Thanks for the pointing the error out. : )

Carl Nemo **==

“A recent study shows that over 70 percent of Americans derive their monthly income from an actual W-2 job. In other words, working is the prime mover and source of their income. Yet the financial elite have very little understanding of this concept. Why? 42 percent of financial wealth is controlled by the top 1 percent. We would need to go back to the Great Depression to see such lopsided data.”

From:

http://www.mybudget360.com/top-1-percent-control-42-percent-of-financial-wealth-in-the-us-how-average-americans-are-lured-into-debt-servitude-by-promises-of-mega-wealth/

Yep, we have the best government money can buy.

Second to last? You mean there’s some one below us on the priority scale? Pray tell, who the hell can that be?

Bread and circuses.

Obviously the “Red Chinese:” model wouldn’t be palatable to our people, but surely Nebraska’s model would work. If I recall Benjamin Franklin was against the idea of having Senate since he evidently could see who’s interests they would serve over that of the general population and it surely has come true in our times. The Constitution was designed to provide checks and balances. Unfortunately over the past 235 years especially since WWII and now closer to our times these balances seemingly are evaporating before our eyes, moving this nation to a fascist form of government.

Our political party system has devolved in a duopoly, both reporting to the same shadowy, monied interests with the needs of the general populace, second to last on their agenda.

We’re captive to a foul, failing system of government. There’s simply no reason for this endless partisan bickering concerning the budget or lack thereof. If these partisans cared about our nation, they’d simply realize enough is enough and sit down to hammer out a deal to save the nation rather than boosting their respective public image for the upcoming 2012 elections. As mentioned they are duopolists and both line their pockets at the expense of the greater public they are tasked to represent, but so too each has their own corrupt agenda driving this nation off a cliff to oblivion.

We have madmen and women at the helm of the USS America steaming at flank speed into a known iceberg field with 320 million ‘captive’ passengers at their mercy. They seemingly won’t stop until they’ve destroyed this nation.

If we survive this round of engineered indecision, then it will reoccur at some point in the future, only it will be lights out for the America. We simply cannot continue along this path of failed representation relative to “We the People’s” needs.

It’s fascinating that they are conducting the business of government as if they were ‘terrorists’ rather than representatives of the people, all of them sworn to protect and defend the Constitution and our way of life against all enemies both foreign and domestic.

Seemingly they are not friends of the people. We’ve met the enemy and he is them…! : |

Carl Nemo **==

Whether you like or or not, we’re being done in by partisan politics and the special interests that control them. Nothing is perfect, but our current system is seemingly DOA…! : |

Carl Nemo **==

Chinese pay 50% down on a mortgage at an average of 89 cents per hour? Give the logic a rest Carl. It’s much like here… the uppers get what they want, the rest are “poor’, whatever that means.

As for “successful” American households… those were the folks designated as living in POVERTY for Gods sake.

Carl Nemo **==

I’ve got a job and I’ll work for practically nothing..
If you tell me I’m free.

Our seeming national ‘success’ is a “Potemkin Village” phenomenon. In a financial sense, we’ve truly become the “paper tigers” we were once accused by the Red Chinese during the “Cold War” era.

Like in any nation, they still have a bunch of the lower classes milling about on the rice paddys, heating their homes and cooking with pig f*rt gas (methane) and living the the life of a China gone by, but China is headed to become the world’s superpower within twenty years or less, like it or not…period!

Carl Nemo **==