Our Societal Smart-Bombs -OR- Make It So

They came for the trade-unionists and something SNAPPED!

With several Trillion$$$ of transfered wealth alleged to be on the sidelines just waiting for John Galt. With Trillion$$$ of tax dollars pumping through the financial markets. With Trillion$$$ of tax dollars coursing through the military-industrial complex. With Trillions$$$ of PRE-tax dollars pooling in 401Ks and other misunderstood retirement conduits. With Trillion$$$ of state-incurred debt...
Now is the time!

It's obvious that the problem lies with UNIONS eh? Our GREEDY working class poor. How dare they feel secure and valued in an era of rampant unemployment when laborers would cede almost anything for a paycheck again. You'd have to be one of Driftglass' Flatworms to not see what's going on.



The cowering figure depicted is labeled business. In 1937, a full 8 years after the crash, business was still askeered of the big bad government. Their stalwart, loyal, lobbyists, at the time were the front pages of just about every major newspaper in the country. Each and every day, they railed against Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his programs, his proposals, his very being. Protecting the singular interests of wealth and privilege. The best paid writers of the Great Depression were churning out anti-government, anti-Roosevelt, anti-socialist, pre-Randian tripe about how tearing down the rich was not the way to go. How an unfettered, untaxed, unregulated market was the American way.

Even with unemployment at 25%, massive nomadic migrations, Hoovervilles, grinding poverty and diminishing prospects, the majority of Americans were still working, felt lucky to have jobs and were willing to work harder for less just to make ends meet.

Enormous wealth was attained by those able to buy up troubled businesses for pennies on the dollar. Businesses could become troubled by limiting their access to capital and/or making the capital very expensive to access making more businesses available for bargain hunters.

Robber barons? Feudal Lairds? Carpet Baggers? All pikers comparatively.
Our present manipulators have a far larger, more insidious, more malodorous arsenal at their disposal. It's taken 40 years of patient agitprop and ownership consolidation to assemble the siege tower that will finally topple the last vestiges of FDR's New Deal. Decades of demonization, millions spent on mouthpieces to push the verbiage, endowed think-tanks spewing corporate gibberish chasing the last obstacle to their dream of owning everything. They can almost taste it. The sweat, tears, skin and sinew of generations of workers, put on the block. America for sale.

The people's representatives -set up by economic hit-men- are poised to give it all away cheap. Rolling economic black-outs deployed strategically to break down resistance. So close. So close.

The last best money-trick.