As I described in a recent blog, Washington is always designing "Weapons of Mass Distraction" to avoid addressing the real problems. Unemployment has become a chronic problem and where even those able to find jobs do so at lesser wages, including part time and temporary positions. And each month hundreds of thousands drop out of the work force and no longer appear in unemployment figures, giving the illusion that things are getting better. The Obama administration is only too happy to take credit for these perpetual lies.
No attention is given to the fact that income/wealth inequities in the U.S. are at an all time high, and that inequality may be more responsible for the deficits and debts than the "entitlements" both Houses of Congress is so extent on cutting. The psychopaths and the schizophrenics are winning another battle at the expense of the masses and the inmates of the asylum are very much in charge. In the meantime, the Executive Branch under Obama can continue to practice their international imperialistic wars, using robots wherever possible, they deprive us of our individual Constitutional rights to protest. Thanks to Obama with the full support of Congress, you can now be indefinitely detained with no rights of due process if you complain! Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald have given an excellent description of this and placed it in perspective.
This is nearly a perfect example of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine", the brilliant book of examples of Disaster Capitalism. Barack Obama has served nearly perfectly as the "Manchurian Candidate" or Trojan Horse acting on behalf of the corporatist class. He has totally "neutralized" the "Liberal" opposition and made the Democratic Party nearly totally impotent.
Whether you want to be invited to jump off the cliff or simply wait for another asteroid or planet to hit the Earth you are about to be given a choice. You may have this opportunity sooner than you think and December may be the time for you to decide. Of course, as my colleague Jill Dalton wrote recently, you can also "Go Back to Sleep America at your Own Peril" but then the silence will become deafening!
**Photo by Thomas Baldwin. Cartoon from Drew Sheneman, Tribune Media Services. Lighthouse is a reproduction of a stamp of the Biloxi Lighthouse.
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About the author; Thomas Baldwin, Ph.D. has a doctorate in Physics and a Masters degree in Management. He has had long careers in both physics and management consulting including university appointments as a professor both at the Southern Illinois University and Colorado Technical University. He has been a corporate consultant to many well known large firms in project management and is "officially" retired. In the last four years or more he has been focusing on applying his skills to better understand the political sector including socioeconomic conditions which are affecting our welfare and basic economic health.
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