Reply #7: It's Been Said This Was The Plan All Along...

[KharmaTrain]

The GOOP power and money elite knew their games could only last so long...and that if and when the time for the deck of cards to collapse it would happen on a Democrat...create such messes that a President Obama would have to spend a majority of his time in the first term in trying to keep things from getting worse...and that the patience of the American people will run out. The hope is that people will forget who created this mess, start believing the GOOP bullshit about being "fiscally responsible" and be back to fleece again in 4 or 8 years.

The difference between the US and those other countries is how far our labor movement has fallen. I can't recall the last real major strike that happened in this country...something that created a serious economic hardship...as opposed to these other countries that have fought long and hard for their labor movements. Unfortunately, we see unions pitted against one another or petty squabbles that all but prevent any real show of solidarity. The problem is the major decline in unions over the past 40 years that has diminished their political muscle. People fear their bosses more than they do the union.

While this mess is bad and will get worse, we do have things in place now that didn't exist during the Depression. Also, we're fortunate that the worst hit at the very end of the booosh regime, as opposed to Hoover who had 3 more years to screw things up even worse. In those days there was no social security or medicare or other government programs that could promptly respond to a public crisis...thus people will suffer...and it's a shame this has to happen, but I have faith the Obama Administration will address needs as they arise and work to restore a solvent banking and economic system.

I really don't see people in the streets...that's not the American way now. We suffer silently and are told and shown by our corporate media that things aren't as bad as we think...either showing us those who are worse or filling our heads with dreams of richer days ahead. Organizing requires a level of coopration this country isn't capable of.