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The only action that can save this country is to fight a new "Revolutionary War". The enemy isn't Republicans or the Tea Party and the more you focus on that distraction the less attention is focused on the real enemy. The war in this country is between the people and the oligarchy. We no longer prosecute Trusts or Monopolies. In fact we seem to worship at the temple of Oligarchy. Point in fact, Microsoft Corporation which provides nothing in terms of "produced goods", strangles innovation, entrepreneurial new starts , technology, and of course jobs is allowed to function completely unopposed. However it isn't just MS, you can say exactly the same thing about companies in the banking system, the healthcare system, and energy companies. When you focus on the Republicans you divert resources, time and effort to nothing more than a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Corporate America! Until we all wake up and take up arms (in the way of rules, regulations, and laws) against the organizations who profit by being in this country and yet do everything in their power to destroy the United States of America, we cannot succeed. As an example I would suggest a law that dissolves ALL Boards of Directors. All Corporations should only be allowed to work in this country if all their employee's have an equal say in the direction and directives of each company, and that each employee is responsible for the actions, good or bad, of that company. If Goldman-Sachs were to go down like they did in 2007-2008, then all the assets of the company and the employee's, that are a result their irresponsible actions, are seized and sold off to the highest bidder. If that one law was passed it would change the entire picture. If all employee's of a company are responsible for its action's I would guarantee you that those companies would not be gambling with OUR money or sending jobs out of the country. I could go on but the actions that need to be taken need to be taken against ALL the monopolies and trusts in this country. The President and others are always fighting the war, and your people are brave to do so, but your battles against the right wing, Republicans, Tea Party, etc..... are diversionary scuffles at best, and accomplish nothing at worst. The real war is against what was popularized by U.S. political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson during The Great Depression in a 1934 book. He attributed its first use to an 1880 anti-monopoly pamphlet in which Kansas farmers applied the term to railroad magnates. Robber Barons!!!
Deceit and fraud were, for the robber barons, standard operating procedures - among the numerous underhanded methods they typically employed to achieve their objectives. Attorney General of the United States, Philander Chase Knox had protected them from fraud charges many times. His term as Attorney General was itself a big fraud in regard to enforcement of the anti-trust laws, especially against former clients to whom he owed so much of his own professional success. Knox came to be regarded as one of the ablest lawyers in the country, his repute due in no small measure to his being counsel for Carnegie and Vanderbilt and their corporate enterprises. He was instrumental in Carnegie's big victory in a crucial patent case in which the most important invention for the manufacture of crude steel was at stake.
Besides preying on the government with their fraudulent activities, the robber barons employed a strategy of locking in and stabilizing their advantageous positions by using government authority and regulations to reduce competition, keep prices at very profitable levels, control labor problems, minimize risk, and generally make themselves quite comfortable. They also expanded their scope of operations, including financing and extension of credit, to other countries and used government to aid them in these adventures. Knox, of course, was a key man, perhaps the key man, in the Administration in all of this, both as Attorney General and then as Secretary of State.
Does this all seem familiar? If it does then my question for the President is why doesn't he talk about "the elephant in the room"? Why, like both Roosevelt's, Harry Truman, and JFK isn't the President directing his Attorney General to take down the monopolies and trusts that are destroying this country and my guess is Barrack Obama's Presidency. I am hoping that as the Presidents campaign manager and advisor you might have some influence over these matters. I would like to see the President re-elected but when you have Corporate America and their employee's, the Republican and Tea Parties, having a vested interest in the country remaining in depression for the next two years so as to defeat the President why not call them all out. I mean we both know that if Corporate America continues to be successful in opposing the creation of new jobs, and the country remains in depression in 2012 the President will be defeated. Ask President Carter, he went through the same thing. Please encourage the President to enforced our anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws for all our sakes and stop being an ingnoramus

— isis-3096142

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