To borrow a phrase from Barack Obama's old pal, Rev. Jeremiah Wright-- the chickens of the free market are coming home to roost! And it ain't pretty! After 28 years of cutting government regulations and allowing corporate America to run wild, our country has become a polluted, ecological disaster, a second-rate debtor nation perpetually at war. In addition, we have devolved into a two-class society where average citizens are left with diminished standards of living while the super rich live extravagant, yet isolated lives in high-tech security mansions.
This is the true legacy of the free market-- a few winners and a whole bunch of losers. Of course, in the end, even the winners will be losers, because if enough people can't afford the necessities of life or go broke, even the high-tech security mansions of the super rich won't be able to protect them from the angry mob.
People in Third World countries are already fighting over food. And unless we make some serious changes in our country, how long will it be before average Americans are doing the same?
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