NP except in essence............

[Mark Kohut]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/3651-the-perfect-storm
The Perfect Storm
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
18 October 10

t's a perfect storm. And I'm not talking about the impending dangers facing 
Democrats. I'm talking about the dangers facing our democracy.
First, income in America is now more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been 
in 80 years. Almost a quarter of total income generated in the United States is 
going to the top 1 percent of Americans.
The top one-tenth of one percent of Americans now earn as much as the bottom 120 

million of us.
Who are these people? With the exception of a few entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, 

they're top executives of big corporations and Wall Street, hedge-fund managers, 

and private equity managers. They include the Koch brothers, whose wealth 
increased by billions last year, and who are now funding tea party candidates 
across the nation.
Which gets us to the second part of the perfect storm. A relatively few 
Americans are buying our democracy as never before. And they're doing it 
completely in secret.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring into advertisements for and against 
candidates - without a trace of where the dollars are coming from. They're 
laundered through a handful of groups. Fred Maleck, whom you may remember as 
deputy director of Richard Nixon's notorious Committee to Reelect the President 
(dubbed Creep in the Watergate scandal), is running one of them. Republican 
operative Karl Rove runs another. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a third.
The Supreme Court's Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission made it 
possible. The Federal Election Commission says only 32 percent of groups paying 
for election ads are disclosing the names of their donors. By comparison, in the 

2006 midterm, 97 percent disclosed; in 2008, almost half disclosed.
We're back to the late 19th century when the lackeys of robber barons literally 
deposited sacks of cash on the desks of friendly legislators. The public never 
knew who was bribing whom.
Just before it recessed the House passed a bill that would require that the 
names of all such donors be publicly disclosed. But it couldn't get through the 
Senate. Every Republican voted against it. (To see how far the GOP has come, 
nearly ten years ago campaign disclosure was supported by 48 of 54 Republican 
senators.)
Here's the third part of the perfect storm. Most Americans are in trouble. Their 

jobs, incomes, savings, and even homes are on the line. They need a government 
that's working for them, not for the privileged and the powerful.
Yet their state and local taxes are rising. And their services are being cut. 
Teachers and firefighters are being laid off. The roads and bridges they count 
on are crumbling, pipelines are leaking, schools are dilapidated, and public 
libraries are being shut.
There's no jobs bill to speak of. No WPA to hire those who can't find jobs in 
the private sector. Unemployment insurance doesn't reach half of the unemployed.
Washington says nothing can be done. There's no money left.
No money? The marginal income tax rate on the very rich is the lowest it's been 
in more than 80 years. Under President Dwight Eisenhower (who no one would have 
accused of being a radical) it was 91 percent. Now it's 36 percent. Congress is 
even fighting over whether to end the temporary Bush tax cut for the rich and 
return them to the Clinton top tax of 39 percent.
Much of the income of the highest earners is treated as capital gains, anyway - 
subject to a 15 percent tax. The typical hedge-fund and private-equity manager 
paid only 17 percent last year. Their earnings were not exactly modest. The top 
15 hedge-fund managers earned an average of $1 billion.
Congress won't even return to the estate tax in place during the Clinton 
administration – which applied only to those in the top 2 percent of incomes.
It won't limit the tax deductions of the very rich, which include interest 
payments on multi-million dollar mortgages. (Yet Wall Street refuses to allow 
homeowners who can't meet mortgage payments to include their primary residence 
in personal bankruptcy.)
There's plenty of money to help stranded Americans, just not the political will 
to raise it. And at the rate secret money is flooding our political system, even 

less political will in the future.
The perfect storm: An unprecedented concentration of income and wealth at the 
top; a record amount of secret money flooding our democracy; and a public 
becoming increasingly angry and cynical about a government that's raising its 
taxes, reducing its services, and unable to get it back to work.
We're losing our democracy to a different system. It's called plutocracy.

Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at 
Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as 
secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written twelve books, 
including "The Work of Nations," "Locked in the Cabinet," "Supercapitalism" and 
his latest book, "AFTERSHOCK: The Next Economy and America's Future." His 
'Marketplace' commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes. 
Comments  

+26# m 2010-10-18 20:02
''We're losing our democracy to a different system. It's called plutocracy.''

Plutocracy perhaps. But we are surely losing our Republic to a new phenomenon 
for sure-- a COROPORATACRACY OF THE CORPORATE BY THE CORPORATE AND FOR THE 
CORPORATE supported by the narrowly owned Global Corporate Media which now own 
almost all Media Enterprises in America-- Soon to probably become completely 
consolidated under one Global Corporate Roof and become the New Propaganda 
Ministry-or- The Center for Spoken 'Truth' and Social Calm or something like 
that.

There are three branches of Corpor-governation...
1. The Executive Back Patter in Chief who has been deregulated into the back 
seat.
2. The US(urped) Congress of Corporate Facilitations.
3. The Supreme Court of Corporate Considerations.

Elections are still held so as to keep the Consumers happy that they can pull 
the lever against somebody in order to vent their corporate media driven anger 
every two years.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+6# Ron D 2010-10-18 20:08
The author mentions Eisenhower but fails to mention Eisenhowers' famous speech 
about the unchecked growth of the military industrial complex. In fact, the 
author doesn't even mention the military budget, which is the biggest reason 
we're eating spam and watching "Dog, Bounty Hunter" re-runs on Saturday night. 
How the author can forget about this elephant in the living room in an article 
about the US economy is mysterious at best, suspicious at worst.Reply | Reply 
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+4# Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-18 21:51
Quoting Ron D:
The author mentions Eisenhower but fails to mention Eisenhowers' famous speech 
about the unchecked growth of the military industrial complex. In fact, the 
author doesn't even mention the military budget, which is the biggest reason 
we're eating spam and watching "Dog, Bounty Hunter" re-runs on Saturday night. 
How the author can forget about this elephant in the living room in an article 
about the US economy is mysterious at best, suspicious at worst.

Now Ron D, in all fairness Robert Reich has opined on these many times before. 
In the context of his article it really is sufficient to say that the rich are 
not paying their fare share, arguably 91%. Perhaps if they were the waste you 
mentioned might actually be quite affordable after all...and that IS the point. 
We are paying more for less because the wealthy are paying way too little and of 

course it is an irony that those who benefit the most pay proportional the very 
least.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+21# Michael Bugg 2010-10-18 20:37
Amen Robert! And so many gullible middle class and poor are aiding the rich by 
voting for their RepubliCON lackeys in the case of middle class voters, and by 
not voting at all in the case of man poor voters! I don't know which is worse 
now in this country, ignorance or apathy?!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+5# Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-18 21:52
Quoting Michael Bugg:
Amen Robert! And so many gullible middle class and poor are aiding the rich by 
voting for their RepubliCON lackeys in the case of middle class voters, and by 
not voting at all in the case of man poor voters! I don't know which is worse 
now in this country, ignorance or apathy?!

I'd say ignorance by far, and willful ignorance at that.Reply | Reply with 
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+12# Texas Aggie 2010-10-18 20:54
The first time around the Robber Barons were just seeing how the game is played, 

and they lost. This time they have the benefit of experience and they are 
winning.

I have to wonder if their program doesn't have a weak link, however. They are 
using people like Beck, Bachmann and Palin to push their agenda, but these 
people are also pushing so-called second amendment solutions which may erupt in 
the sort of solution that the wealthy want no part of. 

My own feeling is that instead of an armed insurrection, their program will 
result in a massive violent criminal eruption similar to what Mexico is now 
facing. The rich in Mexico are getting out as fast as they can, but what happens 

to the uberwealthy in the US when their lives in the US are threatened? Where do 

they go to be safe then?Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+2# Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-18 21:53
Quoting Texas Aggie:
The first time around the Robber Barons were just seeing how the game is played, 

and they lost. This time they have the benefit of experience and they are 
winning.
>
>I have to wonder if their program doesn't have a weak link, however. They are 
>using people like Beck, Bachmann and Palin to push their agenda, but these 
>people are also pushing so-called second amendment solutions which may erupt in 

>the sort of solution that the wealthy want no part of. 
>
>My own feeling is that instead of an armed insurrection, their program will 
>result in a massive violent criminal eruption similar to what Mexico is now 
>facing. The rich in Mexico are getting out as fast as they can, but what happens 
>
>to the uberwealthy in the US when their lives in the US are threatened? Where do 
>
>they go to be safe then?

PRECISELY!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# Ed McC 2010-10-18 22:40
they are building a huge yacht to take them all to sea...it was a story a few 
months ago.... they will all hide in this bunker like ship like Cheney did after 

9/11 - the cowards! Guilty as Charged!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# GeraldT 2010-10-18 21:07
Aggie, the rich can move to any number of other countries and use their wealth 
to live quite safely and happily. Countries where the ruling classes keep the 
populace too scared, hungry and/or sick to fight back effectively, where what 
little work exists pays $1 per day, there are no environmental or worker 
protection laws and the rich can become even richer by joining in on the 
fleecing of their new countrymen. You know - what America will be like in 25 
years after the Republicans take over and wipe out all opposition to the new 
class of robber barons. When that happens the former U.S. rich would move back - 

if they want.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+7# Klare 2010-10-18 21:20
This is a pretty mild article--I am disappointed in Reich! I want to know when 
Americans are going to take to the streets and storm Washington in protests the 
likes of which they've never seen before!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# Patricia Chang 2010-10-18 21:33
I also have to wonder why we keep on throwing billions down a rathole in 
Afghanistan?! It can only be to cater to the Military-Industrial Complex, now 
extremely bloated from sucking up trillions of our tax dollars. Meanwhile, 
Barack Obama has folded like a lawn chair; and enables them to continue their 
monstrous gluttony. Then, he stands by and allows the banks to continue 
foreclosing on homes. He stands by and allows health insurance companies to 
raise premiums, deductibles and copays. He has done a great deal of standing by; 

but cannot comprehend why people no longer enthusiasticall y support him or the 
Democrats. He defers to Congress, knowing damned well that the Republicans in 
the Senate have effectively castrated progress. The Fat Cats have taken over 
this country lock, stock and barrel. The Sheeple shoot themselves in the foot 
one way or another, then weep and wail that they cannot walk. A wag on another 
blog called them Boobus Americanus. I would have to agree. Collapse is 
imminent.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+4# MajMD 2010-10-18 21:47
Government by corporation is not just a plutocracy it is fascism dictatorship 
nothing less. This is the gift of a child like rabble, confused by FOX-PAC into 
handing over the keys of the house to thievesReply | Reply with quote | Quote


-1# Irv 2010-10-18 22:01
Share with your friends! IrvReply | Reply with quote | Quote


+8# Paul Marioni 2010-10-18 22:01
It's the perfect storm alright. Greed never sleeps and Ignorance never wakes 
up.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Mark 2010-10-19 04:17
Hammer Nail HeadReply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Reed Kinney 2010-10-18 22:11
“We're losing our democracy to a different system. It's called plutocracy.”

Dear Robert Reich,

Your assessment is correct, and it has been that way for decades. It is the 
nature of power to continually fall to fewer hands. But, what is to be done 
about it; have elections? The political apparatus is completely dysfunctional in 

that regard. The situation can not be altered within its own context.

So, again, what the heck do you think can be done about it?
Please, let me know.

Sincerely yours, Reed KinneyReply | Reply with quote | Quote


+7# steve 2010-10-18 23:20
Mr. Reich, why no word about the wars? The trillion $ wasted on senseless and 
doomed military adventures overseas? The thousands of military bases, the 
billions to Israel, Egypt, and other 'clients'?

Yes, we must tax the rich. Yes, we need a new WPA. Real healthcare, public 
option.

But lets stop the wars and the worship of the military, and spend that money at 
home.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# Blly G. 2010-10-18 23:25
Not to mention the people sitting in the Whitehouse; the Kennedy's, the Bush 
family, the Clintons, all connected to organized crime units. Some of those 
names whose own family members had even helped Hitler rise to power. The people 
who've been in the Whitehouse as 2nd in command had worked in the pentagon, big 
oil and even tried to sell global warming tax, politicans that lobby for bills 
in congress that give companies huge chunks of tax payers money - such as the 
hundreds of billions big pharma received thanks to these spineless snakes, who 
then go onto to work for those companies after they leave congress. America is 
too afraid to face the truth, but you are going to have to face-up to the facts. 

You are slaves and the government is treating you like complete idiots. And no 
amount of food, perverted habits and dope is going to solve the problem. One 
would figure the Gulf oil spill would have opened your collective eye's to how 
stupid the government thinks you all are. You're just too damn 
lazy.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Amanda Casha 2010-10-19 05:25
Wow, Blly G. I'd say that is spot on...doesnt seem to be a solution either.
Sad! This was such great place at one time. Now we have pulp TV and the dumbing 
down of the populace is complete.
We sat back and watched the whole thing.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


-3# Sirius Black 2010-10-18 23:28
I tore my ballot to pieces and threw it in the trash. I am over the donkey and 
elephant puppet shows.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Glen 2010-10-19 05:02
Sirius, you are among thousands who have given up. It is rather a losing battle 
and I agree with you on the puppet shows. Voting is a dead effort but I do not 
like the alternative of perhaps engaging in a revolution. Hitting the streets in 

major numbers may or may not accomplish anything, but good luck organizing folks 

for a true demonstration. Nobody is afraid of citizens. The wealthy, 
corporations, and the government have their own fire power that far surpasses 
anything citizens could muster.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+8# Marco 2010-10-18 23:52
The danger is being in denial. We continue to have these articles which tell us 
power is consolidating at the top, and we (the peasants) in the bottom 99% are 
losing our rights. Now if we were in a big prison, and the guards got more and 
more food, and better cars, and were living in greater and greater luxury while 
we, the inmates, got less and less until we hardly had a pot to piss in and on 
top of that were losing more privileges each day, we would probably realize it's 

just a matter of time before some of us begin to quietly disappear - that our 
lives were in danger. We would have been reduced in power to the point where we 
no longer were being treated as human and so we could see the end result was 
that we were about to be disposed of. But because we are not as savvy as most 
inmates would be in such circumstances, and we have been brainwashed to believe 
these institutions serve us, we are not going to see what is happening until it 
is upon us. It's harvest time folks.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


-2# Ron Paul 2012 2010-10-19 00:07
We live in a REPUBLIC not a DEMOCRACY. Perhaps you are part of the 
problem?Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


-1# gabriel lori 2010-10-19 03:27
Dear Patricia Chang,Man you got it right!!!If the republicans win this 
election,you can kiss it all goodbye,down the toilet!!!!!hold on for the ride 
its gonna get slippery when wet!!!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


-1# Jack E Lohman 2010-10-19 04:35
Maybe we'd be better off with a democracy!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


-1# Amanda Casha 2010-10-19 05:07
What in the Hell does that mean, Ron Paul? It seems an empty semantic argument 
to me.....please explain!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+8# John Hendricks 2010-10-19 01:16
The US is not a democracy, never was a democracy, and never was intended to be a 

democracy. When Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention, he 
was asked "what is it?" He answered, "A republic, if you can keep it." The 
Constitution explicitly states that it guarantees the American people a 
republican form of government.

What is the difference between a democracy and a republic? In a democracy, the 
majority rules on any issue. In a republic, the basic precepts are strictly 
beyond limits to any vote. Changes can only be made by amendment.

As the founding fathers knew, Democracy is the worst form of government. In 
fact, it is so bad that there has never been a true democracy.Reply | Reply with 

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0# Amanda Casha 2010-10-19 05:15
I beg to differ! Our system of government is one of representation of and by the 

people. This "democracy" is what our country is and why we have prevailed for 
224 years. If an amendment is to be made, it is made through concensus of our 
elected representatives . This does not argue that our system is not broken, it 
simply exposes a semantic argument which unfortunately does not change our 
bottom line. We have been usurped as americans..someone else defines us now, as 
wealthy and therefore deserving or poor rabble who are not worth consideration. 
I very passionately disagree with their assessment. Anyone else?Reply | Reply 
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+5# Game Over We Lost 2010-10-19 01:36
All has been lost for many years now.

The Public is afraid, ignorant, and confused. The Public is easily misled and 
believes anyone that promises hope.

There is no hope to correct this meltdown. The meltdown, like a nuclear 
meltdown, burned through the containment building and headed to the center of 
the Earth. No one can stop it because, there was no plan in case such an event 
ever happened! Same as the destruction of America. ALL the checks and balances 
in government were turned to the "OFF" position.

Now, we are just waiting to see how much damage will occur as the core of the 
Society burns through every country in the World. No one, no human that is can 
alter the extinction-level event we are part of!

Well written article but, it just identifies the problems and traitors but, it 
doesn't rally people and doesn't call to arms a movement that can rid us of ALL 
career politicians. Politicians that historically, make lying a career 
goal!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Sam 2010-10-19 03:11
Edit it a bit, turn it into an ad, play it on tv-radio stations, and it would 
do. Problem is there's no one who will do it. Certainly not the Democratic 
Party.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# parasitism 2010-10-19 03:17
fascist parasitism is the system we live in, run by the illegal, foreign owned 
federal reserve bank, Satanically corrupt to the core..all of your politicians 
who take corporate money (bribes) are fascist parasitesReply | Reply with 
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+1# Ededwards 2010-10-19 03:29
He is looking at it as an insider. He wants to save the private federal reserve 
system first which is the foundation of the system. The problem is it is the 
system of fiat money that is ungovernable.
It is the ability of the indiders to print off unlimited dark pools of cash that 

allow these mega banks consolidate everything and leave nothing for the rest of 
us.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Gordon LeCompte Bolmer 2010-10-19 03:32
You forgot to mention George Soros and MoveOn.org. Soros would like to buy an 
American election, just like he helped to buy the election in Ukraine, back in 
'04.

Oh...whoops...Soros and MoveOn support the Dems' side of the aisle. I guess it's 

no wonder you didn't mention them, then.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# DavidDavid 2010-10-19 03:41
To place words like "entrepreneurs" and "Bill Gates" in the same sentence as in 
"entrepreneurs like Bill Gates" is laughable. Bill Gates and Microsoft is more 
akin to late 19th century robber barons whose business philosophy is monopoly.

Interesting to note that one of the key individuals heading the fight to keep 
the estate tax in place is the father of Bill Gates. Why is that? The answer 
lies in your statement, "Congress won't even return to the estate tax . . . 
which applied only to those in the top 2 percent of incomes."

The problem is in the word "incomes." For the super rich, i.e., the Bill Gates 
and Warren Buffets of the world, keeping their wealth is never about their 
incomes or capital gains. 

That is why foundations were invented when the income tax was imposed upon the 
American people: to help the super rich from paying taxesReply | Reply with 
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0# Ededwards 2010-10-19 03:48
He is using the same playbook that both side agree on; keep the masses pointing 
fingers at each other and the guys in the cave but don't think that we who are 
running the printing presses and are cranking out trillions of dollars to 
benefit our selves has any thing to do with it.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Glory123 2010-10-19 03:48
A sinple and effective solution is to impose limits on soft money with 
manititory jail terms for violations. This can only be begun and completed at 
the grass roots level.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# gene kalmes 2010-10-19 04:05
People who say we have a democracy don't seem to understand how important the 
distinction of being in actuality, "a republic." is for the good of our 
country....

A lynch mob is a democracy....the group as long as the majority uses their might 

to bring it about can put all sorts of poorly conceived ideas into being whereas 

a republic delegates a smaller group of representatives to convene and study the 

value of a law before they hang it on the tree....

Every once in a while a lynch mob is exactly what is necessary and that time 
seems to be rapidly approaching, but until then we need to understand the 
difference of collectivism and individualism and no one has ever explained it 
better than G Edward Griffin.

Read this and learn....

http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/deception.htmlReply | Reply with 
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0# Darth Maul 2010-10-19 04:14
Quit your whining.Get pissed,kill everything.See you on the other 
side.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Bob Worley 2010-10-19 04:14
By alienating the masses the government is making itself irrelevant. More 
educated people are living outside the mainstream than ever before. The Middle 
Class is circumventing the government in record numbers. More transactions are 
taking place off the books than through craigslist ebay farmers markets ect. The 

more people live outside the reach of the Government the less effective the 
Government becomes. American Corporations are also alienating the people and I 
feel the greed tax on consumers are charged by bloated corporations will also be 

circumvented the same way the government is circumvented. Political 
advertisements on free media and places were tax free transactions take place 
are the most effective way to combat plutocracy. Eventually our money will lose 
its relevance. The people the plutocracy hires to stifle the masses will have 
more in common with the masses and be of limited use to the people in 
powerReply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# anarchynow 2010-10-19 04:17
I don't understand how discussing the differences between a republic and 
democracy applies to this essay. We have a republic defined and bound by a 
constitution and decisions are arrived at within those bounds by representatives 

chosen by the vote of their constituents. 

So what, Rand Paul 2012? Do you also worship the "Aqua Buddha" like your 
namesake?Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# skebuum 2010-10-19 04:17
By alienating the masses the government is making itself irrelevant. More 
educated people are living outside the mainstream than ever before. The Middle 
Class is circumventing the government in record numbers. More transactions are 
taking place off the books than through craigslist ebay farmers markets ect. The 

more people live outside the reach of the Government the less effective the 
Government becomes. American Corporations are also alienating the people and I 
feel the greed tax on consumers are charged by bloated corporations will also be 

circumvented the same way the government is circumvented. Political 
advertisements on free media and places were tax free transactions take place 
are the most effective way to combat plutocracy. Eventually our money will lose 
its relevance. The people the plutocracy hires to stifle the masses will have 
more in common with the masses and be of limited use to the people in 
powerReply | Reply with quote | Quote


+1# roy 2010-10-19 04:24
If you think the Democrats are representing the common man you are sorely 
mistaken.

BOTH parties are fully owned and controlled. People still shouting the 'other' 
party is to blame are playing the game exactly as intended.

There is one party in this country and regardless of its rhetoric, it represents 

the top 2%. The rest is window dressing.

Wake up!Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# Jackson Holly 2010-10-19 04:29
Yes ... it is the Robber Barons with their bags of cash.

Yes ... it is the Extreme Court (probably also taking some of those bags of 
cash).

Yes ... it is the selling off of America, lock, stock and barrel.

BUT ... the real problem is the ELEPHANT in the room. To paraphrase Mr. Reich's 
former boss:

"IT IS THE PENTAGON BUDGET, STUPID!"Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# JayMagoo 2010-10-19 04:40
The Republican party has been remarkably successful in recent years at getting 
the majority of the voters to vote against their own best interests. How long 
will this go on as the conditions Robert Reich describes become impossible to 
ignore? Then the question becomes, "what will the uber-rich do to maintain their 

control?" Lately they've been able to divert the discontent away from the real 
problem -- themselves -- by such institutions as Fox News, and have been 
successful in blaming the Democrats, who could save the situation. I hope it 
doesn't happen, but when large numbers of common folk realize that they are 
being deprived of their rightful goods and services by the one or two percent of 

the population which represent the richest among us, things could get 
ugly.Reply | Reply with quote | Quote


0# SPace 2010-10-19 05:13
It appears to me that most of you have taken the bait, once again. This 
Left/Right paradigm is keeping the citizens from looking through the glass. What 

you believed was a two party system is in fact the One Ruling Party.

Do any of you actually believe there is any difference between the last 6 
administrations ? Or more?

We lost this battle when we lost Kennedy, and Johnson set the dogs out.

The real quaetsion, is 'what do we do about it?'.Reply | Reply with 
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