In 1958 most Americans had the best standard of living we've ever had, it has been all down hill since then.
Back then we bought our houses, we outnumbered those that took out loans to get them. We had money in the bank, not plastic, where we now speak of how much credit we have. We no longer look at whether we have more then we have borrowed, we only look at our borrowing power. We are WELL TRAINED CONSUMERS. Yes, the credit gave everyone a shot at the American dream, till the next recession or depression came along and all your wealth heads up to those who already have the most. Credit rates have gone from 5% to 25%. Follow the money, if things look askew. Don't understand why our Social structure has declined sine 1958? How about our elected leaders only do what Corporations want and we get the cookie crumbs? What about anything that looks good for us, turns out to be aiding and abetting more Corporate monopolies. While a few benefit from this, most will finance more of those obscene bonus we scream about while our services are cut, much less from companies we are paying to have bailed out. Bonuses for being to big to fail, since the US tax payer now not only bails out Government over spending every year, we will have to bail out the largest corporations, whose tax deductible donations to Political campaigns, get the politicians attention especially in not election years, over the voters desires. So why is this happening? Because you are funding those that are doing what you dislike. What you say? Well, it's your shopping habits. You believe the news, you believe the Corporations, you think just buying breakfast cereal can't help fund the Military Industrial Complex and their purchasing of re-election campaigns and promo for those politicians that support them rather then the politicians meet our demands, and instead we get the best lip service money can buy, right? We have been being told, by the best Think Tanks that Foundations and Corporations can fund, that the economy is recovering, the economy is fine, especially after that 700 Billion Dollar Bail out that took several votes to pass, back in the 2008 election year. BTW it was 12.3 TRILLION Last June, and is still climbing, the new reports haven't been released yet, if we even get to hear about them on the Main Stream Corporate Media (Propaganda) news outlets. Propaganda? Well, things are cheery and cozy except for all those foreigners in foreign lands that want to come here and destroy what we have (3 of them since 911, all had connections to the CIA or the FBI, how interesting eh?). Things are cheery and cozy, for those that are telling us that is the state of affairs of our Economy. The working class on down is suffering, but that isn't the economy that is being looked at anymore, it is the economy of the Multi national Mega Corporations, with offices in the USA, it isn't the International Bankers, and the Military Industrial Complex. They are doing GREAT! I no longer trust the Think Tanks, I do not trust the Main Stream Corporate Media who repeats and defends what these Think Tanks tell them the sate of affairs is, I no longer trust the Main Stream Corporate Media, as a tad of research shows that those we complain the most about, are either on their BOD or are their source of funds via advertisement payments. Those that are telling us how rosy it is, or how dangerous it is so we must give up more freedoms are MAKING MEGA BUCKS, they are at the top of their game and rolling in the dough, US taxpayer dough. They are posting record profits once you take a look at their off shore assets, that were once US jobs, which were shipped over seas in the last 25 years, and they can defer paying income tax on that stuff for as long as they wish, some have deferred since 1990. THEY are doing fine, they got the bail outs, we pay the high interest, they got low interest, we are covering the losses. Too much of what the media tells us these days can't pass the BS test, if anyone who pays attention to yesterdays news in relationship to today's news and sees the switch and bait that happens at all levels of the media right through to the highest political offices in the land. And this is the America you are paying to have. This is the America that can't exist unless you willingly give money to it. I DO TRUST my ability to look and see who knows what. Are the folks who are telling us how rosy it is, actually doing better, and they are doing magnificently, their ships are rising with a fast incoming tide, while we're anchored in the mud flats. I do trust my senses, with more people homeless on the street, charities doing three times the work loads they did 10 years ago, people who still have their homes are less willing to spend money on anything but their internet services. That is the trickle down economy we have, trickle down from the swear pipes. **** Time to take more of a look WHY, are we in the sate of affairs we are in. You don't like Global Warming, well how much of your yearly income do you give to these top 5 climate villains? http://www.alternet.org/story/149120/5_awards_for_the_world%27s_most_heinous_climate_villains They invest their profits in stuff like this, they invest in what ever makes them more money, as the US taxpayer has been proven they will bail out all destructive things any Corporation does, as after all we're the good guys, we're the bottom like, the buck stops here, yeah but, this is where the shit flows too. Notice we have to do all the bail outs, the Mega Corporations that depend on your being a good blind consumer can't survive without your shopping habits, and they have not been held responsible for destructive things they've done, hardly ever, not since the last Corporate Charter was reviewed (supposed to be every few years) since 1923. And you fund this. You buy the products of those that invest their money in places and things that you do not want to participate in. Time to get educated. If you don't know where something was made, buy something that is made in your own community instead. Recycle or buy used, that guarantees that any corporation that has used it's monetary influence against your better interests doesn't get more of your money, then maintenance, like on your car. Local Businesses, who get wiped out by the Mega employment destructive Box Stores, are your fellows who are helping to keep your local business and grocery stores open. They spend their profits in YOUR Community instead of shipping the profit out of the area. The big box stores cut wages for everyone, and the increase the need for social services like Medi Cal as their employees can't afford to see a doctor. How can buying breakfast cereal help PROMOTE WAR and make sure that NO PEACE MARCH GETS MEDIA ATTENTION? General Mills is owned by who? Who owns all of these companies we grew up with that we were taught were all American? Under Regan and Bush I, Hostile Take Overs of LOCAL and AMERICAN OWNED AND OPERATED Companies got mega tax rewards, as ushered through by those politicians we thought were our Representatives. After that, they got more mega tax breaks to send American manufacturing out of Country. There were less then 20 owners of the major manufacturing in the USA at the end of the 90's, and anyone who resisted got taken over and swallowed up. We are taught by the media this is good. Then the jobs shipped out, but we buy the same products we use to make, but now there is more profit for the International Corporation, taxes aren't paid to the US government on this out of country profit, and we the consumers have to make up the slack, on what appears to be 'a good deal'. Those who use their Monetary and Political influence to make this happen at a Government level GET THEIR MONEY FROM YOU AND I. Defund the bastards. Know where your products come from and who is the parent Company. Removing 40% of your purchases from Companies that use their profits, against what you hold dear, would ruin their monetary control. Each shopping trip makes some difference. Most National breakfast cereals and a vast amount of the groceries in the Mega national Chains are owned by the Defense Giants like GE (who diversified after Viet Nam because no War, was ruining their profits), or the Media Moguls like Time Warner, who makes tons of money selling personal information on anyone it can collect from, to Home Land Security, but they don't make as much as ATT does, selling our information to our paranoid Security State, and we pay for that data collection of Homelands Securities, as well as all of the illegal spying that happens on non criminal US citizens, in our own land. Get educated as to who owns what, and what legislation is sponsored by them, their political agenda, and then vote with your dollars, cause trust me, THEY DO. _And they have no money, if we don't give it to them._ Here are a few links. Please look into them. Got other good links to places that help us know who owns what, and where our consumer dollars wind up eventually when full circle is seen? Share them. http://www.greenamerica.org/programs/responsibleshopper/ What Corporations wind up with tax credits, pay no tax, or pay less taxes in a year, then you personally do? (click on 'continue to site', after using this link) http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html Who owns the Media? http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/who-owns-what-on-television/ If you understand how this is working, share my mail with anyone, or better yet, out it in your own words, your own experiences, and talk with your fellow Progressive. We have the country, we have paid for. I'm going shopping, and at the same time voting with my dollars. How about you? 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