Bush: Ruining the American Dream.

[reprehensor]

Bush: Ruining the American Dream.

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The seeds of disaster were being nurtured by the increasingly bitter, resentful economic elite. The idea had grown among these elements that their wealth should give them the right to rule over the American nation. They systematically gathered their forces and set out to undermine our system of government and politics.

Billions of dollars were eventually expended to distort the political processes and corrupt both political discussion and government. Rules concerning both elections and economic monopoly power slowly were assaulted until they were no longer obstacles blocking the elite from ruling the nation basically unchecked.

Politics became nasty to discourage the average citizen from getting involved. Media fell almost exclusively under Corporate control to keep citizens in ignorance of their declining political and economic role in America’s future. The economy was opened to foreign wealthy elements to increase the collective power of the elite and put pressure on America’s working classes and middle classes. The poor and minorities became the popular scapegoats because the wealthy financed these efforts to shift the blame from themselves for their policies. Tax burdens fell for the wealthiest and Corporations while rising for others. The wealthiest and Corporations created a national debt and profited by financing that debt collecting interest. The standard of living of the average Americans began to decline. They started wars to make themselves profits.

Other nations created very successful systems of national healthcare for all citizens. In America, wealthy political figures like Bill Frist, Tom Delay and George Bush stopped this from happening. Millions of Americans suffered ill health and premature deaths because of their actions. The Corporate Media abetted this horrible political policy crime against the American Dream.

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[China_cat]

1. Some nightmares you can actually wake up from.

[PATRICK]

2. And regardless

of intention or plan this is the stark reality of their actions. That should be pointed out. Judge the results not the PR and personal rationalizations of the self proclaimed "great" people.

The other problem is how people "underneath" cope with this living lie with poor judgment. It's not about sympathy or awe or respect or ideology or myth- but results.

The only equal opportunity employer that will be left in America is self-deception.

[drduffy]

3. It would be nice

if there were some sort of list of the corporatists (owners, ceo's cfo's and coo of these corporations; e.g. monsanto (sp?), haliburton, GE, General Dynamics, and all the others. These are folks we should be writing about and discussion just as much as the puppets like bush and cheney (bush is cheney's puppet but cheney is someone else's puppet). Does anybody know if there is such a list?