THEY'RE MAD AS HELL....

More and more people, in more and more countries, are giving the middle finger to Capitalism as usual, to "survival of the fittest" economics, to the status quo, to the Institutions, the "experts", the technocrats.

More and more people are fed up with greed, and apathy, and gratuitous opulence.

England has just rejected the EU...actually, not all of England, just those who have been forgotten (that is over 50%). It's happening everywhere....patience has run out.

"The French Aristocracy didn't see it coming, either"

All you billionaires out there......Just tell me how you can stay a billionaire? You have to be incredibly thoughtless, heartless, greedy, and totally lacking in empathy if you have a billion dollars for more than the time it takes you to give enough of it away so that you no longer have a billion dollars. Yes, so that you have no more than 999 million dollars. Is that asking too much, David Geffen, and Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Dr. Dre?, the Koch brothers, Shel Adelman, Steve Wynn, etc., etc..???

If you are so pitiful a citizen of the world that you are holding onto a billion dollars when you have the rarefied ability to improve the lives of millions, to eliminate human suffering on a colossal level, and yet you choose to hold onto a billion dollars?? What are you saving it for....? You could help so many good people who are suffering, but instead you choose to hoard ridiculous sums of money that you could never spend in 10,000 lifetimes. You just don't care...and so, then you should be cast off on an island somewhere with the other billionaires, banished from living with the rest of us...you are unfit to sit at our table. To get off the island you should have to take courses in empathy, compassion, and thoughtfulness. We demand a bare minimum of it to walk among us.

The hottest place in hell will always have a few empty bunks available for a billionaire.

For what it's worth I've never been more dismayed and discouraged over the greed and selfishness and corruption and heartlessness that abounds in this country. We aren't "great", don't fool yourself... A great country doesn't sit idly while tens of millions of families are living in poverty. It doesn't referee a game where the interests of the rich and powerful few take precedence over the powerless and impoverished masses.

Denmark, Sweden, Finland...those countries care about their citizens..they care about all of them, they care about educating them, they care about family leave, and vacations, and health care, and even the ever elusive emotion of happiness. Imagine a country that truly cares about everyone's happiness.

Those countries don't even get any Sunshine. It's overcast and rainy most of the time. They don't have palm trees, or the richest agricultural conditions on Earth...they don't have Kim Kardashian or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have every reason to be depressed...but they're not. By virtually all measurable indices these countries rank higher than America in annual objective rankings. Yes, even in happiness (without the benefit of the Sun). Check it out...check out poverty in those countries (you'll need a magnifying glass), on the other hand, the United States has the second highest poverty rate for kids 18 and under among the 35 developed countries (23% of 18 and under kids in America live in poverty). Check out the brilliance of their education systems (Finland ranks #1 in the world), the United States ranks 18th.

Yes, imagine a country that truly cares about everyone's happiness.

Hint: We aren't living in one of them

Food for Thought....