Reply #19: 9, 10 rising.

[HughBeaumont]

All of the easily led angry white men and nervous women out there were too busy buying that "COMM'NISM" "Reds Undah th' Bed" bullshit.

"Th' TV sez if I vote Democrat, that's as good as lettin' the secund Bolshuhvik rev'lution in. WHUT will muh neighbors think if I did that?"

Then for the next 30 years, they were either too scared or too stupid (or both) to realize that all of their jobs were being shipped overseas and all of their tax dollars were either siphoned off to corporations or used to build a war machine that only invaded and not defended. Just like corporate America, "peacetime" militaries can't just get paid and funded to run drills. They gotta do SOMETHING, so why not bomb small sovereign nations that did nothing to us?

The Repukes who ran this country straight into a chasm, in all of their furious energy to compartmentalize and cheapen business, kind of forgot the notion of replacement.

They never replaced the resources they gutted. They never replaced the occupations/careers they destroyed. They never wanted to update the factories to accommodate new technologies.

That was never part of their plan.

They didn't care about infrastructure, health care, education or social safety nets, because it didn't represent direct profits to THEM. Since they don't see direct benefit to raising our wages, they've stagnated them for three decades straight.

Our retail outlets had to be infinitely larger and our industries and white collar jobs cheaper. Fast, perfect, cheap.

Unfortunately, all that does is leave a glut of educated and non-educated workers holding the bag not only for impending and exorbitant college costs, but a job market that's been downright LOUSY for nearly a decade when they're done with this "retraining".

The corporatist's attitude is this: "I got and want EVERYthing. You can TRY to get a smidgen, but at the same time, I'm going to do my absolute godDAMNdest to make SURE you don't get it. This is a one-horse hill, Sonny Jim, and you ain't invading my space!"

For all of it's talk of "we're the most innovative nation", where is the "innovation" happening? NOT HERE. We're simply too expensive. Our third-world work force can do it. For all it's talk of "we're the nation with the most FREEDUM!" . . . sh-yah, right. Lose your job and tell me how free you are. Hell, KEEP your job and tell me how "free" you really are.

Corporations own us lock, stock and barrel, and we're too scared of ARREST, ARREST, ARREST to resist or overtake them. We're so ridiculously tethered to our jobs that there's really no hope of us ever becoming like Europeans.

We think marching on Washington when cable networks won't broadcast it is going to do some good.

You want to impress me? Bust through a gated community and invade the homes of the corporatists. Invade board rooms. Politicians aid and abet them all . . .. the wealthy old man cabal is the source of all this. Force them to start biting bitter pills or we're all doomed.

We live in a nation where a person's success and future is almost completely dependent on how gainfully they're employed.

Replace and rebuild. Wages = consumption. To hell with this "quarterly profits" mindset. Disaster Reaganite Friedman/Hayek Corporatism is over. OVER. That model failed and it should never be brought back.

It's time to innovate again and make this nation what it was supposed to be all along - a LEADER, not a nation that injects a steady high of debt, cable "news", flags and crosses.