R.E.M.Cue R.E.M.

The flywheel that is the massive societal shift is starting to get some momentum. Ignited by the excesses of unbridled corporate greed, untenable bubbles in every market from dot-com to housing to energy, and tin ears on the right who became corrupt as the government ballooned and scandals abound, the pendulum of change toward progressivism is in full throttle.

In a matter of hours since Barack Obama took the “oaf” of office, the government is poised to take over huge portions of our national economy and society. Not only that, we are reaching further and further into each other’s business. We all have something to say to that executive who refurnishes his office, or the corporation who was taking delivery on a jet it ordered two years ago. We even have created a climate where the well-heeled on Rodeo Drive have to hide their five-figure purchases in plain white shopping bags.

We’re not thinking about all of the normal people it took to create that fine furniture or Gulfstream or Coach bag. We are building the “pain society” and whether you like it or not, we are all going to feel it together.
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