Protest the plutocracy

Can plutocratic government waste be ended?

The unprecedented control being exercised over 99 percent of the population by the wealthiest 1 percent is sparking public dissent and protest. Reminiscent of the tea party insurgency opposing too-big-to-fail bank bailouts and nonpartisan burgeoning national debt and bureaucracy, political pundits will attempt to minimize any such opposition as enemies of the state. I attribute bureaucratic government waste, corruption and influence peddling, big money taxpayer bailouts and nonpartisan burgeoning national debt as underlying causes of the recent insurgencies.

With the nontaxpaying wealthy being more than adequately represented on the new debt commission in charge of tax and spending reform, including top secret funding of “intelligence” bureaucracies for wars on “terrorists” and on “drugs,” a de facto, shadow plutocratic government exists. Failed war-on-drugs policies have armed border criminals making more tax-free money than gangsters during Prohibition.

Failed war-on-terror policies hold our due-process laws hostage while burgeoning tax-free corporate government contractors influence global civilian secret kills/captures.

Toothless financial and health care reform regulations now being concocted by big money may hollow out the last attempt we make at open democratic processes.

Duane Schofield

Cusick, Wash.