Friday, June 22, 2007
Lead paint and red engines
When we had the opportunity to create rational regulations ... like, let's not poison each other ... literally ... in trade agreements in exchange for access to our (the United States) burgeoning marketplace ... our leaders chose greed over reason.
Well, our international finance globalist leaders. We used to call them Rockefeller Republicans. Now they are better known as Clinton Democrats. Hope that's not too nuanced for you to understand ... Silly Billy and Hillary dillary selling us out to be elected president.
What better example of what happened then the latest recall of the children's toy—the Thomas the Tank red engine—for lead in its paint. ( Note: See "The Little Engine That Could Poison" by Christian Warren on today's—Friday, June 22, 2007—OpEd page of the NY Times.)
There are some old, wise metaphors ... one is ... "Closing the barn doors AFTER the horse has gone is not a solution for keeping a horse."
Why do you think our leaders gave away our real wealth ... our labor market? They didn't get anything of equal value for us in return. Oh ... that's right ... they made THEMSELVES rich and powerful. In the short term we are converting to a banana republic with a chasm between the rich few and the impoverished many.
Folks, the horse has left the barn.
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