Reply #8: They didn't see this coming? ORLY? [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

For the past 28 years:

- The economy has been primarily built on war/defense, pharmaceuticals, insurance, debt investment, technology and risky financial instruments; with the exception of technology, all unstable, speculative sectors and concentrate wealth and security on the top of the chain,

- Pretty much every social program has either been cut or de-funded, resulting in poor schools, crumbling infrastructure and a social safety net that isn't worth the paper it's non-existent plan is printed on,

- With the exception of the Clinton years, taxes on the wealthy have been lower and lower with each passing year, which is part of the reason for a 10 trillion dollar increase in the national debt (the other part being worthless, illegal and greed-based wars) and affecting the economy with booms, bubbles and crashes rather than steady job creation and real wealth building,

- Manufacturing, Automotive and General Industry in the US has gone the way of the Dodo, resulting in several million displaced workers, many of whom will be experiencing long periods of un/under-employment,

- College costs have skyrocketed while college degrees (thanks to there being substantially less jobs available than college-educated workers that can fill them) have become all but worthless,

- Our corporations have been overrun by Friedmanite bean-counters who refuse to veer from this predatory plan that has failed the overall economy for that same amount of time (you know, unless you happen to be well-monied . .. then it works out just fine),

- Incomes of the wealthy have increased anywhere from 29 to 1000 percent while the average worker makes, in real dollars, the same income he/she did in 1973 (this same condition was prevalent in the Great Depression as well),

- Job security no longer exists in many American occupational sectors, which now require massive amounts of expensive training to even get entry to,

- Offshore out/in-sourcing has replaced paying American citizens good wages and has jeopardized the future of at least 14 million jobs by 2015 according to one survey,

. . .. and they're STILL trying to tell us "No one could have SEEN THIS COMING????"

A wise man once said "you can't feed the birds by giving the horse more oats".

Yet they keep believing the same old horseshit is going to work for everyone eventually. "It HAS to! We spent millions convincing ourselves Milton Friedman was right, and goddammit, we will keep on trying until he IS!!"

Unbelievable.