I believe the master's at the controls only seek to create the illusion we can literally get something for nothing, i.e. have our hand in somebody else's pocket.
The prescription drug bill will cause Medicare to go broke far sooner, provided for corporate welfare, and caused drug prices to go up right away (because they are subsidized). Some victory for the little guy, huh?
The Tax Relief Act literally gave taxpayers money borrowed from China. Little guy buys a keg of beer to celebrate; same little guy bitches about retail inflation. Little guy told a collapsing dollar only affects the wealthy few. Little guy bitches about retail inflation of energy and anything made in Europe (soon to include all of Asia).
Housing bailout is cheered by some -- not many I think, but your co-worker is one. However, it's mostly cover for the ongoing looting of the Federal Reserve (gee, we get some too, yay!), and if the housing downturn continues (who can afford these prices??) then the debt will go up as money is handed to whomever the corporate beneficiaries are, and the little guy, who is glad Congress is looking out for him, will see prices artificially high (benefits banks, realtors, homebuilders) and the little guy will bitch about inflation (declining dollar, higher interest rates demanded by our foreign overlords).
With gov't sponsored counterfeiting (i.e. monetary 'growth'), it's those who are close to the source of the handout who benefit. The rest of us have this happen:
a) bitch about high retail inflation
b1) if we're lucky, we get a raise a year later that lags by 1/2 or more, or
b2) if we're unlucky, we bitch about stagnant wages
Despite the illusions, nearly all newly hatched programs or policies overtly, or covertly, benefit corporations. Individuals by and large are kicked in the nuts over and over. All they have to do is put lipstick on the piggies.
You are totally right about property rights; the illusion that we are robbing the wealthy has helped to shift the sentiment (and The Supremes) so that corporations can take private land if deemed 'for the good of the community' e.g. malls etc. that increase the tax base.
The root theme here for nearly ALL of this is the belief that we are getting something for nothing. It is utterly amazing to me that so many cannot connect the dots with these semitransparent policies of plunder and the series of bubbles, job exports, sky high debts, both public and private.
As a lady who knocked on my door one day famously said,
"Stop the Insanity!!" |
