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Never in my wildest pride of our spinning-in-their-graves founding fathers would I have believed that a small handful of Bush surrounding neo-cons would be so easily able to capture our Judicial Department, and render inoperable its role as a check on an ambitious power-seeking Executive they caused to be elected and manipulated to be subservient.
Never in my wildest hopes for financial independence for my family would I have believed that a small handful of greedy, Ayn Rand indocrinated, self-indulgent Wall Street CEO's would be so easily able to capture the system that gave rise to their rise and credibility to their motives. When it gave them the opportunity, they predictably yielded to the temptation, and, as we have seen, squeezed from its sub-prime offerings the very life of their benefactor.
Never mind that at the suggestion of a friendly-to-Wall Street member of that self-exalted Executive, a scampering and unsure Congress offered a $700 billion temporary palliative of resuscitation, the system remains in free fall.
Politically and economically, a small number of power hungry idealogues and an equally small number of money grubbing recipients of the trickle-down theory have reduced in eight short years our country to the shambles Glenn Greenwald describes above.
I predict that a vote heard 'round the world, will alert that world that the citizens of these United states have retaken their government and reset its economic system to one which strengthens the middle-class, hence giving hope to all its citizens.
