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Manufacturing Poor People

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This is how the magical, voodoo, trickle down economics of the Friedmans, the Reagans, the Volckers, the Greenspans, the Bushes, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, etc. who prosylitize "free" market theology works.   The people of the "Third" World are used as fertilizer to grow the fortunes of the people of the "First", or Western World.  They are used like toilet paper, like disposable plastic packaging, like prophylactics (scum bags) and then discarded as if their lives meant nothing more.  They are receptacles, vessels in which the rich "create" their "self-made" wealth - do their business - then casually flush these poor people - and their children - out of sight, down the polluted toilet the "First" World has made of our whole world.

Transnational corporations use the U.S. government and corporate lobbyist-written "free" trade policies, which are designed and work very well, to prevent "Third" World nations from ever "developing" sufficiently to become serious trade competitors.  And this is because U.S. corporations learned the lesson of the Marshall Plan very well. 

After World War II, America's major trade competitors were flattened, economically as well as physically, and America, in all its beneficence and magnanimity, offered money to Europe and Japan so they could rebuild shattered industries and infrastructure by using this "aid" money to purchase American goods and services, profiting hugely in the process.  And while Europe and Japan were rebuilding, the U.S. was busy establishing itself as the world's global economic and military behemoth.  Following Word War II, and up to the mid-Seventies, the United States experienced the most prosperous period, overall, in its history.  And then things began to go south, as former flattened economic competitors began to recover enough to give the behemoth a run for its money, and actually overtaking the once supremely, economically dominant USA. 

Well, U.S. transnationals didn't intend to ever let that happen again.  There would be no more giving a real leg up to potential competitors.  And thus we arrived at where we are today.  And, in fact, the ruse works so well, that since the Seventies the plutocracy has been using the very same template here at home, - with an increasingly heavy hand.  See U.S. auto workers, healthcare, the bank bailout, foreclosed homes, 600,00 jobs a month jettisoned, the murder of California, et al.  Who, or what, will be next?

Wake up liberals, Democrats and progressives!  Wake up conservatives, Republicans and libertarians!  And smell the system of wealth transfer and betrayal.   Only the top 10%(?) and those they need as slaves will survive unless you kill capitalism before it kills you!!!

                             POWER.            To The People.

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Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).

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Yep by Jennifer Hathaway on Sunday, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:09:07 PM