This is not a rhetorical question. Who owns our economic system - our economy?
If it is the US worker, then she/ he will take the day in the next three weeks or so. If it is the old-hat paradigm of banks/ bankers/ systems of market appreciation-depreciation which own our economy, then a crippling recession and hyperinflation-deflation scenario will rule, and 95 percent of us will suffer very bad consequences. If the old ways dominate we may truly see the return of Depression-era events.
Look at the history of the 1930’s – read the history – and see for yourself. It’s very sad.
But I am hopeful for a real change in our nation – but you, me, all of us – we need to act.
I’m 55, the child of parents that saw the gritty after-effects of the Great Depression; and I heard my parents tell in graphic terms about scenes of foreclosures; and heard them report what massive unemployment in actual fact means for families. I listened to my mother’s account of being forced to sell personal belongings, how there was a loss of family treasures because of economic need; and so I was made to understand how American families had to make the long march back from the brink. I have heard real people tell about what it means when folks suffer in this way; and what the practical consequences are for individuals when a nation suffers economic melt-down.
You don’t want to go there – believe me.
GM stock trading at a 1950’s level reveals the truth in having the tail-wag-the-dog schemata in place today. Under George Bush we have seen the strengths of this nation’s economy and industry gutted by an overweening concern for maintaining the false-promise of unbridled greed; and we have witnessed the consequences of having the current administration sitting on its haunches the last eight years. Today we have Billionaire tycoons and CEO’s riding along on their Golden Parachutes while they reign supreme on Wall Street. On television I see people in suits constantly applauding at the end of the day – they smile and clap every single time at the close of business on the NYSE – even when there is an almost 3000 point drop in less than two weeks.
When a woman making minimum wage sees her retirement savings nearly wiped-out in a fortnight, is that reason to smile? No way!
Some say the world economy cannot be seen with any level of competence or accuracy – it is talked about sometimes like a Sphinx or occult mystery that will take us inexorably to some hidden future.
No, no, no. We are not pawns in some unknown and unknowable future. This is not acceptable.
We can make our own future, our own history – right now.
Let’s make history, you and I, millions of us, by voting with our heart and minds for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I voted already: the Obama-Biden team has my vote in the bank as it were.
Let’s not allow this time around for the GOP to take us down a road to perdition and perfidy using illusory practices and constant kowtowing to free-market ideology; but instead let the US worker and the People of the United States to make the White House a place for good people, smart choices, and honest-brokering; and no longer allow the highest office in our nation to remain a place of flippancy and lies-within-lies.
Vote for Barack Obama – it is in your hands – today.
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