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The Stimulus Of Last Resort - Decline of the Empire

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/opinion/28krugman.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss I am posting more about economics and politics than healing or so it seems. The reality is that I believe that you cannot be truly healthy or balanced in an unhealthy and unbalanced society. Our societies throughout the world are unhealthy and imbalanced and are getting more so all the time. We need to face that truth and explore what is causing it. To not address economic and political problems would be to deny the fundamentally toxic effects unfair and repressive economic and political forces have on human beings. By that I mean when people all over the world either have no jobs or jobs that pay very little relative to their needs and can barely feed, cloth and shelter themselves or their families  the medical consequences compounded by the stress levels create or exasperate the majority of the physical and psychological problems we all suffer from in one form or another. Couple ...

To read the article click the title. It is in the nature and structure of Capitalism that booms will always lead sooner or later to busts and when that happens the majority of people who are not wealthy will be hurt the most. The quote from the following article sums it up. "The same human instinct that prompts us to look for villains again has us looking for saviors. That's a worrying impulse: Our problems were systemic -- and our solutions must be, too." We need to replace Capitalism with a more equitable and sane way of sharing the wealth of this planet with ALL the people of the world. Socialism may not be the answer but Capitalism is clearly not the answer either. Bubble Bath - By Chrystia Freeland | Foreign Policy

Here is a good explanation of how the elites use religion and faith of the poor and working people to protect and preserve their rule here and around the world. Extreme Measures: Arming the Zealotocracy, Serving the Elite

This is the kind of speech I wish Obama would give and mean. The person who posted it claims Kennedy was talking about the Fed but that is BS. Kennedy was speaking about Communism, that is, Russia and China. While Kennedy was talking about Communism in one place in the speech it could just as easily be used to talk abo...ut the Oligarchies. What he said about the news media and it's relationship to the goverment and the people is more true today than it was in Kennedy's day.