So, I am on a six month blog cycle. T. S. Elliot said,"Through getting and spending we lay wate our power." I certainly have seen my writing time obliterated this year. My life is commerce and local industry.
I am so worried about this election and where we are headed as a nation, and as a world body. We've found ourselves right back where we were in 1910. The upper class has re-worked our institutions so their interests are protected. Journalism has become a commodity, packaged and sold to market segments as opposed to reported in our collective best interest.
In the states, the Citizens United ruling has made spending money a type of speech and I am so worried about what that means to us. If money determines the volume of your speech, then inequality of message is guaranteed. It's like Animal Farm. We're all equal. Some of us are more equal than others.
I think the most important book I have read this year is End This Depression Now by Paul Klugman. He lays out effectively and well why we are where we are economically, what it means and what political forces have brought us here.
Time to make breakfast for my wife and sons.
peace
I am so worried about this election and where we are headed as a nation, and as a world body. We've found ourselves right back where we were in 1910. The upper class has re-worked our institutions so their interests are protected. Journalism has become a commodity, packaged and sold to market segments as opposed to reported in our collective best interest.
In the states, the Citizens United ruling has made spending money a type of speech and I am so worried about what that means to us. If money determines the volume of your speech, then inequality of message is guaranteed. It's like Animal Farm. We're all equal. Some of us are more equal than others.
I think the most important book I have read this year is End This Depression Now by Paul Klugman. He lays out effectively and well why we are where we are economically, what it means and what political forces have brought us here.
Time to make breakfast for my wife and sons.
peace
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nunpuncher6:
i have seen and known the peace. it is a welcome comfort after a long time in harsh lands. but it is only a brief comfort for some. it gets old. it gets stale. it doesnt smell like my job, nor my life. i have never done well with regular people. they baffle and intrigue me. but. that is life. most of my anger gets consumed in the gym. 
serene:
Thank you! 