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mother earth
(6,002 posts)current global dilemma.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)The media as well as our political parties and corporations will never allow it.
Money is power and they have the money and so the power.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)that concentrating all of the power (politicians, crooks) in one area (the "beltway" is ridiculous for such a populated country.
IMO, we should divide the "power" into about a dozen zones. We can remain the U.S.without the centralized beltway influence.
By doing so "our" elected (?) politicians will be closer to their supposed constituents and probably many good idea's would not be quashed by a Boehner or whoever. We would have a better chance at transparency while not having all of the crookedness that is IMO, in the current concentration, a breeding ground for corruption.
We have to do something. This is not the America that I grew up in. Now its all about the Benjamins.
War, greed , very little compassion, wealth inequality that is off the charts and too big to
jail people and of course corporations and banksters.
It used to be said that "freedom is not free." That is still true; only now "they" are talking about cash not sacrifice....
Run Bernie, Run..
markpkessinger
(8,409 posts)Has anyone else noticed how this line is trotted out anytime anybody points to something that other countries (particularly Scandinavian countries) have done successfully, as a catch-all excuse for why those things couldn't possibly work here? I saw the same rationale used a couple of days ago in a discussion about Norway's much more enlightened approach to crime and punishment. I'm really tired of hearing that excuse, and in most cases, I think it is pure bullshit.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)The day is coming, the last resort, the only option left is to do what our elected seemingly will not. As Matt Taibbi says, the too big to fails are also the too big to jail. Let's hope there will be a reckoning and a return to rule of law.
When nations are an example of applied success, in whatever scope, we need to applaud and learn from those lessons. It's all about the oligarchs, globally, right now. Unbridled greed has wrought these ills, it can change, but we have to demand it.
TY, markpkessinger, for your comments.
TY to all of you.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...but when computers animate the corpse, it looks almost like it's alive.
- And everyone's afraid to tell the Zombie Banks that they're dead.
K&R