Water, life and bondage

 

Jackson, Mississippi has a 2022 population of 149,739

 

Teachers are striking in some communities across the nation. School budgets are being defunded in many places. The federal government (which is waging an expensive war on Russia right now) has been dumping many social and infrastructure responsibilities onto local municipalities for years. They are overwhelmed.

Case in point is Jackson, Mississippi where citizens can't drink the water after a big flood overran their already challenged local water system. The Mississippi state legislature and governor have done little to nothing to help the predominately black city population. Biden has mostly called on the state to step up and promised some yet unknown level of federal assistance.

In other communities across the nation there are serious water problems. Flint, Michigan is another famous case. 

What I worry about is that the collapsing of public municipal water systems is soon to become so dramatic across the nation that we will be told that the government(s) can't afford to deal with it. We will be told that the only way for us to have viable drinking water systems is to privatize them and let the big corporations pay to fix the systems. 

While this might seem attractive to some taxpayers, in the end it will be a fatal trap to put our life-support water systems in the hands of Mr. Big. It is then that we would have just sold ourselves into permanent bondage.

The same can be said for our local education systems, sewer systems, roads, public transit, electric grids and more. 

Don't forget how Maggie Thatcher in the UK years ago sold off a beautiful national rail system to private interests and now it is a disaster. The corporations who took over UK rail don't want to invest back into the system for maintenance, staffing,  etc.

This is all part of what many are calling 'The Great Reset' which is a bankster program to take the whole global economy down to its knees (where they can then squeeze every last penny out of the public), thin the global population, and take down any governments (like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and many others) who refuse to be controlled by the Washington-London-Brussels corporate crime syndicates. 

In his recent speech at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Vladimir Putin reported that only 3% of the Ukrainian grain that was recently shipped from the Black Sea went to the African continent. The rest went to the EU. (Only 2 ships out of 87 were sent to 'the starving'.) Putin reminded the audience that this has been the same strategy coming from Europe for the last several hundred years.

It's sad to see so many people hanging onto the belief that replacing one of Mr. Big's controlled politicians with another will change, or even reform, things for the better. Those days are over in the capitalist run economies. 

Remember what Ralph Nader said years ago about why he began to run for president. For many years he was a very successful reformist consumer rights activist in Washington. He was able to get the Democrats in Congress to support reform legislation. But he decided to run for president in order to sound the alarm that even the Democrats had been taken over by the corporate agenda and that real reform was no longer really possible in our government.

Time for new thinking has come.

Bruce