Originally posted by ALightinDarkness
Oh well, I had to cut my cable bill off and went to dial up internet. Problem solved.
No, the national problem is not solved. As long as we keep accepting less, it will be that much more difficult to get back what was taken.
To have to go back to dial up, I find this incredible in the country that gave Bill Gates and Silicon Valley to the world.
For a long time America has been too embarrassed to talk about class; we all liked to imagine ourselves in the wealthy column, or at least potentially so, flush enough to afford this pissing away of our political power on meaningless game-show debates once every four years. The reality is much different, and this might be the year we're all forced to admit it.
Not only "embarrassed" to talk about class but ridiculed for it, told one is bringing up "class warfare", by the very same people who are in an "elite" class of wealthy individuals/families.
Lastly, for decades, arriving to/being in middle class meant a class of savers.
However, we have gone from being defined as citizens, to being defined as consumers. Nay, past that to being defined as "investors".
Americans have been bombarded with shouts of buy on credit, use the money in your home, turn savings into stock investments. Open your purses and wallets and let the money fall into corporate accounts, until all we could show were turned out empty pockets.
What were we told after being attacked on 9-11, go shopping. Go shopping.
Bin Laden wanted to see America's economy falter when the Towers fell. However, the fall of the economy seems to have been an inside job.
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