What A Joke We've Become

I just have to get this off my chest real quick.

Do you know why we are not trading at 10K on the DOW? FRAUD. Period.

Losses are intentionally being hidden from the marketplace. Every effort to clean up this mess has been an exercise in further obfuscation.

Where are the regulators? Where are the indictments?

This is all downright fucking disgusting. No effort whatsoever has been made to punish the wrongdoers.

My thesis is and has been that America, the greatest civilization in the history of the world, has PEAKED. This my friends is the beginning of a long slow painful decline and as sad as I find it personally we should probably get used to this sort of thing.

We now have corporatism, not democracy. According to various theorists, corporatism was an attempt to create a modern version of feudalism by merging the "corporate" interests with those of the state.

Or maybe it's neofeudalism- the concept is one in which government policies are instituted with the effect (deliberate or otherwise) of systematically increasing the wealth gap between the rich and the poor while increasing the power of the rich and decreasing the power of the poor. That might be more appropriate. Regardless of what you want to call it we are a country almost completely divorced from the ideals that made us great.

There will be no greater testament to our broken government than that of a choice between McCain and Hillary- if it comes to that and I'm cynical enough to assume that will be the case. Finally, belatedly 60-70% of our nation is against the war in Iraq yet we could end up with TWO PRO-WAR candidates as our only choices. Further, it seems painfully obvious that both candidates represent the same established interests (not those of the people).