
As we look around us, our communities are sliding down into poverty collectively, we can all feel compassionate and charitable towards each other yet unless we re-evaluate what need from our society as a whole, this change in our social contract that began in the late 1970’s and has continued up to now, it was only through the burst of the artificial economy that had financed the working poor, that the one-sided changes to the American social contract has been laid bare for all to see. This is why the GOP has been rabid in their attempts to de-legitimize anything that might bring back the parameters that held our society before; unions, higher tax rates for the 1%, untying of C.E.O compensation to the stock prices, overseas manufacturing and limits on financial contributions in politics. All the lessons learned from the Great Depression have been tossed out the window insidiously while we were all working trying to achieve the American dream, we need to get back to the possibility of social and economic mobility, that is what made America great, the opportunity and possibility of achievement. Right now Romney is the poster child for what America has become, if your parents made it big when the opportunities were still available for all, than you can make it as well, if you are less fortunate your chances are sadly not what they used to be and that needs to change. That is what Romney won’t admit.
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