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2011-09-28 - 6:42 a.m.

I am so disappointed right now. The country is spiraling down the drain and while I understand that nothing is simple I think that the callous nature of our current climate is shocking. People are demonstrating in the streets, not with guns or pitchforks but with words and their presence and they are being dragged away in handcuffs by a police force that are themselves under fire by the corporations they are protecting. Yes the protesters are shouting but really, does that deserve pepperspray?

The politicians just keep repeating the fantasy that we "chased" jobs overseas by being to regulatory and demanding a living wage when we were never able to compete with emerging markets once the restrictions for bring foreign made products were removed. Paying peasants pennies to do what Americans needed wages high enough to purchased American products. The companies were also able to pollute with impunity. Nobody cared if the waters in some village became toxic. The rich in those countries have access to clean water who cares about the peasants. Once global travel became manageable and import tariff regulations were loosened those companies were headed overseas regardless. We will never be able to compete with the China and China is having trouble competing with the Philippines. We are engaged in a race to the bottom and rather than demand that the race be stopped we are making it easier for the companies to win, we are even being told that by handing the gold medal to the corporations we can return to the days when there was a chicken in every pot. The reality is we are looking at being happy with a bowl of rice.

It's not that we bear no responsibility for our situation. So many people bought into consumerism lifestyle being pushed by the self same corporations who would place all blame on the American people for the state of the nation. We buy less now because we have no choice and the corporations bleat about how they are losing money and so they cut jobs thereby reducing their consumer base all the more. Really? They don't see that? They don't understand the idea that there is no one who can afford to buy and the secret is to take a minor loss in the beginning to get a major gain in the end? We need a Ford or a Boldt right now. We need someone who understands that a business can create at consumer base by creating jobs and paying enough that people can afford to buy your product. They can engender the kind of loyalty that companies once enjoyed before Walmart convinced them they could have it all at half the price.

We were fools but so were they. While we rushed out to buy those cheap products the companies cut jobs and salaries forcing people to buy more cheap products. We raced hand in hand into this disaster and hand and hand we must pull back. But that presupposes that corporations care about America which they most certainly do not.

What are we to do? We cry out in written words, we cry out in the streets we cry out from our increasing poverty and our words fall on deaf ears. I am afraid and though I try to lose myself in the day to day and ignore the world I have so little effect on, I can not shut my eyes. Like the Whos in Whoville I want to shout "we are here, we are here". The difference between our world and the world of Suess is that when Hortons world became aware of the Whos they cared enough to stop, the corporations know we are here they just don't care.

When will it stop? When we are all living in "Metropolis"?

I wish you Peace

~alison~


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