Guys, Girls, do you all not see that this is a reactionary problem based on a system that CAN NOT be fixed? All this left and right wing bullshit is keeping most of you held hostage, your focus is below or above the event horizon and completely off the target - that is IF you do not wake up soon my fellow American's. Allow me to share some important knowledge.
1. History has repeatedly shown us that Democracy's DO NOT last past 200 years long. And even after that point we see in nearly 100% of those cases that socialism follows once democracy has fouled out.
2. Who could have ever predicted that one day we would let capital ($$$) trump the constitution (Freedom)? That is to say we have given up on the constitution and for money. Which when translated idealistically suggests that we have traded freedom for money. I personally feel as if we have let capital trump God also - meaning we have traded the value of God in for the value of money. These daze it certainly appears so now that money comes before ALL that was once was held as sacred.
3. When it comes to war; as a multi-war combat disabled US Army soldier I can tell you exactly who and why all of these wars are funded. War is funded by the very appetite of American consumption. We are consuming whores. So if you use plastic, gas, oil, drive a car, or turn on a light, YOU FUNDED ALL THE WAR! You are the reason I mourn my lost brothers in arms.
4. America got so fat and lazy we couldn't even tend to our own crops, so we outsourced it all to our southern neighbor Mexico. I have worked the farms, the Mexican people handle ALL of our farms now. We couldn't stop consuming so much that we need more time to consume, hell we certainly don't need any of that "Made in America" bullshit!! So we took all that we made and we outsourced it our brothers to the East; China.
That said do you know why China and the Asia's are not a threat? Because these people place the path to inner enlightenment (Spirit) before that which is outside themselves (Material). You do not hear about China invading a 3rd world country in order to crush the bad guys and then suck to war torn area dry of its resources. But I can bet you all can name one big country that does this can't you? Only one.
Listen people, no one should have to work full time and live in poverty, yet that is 98% of us. And if you middle class wish to debate this I would tell you to have a look at your debt and then come talk to us. I coin this system by the acronym U.S.E.S. for the United State of Embraced Slavery. I will admit that whoever evolved slavery into a system where slavery would be totally accepted and even embraced with all arms nation wide, they are genius. But they can be beat.
So when it all comes down to it are you ready for socialism? It is our natural historical step you know. Well I am NOT ready for such a system. I believe we may be able to restore the sacred, the freedom and privacy, by having a hybrid form of democracy of sorts. The foundation would be democracy based while the upper end of the system would be based upon Merit, or a meritocracy. We would want to replace the incentive, or carrot dangling out front of everyone, replace money with merit. This way we would guard our freedom and privacy and free will, and we would all begin to work in a space that we truly love, and are best at. People would be in the positions they wanted to be in and hence a the self enslavement would begin to flatten out. Imagine getting up early to get to work early, wanting to stay late, all inspired by your true purpose. What might such a system be named? May I coin this new system by calling it a Demeritocracy? Or is there an entirely different solution to the problem? It is time to get creative, or die.
Bottom line is this. A nation, or a people, cannot expect to consume at 110% and produce 0%. This is a sure fire pathway to destruction. It is only a matter of time, and, money.
The window of time in which we can still use our free will of choice to turn this monster around does indeed exist, but the windows getting smaller and will close at some point. It is at this point that even our planet will begin to move protect herself. Protect herself from the "life form" that is killing her; US. She will win this battle to go on to produce many other species of life that do not threaten her. And she will be happy with, or without us. I am speaking about our mother, nature, and our father, creation. Take a short moment out of your enslavement to think about what we have done to the very parents of our upbringing, think about how we have treated our mom, and please, please, begin to change things through the power of your free will - choice. Before long that free will too will be taken from you, it comes hand in hand with enslavement. All of this will ONLY happen should we proceed to continue down the path we've chosen and continue upon now. What are you going to do to change this? What will it take for you to make more than a lifetimes' worth of change, and now? We are the ones we've been waiting for. You are it.