Broken America

When presidents Reagan and Clinton deregulated and privatized America's economy, Washington became privatized and regulated. Ms. Clinton, the leading contender in the primaries, has sworn to work with drug companies to make prescription drugs more affordable. She is not willing to swear to push Congress to fix the prices of drugs. She is a Centrist, like Bob Cratchet, who is willing to work with Scrooge. Scrooge could never feel a thing for Tiny Tim, for Scrooge only thinks about money and power. Bob cringes whenever Scrooge decides to do something, but he never openly protests. The new Democratic Party is like Bob Cratchet: they are small, cowardly, forever willing to do what the Republicans want to do, like extend President Bush's spy program, but they are not willing to break the podium with a fist and do something that the White House and/or the Republicans condemn.
We are now a nation of gas stations and warehouses, a service economy. Wall Street is driven by the Military Industrial Complex, and there is almost nothing else driving our economy. War and military contracts are what keeps us financially healthy, and without these, we have no economy. Health care is a sham, and it shamelessly becomes shammier whenever a candidate decides to do something about it, because corporations own our government, and they dictate terms to our government that cannot be ignored.