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Then the stock market shrugged, nudging the corporate/media/government elite from their careless slumber of sthe past six years.I don't know any individual who asked for gobalization; institutions did that. Not even Tom Friedman asked for globalization.
America has been asleep at the wheel for the past six years: selling America out while average people spent, in some cases furiously, their savings to keep up with Mrs. Jones next door.The irony is that we don't have anything left to sell: what, a collapsed bridge?Globalization may be as inevitable as the agricultural or industrial revolutions, but its effects are by far certain. What is certain is that America is a hollw paper tiger....we spend, spend, spend, mortgaging our futures, but we produce nothing. We drive the world economy on worthless pieces of paper.And the globalization that has appeared does nothing to help: American workers and middle class citizens are worse off as are the exploited masses that third world development was supposedly to benefit. The elites of both America and the elites of the developing world have done what generations of elites have always done; enrich themselves at the expense of the masses.In America, that greed has manifested itself in an empowering reclamation of a put-down: a proud young thug self-annointed "Capitalist Pig." LLC not withstanding, its time to put individuals over institutions, and return to fundamental public welfare.
The illusion of economy, government, and prosperity in the USA under the Bush cabal is about to be exposed: the hand must be laid on the table and the consequences made clear. Oddly, it won't hurt Bush (ah, there's compassion), but it will inextricably hurt American workers and the middle class.
