huge money has to stop talking exclusively to big money and start
setting things right.
It’s time for the people
who really run America to reclaim their birthright. No, it’s not The
People. We don’t count. It’s not the three branches of
government. You see what a job they’re each doing. From the lowest member
of congress to the supreme court, to the president, every one of them is a
failure and everyone who wants to join their two-party party has high potential
for the same low creaturedom.
The people who are
really running the country work on Wall Street, work in the front offices of
big banks and run industrial farms, major manufacturers, oil fields, media
outlets, pharmaceutical and tobacco companies, and megachurches, both
acknowledged and not. And don’t forget the insurance companies.
Oh, you may think that
big tax break for the rich kept the huddled masses of billionaires happy.
It may have for a while. Except all
these newly-flush “job creators” aren’t doing much job creation, keeping wages
flat and investing heavily in stock buybacks and yachts. And you might think
that a white supremacist in the oval office is keeping is giving aid and
comfort to some “very good people” waving flags with swastikas.
But that’s just
temporary. The dictatorship is around the corner and the only people who
can get us out of that trap are the people who got us into it.
You think rich people
are rich because they’re smart? Well, some of them surely are. But they live on the same smartness bell
curve we all inhabit.
Note to anyone with a
net worth over one billion dollars: The only way you can die meaningfully is if
the rest of us are there to note it. You have the power to set things
right. Now, get at it.
SHRAPNEL:
--Further evidence that
most crooks get caught because they’re stupid. Someone set up a meth lab on a
main drag in the tiny borough of Bellefonte, PA. It was just around the
corner from the county court building, the DA’s office and the Sheriff’s holding
tank.
--At a county-owned but
privately run nursing home just a short distance from the meth lab, police are
investigating accusations of a staffer or staffers failing to report the
distribution of controlled substances to residents. All of which raises
an important question. Is that happening at the handful of other local
warehouses for the elderly and infirm?
I’m Wes Richards.
My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
Comments? Send ‘em
here: wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2019
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