What we really need is to stop beating the dead horse known as electoral politics. It is broken beyond repair.Start building your own social networks and your own local economies as divorced as possible from the death economy of the U.S. And by all means, do your best to keep your money from their greedy little tax collecting hands. Good luck and godspeed.

But there is no shortage of wars.

berniem, exactly! We need a greed-purging device, preferably one that sucks the guts out of our plutocrats and ‘public servants’ through their rectums.

Non-violently, of course.

The crisis in the funding of the public benefits debt falls squarely at the feet of those political “leaders” and their avarious plutocratic and corporate masters whose mismanagement and malfeasance in quest of personal gain resulted in monies which should have been vouchsafed for their explicit purposes as agreed to by contract being “borrowed” and expropriated thru the use of legislative sleight-of-hand and frittered away on projects designed to benefit and promote the fortunes of the few at cost to the many! Publically funded sports venues, tax giveaways, interstate corporate extortion, selective infrastructure projects, allowing risk-free corporate degradation of communities and the environment at tax payer expense, irresponsible bailouts, etc. ad nauseum have left the well-heeled and their political co-conspirators unscathed and those who labor in good faith holding the bag full of broken promises as well as the bill for funding the next round of swindles! Our marvelous system of revolving door government assures that these self-serving leeches are always left with the cover of plausible deniability and the leeway to blame any and all but themselves for the problems at hand while formulating new plans to continue the game as previously played!

The results of the efforts of the neocons and the other knaves and fools of the craven cabal of ‘W’, ‘01’ thru ‘08, are coming home to roost, and will assure the continued destruction of our once-functioning society, as we knew it up until the Reagan years accelerated it’s perversion.

Unless we (we, the people, NOT we, the politicians) take some drastic actions to right our sinking ship of state, our sinking economy, our sinking world-wide reputation, our sinking moral standards, and our justly sinking self-esteem and morale.

We must have faith in our future, and invest in it, We must invest in our nation, and for that we need money, so we must ‘up’ our income. And we cannot up our income by stealing from the poor, we must ask/demand that those who can afford it pay their share.

We must also reduce our expenses, when and where we can, but NOT by violating our raison d’etre, which is, among other thing, to assure that all our citizens have the right to the pursuit of happiness, and the assurance of their life and liberty.

This will cost us, time, effort, thought, and devotion to the purpose of restoring what we had, and destroying what we have. This plutocratic travesty of a government-by-bribery must go, whatever it takes.