We went to the Moon.

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14. We manage to pay banksters hundreds of billions of dollars to keep them

in very, very, very good shape, and continue to do so at $85 billion a month or over a trillion a year, with the idea that they would loan that money out - they don't. It piles up in the Fed and we pay them better interest on it, as profit, than any of us can get at a bank. We write laws that allow very, very wealthy people to hold their cash overseas to avoid paying taxes on it, and both of those things help finance the destruction of jobs that pay a living wage while they are replaced with checks that don't in order to funnel more profit to the owners. We tell people it is necessary to prop their markets up, but that just means we keep making payments to the financiers, while the working people lose more assets every day. We underwrite the majority of hospital income with Medicare, getting less results for our money than nearly any advanced nation. And we write a mandatory insurance bill to guarantee 15% profit to insurance companies while offering less care and more out of pocket expense than many policies currently have, and then the president and others sneak around here, like thieves in the night, trying to pass a bill (TPP) which, among other things, guarantees record profits for pharmaceutical companies and less availability for the majority of people for drugs and an almost certain increase in the number of better paying jobs replaced with those that pay less.

We are owned by too many people making money off of us, and we are either too incompetent to figure out how, or too afraid, perhaps, to leave the plantation just in case it might be scary on the other side.

We could if we wanted to.