The Darkly Comical Powers That be

For thirty years my wife and I raised our family, worked in our small businesses and tried to follow a live and let-live philosophy. And we minded our own business.

We were wrong. We were complacent.

This financial crisis has revealed there is trouble in paradise. Trouble that has been growing at the core of our nation for a long time.

Our financial crisis has brought three groups out of their holes, off their webs and out from under their rocks to make strong grabs for whatever they can get.

It turns out there are three powers in the United States that have been battling for the last thirty years. Their battles in the past were behind the scenes but now this crisis has brought them out into the open. This crisis has made them visible and vulnerable.

Right before our eyes we are seeing three groups with super powers fighting for ultimate control. And in the process Politicians, Wall Street, Big Banks and Big Pharma, and the Media are revealing their true nature.

Each of the three groups already have vast legitimate power bases nurtured and honed to perfection. But power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Politicians and Elected Officials – the power to make laws, establish taxes and go on television.

Wall Stree, Big Banking and Big Pharma – the power of unlimited $$$$$.

Media – Public Relations – the power to make or break anyone.

The current financial crisis is their opportunity to have it all.

But the current financial crisis has opened the gates of hell and allowed the average citizen to see what evil has lurked for a long time behind closed doors. And these three groups have now overplayed their hands because they’ve forgotten where they got their strengths in the first place—from 300,000,000+ Americans.

Even if you see this evil, why should you care? Because on a daily basis the average American is being abused by the hunger of these three groups.
And if we stand idly by we deserve what we’ve gotten and what we’re going to get. A form of slavery that’s insidious.

Seperately we can be bullied and pushed around by any of these three groups. We as Americans need to understand that we have the power to stop this. The power to take back what is ours; our lives and our country.

It’s been our complacency and laziness that gives these three groups such free reign.

What can we do?
1. We can turn off the news and the media. Look around and band together to discuss our problems on a local level. We’ll find we have more problems in common than we thought.

2. We can vote for politicians who will represent us and if they don’t, we vote them out of office. Or we go to Washington and remove them from office. And we find a way to stop lobbying, now.

3. Wall Street, Big Banking and Big Pharma are a little tougher but remember the American public controls almost 70% of the dollars spent in a year. On Wall Street our dollars are our votes. And if you own a few shares of stock then you have a say in how these giant corporations work.

We are not pawns. We are people.

In a democracy:
Why should 1% of the people own 35% of the wealth?
Why should 20% own 85% of the wealth?
Why should 80% of the people that hold 80% of the votes only have 15% of the wealth?

Plutarch said, “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

It is time we took back our country and established that everyone deserves a job, a living wage, health care and a roof over their heads.

Even if you have these things, if you fear losing them you are not a free man.

It is time.