Tonight President Obama is going to give his State Of The Union speech. I wonder what he will say. He will probably say, more or less, that the union is in a pretty sorry state.
The President may say something about the state of the union being in bad condition because the banks can and do gamble on credit default swaps and derivatives, etc. He may give some lip service to bank regulation to prevent it. He may ask for legislation to make the banks loan money to small business so they can operate and expand creating new jobs.
He may also give lip service to climate change. He may ask for tax breaks and other incentives for business to produce clean energy. He may ask for legislation to limit the emission of greenhouse gasses. But the biggest polluters are the ones with the deepest pockets. They will spend as much as they need to in order to stop any regulation that would cut into their profits.
I doubt that he will say the state of the union is in bad condition because our lawmakers are owned by the corporations. I doubt that he will say that they bribe our elected officials to ignore the needs of the people and legislate on behalf of the corporations instead. And I doubt that he will offer any solution to this problem.
He will probably not tell us that any legislation that goes against the corporations will be overturned by the Supreme Court. He could ask for the only solution that will stand against the Supreme Court. He could ask for a Constitutional amendment to take the money out of politics. But I doubt that he will.
If money isn’t taken out of politics, the state of the union will not improve substantially. Not for the masses! If the corporations are allowed to spend as much as they want to influence politics we will end up like Haiti or Zimbabwe. There will be no middle class. There will only be a few who are filthy rich and the masses will be desperately poor.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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