I am going to make a prediction, which I think is obvious. Obama will win the November 2012 election.
He is an incumbent and his rivals offer nothing new - except Ron Paul. Unfortunately, RP is not winning amongst conservatives, because he offers change, which is contrary to underlying conservative principles - 'the ways of the past did get us here'. Quite likely, RP's method of change offers a serious conflict to the money grubbing corporate wealth that buys American politics. His proposed cuts would certainly undermine a great deal of the American corporate profit structure - the military establishment.
The military establishment operates at a distance that is a galaxy away from the concept of free enterprise, and it is a practice protected fiercely by both liberal and conservative elements though for very different reasons. But whatever the reasons, they all put piles of tax payer money into the pockets of the few.
The government is a labyrinth of regulations all designed to protect the US Government from its people, under the guise they protect its people from all those whose aim is to deceive and cheat the Republic. But when the US Government enters into a military orDeal, all of these regulations are trampled and forgotten under the shroud of national security.
The federal government currently works diligently to eliminate government personnel and replace them with contract or private corporate employees. Thereby, erasing the only means for maintaining vigilance since the corporate employee holds allegiance only to the corporate behemoth that buys their service. And in case you have not been paying attention, the only allegiance a corporation holds is to protecting and increasing its profits. As such, corporate employees are unlikely to count on their positions as careers, like normal government employees would, because their contracts are limited and must be re-bid at some future date. This leaves the remaining government hierarchy isolated from the control of those performing inherently government functions.This practice also destroys any sense of loyalty that in the past assured virtuous government service.
You may think this is not true, but the army's current information technology structure is all handled by corporate America. Government employees (even its army generals) are subordinate to this system. Management of this kind of system can be likened to pushing a rope. If you do not understand this view, then simply return to how the banks man-handled the government when it came to the American public saving them from a catastrophe of their own making. The government did not make any bank do anything it did not want to do. The bank corporate structure is now doing the very same thing that flushed us all down the hole in 2008 - all under the scrutiny of the Government. In fact, everything the government has done to restrict corporate greed, has only made it worse for the consumer. The banks are not hurting like the hopeless millions of former homeowners the banks have destroyed. Every push the government has made against corporate America, has simply resulted in an equal and opposite action upon the American consumer.
The reality is in recognizing that government will not save you. It can not do so because it is owned by corporate America and that means corporate America owns you - the consumer. Each American is now in locked-step with corporate America leading its way to the battle of Little Big Horn. America's consumerist direction is a path to tyranny and enslavement. In this respect, like so many other things, Gandhi was correct.
Freedom's demise began by defining it, with the first amendment to the Constitution.
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