DON'T BLAME THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Major Amin
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Do you know of the book "1984" by George Orwell. My people are drugged, fat and happy by materialism/consumerism but that drug is running out. We are an inward looking society - most have never left the USA. Most don't realize what the political elites/Government are doing overseas. They receive propaganda on TV from Fox, CNN etc.
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We are no longer a Democracy but a Corporatocracy - our politicians bought lock stock and barrel by lobbyists/special interest groups - the entire system corrupted. We are a nation of pioneers - our country was founded on leave us alone and we will leave you alone - isolationists. Our military was a defensive not an offensive tool. All citizens as enshrined in the Send Amendment of our Constitution have the right to keep and bear arms as part of the militia - something the political elite continually try and eliminate. This has changed - I guess in the last century.
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Our army - military industrial complex (see Eisenhower speech) is now an offensive tool of the Corporatocracy - with little or no morality as to how many are killed in achieving the agendas of the corporates/political elites - as is foreign aid from USAID to World Bank to IMF, etc.
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Unfortunately, my people have been sold down the river over the last 40 years through open border Chicago School Free Market Trickle Down Economics - that turns out to be tickle up only - the drug may be wearing off - our economy is suffering as the strength of our society - the blue collar middleclass, the small businessman, small farmer, skilled artisan - are disappearing since our American companies have morphed into Multi-Nationals going overseas for slave labor and no environmental controls as a means of maximizing their profits. Little or nothing we buy in America is made there anymore - while back in the 1970s this was not the case. Our middleclass is sinking into the lower middleclass and poor - more and more minimum wage service jobs such as at MacDonald's and Wal-Mart being what is available to them and then only a few. Unemployment is at 10%.
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Thus the American people, as the rest of the world are suffering while a few - the elites in Washington, Wall Street and the corporates enrich themselves.
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 I can tell you -once you leave the D.C. metropolitan area that is an artificial economy reflective of the System - Americans are suffering. Most no longer trust the Government. We have one of the highest non-voting rates in the World as many think it is a waste of time. I myself voted in State elections but the choices in the last presidential election were so pathetic that I did not bother. certainly we have better people than those selected - but those selected are part of the machine attempting to keep the process in motion. Obama is nothing but a chocolate Bush - appears different but underneath he is vanilla. People are disenchanted with Government but don't know how to change it.ÂÂ
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What is happening is not sustainable - printing paper, borrowing from China - a House of Cards waiting to collapse.
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Some believe our economic system will have to collapse and then we can start all over again.
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I don't have the answer - but the status quo is unacceptable for Americans and the rest of the World. Living overseas - most people would tell me - we like you Americans but we hate your government.
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Please - tell your people - it is not us, it is our political elites an corporates. Don't harm the American people - but then when we see what the drones do to innocents in Pakistan I guess this is a naive request.
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Regards
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Andre
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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  --
Albert Einstein !!!
