YES! The rich are richer and the banks are bigger.
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NO! The policies that allowed the collapse are still in place.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
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Democracy is being killed so perhaps we should rename our country. We are noot the land of the free. This is not where you come so your children can get a free education. Our vote doesn't count anymore in Michigan.
At this juncture I believe the economy & politics are important, but not as important as the climate change issue. Floods in Colorado, in China, in Germany, major wildfires, and for the 1st time in my lifetime, major tropical storms off the west coast in the Pacific. The arctic is melting, glacier park is melting, the Rockies are melting faster than the normally do, the Swiss Alps are melting. There are plenty of indicators we need more focus on these things. The economy will be meaningless, politics will be meaningless, with major changes to this planet. Still the major players, big oil, big banks and all the nonsense surrounding them effects everything, especially our government.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Yes indeed there has been change. Even with the economic collapse included, the last ten years the networth of the 400 wealthiest Americans more than doubled from one trillion to over two trillion. During that same time period the working class vast majority suffered with, joblessness, wage freezes, pension theft, benefit cuts, union busting, wage cuts, part time employment, you name it. The rich with the help of the Tea Party looted working class America. We all need to express our outrage by a purging of the House Teabaggers in 2014.
We've been to say the least defrauded by the rich with their republican/teabag.....don't tax or regulate us, no government, no unions.... trickle down scheme. Isn't it about time to dump the House Teabaggers in the harbor and reclaim our democracy? In fact I think I'll dress up as a Mohawk when I go to vote in the midterms. With the Democrats we can force progressive change, with the Republicans the concentration of wealth will only continue......forcing a violent end to our empire.