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http://www.globalresearch.ca/gr-radio-911-and-the-afghan-war-eleven-years-later/5308971


http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/neoliberalism-kills-part-one.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-and-romney-concur-on-war-assassination-and-reaction/5309256

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Lunarblitz wrote:

No dummy. Being in denial does not change the actual facts. Blacks want to claim that is was about slavery because most slavery was in the south. But only a few actually owned slaves. Each state had it's own laws, and handled it's own taxes which were applied by each states economic level. They fought for the same thing that each governor of each state fights for this very day.
TO DEFEAT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL.

Denial doesn't change the facts, you moron. And the fact is that conservative elites from slaveholders on, only opposed Federal power when it seemed their particular interests are threatened. As long as the reationary slaveholding oligarchy dominated the national government, there wes no complaint about "Federal control." The South feared that Abe Lincoln would try to end slavery and/or curtail its expansion. They feared that an Abolitionist president had been elected (just as stupid conservatives today believed that a socialist president was elected in 2008).
But as historian Howard Zinn pointed out "Big government" had, in fact, begun with the Founding Fathers, who deliberately set up a strong central government to protect the interests of bondholders, SLAVE OWNERS, the lang speculators, the manufacturers. For the next TWO HUNDRED YEARS, the American government continued to serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful, offering millions of acres of free land to the railroads, setting high tariffs to protect manufacturers, giving tax breaks to oil corporations, and using its armed forces to suppress strikes and rebellions" (p. 637, A PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES).
But when under pressure from protests the Federal government (surtout in 1930s &60s)passed social legislation for the poor, it was then that business and political elites raised a hue and cry about "big government."
Big government suits the elites and rhe Right just fine so long as its promotes elite interests and reactionary agendas.
Reactionaries didn't mind the government crushing strikes and suppressing the IWW. But rights of the poor, oppressed minorities, workers, women, etc--that's a different matter.

-Savant

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-patricia- wrote:

And where do u think they would have gone to? It was the govt's duty to set aside some designated area (safe zones) where they would have sought shelter before the storm hit. And u still refuse to admit that certain people are treated well than others. That's the downside of capitalism. I can't believe that America has poor people and homeless folks in a country tagged as the leading economy in the world. I know that any country has a wide gap betwn the wealthy and the poor but this is sad. You people xpected Obama to do miracles esp after Bush handed him a messy economic situation but u all wish that a "100% true American" Romney will soon fix everything that is economically wrong in America right now. I hope u all don't get disappointed with Mitt 4 years later. Maybe I, Patricia should be president. I swear I would make blacks and whites and all races to GET ALONG! There wouldn't be racism at all under my watch!

You might find the elimination of racism a much tougher job than you now think if you were president of the USA. You're are right about the responsibilities of the government during the Katrina disaster. Government authorities simply dropped the ball. Actually, the standard of living in America is lower than in a some European countries which are not nearly as wealthy as the USA.
Some studies seem to indicated that even the "upward mobility" with which America prides herself, is now less than in some of the industrialized countries in Europe.
We're not just dealing with the "downside" of capitalism, but with capitalist rapaciousness, with UNREGULATED and predatory capitalism. Capitalism in its natural state. That's what we find in the USA today.
The social contract of Franklin D. Roosevelt has been all but killed by 30+ years of conservative dominance in which even the Democrats have moved rightward while reactionary Republicans have moved into an insane asylum.
We have one of the lowest levels of literacy, a miserable health care system which "Obamacare" mildly reforms, one of the highest crime rates, and perhaps the most uninformed citizenry in the industrialized world. About 12 million American children go hungry at night in the world's RICHEST nation. And I can go on and on.
Someone started a thread called "Why are Scandinavian countries so progressive?" One might as well also start one entitled "Why is the United States so BACKWARD?"


-Savant