financing tuition but they still owns billions of dollars of previous debt from students. What’s interesting is
the origin of this money is the average tax paying citizen. They put money in banks and pay taxes. The bank lend that money to corporations or invest in the stock market, in most cases are subsidized and secured by the govern- ment. These corporation then sell products to the same people who financed them indirectly for extraordinary prices. Why should you pay $1200 a month for rent or $600 for a phone, especially if the mortgage company and corporation receives tax pay- ers’ money to exist? Sometimes we have
to go back in order to move foreward. Enterprise prior to the New Deal: the robber bar-
ons and the muckrakers, the greedy cut-throat business tycoons squeez- ing every penny until they made riches and the investigative journalist explosing their wicked practices at every point. Enterprise after the new deal: The greedy buisness tycoons are parners with investigative journlists, who sponsors them, while the gov- ernment partners with them both. They all share a common interests and the citizen’s interests are last on the agenda. The three seperate enti- ties, once adversaries are now allies, eatng at the same table, dividing the spoils reaped from the unbeknownst citizens.
The government is the silent
partner of business in America. Pre- venting its inevitable fall. When Bush went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, it pulled the rug from under corpo- rate America and revealed the bot- tomless bit, the abyss in which it was destined to fall. As Sun Tzu said in the book, Art of War, prolonged wars can bankrupt a nation. What happened to manu- facturing and distributing? China is sucking all the economic power from America by being allowed to manufacture most of the goods be- ing produced so a few elitist greedy corporate CEOs can put a few extra dollars into their pockets. The roaring twenties helped
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