Banned?! NOT In America! What it is, and what it does(to you)!
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longBallLima
agreed. my point is close to yours: government is ineffective and run by large interest groups. i just question that the whole solution is less regulation, rather than effective/inteligent regulation. less regulation is exactly how the large interest groups get their way.
I agree that smart regulation would help, but this is the worst government in America's history. When you take a long hard look at campaign finance, you'll realize that both parties are financed by, more or less the same large corporate interest. So, even though the clowns may change, the circus remains the same. For this reason, no one is talking about dangerous it is that ADM and ConAgra are monopolies that can single handedly drive the price of grain and other food stocks FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD. You can see their influence in the dangerous homogenization of crops in the Midwest where there is basically nothing but corn. (I'm fairly certain they grow nothing else in Iowa.;-)). Also not talked about is how suspicious it is that old cigarette giants were allowed by up a major portion of the processed food market. (And we wonder why our food has become addictive.)
Banned?! NOT In America! What it is, and what it does(to you)!
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Originally Posted by
longBallLima
Agreed to much here, other than the worst govt. While this administration is wildly disappointing, i find that the harm caused by its predecessor and another handful of administrations in american past is more everlasting. and bad as it is, i still think the other option we had was even worse. but i get that this specific point is very subjective so all this is obviously IMHO
The "blame Bush game" is a worn out game, but it is an excellent example of my point. People blame Bush for a variety of things. Some of which I agree with such as the war in Iraq is unjustified. However, the most damaging things to this country started long before Bush.
When you study the housing crisis in depth for example, you'll find that the banks that caused the crisis where empowered to do so in the Clinton administration by a BIPARTISAN effort that overturned bank regulation that had been in place since the Great Depression. It was sold to the American public by telling people that every American deserved to own their own home. Remember how awesome that sounded? There was also Free Trade which has pitted American Labor against the slave labor of the third world. I don't have time to go into that.
The current administration has merely expanded upon all of initiatives of the previous one. I know that's a hard pill to swallow, but from bailing out the mega banks to continuing the war, the circus has remained the same only the clowns have changed. If you doubt me, just read up on the NSA program. It is an Obama expansion of a Bush patriot program put in place because the sheep in this country BEGGED for more false security from the boogie man of terrorism. That terrorism that is most likely caused by our continual forays into shitty foreign policy that is in practice little more than corporate colonialism. (See Halliburton areas of operation and you'll see what I mean.)