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and by how much?
They're smart enough to pull the strings in their favor. Either that or they're very lucky.
Manufacturing jobs to include putting together hamburgers in fast food joints. They were that blatant about it, sneering in the faces of those who dared to complain.
After they closed factories and sold the equipment, we saw tool and dies to create things from scratch, auctioned off to China. We've been left, except in the military production facilities, with about as much means as the Cubans had after years of embargo. It's been like reinventing the wheel here. The most basic of things have to be imported, like in colonial days. But we have no monarch to rebel against now.
We can see how the GOP squealed when Obama fought to revitalize the auto industry, how they've ridiculed in their private mass media, his every attempt to bring manufacturing back here. He's been trying to do quietly a New Deal, but doesn't have the same advantages that FDR. The public is brainwashed and unwilling to act as the United States.
Mentions of tin foil and the NWO? Well, FDR fought against that in his day and the GOP wants to bring it. Not wearing swastikas and goose stepping, but a corporatist state built of unaccountable and undemocratic institutions with more wealth than entire nations. Looks like a duck, walks like a duck...
These are the words carved in granite behind him:
They (who) seek to establish a system of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
Of course, he was speaking of the Nazis. Whether we use the NWO terminology of wackos or not, a world wide corporate state is materializing. It's fiercely anti-democratic, more like an aristocratic system. We call it the plutocracy, but in the end, it sets up one group of human beings so high above the others, it may as well be called royalty.
As always, the most powerful succeed because they are united while we are fighting with each other.
And those 4 terms ruined the country, yes they did. I wish Obama would get 4 terms, he can't dig us out of this mess in 4 years.
But then, there's always Mittens, who can return our nation to the greatness that it once was, except it'll be the Great Depression.
To hell with FDR and all that communist stuff.
It would be nice if we could sue everybody whom voted for all that stuff for fraud (since things didn't end up the way they said it would)? Too many of them are, inexplicably, still in office.
I heard that somewhere but I didn't remember from where until you reminded me. That's one of my favorite ST movies!
Republicans always seem to relish the opportunity to use a recession and/or economic downturn as an opportunity to portray themselves as being fiscally responsible "deficit hawks" and attempt to force austerity on this country, which usually means taking swipes at Social Security, Medicaid, and social programs in general- while, of course, never addressing the bloat and inefficiencies of any other kinds of significant government spending (i.e. military spending). Hell, the country doesn't even have to be doing that bad. There just has to be a Democrat in the WH in order to gin up a bunch of outrage over their economic policies- which are bad to them no matter what they are.
the gop'ers want our wages and no benefits on par with third world nations like some of those found in Africa, Caribbean, South and Central America.so we can be "controlled" better. I daresay some dims are guiding that ship also.
oh I've been so frustrated and betrayed by the Democratic Party leadership since 2000 that my sarcasm has gotten the best of me. Repugs and Dims are all we(the people) have and we deserve better. Just how I feel about one political party
