Listening to Hillary's speech today, where have we heard this before?

[Dragonfli]

39. Hilary is working with a broken compass

In her mind the compass looks like this and she feels it points in the proper direction



But the unfortunate reality is that the compass she is using is irreparably broken and only points one way - right



This broken compass points towards:

Privatization of public services
trickle down economics
"sensible" cuts to social services and entitlements that should be increased rather than lessened due to rising poverty and stagnant wages
War, interventions and more war
Dereegulation of banking and corporations
and so called trade deals that will help expedite all of the above goals.


I am sure she feels her moral compass is pointing in the proper direction and felt the end of welfare as we know it was a good thing, that banking deregulation that led to the end of Glass/Steagall was prudent, trade deals that have more to do with granting corporate sovereignty and special corporate rights rather than actual tariffs and trade will lead to a better world, that a commission to look at cuts to SS rather than raising the cap is all good for the country and I do not doubt that she is sincere in all these beliefs.

Unfortunately, most of these beliefs are demonstrably false, have let to the decline and poverty of the common working people while bringing wage disparity between the upper crust and the rest of us to levels unseen since the gilded age. Now from her perspective and the perspective those she socializes with whom are all benefiting greatly from such policy, such leadership and such a direction must appear wonderful and profitable, but to those of us (the 99.9% of the rest of the country, such a broken compass leading to such a state are breaking us, and we have so little left to give so that people such as her that count their fortunes in the multi-millions or billions of dollars can have even more money to put in a pile they will likely never spend. We need someone with a compass that is not broken, but rather points true to a destiny of shared prosperity in a world where peace is more common than war and those that work for a living can afford to live.


It is time to smash what's left of that broken compass of hers and restore the country to one where every citizen prospers when productivity rises and where taxes paid to maintain the country and the citizens do not come from the middle class and struggling working class people almost exclusively, but rather from those with the most that take the most while providing so little of the labor that makes all of that capital that is going almost exclusively to a lazy vampirific, non working uber-rich class, and corporations that although highly profitable pay very little or none of the taxes when they are not getting handouts instead of paying taxes at all.

At least, that is the view from down here, a place she has forgotten exists by all appearances, a place where homelessness is a possibility and paying a co-pay for needed medical procedures means not paying one's utility bill.

If only she had eyes to see below the clouds of Olympus, she may change direction and work for the majority rather than the richest among us that are all that remain in her sights at this point in her life.


That is just a thought from an impoverished former blue collar worker that worked his way out of deep poverty to join the ranks of the lower middle class only to fall back into the deepest of poverty yet again due to illnesses that no longer allow me to work, are chronic and will get worse but not better coupled with a SS disability insurance system that I pad dutifully into for forty years only to be in a position where they are trying to enable my death via extreme poverty by making me wait it out (in the hopes I die I think) before honoring our agreement now that I can't work. They have been screwing me around for four years now and it appears they will win as I will likely die homeless before their stalling is complete. (a reality that I am sure will put a smile on Pete Peterson's face if he hears about it)

That is all.....