The Tyranny of the Investor Class

Definition: Dominance through threat of punishment and

violence.

Well, I guess we’ve all seen some

of that, through an aggressive boss, a relationship gone to hell of that old

standby, bad parenting.

But this is different, a practical

and greedy move by the investor class to put us all in a secondary position

investment-wise. To say it threatens what we choose to call capitalism is to

put it mildly.

There’s a story here and it’s an interesting one should you

care to read it and see how we got here. There’s a plot-twist or two along the

way to keep you awake. We all like a story, no?

This one begins with post WWII in America, a heady time of

jubilation when the world was ours.

We were kings of the mountain, with most

foreign industries in shambles and our own intact. We made cars, trucks,

appliances, ships, planes and an array of material goods that would make

Wal-Mart shiver in its boots today. The factories roared, the steel mills

poured what might as well have been molten gold and everyone needed our…