Plutocracy Now

As Jim Hightower reminds us (over and over) that our present "Power Elite" is a relatively small plutocracy which has taken over what was left of our so-called d e m o c r a c y lock, stock and barrel. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to prove that a tiny minority is running the economy and that minority is running the media and government as well. Sounds simplistic, and is, in a sense; but true none-the-less. So what are you going to do about it, wise guy, crying in our beer?

Right now there is a brand new book out by Michael Polenti on our American history as startup plutocracy, one that has been left out of the history books, some how. Yes, it turns out that the framers of the Constitution were pretty much 100 per cent landed gentry, who could afford to be away from home and work for long enough periods of time to draw up the rules for our so-called d e m o c r a c y (don't do as I do, do what I say). And then if you followed that into our foreign expansion exploits (eg. with the Spanish colonies we took away), you are just building your way to the empire we find outselves stuck with now.

Plutocracy then, plutocracy now. And I'm not saying that I feel we haven't done anything for anyone, that our Nation has not been there when the chips were down both for us and others. We know there's an aircraft carrier off the coast of Northern Japan right now, that we are helping not only with the ever loving bandaids, but with some hard core rescue work down in the rubble and waste, contaminated by nuclear technology from the good old U.S.A., of course. The costs of empire are way too great, we have to find a better way to do things, and quick.