The McDonald States of America

Many years ago my when I became a teenager and I wanted to go and party with my friends, my Mother did something very interesting. She would agree, if I read articles from various magazines and newspapers that were of Social-Political nature. At 14 I was reading Time, News Week, Life along with Ebony and Jet, plus all the local newspapers. I then had to answer questions and give her a review of what I read, (of course she had read them already) to prove that I had read what she assigned. Eventually she did not have to  coerce me to read the articles, for I became interested and started reading them on my own. I will be for ever indebted to my Mother for the clever way she got me interested in the world around me.
In the mist of my informal education, my Mother was reading a book called the "Rich and The Super Rich" by Ferdinand Lumberg. When you open the book it there was a quote, "Behind Every Success lies a Crime".  Of course at 15 years old I was hooked.

But what it brings to mind, it was the first time I read the word Privatization.  I even understood at that age what it meant. What if America was ran by Corporations instead of a Government Bureaucracy? 
It has been more than 40 years since I read that book and except for the chapters that discussed business and organized crime I don't remember much. But I have kept an eye out for that tidbit I read that stuck in my head all these years, and  now see it coming to fusion.

I first noticed in the 80's when I worked for the VA and eventually the Post Office. In discussions regarding revenue and future of the Post Office, talk of attempts to privatize came up. The only protection from this happening was the the United States Constitution. At the time the privatization the Post Office was overwhelming supported by the GOP.

Now in 2012 I see forces that are in play that not only seek to privatize the Post Office but the entire U.S. Government itself. With the Supreme Court's judgement in favor of Citizens United it has open the door and the have the perfect candidate in play right now in Mitt Romney, a professional Corporate Raider. Who made millions taking over companies, driving up high debt the force them into bankruptcy. A practice first devised by organized crime in fact.  Only now the target is not a weak company it is the United States Government. The United States of America will  cease to be a democracy as we know it. America you had better wise up.The only motive is to make the Rich, Super Rich.