JoB
redblack..
i am not so sure the actual chasm is that wide…
although i will agree that every effort has been made by big business to inflame passions and widen it
and the effects of that inflammation of passion has been validated in the media.
divide and conquer is a strategy as old as the hills.
when we take politics .. or should i say the political parties..
out of the conversation..
i have found that most of us are pretty much agreed on our top concerns and the need to find a way to take care of those this economy has sidelined.
It the talking points that are at war.
Even big business when independently polled stated that tax breaks would not cause them to employ more people..
boosting consumerism is the key to employment.. not tax breaks.
you boost consumerism by putting people to work.
People understand that.. but get caught up in all of the talking point fear that is generated by those who want those tax breaks anyway.
We have evidence that big tax breaks for wealthy individuals and businesses don’t create jobs..
yet we are told that big business won’t provide jobs without them… that the only way to survive is to give those who have benefited most from our national economic woes more…
put that way, it doesn’t make much sense does it?
but there you go. What we are being fed does not make sense.
nor does the fear that has been created about what creating jobs and feeding people and helping control medical costs will do to the deficit and to our children’s and grandchildren’s future prospects.
The wars we are waging and bailing out economic institutions that gambled with our money and bankrupted our personal futures has created the deficit.
That is what we should be concerned about while those who wail about the deficit bang the drums of war and propose further deregulating industries that have shown no restraint and see no reason to do so since they can be saved from their folly and personally profit from the public purse.
We desperately need to get special interests out of our ears so people can think for themselves.
This is a resourceful country
and left to their own devices most Americans are problem solvers
not problem makers.
I don’t think the divide between people is as wide as we are led to believe…
If you assume that we are all basically good compassionate sensible people..
then you have to ask yourself whether what you know to be true about the people on the other side of the political spectrum is true..
the people
not the talking heads who consume our airspace.
I am with Will Rogers…
I don’t believe that you can fool the average man forever
and you know i personally think that goes double for the average woman ;->