A paragraph from Chris Hedges' piece on Truthdig today that adroitly summarizes where we are.....

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46. So very true.

At some point all the little MBA Gordon Gecko wannabes figured out that innovating, building and creating was hard work. The real profits lied in dismantling all that those who came before them had built.

Small banks, small businesses, hospitals, schools, libraries, grants, scholarships, parks, factories and communities have been sucked dry and left as empty husks at our feet. The Romneys and Rumsfelds and Freidman acolytes of this world haven't been able to create, all they know is how to destroy. Like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, they swooped in and vomited acids on the monuments left to us by our forefathers and have licked up the sticky ooze left behind. Sending it off to the Cayman Islands and sugar daddies in the Middle East.

It is being repeated on every corner of the globe and on every people. They will not rest until it is all gone. The only choice one has is to be a part of it or apart of it. On the plus side you can make good money. On the downside you are a mockery of everything being a good liberal, a good patriot or even a good Christian is all about. Turncoats of the grandest scale our world can imagine.