I really do wish we knew all the crap that goes on so we had at least some idea of why our elected officials, regulators et al conduct the nations affairs so stunningly badly.

We can see quite easily that where things have gone wrong it's always very basic. So that really leaves few things besides the actions of our lawmakers and regulators being unduly influenced in plainly corrupt ways. Our current mess is largely due to a regulatory failure where it was clearly known things were running amok. Things need badly to be regulated but because of powerful persons and groups which are connected in ambiguous ways, nothing happens.

I know there are conspiracy theories galore but putting those aside and just examining the facts of what has occurred paints a highly suspect picture. Regular wage earners took a huge hit in their retirement savings via 401k plans from the tech meltdown that for the entire Bush presidency never recovered. Now we have another round of a similar circumstance where that same group of savers has been hit again with an equally dim outlook.

Between these two events if you talk to anyone who draws a regular paycheck and is invested in this way you know most people have lost at least half of their savings. The losses of workers are in the trillions but major financial institutions continue to declare profits and our government adds insult to injury by using taxpayer dollars to bail out the industry.

When you add into the mix the general downward pressure on wages and benefits obtained through wage concessions, manufacturing offshoring and declining union enrollment you see a similar picture directed at the middle class. However we have an inverse condition for the financial marketplace and to some degree in healthcare. Keeping in mind the national finances are controlled by Wall Street, profits have steadily risen and wages have effectively tripled over the last thirty years. Another piece of this is the Bush tax cuts which we know provided the greatest benefit at the top end of earnings groups.

There is something very obviously one-sided about how this is working out that leaves me with a seriously uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach. The general pattern is way more than a little obvious and indicates to me a unified and broad based attack on middle class wage earners that has driven an unprecedented transfer of wealth up the economic ladder. The appearance of corruption is unmistakable and in my opinion is a certainty. I happen to think this is going on at a very high level in the senate and in the regulatory arm of our government. You cannot dismiss the relative impact of the actions of these two groups upon this country.

The most worrisome members of the Family are the Clintons. Was it here that it was decided NAFTA was good for the nation, or even the world? Was it here that it was decided to take the news and the MSM and allow big national money to amass great power by grabbing stations away from local ownership?

The good news is that Obama is an outsider. The bad news is that Obama is an outsider. But until we all insist that our voices be heard on the inside, as we will on July 30th with the rally at the top of the Rec list, we should expect nothing less, but that is the agenda, that we, the people, get less.