So, how screwed is screwed?

It looks like Gary Johnson has been completely blocked, as has Jill Stein of the Green Party, from the debates. Even lawsuits in federal court against the Commission on Presidential Debates hasn't helped at this point. The last one of the Presidential debates is in 24 hours.

With the media blocking Johnson, with the focus only on the two opposites of the same coin, and with the polls showing 50/50 for Obama and Romney, it'll be Bush v Gore all over again.

Only this time the stakes are higher and the corruption deeper.

Already there is proof that Tagg Romney has investments into the Ohio electronic voting machines corporation. The GOP is using their Sec. of State members to twist who is eligible to vote. The Democrats are, as usual, really doing nothing. The Koch brothers, Adelson, and so many others have bought and paid for our election, they control the voting companies, the media, everything.

Our Republic will fall with this next election. The people no longer control who they vote for. They no longer control who they have access too. Even if someone won the popular vote there is no way in hell the Electoral will ever be allowed to pick anyone but a Democrat or Republican. Big money controls our nation, the 1% have us by the balls.

I continue to fear for our future. I fear that the day is coming when history, which has happened in other nations, will happen here. And we will either fall into total Fascism or collapse into a state like China where the people are slaves to the government and corporations. That the people are being led by the nose and at some point when they wake up, it'll be too late.

Like Nazi Germany.
Like Military Japan.
Like Fascist Italy.
Like Communist Russia.
Like the monarchies of France, Britain, and others.

All suffered greatly, all fell deeply. And in the process millions suffered and/or died.

Is that really out future? Is that what our once great nation will devolve too? Will my children and your children be sent to foolish wars of greed (as so many already have)? Will our children be working 18 hour days at slave wages with no benefits and be unable to even think about owning a home, eating good food, or living the American Dream?

But even more frightening, even sadder, does anyone in the nation really even care?

Hatred for the Rich?

A friend of mine posted:

Still trying to wrap my head around this growing disdain and hate for the rich. Our economy is based 100% on people starting businesses, thus creating jobs. Small business, big business, it doesn't matter. They create jobs. Our great experiment in self governance was based on people from all walks of life given the ability and opportunity to pursue their dream and break free of the chains Monarchs imposed on them for thousands of years.

It's really very simple... more businesses = more jobs = more tax revenue for the states and the federal government. With more people working, you can lower their taxes without comprising tax revenue.

The Federal government creates NOTHING. It is a parasite. Always has been, always will be and that is why the founders severely limited its function in the Constitution. It needs to get out of the way and let mankind do its thing. It needs to let businesses conduct business without oppressive taxes and regulations. It needs to let those who have the courage and fortitude to strike out on their own to pursue their passions because those people are the ones that drive our economy. Without them, there would be no jobs. It's a delicate system that is being destroyed by class warfare.

But he was wrong, here's why:

It's not a hatred of those who make money, or those who have money, but those who ABUSE money. Nobody begrudges someone who has worked hard and deserves what they have made nor their contributions to the nation, should they make them.

But here's the failing:

"It's really very simple... more businesses = more jobs = more tax revenue for the states and the federal government. With more people working, you can lower their taxes without comprising tax revenue."

That isn't happening anymore. The rich have used various loopholes in the tax and legal system to avoid paying that fair share of tax revenue. They have used offshore accounts, capital gains declarations (even when they are revenue), and other accounting tricks to avoid paying. 

The second part of that is that they helped pass those laws by using their wealth to lobby (bribe, the real word) politicians to allow those loopholes or bypass processes. They gamed the system for their own good and bought the politicians to allow for it.

In the meantime they have been creating jobs, overseas, at the rate of millions while cutting them back drastically here. Either jobs here are outsourced or made part time to diminish the benefits to employees.

In the end all of the above put the burden on the working Americans who have to pay those taxes they aren't, can't pay politicians for their own breaks, and have to pay exorbitant health care because they can't get benefits.

This is why money must be pulled from politics. No lobbying, no payoffs, no perks, make it illegal for a politician to take a corporate job for a minimum of ten years and the same with corporate leaders. We have officers of Monsanto, Behr Sterns, Goldman Sacks who are currently running the very administrations that should be ensuring that those entities to not endanger the national economy or health.

That is why the rich are being hated. That and massive bonuses for failed banks and corporations, no penalties, where as you or I would be jailed in a heartbeat.

But let's be clear, I do not know anyone that begrudges someone who's worked hard for their money, who has done a good job their bonuses, it's the greedy thieves who have not worked hard but made their money off these tricks and scams, off the backs of others (look at what happened to the employees of the companies as compared to the officers when they failed) that raise people's anger. There are many wonderful, good, corporate leaders who have done their businesses and employees well, who embody the very ideals you're talking about, but it's the others, pretty much the 1% of the 1%, who have gone too far.

And then he said:

The term "Fair share" has always bewildered me. Who can truly determine what "fair share" is? You ask one million people what fair share is and you'll get one million different answers. Those who are in power to administer fair share can only do so from their own belief system. That in itself is far from fair.

But...

Nope, fair share is easy, it's those who don't want to pay it and those who protect not paying it that make it hard. 

For example, if I work 40 hours a week and get paid a salary I agreed to, that's fair. If a CEO works 30 hours a week and gets a salary he agreed to, that's fair. But if I pay 35% on taxes, can't have it declared something it isn't, would go to jail for trying, and the CEO pays 15% taxes he's declared capital gains, put the rest overseas so it won't be taxed, not go to jail for either, that's not fair.

You, and too many others, speak of a nirvana free market, but it is impossible and never really existed. What you are describing is a time when the government was not *controlled* by business but rather business and government worked together for the good of the nation and the profitability of the business. The Industrial Revolution changed that. Over time business realized it could buy government. Over the years they bought more of it to pass laws to buy even more of it until it reached the point we have today where they are so financially intermingled and business is so in control of government that the nation is failing.

The reason a free market can never work, the reason government must have some control over business, the reason there must never be money allowed into politics, and the reason our nation is screwed is one, single thing. Human greed.

Unless you have government bust oligopolies and monopolies you'll never have actual choices. Price fixing, speculation, the housing collapse, TARP, etc. all go back to one thing. A greedy, very powerful group of people who prey on the greedy wants of the politicians and make sure the laws go their way.

And the people will keep having Clintons, Obamas, Bushes, Romneys, etc. because they want the people divided on emotional issues so they can conquer and control and get richer. Just follow the money through history and politics. It's a road map to Corporatacracy...and we're almost there.