-No education expenses.
-No medical expenses because there will be a national medical coverage for every citizen.
-State pension after 65 with adjustment to the cost of living.
-Decreased utilities bills and clean air and water of higher standards in all parts of the country.
-Bonus- free gym membership for life :)
If you were an Average Joe, wouldn't you become interested? I would. Why then we do not offer that? Why don't we offer at least part of that? Here's why - we are ourselves operating WITHIN THE CURRENT FRAMEWORK OF VALUES.
If we look at the list of perfectly reasonable goals I had listed above, we quickly realize that to achieve those or even some of those the people seemingly would need to drastically change that very current framework of values. Mortgage industry will have to go. It though is a baby of the very fabric of the US financial system whose primary driving force is the credit game. Credit is that "invisible" hand which replaces in the US the real world by the illusion of grandeur; houses cost about 4 times their real value, locations are more important than the houses, property taxes are a lucrative bonus for the loaner and mortgage -- backed securities are the backbone of the infamous derivatives market. Wow! I just touched one small point and the whole spider-web starts to vibrate. That list above can easily make me a Satan. Good I don't believe in all those things. I believe in the truth: nothing in my list contradicts the current framework of values - I just interpreted those values in a drastically different way. The proper way if you want to ask me.
The main difference here is the redefinition of the power of the citizen.
( Sidebar. It is an unfortunate truth that current progressives en masse sort of care about America but don't really like Americans. The rich and powerful do not like them either but they have much more money to buy the cohorts of slaves whose only assignment is to flatter the public and make it eat the status -- quo. Progressives do not have that luxury - thus their collective disgust, so to speak, results in the inevitable meagerness and ultimate high odds of defeat.)
Power is more important than money. Progressives, if they really want to see at least some fruit of their good intentions have to find and firmly state a powerful alternative to the mythical financial independence, the actual lie which is funded by thieves. This alternative is power. Average Joe should imagine himself without all those financial burdens he/she now endures. Consider how easy it would be to start a small business if there is no issue of medical care. Consider how good it would be to enjoy the same high standard of living anywhere you want without breaking your back. Consider the perspective to have enough time to become a powerful voice in the community. Consider the job market to become a seller's market. How? I am pretty sure that Average Joe would be the first to offer a barrage of ideas on how to do that. But you have to love him.
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
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