Money

The banking system in the U.S. obstructs rather than cooperates for the common good. The insurance industry actively obstructs the provision of equal high-quality health care for all. A few egocentric billionaires toy with Presidential politics like a spectator sport. Media, once the guardians of Fact, have become prostitutes for advertising dollars and hits to Web sites.

The financial system of the proud capitalist West is falling apart. Why? It has become a swarm of sharks feeding upon themselves. It has turn its back on the people and their needs for financial equity and security. It has placed itself in proud opposition to entitlements of contributing citizens and affordable education for the masses.

Money has become divorced from its worth to humanity in favor of the greed of a relatively few individuals, the infamous 1%. How long will it be before the 1% becomes the 0.5% in a world of burgeoning population? How high will the walls around the estates of the privileged have to be when human desperation turns to hunger, thirst and rage? No walls will suffice then. 

Government has truly failed in the U.S.. As the Presidential election campaign limps from talk show to speaking engagement, all the candidates are preaching some form of maintenance of the status quo. They pathetically shrug over student loans, which are a form of overt corporate welfare for banks and private universities. They accept the current state of grossly inflated rents in much of the country and property values determined by racism and class. They howl about jobs, when the quality and compensation of work in the U.S. is deteriorating due to unjust labor practices and the decimation of unions by greedy venture capitalists. 

Until money is addressed as the problem, there will be no effective solutions. This age of materialism cannot be sustained for the general population on its current course. Those in power know this. However, like drug addicts, they are too addicted to the highs of their own privileged lives and power to rehabilitate themselves for the good of the people. Their addiction and self-delusion is infecting the whole society. Meanwhile, the realities of wealth disparity exist fully on the ground and will take their course, whether those in power wish to address them or not.