Resist or Become Serfs

The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us. Tens of millions of people, brutally controlled, will live in perpetual poverty. This is the inevitable result of unchecked corporate capitalism. The stimulus and bailout plans are not about saving us. They are about saving them. We can resist, which means street protests, disruptions of the ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.3
by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 6, 2009

The opinion is provocative, and reflects upon the predatory greedy corporations that are being showered with money to re-inflate the economy.

The foreboding outlook here is fairly widely shared by people in the square, though it is seldom expressed in the big corporate media.

if Washington still used the CPI measurements applied back in the 1970s, inflation would be 10 percent.

Our actual unemployment rate, when you include those who have stopped looking for work and those who can only find part-time jobs, is not 8.5 percent but 15 percent

The Obama administration, rather than chart a new course, is intent on re-inflating the bubble.

“Bankrupt corporate capitalism is on its way to bankrupting the socialism that is trying to save it,” Nader added. “That is the end stage. If they no longer have socialism to save them then we are into feudalism. We are into private police, gated communities and serfs with a 21st century nomenclature.”

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