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=> I'm Not Listening to Another Pundit...

I'm Not Listening to Another Pundit...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, May 25 2011, 18:24:49 (UTC)
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...or taking any of them seriously unless they come out and say that money is at the root of all politics, economics, sports, medicine and everything else in America, right now, for some time and getting worse.....people knocked Marx because he said everything revolved around economics, he was right of course, the criticism of him that HE was materialistic was meant to hide the fact that the systems and people he was describing were the materialists...it was classic kill the messenger. "oh no, we are SPIRITUAL"!!!

...The simple fact is that frontier capitalism is dead and gone....and increasingly the only real pool of money to be had anywhere is in our Treasury. People simply do not have the buying power to keep what few industries there are alive and well....benefits and wages and vacations have been slashed drastically in order to make business more "profitable"...it's a shell game, a con job because the prosperity is only temporary and only for a few ...the rest of the country gets poorer and rustier and more drug-addled.

But each year the biggest pool of money is milked from the American workers and placed in one big lump...and that lump is now the golden prize...no one wants to start up a business...the rich already have all they need to live off of...but these people are dedicated to making money for its own sake..it isn't like once they have enough they're going to read poetry, or paint...they have no other function but to make more money, but neither do they want to do it the old fashioned way.

So now it's "privatize" which is nothing more than robbing our Treasury....they have done it with wars for a long time...and outer space...and then schools, prisons and of course health care..and they want even more health care tax-dollars from us with their voucher plans in which Medicare is replaced by a few thousand dollars for us to get private insurance with...which is nothing more than giving our tax dollars to health care corporations...that's all there is in the way of Capitalism any more: take from the workers, after already cutting down their wages, what they pay in taxes, but diverting it to private corporations who claim they can do better...for themselves.

From now on, whatever it is, be it travel to Mars, keeping us safe, educating our kids, any and all policies...if pundits don't follow the money first and primarily, if they blather about political science, or election cycles or compare this party to that party, I'm not interested.

It's time to face the ugly reality that America will do anything for a buck...and is doing it. It's that simple, that uncomplicated and that plain...



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