Reply #1: The simple fact is... [View All]

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That unless our leaders are comfortable with a long, slow slide to third-rate economic status and massive amounts of poverty in the general population, we are going to have to enact some protections and regulations, to maintain what we have left and encourage growth of new industry and technology. Of course, one of the ways we can do that is through education, a new commitment to seeing that people, throughout life, can get the education that they need at prices they can afford. Also, real upward economic mobility, on a wide scale, is THE motivating factor that works. Mobility that means that what you are working for is there, when you get there, not this carrot on a stick that is pulled away at the last minute crap that is so fashionable of late.

Economics are the new nuclear weapons and are just as strategic. We seem to have given up our rights to national economic self-defense. We have left our middle class, the engine that fuels this economy, unprotected, so rich fucks can buy their children luxury cars for Christmas.

The harsh lessons of history show that we are reaching a fork in the road: We can either deal, constructively, with what is before us, or we can ignore it and have riots in the streets. History is clear that the second is what happens in societies where the middle class is destroyed in the name of greed.