Yes, Suzan, you and others have been screaming about this a very long time, but no one inside the bubble wants to listen to the truth.
Steve, one of the things about the Tommy Douglas “Mouseland” fable is that he has been telling it since before World War II, and most people still elect “cats”, like those that live inside “the bubble”.
Badtux, Hoover did most of his feeding in Europe after the two World Wars. He expected private charity to deal with the problem in the US. Like today, the people in DC didn’t understand how bad things were, and the media did its best to hide the truth by talking about the economy as a local story. The lie by omission of the media is one of the reasons so many people began moving – they thought things were better in other areas.
I also think it is absurd for a state to have twice as many Senators as Congresscritters, but then I would like a real representative democracy, as in something that represents the voters rather than the elites.
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]]>Both major parties are displaying all the political and social acumen of Mel Brooks’s Louis XVI. The last time I was going downhill as fast as we all are today, I was on a bicycle, the hill was in Bartlesville, OK and the bottom of it was almost the end of me. I can only hope there’s one more miracle left in the bag today, because we’re gonna need it.
]]>They are revolting in Spain and Greece and Portugal and France and Ireland against the corruption and inequity of having the expenses of the capitalist casino being put on the lower classes. It’s socialism for the upper classes and capitalism for those below.
Will the U.S. lower classes be the only sheeple left in the world?
This may be the start of some real change.
Who’s on board?
More facts are available at my site and elsewhere.
Suzan
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