the US Senate??

there certainly is no "us" in the US Senate, especially today. Two major votes are headed to the floor, both of which represent the absolute worst of greed and malfeasance among the entitled and enobled classes of the neo-feudal lords of capital. I realized this AM that the average age of senators, the mean, is now quite similar to my own. And yet it is extraordinarily clear that these "peers" have nothing whatsoever in common with me, or the vast huge mass of baby boomers in this country. They, the Senators, are part of the very elite, the less than one-half of one percent of the population who receives the benefits and entitlements of great wealth. It does not matter to them that passing a credit industry written piece of legislation will intentionally impoverish millions upon millions of citizens for an entire generation. That is afterall their goal. Only when the mass of poor can no longer afford to consume will the lords be able to re-create this nation as the future leader of the third world of producers and manufacturers. Imagine, in the next ten years, a nation of a couple of hundred million laborers, service workers receiving wages under a plan that no longer has a minimum wage setting, or that allows the people to keep their money, instead guiding it towards the coffers of the wealthy's financial institutions.

If you think this isn't going to happen, then examine the appointment of Myers to the 9th circuit. A man that all the Bar review folks find incompetent, a man that single handedly, as the Interior department's solicitor, chose to rewrite policy to encourage the exploitation of any and all environments by the rich, no matter how costly the impact on the people those choices may be. He cares not one bit for clean water or clean air. He cares not one bit for there being anything called public land. He wants it all to become private and to be exploited by the private interests to their hearts and pocketbooks desires. This is perhaps the most insane choice possible for a judge. Yet the senate feels it is okay. Why? Because they have a plan. Their plan is his plan. They don't want public land either. They don't want union labor, they don't want social services and social welfare programs. They need to impoverish and environmentally destroy the population so that this nation can become the future mass producer of products for consumer driven economies of Asia and Europe. Wait and see.