Real Security Threats: Unemployment and Economic Hardship

[texshelters]

Real Security Threats: Unemployment and Economic Hardship

As unemployment continues unabated and Obama continues to side with corporations on the questions of regulation, investment, taxes, social welfare and the war, tension is rising just beneath the surface.

The Tea Party movement is right to point out that the government is full of corrupt officials who don’t give a damn about us. They are right to be angry. However, they have hitched their wagon to the same corrupt officials who helped create this disaster, the Republican Party and the Koch corporation backed politicians.

Unless Obama, the White House and Congress face the severe jobs crisis and rising economic inequality in the United States, there will be more economically based violence, riots and upheaval. Franklin Roosevelt, a product of the New York aristocracy, understood this. The New Deal saved the United States from a major class based conflict. Will Obama wizen up soon enough to save the elites, and thus himself?

Certainly, the New Deal failed to address many of the structural problems with our capitalist system http://www.thenation.com/article/beyond-new-deal , but that is for another post. It’s hard to argue that the New Deal didn’t help millions in the 30s.

I would love it if we took care of each other and the wealth of this nation was shared so all could benefit and few would suffer. But what outcomes are we left with at this date and time but upheaval?

Read the whole article here:
http://texshelters.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/real-security-threat-unemployment-and-economic-hardship/

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Hardrada]

1. I have always wondered why the PTB have been removing

the safeguards that keep capitalism (and their rule) from coming completely apart. FDR put the safeguards there to save the system not quite as it was but in still recognizable form.

[texshelters]

2. Good question

I think they forgot history, for one.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[leftstreet]

3. Because Communism and the Left ceased to be threats

Which was why they worried so about protecting Capitalism to begin with

[texshelters]

5. Good point.

There does not seem to be a competing economic model that has any political power currently in the world, although social justice seems to never lose it's popularity. Even the social democrats with mixed economies in Europe have been buying into the neo-feudalistic, er, neo-liberal economic free market model to a larger extent.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[leftstreet]

4. K&R

Very interesting article

It would be nice if you could work up an OP on the strikes/riots you reference. Lots of people are unaware of that US history.