A plastic land full of plastic people...

What is wrong with our fair land? Despite the economic hardships of our the Great Recession the US remains one of the wealthiest nations in the world. One where unemployment is hovering around 10%, where vast swaths of the population cannot afford to have health care, where one in seven now live in poverty as we piss away billions of dollars of taxpayer money on 2 ill-advised wars and where the upper 2% have about 20%-30% of all of the wealth.

So what can, or should, we do to address what ails our country right now? Well first and foremost by tackling the main reason for our problems, the staggering wealth inequality in America by returning us to the tax rates which were in place during the Clinton years. But the wealthy are not happy at all with that plan...in fact they are downright angry about it. Along with anything else which they perceive as an attack on their collective stations in life. They feel they've earned what they have. Earned by killing good paying American jobs, earned by bribing, errrrr donating money to, our elected officials to help their, and only their, bottom lines, earned by the reckless greedy behavior which resulted in over $1T taxpayers dollars having to be spent to preserve what the greedy had "earned". In fact they are so dead set against anything being done to them that they are warning that unless they are allowed to keep doing well they will make sure nobody does well, not that any of us out of their circles are doing anything even remotely resembling "well".

Well at least the administration has the rest of our collective best interests at heart. Just as Obama showed he had when he trekked to the back country of Greenwich, where the median income was a paltry $117,000 per household, to hold a $30,000 per plate fundraiser at the impoverished Conyers Farm Estate. While there he mocked those of us who feel more should be done for us instead of for them by characterizing us as people who "see the glass as half empty". He showed where his allegiance is, it is with "them".

But the wealthy want to take no chances. So they have sunk millions of dollars into an astroturf Tea Party campaign through fronts like Dick Armey's and David Koch's Freedom Works. They have convinced a more than an insignificant portion of the population, through their propagandist media outlets like billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., that it is in their best interests to be against their best interests and the only freedom they should want is the freedom for the wealthy to have even more.

So here we sit at the crossroads as a nation, ignorant and intentionally misinformed, poised to head down history's rabbit hole just so the very few can have it all...