Broke and needinga crummy job.

Editor,

There are two Americas: the one the American people live in (us) and the one owned and operated by giant, mostly transnational corporations (them). Our economy is everything you say it is, but their economy is doing just fine -- a little multi-trillion-dollar bump in the road we had to pay to get them over maybe, but their profits are rebounding nicely, and their DOW is flirting with 11,000.

We get to be angry about this because the U.S. government is supposed to be ours, per the U.S. Constitution, but it isn't. It belongs to them because they had (and continue to have) the money to buy it.

So well-meaning outraged guys like Bob Herbert beg the corporations that own our government to help us live a decent life (begging the government is the same thing, see), but they don't care. They are doing fine, and they have us right where they want us: broke and needing a crummy job.

re: "Time Is Running Out" (2/6/2010)