Evidence
That This Home of the Master Race of Self Chosen People was the World’s Greatest
Democracy Even Before Trump
In
1965, the USA had 780,000 people in prison, jail, on parole or on probation.
By 2010, that
population had grown by more than nine times, to 7 million and the prison
business was booming as never before, creating profits, jobs and unparalled
human misery.
In
2015 there were 536 billionaires in the U.S.A.
In
a nation of more than 325 million people, that represents less than 2
millionths of one percent of the population.
For
the textually challenged, that looks like this:
.000002%
Wow.
How
hard those truly brilliant people must have worked to achieve those riches. And
one of them was Donald Trump!
Imagine
how many cases they had to plead in court, classes to teach in school, busses
to drive, meals to prepare, floors to wash, crops to pick, mail to deliver and
deals to make? Well, actually, they mostly made deals using their great wisdom and
brilliance at investing wisely. You and I could do as well if we worked as hard
and were as smart and industrious as they are, including Donald Trump!
And
if we were paid a thousand dollars an hour for our hard work, and we worked
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year, maybe, if we
stashed all that cash and didn’t spend any of it we might have a billion
dollars.
Nope.
In
fact, if you worked twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty two weeks
a year and did that for ten years, at one thousand dollars an hour, never
stopped, never took any time off and never spent any of the money and just
stashed it, you still wouldn’t have a billion dollars.
Is
this a great democracy or what?
In that
same year of 2015 America’s GDP for pets, which was $38.5 billion in 2006, had
grown to $60.3 billion.
12 companies
insured 1.4 million pets owned by 79.6 million American families (65% of
households) with premiums amounting to 660.5 million dollars.
163.8 million
dogs and cats are comfortably housed in a political economy that has half a
million of its people homeless and more than 20% of its children living in
poverty. This is certainly reason enough for us to demand that Russia, North
Korea, Syria and other nations adopt our democratically civilized way of living
or suffer the consequences of our superior wrath. Right?
As of
March1, 2017 our national debt was close to $20 trillion, which is more than
our GDP, which is truly a gross domestic product. We the people of this great
democracy pay more than $440 billion a year in interest on that debt.
Who do we
pay it to?
Where’d
they get the money to loan us?
Who prints
and backs this money supply?
If you
have any money among your plastic, look at one of the bills of any denomination
and note that the power behind the cash is not the dead presidents or
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Zuckerburg, Soros, Bezos, Visa or MasterCard but something
called “The United States of America”.
That is
not a private bank or a billionaire. That’s you. That’s us.
Remember,
we, the public, print the money, in our name, and somehow it gets to a private
source which loans it to us and charges us interest for the privilege. Would
you like to buy a bridge?
Our personal
debt, incurred to keep the economy going with our consuming and owed to the
same market gods, was over $18 trillion.
Almost as
high as our public debt.
Somehow,
we owe it to the same people who loaned us our own money for public expenses.
Wow.
Are they
really smart?
Or are we
really stupid?
Many
Americans are treated as lower than scum for being working class and
"un-educated". Why are so many Americans so "un-educated"? Could
it have anything to do with the fact that at some point they went through
grammar and high schools taught by (drum roll) college-educated people**? And
winding up with presidents like a truly brilliant rich guy with degrees from Yale
and Harvard (wow!) who starts wars in the Middle East that have gone on longer
than any in our history, with the consent of 534 out of 535 democratically (?)
elected college graduates in congress?
Whether
the organized crime lobby (Wall Street, Banks, Billionaires) supports guns for
individuals, Israelis or the Military Industrial Complex, it remains in control
of the political economics of American government. NRAIPAC and its ilk own,
rent and control the White House, Congress and Corporate media. That was the
case before Trump and still is the case now.
We need
resistance to that system of minority control itself, and not simply the
servants it hires, leases, rents or outright owns. As long as we allow a gallon
of milk to cost more than a gallon of gasoline, as long as we tolerate an
economics that will sustain a disease as long as profits for its treatment are
greater than profits for its cure***, we not only face long range climate
disaster but a much shorter range political economic calamity.
Global
capitalism threatens immediate and growing poverty, war, human misery and
planetary destruction no matter which political pinhead, pimp or ho lives in
the subsidized residency we call the white house. As long as we allow the
richest and smallest minority in our history to put only their servants up for
our votes, calling this a democracy reduces us to the best-dressed peasants on
the Titanic. We need to end the fundamentalist religion of private profit
marketing that is becoming a greater menace by the minute and begin democratic
action in a social revolution that expresses majority public interest, desire
and need. Fast.
*All members of the human race are “of color” save for a small group
called albinos. Some of us have darker or lighter skin but skin tone is of no
more racial significance than brown hair, green eyes or long legs. Innocents,
the ignorant and morons who still believe otherwise are science deniers at
best, and anti-human at worst, no matter their skin tone.
**“Those with a stake in
maintaining their incomes & consumption are unlikely to participate in
efforts to bring about radical change”
Michael D. Yates
***Check cancer, for starters; a multi-multi billion-dollar industry
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