What does recovery look like?

[msc545]

It might look like this:

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"In this future, democracy and the middle class win. The movement to end corporate constitutional rights reaches its tipping point and the Twenty-Eighth (or Twenty-Ninth) Amendment passes, explicitly stating that constitutional rights belong only to human beings. With corporate constitutional rights stripped away, democracy can function again without corrupt Republican justices on the Supreme Court constantly constraining it. Congress is once again free to pass laws regulating corporate behavior without confronting endless constitutional litigation. States again revoke the charters of corporations that harm the public interest, corrupt executives once again go to prison, and local communities can again care for their people with revenues from taxing the morbidly rich. Unions will recover and rebuild America as workers regain their bargaining power and union busting is outlawed. Wages rise to match productivity and the cost of living. And the fifty-plus trillion dollars that was stolen by the Reagan Revolution begins flowing back toward the working families whose labor created it in the first place. Healthcare becomes a right like in every other advanced democracy in the world and ceases to be just another corporate profit center. Higher education becomes affordable again, and our public schools are rebuilt like Eisenhower did back in the day.

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Housing becomes a human need to be met, and exploiting it as a speculative commodity is outlawed or taxed into nonexistence. Climate change is addressed because fossil fuel corporations can no longer use their “free speech rights” to buy politicians and block regulation.

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The American Dream is, in other words, reborn. Not the old dream of the 1950s, with its racial and gender exclusions and limitations, but a new dream for a new century. A dream where hard work is consistently rewarded, where ever

[jshm2]

Nah, we got rid of slaves, we got rid of the lords, and then we got rid of the kings. The next things to get rid of are the political and CEO classes.

[msc545]

We didn't get rid of one guy who thinks he's a king.

[slatyb]

Usually you are in an open room with a nurse and the person who is driving you home.

[lightbulb27]

some of that sounds right.

The citizens stop purchasing stuff from any corporation where the execs make obscene amounts.

Stadium seats for events are empty until owners lower pay of athletes and the cost of seats so that middle class can afford to take their kids there. And yes, I'm talking about $20,000 to see a soccer game.

People stop smoking and drinking, ending what some call, the most sick epidemic in history.

Hungry americans look in the mirror... see that they are in 3rd trimester pregnancy if not worse in terms of excess blubber, and decide they aren't really hungry, they are sick and lack nutrition and eating garbage. They stop consuming the garbage fed to them, including through media, wake up, smell the coffee, and get in shape again. It ain't that hard, it requires using their brains, which have been dormant for many decades.

[Just_Ken]

Something that strikes me about America was something trump was talking about regarding other countries in asia and the middle east. He was talking about all this great infrastructure theyve built, even just airports. Meanwhile America has all this great infrastructure thats been allowed to rot and stagnate, almost any infrastructure such as highways and bridges etc was built in the 50s.

[Iron_Man]

recovering alcoholic