I was reading Noam Chomsky the other day, "The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter."

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 The Guiding Principle
  by David Glenn Cox

(Fred R. Conrad/ The New York Times) Charity Crowell, 9, twice evicted

It has been about a month since my rescue from the street, I quickly became sissified, sanctified, civilized and satisfied. I am plagued though, by dreams at night of a past life and I find myself torn between the two worlds. Strange isn't it? How quickly we can salve over hurt and pave over pain. How a hot meal and a warm bed can make us forget the cold nights with a sandwich and potato chips.

I vowed that I would not forget, that I would never forget. With every shower and with every drop of hot water that runs down to my feet, I remember.  It is troubling for me, I am a combat soldier out of the combat zone and so it's hard to make others understand for I'm not sure that I still understand myself anymore.

I was reading Noam Chomsky the other day, "The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter."

Chomsky is of course correct, Obama's State of the Union speech ignored the millions of Americans in distress. Sixteen million unemployed, twelve million more foreclosed on or evicted and tossed out into the streets this year. Obama pretends that they don't exist, that's hope and change for you. George W. Bush was vilified for a slow response to hurricane Katrina. Obama has no response, other than to smile and tell us prosperity is just around the corner. Two BMW's in every Wall Street garage, two tax cuts for every bank.

I believe that I gave Mr. Obama a fair chance but as my own situation has recently improved, my mood towards the President has become more clouded and murky. I see him now as the con man to top the con man. The double sting, an American populace, suffering and angry at a Republican administration led by a smirking, inarticulate, maniacal, lawless, warlike leadership. Followed by Machiavelli's "Redeemer." Our Redeemer has given us an obfuscating, cryptic, lawless, warlike, leadership.

Obama is king of doublespeak, when he says alternative energy, he means nuclear. When he talks about invigorating the economy he means tax cuts for business and the wealthy. Like a sharpie running a three card Monty game he's always promising good things in the future but always answers, better luck next time. It is just as Chomsky says, "The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter."

So anyone who is not fine is ignored, cast off, disregarded but that's not good enough. Not good enough buy a damn sight! I was thinking the other day, about how many people I know that have lost their homes. How many, I thought, did I know who had lost their homes ten years ago? None, not a one! Estimates run as high as twenty five million foreclosures from 2007 to the end of 2011. That's an outrage and totally unacceptable and of this the President says... nothing?

The largest wealth transfer in the history of the United States, subsidized by the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the FDIC and the President doesn't have one word to say about that? Then God Damn him to hell!

Not a word of remorse or compassion for the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in a crooked crap game. Conned, had, bamboozled and to forced to box up their belongings and leave behind their dreams. I've seen those boxes on the lawn, I've seen the sheriff's deputies standing with their hands on their hips. I've seen the toys and swings left behind in the yard and I've seen a President that doesn't have a god-damned word to say about that.

This government, your government, doesn't have any current data on the number of homeless school children in America. We know how many schools they need in Iraq or Pakistan but all we have are estimates for the number of America's school children that are homeless. Those estimates says the following,

New York Times- "While current national data are not available, the number of schoolchildren in homeless families appears to have risen by 75 percent to 100 percent in many districts over the last two years, according to Barbara Duffield, policy director of the National Association for Education of Homeless Children and Youth, and advocacy group."

Think about that for a second, think about what it must be like to be ten or eleven years old and living in a shelter or in a basement and sleeping on a couch or a cot. Then think about the rage, shame and embarrassment felt by their parents. This is a new phenomenon in America, and then think about what that sanctimonious poser said about that the other night, "America has fallen to 9th in the proportion of young people with a college degree. And so the question is whether all of us - as citizens, and as parents - are willing to do what's necessary to give every child a chance to succeed."

This has become standard fare in America, blame the victims. You lost your job because the company folded up, that was your fault. You lost your home because you didn't predict that the company would fold up or you believed the bank, when they said that they would work with you. That's your fault too.

During the darkest days of the Depression the WPA operated a circus, it gave free shows across America. It gave jobs to circus performers and kept alive circus animals that otherwise would have perished. Think about what it was like for a child in those dark days to get to see the circus? Think about what it was like for a struggling parent to be able to take their child to that free circus. For just an hour or two to forget, to feel like everyone else. A hour of entertainment, a moment of joy and knowing that somewhere, someone was thinking about the children.

Today the struggling get lectures from the President on how we should me more like China. Lectures on the glories of the free market and innovation. While the Federal Reserve offers up free money to the banks paid for by you the struggling. The FDIC offers free financing and zero down payment on foreclosed properties repurchased by the same banks that foreclosed. All this and more for twenty two cents on the dollar! But for you the struggling, you get a lecture on how your not raising your kids right.

That's right! The same bank that wouldn't knock a nickel off the principle of your loan, simply turns the deed in for full credit and can then buy the property back for twenty two cents on the dollar! With zero down payment and zero interest, plus if the bank doesn't make a profit on the property in two years the government will give them a rebate on the purchase price. Aren't you glad they got government off of your back? Off your back and into the hip pocket of the banks.

You won't hear Obama talk much about that. Oh, he'll mention the banking reforms, limiting the fees banks could charge. He won't mention the new gambits the banks had put in place before the ink was dry. The new payday loans schemes begun by the major banks or the new consumer protection agency housed in the basement of a private corporation. The Miss Congeniality of consumer protection, it sounds nice but doesn't actually have the power do anything at all.

"The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine," he said. "(The traditional argument is) the powerful should gain ends by any possible means. As long as the public is kept under control, public will doesn't matter." - Noam Chomsky

But it does matter, this is unacceptable. We are talking about tens of millions of our own people. This is their life, these are their dreams and their children's dreams. Their lives and fortunes dashed by faulty short sighted economic policies embraced by both parties. Advocated by the President among his other Republican positions until it is clear that there is only one party and most of us aren't even counted, let alone considered.

In the court case of Bush Vs. Gore the plaintiff sought relief under the equal protection clause of the constitution. It was argued, that since different counties of Florida recounted ballots in different standards then a recount couldn't be fair or legal. Following with that logic if a sitting Supreme Court Justice isn't to be prosecuted for failing to report  $1.25 million in income then no other Americans can be prosecuted for failing to report income.

This case makes crystal clear that we are over the Rubicon. Obama is Bush's third term, Santa Claus would have been Bush's third term. This is a corporate fascist government, the terms liberal and conservative no longer apply, it is about the sighted and the blind. The lobbyist no longer need to call on the White House because America's corporate CEO's all ready work there.

"You do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society." Vaclav Havel

The time for silence is at an end! The time to make noise is upon us!

Authors Bio:

I who am I? Born at the pinnacle of American prosperity to parents raised during the last great depression. I was the youngest child of the youngest children born almost between the generations and that in fact clouds and obscures who it is that I am really.

Given a front row seat for the generation of the 1960's I lived in Chicago in 1960. My father was a Democratic precinct captain, my mother an election judge. His father had been a Union organizer and had been beaten and jailed for his efforts. His first time in jail was for punching a Ku Klux Klansman during a parade in the 1930's. I never felt as if I was raised in a family of activists but seeing it print makes me think, yes. That is a part of who I am.

We find ourselves today living in a world treed by the hounds of madness, a complicit media covering contrite parties. Multilevel media, giving more access to communication yet stunting actual communication. More noise, less voice, more sound less music, more law less justice, more medicine less life.