Corporate Nannies tell minions to fear "Nanny State" !?

[KurtNYC]

I really think Americans are poor shoppers. They know the price of everything but not the value. They have very little idea what they are getting for their money. And that extends to politics. Small government sounds good bc it sounds cheaper -- not bc it promises more freedom. It is like the carrot in front of the donkey cart ("on an unlit road to nowhere"). The RW wants to cut domestic programs and the left wants to ween the war industry. We will never get the carrot.

The best we can do is try to get SOME value for our tax dollars. This period seems a real challenge for our 230 year experiment with democracy, mostly bc there is another experiment going on. While the RW rank-and-file fear a "nanny state" it seems that what we already have is a "Corporate Nanny State." It tells us everything to do, runs our government and controls the most significant parts of the media. Ironically it even tells the minions to fear a "Nanny State" even while they nurse at it's corporate teat for their next hit of Beck and Limbaugh. It has some protesting against the very social services they paid for and need. Seniors are cutting their pills in half bc they can't afford a full dose. Soup kitchens are maxed out and serving those who were bankrupted by healthcare costs while billions go to bailout bankers. The Corporate Nanny is no Mary Poppins -- more like the robots in those experiments where lab animals must choose between drugs and pellets of food.

If, as Paul Krugman says, the lights are turning out on America's future then I think we know who is turning them out. They don't call it a "War on Culture" for nothing.