The big picture concerning left - right bs and who we are as people......

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I was just thinking about the debt issue etc and thinking about the bigger picture. The lost jobs are not coming back. We are in a global economy that can't float all boats so the rich will keep getting obscenely richer as the poor of the world will keep getting poorer. Now the good citizens of the USA are going to be included in that poor group as our jobs are gone and not coming back. All large corporations and manufacturers are in a race for the cheapest labor. Other countries' people will be exploited for cheap unsafe no rights labor while the big corporations pollute their land air and water because there are no environmental laws and the people will get sick and will have no access to affordable healthcare while their natural resources are stolen and squandered by the powerful who make all the laws to favor them and their illicit practices.

The earth can't sustain an economy that's success is solely based on growth. The natural resources are limited and so there will NEVER be enough jobs to float the boats of all people so what we are doing as humans is flawed and needs to be restructured to stop making profit the end all of everything we do in this world. What I'm saying is that our politicians on both sides are out of the loop. They are hanging onto old paradigms and concepts that are not sustainable.

Capitalism has run it course and can't continue as its final chapter is to eat itself which we are seeing now, private profit is publicly funded as the tax payers absorb the risk and the capitalists reek the rewards even when they lose the bad bets they make. We definitely need some strong reforms there. We are entering a new economy based on information. We should be becoming more human and compassionate as we see what is really happening to the people of the world and their good earth that is being destroyed for profit and not being repaired. Fish are vanishing or too polluted to eat etc... Can't we see what is happening and now try to really make changes. It's not about Democrats and Republicans and left and right. Those people are stuck in the same mindset that we can continue doing what we are doing. We cant, The oil is going to run out. We have invested nothing in renewable resources and are falling behind in research. China is beating us at everything because we are knuckle draggers screaming about how much we hate our government meanwhile our schools are cracking up as well as our bridges and roads. How about some fast trains to NYC or DC or California? No way cause the richest country in the world cant pay for it. Anyway I hope you get my drift. I think we should all try to see a new paradigm that will usher in a better world.

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1. Left vs. right is just a sideshow to distract us from the real war, which is upper vs. lower class

[Andy823]

2. +1,000,000,000 nt

[anamandujano]

3. Your appraisal is sad but true.

As more and more regular people get a gist of the truth and it does seem to be happening, perhaps the criminals in charge will have to back off. I'm proud of all that speak out.

I still have a shred of hope for the country, although my private life is in shambles.

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5. Well I sure hope your private life improves. Best wishes!

[RKP5637]

4. I've sadly come to the conclusion that major financial collapses will be

necessary until those holding the wealth lose much of what they hold. And people get deprogrammed from this ridiculous paradigm they call financial and life success. Anyone thinking the world will look the same in say 100 years is really off base.

Our systems and methodologies are obsolete for the 21st century. Sadly IMO if one looks back through humanities successes and failures, often not much comes about unless there is a major event, and usually that involves significant hardship before people wake up, and as part of change, real change, those holding the power and wealth fall out of the equation. We've seen that time and time again in history.

Sadly, I think we are facing the same again. And as one poster said what we see is a sideshow acting out, the real struggle is wealth versus no wealth. Always to remember, wealth is what we make it, for example, dollars are fake dollars. As confidence is lost in the US the dollar will fade into obscurity.

I have no idea how these changes will come about, but they will, and we see lots of rhetoric in the theatrics playing out now, but does anyone really think there will be a solution.