I was taken aback by this article and one blogging member’s taken on his/her view that we now have a Dependency Class here in the United States.

It is not that is there was a large grain of truth to what the writer said, it was that the writer used words and framing that confuse the issue and to a very large extent play into the frames the right wing uses to distort debate in this country and the world at large, as to who is really responsible for what has gone down the last forty odd years and why it happened at all.

Why are so many millions and millions of people dying in a very real sense because they lack jobs, food, housing and medical care?

That this process of depravation is global and trans-national is just happenstance result that trans-national corporations and banks actually restrict economic development on a massive scale world which is due in large part because American élites set about looting capital out of the United States and shipped everywhere else and then invented a cover story that somehow this capital flight would raise the economic boat of the entire world.

Jesus fucking Christ is it not clear now that tale is more bogus than Santa Clause?

To describe the results of what has been inflected on the United States the last forty odd years has resulted in a dependency class without a very detailed, if short explanation, as to why this group of people has grown and how it is indeed very different from a third world countries that never had much industrial development to begin with, is to miss the point of the last forty years of history and begs the question as why are so many progressives seem to hold their punches and appear clueless and willing to let elites define the terms of the debate? Dependency is a resulting outcome, that sould not be termed that way at all.

People have been robbed on a massive scale and use short and to the point language to make the point, rather than focus on the passive reframe we are all now dependant. Its OK to get angry about all this and say so.

The ugly truth is a couple hundred CEOs at a couple of hundred major corporations in the United States set out in the 1970s to destroy the New Deal not roll it back. At first they were not sure as the way to proceed or if they could pull it off at all.

No matter the current excuse pundits of all kinds currently use to obscure the nature of why this whole global construct was shoved down the throats of millions of Americans and the rest of the world it should be pretty fucking clear this global economy is a total fraud and only serves the interest of much less than 1% of the worlds population.

The Global economy we have been told for years was only meant to rid the US of in-efficient old style blue collar industries, tell that to the millions of young Americans who will never have a shot at a decent job and then tell them they should get use to it while your at it. This strikes me a more mindless leftist sophistry.

If China and India have reaped a temporary illusion of economic development now imagine how poised off they will be when they realize the Western powers who supplied the capital for their development turn if it off and tell them to fuck off because they can, and will be forced to by the financial Armageddon climate change will heaped upon the rest of the world’s problems….

It was a given in American board rooms back in the late 1970s that the Union Movement must be destroyed as complete as possible and that it be done in an under handed way as not to start a revolt among millions of working people.

This conclusion came about because the early to mid 1970s saw almost as many labor strikes as the 1930s as millions of working Americans exercised their right to strike and recap earnings that were being lost to inflation largely due to the fact no sitting president had raised taxes to pay for the twenty year insane war in Indo-China against the Communist hordes.

In the late 1970s CEOs of American based big business could have gone the same route used in many third world countries and used death squads and a slow motion version of what so many working people were subjected to in countries like those in South America and Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s.

But for reasons that would be obvious to an astute observer, they knew that had they to proceeded with caution or it would have become obvious what they were up to, and millions of Americans would have resisted. That is why this policy was a forty year project; it only needed a good cover story.

So they evolved the great con job ever told, a cover story, of what and the why of what they were really doing. This cover story was one called free trade and rising new global economy that would replace a functioning global economy that had been in place all along.

This new global economy we were told had new operating principles, needed new trade laws and would usher in a new global age of trade and prosperity.

It should be obvious by now this whole rush to create this shinning new global economy it utter rat rubbish whose only real driving principle was at first to destroy unionized industry here in the U.S.A. and unions and Social Democracy in Western Europe in those countries where the ruling class was just as greedy and driven as their American counter parts.

That after the first ten years or so the de-industrialization in the U.S. took on a life of its own and became a head long rush driven by hedge funds and other economic parasites is the single most important reason the United States is broke, so to speak, beyond the fact that thousands of the elite very rich park their money in tax havens and utterly refuse to support civilization of any kind. The big clue here is they refuse to support even the defense spending from which so trans-national companies draw their life blood . . . .

Authors like Nicholas Shaxson who had written a book titled Treasure Islands exposes that at least twenty trillion, maybe as much as thirty trillion dollars is hidden in off shore accounts by corporations and the world’s 1%.

Other authors have pointed out a mere ½ of one cent tax on derivatives could put most of Western Europe and the United States governments in the black and erase with in a matter of years all debate on whether we are “broke”.

The sad truth is far too many even liberal people and progressives have bought into this hogwash of the global economy and the language which it has fostered and the bogus ideas that it has brought to life, like dependency is a given fact of life or worst we should not try to bring back some form of industry and how this might be done.

There has always been a global trading system and global trade, what was different was the reason why the CEO class of American corporations decided to de-invest in the United States.

Short of an open declared war on organized labor there was no other way to destroy the union movement in the United States and the political power it had, and by virtue of historical accident, the political power the Democratic Party enjoyed as a result.

Hence with allies in Wall Street; the happenstance appearance of early forms of Hedge Funds willing to supply the means, and the fluke of history computers had made capital mobile one way or another thousand of factories across the United States were closed for good and those industries interested still in continued production were moved overseas to any country where workers rights are just a cruel joke.

WTF, do any remember here that the un-employment rate in the US was already approaching a permanent 6% before 9/11 reared its ugly head?

If I wanted to be to be even more of a pain in the ass, I would venture that un-employment in the US has been a constant 6% from the late 1970s through the goldn years of Clinton and only got worst when thirty years of de-investment played out under the weight of two wars and banksters getting wishes granted by both Clinton, Bush and a congress of paid off whores.....

It is bad enough that what was just done to Hostess Twinkie workers is basically old as the hills and what the CEO class has been doing now for more than forty years in plain sight.

But if one really thinks the resulting un-employment has created a Dependency Class and then just leave it at that --- is even doing justice to what has been shoved down the throats of the world the last forty years one might as well then just call all social programs entitlements, and then agree with right wing nuts Hitler was a socialist, and Stalin did indeed kill 60 million Russians before Hitler invaded, (not 5 to 8 million realistic estimates that still do not excuse these crimes), and that the there are indeed dead aliens in a bunker somewhere the shadow government refuses to bring to a UFO conventions.

What I ma trying, most likely in vain, to get across is that people tend to latch on to the first ideas that come along without much forethought and it was my duty to try to snip in the bud that the language of a Dependency Class not become common usage in what might be loosely termed progressive, or the 9% movement, or even, gasp, left wing circles because if there is an dependency at all that should be rooted out ---- it is the one where the thousands of dissenters do the ruling elites a huge favor and adopt language that only makes their work in progress easier to pull off.

Go buy a Twinkie and then ponder the reality of our situation, de-industrialization and the outright fraud and theft of American wealth from every family in this country except a very few, should be the starting point of all discussion and to be very frank pounded into the heads of every progressive, populist or “lefty” who is trying to de-construct and explain what has gone down the last forty years, let alone the fact that the recent melt down of the market and the debt crisis we hear from the media all trace back to a global economic system which is house of lies built on sand because of the willingness of so much of the MSM to slack off.

It comes down to knowing the two phrases that were the watch words that infuse, enliven and bring into clear relief so much awful history of the last century:

Die Gedanken sind frei

and

Arbeit macht frei.

And then knowing who said what and why to whom. Words and framing are important because they presage the actions that take life from the words, and mostly because so many words are used to obscure what is really going down.