Failure of Political and Economic Reforms

 Reforms of our essential social institutions, government and economics..., has not eliminated the systemic failures of both.  We continue to have economic depressions and government corruption, as well as the lack of the most important aspect of democracy in our lives..., that is, We, the People, have no direct voice or vote in ALL matters that affect our lives.

 We, the People, the electorate majority,  have been sidelined, and rendered voiceless  by this political process, as we have been excluded from the basic industrial processes by which we produce our necessary goods and services, all in the name of that ellusive invisible hand of the "Free Market," whose failure to service a peaceful and prosperous society is all too obvious.

 Were We, the People, in direct social  ownership and control of,say, the oil corporations, would We  continue  the kind of "Highway" robbery we are now subjected to at the pumps?

 Obviously, the questioning of capitalism is a current taboo, as is illustrated daily by the corporate controlled media..  But capitalism's rules, it's "Profits at society's expense" rules,  should be  a first order ofa national dialogue, if we are to save our society from  OUR continuing downward spiral which is driven by global private corporate profit needs which include out sourcing of American labor...,
controlling foreign oil reserves at any costs, and  the sacrificing of our kid soldiers on potential foreign battlefields..., wherever the U.S. military's presence protects American capital investments in the many countries it is entrenched.

But the private corporations are not the primary culprits. It's the SYSTEM...The corporations must follow cappitalism's rules..., profit or perish, and  are simply the man-made instruments which  benefit the relatively few who own and control them, and in this process, our Federal government has been effectively "privatized" to become an effective population control instrument for the corporate comminities.

There are democracy models which we can discuss and project as positive replacements for this "Free Market" process which has brought our nation to its knees, both domestically and soon globally, as illustrated by the President's "public" begging of the OPEC "Free Market" oil controllers for more oil production, etc.

Question: Did that the President  really want OPEC to increase its crude supplies, or is the "shortage" of oil production, which keeps prices high, a better profit direction for OUR necessary oil industries?

Does the possibility exist  that the Iraq to  INCREASE  in oil production..., OR for its controlled DECREASE, therebye justifiyng the "Free Market" supply/demand rationale to maintain  the continuing rise in prices at the pump, by which  the oil corporations have been accruing recording breaking profits?

Democracy is not a Spectator Sport.Use it or lose it.