New Figures Detail Depth Of Unemployment Misery, Lower Earnings For All But Super Wealthy (VIDEO)

I wonder if the champions of capitalism rich and poor alike, (which has solidly failed the American people twice now in but 80 years) are ready to concede that it may not be all it has been cracked up to be?

The immediate response to this (if any) will be through Ad Hominem from those who see the world in only two contrasting colors with the ever popular shield that surely I must be talking about taking our country communistic, socialistic or some other "istic"...failing to see that perhaps a mix of the tried and untrue economic models might be the way to go for us. Or something new entirely.

But surely, I'm just dreaming in print, because our economic and social futures are already designed and set for us all (globally) by the wealthiest and most powerful; who amassed said wealth and power through nurturing the system(s) we live under to the detriment of the vast majority of Americans whose misfortune can be seen growing daily.

I wouldn't want to be a person of grade school age today, anywhere in the western (or eastern) world and have the next 80 years of being treated like a farm animal... to look forward to.

This is the result of short sighted greed and rampant capitalism with no consideration toward it's workability for the people or the possibility of adapting it when it's failure showed itself evident.

This is the legacy we leave our children.

And our "children's, children's, children".
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Sean Bielat Compares Gays To Short People

I'm scratching my head over here... What's the issue?

Knowing the sort of military conflicts and righteousness in pursing them that we have witnessed over the last decade, why in the world would anyone actually want to join or fight for the right to join the military in the first place.

Sure, maybe some college opportunity. Perhaps a little financial security and a shot at a veteren's loan or two.

But you can join Blackwater/XE and do better in these areas if that's what you're willing to sell your soul over.

This whole argument of who can and who can't be in the military and what must or shouldn't be disclosed (although there's hardly ever a secret to it in the first place in the foxhole) simply goes right over my head.

Now I know some people will say most things do go over my head...but let me help you out...this one item really does and I won't even bother to dispute that with them.
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Will Republicans Take Control Of Congress In Midterm Elections? Michael Steele, Tim Kaine Debate GOP 'Wave'

GOP...DEM, what's the difference?

The same party wins every time regardless of what they publicly call themselves or use to make it appear that there's actually a chasm between them.

To muddy the waters further, these two (supposedly individual) entities hold an open exchange regularly and reverse their personae like a good cop/bad cop routine.

Give yourself a pop quiz. Pick 10 random, major issues of legislation or policy throughout our brief history then look up which party was responsible for them.

You'll find that contrary to the illusion presented today the GOP has often been "the people party" (abolishing slavery) and contrary-wise the DEMS have also played the role of champion for banking, business and war (Creation of the Fed Reserve, income tax, Viet Nam).

Of course, currently and within the last few generations, it would appear that these characteristics and concerns are once more being attributed in reverse order...but that's the illusion...that's the lulling effect of choosing the blue pill.

Do yourself a favor if you want to break the spell. Make and take the quiz.

Escape the matrix.
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FDIC Called On To Put Bank Of America Into Receivership

Hate to break this to anyone unaware of it, but if anyone thinks that we are going to resolve the banking problem in this country by going after one or more established banks at a time, you've got another think coming.

By all reports and opinions I've heard on the subject by "expert analysts" BOA should have been declared bankrupt and seized and foreclosed upon by the US government rather than included in the taxpayer bail out. So too, JP Morgan and possibly Sachs/Goldman.

They weren't but America was thrown the bones of Lehman and Bear Stearns as sacrificial lambs instead.

BOA came up golden and nothing is going to bring down the same banks that are providing buoyancy to BOA or the industry as it stands (with their hands out) today.

It's lose-lose for the American borrower and taxpayer.

These guys (banks) think nothing of biting the hands that feed it.

We're on our own, no matter how many stories like this come out to make it appear otherwise.
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Juan Williams FIRED: NPR Sacks Analyst Over Fox News Muslim Comments

The hypocrisy is this, if the majority of nationals in America were not equally "nervous" about this or any other people, why would we have allowed our government to erode our constitution under the guise of the Patriot Act and Homeland Security in an effort to single out and scrutinize certain "types" of people who don't conveniently fit the christian cookie cutting mold? Why are we in a ten year multiple invasion and funding covert operations in other primarily Muslim countries and churning out propaganda against others as yet uninvolved?

Since 9/11 this country has again and again taken steps (including the elimination of civilians in far greater numbers than what occurred on 9/11) for nothing more than being nervous about a particular people.

But Juan, mentioning his own trepidation is too brutally honest and out in the open for the squeamish or reluctant to speak what has been carried out through international policy by America (and the nations of NATO) for a decade??

Ask the people who have a problem with a mosque at "Ground Zero" if they're not nervous.

As a people and a nation our hypocrisies out shadow our feigned concern for these other people who justifiably or otherwise, America itself has shown itself to be nervous about.
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