap, or vote with us at the next UN vote, or send troops in support of ours to some place in the world such as Iraq”, and in that way, we have managed to build a world empire with very few people actually knowing that we have done this.”

“ We used many techniques, but probably the most common is that we will go to a country that has resources that our corporations covet- like oil- and we will arrange a huge loan to that country from an organization like the World Bank or one of its sisters. But almost all of the money goes to U. S. corporations, not to the country itself, corporations like Bechtel and Halliburton, General Motors, General Electric, these types of organizations, and they build huge infrastructure projects in the country- power plants, highways, ports, industrial parks- things that serve the very rich and seldom even reach the poor.In fact the poor suffer because the loans have to be repaid, and they are huge loans, and the repayment of them means that poor won’t get education, health, and other social services and the country is left holding a huge debt, by intention. We go back, we economic hitmen, to this country and say, “Look, you owe us a lot of money. You can’t repay your debts, so give us a pound of flesh”.”

“Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM.”