America - An "Undeveloping" Country?

[Joanne98]

For OpEdNews: Chaz Valenza - Writer

The realization that America is in a slide, on a trajectory of decrease, "undeveloping" if you will, is dawning on Americans and it's a rude awakening. I agree with the statement "I want my country back," but not with the sentiment that it has been lost because Barack Obama is president. So, who did take it?

Those in the 20% highest income bracket, the rich and the obscenely wealthy, see a bright future: a simple two caste system of "haves" and "have nots." A return to the 1920's, a time to which we now have similar disparity in wealth.

To people on the right side of the wealth skew a financially segregated society, with money and power consolidated among a few, is comforting. Lose of their current high position seems impossible and the problem of finding "good help" is ameliorated. They have only one issue, maintaining the imbalance of power.

To this end they are deploying both tangible and intangible defenses: the gated and exclusive community; the security system and body guards; the Ivy League education; the clout of the lobbyist; the financial corruption of the election system; nepotism and connections; the punitive wages paid to the masses; monetary and regulatory barriers to business entry; a marketplace strangle hold against under-capitalized up-start competition, and nearly total authority to write the rules of the game.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/America--An-Undeveloping-by-Chaz-Valenza-100810-701.html

[eleny]

1. The news about communities turning paved roads back to gravel should be an eye opener

What's next, take down bridges and get across by a 19th century system of tiny ferries?

[Duke Newcombe]

3. This. Becoming a "Second World" country, we are. n/t

[calico1]

2. I heard Arianna saying yesterday that we are on our

way to becoming a third world country. She was pointing out the increasing trend to cut back the school year, cut teachers. We cannot compete anymore on an internationa level by cutting back the school y ear, closing schools, eliminating a lot of programs.

We are on our way to another Gilded Age unless people start waking up and stop allowing themselves to be spoon fed by these right wing media thugs. Who are all very rich, by the way. Like they care about Middle Class or working people. Why don't they see that?

[JohnWxy]

5. Ahhhh, The REPUBLICAN DYSTOPIA, devolving society.

[Speck Tater]

4. The age of abundance is over. Get used to it peons. nt

[elehhhhna]

6. Ever notice we don't call the Prez the "Leader of the Free World" anymore?

A guy who prosecutes 2 concurrent bu11shit wars -- okay, occupations -- can't be called "Leader of the free world"

[madrchsod]

7. sure is....it`s being run by cowards on both sides of the aisle

[angstlessk]

8. I said when Clinton was president ...."someone is gonna make a bunch of money turning America into a

third world country" and I was right...the rich are indeed richer..and Clinton no longer has to work for a living! Not saying it was all Clinton, but he was in on it, then came boosh...who accelerated the fall by a brazillion. Sadly Obama does not look much better than Clinton.