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Someone Wrote: "That's the problem, isn't it Rick? Half of the country wants the Government to take our money and use it to "take care of us". The other half wants us to determine how we spend our own money, and keep more of it to begin with... Democrats believe we're not smart enough to spend it wisely and take care of each other, so we should give it to the Government and trust them to spend it. Republicans believe we're smarter than the Federal Government and should have personal responsibility (as well as charity). We'll never agree, I guess."
This person still believes the myth that the nation is under our control and that we are still responsible for what happens to us, meaning that we still have unconstrained choices. Either this person is deluded or is in on the fix, that is, has a stake in the leveraging process that is taking place. So the straw man of either we are individuals or we are more interdependent submits to a series of tests. Does this society abandon people who can't fully take care of themselves for various reasons? Or do people who want the benefits of living here just take what they want by force? Your independence may come at the price of conscience or safety. You may not live in a place with lots of homeless and gangs, but your neighborhood could easily become this. and just next door in some local community that has not been afforded the attention of investment or plutocrats emerging, it has.
So straw men like this obscure the central issue of how the income distribution and the financial system have invalidated our political beliefs, memes, and institutions and how we may just beginning to experience the decay of our system due to outside economic forces that we are blind to because we believe our system protects us from the intent of financiers and investors who have no interest in our nation and people, and who control both parties to some extant, but especially the GOP. We have been duped by our own preconceptions about political economy, in the way of "Art of War".
The political dialog needs to be revitalized up. I accuse the Historical and Cultural establishment in business and academe of being asleep and maybe willfully inattentive to the lessons of the past. That the well has been poisoned by false images that do not reveal the choices we have. The News Media and especially the pundits are very much to blame, but so is the naive belief of most Americans in the importance of their vocational role, which is now tightly controlled by others who do not have our welfare at heart.
TopSomeone wrote: "I've got a solution, cut it all! Return the federal govt. To it's constitutionally mandated responsibilities and return all else to the States! For too many years both parties have gone an a spree to see how much of our money they could pass on to their constituents. I don't spend more than I make, and I expect no less from my government"
Actually, sir, what is "returned" is to outside plutocrats who don't share in our commonwealth, because what the government does not do won't picked up by investors who have no interest in the future of our economy, our nation. They may be more interested in holding on to their wealth to invest overseas and they will find it much to their advantage to leverage control from local governments who have no resources to resist them. The old GOP formula that local control is best has been co-opted by people who face no sanctions from the citizens of this country. The "Art of War" has been used against us by a world plutocracy under the cover of "free" market capitalism, but it is being driven by Chinese strategy hundreds of year old, and the GOP is their shill.
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