The problem with the economy is that it is based on TRUST and when there is no trust or confidence in a particular country, it's economy sinks.
When the citizens have no trust in their leaders, then their economic and cultural efforts lag. When people are depressed, then they put out only as much effort as is required to survive. Nothing more--no surplus.
The really scary thing about all this is that the people who have designated themselves as the leaders of this country don't care whether or not it fails. The corporate mentality has taught them not only how to evade responsibility, but to simply take refuge in bankruptcy when things don't go right.
There is a good reason why assets and resources have been relocated overseas. The people who control those assets have decided that it makes no difference who the people they dominate are. Why bother about a measly three hundred million independent-minded Americans when there's billions of more pliable subjects on other continents?
We need to stop whining about jobs having left the country. The jobs haven't left. The people who skimmed the profits from our industrial enterprise, have moved that wealth out of the country and now they're following the money.
I mean has anybody asked how come Halliburton is "rebuilding" what our military destroyed in Iraq?
Remember the "urban removal" of the sixties and early seventies in this country? Do you remember when federal monies were used to level urban neighborhoods just as surely as if they were bombed, but a little slower, so that "developers" could come in and make a profit building useless projects? The same process is going on in Iraq only on a larger scale. Why in Iraq? Not because of oil. No, because the population is more compliant and the environmental restrictions are virtually nil.
The people who have designated themselves as our leaders have only one goal--not to ask and not be be denied permission to do whatever they want.
And that, my friends, is the face of evil.
Posted by Monica Smith at February 13, 2004 10:49 AM