‘Is it only me or is there something fundamentally flawed with the people who are running our government, including the autocrats, technocrats and bureaucrats who number in the hundreds of thousands. Does it bother you that the Wall Street banks and major corporations, many of our academia and religious institutions and our medical, military and intelligence gathering complexes, Big Pharma and Big Insurance have their needs met at the expense of everyone else? They control our government. We don’t. Instead we FEAR our government. They tell us, “Trust us. We know what to do and how to fix all of our crises.” Okay we trust you. They say we are for peace, democracy and freedom. But everywhere we look they are colonizing and militarizing foreign countries with over 960 military bases with a budget of $1.6 trillion going to numerous corporations to keep Amerikan imperialism afloat. At the same time, there have been massive home foreclosures, repossessions, for-profit prisons stuffed to the brim with inmates for minor crimes, and the now reappearance of debtor prisons in 27 states. We are graduating students who are functionally illiterate. They say trust us, unemployment has decreased to 6.7 percent. And we say that the real number is 24 percent due to the millions who are no longer counted because they no longer receive compensation and have slid even further down the economic ladder to the welfare rolls...or worse yet, into the non-taxpaying black economy often associated with criminal activity. via Greg Eldridge
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:33:54 +0000