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Brilliant post, post #5. The statistics are in #4 ... the succinct analysis in your #5.

Emigrate, go to work in an actual Nation - and write that Book. You'll probably have to get it published for the first time abroad anyway. The overdogs are swine here and have all the publishing houses etc. et. al . The 'reason' it's so rampant and pervasive is that they are Not destroying 'their own people' in terms of their own sensibility they are destroying 'us'. Only the Christian Religion embraces all in any universal kind of sensibility. Which at least at America's start is what allowed the U.S. under that ridiculous 'Constitution' to seem like a nation. As a matter of fact it might yet SEEM like a nation if freedom of religion was defined as meaning - "Freedom of any of the established CHRISTIAN Religions."

The overdogs aren't shooting themselves in the foot - in their own sense of things - most of them conveniently have citizenships in multiple countries... other than the one they exploit so well since it's not really a nation... u.s.

Mostly I agree with you.

I don't find Hollywood serial killer movies uplifting, no.

Perverted at the top, but utterly stupid at all levels. The very fact that our intellectually sterile WonderBread media survives at all (i.e., ordinary people *actually consume* Fox News and the New York Times, horrifying as this may be to Chronicles subscribers) is a spectacular testament to the success of the upper dogs in brainwashing the underdogs.

One important tool in brainwashing us, as your discussion of the Supreme Court suggests, is to convince the public that the Constitution of 1787 is essential to the survival of this "nation." It is not, for more reasons than we have time for here, but it suffices to say that:

1. A "nation" defined by a piece of paper is not a nation at all.
2. Few if any other Western countries have not made significant revisions to their constitutions
3. As you imply, we are trapped: the "strict constructionists" would have us not adapt to changing economic and international winds except as we can formulate a nearly impossible consensus for an "amendment," whereas the "living document" proponents would drag our legal system into utter nihilism.

Someday, someone will write a book about how the elites of what was one of the most forward-looking societies managed to seize upon the critical inflexibility of its constitutional foundations to systematically destroy their own people through de-industrialization and massive immigration. If we are not to be indicted in that mess, conservatives have GOT to divorce themselves from the adulation of the almighty United States Constitution.

It's to the point of the ABSURD now in the United States in that 1/10th of one percent of Americans or 350Thousand (350,000) receive, hold, own every year the same portion of the national economy and wealth (by virtue of the rules of the game that virtually GIVE it to them) as 150Million (150,000,000) Americans or the next 62% of the economy and work force. Of the top 1/10th of one percent 1/10 of that, 1/100 of a percent of the population or 30Thousand (30,000) Americans the very pinnacle of this Ponzi shceme hold more than the other 310,000 at the top AND this proportion of the wealth held by those at the very 'top' has now exceeded what was held by the same relatively few in 1928 just prior to the crash of 1929. AMERICANS real Americans have never worked harder or longer. Yet 80% of what they produce goes to 1% of the population. The bottom 30Million Americans (30,000,000) in the American economy are now what are known as the working poor. Those who do nothing but work for wages with Their taxes automatically withheld, with two or three jobs who still can't pay their bills. The wealthiest of these working poor make $9 per hour. In real terms adjusted for inflation by any measure (and its rigged since linked to the CPI or Consumer Price Index) Americans have been jogging in place and heading backwards since 1969 (for approximately 40 years). Recently when it was suggested by the Government that Americans earnings and wages are up it was found to be a lie and another chimera if you remove the increases of the top 5% of Americans (of course which includes that top 1/10th of 1%) which receives the lion's share. Ameircans are literally now being eaten or consumed alive or in other words 'cannibalism (the System now IS cannibalistic.)' While on the other hand, the MOST competitive nations in the West also have huge social safety nets BECAUSE they understand the SYSTEM itself of the distribution of goods and services must be balanced in order to provide their people with the BASICS of a decent life. This makes the people of a nation happy and ABLE to produce and compete. This also includes how much time the Governments of these civilized nations REQUIRE the work force be given off from work with pay - to rest and get stronger again for the coming year. E.g. Days off required with pay by Law: (just a few) France 31, Germany 28, Austrailia 27, England 21, Japan 14... U.S. 0

Of them all the U.S. is the wealthiest "nation" by Far of course, larger than the entire European Union (all their many member nations combined), the U.S. with 30% of the entire world's economy. But for all intents and purposes it's a SLAVE nation now with the slaves kept in place by a MEDIA (conspiracy of course) advising them otherwise, and telling them how 'lucky' and rich they are. All that is really happening in this country of veritable perverts at the top is an absolute BETRAYAL of work, and a complete sell-out of the "nation".

You can't call this place a 'nation' really because its people have NO Media reflective of their own reality, NO control over their own money supply, and NO government in place to Actually represent their own normal, basic needs since to much of their tax dollars get sent to Washington D.C. their federal politicians sent there have no choice but to work for the wealthy interests who financed them to be able to get there...in order to make those wealthy interests yet wealthier vis a vis the nation's taxpool. That's the SYSTEM publically financed, publically insured but privately owned...and that's what creates the stratospheric fortunes overnight, the taxpool. Everyone wants IN, like pigs at a trough. It's inconceivable to most Americans that legislation is written and agencies created which PAY wealthy coporporations to take their companies and those American jobs overseas or to Mexico etc. ... these companies who want to do it anyway - then get the politicians (they bought and paid for) to write legislation to FINANCE directly out of the American taxpool the move.
Agencies like O.P.I.C. (or whatever new name they want to give it if that one has the light shined on it) use American tax dollars to PAY for American coporations moving abroad, and even the building of their new (privately owned) factories in the foregin nation.

If a law is enacted on the other hand - that ONLY public monies (these same tax dollars) can be used to finance the campaigns of politicians so that they are not bought and paid for by Private interests - the very Supreme Court of this screwy "nation" goes and rules no you can't do that "money is speech." -?- No, money is money... And now it's ALL given to the rich out of the Federal Tax pool - so that in Effect hundreds of millions of Americans are literally Financing THEIR OWN DEMISE.

And then you have people like Mort Zuckerman owner of Newsweek Magazine etc. flapping his lips on talk shows that it can't be stopped and sure the very wealthy get extremely wealthy via government and the shipping of American jobs (mostly manufacturing) overseas so that now manufacturing is down to 10% of the economy when only 20 years ago it was 50% ... but it's ok because now [dumbed down America] is a 'knowledge' based economy, Mort avers with only 5% unemployment (of the slaves) and so everything is really hunky-dory (i.e. for Mort)...Got to read between the lines. Sure it couldn't be 'better' for Mort and his propaganda rag, and all he owns. It's perfect.

So now THAT'S America, and yes it's PERVERTED mostly at the top. But, Americans are still basically decent and so they don't yet even conceive the depths to which their "leadership" has descended, BECAUSE also the MEDIA keeps them completely away from the reality and in fact is There in place by design, to Brainwash them with what they are 'supposed' to Believe...Exactly like what was done to get the nation into the war in Iraq; and yet even the Democratic Congress now under Pelosi will not apparently bring the two co-Presidents Cheney & Bush, who implement the will of these interests - up for impeachment proceedings. Why? The SAME interests OWN the Democrats. They too ONLY want IN - to the tax pool in behalf of their Masters. THAT'S it.

If Mr. Newman doesn't find the truth under these circumstances Uplifting... well ?
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