I feel dejected. After seeing/reading/listening to the news and events that have happened to/in this country over the past month, I gotta say, “What can we do to stop the powerless from being trounced? Nothing!
I’ve never been a defeatist. It’s just the blatant, in your face (because of the internet) display of how the rich controls our lives in every aspect of life has got me shaken. They control your health, they control your living standards (your pay), they control your kids education, they control the lives of everyonei n the US and the rest of the world.
Just Google these tags and see for yourself:
Don Blankenship/Massey Energy/State Supreme Court Judges
Bear stearns/non bank bailouts
UBS/Phil Gram/John McCain/Economic policy
Homebuilder tax breaks
Big oil
FAA/Southwest Airlines
New York’s Passenger Bill of Rights
4000 plus US military dead
KBR, Inc./ water contamination/Dick Chaney
Dick Chaney/military volunteers/war deaths
H1B fraud
Virtual Border Fence
The Dollar
All of these issues are examples of how big business are in control of our lives/laws/liberty, and how they say with straight faces, things that are clearly lies and no one is able to do anything about it.
The United States is in disrepair. It’s gonna take more than a new President to fix it.
You’re right. It’s gonna take action from the people. Not physical action, but economic action. Our country is built on spending, pure and simple. Not just buying, but buying in excess. When we learn to cut back to only what we need, and mot what marketing tells us we want, the people will get a handle on the economics of this country.