Message #7774

[uselesslegs]

As far as I can tell, blind ideology doesn't have constituents, until you need them every few years to keep your job.  Otherwise, they're silly little people that get in the way of business...political and otherwise.  You throw your district a bone once in awhile...smile...and go back to playing the game of king of the mountain.

This stopped being about compromise and what's the overall good for the majority...the second the last legs were kicked out of our protections from predatory capitalism...and a free market that justifies the American dream of having a job and just being part of the equation...was for sell to the lowest bidder.

The evidence is all around us.  If you want to make money, don't invest here anymore...invest abroad.  Don't invest in people...the return isn't as much as you can get from the paper game and manipulating markets.  There's been a game that's been played since our inception as a country.  The game consists of the few, versus everyone else.  And every so often the few arrange for the deck to be stacked in their favor and every so often we reach a tipping point that tanks our country because the few are convinced they deserve to unbalance the economy for their personal gain...country and citizens be damned.  It's their "right" as American capitalists.  

There is no perfect calculation...there is no magical zone that exists where the rich can be unimaginably wealthy and everything else if fine.  Yin and Yang exist, even for the economy.  There is, however, a middle ground that sorta let's both exist...but neither may see their ultimate personal vision, whatever that entails (mundane or extravagant)...but the rich don't stop being rich...they may just not be King Solomon rich and everyone else may not get that robot butler they wanted...but they're happy they can afford to pay their bills, send their children to school, have medical care and be productive.

There has never been a time in our history that the wealthy did not exist...even under the 90 percent tax.  They remained rich.  They remained more wealthy than the majority of the country.  Our economy, in all it's up and downs, never saw the rich become extinct.  We have seen everyone else suffer horribly on occasion though through this game.

They are/were *THIS* close to seeing the deck stacked completely again in their favor...and Obama (while much more bi-partisan than anyone anticipated) represents probably the one singular entity that can back track or undue the 30 year plus trek to this point in time.  Sooooo close, so so close.  They can't risk he'll flex or bow up during his last 4 years should he see another term...he's gotta go.  If that means you purposely tank the job market or hinder it's growth and create a gazillion non-economy based social issues along the way...so be it.  Whatever keeps your eyes on the prize and eliminates one of the few sources that can derail the game.