Stephen,
I'm not blaming everything on Reagan, because people have made terrible life choices on theri own, yet, consumerism is driven by marketing and enough marketing creates a psychological need for the SUV or the trip to Hawaii, or even the video game consoles. Though people make bad choices, they are also sucked into it without much control because that is the purpose of marketing, to sell you stuff you don't need, and it works as we can see by the massive credit card debt. Deregulation creates enormous sociological issues and in this case has contributed to vast amounts of poverty in America. I would love to see limits on mass media marketing and re-regulation of credit cards. Maybe somegthing like, one needs to earn 40K a year (dollars) and have shown repayment of past loans and be 25. This is how it was in the past, sort of. A huge part of government is the protection of its citizens. So far, all America can do is create enemies, go to war against them, and say, "This is so they don't come here into your homes and eat your babies." The boogeyman is unchecked capitalism which allows for hypnotic marketing and creates governmental bedfellows who reap benefits for allowing things to be unchecked.
Mike
I'm not blaming everything on Reagan, because people have made terrible life choices on theri own, yet, consumerism is driven by marketing and enough marketing creates a psychological need for the SUV or the trip to Hawaii, or even the video game consoles. Though people make bad choices, they are also sucked into it without much control because that is the purpose of marketing, to sell you stuff you don't need, and it works as we can see by the massive credit card debt. Deregulation creates enormous sociological issues and in this case has contributed to vast amounts of poverty in America. I would love to see limits on mass media marketing and re-regulation of credit cards. Maybe somegthing like, one needs to earn 40K a year (dollars) and have shown repayment of past loans and be 25. This is how it was in the past, sort of. A huge part of government is the protection of its citizens. So far, all America can do is create enemies, go to war against them, and say, "This is so they don't come here into your homes and eat your babies." The boogeyman is unchecked capitalism which allows for hypnotic marketing and creates governmental bedfellows who reap benefits for allowing things to be unchecked.
Mike
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