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Not too long ago, we were happy in our comfort zones watching NASCAR and dining at Dunkin Donuts, but then we turn our backs for only a moment . . . and everyone is driving Priuses and hanging out at Starbucks [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! What happened?
The west Coast has always been the cutting edge, the clairvoyant of what is to come and eventually be accepted by the entire country. If anyone was caught jogging in New York City in those days, they would have been arrested for fleeing the scene of some kind of a felony. And anyone turning right on red would have been hauled into court. (That was before $4.00 a gallon gas!)
Japan, in the meantime, and all the other progressive industrial countries, had no such burden. Healthcare was provided by their governments, which used broad taxes to pay the bills. This is fairer than isolating businesses with the burden, and therefore making them non-competitive. If you want to see who has caused jobs to be exported overseas because we are non-competitive, don't look at our workers; look no further than the lobbyists - the HMOs, the drug companies, and the AMA, that has lined their pockets while breaking Middle America's back.
And look to California if you want to see what the rest of the country will be like in 20 years. California is going green, is accepting same sex marriage, will soon provide health care for all citizens, and is leaning very liberal. This is because liberalism welcomes change, while conservatism fears it. Change, however, is going to happen regardless of attempts to keep the status quo. And people are waking up to the fact that the status quo is only good for the ones having status. And this is not fair to the ones without status; the middle class.
It's never easy when what we have been accustomed to is pulled out from under us. We see the warning signs, perhaps for a long time [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but we just don't pay attention to them. Then, one day, when everything suddenly changes [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we feel blindsided. We feel abused, hurt and rejected in some way because everything is supposed to remain the same. But it never does.
The changes began with the California hippies in the 50's and 60's. They were jogging back then, and into health foods, riding bikes or driving tiny VWs, meditation and alternative religions - things that were laughed at heartily at the time. Hippies were called tree huggers, sprout eaters, and all the rest of it. But now, corporations and religious organizations are tripping over each other in the flight toward "Green," while hospitals and psychologists are embracing meditation for its health benefits. And healthy diets are being promoted gushingly.
Middle America has been spun like a top by brilliant strategists interested in only two things; money and power. But middle class Americans are beginning to realize how they have been tricked, and also where their priorities lie, which is not with the strategists who have had their way for far too long now. Middle America has been kept asleep by those in power who destroy anyone with intelligence, or anyone who sees the inequities developing . . . by character assassination, by branding anyone with a real voice for the American Middle Class as elitist, and all the while the opposite is true. The true elitists are the ones that spun Middle America with lies, tricking us into flag waving while the real interest in the Iraq war was to make fortunes for the politicos, their subcontractors and weapons manufacturers. It was a very subtle manipulation yet powerful, because some still can't see the deception. The Iraq government is going to spend ten billion on weapons (which we will supply)
Now, "foreign" cars are not only being accepted, but preferred, even in the East. This is because they are made better than domestic brands, they subsequently break down less often and last longer, and they therefore depreciate less. One of the reasons for this is because our automaker's hands have been tied by having to provide expensive healthcare, reducing the quality of their vehicles. It is simple math.
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