You can say that again!!!!, and then some!
There may never be another FDR, and so much of what he accomplished and worked to accomplish has literally been trampled upon. He and others during that time made their share of mistakes, but the American people were always at its center.
He won WW2, and for the battles and equipment that couldn't compare to the Germans, and even some that Japan had, for all the countries our soldiers crossed fighting battle after battle, ground, sea, and air our country fought over was done in half the time we've now been in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From the election of Kennedy to the present in waiting, we have witnessed the fall, and its failures to be "a government of the people, for the people".
The American people, whose voices remain silent in the Halls of Congress, if the elected officials would have listened, no bailouts would have ever occurred, the only time they do is when their very office is under attack by their constituents, the media, when their caught up in something, and or their positions feel threatened by civil war in the streets.
The only voices they notably listen to, the only voices they choose to hear are those of special interest groups, and the thousands of lobbyist who are willing to spend for all those willing to sell their office, and those of real wealth regardless of how its obtained, and unlike them wanting enforcement for laws and rules other than those that will protect them, are given full reign to have none for pure, and unadulterated corruption.
Those who wield both money and power, who they hope will help get them elected, and re-elected, so they may build a self serving career. Its beyond belief how may years so many of them have been in office, and are able to keep getting elected, and the results have been years and years of the same betrayal's, Biden is just one of a perfect example. They have no code of ethics, the very ones they expect our military to have they fall way short of.
If it even means they'll bend over for these rats at the cost of peoples livelihoods, or homes, or families investments for the future. We have all seen what this kind of greed and control can do, and few will ever stand accountable, Maybe Madoff who scammed for decades when NY has the largest FBI office in the country is mind blowing, but who was funded by private money, in fact they get rewarded, not billions but trillions before its over, and if this is not enough, they've spent some of it on high end resorts for parties, and are given multi-million dollar bonuses and salaries, the media reported that approx $140,000,000,000 in toll was to get paid out, and some individuals into the tens of millions for having run such frauds here and abroad.
If we just take 2 of these institutions, AIG, and GS who received 21-23 "Billion Dollars", and in lock step the CEO rewarded himself with a $70+ "Million Dollar comp package", all in the same breath is beyond comprehension because of the INSANITY. These are the people running the "Govt". The House and the Senate, and the former and present President has his links as well because he signed on to it with little oversight. Much of what he told the American people prior to getting elected so far looks to be a little speculative?
Retirement, or having the funds for it may be just a dream for many due to this collapse, and more and more companies move abroad, and the insourcing, and outsourcing of jobs are given away at the American peoples expense, not to mention illegal immigrants who are on the verge of receiving amnesty in some form, and we have yet to see what may be coming down the road?
Americans who by all measure built and grew these publicly traded corporations, and institutions, based on the belief that their hard work, and financial risk would bring future returns from the money they allowed them to use and thus would help to grow our economy with production and job growth, along with stability, has proven to be little more than one big scam to use our countries people, even at the cost of war, and its obvious who becomes the beneficiaries from American spilled blood............
The reasons behind so much of it was for what?......aha, to combat Communism!!. Guess this is the reason the French were the first in Vietnam, and the reasons we fought, and today we support South Korea militarily, so capitalism can flourish there, and it wouldn't be surprising to see the same in Iraq for future decades. American corporations having opened those doors for them, and in no small way, and then its on to the rest of the world.
8 years of Iraq brings about the curiosity of what it will eventually be all about?. Afghanistan is an entirely different story, it will cost trillions to build up that country after the war concludes?. It being a country of no resources, other than opium fields, wonder what future plans could be on the drawing board?. It would be foolish to think that this hasn't all been discussed, and why that war has dragged on like it has with little to no results.
Today we're partners, friends, pals with governments we supposedly don't trust, we may even begin to get chummy with the Castro regime since Russia, and China are in their inner circle. American corporations are just foaming at the mouth.
Everything, and anything, car parts, home appliances, tools, clothes, if its not from South Korea, its India, or Pakistan, or Vietnam, or Thailand once produced by American labor is now coming from overseas.
If any of us could describe what our country builds anymore,"other than debt?" from foreign, and communist countries, a big part of it thats been given or contracted to publicly traded corporations, other than for its defense, and for all the cost that goes into the fear creation, has been unable to win a quick unjustified war, and air travel, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas refinement, wood and paper, liquor, cigarettes what would it be?. Fast food restaurants, and "Healthcare?".
