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Jerry Peloquin

Is America Sustainable?

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Is America Sustainable?

Ronald Reagan drove a stake into the heart of organized labor while advanced automation in the form of tools and smart programs eliminated whole job classifications. Then the 1% robbed the banks.

I consider myself a post modern realist. I am neither a Libertarian, a progressive, nor am I a conservative. I believe in the U.S. Constitution as drafted in the 18th Century and in the spirit of individual liberty but also in the context of a present day ethos.

Surely the job of Government is to provide for the general welfare but it is also to assure and maintain a condition of social justice and fairness'. In other words to maintain an equilibrium, a just balance within the society, a level playing field on which all may equally compete. (sustainability) The spectacular rise of the Corporation in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th Century gave rise to the Robber Barons smacked down by Teddy Roosevelt only to rise again like the once disgraced Standard Oil Company that morphed into Esso, then Exxon whose roots are deeply embedded in the most egregious and nefarious of business practices.

The Sherman Anti Trust act was designed to thwart just those corporate behaviors that are common in today's board rooms and strategic planning sessions. Instead of trusts the newspeak refers to these as alliance partnerships and their meetings are held in international venues away from the prying eyes of reporters and others who would expose the their monopolistic intent. Ours is NOT an economically Sustainable Democracy and to survive it must become one.

Does This Look Like Economic Sustainability to You?

What has happened here is that our government has moved steadily away from a representative democracy. The U.S Government's victory over the corporate monopolies was an illusory win.. We won the battle but lost the war. Using the power of money, the corporate strategists simply co-opted the government itself. We maintain the mythology of Democracy while operating as an Oligarchy, moving rapidly to a full blown Plutocracy where the members of the government and the members of the financial elite are on the same side of the table. Instead of becoming regulators, our agencies, populated by pro industry experts, have become enablers and confidants of the very people over whom they are tasked with oversight and regulation.

... give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws - Barron Rothschild

The recent financial crisis proves the point that regulators are impotent in the face of massive political pressure and emasculated by industry insiderss who block every effort by well intentioned regulators to effect a modicum of control. Again and again in the Food industry and others we see the inability of regulators to gain control over run away profiteering on the part of those who flaunt the rules with relative impunity. Using the tax system, the 1%, under a succession of pliant congresses gradually and then with increasing aggression removed the controls and barriers to collusion and conspiracy creating massive capital shift out of the hands of the middle class and into the pockets of the corporate and financial elite.

The End of a Sustainable America

(1980 The Great Regression Begins)

What we have seen here over the last 45 years has been a concerted and coordinated attack on the middle class and the demonetization of America's working population. A brazen manipulation of our nation's monetary system and the pending death of the middle class.

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Jerome Peloquin Human Performance Analyst, Systems Integration, Plant Operations Management, Social Activist and Advocate, Musician