Today SO’W is pleased to present another post written by Kevin Estes who provides us with a millennial perspective on the current condition of the US government.
We Don’t Work For The Government, The Government Works For Us
by Kevin Estes
Years ago, the US Government actually performed its duty and worked for the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the reason for programs like Social Security.
Dwight Eisenhower is the reason for our highway system, allowing us to travel longer distances in a shorter amount of time.
Lyndon Johnson is the reason for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Food Stamp Program.
Even Richard Nixon, who is most known for the Watergate Scandal, is the reason for Supplemental Security Income, better known as SSI, and for the EPA.
Yes, upon a time Government actually worked for the people (the Democrats were becoming the left wing party, while the Republican party was more moderate). When did it go wrong?
In 1981, Ronald Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, lowering the top income tax rate from 70% to 50%, and then in 1986 signed the Tax Reform Act Of 1986, which lowered the top rate from 50% to 38.5%. After these tax cuts, the economy entered a recession in the late 80s and didn’t recover until the time Clinton entered office. Reagan is also known for the Iran Contra Scandal, which involved the sale of weapons to Iran.
Bill Clinton, despite presiding over a strong economy throughout this two terms in office, signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996, which significantly reduced welfare benefits. He also repealed the Glass Steagall Act in 1999, which lifted strong regulations on the banks that were implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The repeal played a big role in the Great Recession that took place in 2008-2011.
George W. Bush is well known for his two sets of tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, both of which heavily benefited the wealthy, and also played a major role in the 2008 recession, as he refused to raise taxes while two wars were going on. He also signed the Patriot Act into law, suspiciously shortly after 9/11, rightly making people wonder if it was a planned attack for the purpose of suppressing freedom of speech by labeling violators as “terrorists”.
Barack Obama is well known for Obamacare, which is a federal mandate to purchase health care, and likely a ponzi scheme to make health care providers richer, as premiums increased under this law.
And Donald Trump recently signed a huge tax cut for the wealthy into law, while taxes will go up for everybody else in 2025.
All of this, in the name of making their donors richer at the expense of the “little people”.
How To Fix This
Simple. Get the money out of politics! If it was made illegal for corporations to bribe politicians, politicians wouldn’t feel the need to make the rich richer, and have more freedom to govern according to the political indicators in their astrology charts. In Obama and Clinton’s charts, the left wing economic and cultural indicators are very strong, so it’s very likely that if they didn’t have to be owned by multi million dollar corporations in order to get elected, they would have run the country in a much more progressive manner, similar to the likes of Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. As long as big money is involved in politics, the rich will continue to get richer at the expense of the poor.
Pluto in Capricorn
Pluto has been in the sign of Capricorn since 2008, and will be there until shortly after the 2024 election. It is no coincidence that the Great Recession started when Pluto first went into Capricorn, and that the issues regarding money in politics have been at the forefront throughout this transit. The Mueller Investigation, with Trump, Kushner, and many other Republicans being investigated for collusion with Russia, as well as money laundering, is likely a precursor to future laws prohibiting big money from influencing elections. With Pluto, the transformer, in Capricorn, the sign of government and big business, laws making the bribery of politicians illegal will be inevitable.
And these oligarchs know this, which is why the US Government is growing more and more authoritarian every year, in an attempt to slow down these changes, before Pluto enters the humanitarian sign of Aquarius for good in 2024. However, nobody beats astrology in the end, and it’s foolish to believe that you can.
Eventually, the government will once again serve its original role, to work in the best interests of its citizens, keep us safe, and ensure us a good quality of life, but that won’t happen until the oligarchy that has been in place for close to 40 years collapses.
Thanks Kevin! Perhaps the upcoming August 2018 Solar Eclipse–‘The Tower Eclipse’ with its theme of existing structures collapsing–will spark such a collapse of oligarchy in the US! After all, the US government was and is meant to be afraid of We the People–not the other way around. jc
