This last mid-term election cost over 4 BILLION dollars. That’s four BILLION dollars that went from corporate America to politicians to advertising agencies, who decided the best way for politicians to lie cheat and steal their way into power; television stations that aired those abominable ads; public relations firms , consultants, and mass mailings that inevitably ended up in the garbage. The sad thing is that 4 Billion dollars is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of cash the lobbyists are throwing at the politicians on a daily basis. It’s nothing compared to the amount of money being spent on two wars that mean nothing to us, but mean big profits to the Military Industrial Complex.
Contrary to the media blitz that would have us believe an event beyond our comprehension has caused this recession, there has been a robbery, plain and simple. There is a limited, although abundant amount of actual money in the United States and seeing as I haven’t heard about any fires at Fort Knox, or batallions of armored cars filled to the gills with money being vaporized by aliens, the big question is, “Who has the money?”
While people are losing their homes, losing their savings and having their retirement funds stolen by their bosses, corporate America is passing the money back and forth, buying favors to increase their profits, patting each other on the backs while they smoke cigars and fly around in their private jets. They’re paying themselves millions upon millions of dollars a year while they whine about “tough economic times” and stuff their workers down the garbage disposal. American arrogance is a global joke. The nation is in shambles and we continue to attempt to spread “democracy” around the world like an insidious virus.
I doubt very much that this fiasco bears any resemblence to what Tommy Jefferson and the boys had in mind when they cranked up that war for independence that we’ve heard so many stories about.
