RULES AND REGULATIONS ARE FOR US MERE MORTALS

THE RICH AND THE CORPORATIONS DON’T HAVE TO ADHERE TO THEM

The middle class has been shrinking, has seen a decline in income and purchasing power; that is an indisputable fact. Those who have been knocked down into the poorer classes…me included, are getting very frustrated and indignant.

If you think that this America of ours is the land of opportunity, think again…just try to get a small business going and off the ground and you will have hundreds of visits from tax collectors, from permit enforcers, from inspectors and from all the god dam bureaucrats just making it a lot more difficult for you, making you jump through hoops and even expecting bribes. What is happening to the small business owner in America is simply horrific. Then if you add to that the big banks hoarding the money and not lending it out so that these businesses can get going then you will have to agree with me that the whole idea behind this is to prevent anybody from becoming affluent. The top 2 % of those in the income scales just don’t want anybody else in their midst…not one, if they can help it.

We mere mortals, those of us in the middle or lower classes can see this in our everyday dealings. I just recently tried to build a fence in my backyard…one that was knocked down by a hurricane a couple of years back. The incredible paperwork, the inspections and the permits that I faced were overwhelming. You should think I was building a five story edifice.

And yet, we find that those oil companies actually got off so easily obtaining drilling permits that were not just easy but assured to be approved…particularly since it was those very companies the ones who wrote the regulations. Go figure.

In the past decade we have seen the systematic and pervasive elimination of all rules pertaining to banking and Wall Street traders. Rules and regulations that were put in place to prevent precisely what just happened in 2008. And Republicans keep insisting that “GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG” and that there are “TOO MANY REGULATIONS”. Their ideology is such that they firmly believe that “GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM” when in reality the problem is GREED.