How do we keep getting to this point? None of these candidates are going to really change what matters.?
Our national debt is outrageous. Our military spending has quadrupled in the last 25 years,and without it,our economy would have zero manufacturing,since the rest has been outsourced. Our standard of education is 17th in the world of civilized nations. Our national balance sheet is LAST,of ALL countries in the world. China’s is the best. We are virtually completely dependent on foreign energy,and we have no incentives from the government to go green,or use less energy,or use renewable energy…
What is any of these candidates going to do about this?
Money has become the most important thing in elections–in fact you might say it is the -only- important thing. 95% of the time,the candidate who wins is the one who spends the most money.
Since both parties get their money from the same sources,you can’t expect their agendas to be all that different. In campaigns they spend most of their time trying to differentiate themselves from one another,just as any two nearly-identical products in the marketplace. But when it comes down to it,they both serve the same interests.
Those things that lose out are the things that don’t provide money to campaigns. Education,for instance,or alternative energy.
Politicians of both parties love to spend the government’s money;that’s where their power comes from. They spend it in ways that enhance the profits and return on investment of their campaign contributors. These contributors are the big,powerful corporations,and as I said they are the same for both parties. The oil corporations,the existing health insurance oligopoly,the military/industrial complex,the big media giants.
Things that don’t make a lot of money and so don’t contribute to the process,like education and actual health care,get short shrift. There is no incentive to develop alternative energy,for instance,so long as giant oil corporations become more and more profitable,and give more and more money to get their choice of candidates elected. There is no reason to move towards universal,affordable health care while the existing health insurance companies are doing so well and contributing so much money to the process. And of course education doesn’t make enough money to be a player.
This is one of the flaws in our kind of system. The Supreme Court has decided that spending money is ‘free speech’so Congress can’t even pass laws restricting the amount of money that is spent. Whatever ‘reform’laws they do pass have loopholes put in them deliberately for their own self-interest.
When things get painful enough,Americans might re-examine this situation. Perhaps we are getting close to that now. 8^<
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