The Decarie Report Sept. 7

 Sept. 7:

I am running late because  I ran into some computer problems. I hope to have them repaired on Sept, 8, and have the blog ready late on September 10.

Meanwhile, I am dismayed by a factor in all the research sites. In the 1950s, as major corporations recovered from the war - and the years of poverty that preceded it - the leading super-rich, especially in the U.S. and Canada,  organized their control over economic activities in North America. Their control had always been there. But they greatly magnified it, leaving democracy - never very strong in Canada and the U.S. - a dead letter.

The super rich took over full control of Democrats, Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives. And they took over the operation of Canadian and American life.

The took over what, much earlier, had been the control exercised by an aristocracy. And they have held that control every since. That's why, to this day, the very rich of Canada and the U.S will let children starve in the streets while the super rich can ask for and receive gifts of billions of dollars even as they refuse to pay taxes, and even though they have made bigger profits than ever in this year of pain and illness for the rest of us.

(For a sample of this greed and arrogance, check out the Irvings of New Brunswick.)

The super rich throughout history have abused, starved, plundered the rest of us. It's the chief characteristic of human life. In it's pesent form we call if capitalism. And we have suffered for it. And now, oh, our children are going to suffer - unless we grow some spine.

Graeme Decarie