Summer Of Discontent

If we are asking rich people not to fight for their interests we are asking them to do something that is both undemocratic and basically insane. Every other group shouts out their interests at election time and when they contribute. There are too many lobbyists and they have too much influence. I have never heard or read any argument with that statement. The Supreme Court didn't help.

Politicians rarely explain things fully not only because it gives more counter argument to their opposition but because we the people won't take the time to listen. If we did the networks would give them the time gratis.

American jobs go overseas not because most corporations are greedy unpatriotic bastards but because we consumers are cheap and short sighted assholes. We stopped looking at the "Made In" label in the Seventies and now half our industries are gone. It doesn't matter what you say or even how you vote. Your wallet talks loudest and last. 

If you want China to own the world shop at Walmart.

America actually manufactures more than ever before in its history but automation long seen coming does the majority of the work.

I grew up in the only industrialized nation in the world that didn't just have the shit kicked out of it in the Second World War. We had an advantage and we took it and kept it for over half a century. No president, party or policy could have extended it much longer. When we don't like the way things are going we want to blame someone. Good luck.

There has certainly been no shortage of con agents, banksters and outright thieves and some are only being prosecuted now as the statute of limitations is ending. But even they could not have created the mess we are in without the armies of suckers dying to buy into their schemes. If you thought that housing had somehow doubled in value in less than a decade and could only go up you are just the pigeon they needed.

Obama believes too much in government and Romney believes too much in the marketplace. The federal government has been gridlocked for years and the marketplace has been a casino for over a decade. You choose.

Don Arrup

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