Reply #17: Slavery is alive and well in the U.S. today...

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we are all just wage slaves to the big corporations and the financial institutions. The middle class is rapidly disappearing while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Part of our problem is that the rich get elected to office. They all claim to support the little guy, but few have any understanding of what it is like to be poor. The few that do find it hard, if not impossible, to finance their campaigns.

Our country is becoming of the corporations, for the corporations and by the corporations.

The effects of both married partners having to work and in many cases having to work multiple jobs is having a predicable effect on our society. Poverty is up, violence is up, foreclosures are up, gasoline prices are skyrocketing contributing to the problem. Our society is sinking like the Titanic. We waste money and people fighting wars for little or no purpose. We are losing the Constitutional guarantee to privacy and soon our country will turn into a "homeland" similar to Nazi Germany.

I had great hope for the Democratic controlled Congress, but they appear to have accomplished little if anything. Hopefully after the election the Democrats will win control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Perhaps then we will see some real change.

But I'm pessimistic and I just can't convince myself that things will change. You just don't mess with the big boys. We are led to believe we live in a representative democracy but who do our elected officials really represent.