It’s sickening how quickly we forget how the “Great Recession” showed to those really paying attention who really is in control of our country.  Reports projecting this and that are of no real practical importance to the majority of Americans with no significant investment portfolio. People with small shares are held as much hostage as the average worker, and in many ways prisoners, to the big boys who set the game up to benefit themselves.  I guess the problem is we as Americans don’t mind the prisoners lifestyle: give me shelter, three meals, and access to sunshine and recreation periodically and I’m content.  We will always behave and be reasonable, and the prison guards and wardens can live by their own rules because they have the authority we grant them.  There will be no productive, peaceful revolt, because too many are too easily lulled or dismayed by these seemingly insurmountable entrenched institutions.

Lest we forget, the money driving the investment recovery is government money borrowed from China. It is money bled from this countries labor by deliberate policy of Republican and Democratic Parties giving investment a green light to avoid regulation and responsbilty for production by sending most of our heavy industry and much more to asia primarily. I am not faulting Asia for taking complete advantage of the situation, but can we ask what organized labor did to allow this to happen?

Lest we forget, for the first time in our history we went military adventuring without a “war tax” thanks to the deliberate rapaciousness of Bush/Cheney. The American People were sufficiently distressed by the irresponsible greed of the past administration that we overcame our distrust of black people to elect the First Black American President. Obama ran on being a progressive and having liberal leanings and a pledge to return to rule of law, and then what did he do but turn everything over to the Corporations just like the previous administration.

It will take a truely Progressive and Liberal third party to overturn this mess. The Republicans and the Democratic Party are so tainted with corruption and lies they can’t be trusted to run the dog pound.