Op-Ed Columnist - Is Obama Punking Us? - NYTimes.com: "What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand, from commercial transactions as trivial as the sales of prime concert tickets to cultural forces as pervasive as the news media."
Norton: this is a good summary of the pervasive ill-ease that many of us feel about the conduct of the fixes that are moving forward: the economic, health, sustainable energy promotions... most seem still rooted in the same power mechanisms on wall st and corporate board rooms, and congressional behavior that got us to this disaster in the first place. And then we have the Republicans that are doing their best to throw gasoline on the fires of change.
Obama is right. Our current course, be it economics, deficit, national debt, health care is unsustainable. It seems to me that public education is lacking to discern truth from the fear mongering that helps to sustain the unsustainable status quo. It is the status quo which continues to feed the benefits for the few in power to the jeopardy of the many. This country was build on the middle class. The bulk of economic growth and stability is based on the middle class and a strong small business development. These are NOT the sectors benefiting from these fixes. Additionally, the effectiveness of our voting public depends on an educated voter; that is, one that can source out the TRUTH in a barrage of third and fourth hand information sources that are designed to manipulate the public perception of TRUTH when people are NOT well equipped to think critically and discover the primary sources of information without all the fear mongering of hyper-talk.
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