A bamboozled country -- those clever government rascals

First, the left has for years fought for and instituted regulations that have attracted the worst elements of business to a federal feeding trough. Many on the right who were corrupted by power have been complicit, but it's been the left leading the way. The influence of the left has been made worse with Bush's turn in his presidency toward big government solutions. Surely, the experts say, Republicans will be blamed for all failures. Democrats were just attempting to create a better world -- Republicans were making the rich richer.

We are at a point now where the country is forced by the failures of big government to depend on big government to fix the problems, at least that's how it seems. Only a handful of watchful citizens have vocalized the damaging effect of increased government intervention in our economy because it was incremental and spread out over millions of tax payers and most weren't affected in major ways that would sound an alarm. So, the con has worked, hasn't it?

Now that the accumulative weight of intervention is cracking the system and the world's elite are blaming free enterprise, not enough people will have time to think the problems through or get to the truth. The people's reaction recently is an intuitve reaction because the proposed solutions are so radical that people are sensing something is terribly wrong -- but we've given up too much power to react appropriately -- or have we? Class warfare campaigns starting in elementary schools have  turned most people against the rich and government/corporate enmeshment has confused the issue of public/private -- perhaps.

When people hear about Wall Street greed, it's more powerful we are told than the few voices sounding the alarm against big government involvement in the problem -- except that people know there are bad politicians who sell favors to the rich -- but people still have confidence in "good" politicians who say they will fight greed and corruption. This is the conventional wisdom -- experts say it's so. The Democrats, along with support in the media have seemingly won the battle of images, so, according to genius pundits, people still believe the dichotomy of left/right and believe the left is fighting the powerful in favor of the middle class and poor. I've heard really smart people talk about this.

This year will tell if the information age has reached and changed the country as a whole. I believe there are many more people who now understand what is actually happening, it's just not known to what extent. Because of media bias there is no way to know if the country is buying the old con or not. One thing is for sure -- government has seriously damaged the free enterprise system and drastic changes are called for to limit government power -- or so it seems.