What’s Been and What’s Next | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust

April 21, 2014

The wonder is that more Americans are not ticked off about the state of our country than whatever is happening 10,000 miles away.

For instance, how come the U.S. Department of Justice is not as avid to prosecute the pervasive racketeering in the U.S. economy as the State Department is for provoking unnecessary wars in foreign lands on the other side of the planet, over matters that have little bearing on life here? This racketeering, by the way, amounts to a war against American citizens.

I’m speaking especially of the U.S. military racket, the banking and finance rackets, the health care racket and the college loan racket, all of which have evolved insidiously and elegantly to swindle the public in order to support a claque of American oligarchs. In other civilized lands, health care and college are considered the highest priority public goods (i.e. responsibilities of government), and national resources are applied to support them under the theory that bankrupting people for an appendectomy or a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering is not in the public interest. In our land, that would be considered “socialism.”

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