The stateless multi-national corporations consistently depict happy scenes of American families to stimulate our endorphins and lead us to believe that all is well and we are prosperous and happy. To do otherwise might cause us to stop spending on cheap imports. They work to insure that consumer confidence remains high. Just because it is practically impossible to find American made products from the big box retailers, the corporate media shies away from reporting the true nature of outsourcing that has turned our nation into a place that produces very little but consumes too much.
Our wars and military spending are very rarely reported on. The fact that we have military bases in 180 different nations and that we spend 48% of the total world's military expenditures is not advertised. The United States spends 50% of our discretionary budget for "defense". This fact is something that is better left unsaid. When families are scratching and pawing to try to find the money for shelter and food, information like that is not really welcome.
This is why you will hear about Gay and Lesbian marriages, drug use and abortions. The real issues such as aggressive wars being fought for corporate profits on flimsy excuses, and our freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights being savaged by the security state, all of this will be hidden by the flag as the President makes another speech about our economic "recovery" and reminds us of our commitment to defeat terrorism, at home and abroad. It matters very little that most of us haven't a clue as to what is really important; our system is designed that way. God forbid that we start asking embarrassing questions, the answers might be too hard to take.
Some of the most embarrassing questions that the people who govern us don't want to hear will be asked on October 2, 2010. There in Washington, the seat of the Empire, many different Unions, Peace groups, Socialists, Democrats and Republicans and people that just want to show up to make their presence known, will join together to speak as one entity. The Tea Party and the Left has never been as close as they are now. Discounting the fringe element on both sides, the common thread that bring the two disparate groups together are the endless, pointless wars, the assault on the Bill of Rights, the corporate take-over of our government and our elected officials that have nothing in common with their constituents, bring us closer together now than anyone could imagine just a year ago. We share a common cause, employment for all, an end to pointless wars for resources and the dignity of a free people. We must put an end to this "security state.
We want to bring productivity back to the United States. ". No more mortgaging our children's future for corporate profits. The outsourcing of our future has to be stopped. The people will speak and we will be heard. We are the ones that we have been waiting for, make no mistake, the government must know they work for us, and not the other way around.
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