After Serious Consideration of Reich's Points...

[JuliaL]

I think we have reached the point where we can no longer govern ourselves.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/robert-r...try-blind/

Robert Reich: Americans obsess over the sex lives of strangers while CEOs rob the country blind

At a time many Republican presidential candidates and state legislators are furiously focusing on private morality – what people do in their bedrooms, contraception, abortion, gay marriage – America is experiencing a far more significant crisis in public morality.
CEOs of large corporations now earn 300 times the wages of average workers. Insider trading is endemic on Wall Street, where hedge-fund and private-equity moguls are taking home hundreds of millions.
A handful of extraordinarily wealthy people are investing unprecedented sums in the upcoming election, seeking to rig the economy for their benefit even more than it’s already rigged.

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When did we ever?
Who owns and controls the media that influences the populace?
Who owns the government?
I doubt it is the 99%
The sad part is that the strategy of the 1% is likely to be only successful in the very short term.
I hear a second typhoon is about to hit Japan.
How's that climate change denying going Senator Inhofe?