Why It Makes No Sense to Vote

Debt is indentured servitude (i.e. - enslavement). When the Redemopublicrats needed a bank bailout, they asked the American people to pony up a loan to rescue the financial sector from disaster. We rescued them, but we weren't given any choices. In our name, Congress saw to it that we provided the funds. As a result, the financial sector is now fat and healthy, and the health of the middle class and working poor is in decline. We're saddled with debt (i.e. - enslaved, some of us more, some less), and that debt will be here for a long, long time.

Obama and Romney agree that the financial sector should survive, despite its greed and errors. Their biggest argument, for the moment at least, is all about who should carry the greater burden of debt into the future for the errors of the past. But they're refusing to confront the errors that are being made today by those who hold the real power.

Romney wants the burden of debt to stay right where it is, on the shoulders of the middle class and working poor. He tells us that he wants us all to "grow the pie" and get rich together. But he doesn't mean that. What he means is we, the enslaved masses, will continue to work and create the wealth, and he and his affluent friends will continue to fleece us.

Obama pretends that raising taxes on the rich will shift the burden to the rich and provide a solution. It's a hollow argument, because that tax increase is going to happen anyway, regardless of who wins this election. And it will amount to nothing but a meaningless gesture. The shift in the burden will not be significant. It will not solve problems. The filthy rich will never see 90% tax rates as they did back in the 1950's. They are in power now, and they will not stand for it. All of the Redemopublicrats, including Obama, know this to be true.

Neither one is apologizing for how they, the Redemopublicrats, oversaw and facilitated the dismantling of the middle class for the past 25 years, the cutting of jobs and wages, the elimination of health benefits, the gutting of pension funds, and the shipping of jobs overseas, all of which spiraled communities deeper into financial pits of varying depths and forced people to work harder, do more, and get along with less. They made us all "lean and mean," and they were proud of it, because all of the reduction in pay increased profit margins and swelled stock prices. They made lots of money on the scheme.

It all worked until it became impossible to sustain. You can't sell things to people who can't afford to buy them anymore. But the smartest crooks, those who knew from the start that it was a Ponzi scheme, got out of the market before it fell. They are Redemopublicrats, they all have a big stake in the scheme, and they all have pretty good bankrolls. They protected themselves, and they remain fat and healthy. There are no apologies forthcoming.

While all of this is going on, the financial sector continues to make risky investments to the current day, just as they did before the big disaster. They're still growing their fortunes off the backs of people who are forced to do more for smaller wages. The one percent continues to strip the rest of us dry. But the top one percent (and even the top two or three percent, and perhaps even a large share of the top four) include many, many Redemopublicrats, and they're either continuing to participate in the scheme, or they are continuing to oversee and facilitate it. The petty argument over who will pay when people get sick and the tirade over education and even the disagreement about whether some people's taxes will go up or down are essentially diversions. On the whole, as far as the Redemopublicrats in the one or two percent or so are concerned, the system is humming along and doing just fine.

That's your real "recipe for disaster," and neither Romney nor Obama is talking about it. No political candidates are talking about it. The Redemopublicrats are impotent; votes mean nothing; the political landscape is barren. The financial sector is in control of this country, and our votes can't touch them.