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I cannot rep you enough, then there is the corollary in just about anything the government has 'declared war upon' since.
"War on Drugs"
While US military has been in Afghanistan since 2001, the heroin production has gone from 185 tons to 5800 tons in 2011. What are we over there for again? Anybody seen Al? Al? Al Queda? Bueller? Bueller?
Read Alfred McCoy, Politics of Heroin In Southeast Asia and Daniel Hopsicker, Barry and The Boys.
"War on Obesity"
USA population continues to get larger by combinations of mass media conditioning via Edward Bernays inspired mass programming, allowing corporate lobbying entities to essentially legislate allowing for example, Monsanto writing there own laws whereby they are not culpable for anything bad that happens from their genetically modified engineered products.
See What Are They Doing To Our Food? - Natural Life Magazine
At least in Europe they address this, here, the politicos obey their funders - people's welfare be damned. [And yes their is culpability on those who continue to stuff their face with poor choices and becoming sedentary slugs.
"War on Education"
Let's throw money at it and enrich the unions, administrators, the lawyers, the building and service contractors - as for the kids, well, let's not bring up the three most important issues: parental involvement and attitude toward learning, securing the environment for those who want to learn by removing the destructive and disruptive, and actually stress keeping family units / guardianship intact while adhering to standards of achievement. But wait, enabling a large amount of the populace to think for themselves and perhaps become more self sufficient doesn't help in maintaining power for those in control of the 'apparatus'.
Read, Weapons of Mass Instruction, by John Taylor Gatto, (one time New York state teacher of year)
"War on Financial Malfeasance"
This is the funniest. POTUS appoints woman to investigate Wall Street misdoings and fraud who was on payroll of law firm representing those committing the bad behavior. So we get news bites on occasion but nobody goes to jail - while in Ireland and now Iceland the financial 'banksters' responsible for the massive fraud theft and misdoing have been prosecuted and jailed - or are in process.
Read Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail, Matt Taibi or watch and listen to Jack Abramoff spell it out:
I could keep going but it gets very depressing... rest assured the basic modus operandi seems to be the following. When there is a problem the government does not seek solutions, it seeks repetitive actions and programs which create dependency and generate revenue to their friends and corporate owners. So let's create industries out of concepts that should not be treated as such (Penal Industry, Justice / Law Enforcement Industry, Health or more accurately "Sickness" Industry, et al.. it simply mirrors the basic measure of success in our current 'business economic financial' reward model. More activity, velocity etc... but very little real value, dilute education value, erode the average consumers buying power spread and foment dissension, keep the people busy on trivial matters.
Lets all give a Bronx Cheer to the War Merchants, Resource speculators, and their henchmen puppets who have benefited while the vast majority of The People have not.
How are they going to raise minimum wage without raising the expenses of doing business? Shareholders invest their money into a company to make money, not provide jobs and lose money.
Say they did manage to raise minimum wage, what is considered the poverty level would only shift up, it would be inflated.
Why do the insist on raising minimum wage and think everything else won't go up in price? It's nothing but pulling on heart strings, an emotional tug that has no basis in reality.
Threads like this just make me laugh they are so stupid. How does the OP know the policies did not work. Maybe they worked wonderfully and if not for those policies the country would be another Mexico today. If you have not noticed, as the country moves further and further to the right, it does resemble Mexico more and more. Do you think the RWNJs care! Not on your life do they give a rats azz. Less and less for the majority means more and more for the entitled and greed obsessed 1% and their brain dead supporters who support those who screw them over. LOL, itès just so freaking mind boggling stupid.
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