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Old 09-08-2008, 10:55 PM   #36 (permalink)
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A good question,deserving a good answer.Kinda complicated,kinda convoluted,I'll give it a go: Both the Texas Municipal Retirement System,and the (Texas) Teacher Retirement System (just for example) are invested in all automakers,worldwide,all oil companies,worldwide,all major auto component manufacturers,oilfield service companies,metal .And since we're left to learn of such things at obscure websites on the internet,instead of mass media,also owned by the government and industry(commercial broadcasting),it doesn't bode well for the future,regardless of who's in the White House.The real power lies elsewhere.
Its the men behind the president that have the power. We are in what Muslini described as a corporate government, which is facism. We can vote but no signifant differences between parties at the federal level, they put on a good show but do little beyond party line.

Also I would argue though that the teachers like most just want to make money and get ahead and have no real power to change how those companies make their money (those INDIVIDUALS that do have interests in every segment have influence),

Also our edumacational system is also not decided by teachers and was purposely tailored starting in the 30's to train children to become good employees and not question authority figures even if they are wrong (good training for corp life). That was a stated agenda for the schools from government. (watch a circa 1950's school related filmstrip to see that in action)

Oddly enough that credo was probably much better than the dumbed down system that is in place now, churning out kids who don't understand math or the english language. That and there are more mentally challenged children than ever before in our history clogging up the system due to fertility drugs, old farts having kids, mercury laced injections and our wonderfull environmental damages catching up to us.

It takes a while for people to see that our actions do cause damage to our children and our future.

Unless we can organize like the folks in france and britain and have a country wide mass havoc walk on government every time central government gives us the shaft there won't be much change in any of the regards you state. (its hard to even get people to realize they are getting the shaft, my uncle is convinced that farmers should get subsidies and he is a republican farmer, voting for people who have stated they want to remove all subsidies but he thinks they are going to assist getting him more subsidies, don't tell him what the rep said though)

The folks that have power keep it because nobody really pays attention to who they are or what they are doing. Furthermore good citizenship has been lost, folks feel no obligation to get involved in local government, sadly fed level need radical changes to become accessable to normal people again.

As a side note Fed gov is still pushing RFID chips for drivers licenses at states, good thing local Wisconsin government has fought that bogus BS every time it comes up. RFID is in your passport though, big brother needs to make sure you go where you state you are going.

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