In America today there seems to be a deficit of critical thinking among the working class people of this country. My question is why do we allow less than 1% of the population to control everything? They couldn’t do it if we didn’t let them. But some how they manage to keep the rest of the 99% of us divided enough to maintain their control. We are so blind that we can’t see what is happening.
We have a Supreme Court that is playing politics in it’s decision making. First they ruled that money is speech, then they ruled that corporations are people and their most democracy damaging ruling to date; they have allowed unlimited amounts of money, contributed by the super wealthy and multinational corporations to literally buy the country’s political system. The voices of “we the people” are completely drowned out. The people we elect to represent us, including republicans and democrats, refuse to hear what we have to say. When the money in politics speaks, those in government do what they are commanded to do by those who contribute the money. At a time when corporations are making record profits, many of these same corporations are paying no taxes at all. Even more striking is the fact that many of these corporations are being subsidized with the taxes we pay while “we the people” are struggling to make ends meet.
The five biggest oil companies made record profits again last year while “we the people” had to scrape together gas money just to make it to work and back home. These same oil companies received more than $20 billion in tax subsidies last year alone. The US the senate has refused to stop giving tax breaks to profitable corporations while continuing to want to cut the most needed, vital and successful social programs in American history.
Congress had made an agreement to cut almost $600 billion from the DOD over ten years, but already President Obama is beginning show signs that he is going to let them out of the deal that was made, just as he is showing signs that he is willing to allow the Bush tax breaks to NOT EXPIRE when he claimed that he wanted them to expire. In order to make the point valid he should just say that we need to allow ALL the Bush tax cuts to expire, not just those on the rich. That way they can’t claim that he is discriminating. Just those two adjustments would be enough to put the budget deficit on the road to recovery without cutting those important safety net programs, Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare at all. Working class people who vote for republicans must not realize that the people they vote for are the ones who are pulling the ground from unbder their feet. But if you add to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the taking away of all this corporate welfare (subsidies) and significant cuts id DOD spending, this country could be in a much, much better position. Yet “we the people” vote for politicians who refuse to do either.
Giant international banks have nearly driven this country into ruin, yet we vote for the politicians who continue to allow them to be “too big to fail”. And when they get into trouble again, we’ll have to bail them out, AGAIN! Some say that Bank Of America and Goldman-Sachs are already on the brink again even as I write this article,
At a time when three-fourths of the country are against the war in Afghanistan, want the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share, the US senate has voted against the will of the American people in both instances. The democrats claim that they don’t have the votes to accomplish anything, but that is only an excuse to not accomplish anything. There is a strategy available to them called budget reconciliation, which they refuse to use. But this is what happens when money is allowed to make all the rules. Establishment democrats and “blue dog” democrats are just as complicit as republicans. Their only motivation is the money that is flooding the system.
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