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The following really SHOULD be clearly and consciously understood by ALL those who now find themsleves grappling with bankruptcies, shutdowns, foreclosures, unemployment, and the general devastation of retirement security-

The Technological Alternatives ALREADY EXIST, and HAVE LONG EXISTED.

To the legion of "good" people who now profess to be so anxious and who dither endlessly about the ballooning national debt, and "creeping (galloping?) Socialism" and the whole pattern of governmental "meddling" in the supposedly "Free Market" economy:

This country has INDEED been LOOTED --- but it hasn't been OBAMA and company who are guilty of that! THEY simply HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND LONG ENOUGH to have been guilty of that! The claque who ACTUALLY bear the burden of that guilt GO BACK MUCH FARTHER than just him --- and in any case includes MANY more perpetrators than just mere “POLITICIANS”! I submit the crowd that now attempts to lay blame off onto the new generation of leadership / stewardship are really JUST TRYING TO EXPIATE THEIR OWN GUILT.

For instance, most people now seem to generally presume that since the whole "economic breakdown" first "materialized" in "our" marvelous "FINANCIAL sector" (and specifically, real estate), that THAT must necessarily have been the underlying CAUSE of it all. I submit, though, that the REALITY is THIS: "Our" FINANCIAL system really has NOT been the actual SOURCE of the fiscal problems for which it is now being "hung out to dry". Rather, it has simply been USED. Yes, it certainly HAS incurred a BURDEN OF COMPLICITY in --- but NOT really the PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY for --- the much LARGER misdirection of resources and capacities of this society as a whole.

What has been done by mere financial technical minions (e.g. all those moneylenders who conjured up and “marketed” those "toxic assets") has had as its REAL objective (regardless of whether the fact was then or is even now consciously recognized by those who "played the game") DELAYING and STAVING OFF the economic collapse that HAS now finally occurred --- in effect "passing the buck" to the next generation of "leadership / stewardship" --- and “DEFUSING” popular outrage that rightfully SHOULD have rebounded in a much more TIMELY fashion on the "political faction" that has been so hell-bent on clinging to "our" little "financial" OIL EMPIRE for a little while longer. THAT in preference to actually getting SERIOUS about IMPLEMENTING the technological alternatives to ACTUALLY WEAN "OUR"SELVES OFF OF "OUR" ADDICTIVE DEPENDENCY ON OTHER PEOPLES' OIL!

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