The Bushs did it the same way as the (Reagan)/Bush S&L bailout by US unrepresented taxpayers. These people are MAD (Morally Arrogant and Depraved)!

Molly is great at shining light on the dirt, but consistently weak at suggesting a solution. Therefore, I have some ideas how to fight back and put them into a online book at the following link http://fixco1.com/fight/index.html

Optimist or pessimist? I suspect as the current republican congress’ and administration’s corporate backers sense the coming end of their political dominance, we will see a level of wholesale looting of this country’s wealth and treasure that will be so blatant, vast, and beyond anything we have seen yet, that it will take decades to recover. As they realize their ride is coming to an end their greed will focus. I already feel sorry for future administrations and generations trying to put this country back together again. The next three years will be even more shocking than the past five.

Read books like “Fast Food Nation” if you want to understand our nation’s food dilemma. The minute people start eating a sustainable diet ( organic and plant based ) market forces will topple the agra-business tyranny. And there won’t be industry treasure-chests to buy off politicians.

Duh. How about true campaign finance reform?

easy as “throw the bums out”....if we had a nationwide lottery and elected at random we could not help but get bettr,more honest&compassionate; representatives..Lack of experience may well be a godsend at this point..deliver us from evil

See this as a solution…

http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/

It’s a magic mix “they’ve” got going… “they’ve” engineered the economics so the masses have just enough opportunity to make just enough money to have just enough of the “good life” NOT to revolt and upset all the cash cows which, of course, benefit “them” the most.

In #6893, SusanG wrote, in part, “But I think that I knew that the sh*t would hit the fan at some point in the future.”

I too have somehow “known” for 50 years that the system of economics we have in the West simply cannot be sustained. Anyone with more than a room-temperature IQ should realize you can’t increase earnings up to 10% each year forever. As SusanG puts it, the “sh*t” is about to hit the fan, bigtime, and we can all guess who’s going to take the brunt of it… (hint: not the top 10% of the incomes)!

My God! Listen to us, we’re like third world people, afraid and hopeless. And the Mexicans want to be a part of this??? Are they nuts? The only thing I can think to do is vote everyone out, But what if I throw out the baby with the dishwater? What then? Well, hells bells, there probably isn’t anyone in who’s worth keeping anyway, right? My Mama used to call people like our representatives in Washington “weak sisters”. Maybe someone will stand up to be counted to tell us what we need not what they think we want to hear. But I doubt it. Weak sisters aren’t known for being courageous.

It is just too sad.  Though Molly’s editorial covers the pernicious theft in our legislative body.  Still,

I remember going to the Yucatan pennisula in 1986 and learning that the Mayan calendar ended in 2011, if I remember correctly.  Maybe there is a point to that.  I’d hate to say that we are going to destroy ourselves and our beloved planet, but I think that we deserve it. The planet; NO!

Everything that I read, and it’s what I presume to be considered enlightened, doesn’t sound very good.

Let’s face it.  Unless WE actually do something to stop the heretics in the White House and their colaborators in Congress(both sides), then we deserve to perish.  I’m sure glad that I never had children and I feel very bad for those of you that did.  But I think that I knew that the sh*t would hit the fan at some point in the future.  I actually began to think of it during the Cuban missle crisis and thought that children would not be a good idea.  I already saw the insanity that we regularly now see every day.  Another war?  If that is not insanity, then I don’t know what is?

Remove the president for criminal insaniity(25th ammendment) and impeach Cheney, the de-facto president, for imposing an office. Oh yes, and Rumsfeld is criminally insane also. The rest of the junta are just criminals.  Just a thought.

Molly offers nothing new. Most people have known about such dealings for many years. What we are coming to understand is that the situation is hopeless. The corporations own us. There’s nothing we can do about it; little reason to go on here.

2006: The Year of the People aka Throw the bums out!

The Neocons use the tactics of a street gang or junior high rich kid playground bully to gain power and we let them! My god, what have we become!

Get a grip, America. The Neocons have no claim on enlightenment. They are a bunch of thugs. Look at their tactics: they reward loyalty and punish disloyalty allowing no dissent, focusing on expanding the power base. I mean they openly say, “If you deviate from the talking points, we will cream you.”

There is nothing rational about what is going on in our country. I would amend Lincoln’s words as follows: “Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices [AND FEARS] of the people until all wealth is aggregated in few hands and the republic is destroyed.”

We are so afraid of losing our good jobs that we, in fact, are losing our good jobs.

We are so afraid of someone we label undeserving having healthcare that we are losing our own healthcare.

We are so afraid of terrorists that we have become terrorists. (Look up the definition in the dictionary.)

The list of the negative outcomes of our fears is endless, because that is what happens when people are afraid.

We the people have exchanged our birthright of inalienable rights for all, for the porridge of material wealth. The lesson (from the Neocons’ Fundamentalist Christian Bible) is that by doing so, we lose both our rights and our wealth.

Well once again Molly has nailed the “bastards”.
And once again she is preaching to the choir.
Is anyone keeping a list?  Where is the candidate that will reverse all/any of these “mistakes”.
Yep, November can’t come soon enough…..May primaries are just around the corner in Indiana.
I’ll be there, picture id in hand.  Just hope my vote is tabulated correctly…...

I agree about the chasm, rachelle, but what makes Molly, you and other “discontented” and outspoken people so treasured in these Carrollian times is simple human contact - knowing you are not alone.

At the very least we can all agree that there is a chasm and take comfort that it isn’t our own personal alienation.

Keep writing, keep remembering, keep speaking. Silence=Death.

Thanks, Molly, for another informative and amusing article.

Abraham Lincoln wrote, “Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in few hands and the republic is destroyed.”

Lincoln warned us about corporate corruption and nobody listened.
Ike warned us about the Military Industrial Complex and nobody listened.

Welcome to Plutocratic Fascism. How do you like it so far?

All the more reason November can’t come soon enough.
Time for a congressional “scorched Earth policy”, get rid of as many of these scum as possible. Spare no one.

The people of our nation are fat and quite insane.the republic is bought and paid for by big buisness ,so molly bend over and take like an american .

Problem is, Molly, the discontent among us—and that includes me—are talking to each other only. Those is power as well as the vast majority of the population, who have neither the means, the time nor the courage to look these issues in the eye, are not listening.

When I read the controlled and manipulated news on the one hand, and then the rebels like us in the background, I can’t help feeling that there is a vast chasm between the two and that there is really very little hope of a constructive dialogue. I feel like a Morlock in H.G. Well’s Time Machine, living underground and coming out at night only. Every day resembles the others.

Guess who’ll win? Not us, I’m afraid…

Good luck Molly! I’ve always read and admired you.