Less Than A Week

I continue to worry that a new President - no matter how competent, sincere, and brilliant - can sever the Gordian Knot to release us from the constraints imposed by an army of lobbyists several times the size of our Congress.  I am confident that President Obama will pour his heart into it, that he will put forth real proposals that could make thing better for our country. Sadly, there is no doubt that nearly everything that needs to be done for the betterment of most regular folks will go against the perceived short-term interests of the captains of some powerful industry or interest group.

We, the People, must have patience where we sense that time is running out.

We must have the wisdom to take the long view - the view that seeks the betterment of our children's grandchildren.

We must turn away from the hateful, empty rhetoric that will pour forth from The Machine... empty rhetoric whose only purpose will be to paralyze.   

As long as our elected officials are paralyzed, the parasites who dwell at the top of the Greed Pyramid will be free to suck ever more life from the People of the Republic.  The parasites at the top of the Greed Pyramid are indeed insatiable.  No amount of wealth or power or privilege is enough.  The fight may be hidden, but it never stops.

Press on.  The fight will become manifest in less than a week.