Assumption 1 of the New Capitalism

It had seemed to me years ago that there was a crisis in

    mental health care in Rhode Island. Now our governor - more of a moral

    zombie than Providence Mayor Cianci - tells us that about 3 million

    dollars will be cut from  state budget  for the mentally ill, the

    truly helpless and hopeless -and often homeless - individuals who

    were supposed to have benefited from deinstitutionalization.

               Since the beginning of the Reagan era , the New Capitalism -

    really just the old robber baron capitalism - rejected with great

    arrogance and hubris ( always before the fall ! ) - the idea that

    our " democratic " government had any constitutional obligation to

    help the helpless - even in  prosperous times !

                Perhaps the next Roosevelt - " THAT MAN " - will be more

    of a traitor to his class than Franklin D. ever was. He or she will

    really deal with an iron fist with ruthless, pitiless, capitalist

    greed.  Enron is no aberration - that mendacious avarice is the

    soul of  THE SYSTEM .

                I see a lot less flags on cars lately. I suspect ordinary

    people are more worried about corporate terrorism. And listen, George

    W. Bush : Forget about invading Iraq ! You are indeed a one term

    president.

               Bush to the American people in 2004 : " Are you better off

    than you were four years ago ?...  are you safer from terrorism than

    you were four years ago ? "

                Ralph Nader will have the last laugh on both the Republicans

    and the Democrats - those phony friends of working people and the poor !

                Eugene V. Debs got it right a long time ago .