Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

Our country is in tatters. While more and more of us plunge into official poverty status, our elected leaders, who are in service to the wealthy elite, argue about how much to cut from programs that "promote the general welfare." They squander our exhaustible resources on illegal wars. The rich have stolen so much from us that they comprise the wealthiest 1 percent in well over 100 years, and they are supported in all this by their pet pundits, who ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - May. 25, 2011

In this opinion piece, Pirsch gets to basics of government by the people, as well as presenting a wealth of referenced data and opinion. He argues that populism should rise again, from the neighborhoods, since the preponderance of the "star" leaders are corporately corrupted. Well written and provocative.

The wealthiest 400 families own 50% of the wealth of this country, and they consider their job only half finished.

“The privatization of public services and functions manifests the steady evolution of corporate power into a political form, into an integral, even dominant partner of the state. It marks the transformation of American politics and its political culture, from a system in which democratic practices and values were, if not, defining, at least major contributory elements, to one where the remaining democratic elements of the state and its populist programs are being systematically dismantled.”

It doesn’t matter what cabinet position we examine: corporate control of government is as pervasive as cancer and metastasizes at a faster rate.

through our neighborhoods and precincts, we can develop an alternative economic vision, which promotes the general welfare and not the generals’ welfare.

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