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The Colossus Party's Musical Chairs

Since we last wrote, the one major colossus party, i.e., Democrats & Republicans, played musical chairs again for control of the national House of Representatives, with the Republican side now in predominance and officially taking control in early January, 2011. Interestingly, the American people chose the side that would most severely harm the interests of the masses, the Republicans, with a good number of their members more than willing to dismantle the long established New Deal & Great Society programs, namely, social security, unemployment insurance compensation, medicare, educational aid for college students, food support and what's left of federal support for impoverished dependent children (effectively demolished during Clinton's time except for grants to be administered by the states, thus poor children were left to the mercy of the various states), among others.

Amazingly, in this New Gilded Age, where the top 1% in assets and income control a quarter of the wealth of the nation, and practically not taxed, there remains a persistent anti-Christian hostility towards those that need economic guarantees, which is a sizable portion of the population, if not the majority (and it would be an undisputed majority if public education were included, and some Republicans want to do away with that, too), and a population that has paid for the system in some way, i.e., taxes, social security fees, and so forth. The disparity of wealth in America has reached outrageous proportions in the last generation, and one not good for a functioning society.

[First posted on "Commoner" on 11/13/10; revised on 11/15/10.]

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