Editor,
Cats at the top of the pyramid do not care what happens to workers without jobs. Their economy (the cats' economy) has been downsized, and as long as they (the cats) are making money, they have nothing to worry about.
Why do I think this? Look at your typical banana republic, or better yet your typical Free Trade Zone. Poverty, sweat shops, political oppression, violence -- as long as it can be handled easily by paramilitaries (Blackwater, for example) or local militias (the Pittsburgh police, the Seattle police) -- do not bother cats who are rolling in dough.
People have been predicting that the U.S.A. is going to become a banana republic for a long time. Well, look around you. This is what a banana republic looks like. And when the Republicans get back in, which they will at some point, they'll have torture and disappearances available for anyone who doesn't like it enough to shoot off their mouths about it.
Not everyone is poor in a 3rd world country. That's the point.
re: "Mission Not Accomplished" (10/2/2009)
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- Bill Appledorf
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