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Isaac Jarsen's avatar

As wealth increased of the average American so did his/hers character deflated.

It is human nature to experience an increase of appetite while eating.

It all led to a disengagement of reality with dreams. American values changed and so did the values of products. The corporations started to set the tone of American lifestyle. To make it clear let’s use the example of a restaurant. The value of the food and all the overhead is irrelevant. What matters is what is a willing consumer able and willing to pay for the meal.

The corporations work in the exact same way. Making a product in some foreign land increases profitability. They know what the buyer can afford to pay and that becomes the value. Corporations together with their corrupted overseers ignored the fact that they destroyed one industry after the other, that a worker who use to be employed in these industries had to replace his old job with a new one for a fraction of what he used to earn. They ignored dependence on foreign countries and the security of our country.

Now new money will be made by the American oligarchy when the current reverses. New weapons are developed to fight enemies we created, new ideas are developed to return to what was forgotten. There is a general need to reinvent a wheel.

The fact that people like Bill Bonner have come to light signals that We are not content with the turns America has taken. It always starts with words and debates but sooner or later the fight will turn to an active rebellion. Our founding fathers predicted some events and some they either did not think of or avoided. Obviously I am talking about the right to poses arms to be directed against an oppressive government. With the government come corporations.

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Paul Murray's avatar

Before we and staff at BPR get too gushy about Mr. Kennedy's candidacy, campaign, love of country, etc., can we pause to remind ourselves how the Kennedy fortune came to be? Was it a result of Granddaddy Joe's win-win deals, sweat equity, and virtue? Or was it something else? Prohibition anyone? Insider advantages? "Leveraged" profits? Just asking... Best always. PM

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