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Tuesday 20 October 2009

The sharks are still running the only game in town and they have never had it better. To be sure, with the economic collapse some of the financial lords won’t pile quite up as many millions this year. Others will however have a record year. All are still squatting in the tall cotton. Their grandfathers who so hated FDR’s reforms must be chugging cognac in hell celebrating today’s America. America’s unions have been neutered and taught to beg. At long last we have established a permanent underclass and deindustrialized the country in favor of low wage service industries here and dirt cheap labor from abroad. We’ve managed to harden the education and income gap into something an American oligarch can take pride in. Hell, my bank card is issued by Prescott Bush’s Union Bank and my most recent mortgage was held by J. P. Morgan’s creation. My electricity is generated by Rockefeller’s coal and energy holdings and my Exxon gasoline credit card is issued by a successor to Standard oil. The breakfast I eat comes from Archer Daniels Midland. So did my dog’s breakfast. We are the very products and property of these people and their institutions. Joe Bageant

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