Icelanders Overthrow Government and Rewrite Constitution After Banking Fraud-No Word From US Media

[jtuck004]

95. I didn't say I was giving up <G>. But there's too much magical thinking,

too little recognizing what is doing it's best to slap us in the face.

I lived through all that, so when I say this is different from the 60's - early 70's, I mean in a really harsh and dangerous way. Back then our parents and grandparents were working, women were increasing their numbers in the workforce which would give us one of our last great economic pushes, people had money in retirement, changes to social programs were helping curb poverty, people were marching against the war, racism, authoritarianism, and sometimes just because they liked the boy or girl they just met (well, ok, that last one hasn't changed). Homes were being bought, paid off, sold, and a lot of people had enough money in the bank when they retired to live for a couple of decades. The economy was mostly healthy, people still had extra money to spend on "things", and we had not yet entered the period in which most of our assets had been sold off and the country put into servitude to the wealthy. We could go to, and create, food kitchens, because there was such a largess of things to choose from, and, unlike today, they were always stocked and full. People had unemployment, schools were relatively cheap, etc. There was an economy which allowed for all that, but more important people were emboldened by the fact that they COULD go experiment with things such as new architecture, forms of business, drugs, whatever, and there would still be at least a place they could get in out of the rain and eat.

This is not that world.

Now everyone is up to their ears in debt, and government policies are such that it is encouraging us to take out more so we will be even more beholden to the the financiers. People are scared, frightened, not like they were back then. We are dragging children off to jail from their classrooms, and mostly non-violent protests are being met with harsh measures from a far more militaristic police force.

The assets we lived on back then are gone, the majority of people, if they are working, are mostly just managing to make enough to insure that interest is paid to the wealthy, and tens of millions of those outside of the 50 million who live in poverty have nothing in the bank, and it's even a question as to whether they will even have enough Social Security to eat on, much less keep them out of poverty.

And people are SURE it's going to get better. It must, because it used to be better, right? What utter bullshit. It's magical thinking. They might as well be praying to the spaghetti monster to save them.

The wealthy have taught themselves finance, they go after assets to own, they operate them for their own benefit. They have been allowed to put a pridcfe on EVERYTHING. We have even cut off access to learning for many people in the ways that built this country, and both political parties are helping the wealthy in their quest. The response from most of the rest of the country is to watch more cable tv.

We need to be not only recognizing that there is a problem, but finding ways to educate and train ourselves, gain assets, find ways to live without debt and without helping the wealthy in their quest of living from the servitude of everyone else.

But as yet I see too little in the way of a plan to do so. I haven't given up, but when the car is out of control on the ice and you are sliding to your doom, and you are still turning the wheels the way the back end is swinging so you can regain control, you may, at some point, realize that, although you still have hope, you still haven't given up, you are still trying, that despite your best efforts you are going to crash and burn, and there is nothing you can do about it.

But you keep steering, foot off the gas...