What does it take to Wake Us Up?

[Civic Justice]

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[NCTraveler]

1. Contents at the link.

Civic Justice

8. The fact is... "they are building" and "WE ARE NOT"..


Trying to minimize facts that are OVERTLY visible... does not address what we need to address.
the fiction of the past is over... America IS NOT the powerhouse of Post World War II Era.
and no amount of denial of that fact will change what is happening today.

Saudi Arabia is becoming focused on the future, yet they have oil, but they are investing heavily in renewable energy.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/saudi-arabia-solar-energy-200-billion-investment/

The general overconfidence based on a long gone past, is why too many Americans' can't see the dynamics of our stagnation and decline. We have a Right Wing system fighting everything, thinking it can recreate the 1940's and 1950's with both fiction and fantasy and consumed in confabulations.

We have today a culture where a few people can hang out at Starbuck and drink $4+ cups of coffee or go to a happy hour and drop $40-60+ and they are blind to everything on the global level and where we fit. There is not a city in this nation that one cannot find and "ever expanding ghetto". We can't even fund our schools and install what is needed to protect our children, and roads and bridges that were built 60-80+ yrs ago... are in dire need of servicing. We have cities that file bankruptcy, and rural areas that once thrived are now, overgrown fields with rusty old equipment sitting around and we have a nation of houses builtin the early part of the 20th Century, sitting there waiting on a spark to go up in flames and burn to the ground within 20 minutes. Some towns across the country have "boarded up building", "empty store fronts that have now been empty for 20-30-and in some places for 40 yrs. We have "industrial blight" from companies that pulled up and left, and we were not smart enough to hold them accountable to clean up their mess.
We have people, who have seen their pension plans abandoned, and others who's pension has met the challenge of being insufficient. I know many people who have gone back to take security jobs after age 70, and faced with no means to even consider retiring, only sickness comes and makes them unable to work.

Yet... we have the wealthy boasting about having $Billions and we see companies being bought and sold and destroyed so another can claim they are a $ billion dollar enterprise. Yet, we are still paying people a wage that = No More Than It Cost to House and Feed A Slave. A mass of Americans can't buy a home and many with homes can't maintain them.

But, still we have people who want to be in denial and not realize how we've declined, while the world is modernizing around out.

A reasonable quality vehicle cost more than $30k.. and we have a nation with people still working 8 hr days and making less than $25k a year, even before taxes. We have the madness of an Education costing more than $240K for a reputable university education. After we allowed and even supported the Madness of Reagan to damage State Universities and have the cost skyrocket... and we have purely ignored the value of Community Colleges and did everything we can to discredit and undervalue what is vocational and technical training programs.

We have absolutely no respect for "small business", the nation has no concern to provide funding by any means for Small Business Development... except when the entrepreneurial comes from a professional family or a family with notoriety for having money. We forgot that "Small Business helped build this country"....

We have a generation now, who has no idea why the Stock Market was created. ( they don't know it was for average and industrial investors and employees to invest in the "STABILITY" - "RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT" AND MANAGED GROWTH. They have no idea that "Quarterly Reporting" was based on "Actual Production and Actual Sales"... they now see it as nothing but Speculators and Fleecer's railing about "how it must break the record from the previous quarter"... so we have stocks trading at 300- 3000 times the ability to actual produce and actually sell.... but we have degree riding madmen who see nothing but a fiction to borrow against fiction, over expand and over stock and pretend they are performing. Then 3 months later, the stock is sold off to Liquidators that feed the expanding "Dollar Store Group" and "Discounters'...so the company can "over stock for the next quarter and pretend they have booming sales.

They can do this because WE REMAIN UNAWARE, and afraid to think beyond 7.5 seconds about anything other than what entertainer got almost naked and call it fashion or what skinny girl can be seen with a bikini... or how many bathrooms does an entertainer have in an over exaggerated costly house. If we can't put on something with a commercial logo on it, people are claiming they are depressed, and if they can't shop like a shop-a-holic.. they claim life is such a drag. Until we have kids who are into bullying other kids because they don't have certain material things. The quality of character is now more based on "public popularity" rather than ethics and morals.

Yep.... Rome Fell... and many other Once Great Nations, and We Are Not Immune.

We have sit and allowed a 100% Moron to Occupy Our White House, just because he has money, that he swindled from not paying taxes, corruption, money washing and every type of mobster connection he could manage. He uses Belligerence AGAINST Everything this country invested Centures and Decades to Build.. and we allow him to desecrate it and push a mentality out in the world of Ignorance, that demonstrates that we have fallen to the level, to allow such madness, and then let our congressional people sanction it, because they are afraid their gravy train might get exposed. then wrap that into the madness of a segment of society, still lusting for the racist ignorance they remember from the past as they have taught their offspring to pursue in this day and age.

It's INSANITY......... and Confabulation Driving An Expanding Madness

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[Arkansas Granny]

2. Excellent! Thanks for posting.